NZCT AIMS Games

Sunday 6th September finally came and 80 Pukekohe Intermediate Students hit the road for Tauranga. We gathered at the school car park, loaded up the vans then headed off to compete in the NZCT AIMS National Sporting Championship.

We arrived in the Mount at about 3.30pm, where we then drove to our camp ground and had a team meeting. We were told our cabin numbers, then we went over rules and safety. After a snack, unpacking our gear and a quick play on the playground, we jumped into our vans and headed to Queen Elizabeth The Second Event Centre in Tauranga for the opening ceremony. We sat through an hours worth of entertainment before the AIMS Games were officially opened.

The next morning we were woken at 6.30. We prepared for the day ahead, then we travelled to Harbourside Netball Centre. We were extremely early so we got a spot in the pavillion, then walked to Blake Park to watch the soccer girls. After their win, we went back to the courts and started our warm up. Our first game was a loss to Whakatane, the score was 24-30. We had some lunch then we had our second game, one of our hardest.

We lost 36-19 to Northcross. After a long day we drove home back to the campgound, showered, ate then we were off to the RSA for Dinner.
Monday wasn't a good start for us Netball Girls, but we went to bed early for a good sleep for the next day.

We psyched ourselves up listening to our team song as we drove to the courts.We warmed up the jumped on court for our first game of the day. We came out with a win, 25-24 against Taupo, who in the end took out the competition for Netball. Our second game was a loss to Peachgrove 30-17. After our third devastating loss, we went out fighting against Tahatai Coast and won 40-21.

We went to the movies that afternoon and watched The Proposal. We had dinner at the RSA then bedtime. After being placed in the Bottom 16, we wanted to prove ourselves. That day we had two more wins against John Paul College 33-6, and Hastings 42-21. In the late afternoon we drove to the beach, half of the team walked up the Mount and the other half stayed on the beach. We arrived 15 minutes late to dinner, and rushed our food down.

The next day we lost against Katikati 27-23, then won against Bethleham College 33-25. Winning our last game placed us in the C Grade Final on Friday. We came up against Havelock North and won 34-27. At 1pm we travelled to the closing ceremony. We sat through the presentations, and when hat was finished we drove straight home.

I had such an awesome time at the AIMS Games and it was an experience that i will never forget.

Zone Netball

As the girls jumped onto the court you could tell that they were determined to win.
Four netball teams from Pukekohe Intermediate School two year seven and two year eight, traveled to the Manurewa netball courts to play in a whole day tournament. Each team played around 5-7, 16 minute games. I was in the year 8 A netball team. we won 5 games and lost 2, overall giving us a placing of 3rd. This was disappointing for all of our team as that meant we did not not make it into Inter-zone. But we all knew that we went out and gave it our all.

Winter Sports Evaluation

This is winter sports evaluation sheet. It shows all of sports that we had played during term 2 and the process that we made.

Tapuae Report

Week 1, Term 2 Pukekohe Intermediate School held a school wide Tapuae competition. Dominique Hancock, Sports Co-ordinater from Room 45 was the organizer for this competition.

The teams were entered as buddy classes for the competition, and a maximum of 16 team players were able to take the court at once. Lupe Soapi of Room 23, and Abi Chapman of Room 36 were our team captains.

Students from the 2 teams played a number of games against a lot of challenging classes, playing a total of 3 games, making it into the quarter finals! In this game we went up against Room 13 & 45 and successfully came out with victory, which then took us into the Semi-finals.

Our first semi-final game was on Tuesday 16th on June and versed the same 2 classes. We had a really tough game and the weather was really rough, but even though we had to put up with that, Room 23 & 36 still came out with a win.

Wednesday 17th of June we played against Room 28 & 45. It was a very tough competition. But we pulled through with a win.

Our class made it into the finials, and bet Room 3 & their buddy class. In full school assembly, our two captains went up to collect our certificate.

Aims Netball 2009

Through out week 6 Pukekohe Intermediate have been running Aims trials for Aims netball in Week 8 of term 3. There were 3 trials and every girl got at least 2 trials on court. We got to trial in our best positions. On the Thursday we had our last trial. The trial finished at morning tea, and then we got called out a list of around 20 girls that had been called back out for callbacks, at lunch time that day. After that trial the girls were very nervous waiting to find out who the team was.We got told that the list of the Aims team will be on room 31's window by Friday. Everyone run to the list and the Aims team is: Jazmin (captain) Anna-Lee, Bailee, Tegan, Leota, Shannon, Danelle, Tamara, Kelly, Katelin, Danika and Havannah these girls will represent Pukekohe Intermediate in Zone in A grade and at Aims.

'Now the hard work really begins'

Ngahinapouri School Netball Tournament Hamilton

On Sunday 24th of May, Pukekohe Intermediate sent a netball team of 10 girls, Danelle Cox (Captain) Jazmin Fulton, Kelly Drew, Tegan Hunter, Danielle McNabb, Shannon van den Berg, Havannah Pearson, Jorgia Watson, Billie Paterson and Bailee Graham.The girls travelled to Minogue Park Netball Courts in Hamilton.We competed in 5 games throughout the day. It started off sunny for the first 2 games but then the rain hit and it was freezing cold. Pukekohe Platinum did extremely well placing second in the tournament by only one goal! We had many injuries and numb fingers but we all had an awesome day and it was awesome fun.

The results were:
Pukekohe vs St Andrews 21-10 Win
Pukekohe vs Peach Grove 13-12 Loss
Pukekohe vs TAI Soldiers 13-13 Draw
Pukekohe vs Maeroa 18-3 Win
Pukekohe vs Berkeley 13-9 Win

Coca Cola Netball

On Wednesday the 20th of May, Pukekohe Intermediate School are sending 12 - 15 teams of girls to Papakura netball centre.

The teams are going to compete in the Coca Cola Netball tournament.

Each team will play 5 - 6 games, each game will be 20 minutes long.

We have two divisions, competitive and social.

Year 7 and year 8 students had to trail to make the competitive teams. We plan to take 8 competitive and around about 6 social teams.

The two teachers incharge of the teams are Mrs. Pearson ( Rm 23 ) and Ms. Guise ( Rm 31 ) " I think we have some strong enough teams as long as they work together " and she also said " Team work comes with practice ". Mrs Pearson said, " If all the girls play as a team and do their best job we have a good chance of making the finals" .

This day will be an awesome opportunity to play against other schools and have some fun.

We will let you know the results.