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Outward Bound runs Adapted courses for secondary school students with physical disabilities. These courses are fully funded. The only cost to students is getting a pre-course medical done by a GP and getting themselves to and from Picton. The 8 day…
Learning Support Senior Life Skills Programme This year, some of our senior Learning Support students have been involved in a specialist course called Life Skills. They have participated in a large variety of learning activities and gained some new skills…
A big CONGRATULATIONS and THANK YOU to all those involved with our end-of-year Prize-Givings for 2022, which we held across Week 3 of this term: Monday 31 October 2022 - Pasifika Prize-Giving Tuesday 1 November 2022 - Sports Prize-Giving Wednesday…
In November 2022, Ngā Puna o Waiōrea (NPoW) took part in the Auckland Secondary Schools' Kapa Haka competition, known as Te Ahurea Tino Rangatiratanga, which was established in 1996 to showcase Māori cultural performances. After a delay due to Covid…
Dress For Success Auckland is holding it one of it's events - Fill A Bag Sale - at the Western Springs Garden Community Hall on Saturday 3 December 2022, from 10am to 4pm. Dress for Success is a charity dedicated…
Our Year 9 WSC student, Amaya Tan-Peters, recently represented New Zealand at the Noumea Open International Climbing event held in New Caledonia between the 13th-15th October 2022. Amaya came 2nd in the Under-16 Bouldering, and 4th in the Under-16 Lead…
Our Year 13 student Avery Longhurst, CEO of the company called Buzz Shots, recently won two awards at the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) for the West Auckland region - "EXCELLENCE IN SALES" and "EXCELLENCE IN FOOD AND BEVERAGE".…
On Thursday 1st December (week 7), just about all of the WSCW Year 9 cohort will be involved in our Annual Social Studies Christmas Sustainable Market. This will take place on Level Two of the KHCL from period 1 until form…
On Wednesday last week, we welcomed on to the site for the first time our new Evaluation Partners from the Education Review Office (ERO). ERO has shifted to a more developmental approach to evaluation that supports each school’s improvement over…
