EDUCATION: KRISTIN SCHOOL
Athletics prowess Kristin students Ben Kennedy and Olivia McTaggart competed with great success in the New Zealand Athletics Championships in Hamilton in March.. Olivia won gold in the Under 20 women's Pole Vault and Ben collected a full set of medals: Gold in the Under 20 110 hurdles, Silver in the Under 20 Pole Vault, and Bronze in the Open Men's Pole Vault. Both Ben and Olivia also competed in the Auckland Secondary Schools Champs with distinction in March, and had great success, along with a further 18 athletes from Kristin who qualified through the North Harbour Championships. A total of 45 Kristin students had competed at the North Harbour Secondary Schools Athletics Champs held at AUT Millennium. Kristin had some fantastic results with many students achieving their personal best on the day. Successes at the North Harbour champs included: 1st - Senior Boys 110m Hurdles - Ben Kennedy 1st - Senior Boys 100m - Ben Kennedy 1st - Junior Boys 300m - Angus Syminton 1st - Junior Boys Javelin - Angus Syminton 1st - Junior Boys Shot Put - Angus Syminton 1st - Junior Girls Javelin - Holly Barry 2nd - Intermediate Boys Javelin - Tim Hassall 2nd - Senior Boys Javelin - Lamapeti Fuimaono, Fagueli 2nd - Senior Boys Long Jump - Sam Gentry 2nd - Senior Girls 400m - Grace Hickson 2nd - Intermediate Girls 4x100m Relay Team - Amber Paki, Ella Tobin, Yasmin Knight, Tegan Brady 3rd - Intermediate Boys 100m - Tim Wang 3rd - Junior Girls 200m - Tess Porter 3rd - Senior Boys Discus - Lamapeti Fuimaono, Fagueli
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3rd - Junior Girls 4x100m Relay Team - Tess Porter, Lucy Steele, Holly Barry, Grace Kingsnorth 4th - Intermediate Girls Long Jump - Ella Tobin 4th - Senior Boys Triple Jump - Sam Gentry 4th - Intermediate Boys Discus - Shamen Kumar 5th - Intermediate Girls Javelin - Aleisha Chalmers 5th - Junior Girls Shot Put - Holly Barry 5th - Junior Girls Discus - Holly Barry
Governor-General recognises Kristin students Kristin students Nick Baughan and Ethan Bull have been presented an award by Her Excellency, The Rt. Hon. Dame Patsy Reddy, Governor-General of New Zealand, for work they did on producing a promotional video for Kiwanis’ South Pacific Schools Support project to Vanuatu. Last year, as part of their media studies, current year 12 students Nick and Ethan won a school competition and went on to produce the promotional video for Kiwanis New Zealand-South Pacific, filming the longstanding project that has been operational for more than two decades. The project involves shipping containers of school supplies, library and teacher resources to Vanuatu where they are distributed to schools and villages. “It was a feel-good project for all concerned,” said Past Governor of Kiwanis Megan Allan, who supported the making of the video. “The boys got experience ‘in the real world of video making, exposure to community service and a look at the culture of a third world country when they visited Vanuatu to complete filming. Kiwanis gained an important publicity tool. The project was made possible by Kristin School’s generosity in partnering with Kiwanis to produce the video,” she said. The video was played during a concert at Government House. Proceeds from the concert went to Kiwanis New Zealand-South
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Pacific's South Pacific Schools Support project, to help fund containers of school supplies sent to Vanuatu, Fiji and other islands. Ethan and Nick’s classes had been working in pairs to recreate advertisements using common film techniques. A shortlist of the best work was presented to a selection panel from Kristin and Kiwanis. Ultimately, it was a unanimous decision that Nick and Ethan were the two for the job. Kristin media studies students gain experience with media production in Kristin’s Canon Cloud Suite – a purpose designed facility that features a 6-metre green screen, state-of-the-art equipment and editing tools . “It is a really cool facility and we are really lucky to have something of this calibre,” said Nick.