Student’s versus Teachers Hockey Competition

Throughout term three our middle and senior classes have been competing against each other in an interclass hockey competition. The competition was fierce! Room 21 were the middle school champs and Room 13 was the senior school champs. These two classes lived our school vision ‘to be the best we can’ by showing skill, manawanui (perseverance) and sportsmanship. These students then showed their skill by versing our teachers.

Here’s what happened…

On Thursday the 25^th of September Room 13 played hockey against the teachers of Yendarra School. Most of our class participated and contributed to this event while the rest cheered us on. Each team had supporters on both sides.

At the beginning of the game our class was nervous but as the game went on I started to gain confidence. We hoped we were going to win the competition. “Go Red!!”

With five minutes to go the score was 4-3 to the teachers. SCORE! Ashley got the final goal. I felt joy and happiness squeeze me as I heard the words, “Room 13 are our new winners”.

Jenn (Room 13)

Congratulations to our hockey champions Room 13!

We can’t wait to find out what sport we will be playing in our interclass competition during term four!

Our Own Junior All Blacks!

Three teams represented Yendarra School at this year’s Otara schools rugby competition held at Bruce Pulman park in Papakura.  We had trained for four weeks and all players were keen to showcase all their new learning and hard work from training! Preparing for the competition was exciting and exhausting as everyone was learning in class and training during break times. This also included extra fitness training after school that needed to be done in the players own time.

On competition day we launched our new sport uniform which we were so proud to wear.  Our families loved our new uniforms and our friends from neighbouring schools did not know who we were when we arrived so it was a precious moment to be the first sports team to share our new uniform colours and style.

 We want to THANK Auckland Rugby Pro Sport boys, Mr Gary Peach and Jarrod Syman for their support to prepare our boys for competition day.

To coach Selina Crosby who will always be a member of the Yendarra whanau for her commitment to improving the sporting success and skill of all our tamariki.

Finally to our own teachers and parents who coach, mentor, encourage and support our teams to 

Be the BEST they can!

We were victorious on competition day and 2 from 3 teams were crowned ‘first place’ for the Under 40kg and Under 50kg divisions!  This meant we were on our way as qualifiers to the AUCKLAND CHAMPIONS OF CHAMPIONS in Panmure.  The Champions of Champions competition is facilitated by Auckland rugby union and the primary schools placed first all over Auckland compete to win the title of ‘Auckland Champion’.  Attending the competition made many of the players nervous and anxious as they were about to be confronted on the rugby field by the best rugby teams in Auckland.  Yendarra had not had the opportunity to qualify for this competition since 2010 when we took 1 from 4 teams to the competition so it was a special moment to finally return to champions of champions four years on……

We are excited about our up and coming talent and look forward to preparing for another season of rugby in 2015!