Brydie Buxton Gold Award!

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My Duke of Edinburgh journey started back in 2019 with my teachers encouraging me to join the scheme. To pass the Bronze award I needed to complete physical challenges, a service activity, learn a new skill and complete an outdoor adventure. The Silver Award was made more challenging by COVID-19 and all the restrictions that…

Level 1 Health Pilot Class

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Level 1 Health Pilot class. The students are looking at strategies to enhance hauora and we have chosen a Food and Nutrition approach. The students had to identify a need and then apply strategies to enhance the hauora of those involved. As part of the assessment the students needed to understand manaakitanga and how this…

Year 10 Notice

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Kia ora Parents/Caregivers We have an important tangihanga in our community, which is impacting many families, and staff. In addition, we have a number of teachers absent from illness and injury, as well as a planned school trip. Given this we will need to double up many classes tomorrow (Wednesday 16th). As we do not…

Business Studies

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Kia ora TKC Whaanau On Thursday 8 June,  I took a group of Level 2 and Level 3 Business Studies students to Wintec in Hamilton to present their business ideas to a panel of judges – in a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style setting. They had to give a presentation on the key points of their product…

Careers and Gateway Update

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So far this year we have been kept busy in the Careers and Gateway Department. For our year-long courses, we have had nine students on the Primary Industries course, learning about a variety of farming aspects, and five students traveling through to Wintec one day a week working through their Trades Programme. We have had…