St. Patrick’s College Wellington News for July 2009
This past month has been a very hectic and slightly chaotic one for St. Patrick’s College, despite the two-week holiday break. We experienced our first ever Sasa inter-house competition, competed in our traditional Silverstream sports exchange and put together a highly successful and entertaining school production.

Sasa Competition
To bring the second term to a close, the 4 houses of Saint Patrick's - Chanel, Redwood, Kennedy and Watters, all competed in the first ever Sasa contest organised by the college. Throughout the 10 weeks of Term 2, each house was required to choreograph a traditional Samoan slap-dance with a group of about 30 students (and teachers if willing!).
After numerous practice reminders in the school notices and countless lunchtime run-throughs, the entire school came together on the last of term to showcase their routines and to celebrate the inter-house competitiveness.
The judging panel had comprised of our current Chaplain Chanel Wright and two old boys of the college, Lutelu Vaeau and Chris Slade.
After what was a highly successful and enjoyable show, the three judges had tallied their scores.
With Watters placed 4th and Chanel in 3rd place, the Redwood House emerged victorious, pipping 2nd place Kennedy by 5 points.
In the end, St Patrick's first ever Sasa competition turned out to be a great success that was thoroughly entertaining, culminating what was an eventful second term.

Silverstream Exchange
On July 22nd, the whole college made the trip over to St. Pat’s Silverstream for our annual sports exchange. It is an occasion which highlights a very heated rivalry between our colleges and this rivalry was highly evident throughout the event.
The Junior soccer brought with it a showcase of goals from Silverstream as they came out on top 5-1. Our Badminton team, 1st XI Hockey team and Under 15 rugby team all ground out hard fought wins. The road race was an intensely even affair, and was originally deemed a draw until we won on count back. In the three big matches, our Senior A basketball team dominated to win 147-26, while Silverstream proved too strong in the 1st XV Rugby and 1st XI Soccer.
Overall it was a great spectacle of the depth of sporting talent in both Colleges even though we came out winners 5-3 in the overall talley.

Oliver!
Every 2nd year our college combines with St. Catherine’s College to produce a school play, this year it was Oliver! by Lionel Bart. A lot of time, effort and money goes into these plays, and this year was definitely no exception. There was a grueling schedule for all those involved and a lot of time was given up by teachers and students alike.
It all came together for four performances from July 27-30 and was a thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining play which uncovered many hidden stars from both colleges. Oliver! was arguably our Colleges most successful school production yet thanks to some notable performances from Anna Neyland (Nancy), William Tait-Jamieson (Fagan) and Joseph Witkowski & Brydon Sugdren (Oliver).

By Hans To’o & Nicholas Ryan