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Twilight Notes 2021

It was a wonderful feeling Wednesday night to be able to open up the Amphitheatre and once again share some amazing musical performances by Garin Students with our community. In true Garin spirit, students volunteered to help setup, work the sound desk and even cook...

Year 11 Journey Camp – Student Voice

“We reached Canaan Downs to find out we have no reception. You must be wondering how could a group of teenagers survive?!! We decided to get as distracted as we could with the beautiful surroundings around us. So after we set up our tents where we would sleep for the...

Colours Awards Assembly

Our Annual Colours Awards Assembly celebrates the success of our students from 2020 in Level 1,2,3 NCEA who gained Maroon Colours and Gold Endorsed colours for their outstanding academic achievement. Congratulations to all students gaining this achievement – you...

From the Sports Desk:

Year 13 student Abbey Smale represented Garin in the South Island Makos Secondary Schools Open Water Swimming Championships held at Akaroa on 20 February. The 5km swim was also part of the New Zealand Open Water series, which Abbey currently leads. Abbey had an...

Yr9 Journey Camp

This week we held our Year 9 Journey “Base Camp” at Whenua Iti Outdoors. For our year 9 new entrant students this was an exciting and challenging outdoors experience. Raft building, kayaking, high ropes, and trapeze. It was blended with exploration of faith through...