It has been a busy period for students over the last few weeks, with trips outside of school and balancing sporting commitments with academic commitments. Thank you to students and parents for your timely communication with coaches and Teachers in Charge. Please ensure that your child is communicating in a timely manner with their coach, manager or Teacher in Charge if they are unavailable for games or training sessions.

A reminder that we have several funding avenues available for our students to access to reduce fees. Sporting Chance, Apollo Projects and Te Kīwai funding are all available to access. You can check out the Sport Funding article for more information, or contact Tessa Nicol, at sport@queens.school.nz. We strongly encourage parents and students to access this funding to reduce costs and make sports more accessible.

School Cross Country

The sun was out and so were Queen’s students dressed in their finest house colours for our school cross country afternoon! A huge ka pai to all of our students who participated in the school cross country last week. Whether you were competing against yourself and others, or you ran with your friends for fun, we are proud of all our students for giving it their all.

While it was a tight battle on points for the best performing house, ultimately it would be Dawson who came away with the win. Well done to our Dawson house members for going the extra mile to come away victorious for 2024.

First Place Overall Junior - Eve Kelleher

Second Place Overall Junior - Ora Wrinkleman

Third Place Overall Junior - Sylvie Haig

First Place Overall Senior - Kotomiyo Cowell

Second Place Overall Senior - Molly Stumbles

Third Place Overall Senior - Seddah McGregor

Aerobics

All the very best to our Queen’s High School students who are competing at the Pacific Open New Zealand Championships in Christchurch this weekend. These students have been training hard over the past few months to prepare for this upcoming competition. Good luck to Georgia Wilson, Lily Hoffman, Lucy Carrington, Micaela Sumner, Annabel Ludgate, Saige Evans, Brooke Wilson, Stasa Tucker, Charlotte Henderson, Lucy Loo. We are looking forward to hearing about your time competing!

South Island Cross Country Championships

On Sunday the Cross Country team travelled to Timaru to compete in the South Island Cross Country Championships. At this event athletes raced over a challenging 3km course that included many hills. Queen's came away as the 2nd place girls school at this event. The year 9 girls team (Ora Winklemann, Sylvie Haig, and Aria Williams-Palaamo) won the teams event in their race and the U16 girls team (Eve Kelleher, Kotomiyo Cowell, and Elsie Munro) came second in their race.

The following individuals gained a top 10 placing:

4th Ora Winklemann (Y9 girls)

5th Eve Kelleher (U16 girls)

6th Sylvie Haig (Y9 girls)

9th Kotomiyo Cowell (U16 girls)

10th Aria Williams-Palaamo (Y9 girls)

A huge thank you to our parent helpers Lee and Brian for their support of the team. Another huge thank you to Anna Cross who has been tirelessly working behind the scenes to get students to and from cross country and athletics events over the past couple of years. We are incredibly grateful for the teachers and members of our community who provide opportunities for our students to participate in sporting events such as this. Well done to everyone involved!

Caversham Cross Country Relays

Well done to the team of Eve Kelleher, Kotomiyo Cowell, Seddah McGregor, and Ora Wrinkleman who won the girls race beating 16 other teams! Eve also had the fastest lap time in the junior girls race. Well done to these students on their awesome achievements.

Figure Skating

Congratulations to Jazz Evangelou who is currently representing New Zealand at the U19 Oceania Competition in Melbourne, Australia. Jazz is an incredible athlete who has been representing New Zealand on the world stage for a number of years. We are looking forward to hearing about your results and sharing your successes with the Queen’s community.

Netball

Congratulations to Renee Geddes and Molly Stumbles who have been selected for the Dunedin Under 16 Representative Netball team. They will travel to Invercargill and Christchurch for tournaments this term. Both Renee and Molly are valued members of the Senior A Netball Team at Queen’s High School and excellent all-round athletes. Good Luck girls, we are extremely proud of your achievements so far.

Swimming

On May 19, Claudia Haig and Abby McBride competed in the Otago Secondary Schools Tournament at Moana Pool. Claudia raced phenomenally in her events, and finished with two top ten placings. Claudia also achieved personal bests in all four of her races.

Abby raced in three events and finished with two second places and a third place. While Abby did not achieve any personal bests, she was extremely close to her times and was satisfied with her placings. Congratulations to both Claudia and Abby on a successful swim meet, we are looking forward to hearing how your next meet goes.

Volleyball

All the very best to Emmerson Cooke who is representing Otago in Wellington for her first U17 Volleyball tournament this weekend. Emerson was also a key player in the Queen’s Senior A team who achieved third place at the South Island Secondary Schools Tournament in Christchurch in Term One. Emerson will be representing Otago in more upcoming tournaments, and we eagerly await to hear her results over the weekend.