Following a term of practice sessions and training, our Year 9 and 10 Mathex teams attended the inter-school competition on Wednesday the 24th of August. Teams were given thirty minutes to answer twenty mathematical problem-solving questions. Over 100 teams competed in the event, and Year...
Meeting Elizabeth Eckford, one of the 1957 Little Rock Nine Last week, Year 11 History students travelled to James Cook High School to listen to Elizabeth Eckford talk about her experiences as a prominent historical figure in the Black Civil Rights Movement in America. We were...
This week, renowned historian, Vincent O’Malley, spoke to 75 senior students about the New Zealand Wars. Dr O’Malley has written extensively on this subject and was able to bring a wealth of knowledge to his presentation. His argument is that the New Zealand Wars and their...
Year 10 Technology students have been learning to design, build and program robots with some of the features of driverless cars. They have also created a road in the shape of a figure of eight to test their vehicles. The robots use sonars to measure...
This year’s Classics Day at Auckland University on 12th June was fantastic. Our Year 13 Classical Studies students learned a little bit of ancient Greek, quite a lot of Latin and definitely heaps about the topics we’re studying for end of year exams. We discovered...
When Isabella Jay played the Play Your Best Card game in Health Education class, and then provided her feedback about this experience in a survey, little did she realise that she would win a prize. 103 teens participated in the survey across New Zealand and each...
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...
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