The team from Howick local board, our parents and teachers Mrs Stevenson, Mrs McKenzie and Mrs Maharaj, did a great job of helping the students get ready in extremely challenging conditions. Angel Lee, our volunteer Chinese dance teacher, also arrived to support her crew. 

Our students wowed the local community audience with terrific performances, which were a credit to their hard work and training with their coaches throughout the year. A really impressive night out in the community from Somerville Intermediate. 

It was a fun-filled day for everyone. Our horses looked great wearing the Somerville Intermediate saddle pads, complete with school logo.

The first part of the day was flatwork classes e.g best combination, best Pony Club mount, rider on the flat, horse on the flat, and more. All of us placed in at least one of those classes. Next up was jumping, which was of course our favourite! Once again everyone placed in these classes, and most of us more than once! 

By the end of the day, we were very pleased with what we had achieved, coming away with a huge number of ribbons between us. We were very proud and happy girls and ended up coming third out of 15 schools! GO SOMERVILLE!!!

They gave up their time after school and created some wonderful dishes including mince, mashed potatoes, vegetables, apple crumble and chocolate chip cookies.

The students worked really hard and enjoyed being able to work together, to give back to the wider community. We are incredibly proud of our student leaders for forging this partnership with the Takutai Trust and getting involved in great initiatives.

It was a nine-round event that lasted the whole day. Everyone did brilliantly and gave it their all. In the end, Somerville placed fourth out of the many teams that participated. Sadly we just missed out receiving third place in the final game. 
Well done to Aiden, Tracy, Grishma, and Arush for their amazing performance!

Champion Trophy

On Sunday 23 October, Aiden, Tracy and Arush also competed in the Individual National Competition. A special congratulations to Tracy who was the top female player in the Intermediate section division and Arush who placed 4th in the competition.

We played against 4 other schools. Each game was 8 overs and lasted around 45 mins. The weather was fine with sunshine, clouds and a nice drizzle.

Our first game was against Mission Heights. We had incredible hits and runs, getting 63 runs in total. There were also a lot of wickets by catching and bowling. The second game was against BBI, which we narrowly won by a few runs. Our third game was against St Kents which we won comfortably. The final game was against Farm Cove. We were focused and eager to end with a strong win. Overall we had lots of fun and earned a well deserved first place finish, winning all of our matches.

Thanks to Miss Naidoo, Mr Greenwood, Millar O and our parent helpers, Emma and Lisa, for their support. 

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It was an incredible day filled with lots of sharing of learning, sharing of kai and sharing the talent of our many performance groups. It was such a pleasure to host approximately 650 guests from far and wide to be a part of our school life once again. The connection you have with us is greatly valued and we view this as the beginning of opening up with our community again. Congratulations to all of our Somerville Students. You made us so proud with how you conducted yourselves, and the pride that was shown in sharing your learning. To those students who performed, you did an incredible job and kept our crowds clapping and dancing along in their seats. We hope to see many of you again soon at out upcoming Prizegivings.

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Boys

The SEZ basketball competition was a day to remember, the team can all agree with that, but unfortunately we ended up losing to one of the best teams, Elim College. We all tried our hardest to do the best we possibly could and for the most part, it worked well. We won four out of our five games. We placed third overall with BBI (Bucklands Beach Intermediate) winning the tournament. We played our hearts out and all enjoyed the day. Thanks to our coaches Mr Haskett and Dylan Agnew for all of the training and guidance at the tournament.

Girls

After a very tough SEZ tournament, the Somerville Girls Basketball team was able to come away with the win and qualified for the Auckland Champs which was held on 25 October at the North Shore event centre. We had three pool games with the first game against Waiau Pa. All the girls played very well, getting a lot of good baskets to set off on an early lead. The second team we played was Henderson Intermediate. The game started off well, with the score being quite close, but they were a very good team and despite our best efforts, Henderson came away with the win. Our last game would determine if we would play off in the semi finals. The game was against Baradene. It was a very close game, the team had a couple of good players who put them in the lead. In the dying minutes of the game Somerville got a few baskets back and we finished tied. We did not advance to the semi finals based on points difference.

Somerville managed to place 6th overall and we were proud of that result as all the girls put in a lot of effort, showed resilience, perseverance and great sportsmanship with all the teams we competed against.

Totara Springs Sports Camp

The beautiful Totara Springs Camp is situated just outside the township of Matamata and this was home for a week to 32 Somerville students on our annual sports camp. The Somerville team competed in over 30+ sports, against 8 other schools, over the 5 days.

Early morning, starting at 6.10 am, would see the Somerville students at our meeting room. We would have a team meeting and briefing of the day, along with acknowledgements and rewarding the special ‘Dufus of the Day’ award - students nominate others for something silly and light-hearted they had done the day before. Then finally before breakfast, we would practise the Somerville Cheer routine.

