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- May. 21 - 25, 2012 - Testing Week
- May. 21, 2012 - Junior Mentoring Interviews
- May. 29, 2012 - Christchurch Secondary Schools' Cross Country
- May. 29, 2012 - Year 7 & 8 Parent Interviews
- May. 30 - 31, 2012 - Year 11 Outdoor Education Camp
- Jun. 04, 2012 - School Closed - Queen's Birthday Public Holiday
- Jun. 06, 2012 - ICAS Science Competition
Co-curricular » Football
1st XI Football Tournament Week.
From the 30th of August till the 2nd of September the 1st XI football team played in the Linwood Cup secondary schools tournament at Avonhead Park. With a new strip arriving just three days before tournament the boys were all set.
The opening day was a mixture of results. Beating Kaiapoi 5 - 0 with Jimmy Johnson scoring a double and then losing in the pouring rain 3 - 1 against Aranui High. Tuesday turned out too frustrating with only one game being played against the Timaru Boys side that ended up finishing 3rd in the Tournament. Even with the encouragement of a large number of students who came down for the game, we ended up going down 1 - 0. However, the boys had started to play good football unlike the previous day against Aranui High. The game against Scots college was cancelled because of the intense rain the previous night. From there the tournament was unfavourably changed into a top and bottom eight. Unfortunately we had not played the easier four games of pool play and therefore we were placed in the lower eight section of the finals. Even with this set back the team, in true St Thomas fashion, got going and won the playoffs in our section. We turned the tables on Aranui High and beat them 2 -1 and then played an amazing game in our final against Golden B ay winning 2 - 0.
Top goal scorer for the tournament was Jake Chubb and Liam O'Brien being awarded from the other teams as MVP. The tournament was a great success even with the rain interference. Football has had a huge profile lift this year within the college and hopefully next year more players will register and we can take out this tournament. Many thanks go to Mr O'Connell who put a lot of effort and time into coaching the team.
Hamish Smith