From left:Robyn Kennedy, Paul Cha, Tom Malgrem, Cameron Beechey

After winning the national competition last year, our FPS team is off to Indiana next Friday to compete on the world stage.The topic this year is “The Global Status of Women”. Accompanied by their teacher Glenis Martin, the team will be away for two weeks. We wish them all the very best and would love to see them bring back the coveted ( and rather large) winning trophy!

This Saturday night the Northcross U55kg Rugby team are playing in a round robin curtain raiser for the Blues vs Brumbies at Eden Park. Good luck team – we hope you enjoy the privilege of playing at one of our most famous sporting venues!

Tayla Alexander featured on the ONE programme Seven Sharp recently. Tayla continues to impress and her talent is higlighted in the interview on the link below:
   http://tvnz.co.nz/seven-sharp/voice-beyond-her-age-video-5444237

A few days ago the student council went to the MERC down at the Long Bay reserve. We had heaps of fun and realized being able to work as a team was essential to be a leader. The experience was great and helped us bond into one student body. The raft building and canoeing really tested our cooperative skills which taught us lots of new skills that will come to help us in our everyday life. We hope this will encourage and inspire us into becoming the best house leaders we can for Northcross.
James Watson

The Make-a-Wish Foundation is set up to grant wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience, with hope, strength and joy.
They are currently in the process of granting a wish of Chantal Stallard of Room 22, Year 8.
Chantal was diagnosed with Leukaemia, and has been undergoing intensive chemotherapy treatment.  Read more
The movie night sold 220 tickets and combined with the ice cream sale, cake sales, mufti day and donations raised $5700 net. A huge effort was given by all and the kids relished the opportunity to fundraise for Chantal. The 2 movies were thoroughly enjoyed and with pizza, magnums and fizzy drink to boot an amazing night was had by all. Chantal’s wish will take place soon so watch this space!

A gentle reminder regarding the signage at the front of the school. For the safety of students and other cars there is a no U Turn restriction in front of Northcross Bus Bay and the drop off zone.

The area above the crossing and below the Bus Bay is a no stopping zone during these times. Illegal parking restricts the flow of cars and buses and incures a fine.

 Our school gates are closed and locked each day for the safety of our students The sign at the front of the school gives the times: 2.50pm to 3.15pm. This is a requirement for Health and Safety of our community.

After 8.30am the Bus Bay is closed to Private transport with students having to be dropped off in the drop off zones.  Buses are in the Bay at 2.50pm so this will be closed to all other traffic

There is a drop off and pick up bay opposite the Bus Bay. You are not allowed to wait longer than 5 minutes or leave your car. Please do not U Turn from this bay to drive back up Sartors Ave.

A reminder that the school gate is locked from 2.50pm until the last bus departs at 3.15pm.

I hope this will be of help with explaining  the various requirements as set down by Auckland Transport. Please refer to the full guide in the Noticeboard Column on the left of this page.

Thank you       Glen Spurdle   DP