Marvel heroes, a nativity scene, anime characters, and a number of Where’s Wallies all made an appearance at Cornerstone’s 2022 Book Week parade. Students and staff dressed as one of their favourite book characters to celebrate the end of week. Room C1 was fully decorated in the under the sea theme. The underwater art competition, […]
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Newsletter Term 2 Week 3
Asher Tribe Win Secondary Athletics
As a Covid adjustment, Athletics was held at lunchtimes this year over Term 1 and 2. Students opted into their preferred events, rewarding those tribes with high levels of participation. Naphtali tribe held a slender lead over Asher heading into this week’s final event: double point sprint relays. Run on the new artificial turf, Issachar […]
May the 4th – Star Wars Day Photos
Uniform was exchanged for Light-Sabres, side-buns this May the 4th. After a quiet and cautious Term 1, students and some brave staff embraced the opportunity to dress up and enjoy saying “May the 4th be with you”. Photo Gallery
New Admin Block Turf Complete
The all weather sand-turf, between the staffroom, C-Block and D block makes it safer to play winter sports. With it’s bright colours, and clearly marked lines, students were quick to embrace it this week. It has lines for netball, hockey and ki o rahi. Thanks to our school proprietors for this contribution, and to Mr […]
Welcome Back to Term 2
Our latest Covid protocols. Week 1) Star-Wars day and Assembly, Week 3) Book Week. Welcome back Mrs Jae Lee. May the Fourth – Star Wars Dress-Up day On Wednesday ‘May the Fourth’ we have a Star Wars themed dress-up (mufti) day. Please do NOT go out and buy a Star Wars costume for your child(ren) […]
Omicron News: Onsite learning for all from 6th March.
Update 5th April – Whole school learning onsite again tomorrow! We will fully reopen for onsite instruction for all year levels tomorrow, Wednesday 6 March. We recognise that COVID is still having a significant impact in our school. However, attendance rates are up, COVID cases are down (only one new student case today) and we […]
International Pi Day Celebrated
March 14th, or 3.14 in American parlance was celebrated by math students at Cornerstone today. Students calculated Pi, read stories about Pi, created Pi art, and (importantly) ate Pie. Ryan set the record for most digits of Pi memorised. His 45 digits was more than twice as many as the best teacher. For his efforts, […]
Cornerstone Girls Win Manawatu Volleyball Open
After a tough first up loss, against Palmerston North Girls High, the Manawatu Open Volleyball competition this weekend looked ominous for the Cornerstone Senior Girls Volleyball team. As the smallest school at the competition, Captain Jessica Beere, insisted on more diligence from her team moving forward. At the end of pool play, Cornerstone had won […]
22-02-2022 a good day for Tutus and sports tops
Students celebrated Twosday the 22nd of 2nd of 2022 by dressing in tutus and sports tops. Some students even wore both. Principal Mr Mitchell wanted to celebrate the palindrome and ambigram date in a way that was ‘just plain ‘ole fun‘.