NX NEWS

While 13 students attended the Zone Day, only 11 boys took the field at Auckland Champs as injuries continued to wreak havoc. Unperturbed, the boys just carried on! After a slow start the lads really warmed into their game. Winning every pool game, meant a semifinal against a sharp looking Rangeview… Read More...

Throughout the year Room 17  was on a mission to do some good in the community and help save the environment. We thoroughly planned the event and got sponsored by New World and other companies. First, we wanted to raise awareness so we choreographed dances and sword fights around the school to raise… Read More...

Another Successful Visit: Once again our Northcross Students and their families opened up their homes to 109 visiting students from Takigawa Daini Junior High School (located in Kobe, Japan).  We would like to thank all the wonderful families who hosted our visitors for the week and showed them such… Read More...

 A BYOD Evening will be held at the Noel Leeming Albany store on Thursday  8 November 4pm – 7.30pm. This is an annual event where Noel Leeming offers  parents and caregivers of Northcross students (this includes any Year 6’s that have enrolled for 2019) the opportunity to buy devices and goods at… Read More...

Early in the term 102 students went to Shakespear Reserve to compete in the Rogaine Orenteeering event. Kate Botton and Kenzie McKay were placed 1st for  the girls with 780 points and Taiga Kato and Nick Gaze were 2nd for the boys, although they had the maximum number of points on 880, they were… Read More...

What better way to learn about Science and Technology than carrying out an investigation?  Following a lesson sequence learning about changing variables to control the distance of Barbie’s bungy jump, Northcross held an in-class Science Fair.  From across the school, twenty projects showing… Read More...

The Northcross Intermediate Rock Band " SWEET OFFENDER" won 1st place in the North Shore finals of NZ Bandquest and are now in the NZ finals to be judged late September. We also took out awards for best keyboard player, Tina Tao and best vocalist, Sam Lacey. The band did an intricate medley of… Read More...

Our annual school speech competition was held at school on Friday 27 July 2018. Each team in the school nominated their top two speakers to compete in the finals and the standard was exceptionally high this year. The audience had the opportunity to listen to speeches on a diverse range of topics and… Read More...

It was all go from the of start of Term 3 with our annual NX Cross Country taking place on the first Tuesday back from holidays. Eighty students headed to Long Bay Beach, keen to run the 3.5km Cross Country course, hoping to make it into the NX Cross Country team to represent Northcross at the NH… Read More...

The National Orienteering Champs took place in Christchurch during the holidays and our NX team, consisting of Kenzie McKay, Kate Borton, Luke Hart and Taiga Kato, represented us exceptionally well. A special mention to Taiga Kato for finishing an outstanding 1st place in the Sprint and 3rd place… Read More...

Recently Northcross hosted its annual Mathex competition – the largest number of students ever to compete with 86 teams from across the school. It was a challenging competition this year but our students showed true Northcross perseverance and determination. The top 4 teams from each year level… Read More...

After achieving success at the NH Zone Day, five of our Orienteering teams took to Reeves Farm, Patumahoe for the Auckland InterZone Day. The challenging 2.2km courses had our athletes running over farmland, jumping streams and hurdling fences in order to find all the punches in the quickest time… Read More...

On Monday 14 May some of our top readers from around the school participated in the Auckland Heats of the annual Kids Lit Quiz, held at St Cuthbert’s College. It was wonderful to compete in an event that celebrates the ‘sport of reading’ and we are very proud of the way our two teams represented… Read More...

Thank you to Joanna Bolland of Burnsco for their support of our school. On Monday morning Joanna delivered a Personal Locator Beacon ( PLB valued at $600 ) to our school ensuring that even when students are out of cell phone range during out of school activities, we can still be alerted to  any… Read More...

This year we were thrilled to have two of our students become finalists and winners in this years Auckland Museum Lest We Forget ANZAC Poetry Competition. Jack Loft Room 17 (Under 11 category) with Tattered Telegraphs Lexie Fisher Room 54 (12-17 category) with Dearest Mother Jack and Lexie had… Read More...