Month: March 2021

A huge thank you to all our musicians who performed at our 90th reunion celebration day on Saturday.  And if you didn’t get the chance to come along, you’re all warmly invited to our Music Showcase, open to all family and friends.  Come along and witness the talents of our fantastic and hardworking students.  This… Read More

On Tuesday 30th March, Mr Tamati’s, Mr Fa’aumu’s and Ms Toleafoa’s year 11 Physical Education classes participated in white water rafting and river crossing at Vector Wero as part of their safety management in the outdoors achievement standard. Students challenged themselves, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Both the instructors and the staff at Vector Wero… Read More

Fa’amu Ioane from the Northern Mystics Team came and helped with all our Netball Teams. We focused strongly on court work skills and through court transitions. Thank you Fa’amu Ioane for helping our Netball Teams out and all the best for ANZ Premiership Netball season.  … Read More

Online registrations for some of our Winter sports codes. Students will need to follow the link and instructions on each of the forms and submit them once they are completed. RUGBY https://www.sporty.co.nz/viewform/142847 NETBALL https://www.sporty.co.nz/viewform/152912 SOCCER https://www.sporty.co.nz/viewform/162727… Read More

The senior waka ama team took part in the Auckland Secondary Schools regatta at the Orakei Basin on Feb 27th, with the boys’ team and the mixed team each winning silver medals in their division. The girls received a certificate at assembly on Friday 19th March. The boys, many of whom were out at volleyball… Read More

Congratulations to our Senior Girls Softball team for winning the Softball Division 2 One Day Tournament…. Read More

We had 4 students compete at the Central, East and West Zone for Athletics.  The following students have qualified for their respective events and will be representing Otahuhu College at the Auckland Athletics Championship on Tuesday 30th March which will be held at Mt Smart Stadium. Nerisa Tafau – Int Girls Shot Put Thomas Tu’skalau… Read More

On Thursday 18th March and Friday 19th March, our Senior Boys and Girls Volleyball teams competed at the Auckland Championship held at Bruce Pulman Arena. Both teams played 3 games on the first day with Girls winning all three 3 games setting themselves up to play the quarter finals on Friday. Unfortunately, our boys did… Read More

Ōtāhuhu College had a week of fun science activities during our annual “Science Week”. The staff of the Science Department held a “Dress like a Scientist” competition, and students were asked to guess who they were during Monday morning assembly. Mr McKenzie performed a hair-raising experiment with the Van de Graaf Machine and Ms Kroonenberg… Read More

Lunchtime activities during the week included Dissecting eyeballs with Dr Hardy, creating Oobleck with Ms Timu and Mr Vijay, and setting off Bottle rockets with Mr Duff…. Read More