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Underwater Hockey Gold for Howick College

Howick College Underwater Hockey player have excelled while representing New Zealand at the under-age World Championships in Sheffield, UK recently. Heath Galloway (Y13), Tim Bavelaar (Y12)...

Students stand up against discrimination

By Farida Master He was shell-shocked as bullets whizzed past him and killed people. A 12-year-old was screaming saying ‘my dad is dying’. There was...

Rat expert visits restoration project

It’s not often a world-renowned expert in pest management, specialising in rats, visits a local school. That’s exactly what happened last week when New York-based...

School gets behind Lion King show

Lion King Jr was a Howick Intermediate School musical production that involved all 484 students. Year 8 student Annabelle Harrison writes about the exciting...

Book opens up on struggles of refugee children

Refugees are vulnerable. Unlike immigrants they are “forcibly displaced” to another country, says Millard Rashidi, A Year 13 student at Ormiston Senior College. Millard arrived...

Ashton finds place in Geneva

When Saint Kentigern College year 13 student and aspiring actor Sam Ashton stumbled online across a young artist programme in Geneva, Switzerland, run by...

Collective offer for primary school principals

  In view of the primary and intermediate school principals threatening to go on strike with regards to better working conditions and pay parity with...

United in shaving for a cure

Harris Road-based steel Company out to better last year’s massive fundraising achievement Local company United Steel and its parent group United Industries (UIL) are once...

South and East Auckland Science Fair ignites young minds

Budding young scientists are set to show off their projects at the South and East Auckland Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Fair this...

Owairoa Primary celebrates International Day

We are the world, that’s what it felt like as we walked into the gates of Owairoa Primary School on Friday morning. Over 900 students...

Young mum shares birthday treats with school kids

Students of Riverina School were treated to sandwiches, apples, bananas, chips and cookies last week. It was Howick resident Ferzeen Dadabhoy’s birthday and the young...

Travel to deep space and Mars

Local teacher Subash Chandar couldn’t believe his luck when he was told that he was selected to be the commander for a Mission to...

Culture Night another hit

Pakuranga College hosted its annual celebration of cultural diversity in a colourful explosion of music and dance on Thursday July 25. As one of...

28 schools to put on their dancing shoes

The Howick and Pakuranga Dance Festival is being held once again this year at Somerville Intermediate from August 5-8 at 6.30pm. The first two days...

All connected in the circle of life

For those of you who would like to see the African savanna come to life on stage with Simba, Rafiki and an unforgettable cast...
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