What's happening at Kristin?

Reid Harker When Reid Harker graduated from Kristin in 2013 he already had motorsport in his veins. The young driver had been working hard on the highly competitive national karting circuit since 2009 and was preparing to step up to the NZ Formula First and BMW Race Driver Series. Fast-forward to ...

Sam Stuchbury In July 2018 Sam Stuchbury (2008), headed to Hong Kong to join 300 of Asia’s leading entrepreneurs at the Forbes’ Under 30 Asia Summit. This trip came after Sam was named in the 2018 Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Asia list of creative innovators and disruptors in the media, marketing and advert ...

Scott Day, Adam Sorensen and Russell Hopper It has been a whirlwind couple of years for three Kristin alumni who have developed and launched an innovative new beverage. Scott Day, Adam Sorensen and Russell Hopper created Vista, a naturally flavoured, sugar-free sparkling water, after they saw a gap ...

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 ...