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!!
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:
Great news that the Weet-bix Kids Tryathlon event is back on the calendar!
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.
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.
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.
Do you want to learn to play touch? Try this module on Friday nights at Fearon Park. The module starts the first week back at school so if you are interested in playing with other kids from Ōwairaka contact Maria at mmudgway@owairaka.school.nz by Friday 7 October.
Congratulations to all our Year 4 players who have just finished their Winter Season at Windmill Road. Many of the players are new to the game this year and it has been great to see the progress they have made. Thank you to , Marie Holo and her daughter, who have volunteered their time each week to coach the players. I look forward to seeing everyone back on the court next year!
This afternoon the Year 5 and 6 Winter netballers celebrated the end of their season by playing their parents in a friendly game. We have some very talented netball players and netball playing parents at Ōwairaka.
Thank you once again to Amanda, Iunisi and Lelava our coaches, Victoria and Hannah our referees and to the mums who helped with scoring games. With their help this season has been the most successful yet.
Last Thursday four teams represented Ōwairaka at the Eden Albert Netball Tournament. The coaches and parents were very impressed with the way all the teams competed. We have some very talented netballers at Ōwairaka!
Congratulations to the Year 5 Team who won the Year 5 section and to the Year 6 Team 1 girls who placed second in the Year 6 section. Our Year 6 Team 2 and our Boys Team played some tough competition and should be proud of their teamwork and skills.
Thank you to Lelava and Iunisi, our parent coaches for Team 1 and 2 and also to the parents and grandparents who supported the teams on Thursday.
Congratulations to both our Girls Rippa Teams who represented the school at the Eden / Albert Tournament on Thursday.
The A Team won all their games leading up to the final and the B Team drew 2 games and lost one. In the finals our A Team came second and the B Team came ninth. We are so proud of the girls and how much they improved throughout the day!
A huge thank you must go to Eti and Tenille Mamea who coached both teams over the past few months. Without your help our teams would not have played as well as they did. Thank you also to our other mums who helped set up the gazebo and food that kept us going throughout the day.
The A Team will be awarded their certificates at the next Kauri Team assembly.
A Team players: Dayelle Fetongi Kapiri Tulsi Jasmine Justus Danica Arianna Phoenix Lavina Hibiscus Deziyah
B Team players: Frances Maddy McKenzye Litiane Rainia Annabel - Rose Aisha Lokkie Rahma Havana Mona
Boys Open Weight Rugby players: Cartell Etena Manny
The tournament which was supposed to take place tomorrow has been postponed until Thursday 11 August. We have organised a bus to transport the team to and from May Road War Memorial fields on Thursday. We will leave school at 9.15am and return before 2.30pm so please come along and support our two girls rippa teams and the four boys who will be playing in the Gladstone Primary Open Weight team.
Please note there is no practise tomorrow, Tuesday 26 July, after school due to the weather forecast of more rain.
Congratulations to our amazing cross country team who competed at the Eden / Albert Cross Country this morning. We were so proud of your effort and team spirit, great Ōwairaka ambassadors.
Today's team and their placings were:
Year 4 - Sarah, Madeline, Leo 20, Finley 15 and Pablo 9
Year 5 - Sophie 16, Nora 15, Brody 5, Artem 16 and Arnie 15
Year 6 - Jasmine 7, Liberty 22, Maddy 27, Josh 11, and Jude 22
Congratulations to everyone who participated and completed our 2022 cross country. This year's event was held at school and was longer than last year's so well done to all our tamariki.
Here are the first 6 placegetters for Pūriri Team:
Year 4 Girls: 1st- Michaela R22, 2nd- Maddy R22, 3rd- Furtuna R21, 4th- Sarah R21; 5th- Cati R16; 6th- Lilou R22
The first 3 placegetters in Year 4 girls and boys will be competing in the Eden Albert Cross Country at the Domain on Tuesday 21 June.
Winter Netball is well under way at Windmill Park. Here are a couple of photos from the Strikers Team that were sent in by one of their proud mums. The team only had 6 players this week so they all played a full game. Phew! Well done to Kapiri, who was this week's player of the day.
Our Year 5 and 6 netball teams played their first games this afternoon at Windmill Park.
Our Year 4 Stars play tomorrow at 4pm.
The deadline for registering on the Auckland Netball site for our teams is 10 April. All teams will be finalised on this date and you will receive an email with instructions for your team's registration fees.
Thank you to all the parents who have volunteered to coach, umpire or score this year. Your support is greatly appreciated!
Year 3 still need another 3 players for the team to be registered. All other teams have enough players.
Click here for more information about your child's games.
Year 3 & 4 teams start on Thursday May 19
Year 5 & 6 teams start on Wednesday May 18
Please contact mmudgway@owairaka.school.nz if you have forgotten the link for registering or you are a new Year 3 player's parent.
On Friday we held our first Wheels Day. We had bikes, scooters, skateboards, skates, rollerblades and even a hoverboard!
Would you like to join an Owairaka Futsal Team?
Contact Matt for more details:
Winter Netball at Windmill Park, Epsom for Years 3 - 6 is due to start in May this year.
Teams will be played as Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 year level teams.
Year 3 & Year 4 teams:
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