Wow, what a night! The Aquinas Young innovators have shown that they are a creative and resourceful team of students. This team excelled last night at the Young Innovators Awards evening held at Classic Flyers. The Young Innovators Award is an annual competition. Students must show their innovation skills by developing a unique innovation that’ll make…
The Waikato ITM Band and Orchestra Festival was an exciting 1-day music festival held at Waikato University, on Friday 24 August. Over 1000 high school students and their various different musical ensembles met to perform in front of their peers and adjudicators. The Aquinas Concert Band and Aquinas Jazz Band travelled by bus to take…
Over the weekend, Roisin Boyle, in year 12, went to the Government House in Wellington where she was awarded the Queen’s Girls Guide award. The Queen’s Guiding award is the highest award available in Guiding. To receive this award Roisin had to show and develop her leadership and personal skills while contributing to Guiding and…
Congratulations to all Aquinas Water Polo players who were recently selected for NZ Water Polo’s High Performance Pathway Performance Pathway Programme: Ruby Helm Alex Edwards Millie Quin Gerogia Verhoeven Sacha Brandon Jackson Roper Corbin Mackay Zane Mackay Loui Schuler Marshall Baker Noah Cab Oudenaaren Tom Wilson Congratulations too to Loui Schuler and Gabe Orchard who were…
Congratulations to Toby Elsom who entered into the BOP Eliminations Squash Tournament, two weeks ago. His team won and are now through to the Superchamp Nationals held in Dunedin 27th – 30th September. BOP Squash are paying the entry fee and also granting some money towards accommodation. Well done Toby on your achievement. We are…
Sixty four members of the AC AIMS Team traveled over to John Paul College in Rotorua on Thursday 23 August to compete against JPC in a variety of AIMS Sporting Codes. This year we played: Basketball Boys, Football Boys, Futsal Boys, Netball and Netball Development, Water Polo Girls and Open. It was a great day…
On Wednesday 22 August we had a lunchtime football match between the Tauranga Police and the AC Football Tournament Team. Conditions were far from ideal with the rain, however all braved the elements to take up the football challenge put up by Aquinas College. The first half was a bit patchy for the Police team…
It has been a busy term for the International Department.We have welcomed groups of students from China and Japan, joining our Yr 7, 8 and 9 classes. Our Aquinas College buddies proved wonderful ambassadors, helping these guests to make friends and find their way around. Thanks to these students and to the host families….
It’s now getting to the business end of the hockey season for our players at the Aquinas Hockey Club. This year we have 85 players across our intermediate and secondary school teams. Congratulations to our Girls 2nd XI team for winning the 3rd Division of Tauranga Hockey’s competition in the 1st round. They now move up…
PRINCIPAL’S ADDRESS TO SCHOOL ASSEMBLY 13th Aug, 2018. This morning’s assembly is going to have a special focus on The Chanel Shield. I will briefly set the scene before handing over to our team’s Captain, McKenzie Frear, who will introduce each of our performances this morning. The Chanel Shield is a competition held annually and…
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