Rebuild Update:
The establishment phase of the rebuild project is now completed and the contractors have demobilized from the site.  We now have a stable building platform of crushed concrete down to basalt on which to construct the new 3 storey teaching block and gymnasium.  Preliminary work on the site for new 2 storey teaching block and whare tapere for Nga Puna O Waiorea is imminent with surveyors being on site last week.  The enabling works for this part of the build will be a combination of excavation and piling.
Downers have been confirmed as the main build contractors, and they plan to start construction in October.

In addition, the Ministry of Education have advised us that we will receive $3.3 million for the furniture, fittings and equipment for the new school.  To facilitate the most efficient utilization of this money we have contracted a division of Jasmax Architects to workshop, scope and procure the range of equipment and furniture that we will need.  The contract includes a full set-up phase so that when we transition into the new school everything will be set up and ready to go.  And when will we move in?  The latest indications are for the beginning of term 2 2019.

Bike Security:
With the location of our bike racks at the front of the school we are reminded of the need for vigilance relating to the security of the bikes stationed there.  We have installed two high resolution security cameras to monitor these racks but I remind all cyclists that it is vital that you lock your bike securely using high quality security locks.  Students who forget to bring their locks must not just leave their bikes in the racks unsecured.  The drill here is to notify your dean or senior manager and they will arrange a secure place to leave your bike for the day.

As an aside, the reason for having the bike racks located at the front of the school is twofold:
1. They have been displaced from the building site.
2. Visible location encourages more people to cycle.

Ivan Davis

Stage Challenge dancers pre-show at the Aotea Centre, Friday 7th July 2017 
Photo credit: Cosmo Ashley-Lamb

Term 3 ended with a spectacular Stage Challenge performance at the Aotea Centre on Friday 7th July with the Estrangement 2017 production. Seventy students worked tirelessly to captivate their audience over two terms planning, rehearsing, making incredible costumes and building the supporting set for the show. The production team came away with five Stage Challenge Awards: Excellence in Set Design and Function, Costuming Character, Visual Enhancement, Soundtrack and Health and Life Skills.

Congratulations to Y13 student leaders Khue Chu for set design and construction, Oscar Furness-Wills and Bebe Shatford for costume design and construction and to the lead team of choreographers Esther Cohen-Goh, Carla Harre, Molly Snowden and Freya Sturm. I’d personally like to acknowledge the efforts of Elsa Brandt for her exceptional team leadership and support with administrative duties in preparation for the event. Thank you very much.

Stage Challenge is a wonderful leadership opportunity for senior students to initiate and produce a production for students across all years. Well done to our student leadership team whose efforts have truly been outstanding.

Thank you very much to staff who supported students in the lead up to Stage Challenge and on the day Matt Coldicutt, Chloe Davison, Robert Pollock, Samantha Wood-Rawnsley and Danielle Voyce. Special thanks to Matt Coldicutt for your incredible support with set construction and to Deane Cohen-Goh for his generosity and photography of the evening show.

Oscar Furness Wills, Esther Cohen-Goh, Carla Harre, Elsa Brandt, Bebe Shatford and Khue Chu with Excellence Awards received

Congratulations goes to the following school bands: Daffodils (Theo Salmon, Isaac Keating, Louis Graham) who have made it to the national finals of RockQuest for the second year in a row!! And The Bad Apples (James Macewan, Jack Owles, Harry Scholes) also made it to the top 20 nationally and still have a chance to get to the finals.

They need to win People's Choice... you can help!
Please text "badapples" to 5678 and ask all your family and friends to do the same… Good Luck!
Finally, this term we have the privilege of seeing the senior Drama and Dance productions! Well done to all involved! 12Drama have just presented the hilarious kiwi production of Wheeler’s Luck and next up is 13Drama with Twelfth Night – make sure you get along to see the y13s in their final show!  Dance have their performance showcases later in the month and the term will end with much anticipated Talent Quest! 

