Close second in Pasifika Fusion comp
Students just five points behind winners
Kia ora koutou, Talofa lava, and greetings everyone. Our students are making the most of all sorts of opportunities and achieving some amazing results, so I thought I would share a few of these with you.
At the end of Term 2, the Regional Pasifika Fusion took place over two days in Palmerston North.
This involves 13 colleges and sees students participating in a range of events such as speeches, science, music performances, talent, cinematography, wearable arts, drama, and quiz.
The ‘‘Kava Bowl’’ is the trophy for the best cultural performance, and this is keenly contested.
Our Pasifika students have brought the Kava Bowl back to NUA from the last two Pasifika Fusion competitions, and we were hoping they could do it again.
Their performance was amazing and gained second place — just five points behind the winners.
Special thanks goes to Jessica Foster, our Pasifika dean, who is doing so much to nurture and grow our Pasifika students.
Nine students participated in the STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Manufacturing) challenge in Lower Hutt.
They competed in a range of quiz questions and practical challenges, such as making a structure that could support various weighted objects.
They competed against many other schools from the lower North Island and performed highly.
At the end of term 2, a group of junior students went to Feilding to participate in the Manawatu Readers’ Cup.
These students were tasked with reading six New Zealand books before the event and then took part in a quiz competition based on the six books. Each student took home a brand new book as a prize.
Our Academic Prefects run an annual competition based on the TV show The Chase.
This is keenly contested and challenges our students on their knowledge of science, math, technology, geography, music and general knowledge.
As well as extending their knowledge, it is a lot of fun and always has a large student audience in support.
Congratulations to these students and to all the others who day after day work hard to achieve such amazing results and are actively developing as successful young adults.
Ngā mihi, tofa soifua, kind regards