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Term Dates 2024

Term 1

31st January - 12th April

Term 2

29th April - 5th July

Term 3

22nd July - 27th September

Term 4

14th October - 12th December

CHANGEOVER TO SUMMER UNIFORM! As from the first d

CHANGEOVER TO SUMMER UNIFORM!
As from the first day of Term 4, full summer uniform is to be worn.

2nd Hand Uniform Sale!
The next 2nd hand uniform sale will be Saturday 21st September 2024 from 9am to 11am.
There will be a second sale on Tuesday 15th October 3pm to 5pm.

If you have any unwanted uniforms we would love to have them. Please drop them off at the main reception at school.

The Uniform Shop is open Mondays and Wednesdays 8.00am to 2.00pm – term time only
PLUS Friday 11th October from 9.00am – 2.00pm

What a season! Our Boy’s 1st XI Hockey team have

What a season! Our Boy’s 1st XI Hockey team have just come back from tournament. We started the season as a young team in the BOP Secondary B Grade competition. After a lot of effort and hard work, we ended the Term 2 competition at the top of the ladder. Term 3 saw us moved up to the A Grade. Again the boys worked hard and proved themselves worthy as we ended in 3rd position!

To finish the season, we attended the Olympic Stick tournament in North Harbour. Our aim was to do our best, work hard and learn as much as we can. Unfortunately we lost our pool games against Stratford Highschool 3-1 and a tough game against Selwyn College 3-0. We fought back hard against Lynfield College but lost 1-0 when they scored in the 57th minute.

Our last game was the best of the lot. We ended our tournament on a high with a 4-0 win against One Tree Hill College.

We faced a few challenges this season with some injuries but we kept working and have grown a lot!

Thank you to our coaches Tem Hohepa and Jesse Page. We are looking forward to next year, building on the base established during the 2024 season.

Congratulations to James Bates for his outstanding

Congratulations to James Bates for his outstanding results in the North Island Secondary Schools Motor Cross Country race last week. James came 🥉 3rd out of 182 riders and 🥈second in his class (15-16 four stroke over). Ka mau te wehi James!

JPC Senior A Netball Winter Tournament Week The S

JPC Senior A Netball Winter Tournament Week

The Senior A Netball girls went into tournament week as prepared as they could be, ready to go with an end goal in mind. The team played 2 very tough teams in their first round of pool play which resulted in 2 losses, the focus therefore for the week had to change. We regrouped, adjusted our goal and finished the week accomplishing this 100%. The girls played hard, ground out each game, supported each other whole heartedly and managed to finish the week with only 3 losses from 10 games.

Our very own “Courtney King” was selected into the Tournament Team, an absolutely awesome achievement for Courtney, 1 of only 10 players named from over 330 girls that played in our grade. It is has been an absolute pleasure to have coached these girls this year and cannot say how proud I am of them and what an example they are to the school.

Head Coach
Rochelle Bourke

Congratulations to our hockey girls who finished 6

Congratulations to our hockey girls who finished 6th in the Marie Fry Tournament in Hamilton this morning.

The team finished 22nd in New Zealand/Aotearoa.

This was the first year for the team in the combined Federation Cup/Marie Fry Trophy Tournaments, which are Tier 1 & Tier 2 for NZ Hockey secondary schoolgirls.

Over the week they played 7 intense games of hockey against top level competition from all over New Zealand. Finishing up 6th in the Marie Fry Trophy out of 16 and 22nd overall out of 32 in New Zealand the tier 1 & 2 tournament.

The team wanted to say goodbye to Janaya Korner (goalie) who is in year 13 and so will be leaving the team. She will be sorely missed.

Well done to the players, coach Neil Watson, assistant coach Ant Phipps and our two managers Olga Milliken and Deb Korner. @jpchockeygorls

In their main event of the year, our Junior A Boys

In their main event of the year, our Junior A Boys Basketball Team, the JPC Whaitiri, played in the 2024 Zone 2 Secondary Schools Junior Premierships held locally at the Energy Evenys Centre from Saturday 31 August to Tuesday 3 September.

Considered the “death pool” they were put up against some of the top Basketball schools in their Zone, but scraped into Top 8, with a points differential of +29!

In the crossovers they narrowly lost, setting them up for the 7th place playoff, where they played Te Awamutu College, beating them convincingly to achieve their best placing EVER in this tournament, beating 2018 team’s placing of 8th.

Coaching staff, husband and wife duo, Joseph and Stacy Hepi “are beyond proud of each and everyone of these boys and their ‘never give up’ attitude. They all deserve to hold their heads high ❤️”

In addition to this, two of our students, Jackson Hepi and Jacob Eggers finished the tournament as the Top 2 points scorers of the whole tournament, with 199pts and 156pts respectively. What a feat!

The whole school is extremely proud of this team, and the contribution they have made to their code, and with only ⅓ of the team moving up to Seniors next season, this is a great starting point for Junior Basketball at JPC!

They’ve appreciated all the support from the community who went down every day to watch their games!
Huge thanks also to their referees, Abana Lalu and Cooper Saunders, and their fellow schoolmates for filling their scorebench duties so that they could focus on their games! 🙏

Kia ora rawa atu,
Frank Baker
Sports Director | Kaihautū Hākinakina

Exciting updates from our 1st XI Girls Hockey away

Exciting updates from our 1st XI Girls Hockey away at Tournament…. On Monday we ended our first game with a 0-0 draw against Christchurch Girls High School, who were the 4th ranked school team in NZ last year . Tuesday brought 2 losses firstly against Wellington Girls College and then King’s College. Thus moving us to the Marie Fry Trophy.
Wednesday we played the unbeaten Lincoln High School with a passionate controlled display of hockey to win 2 - 0. This moved us to the quarter finals and excitingly secured a place in next year’s Federation Cup/Marie Fry Trophy (tier 1/2) tournament.

Today’s quarter final game verses Rangitoto Collage will be played at 1.45pm.

Let’s go girls!!!! @jpchockeygorls

TOURNAMENT WEEK!!! Good luck to all our teams hea

TOURNAMENT WEEK!!!
Good luck to all our teams headed away to compete in tournament.

Here is a lovely photo of the JPC Girls 1st XI hockey team ready for their first game of Federation Cup/Marie Fry tournament.

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A few more Tough Guy & Gal pics, loving the mud.

A few more Tough Guy & Gal pics, loving the mud.

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