With 46 different ethnicities, Cornerstone’s annual Cultures Day was a diverse mosaic of colours, costumes, and cuisines. It was a big day for the student Cultures Committee, who organised and hosted the activities. The ‘each country at a time parade’ was a new feature this year, giving students a chance to look at traditional costumes […]
Author Archives: Paul Jorgensen
Secondary Drama’s Hilarious Christmas Story
Students wrote the script, directed the scenes and performed their own version of the Christmas story. It was a child friendly, and utterly hilarious show. Mr Mitchell’s favourite part was the princess aspirations of angel Gabriella. Others preferred the very animated cows, or the showdown between the wise men and the shepherds, both racing to […]
Colourful Characters at Year 13 “Dress-up Days”
As part of the celebration of Year 13s finishing school, students chose three themes for their end of school-dress up days. Students dressed in costumes for a future career, throwback/retro, and as their favourite book or TV character. There were appearances made by Top-Gun pilots, the Wot Wots, Anime characters and the Men In Black.
Year 13s Narrowly Win over Staff Team
As part of the farewell activities to leaving Year 13 students, this week a series of staff vs student games were played. Day 1 – Fat Mat Rounders Fat Mat Rounders is like baseball, but with giant fat mats for bases, and you can kick or throw the ball. The staff got off to a […]
Samuel and Cristin Triumph at Table Tennis Nationals
Ka pai te mahi to Samuel and Cristin who represented the Manawatu U13 Table Tennis team at nationals this week. After beating Otago, Northland and Waikato teams, they kept their focus right to the end, to win the Grade C final against Bay of Plenty in a nail biter.
Naphtali Win Parables Competition
A dancing tree, dodgy version of uber, and a saxophone solo were memorable highlights in this year’s Living Stones Parable competition. Tribes were tasked to tell a parable in around 10 minutes. Audiences were wowed with elaborate costumes, props, backdrops, dance, song,videos, and one tribe even had a chaotic lolly scramble. Judah from Asher tribe […]
Danny and the Shacks – Primary Production
“Danny and the Shacks” followed the story of brave follower Daniel, and his three friends as they made some brave choices. With two sold out shows at Wallace Theatre, the 90 minute show featured song, dance and an important story. Many were enamoured by Penelope’s eloquent pronunciation as Helga, charmed by Caleb’s pizazz as the […]
Cornerstone Win Table Tennis Plate at National AIMs Games
Around 13,000 Year 7 and 8 children from around the country attended Aims Games this week. Cornerstone sent a team of our best six Table Tennis and Badminton players to to the Tauranga tournament. Cornerstone’s all male team were notable for the kindness and respect they showed their opposition. The boys also performed very well: […]
21st Century Teens Seminar – 7th Sept
CFG Quiz Night A Fun Community Event
Around 160 people came to the Cornerstone Fundraising Group’s annual Quiz Night. There were team costumes, dance performances, auctions, plenty of food options to keep the evening engaging. Much of the wider Cornerstone Community came out for a fun night out of laughter and frivolity. Quiz categories ranged from Sports trivia, Bible, Geography, to TV […]