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Extra-Curricular Events

Year Level Events

Year 7 and 8

General

  • Year 8 camp - Stewart Island
  • The 'Truck Pull'
  • Life Education Trust bus
  • Peer Support
  • Self-defense - Wahine Toa
  • 40 Hour Famine
  • DARE programme
  • A and P Show competitions
  • Pet Day
  • Focus Programme
  • Enviro-Schools - Horticulture activities
  • Road Sense
  • Activity Week
  • Innovative / Enterprise initiatives - Venture Southland
  • Conservation Week activities
  • Youth Group connection - on site Minister
  • Adopt a Stream programme
  • Bring Back the Birds - a community initiative

Academic

  • BP technology challenge
  • Lexile reading programme
  • Social Studies quiz competition
  • South Spell
  • Debating competition
  • Speech competition
  • Civil engineering
  • Australian Maths competition
  • Australian English competition
  • Australian Science competition
  • Science badges
  • SMAC maths
  • Nestle writing competition
  • Science fair
  • Quiz nights

Cultural

  • Dance group
  • World of Wearable Arts quest
  • School production
  • Itinerant Music lessons - drums, violin, flute, guitar, keyboard, piano, recorder, clarinet
  • Radio Riverton
  • Pest Busters
  • Smoke Free Rock Quest
  • Drama Club
  • Visiting cultural and theatrical workshops - i.e. Y-One, Te Rakau

Sport

  • Ski trip
  • Athletics day
  • Cross country
  • Swimming sport
  • Have a Go day
  • Aparima Challenge
  • What Now / Push Play personal trainer programme
  • Surfing competition
  • 7-a-side tournament
  • Interschool exchanges
  • Hockey - first XI and social 6-a-side summer team
  • Tennis competition
  • Aerobis sessions
  • Lunchtime inter-house sports competitions
  • Skate-board challenge
  • Netball - national tournament
  • School squash team
  • Table tennis championships

Participation in events supporting:

  • Conservation week
  • Daffodil day
  • Canteen week
  • Rainbow week
  • Friendship week
  • Clean up New Zealand week
  • Blind week
  • Heart foundation
  • and more...

 

Year 9

  • Year 9 Camp - Borland Lodge (Fiordland)
  • Have a go day

Year 10

  • Year 10 Camp - Tautuku (The Catlins)
  • Southern Institute of Technology taster courses
  • Youth Expo - a focus on teen issues
  • Keeping Safe Seminar
  • Youthstock

Year 11

  • Work Exploration
  • College examinations
  • External examinations
  • Prize giving

Year 12

  • Biology camp
  • Geology camp
  • Senior Dinner Production
  • Work Exploration
  • Organisation of a Senior Dinner
  • College examinations
  • External examinations
  • Prize giving

Year 13

  • Biology camp
  • Geology camp
  • Work Exploration
  • Peer Support training
  • Tertiary Open Day
  • Visits from various tertiary providers - Otago University, Otago Polytechnic, Dunedin College of Education ...
  • Appointment and training for: Head students, Sport captains and House leaders
  • Appointment of representative for: SADD, Spirit of a Nation, 40 Hour Famine, Youth Affairs, Speed Junkies ...
  • Mock employment interviews with Jill Piper (Senior Students)
  • Organisation of the College Ball (Year 13 Students only)
  • Assistance in running: Swimming sports, cross-country
  • Open night hosts
  • Youthmark Awards
  • College examinations
  • External examinations
  • Prize giving
 

Leadership and Personal Development Events

Junior and Senior

  • Spirit of Adventure
  • Peer Support training
  • Sport Leadership Training
  • Appointment and training for: Head students, Sport captains and House leaders
  • Appointment of representative for: SADD, Spirit of a Nation, 40 Hour Famine, Youth Affairs, Speed Junkies ...
  • Mock employment interviews with Jill Piper (Senior Students)
  • Organisation of a Senior Dinner (Year 12 students only)
  • Organisation of the College Ball (Year 13 Students only)
  • Enterprise for Education

Sporting Events

Junior and Senior

  • The Aparima Challenge
  • The Aparima Truck Pull
  • Country High School Athletics
  • Southland Athletics*
  • Southland Surfing Champs*
  • Southland Secondary Bowls*
  • Tuatapere Sporting Exchange
  • Southland Secondary Schools Triathalon*
  • Aparima Swimming Sports*
  • Southland Golf Competition*
  • Southland Squash Competition*
  • Aparima Cross Country*
  • Sports Ambassador Workshops
  • 7 aside Tournaments
  • Southland Indoor Bowls*
  • Northern Southland College Sports Exchange
  • Fiordland College Sports Exchange
  • Junior Sports Forums
  • 'Have a go' Day - Sport Taster Courses

* These competitions leads on to Regional, South Island and /or National Championships

 

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