27th - 30th September 2022, Week 10, Term 3

Congratulations to:

Our Year 8/1 Netball team who were runners up in Grade Four of the Netball North Harbour Winter Competition this year. What a great achievement team

Congratulations to:

Our Year 7/3 netball team who won their grade in the North Harbour Competition this year. What a fantastic achievement. Well done ladies.

Congratulations to:

Our Year 9/3 Netball team who came 2nd place in their grade, in the North Harbour Netball Competition this season. Well done to you all. (Unfortunately not all the team could attend the Prize Giving.)

Congratulations to:

The KingsWay Badminton teams have competed well in the weekly Intermediate School League, held at North Harbour Badminton Centre this term.

The teams played against several other schools across the North Harbour region and should be applauded for their dedication and commendable sportsmanship.

A special congratulations to the KingsWay Cyan team for winning the Boys B Grade Division

Congratulations to:

Our MS Girls and Boys Volleyball Zone Day team who played exceptionally well in the North Harbour Schools competition this week. Both teams came 9th= overall. The girls had 24 teams in their competition and the boys had 25 teams. Volleyball is growing at KingsWay and we have great talent coming through.

Congratulations to:

Our Schools Mountain biking team.

The Auckland Schools Cross Country Mountain Biking competition 2022 finale was last weekend.

The build-up to the much-anticipated season finale of the Auckland schools XC mountain bike series at Riverhead Forest was full of incident. Riverhead, a mountain biking mecca in summer, is a no-go zone in the soggy season for all but the keenest and craziest. 

But race day dawned fine and clear and the excitement was palpable. Not only did KWS have seven racers still in the hunt for the individual categories but this round brought with it the annual team relays. KWS had never before been in a position to field a relay team, but this year we were all in, fielding three teams.

To the delight of all David Howie completed a season clean sweep, becoming U17 Boys champion. It was no less thrilling for being warmly anticipated. But no-one anticipated what followed. Our Senior Co-Ed team of David Howie, Sienna Corbett and Tristan Corbett made a late switch to the hotly contested Senior Boys (U20) category when Franki Thompson answered the call. Confounding the pundits, they beat the likes of Auckland Grammar off the podium to take third. Amazing scenes. Our other teams including Dan Harrison, Sam Anderson, Noah Raikes, Ollie Raikes and Dylan Steven left us hoarse with their heroics. What a day.

We are not one of the big schools but KWS is standing tall and turning heads, and we couldn’t be more excited for next year.

Come and join us!

Mountain biking is just plain fun, and the sport is run by good very well motivated people - it has a great family vibe.

Huge congratulations to all the team members who have come on board in this break-through year, and not only the terrific students but their parents as well. What a great group.

2023 beckons….!

Congratulations to:
Our Y5 & Y6 Cross Country Team. Fourteen schools from the Hibiscus Coast met out at Shakespear Regional Park. KingsWay did extremely well and placed second overall. Our top runners on the day were Hayley Summerville who placed second in the Year 6 Girls category, Parnell Theron who placed 5th in the Year 5 Boys category and Ruby Owen who placed 8th in the Year 5 Girls category. All runners did very well and contributed to our overall placing. Well done to all who took part

Please RETURN ASAP any:

* 'Player of the Day' trophies you may have at home.
* Coaches and Managers Jackets
* Sports Gear
* Medical Kits
* Sports Uniforms

Meet our Sport Chaplains
Thornton McDade

Sports Chaplains are volunteers in sports communities providing free, accessible pastoral care, support and mentoring to athletes, staff officials and their Whānau on site and at the point of need. Sports Chaplains in school provide support not only for players but for coaches. They help, pray for and pray with players. Sometimes they even provide home baking at trainings! See below what one of our Sport Chaplains has to say.

1) Why did you decide to train as a Sports Chaplain?
Sports Chaplaincy affords me the opportunity to combine my passion for sport with my faith in Jesus, which seems to be an amazing melting pot in which I can serve sports teams and communities. 

2) People may not see any value in having a Sports Chaplain in a Christian School. Why do you think we need Chaplains within our teams?
Sport is designed to be a fun and enjoyable activity at school level. But everyone that has played knows that no athlete, at any level, is exempt from physical, emotional, and well-being challenges during a season or career. Sports chaplains can provide fundamental support and encouragement for individuals, teams, and even communities. Students that play sport at school will benefit from having a confidant and support structure through the ups and downs of the season.