Another busy term is underway!

arts@wsc.school.nz  -  Kirsty Britton – Arts Coordinator

Stage Challenge Success!

On the day...
On the last day of term – Friday 7 July 2017 - Stage Challenge took place. All seventy of our dance production crew and teachers went to the Aotea Centre to participate. Teachers, Leaders and Crew arrived at 6:30am to move the set backstage and at 7am our dance team turned up to get into the theatre for a long but very exciting day. We had heaps of fun preparing, doing our stage runs and meeting all the other school competitors - it was a fun day out as well as a competition. There were heaps of activities and games whilst at the Aotea Centre alongside the hours of preparation before going on-stage. Once onstage for the evening show the dancers and crew did an amazing job which resulted in an awesome performance - we leaders were all so proud of everyone that participated and who helped us to create the show. Heading home at around 11pm for a well-deserved rest.

Preparation...
Our whole Stage Challenge team spent countless hours fine-tuning performance ready for stage competition. Our dancers were practicing once a week for term one, then for term 2 practices became more and more frequent to allow the dance and acting to look polished and clean and fun ready for the event. Our set design, building and costuming team spent many hours after school, during lunch times and holiday working to get these completed and looking good so that by the time it came to the 7th everything was well rehearsed with and in leading us to an awesome stress free day and performance.  Well done to our team for putting together such a spectacular show.

We were very proud of this year’s awards as follows:

Awards 2017
Award of Excellence - Set Design and Function
Award of Excellence - Costuming Character
Award of Excellence - Visual Enhancement
Award of Excellence - Soundtrack
Award of Excellence - Health and Life Skills

Stage Challenge Leaders 2017

It’s Show Time! Coming up in Dance…

Year 13 Dance Show
Thursday 24 August, 6.30pm TAPAC Theatre
Friday 25 August, lunchtime (1.45-2.15)

WSC Dance Showcase
A showcase of student work from Year 10-13 Dance
Wednesday 27 September, 3.30 and 7pm

Chloe Davison – HOD Dance

The 48HOUR Furious Filmmaking Challenge is coming up!

Term 3! The 48HOUR Furious Filmmaking Challenge is coming up on the weekend of August 25th to the 27th. The challenge is to assemble a team and in 48 hours write, shoot, cut, and hand in a fantastic short film between 1 and 5 minutes in length. The challenge is heaps of fun and Western Springs College – Nga Puna O Waiorea has a great history of award winning school teams coming out of the competition.

We’d love to see new and unfounded talent from the younger year levels. Existing teams in year 13 in 2017 have been going at it since year 9 and year 10 and we want to encourage students who are interested in the competition to join the fun!

In the Media Department we will be holding a panel of former students who are from teams Filmsplats, P-Snappy, and Mach One to talk to students about tips and tricks for the weekend and answer any questions they may have. This will be held in week 4 of this term in room D12. This is open to everyone at school and will be announced prior in the daily bulletin so keep your eyes peeled!

If you would like to find out more about 48HOURS such as rules, how to sign up, tips and tricks, previous year’s winners, reviews, news, and more, just go to www.48hours.co.nz. A good place to start is by clicking “About” at the top of the page, then “First-timer? Read this!” from the left hand side bar on the about page. There is a load of great information there and on other pages under the “About” section.

If you have any other queries about the competition, the weekend, the panel, or anything else in relation to 48HOURS, hit up Deb, Mrs. Webber, Mrs. Long, or myself with any of your questions! We’re all looking forward to seeing new entrants to the competition step up to the challenge, regardless of your previous experience with making films. We really want WSC to be well represented in this competition. Give it a go!

Oscar Barber-Wilson – Media Leader

Music - It's competition time!

Our two Rock Quest bands this year The Bad Apples and Daffodils made it through to the top 20 nationally for this competition!! Then to make things even better Daffodils have been selected in the top 8 and will play in the national finals!! Wow! The Rock Quest National Final (in which Daffodils came 2nd last year) is on Saturday 2 September at 7pm, Auckland Girls Grammar, tickets from NZTix.co.nz

The Jazz Band and Chamber Group are busy preparing for this year's round of competitions.

