It was an honour to be chosen as Kauri house leaders
by our peers and teachers. We began the year of house
events at Riverbend for our Year 13 camp. This was an
incredibly, enjoyable way to start the year because we all
came together as a group, doing team building activities,
putting together a chant and creating a skit.
KAURI
Our very first house event where we all came together as a
group was swimming sports. Participation in this event was
key to our success; we also had some wonderful
champions - Jamie Grey and Alexia Hinton in the senior
girls. Second place was ours, at the end of the day.
We were blessed with sunshine for house athletics. It was
an enjoyable day with the participation level soaring.
1st place was again ours and included many placing in
championship events.
We are extremely proud of all the students that have taken
part in any house events this year, and are so thankful for
all the time and effort Miss McDonald has put into Kauri
house. It has been an incredible year I am sure that the
motivation and participation will continue next year.
Life skills was our next event. This was the first minor event
of the year. Students made omelets and sushi, created
Alice Guerin and Liam Reeves
blocks of cement and did a geography quiz. Our group of
Kauri students snared first place.
The next event was house choir with the compulsory song
being Happy by Pharrell Williams and we chose the song
“I’m a Believer,” by Smash Mouth from the film Shrek. We
knew it would be a tough challenge but we had more than
enough students taking part in the choir. This was great.
We were so thankful for all the help that was given to us,
especially by the year 12 students Brie Keatley, Gracie
Nisbet and Layla Pitt.
We were blessed with many champions, and by many
fantastic students who ran awesomely for our house in
the cross-country. Kauri stormed to first place in the cross
country by a landslide.
Our last event of the year was tug of war, an event we
have found trouble with in previous years. We knew that to
win the Patu we would have to beat Rata by two places.
Unfortunately this didn’t happen so we ended the year in
second place.