What's happening at Kristin?

Alicia Cheong When Alicia Cheong finished school in 2006 she already had a keen passion for health sciences and a career aspiration of becoming a doctor. She is now working as a resident radiologist in Toronto, Canada, and is still studying - well aware that a career in medicine is a commitment to ...

Smoke rings and fire-bubbles filled the auditorium last week at the Junior School Science focused assembly.  Kindy to Year 6 children were glued to the stage as Nanogirl came with her action-packed adventures, bringing science and engineering as we had never seen them before. In this interactive sh ...

Christina Min, a Year 13 student, recently joined 14 other young New Zealanders at Parliament Buildings in Wellington to receive a 2019 New Zealand Youth Award from MP and Minister for Youth, Hon. Peeni Henare. Established in 2013, the New Zealand Youth Awards recognise the commitment and leadershi ...

Congratulations to Jaqlin van Schalkwyk who won a bronze medal in the International Chemistry Olympiad in Paris last week. Jaqlin (pictured 3rd from right) placed 168th from 578 participants in the Olympiad and two other members of the NZ squad also won bronze medals. Congratulations Jaqlin! ...

The Kristin Middle School Chess Team, comprising Randal Chi Li, Leo Zhou, Ryan Fan and Lucas Liu won Bronze in the North Shore Interschool Competition and successfully qualified for the National Finals in Palmerston North. On 29 July, four players representing Kristin, led by Mrs Sun, competed six ...

The New Zealand team won the gold medal and 'Absolute Winner' status at the International Young Naturalists' (IYNT) Tournament in Minsk, Belarus! Year 11 student Hee Seo Kim represented Kristin and was a credit to the school. She was the highest-scoring member of the six-person New Zealand team thr ...

Euphony competed last week in the NZ Choral Federation’s National Finale held this year in the Dunedin Town Hall. From a pool of over 200 regional secondary school choirs, there were 24 selected to participate in this year’s National Finale. Euphony with its 47 members did a stellar job of deliverin ...

On Monday night a group of Kristin Middle and Senior School music students took to the stage of the Vodafone Events Centre performing for a packed audience including Sir Bob Geldof (Live Aid, The Boomtown Rats) and Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac). This exciting event was a fundraiser for New Zealand ...

Melbourne Experience - Day 1 Today, the year 7s and 8s going on the 2019 Melbourne trip arrived at the airport very early in the morning and boarded the plane to Melbourne. We set off at 8:10 and arrived in Melbourne at around 9:00. When we were landing, my ears were hurting really badly and I coul ...