Goal setting and Career Planning This week parents may have heard their son or daughter talking about their skills and their learning goals or chatting about their future career ideas. Whanau time on Tuesday and Thursday mornings for the next four weeks is devoted to all students completing a Career and Learning Plan. At home [...]
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Almost … for O’Shea Shield team
Garin’s O’Shea team performed very well indeed last weekend, competing in speech, drama, debating and scholarship against the other 16 Catholic secondary schools in the Wellington and Palmerston North dioceses. They finished four points behind the winning school: St Patrick’s College from Kilbirnie. The seven events are each marked out of six and Garin accumulated [...]
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Award for New Zealand Sign Language
Garin College has been awarded the South Island Award for making New Zealand Sign Language available in the school. Mary McEntyre, the teacher responsible for our special needs students, received the award on behalf of the College, presented as an acknowledgement of the fact that students receive lessons in using NZSL and also to recognise [...]
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Craig Lautenslager takes South Island Athletics title
Craig Lautenslager once again has achieved fantastic results winning first place in the South Island Secondary Schools U16 3000m race in Invercargill last weekend. Craig’s achievement now ranks him amongst the best in the country and is the result of much hard work and natural talent. He displayed much guile to outwit his competitors in [...]
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College commemorates Asher Clayton’s anniversary
Thursday 7 May was the first anniversary of Asher Clayton’s death. Family, friends and teachers remembered him in a special liturgy, and a Golden Ash tree was planted to remind us of the blessings he brought us. Prayer of remembrance for Asher As Christian people we know that death is longer than life. It is our hope [...]
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