It has not taken twin brothers Sunnity and Toonika Maeke long to make a sizeable impression at Te Puke High School.
The 18-year-olds arrived with their parents from the tiny South Pacific country of Kiribati in February and expected a quiet period settling in to a whole new life, with improving their English a major priority.
But they are now the school's latest sporting heroes after three consecutive stand-out performances at recent athletics events.
At the school's sports day, the brothers easily qualified for the Bay of Plenty Secondary Schools finals in their favoured discus, shot put and javelin disciplines.
Sunnity set a new school record by more than a metre in the senior shot put and Toonika easily won the senior javelin in his first official competition. They then took on the best athletes from the Bay's top schools and destroyed them.