Liturgical dancers leading the opening liturgy Aubert House – Newnham Family Cup for Sports House of the Year Barbier House – Father Bradford Trophy for Overall Winning House Year 9 Ashleigh Baigent – Distinction in Social Studies, Distinction in Maori Eszter Biczok – Establishment Committee Trophy for Spirit of Garin Ashley Booth – Distinction in [...]
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Great South Island kart racing result
Year 9 Garin student Matthew Butchart competed in the Under 17 100cc Yamaha Class at the recent South Island Kart Champs. Matthew has only been involved in the sport for two years and is thrilled with his result. The event involved two time trial qualifying races where he recorded the second fastest time. Drivers then competed in [...]
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Top Technology school in Top of the South
Congratulations to the five Garin technology students who represented Garin in this year’s Science and Technology Fair. Year 12 student Nick Pittar did particularly well winning the top Technology prize – and to coming second overall in the competition. His prizes amounted to $750. Nick’s project was a historical project of the Brook Sanctuary. He worked very hard [...]
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Superb Cycling results
Garin College cyclists rode superbly at the South Island secondary schools two day tour held during the national tournament week. Riders completed a 3km time trial, a Criterium where points were gained on multiple sprint laps, a 1km hill time trial and a scratch race. Our students achieved superb results. Thomas Ashley competing in the [...]
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National success for two students
Congratulations to year 13 students Clenda Wockner and Roman Birch who were this week informed that they had won two different national competitions in the arts arena. Clenda is a photographer in the top-of-the-south’s Wild Tomato magazine and won the national Stage Challenge award for best photographer of costume – and Roman is one of [...]
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School proud of excellent NCEA results
Staff and students were very pleased with last year’s NCEA results, and we are doubly pleased to see that Garin College is the top academic school in our region. Congratulations and thanks to students, staff and families for your hard work last year making that happen. And great to see our boys and our girls both [...]
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Find out about enrolling at Garin
In term 3, year 8 students and their families can find out how to enrol at Garin College for 2010. Many families make an appointment to sit down with Head Teacher John Boyce to discuss the school. Many families without a Catholic connection need to know how to enrol a child as one of the [...]
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Mahi Toi concert
As term 2 came to a close, the excitement levels at Garin College increased with the anticipation and arrival of the school’s annual arts festival, Te Wairua o nga Mahi Toi (the Spirit of Creation in the Arts). In its eighth year, the Mahi Toi gives students two days of performance and viewing a wide [...]
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A week of musical successes
It has been a week of success and recognision for three of our musicians. Year 12 violinist Nick Pittar, has just been named as a member of the New Zealand Secondary Schools Symphony Orchestra. He also won first place in the Nelson School of Music Scholarships in the Phyllis Fell open category playing Mozart concerto [...]
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Excellent report on Garin’s Special Character
At the end of term 1, current Principal Mary Cook and former Principal Collene Roche spent three days in the school looking at the Catholic nature of Garin, and the quality of our RE programme. We take being a Catholic school very seriously – and our staff and Board were proud of what they found [...]
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