E ngā mana e ngaa reo e ngā rau rangatira mā, ngā mihi o te Tau Hou Pākeha. I hope this message finds you and your whānau rested, healthy and ready for 2024.

In week 1 of term four, 2023, we had boarding-specific student leadership training facilitated by two representatives from Burn Bright, an organisation that specialises in delivering student leadership and well-being programmes. This special programme was part of building leadership across our boarding houses, whether the students who participated were selected as part of the boarding council or not.

For 2024 I have chosen our boarding theme based on the whakataukī ‘Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, he toa takitini’. This translates to ‘My strength is not as an individual but as a collective’.