On 15 May, we took Year 11 and 12 Chinese language students on a Chinese culture and food experience as part of the senior Chinese language programme. It was a great opportunity for the students to practise their language skills and gain new culture experience,...
On Monday May 13th, all of our Level 3 Business Students visited the AUT South Campus to present their business pitches to the Young Enterprise Dragons' Den judges. Over the past term we have been developing a product or service and planning how it will work,...
On 10th of April, sixteen Year 12 & 13 Pakuranga College students along with three teachers travelled to Japan. We were there for 16 amazing days, 9 of those were travelling around Japan - visiting, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima and Miyajima, seeing the modern and...
During Term 1, as part of a leadership unit, our Year 13 PEO classes spent two days sailing on the Lion NZ. This is a yacht formerly skippered by Sir Peter Blake in the Round the World yacht race and is now under the ownership...
On 2nd May, a group of 60 Year 11 History students ventured off to Eden Park to visit the Nelson Mandela exhibition, as part of our study on apartheid in South Africa. We were able to get a firm grasp on the iconic leader’s life and...
On April 3rd the Level 3 Earth & Space Science classes ventured out on their annual geology field trip. Their mission: to conquer three Auckland volcanoes in order to gather data for their geological dating achievement standard. They were sighted scaling Te Kopuke / Mt...
Special thanks to Jayda O’Shea from 1885, who came in to talk to our Year 11 Catering & Hospitality students this week. The students are currently working on their mocktail unit, so Jayda was able to demonstrate for them four different types of mocktail: stirred, shaken,...
On Thursday 4th April Year 11 Food Technology students visited luxury ice cream producers, Giapo. The students were very excited about the trip. They are currently studying a learning unit based on frozen treats and are developing concepts to meet their stakeholders' needs. During their visit...
Since leaving Pakuranga College at the end of 2017, I have been studying a Conjoint Bachelor of Arts and Science Degree at the University of Auckland. Majoring in Ancient History, Geography and Anthropology, I have enjoyed continuing with the subjects that interested me most in...
On 8th, 18th and 22nd of March 2019, 11 Level 1 Science classes and 1 Year 10 extension class visited Ambury Regional Park. The aim for this trip was for the students to observe selective breeding in cattle and sheep, which will help them when...
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