Wentworth Students Punch Above Their Weight

from The Millwater Mag, November 2015

Internet Parental Control

Wentworth Students

Punch above their Weight

Across New Zealand, the winter sports season is drawing to a close for college students. At Wentworth, students can look back on this past winter season with a great sense of accomplishment. From netball to hockey, golf and water polo to snow sports, our teams have enjoyed some fantastic successes and have become recognised as a force to be reckoned with on the Hibiscus Coast and across the North Island.

Wentworth’s philosophy is to foster academic achievement and also the growth of well-rounded young people. Involvement in sports and other co-curricular activities is actively encouraged. This is reflected in our students’ above-average sports participation; being almost 70%, compared to the national average of just 52%, across 23 sporting codes.

While Wentworth takes pride in its low class numbers, with an average of just 11 students per class in the senior school, outsiders could be fooled into thinking that, with a total student body of just over 200 pupils, our ability to ‘foot it with the big players’ would be seriously compromised. They would be wrong! Wentworth students are regularly victorious over schools that boast 2,000+ students (10 times our size!) and hence have a wider talent pool from which to choose their teams.

With the winter sports season now behind us, students at Wentworth are already in training for the eagerly-awaited summer sports of sailing and rowing (amongst others). The rowers have begun their intensive fitness regimes and our sailors have already had their first taste of victory, winning the Spring Regatta in Whangarei at the beginning of October. With the addition of marine studies to the curriculum next year, Wentworth students have another opportunity to not only make the most of the school’s amazing location across from the Gulf Harbour Marina, but also to blend their classroom studies with their choice of water sports.

Proof

Small Class Sizes

Wentworth

School & College

BUS SERVICE THROUGH MILLWATER

Cambridge International Examination System (CIE) Academic Excellence - 93% pass for UE Wide range of sports incl. rowing, sailing & golf

Enrolling now for 2016

Student Council Community Group

On Wednesday the 26th of August, Silverdale School took six Year 7 and 8 teams to Orewa College, to compete in the 2015 Technology Challenge. Each team was given a certain amount of supplies for different activities. We had to complete three challenges which were making:

• A bridge out of newspaper; • A toboggan; and • A cannon gun that could shoot out a shuttlecock.

Each challenge was rated a score for how well it was done and each of the three challenges were judged on specific criteria. Schools we competed against were: Orewa College, Murrays Bay Intermediate, Kristin School and Waitoki School. All of our Silverdale teams did really well and enjoyed the experience.

One of our teams that consisted of Sophie Knapp, Lucy Pierce, Amber Rouse and Tayla Gemmell were fortunate enough to come away with 1st place in all 3 of our challenges.

By Sophie Knapp, Year 8