A team of students committed to celebrating and promoting the values of our Riccarton Way.

The Riccarton Way is a set of fundamental values that model how we should act as students of Riccarton High School. 

They define the core of our school identity, and we hope that students can carry it out in later stages of their life. 

On behalf of the Riccarton Way Committee, we feel that it is important to try and incorporate and encourage these values (commitment, honesty,respect and excellence) in all aspects of school life, as they will provide a good foundation for when it is time for students to leave Riccarton High. 

At our school, we not only want to concentrate on education, but the development of the student character as well.

In 2016, while we generally encouraged all the values, we focused specifically on punctuality, as we realised its importance in the work area. 

We did this by creating a Punctuality Competition to motivate the students. It’s crucial that students start gaining time management skills as soon as possible.

Aside from the Riccarton Way values, as students at Riccarton High, we feel that it is important to recognise that ‘we are one’, and the school motto, ‘Disce ut prosis’ or ‘learn that you may be of service’. 

As members of the committee, we find new ways to unite the school through the Riccarton Way values and ideology. 

As well as that, we sought to get the students more involved in knowing about the four key values by creating competitions like the Banner Competition, where each class receives a country and creates a banner integrating the country’s culture with the Riccarton Way. It has been a major success this year, with lots of unique takes on the school values. There is clearly a lot of artistic talent out there.

It was really great to see all our peers getting involved and working together. This is something that we believe is special about the Riccarton Way. The values have really brought the school together as one big whanau and given Riccarton High School a unique identity. As the Riccarton Way Committee, we want to use the Riccarton Way to not only connect our students to the school, the staff and each other, but we also want to embark on connecting the Riccarton Way to the wider community. Doing so will give Riccarton High School an even more powerful and resonant culture, as it will bring the students together with the community they are in.