I AM HOPE aims to promote positive attitudinal societal change around mental health throughout New Zealand, offering hope and a voice to young people. On Friday 4th November there were activities at lunchtime involving GUMBOOTS. Staff and students had so much fun!
Saturday 29th of October marked the graduation of our Services Academy students at St Paul’s College in Ponsonby, Auckland. We are incredibly proud of them and their efforts throughout 2022. Students represented our kura with mana. It was fantastic to see many of our whanau who travelled down to support
Congratulations to Ihapera Tauira-Cross and Danielle Cooper who have received a scholarship to attend the ‘Hands on’ 2023 Otago University Experience in January 2023. We are incredibly proud of their achievement and wish them well for their trip!
18th October our students had an awesome evening hosting the Scotland Women’s Rugby team in Ngunguru with Ngatiwai. Following is from the 1NEWS write up: “We’re not the most tuneful, we definitely didn’t compare to the elders and the children when they were singing it but it was lovely experience
Aamea Walding-King has been duly elected as our Board of Trustees Student Representative for another term 2022/2023. Mīharo!
Recently we had two teams compete in a senior and junior basketball cup competition at McKay Stadium which ran on two different days. Our senior team consisted of Year 11-13 boys who did an amazing job finishing third in the competition, the junior boys team were made up of Year
On Saturday 15th October we held our school ball at Kensington Stadium. It was a wonderful night for our students and staff. Huge mihi to our Ball committee for putting on such a great event!
Community has been new and exciting for our students in Kukupa this term. We started of at the Hatea Loop to see what was new. There were new sculptures. They watched a glass blower make a vase and made sure they were back on time to watch the new ‘Rolling
On Thursday 22nd September the Aniwaniwa group went to Action Zone bowling with three other local schools so that our Pride/Rainbow students could form relationships between each other.
I had the opportunity to go on a trip with 5 other students. This trip was to Auckland on the 20th September. So where do I begin, we had to be at school by 8am the latest, I made it at 7:33am. On our way down we slept because, let’s
