Last week, the annual Tōtaranui Kāhui Ako Year 5/6 Cantamaths Competition took place. It was great to see students from our different kura come together to compete in, and celebrate, mathematics in teams.

This year we had 10 teams from across our five primary schools (Bishopdale School, Cotswold Mātāhae, Papanui Primary, Redwood Primary School and Te Kura o Matarangi Northcote) competing. We had a group of Year 10 students from Papanui High School running the event, and were also lucky enough to have a group of year 9 Papanui High School students write the questions for the competition. Held at Te Kura Mareko Casebrook Intermediate, it was wonderful to have all the schools within our kāhui ako involved!

The students all showed resilience and cooperation, working through some challenging questions in their teams of four. Well done to all the students that took part and congratulations to the 2025 winners, the Cotswold Mātāhae 3 team

Thanks to our Year 10 leadership group, and our Year 9 maths group for making the Kāhui Ako Cantamath competition 2025 such a success. The Year 9's wrote all the questions and the Year 10's ran the event at Casebrook.