A full-time mother of two pupils at Wakatipu High School joins its board of trustees for the first time as the whanau representative. Sheree Horomona tells James Beech mixing age groups in classrooms seems to be working well and urges residents to be part of the board's consultation process.
Jeremy Bell, the student representative on the Wakatipu High School board of trustees, believes pupils need to achieve greater academic excellence than before if they want a place at university. James Beech talks to the Year 13 pupil.
Macalister Todd Phillips partner and barrister Dale Lloyd joins the Wakatipu High School board as one of the new parent trustees. James Beech talks to the mother of three.
Queenstown Medical Centre doctor Kathryn Smith is one of the new parent trustees on the board of Wakatipu High School.
Queenstown Lakes district councillor Vanessa van Uden was the only trustee to be re-elected to the new Wakatipu High School board last month. The first person to officially announce her candidacy for the Queenstown Lakes mayoralty, Ms van Uden has 14- and 15-year-old daughters at the school. In the third part of a 10-part series, Ms van Uden talks to James Beech.
In the second in our series of interviews with the new board of trustees at Wakatipu High School, golf course designer and former golf professional Greg Turner says mixed age groups in classrooms recognises that youths develop emotionally, physically and intellectually at different rates. James Beech talks to the man who will present the board's new communications strategy during their second monthly meeting today.
