He Karere Tūī - The Tui's Message

On Thursday 24th October, the Sports Awards was held to celebrate and acknowledge the achievements from all the sporting codes that our talented wahine participated in throughout the season.

Over the last weekend of the Term 3 school holidays, 12 students traveled to Palmerston North for the Dance NZ Made Nationals. These students achieved some amazing results and did the school very proud!

The Year 13 Drama Class recently delivered a captivating production of Jane Eyre, directed by Christina Cassells. Grace Billinghurst shone as young Jane, while Leah Swindells embodied the older Jane, making this performance a highlight of the year.

On Thursday 17 October we hosted our Pathways Celebration evening, a wonderful occasion to honour the hard work and achievements of our students involved in our Gateway classes and Futures Academy programme.

At the end of Term 3, we celebrated Mental Health Awareness Week with mindfulness colouring, Happy Box decorating, and paper crafts, while our friendship bracelet-making session saw a record turnout!

On Wednesday 16th October, the Arts Prize Giving acknowledged the significant participation, contribution, and commitment of our students to the Arts.

This piece is inspired by the idea of freedom and escaping, which I’ve shown through a storybook with birds and vines coming out of its pages.

Over the last weekend of the holidays, Bay of Plenty Model United Nations took place, where students took roles of being global delegates for diverse countries and tackled pressing global issues, enhancing their public speaking, critical thinking, and teamwork skills.

In today's world, where distractions are abundant and the pressure to excel is high, guiding children to develop healthy study habits is more important than ever.

To round off the inter-house competition for 2024, Friday of week 2 saw the fields turn into a rainbow of color as students ran, jumped, threw, and participated in multiple activities to gain house points for their house. Students participated in these rotations for 2 periods as a warm-up for the much-anticipated colour run!