Author: Karina Toms

Big Sing Regional Contest

On Tuesday night our Year 9-13 Choir Ancora performed at the Big Sing Regional Final at First Church. Their programme was well received by the audience and the adjudicators and they received a Highly Commended Award – the highest grade you can be given at this level of the contest. Of the 200+ competing choirs […]

International Languages Week

Junior Campus students celebrated international languages week. They were treated to a daily quiz, cultural food such as Suspiros, handmade Sign Language cookies, and Croissants. Each lunchtime there was an activity. The students had a lot of fun taking part in El Tejo, Kendama, and Petanque, as well as being flash mobbed by the Kapa […]

Whakamanahia Te Rangatahi

Whakamanahia Te Rangatahi (WTR) Is a program for all Islander students (including Māori). The programme aims to help strengthen their understanding of their culture and language through a number of activities run by Miharo.Rangatahi also work alongside key leaders at events such as Polyfest and work in different areas such as being an MC and […]

Futsall House Competition

Our House Futsal competition started with the girls competition in Week 3. The gallery was opened for students to watch the games and they poured in to watch the action unfold below. After a great round robin competition, the Thomson Girls took out the Futsal win in a tight final, closely followed by Hamilton, Menzies […]

World Vision

Recently, I was fortunate to be chosen to attend the World Vision Senior Scholarship Summit in Auckland. It was a three-day event, but the things I learned were endless and I gained a lot of knowledge about social issues globally. We spent three immersive days gaining the knowledge to develop our leadership skills and understanding […]

Outdoor Recreation

This term the students’ goal is to roll in a kayak. To build up confidence, we go to the pool for a few weeks to practice this skill. There were three who managed to achieve this on their first session. In the second half of the term we will move on to moving water and […]

Junior Campus Athletics

Congratulations to the age group champions: 10 year old girl Evie Charlton 10 year old boy Bodie Gilmour 11 year old gir Ashlee Clay 11 year old boy Blaze Ridder and Lochey Taylor (joint champions) 12 year old girl Alison Tweedie 12 year old boy Xavier Brown JHC Junior Campus records broken on 27 February […]

Cyclone Gabrielle Collection

Thank you to everyone in our James Hargest community who donated grocery items to send up North. Our donations are going to Te Wainui Marae and Te Karaka near Gisborne. Thank you to Wainui Transport for organising the freight. Between the two campuses we packed 32 cartons full of food and toiletries. We also had […]

House Competions

The Senior Campus House Competition kicked off in Week 3 and ran for two weeks at intervals and lunchtimes. Year 9 Form Classes along with their Peer Support Leaders took part in some frenetic games of Benchball. It was wonderful to see so many form teachers, not only out supporting their classes but also getting […]

Junior Campus Leaders 2023

We’d like to introduce our six leaders of the Junior Campus. Our Kaiarataki are Hunter, Cohen, Allie, Kaydah and our Ambassadors are Abigail and Zion. These students take on various leadership roles such as organising and presenting assemblies, hosting guests and representing our school at official events. We are very proud of these leaders as […]