On Monday 21st October, Year 13 Zoe McCalman became Pakuranga College's Principal for a day. Swapping places with Mr Michael Williams, she carried out his duties while he attended her classes. It was a busy schedule which included addressing the staff at morning briefing, conducting the...
For those of us in what is politely called our 'middle years', the 9/11 terrorist attacks are a surreal memory. Every one of us can remember where we were when we first heard the news. For today's young people, however, these events are the stuff of...
Year 13 student, Sarisha Claassen is Head of the school's Digital Leadership Council and a member of the Netsafe Youth Action Squad. She's been doing such a great job that Netsafe has asked her to take on an exciting new role! We asked her to...
The Head Prefects from East Auckland schools: Pakuranga College, Howick College, Macleans College, Edgewater College, St Kentigern College, Sancta Maria College, Ormiston Senior College, Botany Downs Secondary College and Elim Christian College, along with members from the Howick Youth Council, have been meeting since Term...
Hello, I’m Sarisha Claassen. As a Netsafe Youth Ambassador, I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to travel to Sydney during the school holidays to visit the Facebook Headquarters. When we were over there we took part in a ‘Safety by Design, Design Jam’ with...
On 18th of June we hosted a meeting of Head Students and Prefects from a number of East Auckland high schools. We were organising a concert that we plan to hold at Elim and our aim was to collaborate on ideas and organise our roles...
The student Safe School Council’s aim is to strive to create an environment in the school community where all students feel safe and understood. We started off the school year with a challenging task: to create selfie boards based on our school anti-bullying motto, “Stand...
On 21st March, nine members of the student group INTERACT attended the World Vision Youth Conference. It was a huge privilege as INTERACT executives to be invited to attend the World Vision Leadership Conference. It was a day of listening, learning and sharing our opinions.When we...
Please join us in congratulating those students who have been selected as our House Captains for 2019! Rimu Tayla Webb Pohutukawa Jaskirat Kaur Nikau Mary Hislop Totara Rishi Kasireddy Matai Martin Qiang Kauri Tanya Mehta ...
On Friday 8th March, I was lucky enough to be invited to an event at the Auckland Government house to celebrate International Women's Day. I was surrounded by some of the most influential people in New Zealand including Dame Denise L'Estrange-Corbet, our very own Ms. Jacobsen,...
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