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SPORTING OPPORTUNITIES

Vaimoana Vaai —

GEIS offers 4 levels of Sports

SPORTING OPPORTUNITIES

For those who are new to GEIS we have different levels of sporting opportunities for our students:

Level 1:

Lunchtime Sports -

Participation for everyone to be involved. Inter-Class and Inter-Mini School. This runs every  Wednesday, Thursday and Friday either on the field, turf or in the gym. Notices about what is happening are posted on Cactus and Hail

After School Sport - Basketball, Netball, Water Polo. The number of teams we have available for each code is dependant on the number of volunteer coaches and managers. Parents we need your help in this area.


School Wide Sporting Events - Participation for everyone to be involved. Swimming, Cross Country, Athletics/Carnival Day

JOHN CATMULL SPORTS SHIELD:

John Catmull worked at GEIS for over 20 years, set up amazing systems for our PE and sports programme and was also awarded NZ’s teacher of the Year in 2007. John sadly passed away overseas in 2010. Our sports shield is in memoriam of this amazing person.

Points are awarded to mini schools for participation in lunchtime sports and participation in school wide activities (Swimming, Cross Country, Athletics)


Level 2:

ZONE DAY SPORTS TEAMS -

Competition against other West Auckland schools (one day tournaments)  Over the years GEIS have won 80% of the Waitakere Sporting Events. Trials are held for our zone day teams. Children must listen to Cactus and read the notices on Hail (online notices for students) for the sign up process of trials. Vaimoana Va’ai selects coaches for each sporting code. The teams selected are based on skills, we have a limited number of entries for each sporting code at the Waitakere Zone.

If we place 1st at the Waitakere zone we then progress through to the Auckland Champs. (one day tournament)


Level 3:

SPORTS CAMP -

This is a week of competitive sports at Totara Springs, Matamata with other schools from around the Auckland, Bay of Plenty and Waikato region. The teams compete in over 20 sports and these range from rugby, netball, volleyball to petanque, chess and croquet and so much more. It is highly competitive and GEIS puts in a lot of hard work to prepare our teams for this competition. Glen Eden has been attending Sports Camp for 15 years, we have placed 1st 11 times. 2nd place three times and 3rd once, so we have very high expectations for our teams. When the teams are selected we expect our students to be 100% committed to our training programme. We have most of our training sessions at 7.15am, lunchtimes or after school.

Trials will be held during term one


Level 4:

NZAIMS -

National Sporting Champs.

The tournament is held in Tauranga and it is a full week of competitive sports with over 300 schools from throughout New Zealand and Australia. It is a spectacular event with over 7,800 Year 7 and 8 competitors.

This is an elite level and it will be to the coaches discretion with their trials and selection process.