Sports Awards 2022

After several years without an in-person Sports Awards event, it was great to come together to acknowledge and celebrate our amazing AGGS sports students and supporters from this year. It is clear the sports talent and support remain strong at AGGS.

Congratulations to our major award winners:

Meana Mateariki - Fair Play Award

Lynelle Mendonca - Student Volunteer of the Year

Rugby League Premier Team - Team of the Year

Dave Rewi - Coach of the Year

Mia Jones - Best All-Round Sportswoman

Aleiyah Tuala - Wahine Toa Junior Sportswoman of the Year

Caitlin-Jain Bushell - Wahine Toa Senior Sportswoman of the Year

Congratulations to all award recipients, best wishes to our Year 13 students leaving us; we look forward to welcoming all our teams back next year!

Year 13 Alumni Pin Ceremony

We honoured our Year 13 leavers with a special alumni pin ceremony in the Study Hall. Year 13 students entered the Study Hall through a guard of honour made up of Year 12 students to a rousing welcome from Ngā Tūmunako o Kahurangi.  Following a welcoming address by the Principal, Ms. Ashmore, Heather Ash, Chair of the AGGS Foundation addressed the students telling them a little about her time at school and her memories, Ms Ash was Head Girl in 1971.  Then with Year 11 and 12 students looking on from the balcony and main stairs, each Year 13 student went up to the podium to receive congratulations from Ms Ashmore and Foundation members and an Alumni pin.   The ceremony ended with the singing of the school song and haka, followed by morning tea for Year 13 in the Staffroom. All Year 13 students have been invited to register for the AGGS Community website where they can continue to keep in touch with their old school.  

Senior Prizegiving 2021

Like many things in 2021, our senior prizegiving looked very different this year. Even though we were in a level 3 lockdown, we were still able to find a way to acknowledge our Year 13 prizewinners and scholarship recipients for all their hard work. Flying in the face of Met Service predictions of rain, we forged ahead with our ceremony on November 17th - out on the lawn, socially distanced and all masked up with plenty of hand sanitiser.Whānau and friends watched over proceedings on a live stream from home, and we watched them, from our seats, on a big screen.
Congratulations to all our Year 13 students on all they have achieved, over $500,000 worth of scholarships and awards were made to our students at Prizegiving.
A list of our Year 13 scholarship can be accessed through this link:
We wish all of our students and their families a happy and relaxing holiday.  We look forward to welcoming them and our new Year 9 cohort to school in February 2022. 

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University Success - Congratulations Mackenzie

The University of Auckland Young Scholars Programme extends academically able students in Year 13 to study a Stage 1 paper in a variety of subjects. In the 1st semester this year Mackenzie Adams 13 KCL studied Philosophy 105 Critical Thinking.She achieved an A+ which will be on her University transcript as she intends studying at the University of Auckland in 2022.
Her comments are: "The University of Auckland Young Scholars programme was a valuable opportunity for me because I was able to experience what university is like by completing a first year philosophy course. Completing a course in the Young Scholars Program gave me the opportunity to connect with other high school students who were participating in the programme. I was also able to see the level of work required for the first year of university and was able to learn more about an area I am interested in. I would recommend this programme for anyone who wants to extend themselves and is prepared to work hard."