THE YEAR THAT WAS 2016
KURANUI COLLEGE
STAFF 65 STUDENTS 450
We started off the year with the longawaited demolition of B-Block, which had stood since 1959, and ended with the opening of our brand new visual art studios.
Our girls’ football team won the Division 1 grade with no points against them for a second year in a row and senior footballer Emily Morison was awarded Wairarapa Secondary Schools Outstanding Sportswoman of the Year.
PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE GEOFF SHEPHERD
From cultural success on the stage, sporting success on the field to academic success in the classroom, when I look back over 2016 I can see that it has been an incredibly busy but incredibly successful year for the college, the staff and most importantly for our students. The success of our students and the efficient operation of our college is no accident – there are a large number of very committed and caring people who work very hard throughout the year to ensure our students achieve at the highest level and can be the best that they can be. We are always striving to improve our students’ level of achievement and continue to look at new and innovative ways to deliver our programmes of learning. Our involvement in the Kia Eke Panuku professional learning programme contributed to the outstanding 2015 NCEA results, and it continues to increase achievement across all of our year groups. I would like to thank our dedicated staff and the wider community who have supported our students throughout the year.
We received a letter from the Minister of Education, the Honorable Hekia Parata, congratulating us on outstanding NCEA results in 2015 and in particular praising us for the significant lift in the NCEA results for Māori students.
Our girls’ 1st XI Hockey team made the finals of the Rosie O’Brien national hockey tournament and our Junior Boys Basketball won the Wairarapa competition, the Junior Netball team also won the Wairarapa B grade competition, and our 1st and 2nd XI Boys football teams made the finals of their Wairarapa competitions.
Kuranui mathematicians continue to shine and our students were once again crowned Year 10 Matharapa champions and our Year 9 students came second.
This year we awarded joint Dux for 2016 to Rosie Isaacs and Georgia McNeill.
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We won the RAW section at Hawke’s Bay Regional Smokefree Stage Challenge and won the 15-minute piece at the regional Sheilah Winn Shakespeare competition with Jess Buckham and Egan Tearle winning major national Shakespeare awards. Our senior rock band ‘Simplicity’ also represented us at the Wairarapa and Wellington Rockquest competition, picking up the People’s Choice Award.
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