Well done Audrey and Sylvie!

This is a cool story...really made my day on Monday. I got an email from Dannii and the Featherston Wrestling Club about Audrey and Sylvie. In the holidays they competed in the New Zealand North Island Wrestling Championships and had a great result!

• Audrey wrestled in the Under 10 years age group and gained a silver medal.

• Sylvie wrestled in the 10-13 year age group and achieved a silver medal.

In Dannii’s words:

Both the girls have shown huge potential of what they could achieve in years to come, particularly given this is their first national tournament and they have only been wrestling since February this year.

Audrey and Sylvie were a huge credit to our club and your school as they always represent themselves with pride.

That is awesome girls, well done on a great result! Good luck for the upcoming National Club Championships, keep representing yourselves with PRIDE and you will go far.

Great stuff Connor!

A great story from Miss Fraser this week about Connor from Kahikatea.

Connor often chooses to come to practice with me on a Monday (not even his team!) and while I was busy talking to another child, he offered to set up and run some drills. He set up all the equipment, explained clearly to the others how to play, knew what skills/techniques each drill was helping to practice and gave all the players positive praise and feedback to improve.

He’s in Josh F’s team and I mentioned this to him and he added that Connor can’t play at the moment because of an injury but still always turns up to practice to support his team without being asked!

That is awesome Connor! At DPS we talk about giving Service to others, doing things for others to help out, doing things for ‘a Better Future’. This is a great example of this in action and very cool to hear about. Keep it up Connor!