Birkdale Intermediate School

Manuia le Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa!

Some of our students proudly shared their culture through song and dance at assembly, showcasing their confidence, talent, and pride in their Samoan heritage. Fa'afetai tele lava! ❤️💙🤍

Our Football Zone Day girls showed tremendous determination and gave their all in every one of their eight matches, demonstrating resilience, effort, and a positive attitude from start to finish!

We had Whaea Journey and Whaea Kat support us last Tuesday at Waterpolo! We love seeing so many happy faces celebrating success and representing our school with pride!

What an awesome day for our Birkdale Intermediate team! We are incredibly proud of the way our girls competed, battled hard all day, and consistently showed outstanding sportsmanship. Finishing 9th out of 20 teams was a fantastic achievement, and we hope every player feels proud of what they accomplished.

A huge thank you as well to Mya from BC for helping coach and support the team throughout the day, we really appreciated your encouragement and guidance!

The girls tried ever so well all day in the sunny conditions. We came up against some really strong teams but our girls tried our best and put in so much effort throughout. We competed hard in all 8 matches and everyone was exhausted by the end of the day! Well done girls. You represented BIS amazingly well - Matua Lewis

1965 Room 10 Form 1

Here is Miss Courtenay’s and her students. Headbands look to be the fashion item in that class!

Back row: Donald Chatterton, Eric Molving, Neil Ritchie, Mark Thomas, Desmond Arthur, Steven Cook, Frank Williams, Gregory Blunden, Eric Woodward, Callum Robertson

Middle row: Phillip Garrett, Susan Blockley, Melanie Merz, Robyn Fairgray, Dale Hall, Judith Creaghe, Jan Kemp, Alexander Misiewicz, Miss Courtenay

Front row: Linda Frankland, Patricia Goldsmith, Evelyn Davidson, Ian Drummond, Pamela Joines, Brenda Speight, Patricia Anthill, Helen Swager, Alison Rattenbury

We have a very enthusiastic enviro group going this year and have big plans for making our school more environmentally friendly.

To date we have been working on the noxious weeds around the school, with help from Pest Free Kaipātiki, and last month we collected so many moth plant pods that we won the Pod Patrol competition.

The prize was a pizza lunch, so here we all are enjoying the fruits of our labours, along with Angie Meuller and Ian Naguiat of Pest Free Kaipātiki.

Take a look at the photos below, they may be able to help you too if you find moth
plant on your property. One pod can have up to a thousand seeds so it’s important to eradicate it.