Fernside Students represent the School at Canterbury Cross Country Championships and win in their teams

Last week Jacob, Harri, Lillie, Ashton & Xanthe ran in the Rakahuri Teams at the Canterbury Cross Country Champs that were held at the Halswell Quarry. 3 of our students were awarded Canterbury Sports Certificates. Along with Willa Carpinter,(7/8 hockey) , there are only 4 students currently in the School with one of these highly coveted placings.

From fields of 123 all our runners finished in the top 50. Visit the Cant website for full results.(link on this page)
It was also a team event. Rakahuri finished in the top 5 for every event (21 teams in each category).
yr5B - 5th, 5Girls - 3rd (Xanthe's team), 6G - 2nd  (Lillie's team), 6B - 1st (Ashton's team), 7G - 3rd, 7B - 5th (Harri 7 Jacob's team) and 8G - 5th, 8B - 2nd.

FIFA - football. WE are so lucky to have another  WOrld Cup event in our country. I have enjoyed watching some of the games and attending the Germany v Nigeria Game. Penalties seem such a cruel way to decide a game that I wonder why they don't look at reducing players every 5 minutes or golden goal - too much time I guess.

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Rakahuri - I congratulate the efforts of all 20 students running in the cross country event at Loburn Domain today.
Everyone went for it pushing themselves to achieve results they can be proud of. Satisfaction was on the faces of our runners and the team supported and celebrated everyone's successes.
WE await the official results tomorrow but know we have at least 4 students going to the Canterbury event in 2 weeks time.

Lillie Rayner won the yr 6 girls' race over both Rakahuri and Pegasus Zones
Jacob Turner finished 2nd and Harri Silcock 3rd in the Rakahuri Zone.
Xanthe Jane 4th, Ashton Hampton 4th, have also qualified for the Canterbury Cross Country on the 10th June.

Thanks to all the parents who supported the runners and helped with managing and marshalling as well as transport!

Thanks to Janelle and the team at the Mainpower Trust for running the event.