Co-Curricula

This encompasses all the activities outside the classroom, and essentially covers sport, music and cultural activities.

St Peter’s offers a values-based all round education, and so we consider it important that boys get involved in these activities.

Sport offers students the opportunity to take part in, and commit to, one or more physical activities and in this context we encourage the striving for excellence. We would like to see all students taking up a sport, as the team game enables several life skills to be developed, such as working (and getting on!) with one’s fellow man; of accepting unpalatable decisions; of taking the rough with the smooth. We also ask for commitment from students, in that once they have signed up for a sport or team, they continue with it for the season.

Music offers students, again, the opportunity to develop a talent outside the conventional classroom, and enables aesthetic values to be developed. Like sport, much of the music at St Peter’s operates in a team environment (orchestras, bands and small groups) and thus encourages teamwork and mutual trust between students. Equally, we work for commitment to the instrument and the group, and aim for the development of a life-long enjoyment of music and the pleasure of being able to produce it.

The cultural side is offered to enable those students with a desire to build on their roots, and we encourage them to develop these through participation in festivals so that they have a pride in what they stand for and where they have come from.

SPORT 2004

The summer sports being offered this year are:

• Cricket
• Tennis
• Softball
• Golf
• Athletics / Swimming
• Waterpolo

Cricket has entered eight teams, and the details are as follows:

Golf, a recent addition to the list of summer codes, has just the one team which is playing in the premier competition, and is under the control of Mr A. Henry.

Waterpolo has two teams entered in competitions, and next term a team from the intermediate section of the school will play

Swimming and athletics come under the overall aegis of Mr Henwood, and our top performers in these disciplines go to represent the school at regional, provincial and national meetings.

DRAWS THAT ARE AVAILABLE, AND DATES OF EVENTS

Cricket:

The 1st XI draw is as follows:

Inter house Athletics competition:

Tuesday 2 March at Mt Smart
Stadium 9.30am to +/- 2.30pm

Tennis

The winter sports that are available this year are as follows, although all the details in terms of teams entered and coaches for specific teams are not yet available. Teachers in charge of each code are given next to each sport.

• Rugby ( Mr P. Watt) Soccer (Mr B. Greenfield)
• Hockey ( Mr D. Niven) Basketball (Mr F. Tai)
• Squash ( Ms V. Howard) Table tennis (Mr D. O’Brien)
• Roller hockey (Ms B. McGowan)

The draw for the 1st rugby XV is the only one available now, so that follows. As others become available they will be added.

MUSIC 2004

The following are the important dates for the various music groups during the year.

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES 2004

The Maori, Samoan and Tongan groups are all practising hard for Polyfest, the Polynesian cultural festival that takes place at the Manukau Sports Bowl from 18 to 20 March.

An interschools’ Kilikiti tournament took place at the Auckland domain on 24 February , in which our team won one, and narrowly lost one. Unfortunately, Kelston won both their games, so we did not make it through to the play offs.