Southwell School

Southwell Epro 8 Challenge team in action at the Waikato/BoP Grand final last night. A tremendous engineering effort.

House Singing Spirit! Yesterday, we celebrated our annual House Singing competition, featuring student-led performances and plenty of House pride. Congratulations to Lincoln and Durham Houses for taking out joint first place with their incredible enthusiasm and joy.

For the past few weeks, our Year 8 classes have been diving deep into Māori migration and studying the incredible engineering of traditional, ocean-going waka. To bring their learning to life, they teamed up to take on the ultimate challenge: designing and building their own scale models using everyday materials like cardboard, tape, twine, sticks and straws!
Working under a tight deadline brought out some amazing problem-solving and teamwork skills. It wasn’t always easy, but our students did an incredible job navigating the challenges and bringing their designs to life.

Yesterday, the Girls' Choir of All Hallows Chapel had the absolute privilege of leading the service at St Peter's Cathedral. It was a truly lovely morning of community worship.
A special mention to Evie and Juno, who read the Bible passages beautifully, to Asst Chaplain Rev'd Pickering for leading the prayers, and to our Chaplain Rev'd Cody for delivering a wonderful sermon.
Thank you to everyone at the Cathedral for having us, and well done to all the girls involved for representing us so beautifully!

Big Mac style tacos are well known among years of Southwell School students! Today Mrs Bindon followed her nose to the Food Tech room where Mrs Bradding and 6LM were creating delicious tacos.
Students in 6LM will definitely be giving these a go at home. Delicious!

Junior Regional Tournament.
Well done to our Junior team who played exceptionally well today, with all players receiving Distinction certificates.
The following students achieved first place for the team and have qualified for the National Final: Edwin Zhou, Kieran Yu, Leo Xu, Christopher Lim, and Feison Qi.
Best Overall Player Awards go to - 1st: Edwin Zhou, 2nd: Kieran Yu & 3rd: Leo Xu.

Our Year 5/6 Southwell netballers embraced the Future FERNS theme of Positive Vibes Only yeteday, bringing plenty of pink, encouragement, and team spirit to the courts.

Last Thursday, the Southwell Show Quest team had a fantastic day at the Waikato Regional Theatre here in Hamilton. The kids performed their hearts out and showed amazing teamwork and talent for a wonderful performance. A massive thank you to all the staff involved and the amazing parents who gave up their time to help on the day.

Our incredible Year 3 and 4 students completely blew us away last week with their spectacular performance of The Wizard of Oz! We are so incredibly proud of the confidence, teamwork, and creativity our Year 3 & 4 students showed.
Thank you to our talented performers, the amazing staff and parent helpers and everyone who came to support and cheer our young stars on.
Check out some of the magical moments from the show below!