Author: Boss

Breakfast Club (along with setting up BC Sports) has set up BC Books with the aim of getting books to every child sibling of current students at both Glen Innes and Glen Taylor Schools. Both Schools have identified how many siblings of students are under 5 years at home, and it is our intention for…

Every year BC Sports invites Glen Innes and Glen Taylor Schools to have a Fun Run from Pakuranga Sailing Club to St Kentigern College (2.5 km) with the Glen Innes Police putting on a BBQ. Harmony Company again donated the sausages. A special thanks to St Kentigern College that provides their BBQ and venue. The…

GI Police versus GI Schools In August we arranged a Volleyball tournament at Glen Innes School and invited Glen Innes, Glen Taylor. Ruapotaka and Stanhope Schools to attend along with a team from Glen Innes Police. Thanks to Harmony Company, sausages were provided for 200 children at no cost. It was a great day, with…

The secret to leaving a lasting impression on someone’s life is not about what you say or do… I want to quote from Maya Angelou… “I’ve learnt that people will forget what you have said,They will forget what you did,But they will never forget the way you make them feel.” Our words and our actions…

On 30th April Barfoot & Thompson invited 10 students at Glen Innes School to be part of the ‘Beat Dan Carter’ event at Eden Park. The concept was that Dan Carter would kick goals for 60 minutes and set a standard that others would try and beat with funds going to UNICEF. The ten children…

When Peter Gordon first started his Cooking School, Breakfast Club were invited to bring students from Glen Innes, Glen Taylor and St Kentigern College to attend, and they were taught how to create a pasta dish. When I heard that this Cooking Class was to close and move to a new location, I could not…

In 2023 we held our inaugural CEO event where we invited 20 of our Supporters to a training day with Kevin Roberts, former world wide CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi at a luxury boat pontoon (R Marine Flagship – home of Riviera Boats). This event was so successful we decided to again invite Kevin Roberts…

Glen Innes School each year holds a competition with the student to see who is the best at writing stories. The prize this year for the two winners was to be uplifted in a luxury car and transported into the City and then to their homes in Glen Innes. The children had no idea that…

On the 29th March we received a phone call from St Kentigern Girls School to say the wanted to donate 200 packets of hot cross buns to say thank you to the Police in their area.   Along with Sergeant Blocker from Glen Innes Police we went to he Girls School, did a photo shoot with…

On the 27th March Glen Innes School ran a Literacy Training day at their school and invited teachers from all of the Schools in the area. A recent study conducted in the area suggested that when children start school at 5 years of age, some have a learning age between 2 and 3 years of…