Sunday 6 August, 1.30pm will see the Jazz Band playing at the Pt Chevalier RSA in the Auckland Jazz and Blues Club Schools Competition.

On Tuesday 15 August, 11.30am the Chamber Group will perform at St Mary's Parnell as part of the KBB Band and Orchestra Festival. In the same event the Jazz Band will play on Wednesday 17 August, 8.30pm. All members of these groups must bring in their permission slips as soon as possible. It would be lovely to see friends and families in the audience for these performances.

On Wednesday 7 August, Peachez Vetenibua and Mercy Williams will represent Western Springs College – Nga Puna O Waiorea at Stand Up Stand Out, where they will compete in the solo voice category.

Mercy, and Stella Fogorelli are representing us in Play it Strange song-writing competitions this term - watch this space.

…and then of course we have....the Talent Quest...

Talent Quest entries are open!

Forms are available from the front office and from the music department.

Talent Quest will be held on the last day of this term and there will be a junior and a senior event - more details later in the term.

All talent is welcomed - dance, solo singing, poetry, waiata, stand-up comedy, talking dogs, solo instrumental, skit, dramatic scene, bands, string trio, poi routine, lip sync (always a crowd pleaser)......

Heats will be held in week 5 so get those entries in.

Margaret Robertson – HOD Music

Greetings from the Art Department

Despite the earlier finishing for the external folio standard this year,  the challenge of pushing boundaries and trying new methods is key to developing ‘student voice’.  This can be a constant source of angst for students in the Visual Arts and Art History – however the perseverance of hard work and consistent reflective feedback/feedforward can only aid students to become more confident in constructing their authentic voice.

To help motivation we have brought in two artists in this term to talk with our senior students – Tyla Vaeau came in to talk about her journey from ex-student to Masters in Art History to successful Tattooist, and Aleksandra Petrovic shared installation experiences as Art Loans Coordinator and Exhibition Technician at the Wallace Trust - Pah Homestead, whilst also spending the greater part of the day with the Art Design students – sharing her illustration and drawing practise.

As a department we have secured Star funding to send a selected group of senior students to the prestigious ‘Semi Permanent’ Art Convention to occur this term for specific Y13 students – two day entry to the prestigious international Art Design conference ‘Semi-Permanent’ on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 August.

Congratulations to Y13 Art Design students Aria Toilolo-Ite and Oscar Furness-Wills as this year’s Western Springs College recipients of the Pat Hanly Creativity Award.  They attended the awards evening at the Auckland Art Gallery on Wednesday 2nd August to receive the award which consisted of a Gordon Harris prize and opportunity to attend AUT Creativity Workshops.

The fantastic work of the Y10 Pop Art classes from Semester 1 has been assessed and documented, and will be presented  in the reporting process and week four Parent Teacher interviews.  These works were produced as part of a Level 1 NCEA internal standard and will be formatted and hung on the wall for near Y Block.  Although it will be happening after the seniors leave, keep an eye out for a selection of the Y9 and Y10 work that will be on prominent display during the Art Festival held at TAPAC in term four.

Lastly an update on the actual dates for the senior deadlines and end of year display in the library:
Level 1 due;    Friday 29th September – last day of Term 3.
Level 2 due;     Friday 20th October – end of Week 1, Term 4
Level 1, 2, 3 Display;   Friday 27 October – end of Week 3
Level 3/Scholarship due;  Tuesday 31st October

Ia Manuia, Lily A Laita - HOD Art

Kia ora koutou

As some of you may know Waiorea was asked to be part of the Waterview Tunnel Opening….please click on the Link here to view our students and their background singing….

