Professor Ian Smith – visiting geologist
We were lucky to have Professor Ian E. Smith visit and lecture our Year 10 tauira for our Ruaumoko unit this year. He brought his rocks and a wealth of knowledge to us from his decades of research in the…
Shout out for used camping equipment
Students are going on hikes, camps and outdoor excursions and we are in need of back up gear. Do you have reasonable quality used gear you could donate? Having a clean out before Christmas? packs boots utensils fleeces and beanies…
Measles is circulating and is very contagious
There is now measles in Northland, Auckland, Manawatu, Nelson and Wellington, and we expect further cases across New Zealand. Please do not send students to school with any of these symptoms – fever, cough, runny nose, sore eyes, and a…
ASAE win YES Business Award
Year 13 WSC Business Group ASAE won a Young Enterprise Scheme Business Award for 2025. The group of Biba Hermann, Krisha Kothari,Stevie Hall and Hana McLean won the 2025 Excellence in Business Direction award for the West Auckland region. The…
Student Film Success
Last month, 50 of our students took part in the 48 Hour Film Challenge, an intense filmmaking event where teams had just one weekend to write, shoot, and edit a complete short film. The challenge began with the reveal of…
Principal’s Notes
Kia ora Alumni, Elsewhere in the Newsletter you will read of the very successful reunion of the 1970’s year group held here at Springs over King’s Birthday weekend. This got me thinking of all the well-known (even famous) people who…
Library Week 2025
Library week was huge this year. We had hundreds of free books given away, dress-up day, staff wearing a picture of their favourite book, as well the annual inter-house quiz and author visit. Congratulations to ATEA house for winning the…
Visual Arts – Senior Portfolios and upcoming Exhibition of Student Work
Kia ora koutou and warmest greetings from the team in Visual Arts. We are heading into Spring and the busiest time of our year for senior students who really are starting to ‘live’ in the Art rooms as they track…
Green Jam was AMAZING
The annual environmental sustainability conference hosted by WSCW was organised by Wastewise students with the support of the kaitiaki roopu. We had students from 10 schools who were inspired by all of our awesome presenters and panel members. Thank-you so…