Month: September 2020

Ms. Morgans and Mr. Ali’s year 13 PED classes completed two sections of the Auckland Coast to Coast walk as part of their safety management in the outdoors assessment on Wednesday this week. The photos show students at the start of the walk at Britomart, at the top of Maungawhau Mt Eden, and at the… Read More

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Senior and Junior girls cross country RESULTS 1ST PLACE: Amina AZIZ Year 10: HOBSON 2ND PLACE: Taase FEALOFAI Year 11: SEDDON 3RD PLACE: Sua FEALOFAI Year 11:  SEDDON 4TH PLACE: Toalemoana LATU Year 10: SEDDON   Senior and Junior boys cross country RESULTS 1ST PLACE: Antony NAITOKO Year 12: SEDDON 2ND PLACE: Fahdil ALI Year… Read More

As part of their Get up and Go assessment, Ms. Toleafoa’s year 12PED class organised and ran the school cross country Wednesday period 5 this week. Students walked the track and cleared the rubbish to prepare for the event. Congratulations to all involved, it was a very successful afternoon…. Read More

As part of their assessment “Take action to enhance well-being in the school or community” students in Ms. Morgan’s HLT2U class organised snack pack lunches with food donated from Kids Can and distributed them Thursday lunchtime outside the library. Students were also allowed to take food home to eat including Wattie’s soup and packaged microwave… Read More

Year 12PES Even though the Tough Guy Tough Gal event has been cancelled, Mr Fa’aumu’s 12PES class have continued to work out over the past 6 weeks for their “Train to gain programme” internal assessment. The photos show students in Mr. Ridgway’s strength and conditioning room…. Read More

Next week’s Science Tutorials: Tues & Wed 3-4 pm: Science 1U Wednesday 3-4 pm: Chemistry 2U Wednesday 3-4 pm: Physics 3U Thursday 3-4 pm: Biology 2U Friday 7-8 am: Chemistry 3U Holiday Science Tutorials (all running from 10 am – 2pm) Monday 28th September Level 1 Science Further Assessment Level 3 Biology Tuesday 29th September… Read More

Last week the Year 9 learners at Ōtāhuhu College learned about the cardiovascular system. As part of the learning they each dissected a sheep’s heart and identified the different structures of the heart.  … Read More

Next week’s Science Tutorials: Tues & Wed 3-4 pm: Science 1U Wednesday 3-4 pm: Chemistry 2U Wednesday 3-4 pm: Physics 3U Thursday 3-4 pm: Biology 2U Friday 7-8 am: Chemistry 3U… Read More

This week our Level 2 Physics students explored the effect of magnetic fields on Taranaki iron sand: Level 3 Physics students experimented with electric circuits. Divya Arhcal (below left) uses a programmable micro:bit controller to see a capacitor charging and discharging. Peter Wilson (below right) makes his own circuit to log the data from a… Read More