Moana Pasifika Super Rugby Team visit NX
On Wednesday 4 December, as part of their community engagement programme, the Moana Pasifika Super Rugby team spent the afternoon at Northcross. Arriving at lunchtime, players were able to mingle with students on the field, signing autographs and joining in with games. During Block 5, players met with members of our Māori and Pasifika group, […]
Pickleball Proves Popular at NX
Throughout the year many students at Northcross Intermediate have participated in racket and paddle sports such as; table tennis, tennis and badminton. A popular sport around the world called Pickleball was introduced to Northcross this year thanks to Unbound Sport. Over the course of 3 terms an average of around 35 students have regularly participated […]
NZ National Robotics Title for Two NX Students
Two Northcross Students, Ryan and Novak Zhao, were part of a team that won the middle division of the NZ National VexIQ Robotics competition in Palmerston North in early this month Thirty two teams from around the country competed for the title. Their team was placed third after 11 qualifying matches with the top 10 […]
AIMS Games 2024
Over 180 Northcross athletes headed to Tauranga last week for the annual AIMS Games, ready to give their all against schools from all over the country. It was an amazing week for all our athletes as they showed outstanding determination and commitment, competing their hearts out in the hope that they could secure a win. […]
Fantastic Fun Run Fundraiser
The NX 2024 Fun Run was a very colourful event, with both the students and staff showing great house spirit with their costume choices! The competition between the Houses was intense, both on the course and in the House Games. Our NX students really stood up to the task though, completing the 3km run with […]
Top Results for NX Rock Band
We are very proud to announce that the band Lightswitch (featuring Bill Hunter, Cyrus Zhou, Jerry Cui, Jessie Dong, Jett Iles, Liam Hart, Riley Violich and Talyah Heidar) placed 3rd in the National Rockshop Bandquest competition. The incredible hard work and dedication from each band member has truly paid off. Big congratulations to Jerry Cui […]
Kapa haka Evening
The Kapa haka group have performed on many occasions so far this year, but no performance was as exciting for the group as the performance in our own PAC as part of Maori language week. The day started at 4am for Kapa haka teacher Mark Jensen as he prepared the hangi that would feed all […]
TOI Creative Photo Challenge
TOI is a wearable art competition for student designers run in collaboration with WOW (World of WearableArt). Students entering TOI could also opt to enter the creative photo challenge, where they self-directed a conceptual “cover-style” shoot for their wearable art entry. This challenge was open to students across all year levels in New Zealand, from Y1 […]
NX Futsal Teams Runners Up in Auckland
During AIMS the NH Winning Y8 Boys and Y8 Girls Futsal teams got the news that they were invited to compete in the Auckland Champs. Whilst this meant that the teams had no time to prepare and train for the comp (both teams not having played a Futsal game since Term 1) it was an […]
Success for Northcross at Speech Competitions
Three of our talented orators recently represented Northcross at the Rehu Tai APPA North Shore Speech Festival at Northcote Intermediate. Asher (Traditional Speech), Rada (Spoken Word) and Vivienne (Flash Talk) all spoke with confidence and skill. The standard was exceptionally high and there were some outstanding speeches from all the intermediate schools across the North […]