Weetbix Try 2023 - Early Bird Entries

 

We are less than 4 weeks away from the Central East Auckland Sanitarium Weet-Bix^TM Kids TRYathlon at Pt England Reserve on Sunday 12 February. We hope you are getting excited to give it a TRY!

Participants need to be entered by midnight on Sunday 22nd January to take advantage of the special Early Bird price of $49.50 and save $16.50 off the full price! As well as the option of having their TRYathlete pack either couriered to home or included in the School Courier delivery.

Entries will continue to remain open but participants who enter after this date will need to collect their TRYathlete pack at the Early Pack Pick Up or on the event day. ,

Click here to register and join the ŌWAIRAKA TEAM now

Email mmudgway@owairaka.school.nz if you have any queries.

National Tag Tournament

 Congratulations to the group of girls from Ōwairaka who played for the Auckland Metro under 11 Girls Teams in the National Tag Tournament last weekend. There were 258 teams participating at the Nationals. 

Dayelle and Phoenix were in Metro Blue and the rest of the girls in  Metro White. Each team played six games over the two days. All participants received a medal at the end of the day.

Well done girls!!

 From left: Danica, Jasmine, Phoenix, Anabel-Rose, Mackenzye, Dayelle & Justus.

Year 3 - 6 Athletics Day

Congratulations to all our Pūriri and Kauri children who competed in our annual Athletics Day at Lovelock Track yesterday. It was wonderful to see so many children having a go and showing perseverance, resilience and so much manaakitanga towards their classmates. 

Certificates will be presented to those children who placed 1st, 2nd or 3rd in their events at an assembly next week. 

Many of the Year 4 - 6 athletes will go on to represent Ōwairaka at the Eden Albert Athletics Day on the 22 November. Notices for these children were sent home today.

The Eden Albert Team are:

Weetbix Tryathlon Is Back

Great news that the Weet-bix Kids Tryathlon event is back on the calendar! 

The bad news is that there are only two Auckland events, no Hay Park or Browns Bay venues, so Ōwairaka will be entering in the East Auckland Tryathlon at Pt England Reserve on Sunday 12 February 2023.

Use this link to register online.

If you are new to the Weet-bix Kids Tryathlon check out the website for more information: Website link.

Auckland Marathon

 Congratulations to the 22 Owairaka children who completed their first marathon over the weekend. They have been training hard over the last 12 weeks to complete 40km, and on Sunday 30th October ran the final 2km and crossed the Auckland Marathon finish line down at Victoria Park.

Girls Rugby

 You may have seen an article on the news last night about the Girls' Rippa Rugby Tournament that was held at Western Springs over the weekend. I managed to watch one of the games that Dayelle and Phoenix played and was very impressed with their team's ability to pass the ball around and to defend as a team. It was also great to see the teams mixed up in the second half, due to the Eden girls winning the first half. Apparently this happened in all their games so congratulations on all your games girls!! We look forward to seeing you representing Aotearoa, Tonga or Samoa one day.

After School Football Sessions

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