Tag: Mission Heights Junior College
School pupil delivers stirring Anzac Day speech
An eloquent east Auckland school pupil is among the people who played an important role at this year’s local Anzac Day commemorations.
Year 10 Mission...
Local board dispenses $32k of funding
The Howick Local Board has voted to provide more than $30,000 of funding to community organisations in east Auckland.
At its final business meeting of...
MHJC win Tournament of Minds national final
A group of Mission Heights Junior College (MHJC) pupils have won the annual national Tournament of Minds (TOM) academic competition.
The team consisted of students...
3500 plants go in
Staff, students and community members from Mission Heights Junior College, Mission Heights Primary School and KiNZ Mission Heights showed up at the community planting...
19,000 plants going in
Local school students, staff and community members will be planting more than 19,000 native plants around a bike track to complement the surrounding forest...
Students become weta hotel extraordinaires
Mission Heights Junior College Year 8 students have participated in an innovative STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) project by creating 'weta hotels'.
The STEM...
Junior tag football a hit
The Tag Football Junior South Eastern Tournament at Pulman Park held last week proved another success.
There was an increase in entries from 23 teams...
Hip-swivelling musical fantasy
Refusing to let Covid be a spoilsport, and put a lid on all their plans, Mission Heights Junior College students have been rehearsing their...
Otara Creek restoration: sowing the seeds of a greener future
The rain didn’t stop 380 students from getting their hands dirty to work on the Santa Maria School-Otara Creek restoration.
Students of Sancta Maria Catholic...
Marking the millionth tree milestone with Puriri planting
More than 50 Mission Heights Junior College Year 7 students joined 250 other volunteers at Totara Park last week to support Auckland Mayor Phil...
Scars that will never heal
Anzac Day has been a busy one for Year 8 Mission Heights Junior College (MHJC) student Saniya Lal.
The Flat Bush resident has been selected...
Is the game playing you?
Mission Heights Junior College young filmmakers Farhaan Muhammed, Andrew Ma and Raiyan Khan have won the Auckland Council Film-maker award for their short film...
We are the champions!
This year, Mission Heights Junior College finished 18 points clear of the 2017 Champion School in this year's Education Perfect World Series, emerging victorious...
Being a teenager in the 80s
Bright costumes, big hair and even bigger music with loads of humour and talent... Mission Heights Junior College (MHJC) is set to bring an...
MHJC student best delegate in Singapore
More than 400 delegates from all over the world gathered recently at the Student Leaders Convention at the Hwa Chong Institution in Singapore, of...
Keeping Sir Ed’s legacy alive
Mission Heights Junior College Year 9 Mountains Whanau students commemorated the 65th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary’s historic ascent of Everest by raising funds...
Student-designed robot picks up engineers’ award
A team of Mission Heights Junior College Year 10 students have created Robo-ish, a robot programmed to sense and pick up litter and place...
Local school wins top placings
For the second year running, Mission Heights Junior College (MHJC) has taken two top placings in the world for the 2017 Education Perfect online learning challenge.
This year the school was...