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German Language classes and a Year 12 PE class were given the opportunity to participate in the “Kiwi Handball project” offered by the National German Language advisor Alexandra Toenings and handball coach Frank Stoltenberg on Monday. Students got a good taste of Handball, a game which is hugely popular in Germany and other countries, while being immersed in the target language German. This way of teaching is referred to as Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and is an approach for learning content through an additional language (foreign or second), thus teaching both the subject and the language. Coach Frank…

With our School Cross Country day postponed until next Friday 10 June, it was unfortunate that we weren't able to have more students able to participate at the North West Zone Cross-Country Championships held on Tuesday 17 May. We did have athletes participating and competing their best against the other schools from our area, and especially the army that is Westlake who had multitudes of runners on the track. Our athletes competed creditably in the various grades with Dylan Chapman performing best coming in 16th place in a field of 44 in the Junior Boys event. It was a cool…

Further to our previous reporting of Dylan Chapman, and sister Emma, competing at the Open Water Auckland Secondary School Champs back in February, Dylan has now competed at the NZ Secondary School Open Water Championships. This was held at Main Beach, Mt Maunganui on Saturday 2 April. Competing in the 1250m event, Dylan battled the cream of New Zealand’s Secondary School open water swimmers and finished a creditable 7th place in his Division. He has had a big year to date with competing at Auckland Champs, and CSA Athletics Championships, and Western Zone Swimming Championships. This Tuesday he will again…

On Sunday, the Rutherford College climbing team was lucky enough to compete in the first round of the Auckland College Climbing Series hosted at Extreme Edge Panmure. It was an awesome day, with over 100 competitors from schools around Auckland under the new Covid-19 guidelines. Rutherford consisted of a team of 8 and all had an enjoyable day. There was a chilli eating competition courtesy of event sponsors Red Chilli climbing. Rutherford had an individual podium finish by team member Tyra Ibbott in 3rd place smashing out a tough finals' climb after 2 hours of qualifiers. Overall, Rutherford are sitting…

Congratulations to Seth "Stylie" Stylianou for winning the Under 17s Auckland Schools Downhill Championship over the weekend. The event was held at Seth's home track up at Dome Valley just north of Warkworth. With 19 riders from all over Auckland signed up for the Under 17's category, it was going to be a day of calm nerves. Seth's first run was fast but he made some mistakes and felt that he probably had not done enough if he wanted to secure the win by the end of the day. Seth's second race run was unbelievably faster by over 2 1/2…