JUNIOR SEXUALITY EDUCATION

Year 9 and 10 Health classes will begin their sexuality education later this term. Year 9 classes will begin the sexuality unit of work in either week 7 or 8 (depending on when they finish their current topic). The first sexuality topic is ‘puberty’ which, for most students, will be revision of the work done in their intermediate schools. Later topics in the unit are relationships, contraception, STI‟s and reproduction. Most Year 10 classes will also begin their sexuality unit in weeks 6 or 7, some may start later in the term, again dependent on when they finish their current topic.  Topics in the Year 10 Sexuality unit include decision making, relationships, rights and responsibilities, consent, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, safer sex.

The Ministry of Education has provided schools with the ‘Sexuality Guidelines for Board of Trustees and Principles’. Along with the Guidelines is a pamphlet for parents/whanau.  If you would like to read the pamphlet the following link will connect you (http://parents.education.govt.nz/assets/Parents/Documents/Primary-school/Sexuality-Parent-Guide.PDF ).

If you have any questions regarding the sexuality unit, please speak to their health teacher during parent teachers evening in week 4 or you can phone or e-mail their Health teacher or the HOD Health, Karalee Green.

There was no doubting the excitement as students gathered to check in to Flight QR921: two weeks of travel, discovery and shopping. Ahead, was a very full schedule of travel, guided walking tours, museums, negotiating different transport systems and airports across Europe. It was a demanding schedule but one that allowed time to relax at a chateau in Normandy, a swim in the Mediterranean, or wandering in a bewildering large shopping mall in Berlin.

This trip was an undoubted success: it might be a bit of a cliché but ‘a good time was had by all.’  This was due to the extraordinarily excellent behavior of the students who were consistently positive in their approach, enthusiastic learners, and uncomplaining as they dealt with heat and delays and tiredness. They were a fantastic group who were quickly became a cohesive, inclusive and supportive cohort. Such groups make trips like this memorable.

This trip was the first time the History department has ventured so far afield. The hope is that this will be the beginning of other travels abroad. Special thanks must go to Sophie Lenehan and Emma Dwyer who were responsible for so much of the planning and the fine tuning of this complex and demanding undertaking. They were wonderful traveling companions, and without their cheerful and unstinting energy the trip would not have been the great pleasure it was.

Graeme Moran
HOD History

The New Digital Technologies Curriculum

The New Digital Technologies Curriculum is being rolled out by the Ministry of Education.  The Ministry of Education is running a series of workshops on this across the country, with the evening sessions being for parents.  The timing of our newsletter means that some of these events have already passed, but if you act quickly you might still make one of the Auckland ones - the North shore event is on Monday.  The link to register is here.

Paul Alford, Deputy Principal

Year 9 Careers activity - “Fast Forward”
Over the next 10 days Year 9 students will be expected to complete a short task to lead into  their learning conversation with their form teachers in week 4.  The activity has been to designed to strengthen your son/daughter’s’ “Knowing Self” stage of Careers Development.

The Yr 9 Careers google classroom code for the actvity is 5jcuru2 and students need to firstly join this classroom. The first compulsory task called Fast Forward, then there is a choice of two optional extension activities on Pages 2 and 3 - a DreamBoard or Personal Shield.  Students - join the classroom and away you go!  If Year 9 parents can encourage students to join and complete the task then this would be very helpful.  Note the task works on PCs and laptops, not mobile devices.
 

WSC students visit Woods (Grafton) for Engineering Week
On Monday 31 July, a group of 20 students from year 10, 11 and 12 visited Woods, a multi-disciplinary company with expertise in Engineering, Surveying, Planning, Geo-spatial, Architecture, and Urban Design.

Presentations from many recent graduates in surveying, urban planning, engineering and architecture allowed our students to learn how they decided their career choices (some at the last minute!), subject requirements and how the professions work together.

Later, students rotated in teams around four practical activities with Woods staff supervising:
bridge building challenge with paper and bits and pieces
surveying 3D scanner used to amp ve=irtually anything
virtual reality headset to see through walls of buildings
drones assisting the world of engineering and science.

