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Sports Awards

As the students and their supporting family and friends made their way through the front doors of the School Hall, they were presented with a wonderfully transformed setting - "Oscars” like with a Golden theme and amazing life-size action posters adorning the walls. Friday 28th October was our School Sports Awards evening where almost 300 people gathered to recognize sporting achievements of 2022. Our “off-the-bench" MC, Dion, was able to successfully navigate everyone through the various categories of award winners throughout the night. Our guest speaker Casey Frank – Former Tall Blacks and current Sky Sport Basketball commentator, gave us…

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13 Mechatronics – The Road to EVolocity Regional Success

The mechatronics programmes were developed to provide a project based, practical subject that uses an Engineering context to inspire and challenge our up and coming engineers. The 2022 cohort took on the challenge of designing, prototyping and building electric vehicles to compete against other schools across a variety of challenges, including a drag race, gymkhana and economy challenge. To provide an even playing field, each school was supplied with the same 12V batteries and 350W motor. Innovative design and clever construction was the best way to obtain an advantage. Nicholas Huang, Murilo Goterra Dirk, Joshua Walton and Jack Lucas were…

Kura Whanau – Noel Leeming Friends & Family

Noel Leeming is delighted to again be supporting KidsCan by raising funds with our Friends and Family Promotion this November. With your help, we hope to make a difference by providing the essentials Kiwi kids need to learn, with 2.5% of the total sales from this event being donated to KidsCan. We are proud to say the event we ran earlier this year (June), together we raised over $8,400 for KidsCan. This offer is open to you, your staff, and wider Kura Whanau (including Parents, Students, and your community of friends & family). It gives them the opportunity to unlock…

Goethe Examination Prizegiving and Results

The prizegiving for the Auckland Goethe Society German language competition was held on the 29th of September at the University of Auckland. Students who took part in the German language competition in August received their awards for their amazing performances. This year, eighteen students from Rutherford College and three students from our German group at Rutherford Primary School participated in this annual competition and the results were amazing. Students were competing in year level groups. Heritage speakers and native speakers were tested in the Advantaged Speaker category. Year 9 students: Bronze: Mackenzie Stanton Siliaivao Lam Vanshika Sunger Silver: David English…

Dawn Raids Play written by Oscar Kightley (Ex Rutherford Student)

On Thursday 25th August, a group of young Pasifika Rutherfordians were taken out to the ASB Waterfront Theatre to watch Oscar Kightley’s ‘Dawn Raids’. The ‘Dawn Raids’ is a retelling of what happened to Pacific Islanders living in New Zealand during the 1970s. Many Pacific Islanders came to New Zealand with the aspiration to work and dreams of a better life for themselves and their children. Due to New Zealand's high demand for labour during the 1960s, the Labour government encouraged the migration alongside the employers for as long as the excess labour demand continued. However during the 1970s, New…

Rutherford College are Enrolling now

Enrolment Interviews for 2023  are now open. We have appointments and or walk ins available this Thursday 18th August – from 2pm to 7pm – phone the school office to book a time or you can “walk in” Every Tuesday and Wednesday during Term 3 – 2pm to 4:30pm Saturday 10 September 9:30 to 12:30 Please phone the school office to book a time 098349790

Auckland Goethe Society German Language Competiton

Eighteen students from Rutherford College and three students from our German group at Rutherford Primary School participated in the Auckland Goethe Society German language competition on Saturday the 6th of August. In this annual competition, selected German students from all over Auckland were tested in their German speaking skills. Students were competing in year level groups. Heritage speakers and native speakers were tested in the Advantaged Speaker category. The Auckland Goethe Society exams have been a mainstay in Auckland for over 50 years. This year Rutherford had the highest number of entries in the competition’s history. We had very positive…

West Auckland Secondary Schools Student Forum

On Wednesday 27th July myself and a few other students had the opportunity to go to the Auckland Secondary Schools Student Forum. This day was solely based on student leadership and active recreation, held by Sports Waitakere. Arriving at Motu Moana Scout Camp, we were seated and greeted with all the other schools, getting straight into the presentation. All schools had to mix and mingle, learning more about each other and initially “breaking the ice”. Each of us were given conversation topics and made to talk amongst ourselves. Throughout Burn Brights presentation they were flooding us with valuable information about…

WORLD SCHOLARS’ CUP

World Scholars’ Cup (WSC) is an international academic program with more than 15,000 students participating from over 65 countries every year. Twenty two Rutherford College students from Year 9 - 13 took part in this exciting competition hosted by Kelston Boys’ High School on 4th and 5th July. Despite the intensity of the tasks and very long days of gruelling competitions, all students achieved amazing results and each one of them took several medals home. The Scholars’ Cup was composed of 6 events: Collaborative Writing, Debating, the Scholars’ Bowl, the Scholars’ Challenge, the Debate Showcase and the Talent Show. This…

South Auckland Mathematics Challenge

The annual South Auckland Maths Challenge (SAMC) for Pasifika students welcomed Rutherford students to participate in a showdown competition between local schools around South Auckland. This was the third competition in the SAMC and was held at De La Salle College in Māngere. The Year 9 competition was first. We started with 20 minutes on the clock and there were fourteen other teams competing. We were off to a good start with having taken second place early. There were 20 questions and only three of us. The further we got into the questions, the more intense and difficult it got.…

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