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Garin College hosted Queen Charlotte College for the annual sports exchange on Wednesday this week. Despite the sudden wintery blast that swept through the region earlier in the day, students competed in a full programme of netball, football, rugby sevens, basketball...

Year 12 student Tasmyn Bradley travelled to Auckland to represent Nelson in the Halberg Games. Tasmyn entered 6 disciplines - athletics, boccia, wheelchair basketball, rowing, crossfit and badminton - and had an awesome time competing and making new friends with...

Thank you to Father Seph Pijfers and the parishioners of Our Lady of the Bays Richmond for your support and leadership in organising and preparing the liturgy and luncheon for the Chrism Mass in support of our students, staff and community. We were privileged to host...

  Year 10 Journey week 8 Term 1 at Marahau has again been a wonderful celebration of the great outdoors and our connectedness as a community...

Congratulations to our Senior A girls volleyball team, who competed at the New Zealand Secondary Schools Volleyball Nationals, which were held last week in Palmerston North. The team won eight consecutive games in pool play and playoffs to qualify for the Div 3 final...

The College wairua was alive and celebrated throughout our House Games Day on Tuesday with each of the houses Aubert, McAuley, Barbier and MacKillop vieing for supremacy in friendly yet determined competition. In a rainbow of house colours, the day opened with the...

A team of 16 Garin College athletes competed at the Tasman Secondary Schools Athletics Championships held at Saxton Athletics Field on Tuesday, 16 March. The students participated in a range of track and field events and achieved some outstanding results. Eight...

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...

“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...

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 have...

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...

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...