3) What have you got out of doing the Chaplaincy course?
I’ve learnt a lot about myself – the course has helped me to articulate a lot of concepts which I have always known and felt through being part of sports teams and organisations but struggled to train and develop. 

Are you interested in becoming a Sports Chaplain? We would love to support parents and especially our grandparents to become Sports Chaplains for our sports teams. 

Further details can be found at Sports Chaplaincy New Zealand or e-mail our local coordinator Jacolize Becker.

Click here for current events on the Sports Chaplaincy Facebook page or contact Lynda Hay in the Sports Department.

Sports Uniforms:

Please return all sport uniforms to the Senior Campus Sports office ASAP. These are overdue. 😣😏 (Except those who are playing BB in Term 4)

Term 4 Sports: Register now for

Bowls 🎳

Event: Auckland Secondary Schools AC (any combination) Pairs
Date: Wednesday October 26th 2022
Venue: Remuera Bowling Club
Qualification: age under 19 at 01/01/2022
If you haven't tried bowling yet, there is still time to introduce you to the game. There are quite a number of naturally gifted young people who pick up the skills very quickly so that shouldn’t inhibit someone from giving it a go.

If you would like to try bowls, participate in organised playing/coaching on a more casual basis at Bowls Orewa then please e-mail Kerry Greenhalgh, Youth Development Officer at Orewa Bowling Club kerryg088@gmail.com

Softball ⚾

Fastball45 Competition – Experienced or Representative Slowpitch45 Competition – Previous Experience or Beginners
Game day and times: Six weekly competition on Thursdays in Term 4 – 26th October to 7th December
Game times will be between 4.15pm to 7pm. 
Venue:- All games will be played at Rosedale Park, Rosedale, Albany.
Click here to Register   Registrations close 21st October.

For any enquires please contact David Gillanders 

Spotlighting our Coaches

Without our Coach and Manager volunteers we wouldn't be able to play sport at school level. We want to acknowledge all our Coaches/Managers and say THANK YOU for all you do.

Today we want to spotlight student Coach Daniel McCabe. 

Dan is a fantastic young man who loves his Basketball and loves to serve. He has coached basketball at both the Junior and Senior Campus this year.
Dan is Deputy Head Boy for 2023 and no doubt has learnt a lot about leading from his time on the basketball court as well as on the side line as a student coach. Thank you Dan. 

Using Sport as a Vehicle to Teach Life Lessons

Sport develops more than just skill. It develops:

Physical and motor skills: The use and growth of muscles. Development of gross and fine motor skills. 
Cognitive skills: Ability to learn, think, and solve problems
Social skills: Ability to interact with others, including helping themselves and self-control. 

• CLICK HERE for the Players and Supporters Code of Conduct

Sport Facebook Page

Follow our KingsWay Sport Facebook page for daily happenings and more photos of our students.

Check out the Sport Facebook page this week for more information on our Mountain Biking Team.

Team Photos

If you have any good photos of any teams please send them through to the sport department so we can share them with our community on Facebook & Instagram.

Draws

Basketball Draws Leisure Centre 🏀

Basketball Draw North Harbour teams 🏀

Sport Website for information

Before contacting the sports department or TIC please check the KingsWay School website for the information you need.

Sport TIC (Teacher In Charge)

• Badminton Primary - Lisa Lin
• Basketball Primary - Simone Coles
• Basketball MS - Stephanie Pollock
• Basketball Senior - Thornton McDade
• Cricket - Elana Theron
• Football Primary & Y7 & 8 - Melissa van der Watt
• Football SNR Y9 - 13 - Chris Martin
  
• Hockey Primary, MS & SNR - Elana Theron
• Mountain Biking - Sport Dept
• Netball Primary - Natalie Cass
• Netball MS Y7-9 - Hannah Woolley
• Netball SNR Y10-13 - Elana Theron
• Running Club - Sandy Dunlop
• Softball Y7 & 8 - Stephanie Pollock
• Summer Hockey - Taryn Wrath
• Summer Soccer - Louise Gray
• Tennis Y7- 13 - Pierre Barnard
• Touch Primary - Donne Van Den Berg
  
• Touch MS - Stephanie Pollock
• Touch Y9 & Y10 - Colin Gray
• Volleyball - Melanie van Rooyen
• Waterpolo/Flippa Ball - Sport Dept