Beth Clearwater, Nuo Chen, Jolin Yang, Shodai Kagawa, Sean Chang, Malachi Flintoff, Finnula Giedt.
by St Paul's Collegiate SchoolStudent success snippets
Our team of students blazed a trail at the EVolocity National Rally. The team built an electric kart to compete against other schools from Waikato, Bay of Plenty, and Rotorua. The St Paul's cart performed well all day and received these awards:
Judges Awards:
- Showstopper Trophy
- 2nd Place for Engineering Design
Standard Kart Class:
- 1st Place in the Drag Race
- 1st Place in the Gymkhana
- 3rd Place in the Endurance Test
- 2nd Place in the Efficiency Test
- 2nd place overall in the Standard Kart Class
Congratulations to the team members: Beth Clearwater, Nuo Chen, Jolin Yang, Shodai Kagawa, Sean Chang, Malachi Flintoff, Finnula Giedt.
The Altrusa Club of Hamilton hosts the Altrusa Youth Awards each year for Year 12 students who have demonstrated courtesy, attitude and initiative, sportsmanship community work, in and outside of the school, and shown scholastic improvement. The nominees were: Liam Fairweather, Jimmy Ma, Trelise Forster and the recipient was Sadie Williams.
One of our Sargood men, Quinn Harris (Year 11), competed at the New Zealand Secondary School Mountain Bike Championships in Blenheim with more than 500 young cyclists. He had a great result in the U20 Men's Downhill race where he placed 9th.
The 2022 Leavers’ Gift has found a home in the Quad at St Paul’s. This Bronze Oak Sapling is mounted on an oak base which was from a tree that sat outside the Dining Hall. It’s a piece of art that enhances the school’s surroundings and reflects the ‘from acorn to oak’ journey of St Paul’s students. The piece was created by artist Julie Ross.
Dylan Gardiner (Hamilton Wanderers) and Matt D'Hotman (Melville United Football Club) have been selected to represent New Zealand at the upcoming FIFA U-17 World Cup in Indonesia starting 11 November.
Congratulations to the 2023 Speech Finalists and winners in the tight competition that was held in October.
Seniors
- 1st place - Karina Yu
- Runner-up - Aidan Hodgson
Juniors
- 1st place - Troy Poole
- Runner-up - Adi Manda
Congratulations to Maja Hassell who received an award for winning the Race Unity Speech Awards for Waikato and was presented with a trophy at a School Assembly. Read more about her speech here.
Liam Joll (Year 10)and Logan Hickey (Year 9) from the U15 Colts Team paired as batsman together against U16 Mixed St Paul's Team. Liam scored 100 off 104 balls including 9 boundaries and Logan scored 73 off 112 balls launching the team to a win.
