Y5/6 A Grade Opunake Basketball Finals

On Tuesday 5th July Auroa School had four seperate finals in the same day. Wins in the Y5/6 Crowley Cup Netball Competition against Rahotu School and a further win against Eltham School in Y5/6 Rugby Crowley Cup were a fantastic start - there were two additional finals that night in the Opunake Basketball Competition.   Auroa's Y7/8 Basketball team won their final match, against Rahotu.

The final game of the day was the Y5/6 A Grade Basketball Finals in the Opunake Basketball Competition.  Auroa's Y5/6 team were undefeated throughout the season at this point - coming up against their arch rivals, St Joseph from Opunake.   The game was another epic featuring some of the players who had played already that day in a final, and against each other in the epic Crowley Cup Semi-Final in Boys Rugby which Auroa win.
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The Basketball ended 30-30 which saw sudden death extra time, in which St Jospehs were able to win the match by two points and claim the season championship.

NZAIMS Games: Its Here!

Tomorrow is the start of the NZAIMS Games. This is the biggest sporting tournament in New Zealand this year - featuring 238 Schools competing across 16 sports.

There are 7500 students competing from across New Zealand. And Auroa Primary School is one of them. For the first time ever we are fielding teams in the competition: in Golf and Girls Basketball. Not only will Isabelle, Gemma, Emily, Alice, Meg, Dayna, Kaiah, Brylee and Leila be present at the games representing our school so will Mr Webb. 

This site will be posted to remotely from Tauranga during the tournament. We will be endeavouring as much as possible from the games, you can follow Auroa Primary Schools Progress on the official website here.

NZAIMS Seven Weeks to Go!

We're very excited to be back at school and in class for Term Three, 2014.  We've a lot of major events this term.   On the sporting side we have our School Cross Country later this term.  We've also got our Taranaki Trophy, where we have a home and away competition against other Taranaki Schools in Netball, Rugby and Football.  We've also got a special national event in September.   The NZAIMS Tournament is featuring 225 Schools and over 7,000 students who will be competing in Tauranga in over 17 sports.   Auroa Primary School will be competing for the first time in Golf and Girls Basketball.  You can follow the build up to this event here as we prepare for our adventure.

Auroa Primary School NZAIMS 2014

This week the entries for the NZAIMS tournament in September close.  This tournament is the Intermediate Schools Nationals competition, in 2013 there were 200 schools and 6500 students who competed across the different sports that are provided.  The final week for school registration is this week and the number of schools is continuing to increase - and listed as school number 77 is Auroa Primary School.

This is the first time that Auroa Primary School has entered this tournament.  This year we are entering teams in Girls Basketball and Golf.  We will have regular updates from the preparation of this tournament which is now just over 100 days away!