Northcross Intermediate
Lighting the Path to Success

A competition of speed, skill and nerves, Mathex is a Maths problem solving challenge where teams of 4 students battle to answer maths word problems as quickly as possible.  Over 350 students took part in the NX Mathex challenge held recently, pitting their mathematical knowledge against each other and four teams of teachers and parents. 

The Year 7's competed first, with a very close finish - congratulation to the winning team from Room 55, Team 1: Danica Andreas, Michelle Kim, Andrew Lee, William Brunton.  

In the Year 8 competition 1st place went to Room 54 Team 1: Liam Starrs, Miles Timmis, Hayden Fisher and MacKenzie Rhodes.  Thanks for the amazing parent turn-out and participation - students were overwhelmed by the cheering section and support you all showed.  A huge thanks also to the NX staff, to the organisers and those who came back to mark the competition and of course, cheer on their teams.

Our School Leaders recently spent the day involved in Team building activities at MERC situated on the edge of the beautiful beach of Long Bay.

The day was devoted to working with each other on a series of problem solving activities and then working on the water with sailing and raft building and racing. The students involved themselves in all the activities sharing ideas and working as a team. They were all a real credit to Northcross and really endeared themselves to the instructures from MERC who could not speak highly enough of our Leaders.

A very full and exciting day that marks the start of a busy year for our School Leaders.

The NX Girls Tag team are this year’s North Harbour Champions having destroyed Birkdale Intermediate in the final 11-1. Throughout the whole tournament the NX girls scored 61 tries and conceded only 5. An amazing effort from an amazing group of players.

The team went on to play in a very extremely tough Auckland tournament where they were up against the best regional tag teams. Despite the tough opposition the girls won every pool game to make it to the final against a tall and powerful Wesley Intermediate side.

This final game was all about defence. It was tense, tight and nerves were being stretched to the max! At the sound of the fulltime hooter it was 0-0 and straight into a 5 on 5 drop off. Again both teams had their opportunities on attack but the defence was incredible from both sides. After about ten minutes Wesley final got an overlap and scored the winning try to take out Auckland Champs. While gutted our girls displayed tremendous fortitude in tough circumstances and certainly emptied the petrol tank. They could not have done anymore and we are all very proud of the result and their incredible efforts. A huge thank you to the parents and supporters who came on the day and ARL for their organisation and the opportunity to play.

Our new student leaders were presented to the school last week at our final assembly for Term 1.  These students were part of a very detailed process which saw 130 candidates having to be reduced down to 21. All these students were outstanding with the process being a very difficult one. From the final 30 plus interviews, we selected the School leaders and appointed the Head Boy and Girl along with our Deputy Head Boy and Girl. These Leaders will be an important part of Northcross over the next year, contributing much to the life and soul of our school. 

It is with much pleasure that we announce our Head Boy and Girl and their respective deputies.

Congratulations to Nick Lehtola (Head Boy), Zahra Kirk (Head Girl), Brodie Reed (Deputy Head Boy) and Lauren Kennedy (Deputy Head Girl).

We also congratulate the following students who make up our Student Leader team:

Liam Starrs, Jade Sosich, Hannah Kim, Tessa Herkt, Miles Timms, Luc Worthington, Cheyenne Pearson, Samuel Roberts, Jessica Lane, Aneka Mittendorf, Lara Wilson, Charlotte Ware, Oscar Tansley, Ella Krajancic, Sophie Goodall, Harriett Postles and Dannidee Dreyer.

We wish all our student leaders the very best for 2014

Last Friday some privileged Northcross students were invited to assist Master Chef winner, Brett McGregor with a cooking demonstration. This took place at the newly built-in cooking centre, at Noel Leeming in Albany.

We learnt about the benefits of cooking on a new innovative, induction glass top stove. It was amazing the electromagnetic currents heated the special pan directly, so it got hot, but the cooker stayed cool.

We assisted with making Mexican Lamb on a stick. For our contributions we were rewarded with tasting the succulent results!  Mmmmm…