It was a brilliant day full of inspiration and fun. Students left with even more motivation to become future engineers, surveyors, planners and architects. We would like to again thank FutureIntech and Woods, especially Tom Halpin, Sakti Gounder & Marcel Waldvogel (see photo right, with students Daniel McKay, Ashley Jacobsen and Luke Wijohn) and other Woods staff for facilitating the visit, for being such excellent hosts as part of Engineering Week.

Mireille Morello-Nakhle (right) walking and viewing a building, wearing a VR headset.

This is open to Year 11, 12 and 13 students of Western Springs College with a prize pool of  $500.00 thanks to the Lennihan-Ikin family, the sponsors of the event. The finals are on Thursday, 7th September with a deadline of Thursday, 31st August to have a written draft submitted on Classroom: The quality of this will determine the finalists selected to deliver in the competition. You need to deliver a speech of six minutes to an audience centring on YOUR interpretation of one of the Values that frame the New Zealand Curriculum:

The Values are:

• Excellence, by aiming high and by persevering in the face of difficulties
• Innovation, inquiry, and curiosity, by thinking critically, creatively, and reflectively
• Diversity, as found in our different cultures, languages, and heritages
• Equity, through fairness and social justice
• Community and participation for the common good
• Ecological sustainability, which includes care for the environment
• Integrity, which involves being honest, responsible, and accountable and acting ethically

The ideas contained in these values are broad and it is up to you to develop a speech that takes inspiration from them. There's wide scope for you to convey your passion to your peers. Get involved by joining this Classroom:

Senior Speech Competition: edx6xd3

Last week, three year 11 classes travelled down to Piha to accommodate at Piha Mill Camp for our 1.7 risk management and responsible behaviours assessment. On the way to the camp we went to Tree Top Adventures in Muriwai, which was a thrilling experience for us all. Climbing high in the trees up to 14m and ziplining back down to the ground was really exciting. Something a lot of us had never done before.

After a quick lunch in between we then went across the road to the mountain biking track where we went on a tiring but fun track. Down some steep hills and through muddy areas definitely got the adrenaline pumping for some. After that we jumped back in the vans pretty exhausted and headed to the camp to get settled and have some time to ourselves before dinner.

The night time was pretty cold but 2 nice fires kept us warm while we wrote some of our assessment and finished the evening with some milos and card playing.The next day we learnt how to correctly shoot a bearing with a compass and map. Using these skills, we entered the green wilderness and tried to find our way from one track to another. It was challenging but a good skill to have to keep ourselves safe in the outdoors. We then stayed in the bush and made bivouacs which are little huts made with sticks and leaves. Camp is always heaps of fun and this was no different.

Thanks to the PE teachers who came with us!

Liam Holwerda Year 11

Over the last couple of weeks there has been a series of articles in the Herald about mental health.  It has generated much discussion about how we can change our appalling rate of suicide in NZ.

The ways in which we can make change is by making it ok to ask for help and support.  The thing i love about this school, is that the young people here do ask for help, for themselves, their friends and their families.  It is a testament to staff’s hard work on pastoral care that our students feel ok about doing this and telling people that they are not in a good space.  There are however some who struggle silently, as school can be a hard place at times and young people can feel very alone and trapped when they are overwhelmed.   So if you are worried about someone's wellbeing, tell them that, not to make them feel worse but for them to know that they are not alone, that you have noticed and you care.
 
Waiora (our student services centre) is an amazing, supportive place in school for any students who are struggling.   Appointments can be made with the counsellors easily, by texting the Waiora line with their name on  022 492 4672.  I can be contacted by phone 815 6730 ext 740 or by email
poupouares@wsc.school if you have any queries.

Sue Poupouare
Head of Guidance

BADMINTON – Term 2 Competition
We had six teams participating in the Auckland Secondary Schools Badminton Competition.
By the end of the season, we had three teams winning titles, two teams just outside the top 3
and one team finishing just past midfield.

