Tag Archives: Achievements

Speech Championships 2012

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Charlotte with the trophy

We would like to congratulate Charlotte, who is this year’s Karapiro School speech champion. Charlotte presented an entertaining speech convincing us that New Zealand is a far better place to be than Australia. She won an entertaining final featuring nine very confident and capable speakers. Josh was this year’s runner up with Hannah and Sam sharing third equal place. Well done to the other finalists Sarah, Rose, Rebecca, Cam and Abigail. Charlotte and Josh will go on to represent us at the Rotary interschool championships in November.

It was a SHOWSTOPPING sensation!

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Rebecca, Lily (obscured), Abigail, Jacob, Georgina and Hannah rock the house!

Rebecca, Lily (obscured), Abigail, Jacob, Georgina and Hannah rock the house.

We had a wonderful night in the tropical heat of the Karapiro Hall last night. Our students did a great job performing 16 show stopping hits before the packed house. All students were involved in  the show with some super dance moves and great singing. Thank you to our talented staff for producing the show, our fantastic parents and, of course, our hard working students.

The show was followed by a very entertaining speech by BOT member Scott Smyth before we farewelled our Year 6 students and presented the citizenship trophy to Etana. The evening concluded with a visit by Santa and a yummy supper. What a great way to bring the curtain down on a memorable year!

Well done Cam and Abigail (and Robbie!)

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Cam and Abigail with their medals

Congratulations to Cam and Abigail who placed 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Cambridge Kids’ Ironman held last weekend! Also a special mention to Robbie Shirley who, at 6 years old, was one of the youngest to complete the 12km family ride at the Maungatautari Challenge. What fit students we have here at Karapiro! See here also.

Speech Final 2010

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This year’s speech competition finalists.

A recent study found that 40% of adults named public speaking as their greatest fear! There is no fear of that being the case at Karapiro School. Each year we hold our speech contest, all senior students take part and deliver a prepared speech. Five finalsits then share their speech with the whole school and a winner is selected. This year’s finalists Josh, Hannah, Jacob, James and Sam did a super job with Jacob winning the competition and Josh finishing runner up. Both boys will represent us in the upcoming Rotary competition.

Well done Hannah and Deon!

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Hannah and Deon with their masterpieces!

Congratulations to Hannah and Deon who each placed FIRST in the Waipa Schools’ Melbourne Cup art competition. They each won $1000 for the school and a voucher to get their art work framed! We are having a wonderful time thinking of the best way to use the money! Thank you to Sir Patrick Hogan and the Cambridge Stud for sponsoring the competition. 

Athletics Day

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Erika (right) leaps over the hurdles in the Year 6 girls' final.

The sun shone brightly on the annual rural schools’ athletics championships held on Friday at the Vogel Street athletics complex. Students from the Cambridge rural schools took part in ten events including sprints, throws and jumps. Well doem to Cam who was runner up in the Year 4 boys overall championship and to our relay team who finished third in a hotly contested race.

I see red! The Karapiro School athletics team.

BP Technology Challenge

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Our BP technologists and their recession busting Christmas tree!

Today we were represented by two teams at the BP Technology Challenge in Hamilton. Our teams had to use limited resources in limited time to create structures according to set criteria. Both teams did exeptionally well with the senior team of Jake, Owen, Erika and Gemma taking out first place for their construction of a very impressive Christmas tree. Congratulations to both teams and their coach, Miss Hanks.

Friends, Romans, countrymen…

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The 2009 Speech contest finalists

Yesterday we held our annual speech competition. All five finalists delivered excellent speeches. Each speaker spoke confidently and kept the audience entertained with fascinating facts, hilarious humour and/or amazing arguments.

Gemma spoke of her six years at Karapiro and how much the school has influenced the wonderful person she has become. Erika extolled the virtues of underwear and made us realise just how we take take our incredible undergarments for granted! Joseph convinced us that the humble goldfish is in fact everybody’s ideal pet. Owen shared his many ambitions as to what he hopes to achieve when he grows up. Our Eventual winner James shared his secrets about how you can successfully make your younger siblings life miserable!

James and Joseph will now represent us at the annual Rotary club speech competition in Cambridge next month. We wish both boys the best of luck!

Parent Power!

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Mike, Caroline and Don at the finish.

Congratulations to the Karapiro parents and friends’ team who competed so well at last weekend’s Karapiro Ironman. The team of  Mike Davey (2000m swim), Don Ritchie (90 km bike) and Caroline Webbon (21 km run) completed the race in a combined time of 5 hours and 17 minutes to win their age category! Don and Caroline both achieved personal best times and the team raised over $400 for our school through sponsorship. What an excellent result all round!

Two of our students, Cam and Mac, also competed very well in the kid’s duathalon held at the same time, with Cam finishing 4th overall and Mac 15th. What a great effort boys!