Champions!: Film Festival 2018

This movie was our entry into this year's Manaiakalani Film Festival.  These are highlights of our Year 5 and 6 mixed rippa rugby team who represented Auckland at the New Zealand Nationals Rippa Rugby Champs in Wellington; in September 2018.  Thank you to our coach Mazel Vaevae (Jacob's dad), Miss Parrant, Mr Jacobsen, Miss Va'afusuaga, our parents, supporters and sponsors.  The team had the best time!
Rippa rugby team 2018:
A.J Faleono
Benjamin Stephenson
Jacob Vaevae
Julius Matiseni
Levonah Motuliki
Madison-Rose Motuliki
Neveah Maeva
Sonnia Vaia
Tisa Mapapalangi
Zamera Maeva

PES Y7&8 Rugby Tournament Dunkirk Highlights 13 06 18

Year 7 & 8 Boys vs St Kentigern Touch Sports Exchange Term 1 2018

Journey to Awesomeness.

 This film shows you our most recent journey to awesomeness for a young and talented group of athletes from Glen Innes - Tamaki!

Journey to awesomeness was originally a film title made back in 2011. This captured the journey of a Pt England Sevens Rugby Team that won the AIMS games title in Tauranga. 6 years on here we are again!

 Happy 10th year anniversary Manaiakalani Film Festival. Awesome we get to share the celebration by contributing this film to be shared across our community of champion learners!

Netball team wins Mystics movie competition

One of our Year 8 netball teams entered a Northern Mystics 'Sideline Behaviour' movie competition last month, and they won!

The movie had to show what positive sideline behaviour means to your team.  People had a few weeks to vote through social media (Mystics & Sky City Facebook pages) or at voting stations at a Mystics game.

The judges were most impressed with the slogan, "Be the crowd that makes us proud".  The girls have won tickets to a Mystics game, a chance to meet the team, dinner and overnight stay at the Sky City Hotel.  Great work girls, coach Mose Tui and Mrs Lagitupu for putting this movie together! 

You know it's rugby, rugby league season when...

You know it's rugby, rugby league season when the boys' touch games at lunchtime, turn in to tackle. So yesterday there were 3 groups of boys who wanted to do that - the Year 2 boys (pictured), a larger group of Year 4/5 boys and a Year 6 group.

We don't allow any tackle games at lunchtime unless there's an adult refereeing, they have a mouthguard and a change of clothes.

But a compromise is a game of "held".  In the game of held they basically just "hold" the player - they don't tackle them around the legs and they don't try and get the player to the ground. Rules vary with each group, they like to kick and there's no ruck or 'play the ball' when someone's held. They just offload it to someone else in their team.  As you can tell in the photo, the boys were very happy to play this.

Runners Up at Auckland Rippa Rugby Champs 2016

Our awesome players - Runners up at the Auckland Rippa Champs
16 April 2016, May Road Park, Mt Roskill

Our 2 girls and mixed rippa rugby teams - played with a lot of heart at the Auckland rippa rugby championship tournament yesterday.  They truly did their very best and we are so proud of their efforts.

Held at the May Road War Memorial Park in Mt Roskill, they both had won enough games to make it to the final against the same school, Holy Cross Papatoetoe.

Holy Cross are the defending Auckland and New Zealand mixed champions so our team knew that they would be tough opponents. Having beaten them in the pool round game 4-3, the team were going to face a hard-fought battle in the final.

Both teams played so well, however it was all over when Holy Cross crossed over the try line in the dying minutes of the game to win 3-2.  Meanwhile, playing at the same time, our girls team were playing a close match, but also went down by 1 point, 2-1.   There were a few tears which showed how much they had really tried to win but it wasn't meant to be and we will learn and grow from this.  What we should celebrate the most, is how much they had improved in their skill level, their attitude and their knowledge of the game.

So to end the day on a high and happy note, we were given 30 free tickets to attend the Auckland Blues Super Rugby match against the Sharks last night.  This is always the best part of the day for our kids.

Enjoying the Auckland Blues game at Eden Park

They got their faces painted, received a free Blues flag, a 'try' banner and entered the 'Super Bang Bang 'Dab' dance competition to try and win $10,000.  The night was a wonderful occasion that they'll always remember.

Thanks to our coaching and management team, Mazel & Te Awhina Vaevae, Tasesa Folau and Zac Moran and also our families, for the time spent over the past few weeks in preparing and supporting our kids at the rippa tournaments.  We need you again because we will be back next year to have another go at the Auckland title.