Naphtali Win 2021 Cross Country

With the added challenges of Frisbee, BMX, a word find, and a colour run, Naphtali tribe tribe snuck ahead of a congested field at the 2021 Cross Country. Students walked to Linklater park for the event, which also has its own BMX track. Issachar tribe leader, Daniel Murray beat Head Boy Conrad de Groot in […]

Summer Games – April 2021

The Cornerstone Summer Games were about teamwork, and being good sports. Tribe groups worked together, with seniors often sacrificing competitiveness to help the younger members of their group. Once again, Mr McDonald set pretty tricky bible questions in the bible quizzes. The competition was quite even with all four tribes winning an age category.  Event […]

Secondary Athletics Day

It was a fun and successful day at the Massey Athletics track. The day began with Sports Prefect Abi praying for the competition, and ended wtih her giving Mr McDonald a ‘massive thanks’ for organising the event.  Results: At the time of writing, Naphtali tribe held a slender lead over Issachar in the Tribe Competition.  […]

Swimming Sports 2021

Swimming sports had much sunshine, sunscreen, chanting, splashing and fun at Makino pool today. Students competed in conventional strokes, as well as pushing noodles around the pool, raft and truck and trailer races, and the ever popular ‘pass the pupil’. For the first time, Year 5 and 6 students came for the end of day […]

Issachar Win 2020 Tribe Competition

Issachar tribe, who specialised in coming second this year, accumulated enough points to retain the overall 2020 Tribe Shield. “I’m really pleased with what we achieved this year”, reported victorious Tribe Co-Captain Ben Murray. Fellow Co-Captain, Shanese Sproull, was quick to thank teachers for all the effort they put into the events. Zebulun tribe were […]

Fun Carnival to Finish Term

From Human Battleships to bouncy castles to 1990s video games, Cornerstone finished Term 2 in style. After one of the longest, and for many, the most tiring terms in a long time, a carnival day was in order.  In combined groups of Year 1 to 13s, students rotated around 24 stations, perhaps more akin to […]