Kissick Eraio 2016 Tournament

Yesterday Auroa Primary School took part in the 2016 Kissick Eraio Competition.  This was a fantastic event held at Kaponga Primary School.  The competition saw the local schools competing against each other in Netball and Touch Rugby.   Auroa was able to win the Y5/6 and Y7/8 Touch Competitions, while our friends at Matapu won the Y5/6 and Y7/8 Netball.  These highlights filmed by Ebony from Room Two are of the Y7/8 Netball competition.  Filmed at Kaponga School on Wednesday 6th July 2016.

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MT SPA Athletics 7/8 Old Relays

These races are from yesterday MT SPA Athletics Competition. They are the relay races for the 7 and 8 year olds, Girls and Boys. Auroa Primary School are racing in the orange. Manaia Primary School are in the blue. Matapu Primary School are in the blue and gold. Kaponga are in the black and St Patricks Kaponga are in the purple. Filmed at Victoria Park, Kaponga on Thursday 3rd March 2016

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Auroa Vs. Matapu Crowley Cup 18/6/2015 Results and Highlights

Today Auroa Primary School hosted Matapu Primary School in the semi-final of the Y5/6 Crowley Cup Rugby Competition.  This was an important game in the context of the competition as it was a knock out semi-final match.  The game was hosted today at Auroa Primary School.

Students from Room Three got straight onto the editing of the footage of todays game after lunch - have a look at these awesome highlights from the game created by Katelyn from Room Three.

Crowley Cup Semi-Final Vs. Matapu 18/6/2015 from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

The first half saw Auroa taking a commanding 19-0 lead with Rico from Room Three scoring a brace, however Matapu were confident having won the pre-season match and stormed back into the match scoring the next three tries.  Half time saw Auroa talk the shortest of leads 26-24, which Matapu more than matched, scoring first at the start of the second half.  From there Auroa started to take the ascendancy in the game, claiming victory in the end 66-29.   Highlights from the game have already been created.  Auroa are in the Blue with Orange and Matapu are in the Gold. This highlights video was created by Jayden from Room Three. Jorjas report You can also read about the game here.

Auroa Vs. Matapu Rugby 23/4/2015

This video created by Rico from Room Three is highlights from the Crowley Cup warm up Rugby Game between Auroa Primary School and our neighbours Matapu School on Thursday 23/4/2015 at Auroa Primary School. This footage was filmed on the day and put together later that afternoon. After a close first half, Matapu were able to claim victory 42-39, a particularly proud moment for Mr Chittenden from Matapu School, with his first win against Mr Chittenden (Auroa). Matapu were also able to complete a double against Auroa Primary School, winning the Netball 11-9. The Crowley Cup competition, the local competition for Y5/6 starts this coming week with Auroa Primary School hosting Ngaere.

Matapu Rugby from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Inter School Athletics 2015: Photographs

MOA Awards 2014

Last night in Opunake the MOA Cluster (Matapu, Opuknake and Auroa Schools) held their first annual MOA Awards to recognise digital excellence. The awards ceremony was an amazing night with students from throughout the area recognised for digital excellence. Room One from Auroa Primary School featured in the awards with Tom, Tahana, Kaiah and Emily featured in best Senior Blog Awards, with Emily taking the win. Kaiah was featured in Best Music Video (Senior) which she won, putting her in the Supreme Award Winner Catergory. Room One also managed to take the award for Best School Blog. These pictures were taken at the Opunake Events Centre on a fantastic night.

MoaAwards2014 - Video Maker

Kissik Eraio 2014 Results from 19/6/14

Today Auroa Primary School took part in the 2014 Kissik Eario Tournament which was held at Kaponga School, Taranaki.  Auroa Primary School competed in Netball and Touch.  Our Touch teams scored an impressive doubles, with both teams winning their respective competition and both remaining undefeated.

Auroa Y7/8 Boys were able to defeat St Patricks, Kaponga 12-0, Kaponga School 11-1, Manaia School 10-0 and Matapu School 12-0.  This was an outstanding performance from our team who played extremely well and we are very happy to retain the trophy.   Not only did we win the Y7/8 competition but the junior students won the Y5/6.

Not to be outdone the Y7/8 Girls from Auroa Primary School defeated Matapu and Kaponga to claim the Girls Netball title.  You can read Emilys recount about this event here.  

Well done to all the teams who represented Auroa Primary School today.

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Matapu School: Visiting our nearest neighbours.

One of the closet schools to Auroa School here in Taranaki is our neighbours at Matapu School.  They will be present later this week when we both travel to Kaponga for Inter School Athletics.   They've got class blogs set up school wide.  Our class commenting task this week is to visit our friends at Matapu School and comment on one of their class pages.

Although we may know some of the students through sports or other activities the commenting rules for  students of Auroa Primary School still apply and are more important than ever.   You can find the blogs of the classrooms hyperlinked below.  The choice of the post is up to you.

Room One: Y7/8
Room Two: Y5/6
Room Three Y3/4

You can also visit the Matapu School Blog by clicking on the link here, some of the junior school pages are listed at the bottom of the class page list.