Waimea College is a co-educational secondary school in
Richmond,
Tasman District, New Zealand. With a growing roll of 1500+ students from year groups 9–13, Waimea College is equipped with a park-like campus and numerous facilities.
History
Waimea College was established in 1957.
House system
Students of Waimea College are split into four houses named after four famous New Zealanders; they are Rutherford (Green), named after
Ernest Rutherford; Sheppard (Blue), named after
Kate Sheppard
Katherine Wilson Sheppard ( Catherine Wilson Malcolm; 10 March 1848 – 13 July 1934) was the most prominent member of the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand and the country's most famous suffragist. Born in Liverpool, England, she emi ...
; Hillary (Yellow), named after
Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineering, mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropy, philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa people, Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became th ...
; and Cooper (Red), named after
Whina Cooper
Dame Whina Cooper (9 December 1895 – 26 March 1994) was a respected ( Māori elder), who worked for many years for the rights of her people, and particularly to improve the lot of Māori women. She is remembered for leading the 1975 Māori ...
. Students are involved in various 'House competitions' throughout the year including the annual 'House Sports Day' event, in which students take part in a range of activities throughout the day in order to win points for their House as well as 'House Song', a competition involving each House performing a vocal presentation which is judged and awarded points. At the end of the school year, House points are tallied and the winning House gains the prize of 'House Shield'.
Notable staff
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Harold Nelson, athlete
Notable alumni
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George Bennett, cyclist
*Sir
Paul Beresford
Sir Alexander Paul Beresford (born 6 April 1946) is a British-New Zealand dentist and politician who has served as the British Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Mole Valley in Surrey since the 1997 general election. He was firs ...
, British politician
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Mike Coman
Mike may refer to:
Animals
* Mike (cat), cat and guardian of the British Museum
* Mike the Headless Chicken, chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off
* Mike (chimpanzee), a chimpanzee featured in several books and document ...
, rugby union player
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Craig De Goldi, rugby union player
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Rod Dixon, athlete
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Mark Douglas, cricketer
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Roger Kerr
Roger Lawrence Kerr (17 January 1945 – 28 October 2011), a public policy and business leader, was the executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, a free-market think-tank based in Wellington, New Zealand.
Early life
Kerr gre ...
, businessman
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Annette King
Dame Annette Faye King (née Robinson, born 13 September 1947) is a former New Zealand politician. She served as Deputy Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party and Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 2008 to 2011, and from 2014 until 1 March 2 ...
, politician
*Dame
Suzie Moncrieff, founder of the World of Wearable Art show
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Sharon O'Neill
Sharon Lea O'Neill (born 23 November 1952) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and pianist, who had an Australasian hit single in 1983 with " Maxine" which reached No. 16 on both the Australian Kent Music Report and Recording Industry Association ...
, singer–songwriter
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Anita Punt, field hockey player
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Jason Richards
Jason John Richards (10 April 1976 – 15 December 2011) was a New Zealand motor racing driver. A multiple championship winning driver in his homeland in the New Zealand Touring Car Championship, he moved to Australia to pursue a career in the ...
, motor-racing driver
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Kelsey Smith, field hockey player
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Rachel Sutherland, field hockey player
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David Teece
David John Teece (born September 2, 1948) is a New Zealand-born US-based organizational economist and the Professor in Global Business and director of the Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital at the Walter A. Haas School of B ...
, economist and entrepreneur
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Ken Wadsworth, cricketer
References
External links
Official website
Educational institutions established in 1957
Schools in the Tasman District
Secondary schools in New Zealand
1957 establishments in New Zealand
Richmond, New Zealand
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