Rotary Speech Finals

The annual Rotary Speech Finals were held on Monday night. Eleven wonderful speeches from the junior and senior competitors.  The variety of subjects has always created a lot of interest and thought for the audience.  Thank you to the Waipukurau Rotary Club for your ongoing support of this competition and also to our judges who had difficult decisions to make on the evening. The winner of the W.R. Simmons Cup for the best speaker of the evening was Hannah Webster.

Results:

Junior

1^st Hannah Webster – Parihaka

2^nd Hope Harley – Gratitude

3^rd Liberty Ormond -Sexism

Highly Commended

Spencer Ellwood – Abortion

Maddie Ewen – The Health System

Nirvana Pairama-Raheke – Making Choices

Senior

1^st Euan Breen – Authoritarianism

2^nd Hannah Ellwood – Vampires

3^rd Jivarose Niegos – Failure

Highly Commended

Arva van Pelt – Abortion

Cody Lightfoot Dyer - Irony

Chess Interschool Tournament

On Friday last week we sent three chess teams with Mr Berry to play in the interschool competition.  The teams played well and were fairly new to the competition, which was well organised to match players against their like oppositions.  It was a fun day out with our top individual rankings being 5th of 14 - David McIntyre and 6th out of 12, Euan Breen.  The full team was Paige Berghan-Ollerenshaw, Euan Breen, Kallum Chamberlain-Priest, Erina Clark, Ben Cruickshank, Carter Drake, Isaac Ellwood, Devlan Hanson, David McIntyre, Maxian Mooney and Tash Sibley-Ireland.  Well done to all involved.

Hawke’s Bay Secondary Schools Swimming Champs

A young team of eight students competed at the HBSS Swim Champs held on Tuesday 9 August at the Flaxmere Pool against 100 competitors from 11 secondary schools. The boys secured 3^rd place and the girls 5^th in the inter school team competition, with 7 schools in each category. A great performance from the boys who only had two swimmers.

Best performed individual was Year 10 student Lucas Perceval who collected two titles - 50 m Breastroke and 50m Backstroke and placed 2^nd and 3^rd respectively in his two other events - 50m Butterfly, 100m Open IM. This was an outstanding achievement. J D Mananes (Year 9) collected the 50m Backstroke title and supported this with a 3^rd place in the 50m Freestyle event. The third College swimmer to place was Paige Franklin (Year 9) who secured a 2^nd place in the 50m Breastroke.

The girls were placed 2^nd in the Freestyle Relay (Paige, Ramona Lively-Masters, Poppy Macklow & Caitlin Kirk) and 3^rd in the Medley Relay (Paige, Ramona, Caitlin and Abby Boyd).  Mrs Franklin and Mr Sherwood accompanied the team.

The full team was:

Age 13/Under - Abby Boyd, Poppy Macklow, J D Mananes,

Age 14/15 - Tyler Camden, Ramona Lively-Masters, Paige Franklin, Caitlin Kirk, Lucas Perceval.

Article added: Monday 08 August 2022