We had two mixed teams and two girls teams playing on a Wednesday at Gillies Avenue
and two junior boys teams playing on a Thursday afternoon at Mt.Roskill Grammar.
Two training mornings were set up, inside the school gym and we had two excellent student
coaches, Vikram Setty and Mikayla Stokes co-ordinating the sessions. It was amazing how
all our players developed over the season, so we acknowledge VS and MS for their great
efforts.
Both our mixed teams won their grades, our two girls teams finished 4th & 7th whilst our two
junior boys teams finished 1st and 4th. Six teams, 3 titles, a 50% winning ratio is not a bad
effort…..

NETBALL – Year 10 Green
The Year 10 Green Netball team have had an awesome season this year and are currently
sitting first on their table in Grade D. When Paea and I first met the girls, we knew that we
would have an awesome time coaching them with lots of laughs and jokes in between our
trainings.

With training twice a week doing ball drills, court work and lots of fitness, I can honestly say I’ve been blessed to have such an awesome group of girls who work hard and constantly put 110% into their training. Throughout the season they have grown as a group and learnt so much more than both
Paea and I expected. Every early morning and afternoon with these guys are worth it as they
continue to improve and play fiercely but fairly on the court, even with me screaming my head off on the sideline.

A special thank you to the parents of these beautiful girls, who wake up just as early as we
do and continue to support the team at every game. Paea and I look forward to the rest of
the season with these girls and fingers crossed we stay on top. Hinemoa Fonua

NETBALL – Year 9 Green
This season the Year 9 Green Netball team, captained by Anouska Wallis-Lewis have had a great season so far. The girls work very hard during trainings and is clearly demonstrated
through their hard working efforts on court. Every Monday and Thursday mornings we have trainings, rain or shine, where the girls are committed and always turn up. The girls have managed to go undefeated throughout the first round of games where they
have now been moved up a grade.

A big thank you to all the parents and families who come out every Saturday morning to help support the team. Also thanks to Peter McIntyre who always makes sure there is breakfast
and a hot milo ready for the girls after our trainings !!! Frances Va'auli and Whitney Walters

LACROSSE
Although the temperature has dropped our WSC girls Lacrosse team’s stamina has not.
Come early Monday mornings, our team has been venturing out onto the icy fields to begin
training without fail and rewarded with a hot breakfast put on by our head of sports. The girls
have been out on the fields on Thursday afternoons kicking butt with a tremendous amount
of school spirit. #wscproud#

Our girl’s skills have improved so much from the start of the season, and we are excited for
the One Day Auckland Championship tournament which starts on Thursday 10th August, at
College Rifles. If anyone is interested in checking out our game come on down and support
our school – tournament schedule times between 9am- 2:30pm. Ellen Hackett
PHOTO – Lacrosse girls proudly wearing their new Sport Hoodies

EQUESTRIAN
The Western Springs Equestrian team had a 5AM start on Monday 12th June readying themselves to drive from Kumeu to Papatoetoe Pony Club for the ACG Strathallan Schools Showjumping event.
We got to the grounds with plenty of time to spare and time to grab a hot chocolate!

Sadie and Claudia started the day out well after I made them walk the wrong course! They both
rode nice and fast in the 65cm. Claudia got 2nd on Pearl and Sadie got 5th on Scarlett. The
75cm fences were a bigger class and Claudia did a nice clear round just out of the placings.
Sadie got one rail on Scarlett as did I on Hunny. In the 80cm Hunny jumped well just for a
few lazy rails in the Jump-Off. Atiria joined us for the 80cm and did a fast double clear round
for 5th out of 40 riders! Atiria finished off the day in the 90cm class just for 1 rail.