The campers were certainly well fed, with student friendly meals that would fuel our athletes for competition. After breakfast, all the schools would meet in the conference room with the highlights video from the day before, along with a special guest speaker. The sports rotation would then begin with 20 minute games and 5 minutes to get to your next activity. There was certainly a lot of running between sports fields, courts and the gymnasium. All our students would agree that keeping well hydrated and plenty of fresh fruit was very important and helpful between breakfast, lunch and dinner. Our first day concluded, with our students combined, competing in 60 games. After the day's rotations and dinner, the night sports rotations would start again from 6.30 - 9.00 pm. This left the students the last half an hour to settle in for the evening, with lights out at 9.30 pm. Everyone slept well, knowing they would then repeat this routine over the remaining week.

Competing and having fun while playing sport was definitely a highlight of the camp. Many of our students forming friendships with other students from other schools, was also fantastic to be part of. Our Totara goal was to acknowledge team members, opponents, referees, umpires, coaches and managers and our students certainly achieved this, as commented on by many schools. The Somerville team finished in the top 4 schools out of 8 schools, taking out the Cup for Hockey Mixed, Girls Indoor Hockey, Kayaking, Croquet and Sports Quiz.  

Well done to all the students and adults who attended. You made Somerville Intermediate very proud and we look forward to returning in 2023 with a new Somerville Totara Camp Sports Team.

The AIMS games had a great attendance of 10,000+ athletes. Somerville Intermediate sent an AIMS team of 110 students to compete against over 300 schools, across 23 sports codes.  

Every Somerville student who attended should be proud of their achievements on the sports field, court, pool, gym, arena or stage. The time and training to prepare for their chosen code is enormous and is only possible with the support of coaches, managers, caregivers and the Somerville community. The sportsmanship demonstrated by our athletes was often commented on by other schools, especially how humble we were in winning a match or game.

There were many highlights throughout the week with lots of our athletes and teams having successes, personal best performances, new friendships, podium finishes and of course the fun of playing the sport that they enjoy.  

After a fun filled week of sport and the impressive achievements, along with all the team and individual successes, again I would like to thank all the adults involved in creating lifelong memories for the students who attended. Congratulations to all our athletes and in terms of Cups, Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, the achievements are below:

AIMS Medal Table and Results 2022

GOLD

Hip Hop ‘The Beatz’ - Tayla, Olivia B, Isla, Lexi, Abby, Olivia Br, Ruby, Olivia P and Nicholas

Gymsport
Chelsea - Artistic Open
Reilee - Rhythmic  - Open Junior
Bethany - Aerobic Open Advanced

SILVER

Swimming
Suri - 200m Freestyle
Clementine - 50m Butterfly

Badminton
Luca and Lingyi - Boys Badminton singles team division
Lingyi and Luca - Double Boys 1st Division

Gymsport
Louis - Artistic Open
Mia - Rhythmic - Open Junior
Gabby - Aerobic Open Advanced

Tennis
Cooper - Boys Singles Tennis


BRONZE

Swimming
Suri - 100m Backstroke

Gymsport
Lucia - Artistic Twisters

Futsal Girls - Olivia C, Ruby, Ava, Lucia, Alice, Olivia B, Avneet, Scarlett, Kate

Tennis
Zoe - Girls Singles Tennis -  Silver Division

Three bands from Somerville Intermediate (involving 28 students!) competed at the Rockshop BandQuest on Thursday 1st September at Auckland Girls Grammar School. Here, our bands competed against schools from all over South and East Auckland.

It was a high energy night, with all bands stunning with their polished performances. Somervllle scooped four awards on the night. These included Sean and Oscar from the Green Rangers sharing the Killer Guitar award, the whole Red Rockets band and Elena from Blue Cheese shared the Musicianship award, while Blue Cheese also won the Best Original song award.

It was a hugely successful night for all three Somerville bands, with many of the students involved saying how excited they are to keep performing in the future.

It was a hugely successful night for all three Somerville bands, with many of the students involved saying how excited they are to keep performing in the future.

Somerville Intermediate School

School Board Elections

Parent and Staff Elections Results Declaration

Parent representatives votes:

Clarke, Henare               72           

Fox, Kim                           81            

Gibson, Karen               70            

Liu, Alvin                           51

Pienaar, Michael            66

Pointon, David                29

Powell, Darren               137

Rose, Rebecca              93  

Tosh, Richard                 83  

Invalid Votes                    2

I hereby declare the following duly elected:

Darren Powell

Rebecca Rose

Richard Tosh

Staff representative:

At the close of nominations, as there was only one valid nomination received, I hereby declare the following duly elected:

Tina McKenzie

Signed

Hayley Russell

Returning Officer