• Pink Day.
  • Pink Day.
  • Pink Day.
  • Adopt-A-Park.
  • Year 13, Robyn Spark.
  • 2020 Grand Champions pictured with their coach, Mrs Sahinkaya.

Pink Day 2020

Carmel College

Our annual Pink Day, held in solidarity with those who experience breast cancer, was held in August. It was a fantastic day: candy floss, sponging the teachers, sausage sizzle, food stalls, games and more.

The participation was phenomenal, enabling us (in combination with selling ribbons and badges throughout the week) to raise a substantial amount of money for the Breast Cancer Foundation. It was really empowering to see the difference we could make as a school whilst also having fun!

Heads of Student Council, Malaika Brownlie-Armstrong and Nicole Oyagawa

Photos courtesy of students Emma Spence and Ciara O'Neill

Adopt-A-Park Club helps improve Lake Pupuke Environs

Carmel College’s new Adopt-A-Park Club recently planted grasses in Sylvan Park as part of a new Auckland Council/school initiative to improve Lake Pupuke environs.

A group of  Year 7 and 8 girls made short work of the planting which is intended to help shore up the lake and create habitat. 

Water Polo Success

Robyn Spark, Year 13, has been named in the New Zealand Senior Women’s Water Polo squad. This team will hopefully be heading off to the 2020 Olympic Games qualifying tournament in Trieste, Italy in January.

Debating Grand Champions

Carmel College’s Debating team are the Grand Champions of the Advanced Open Grade in Auckland. All Carmel’s debating teams have achieved great success this year, with every team winning over 50% of their debates, an incredible achievement in itself.

Not only this but six out of the 10 teams made it into the highly competitive Octo-Finals in their respective grades.

In the Senior Open Grade, two teams made it to the Octo-Finals. One of these teams, consisting of Grace Chapman, Calista Ngadi, Juliana Vos, Analise Collis and Seraphina Kim, even made it all the way to the Grand Finals. They were up against tough competition and just missed out on the win. However, to come second in Auckland out of 60 teams is an outstanding accomplishment.

In the Advanced Open Grade, consisting of 55 teams, three out of four teams made it to the Octo-Finals. One of these teams, consisting of Siena Seeto, Annabel Rhodes, Ally Basa, Dana Carlos and Juliet Spence, also managed to make it to the Grand Final. After overcoming Rosmini College and Epsom Girls' Grammar they went up against a super-strong team from Selwyn College debating the moot: “In times of pandemics, this house would require all media coverage of the pandemic to be approved by a government agency”. After a very intense debate, they came out victorious becoming Grand Champions for 2020.


Issue 114 October-November 2020