Peer Support Camp
With another bumper crop of new Year 9 students, the annual Peer Support Camp out at El Rancho proved a stunning start to the school year. Friendships and school tikanga were solidified and shared under the beaming summer sun. Photos here.
Tabloids
The Inter-house Competition revved into high gear with the year's most anticipated event... Tabloids. While other Houses flailed about, scrambling ineffectually to take the upperhand, it was the magnificent Totara who calmly swept all comers aside to take the W. Millions (well hundreds) of photos here.
NCEA Success
With 2020 exam and scholarship results being confirmed early in Term 1, we celebrated one of our best ever years of NCEA success. Highlights included Brandon Ru taking out scholarship in 6 subjects, including 2 outstanding scholarships, and achieving significantly ahead of other decile 9 schools at Level 1, 2, 3 and UE. Pictured below are the Year 12 and 13 students who achieved Excellence endorsement the previous year.
Dragon Boating
An early sporting highlight of 2021 was our success in the Dragonboating. The teachers' team took the gold in the Corporate C final and Newlands College Blue took a mighty gold with a race time of 1:17 in the mixed final.
1SCI Hangi
Level 1 students in Mr Miller's 1SCI class had their minds set ablaze with the promethean fires of knowledge. They also had a mean feed at the end of it. Click the video link below to learn all about it.
48HOURS Film-Making
Perhaps anxious to get in before COVID spoiled the party, the 48HOURS film making Competion was held early this year. 6 Teams of students and staff scoffed at the "necessity" of sleep for the most creatively challenging 48 hours of the year. With all films making it over the finish line, we were elated when the HOWIE MANDEL FAN CLUB's unhinged postmodern masterpiece, "Sharla and the Smiths" won Best School Team in the Wellington finals and then went on to win the same category in the National finals, a first for Newlands College. Watch the winning film below and click here for a playlist of the other films.