Sportspersonship Cup: Wilcox Cup

• Personal effort in many different games, sports, events
• Tolerance and support towards others
• Encouragement to all age levels
• Excellent team member

Sports Person Trophy: Thompson Trophy & Brown Trophy

• Talented all round athlete
• Strong in team sports such as netball, football, rugby, hockey
• Very capable in individual disciplines such as swimming athletics, gymnastics
• Commitment, effort, attitude, and application

House Points Cup: St Andrew Cup

• House points weekly class winner

Sports House Cup: J Martin Cup

• Awarded to the house which has accumulated the most sporting house points from cross country days, swimming days, athletics days

EOTC Cup: Crabb Family Trophy 

• Outdoor growth and development
• Willingness to give things a try at EOTC events/camps
• Confidence
• Self awareness
• Grasped any opportunity they can and give it a good nudge.
• Collaboration and problem solving in a group situation

Leadership Cup: Carter Family Cup

• Displayed wonderful leader capacity
• Diligent in their duties
• Skillful at working with others
• Innovative and motivated to helping others

Te Toa Maori Trophy: Wiari te Kapotai Murray Trophy

• Capable Kapa Haka student
• Developing a good grasp of Te Reo
• Displays a willingness to learn more about Maori Culture
• Support other young students
• Understanding of Te Tiriti o Waitangi 

Public Speaking: Minett Plate

• Capable Speaker
• Fluent and expressive
• Entertaining speaker
• Successful in the speech competitions
• Poetry/Prose competitions

Citizenship Trophy: Dalton Trophy

• Makes a positive all round contribution to school life
• A noticeable effort to physical, cultural and social aspects to school life.
• Noticeable attitude to physical, cultural and social aspects to school life.

Social Science Cup: Tapper Family Cup

• Deep understanding around our school curriculum concepts
• Understands how societies work & are formed
• Is a responsible citizen (our school values)
• Understanding about past, present, and future
• Enjoys working in group situations and knows how to collaborate
• Take action as critical and informed citizens

Music Cup: The Tracey Family Trophy

• Capable musician in a range of fields
• Involved in many music opportunities such as choir, rock band, school band, school musicals
• Part of school groups that entertain others

Technology Cup: Dunseath Trophy

• Innovative thinker
• Able to problem solve and design and/or modify systems
• Capable ICT student – using devices to enhance learning
• Learning how to code

Digital Innovation Cup: J Barton and L Raynel Cup

• Uses digital tools to enhance learning such as:
• Capable at coding
• Can use Green Screen technology
• Capable at Animation
• Use of a range of Apps

Science Trophy: Watson Trophy

• Real interest in science related topics
• Innovative thinker
• Enjoys scientific experience and can hypothesize possible outcomes
• Display high level of background knowledge 

Language Trophy: Reeve Family Trophy

• Displays excellence in a number of language areas
• Capable reader – reads to research
• Innovative writer – presentation, punctuation
• Strong oral language skills

Cultural Activities and Arts: Lee Family Trophy

• Covers many areas of this curriculum topic – explores, challenges, expresses in the visual arts, dance, music and, to a lesser degree, drama.
• Performance
• Effort and attitude in music, visual arts, drama

Drama Cup: Mair Family Cup

• Contribution to classroom drama – part of plays, story retelling
• Items on the stage – such as individual and class
• Major roles in school productions over the course of his/her schooling.
• Showing personal experience and imagination
• Responds to ways in which drama tells stories

Mathematics Cup: Priest/Parker Cup

• Excellence in mathematical achievement
• Demonstrates real effort in challenging themselves to problem solving and finding solutions through a number of strategies.
• Applies themselves to learning new concepts and processes
• Able to support less capable students in a collaborative way

Persistent & Consistent Trophy: Short Family Trophy

• Demonstrates persistent & consistent effort in all curriculum areas
• Doesn’t necessary excel, just tries really hard with a never give up attitude
• Include aspects of academic, cultural, sporting, and any competition
• Takes on lots of school activities, duties and responsibilities. 

MPS Values Cup: Wightman Cup (Values are deeply held beliefs about what is important or desirable. They are expressed through the ways in which people think and act).

• Awarded to the student who consistently demonstrates our school values
• Thinking – Maharahara (thinking about how to make life better at school for others as well as themselves – academically, socially, culturally)
• Standing Proud – Whakahi (of themselves, the school uniform, what our school has to offer on site and school trips)
• Having a Heart – Makoha (showing empathy, compassion, kindness, supporting others)
• Own your Actions – Hoea to waka (Showing that they can take responsibility for their learning, behaviour, and conduct at and away from MPS)

Achievement outside school – Whakatutukitanga i waho o te kura: Farmilo Family Cup. 

• Achieved at a high level outside school life such as at a regional or National level
• Could be a High Achievement in sport
• Or – Excelled in an academic activities outside school

Principal Trophies: Pat & Liz Dunn Trophies

• For making the most of the full range of opportunities available throughout their schooling, particularly their final year
• Demonstrates significant contributions to school activities
• Supporting the school values
• Consistently demonstrating the key competencies from the NZ curriculum

Outstanding Boy & Girls Cup and Button: Exton & Waldon Family Cups

• These students have shown all round academic ability and performance in:-

• Literacy
• Numeracy
• Social Sciences
• Performing Arts
• Cultural and Physical activities
• Digital curriculum
• Science
• Learning languages

• These students have also been consistently positive in their approach to school and class activities
• They STAND out in all aspects!