2023 - 2024 education focus

Primary Industry Trade Academy course in New Zealand. We have even our own breed of sheep called the Kaimac.

A Performing Arts academy will run from 2024, after successes this year in the Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival, Talent Wairarapa, the Big Sing and Rockquest.

Our Sports Department offers over 30 sports with our top teams competing at a national level. Our Sports Academy students excel in NCEA and their chosen fields.

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Solway College – Te Kāreti o Manaia

specialised curriculum offers tailored learning programmes and success for each and every student.

Agriculture students benefit from our 30-hectare farm equipped with a shearing shed, olive trees and new cattle yard. We offer the largest Agriculture

Te Kāreti o Wairarapa

Preparing for life with wisdom and courage, kia mātau, kia māia

• Start of year Orientation Programme to welcome new students.

• Diverse curriculum –contextualised junior courses, Te Ao Haka, Sports Academy and new Performing Arts Academy.

Solway College began the year by celebrating outstanding 100% attainment across all NCEA levels, one, two and three. The school continues to epitomise being ‘aspirational in the pursuit of excellence’ and achieving at the highest level, across all areas of its special character and holistic education, which remains at the heart of the school.

Solway College is an inclusive, close-knit,

Christian, family boarding school for girls, where rather than being restricted by a capped roll, instead ensure that every one of the 200 students counts, and all 200 are a unique, important and treasured member of the Solway family. This family of 200 students, both individually and collectively, achieve amazing things. New Zealand national swimming gold medalist Ava Wilson, New Zealand Race Unity Speech Champion Sheryl Chand, Bronze medalist

North Island Secondary Schools Equestrian team, Fourth in the North Island for the junior girls 100m relay team, award winning musicians, and the DanceNZ Made Regional Champions, are just a few of the gifts and talents that shine brightly from within this Solway family. Solway College students are taught to be aspirational, that anything is possible for them, and the school strives to ensure that each student not only achieves, but thrives.

Growing Great Girls

E TIPU ANA WAHINE TOA

Year 7 - 13 boarding and day girl options

• Extensive range of extra-curricular opportunities.

• Innovative onsite school farm

• New building redevelopments.

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Solway College has a lengthy waiting list due to it being recognised both within the Wairarapa and nationally as a top educational choice for young women. Enrolments for the 2024 school year are full, however families wishing their daughters to be part of the Solway success are welcome to join our waitlist, or are encouraged to submit an enrolment now for 2025 and beyond.

Are you looking into intermediate or secondary school options for your daughter for 2025 and beyond?

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