Term 4 Alternative Programme

14 Nov

While our domestic students are studying for their NCEA exams our international students have a fun-filled 4 week programme during Term 4. Here’s an overview of the 2024 programme.

Grete, Clara, Richard and Hannah from Germany enjoyed a programme that focussed on manaakitanga and kaitiakitanga so some activities have a volunteer focus. The students have been doing some gardening around school, volunteering at Riding for the Disabled and participated in a beach clean up at Mananui.

They have also had the opportunity to go to Shantytown Heritage Park and enjoy gold panning, a train ride, and dressing up in old-time clothes. They learned about the early European settlers and gold mining and what life was like in the early days.

We visited the O’Reilly farm and fed the calves, moved some stock and learned about dairy farming on the West Coast.

Mr Waller took them for a session of maku making and Mr Talbot has included them in his Middle school outdoor education programme. They have been creating tote bags with Mrs Reeves, tye-dying with Ms Collins and practising their English writing skills with Mrs O’Malley.

We also had a wonderful 3 days in Okarito learning about conservation and sustainable tourism, toasting marshmellows and taking a boat trip on the Okarito lagoon.

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