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Ryley Tomkinson, Year 11, on what pride means to him: What is pride?  Pride to me is respecting the way you look, act, and talk.  Whether it be your behaviour towards a team you’re facing in sport, or the way you wear your uniform.  My softball team and I are going away to Hamilton in […]

On Wednesday, 28 February 2018 we are holding an NCEA Information Evening. We strongly encourage you to attend with your children as the meeting will outline and explain how the NCEA Qualification works. Education has changed a lot since 2002 when NCEA was first introduced, and to help you, as a parent, understand how NCEA […]

For the first time at Glenfield College, our honours assembly included the backbone of student success, our students’ families.  We had several returning students, escorted by their loved ones, and we also had the parents/caregivers of our current excellence endorsed students. As our congratulatory token, we awarded the students with a box of chocolates wrapped […]

The Glenfield College library was full of Year 9 families as we gathered for the annual information evening on Thursday 15th February.  Visitors were greeted by Matua Hone Mathews and heard from the Principal, Mr McKinley, Deputy Principal, Mike Lewis, and Head Prefect, Nicola Moody-Turnwald.  Mr McKinley recognized the way the Year 9s of 2018 […]

Last year, a well known American psychologist and academic, Dr Nicholas Kardaras, came to New Zealand giving talks in schools and had several television and radio interviews regarding the subject of school students using digital media in an effort to combat screen addiction. These are his recommendations for parents : To delay the use of […]

Glenfield College’s Robotics teams represented us at the Asia Pacific Robotics Competition in the Rotorua Energy Events Centre Monday 4 to Thursday 7 December 2017. There were 200 teams in 6 divisions competing for prizes in VEX EDR robots (metal) VEX IQ (plastic) BDS robots (like K’nex) and Humanoid robots. Glenfield Competed in the VEX […]