Heretaunga College
| Heretaunga College | |
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| Location | |
| Ward Street, Upper Hutt, New Zealand |
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| Coordinates | 41°07′44″S 175°03′18″E / 41.129°S 175.055°ECoordinates: 41°07′44″S 175°03′18″E / 41.129°S 175.055°E |
| Information | |
| Type | State co-educational High School |
| Motto | Kia Hiwa Ra |
| Established | 1954 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 251 |
| Principal | Bruce Hart |
| School roll | 788 |
| Socio-economic decile | 6[1] |
| Website | heretaunga.school.nz |
Heretaunga College is a secondary school located in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. It is co-educational and has approximately 800 students from Year 9 (3rd form) through to Year 13 (7th Form).
The college grounds are a large area with primary access via Ward Street (which runs North-West to South-East) and secondary access via Blockhouse Lane and Fortune Lane. The adjacent Blockhouse is a 1860's relic of the New Zealand land wars (although it never saw action), which is currently managed by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. The adjacent Fortune Lane was one of the first residential areas in Upper Hutt, but no original buildings remain.
A long-running proposal to merge Heretaunga College with nearby Upper Hutt College and their feeder schools Fergusson Intermediate and Maidstone Intermediate which had led to a moratorium on buildings maintenance collapsed in 2007.[2] The only nearby secondary school not included in the proposal was St. Patrick's College, Silverstream.
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[edit] Classes
Heretaunga offers a broad range of classes and subjects throughout all year levels. Facilities include a new art suite and technical block along with four specialist computer labs. The College also has an English Language Centre, and there is a comprehensive English as a second language programme available.
[edit] Notable people associated with Heretaunga College
[edit] Alumni
- Cory Jane - Rugby Union Player, (Wellington Lions, Hurricanes, All Blacks)
- David Rennie - Professional Rugby Coach
- Wayne Mason - band member, The Fourmyula
- Ganesh Nana - economist
- Frankie Stevens - singer
- Jon Stevens - singer, band member INXS, Noiseworks
[edit] Staff
- Sydney Walter Josland - bacteriologist
- Julie Seymour - Silver Fern netball player
[edit] Notes
- ^ Decile change 2007 to 2008 for state & state integrated schools
- ^ "Plans for 3000-pupil school scrapped". stuff.co.nz. 2011 [last update]. http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/archive/national-news/15336. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