Overall we had a really fun day at our first event for this year. It takes a lot of organisation for
us to attend these events and are thankful for our parents taking days off to take us!  We are aiming to get to at least one more event this year- hopefully closer this time so we don’t have to get up as early ! - Sian Azariah
PHOTO - from left; Atiria Young-Ogle, Sian Azariah, Hunny, Sadie Azariah, Claudia Alchin

CYCLING
Western Springs Cyclists were out early this Monday morning, as usual, this time doing hill repeats on Mt Eden with coach Ben Eitleberg, as they prepare for forthcoming competitions. A team of six riders travelled to Karapiro at the start of the July holidays: Sam Buckley, Jack Naish, William Brooker, Angus Williamson, Darius Mortimer-Webster and Max Truel. Darius and Max rode in the U20 road race, creditably, riding hard to complete the 55km course in style. Jack Naish rode the same distance in the U17s, finishing in the front bunch, 2-3 seconds behind the winner, though unplaced. Sam Buckley in the U16s and William Brooker in the U15s also finished strongly, just 2 seconds behind the winners of their respective races (45kms and 35kms).  Angus rode very well to finish his first road race experience. The team and supporters enjoyed staying at the Okoroire Hot Springs Hotel the night before.

This year, for the first time, we have three teams entered in the Auckland Secondary Schools Team Time Trial competitions, two senior teams and one junior. Fastest time yet is from the senior A’s: Max Truel (year13), Jackson Green (year 11), Jack Naish (year 12) , Sam Buckley (year 11) and William Brooker (year 9), who clocked around 26mins on the 16.6km course on just their second outing, putting them in 13th place overall out of around 40+ teams. Well done! Our new junior team of Angus Williamson, Forest Mace and Joel Williamson have steadily improved each time, beating their personal bests, and will be looking forward to the next TTT on 20 August at Pukekhoe. We are also delighted to have Heidi Robinson, Darius Mortimer-Webster, Sophia Reay and Charles Seaman riding in the time trial series.

MOUNTAIN BIKING
The year started with a hiss and a roar, with the NZ Secondary School National Mountainbiking Champs held in Rotorua in March. This event has now been brought under the auspices of Cycling New Zealand, and was held in conjunction with Crankworx in Roturua.Two WSC riders represented the school in the cross country race: Jack Naish came a very close second in the U17s, and Sam Buckley was 4th in the U16s. Both did extremely well. Both boys, as well as newcomers to mountainbiking this year, Jackson Green and William Brooker are competing in the Auckland Secondary Schools Series. In the most recent race at Woodhill Forest, we had two Springs riders, Jack and Sam on the podium, in first and third places, respectively. William Brooker rode very well in his first mountain bike race ever to finish in the top ten. Jackson rode safely and managed to complete despite being hampered by an injury. The next AKSS mountain bike race (race three of a four race series) will be at Hunua Forest on August 13th. Jack Naish also won the first Nduro Mountain Bike Winter Series U17 event in Rotorua in early July.

Our mountain bikers and cyclists are coached by Ben Eitleberg, of Fitness Locker. We are so lucky to have our pro-coach Ben again this year, who recently achieved level three coaching accreditation. Ben is an inspiring chap, who sets high standards for the riders, but also comes with much innovative best practice knowledge to apply to training. Thank you Ben! Check out WSC_ cycling on Instagram for our up-to-date photo diary.

We would really like to see more girls riding, both road and mountain biking. There are excellent opportunities out there girls, please get some mates together and give it a go – we’d like to see you next year. Queries, please contact Andrea Hotere, Cycling Manager, 021 446604; andrea@andreahotere.co.nz.
Regards,

Andrea Hotere

TAPAC is offering new Dance Fitness and Core Strength drop-in classes taught by acclaimed dancer, choreographer and teacher Susan Trainor. These are continuous movement classes based on ballet and contemporary dance techniques. A fun and accessible way to build up your core strength and support your other activities!
Dance Fitness:
Sat: 3.30-4.30
Sun: 10-11am
Core Strength: Thurs 7am (30min)
More information at: www.tapac.org.nz/adultdance