NX NEWS

Northcross uses Photolife's online ordering system so parents can access, view and order their child's photos online. Online Photo Access Key slips have gone home with students today. These are individualised for each student and have a unique code that can be used to view and order photos. If you… Read More...

This term, our parent/teacher interviews will be scheduled at 15 minute intervals to allow for discussion of important learning information and changes to our parent portal. Because of this, we have spread the interviews over two days to fit them in. Interviews start from 3:30pm on Tuesday and from… Read More...

Northcross welcomed new staff, Year 7 students and a number of new Year 8 students with a school powhiri on the first official school day. Our 1200 plus students were smartly presented in their NX uniforms and were as equally impressive in the respect shown during the ceremony. It was wonderful to… Read More...

Welcome to Northcross Intermediate School for 2019! We are looking forward to working with you and your children over the coming year. Below is  some information that we hope will help to make the start of the school year run smoothly. Term Dates for 2019 Term 1 - Friday 1 February - Friday 12… Read More...

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...

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...

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...

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...