Two Columba College pupils plan to beat the Chinese at their own game when they represent New Zealand at the International Chinese Bridge speech competition in China in October.
Shannon Edgar took control on the cycling leg to give the Columba College senior girls team a comfortable win in the Otago secondary schools duathlon championships at North Taieri yesterday.
A change in roll caps allowing more pupils to attend two integrated secondary schools in Dunedin has left some state schools concerned about a drift of pupils away from their classrooms.
Columba College prizegiving was held recently.
A group of Dunedin pupils has seen their sustainable business idea grow in leaps and bounds.
Columba College's Re-think Green team will represent the Otago region in the national final of the Young Enterprise Scheme awards in Wellington on November 3.
Columba College pupil Miranda Waterworth won the senior section of the New Zealand Association of Teachers of Singing Cleveland Awards for solo singers in Dunedin yesterday.
Columba College made it two in a row with a comfortable 24-11 win against Waitaki Girls' High School in the final of the Otago secondary schools championship yesterday.
"I picked up Chinese by accident," Columba College pupil Sarah Agyeman says.
The view from near the top of the world is humbling - not because of the vista but for the way of life of the people who live there.
When you add competitive spirit to a passion for numbers, you get great mathletes.
