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…
Over the weekend of the 9th and 10th of August, two teams of students designed and created amazing outfits. These talented and resourceful rangatahi transformed pre-loved garments, accessories and fabric into haute couture. Every item of fabric has a…
It started with a good idea, but not an original one. Thank you, Chip Packet Project, for inspiring our creative project. The next step was to eat, over quite a few months, packets of nachos and chips and carefully set…
In the July school holidays an additional 9.5kW of solar was added to our existing array. We now have a total of 160, 370watt panels generating solar on the roof of the Ken Havill Centre for Learning. This means our…
On Thursday the 31st of July WasteWise, Kaitiaki and the trappers got their gloves on and their shoes dirty to plant 200 native trees along the northern boundary of our school. We planted 10 different kinds of trees, including mahoe,…
Year 12 student, Miles Dean has been making wooden spatulas (aka soffritto spatulas) and selling them to raise funds for his school trip - Italy Culinary Experience. These hand crafted, beautiful items are one for $30 or two for $50…
Food Tech in conjunction with Wastewise and Kaitiaki are thrilled to be one of the recipients of the Auckland Council Mana Ora Youth Resilience Grant. Our full-cycle project, Kai to Compost to Kai, will allow the students to be involved…
Over the school holidays, we had the amazing opportunity to attend the Rangatahi Environmental Action Leaders (REAL) programme, a three day experience held at Ōtara marae, Ambury Regional Park, and Manukau Institute of Technology. We learned so much about climate…
O Week on the Great Lawn was the place to be during lunchtime on Tuesday and Thursday, Week 4. This year there were 27 clubs, activities and organisations ākonga could sign up to, and there are many events for ākonga…
