Tēnā koutou katoa, Malo e lelei, Welcome.

A reminder that the College year and term planner is now live on our website and Moodle.

As a leadership team we set goals for ourselves at the start of the year and have been working hard to achieve them.

On April 13 Hamish Lorney, Mrs Pentecost and I shaved for a cure along with many others in the Action Centre at school.

To celebrate ANZAC Day we came together as a school to commemorate in an hour long memorial service, the great sacrifice that our brave men and women gave to serve our country and fight for our freedom.

Katikati College's annual Ball is just around the corner!

Year 13 student, Mike Ronayne, shares in te reo his experience of a recent noho at Tuapiro Marae.

This year Katikati College and Te Puke High School combined to compete against other secondary schools for Pasifika By Nature which was held in Hamilton. Student Zoya Tikena reports.

Education is going through a period of change. This is as a result of changes in the makeup of our society. As a school we need to ensure that our students are learning and our able to effectively contribute to our society and our community.

A group of Year 11 Art students were accepted into an invitation only viewing day at Gibbs Sculpture Farm, just north of Auckland on Friday April 13.

These two pieces of writing are by Stella Sukkel and Leah Harrison in Year 7/8DGN.

Tessa Bradley has been selected for the Junior Black Fins, the youth surf lifesaving team representing New Zealand at the 2018 Lifesaving World Championships.

Student Chardonnay Conrad reports on last term's noho marae.

The 41st National Youth Jazz Competition was held at Baycourt on Wednesday March 28 to Friday March 30.

Year 9 students went on a field trip to our local forest recently. They were led by environmentalist, Emma Cronin, and volunteer, Barry Pethybridge who told them about the importance of pest control for the health of the Kaimai Forest.

Over the course of Term 1 the Year 13 Common Room has had a face lift.

A group of Year 11 students studying Science, Business Studies, ICT or Horticulture recently took part in "Cultivate Your Career Day".

Debating has continued to flourish at Katikati College, with two junior teams and one senior team entering the regional debating competition hosted at Tauranga Boys' College.

In term one staff and students of Year 9 participated in a shared learning experience titled “Our Place”.

The Bay of Plenty branch of the New Zealand Tree Crops Association kindly sponsored two of our students to attend their annual national conference in April.

Katikati College sent the two Senior A teams down to Palmerston North for the week of March 19 to compete at the New Zealand Secondary Schools Championships.

Congratulations to Lisa Hamilton and her family who won the Term 1 $200 grocery voucher draw.

Are you a senior student interested in tertiary study in the USA?

Join the national Education Conversation.

The Aotearoa Steel Festival was held in Auckland in February. Katikati College took both its senior bands Pan Pana and PANiK to the event.

Students in Years 9-13 recently enjoyed entertaining and thought provoking presentations by Liz Harrex from "Attitude".

Hi I’m Bella Kuo, this is my third year at Katikati College and I am the International Student Captain for 2018.