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Monthly Archives: January 2023

School Closed until 7 February

Kia ora Parents and Caregivers We hope you and your family are keeping safe in the heavy weather. Although the school is ready to open for instruction tomorrow, we will follow the directive just received from the Secretary of Education to close the school until 7 February. The Secretary of Education was asked to take this action to minimise traffic on Auckland roads over the next week. This will allow for assessment and remedial work to be started on areas that have encountered slips or flooding. Further bad weather is also expected which will exacerbate an already dire situation. We…

Principal’s Panui – 27 January 2023

Kia ora te whanau o te kotuku Welcome back to another school year. I trust you all had a lovely break over the holidays and enjoyed some quality family time. Start up Times for Students Tuesday 31 January 9am - 3pm  - Year 9 students and new to Rutherford students powhiri - School batters (field) 9am - 3pm Peer Support students 10am  - Course confirmations and option changes - Information Commons / Reading Room Wednesday 1 February 9am - Year 9 students to tutor rooms, Y10 students to Sports Hall, Year 11 students report to tutor rooms 10am - Year 12…

Pat Hanly Creativity Award Winners!

The Pat Hanly Award for creativity, presented by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, is for outstanding creativity and commitment to the Visual Arts. Secondary schools in the Auckland region only can nominate a maximum of two students. Jemima Tichborne and Tyra Ibbott were our two top students to be nominated for this award this year. Both of them are only in year twelve! Both Tyra and Jemima were successful in being selected to receive the award, with Tyra receiving a further award of ‘Highly Commended’. Only twelve students received this additional award, which speaks loudly of the concept and…

Ice Hockey World Championships

Now is a good opportunity to recognise our latest National representative, Zadia Paulse (10BU). Zadia has been selected to represent New Zealand in our National Womens U18 Ice Hockey team. She will be competing with the team at the IIHF World Championships being held in Sofia, Bulgaria early 2023. She will be travelling to Europe for the tournament that commences on 26 January and going through to the final day on 1 February 2023. Her commitment, discipline and ability to be coached has certainly helped her fulfill a dream. This is an awesome achievement to represent our country in a…

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