Peer Support is all about shaping great people and building on the strengths that many of our students already have to develop their leadership skills. We have had a full on past 2 days learning about communication, cooperation, self-awareness, peer-pressure and other interpersonal skills. At the end of the programme 48 students will be selected…
These brave men of Aquinas took on the facial itch, endured the tickle and ignored the sniggers for the entire month of November (Movember). The brief was simple: ‘whatever style you grow could save a bro!’ and their effort resulted in a wonderful donation of $800 to the Mens Health NZ cause. Mr Peter Braid…
Year 13 Business team ‘Akau’ has just been awarded BOP Regional Champions for the Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) Competition 2020!! Congratulations to team members Anmoldeep Khakh, Bella Manketlow, Amber Trusler and Nicole Harper who will represent Aquinas College and the Bay of Plenty region at the National Yes finals in Wellington on December 10. The…
AWARDS Congratulations to all our prize winners at our Senior Prizegiving this year. Particular commendations go to premier award winners Janelle Dawber-Mair who was the Proxime Accessit, Bridget Simpson who received the College Touchstones Award and Elise Oxenham who was named as the Dux for 2020 with an incredible grade point average of 99.4 over…
Year 10 Humanities Hāngi On Friday 23 November, the Year 10 Humanities class held the second annual Humanities Hangi. On this day, Social Studies students made fry bread, participated in flax weaving and learning about the Hāngi process. The amount of preparation and quality of the food and its presentation was a real credit to the…
Our Pasifika Whānau have recently worked together with Mr Dalton to provide a senior award for prizegiving. The award was deservedly received by Trevel Gardiner Hano for his contribution to Leadership and Service as a Pasifika senior student. Trevel was chosen as a student Executive member as the Hine Pore House Leader and also Pasifika Leader…
School Community Garden A Year 12 Hard Technology project of designing and building a Community Garden has now been completed with the final compost bins constructed and in place. The planter boxes have all been built with an irrigation system installed and the garden will be maintained by the Science departments and volunteers. In the…
Year 13 Retreat Year 13 Overnight Retreat was held at Tui Ridge Park over the first two days of Term Four. Students reflected on the theme of ‘Living Life to the Full’ by reflecting on their journey through Aquinas College in preparation for their future beyond our gates. It was a special time for the…
An all-school Mass was held at the College combining All Saints and All Souls feast days. This was also a wonderful opportunity to join with four Aquinas students as they made their second and third Sacraments of Initiation – Confirmation and Communion (Eucharist). Father Philip celebrated this milestone in the lives of Ruby, Piper, Stephanie…
Senior students, staff and members of our Aquinas community witnessed the unveiling of the newly restored Rostenburg stained-glass window at the end of September at a special blessing service. The window depicts a life-size image of St Thomas Aquinas. The window had been gifted to the College by Our Lady of Kapiti Parish last year….
