We have an exciting new innovation for 2025 with four new PE House colours

The PE houses are named after past students who have gone on to represent New Zealand in sports.

• Williamson House

• Charlton House

• Burmester House

• Jones House

Each of these alumni have given their blessing for the move and we look forward to them joining us at future school assemblies.

As part of this change, students from each house now have their own unique physical education top as shown in the photographs. The purpose of this change is to foster a greater house spirit school wide and enable students and their families to identify with a particular house. The change will mean that each class will include students from all four houses instead of all the students in a class identifying with one particular house.

New students on enrolment will be allocated to a house and future siblings will then follow on in the same house enabling families to pass on their house physical education top from one sibling to another.

As we change over to the new tops, this year’s year seven students will be given an opportunity to change their current physical education top to the new one as part of a buy back scheme described below.

This is not compulsory and all the 2025 year 8 students are able to keep their current tops for their year 8 year.

Buy Back Scheme

75% of the 2024 year seven students will be moving to new house colours in 2025 and will be able to purchase the physical education top for their new house. If their current top is in excellent condition, they are able to exchange their old top with a $15.00 rebate to go towards their new top. The school will use these returned tops for issuing to sports teams representing the school in outside competitions.