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52 Honours Awards across the Four Cornerstones - Academic, Sporting, Cultural, and Leadership with Service were awarded, recognising the elite achievement of the recipients. Kerikeri High School aims to recognise excellence in the Four Cornerstones with a view to promoting the pursuit of personal excellence.

Congratulations to Mrs Julia Smith, our Library Manager, who received a Life Membership Award at the SLANZA (School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa) hui. This is the highest honour SLANZA bestows, and it recognises Julia as an exemplary leader both on the National Executive and within the profession.

Year 9 students Ella Collins, Jarrah Moir, Maks Gvardijancic and Braden Weight represented Kerikeri High School in the National Readers' Cup Competition after winning the Te Tai Tokerau regional heat. They travelled to Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland to compete against other teams from across the country and were placed 9th.

Kerikeri High School Music students performed two concerts for students from Riverview School and Kerikeri Primary School and an evening Showcase Concert for whānau and friends. These concerts featured over 50 students from Years 9 to 13, delighting their audiences with a range of instruments and a variety of musical styles.

With over 180 projects from 12 Northland intermediate and secondary schools, this year's Top Energy Far North Regional Science and Technology Fair showcased many projects from Kerikeri High School.

Well done to all our students who were selected to represent us and congratulations to all our winners. Kerikeri High School projects were presented with over 50 awards.

The Northland Secondary Schools Clay Target Shooting Tournament comprises five events through the year with the students competing each time in Single Rise, Points Score and Single Barrel competitions.

Our A Squad was placed 2nd School Team for the season and also won the Ernie McConnell Trophy for the most targets shot during Points Score.

At 5.00pm on Friday evening, the compulsory elements of 'weather' and 'a frame' were released. From there, teams had just 48 hours to create a fully realised six-minute piece of original theatre, which they performed on Sunday evening at Forum North for a public audience.

Kerikeri High School Commerce students learnt about the diverse range of businesses and organisations operating from the Park including Kaikohe Berries, Natural Products Enterprises, and educational providers such as Te Pūkenga.

Our roopū dedicated themselves to preparing for this event, committing many many hours to practices leading up to their stunning performance.

Te Pou o Manakō placed 2nd equal for Te Reo.

Ātahikoia Smith placed 2nd equal for Kaitātaki tāne.

Te Pou o Manakō placed 4th overall.

Congratulations to Kerikeri High School's Premier 1 Pōkaka Team for winning the NSSSA Netball Championship and Kerikeri High School's Premier 2 Te Wairoa Team for winning the NSSSA Cup competition.

After competing in regional events, Kosta and six other solo and duo acts will join together for a powerful night of original music that puts songwriting and musicianship in the spotlight. Kosta will compete in the Finals alongside the six other competitors from around New Zealand, in Auckland on 11th September.

We wish Kosta all the very best for his Finals' performance.

Kerikeri High School's Premier Netball Team Pōkaka went into the Premier Final's game undefeated in Round 2. Playing against a strong Bay of Islands College team, our Premier Team placed second (30 vs 35).

Our Premier 2 Team Te Wairoa, made up of Year 10 - 12 students, played in the Premier 2 Final against a Penekahi Netball Centre team, coming second in a nail-biter game (32 vs 31).