Auroa Primary School NZAIMS Results 2014

Auroa Primary Schools NZAIMS Teams returned to Auroa on Friday.    In the Basketball Auroa's Girls finished 13th claiming wins against Diocesan School from Auckland, Dunedin North Intermediate, Mount Manganui Intermediate and Mokoia Intermediate.

The team also had close games against Otumoetai Intermediate, Northcross Intermediate and Highlands Intermediate.  We also had the privilege of playing against the tournament runners up - Kura O Te Koutu.  

We were really pleased how the entire team went during the week, our first time competing in Basketball and it was fantastic to be part of a competition with twenty four teams from all around New Zealand.

The Auroa Primary School Golf team also returned from competition, playing on four courses over four days of competition - Auroa were able to claim Bronze in the team competition and Brylee - who also featured in our Basketball team, was able to claim Bronze in the stableford competition.

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.

Auroa School Cross Country 2014

Today at Auroa Primary School we held our annual Cross Country race. All our students from Y1 to Y8 competed over the course which stretched up to 3km for the senior students. Coming up we have the next stage of competition the Mount Spa Cluster and their race which is taking place at Manaia Golf Course. The Y8 Boys race was run by Lucas with runners up coming in the shape of Michael and Will. In the senior Girls Emily was able to won against Isabella and Alice. Keifer was able to win the Y7 competition with competition coming from Decland and Jackson. Caitlin, Tamara and Jessica were the top three for the Y7 Girls. A reminder that this coming week we will be posting remotely from the 2014 NZAIMS Games. Auroa Primary School is entering the Golf competition and the Girls Basketball Competition (where Mr Webb will be on site for the entire week).

Auroa Primary School: NZAIMS 2014 Draw

Next week we will be posting remotely from Tauranga as Mr Webb and 12 students from Room One will be attending the NZAIMS Games in Tauranga.  This competition this year features over 225 schools and 7000 students in competition.  Auroa Primary School is entering for the very first time in Golf and Girls Basketball.

Next week in Tauranga, Mr Webb will be with the Auroa School Girls Basketball team.  We are playing at the ASB Arena at Baypark, Tauranga. (Formerly the TECT Arena).  The Golf team plays Monday to Thursday.

The Basketball have games against Dio School from Auckland and host Otumeotai Intermediate on Monday 8th September.  Tuesday we play against Dunedin North Intermediate and Kura te Koutu from Rotorua.  On Wednesday morning we play Highlands Intermediate from New Plymouth.  Following that we have up to three play off games over the following two days.

We are intending to be remote posting from Tauranga during the tournament, results and media from the games as they occur.  

Auroa Primary School in the News...

In the recently published issue of the South Taranaki Star, Auroa Primary School and Michael from Room One was featured when the newspaper had an article about our school and our Mindkits 3d Diamond Age Printer. You can click on the link to see the article here. 

 Our second mention has been in the press release for the NZAIMS Games. There are over 200 Primary and Intermediate Schools sending teams to Tauranga in September. Auroa Primary School are competing in this competition for the first time, in Golf and Girls Basketball.  We are looking forward to finding out which of the other 24 teams we will be competing against from around New Zealand.  You can read the article by clicking on the link to SunLive here.