By John | February 8, 2013
In the first of a series of parent forums to be held over this year supporting our BYOD initiative, parents, teachers and students met last night in the library to hear a presentation by leading New Zealand expert John Parsons on the subject of Internet Safety. John delivered a hard-punching and perceptive presentation of the [...]
By John | November 15, 2012
On Friday 9 November 110 year 8 students came in to the College for a day of testing, fun, and introductions. After school they had their enrolment interviews and most parents stayed on for dinner and their first Garin meeting. At that meeting Head Teacher John Boyce talked about BYOD and Garin – but his big message [...]
By John | September 10, 2012
Father David’s homily given at the Requiem mass of Emmet Cleary 10 September 2012 We humans are emotional beings and I know that many of us have a mixture of painful emotions as we have gathered here for Emmet’s requiem mass. Sadness, of course. Grief as well. But also perhaps anger; perhaps also feelings of [...]
Huge turnout for Open Day! This year we recorded the largest number of prospective students and their families attending Open Day at Garin College with a view to seeing the school in operation and listening to some of our students talk about their experiences here. We started off with a welcome lunch, listened to our [...]
At Garin’s July Board meeting, we decided that we will expect year 9 students coming in 2013 to bring a computer to school from their first day. This page is to help families work out what that will mean. Parent Forum 1. Values based Internet Safety Protocols at Parent Forum In the first of a [...]
On Tuesday the 15th of May Garin College participated in the 20th Stage Challenge event. It was a first for Garin, quite literally, as we finally took out the coveted golden CD. The tremendous effort; the epic enthusiasm that the team had upheld since early in Term 1 paid off. Garin faced tough competition in [...]
Benedict with the Governor General Lt Gen Rt Hon Sir Jerry Mateparae and the Minister of Education Hon. Hekia Parata – and with his parents and Head Teacher John Boyce, after he was presented with an award for gaining four outstanding Scholarships in Chemistry, Mathematics with Calculus, Physics and Statistics with Modelling.
On Monday 30 April 2012 The Peasants performed at Parliament for the official start of this year’s SmokeFree Rockquest! And our very own Head of Music Kyle Proffit spoke, sharing his insights and support for the event. Mr Proffit’s speech was published in the Garin newsletter. The Peasants did themselves proud with yet another excellent [...]
In March 2012, Garin’s Kapa Haka group, comprising of 26 students, participated in their very first performance in front of a crowd at the Kete Taonga event hosted by Waimea College. Despite being new to kapa haka, the students really stepped up to pull off a truly awesome performance (which they get NCEA credits for!) [...]
Peasants Single – Letting Go Listen to the Peasant’s latest single – Letting Go