RICE HOUSE - by Ash Reihana

Special Character week started out slow for Rice House. The boys had been doing once weekly practices for most of the term, but the real work was started on the Monday. Like every year with a lot of new boys participating in Special Character events, it was new for them all. The boys had a really good feeling about our songs, and was definitely our strength compared to the haka. Working towards Friday, the many practices throughout the week were largely beneficial and was where most of our work was done. 

Throughout our practices the boys had probably been mucking around a bit too much and stretched us for time in the final week. Despite this, the boys covered a lot between Monday and Thursday. We perfected our songs as best we possibly could and gave our Haka "a good crack". Going in to the Friday I felt that if the boys were on point with our house song, constructed by the year 13s, and the religious song was sung well, then we could have a good crack at taking maximum points in the singing competing.

The singing competition went well, and after hearing the other houses, I felt our was definitely one of the best sung, and had nice sound, but not necessarily the loudest. Upon returning from Lunch, waiting for the points to be announced, we were stoked to find we were in the top 2 for singing but had unfortunately lost out to Joyce. In saying that, we were more than happy with 2nd and it gave us a fair few points. This left the Haka competition as the last event of the day.

The boys knew that whatever happened on the day, would determine where we ended up. Although we wanted to win, after seeing the quality performances of the other houses I knew we were in trouble. This became reality when the points were announced and we were in 4th place. Although the boys gave it a good crack, it just wasn’t our day, but we took some points from the singing and we hope to try and pull in Marlow and McClintock come the end of year results. 

House Points 2017 – Main Events – Bruce Challenges

FINAL PLACINGS

McClintock 4210

Joyce 3837

Marlow 3739

Rice 3324

Swimming Sports

Marlow 801

Rice 759

Joyce 714

McClintock 556

Athletics Sports

McClintock 1234

Joyce 1203

Marlow 1178

Rice 1145

Can Drive

McClintock 303cans

Marlow 300cans

Joyce 198cans

Rice 148cans

Work Day

McLintock $2337.30

Joyce $2028.92

Marlow $1833.00

Rice $1752.00

Making a total of $7951.22 raised

Talent Quest

McClintock (Paddy Hansen) 1st

Joyce (Jade etc and Leuma) 1st

Marlow (Logan Reilly) 2nd

McClintock (Mr Peleti and crew) 3rd

Rice (Cameron Goodwin) 4th

Fair

Money Raised:

Rice $708.40

McClintock $688.00

Joyce $602.50

Marlow $566.40

Singing

JOYCE

RICE

MARLOW

McCLINTOCK

Haka

Marlow

McClintock

Joyce

Rice

Kaia

McClintock (Paddy)

Marlow (Kalani)

Joyce (Te Aotahi)

Rice (tamati and Oli)