Stories

This is the total number of hours completed by our Students in the Community in 2020. It has been an odd year - one that we will not forget. For our year 13 students to still complete over three thousand hours is an incredible achievement! We have had students in so...

It's just awesome when we receive feedback on what a great job our SIC crew are doing out in the community! Thank you Siena, Kiera and Laura for helping to sort out donations for the Wanaka food bank. The COVID-19 pandemic has meant difficult times for many in our...

Tamatha Paul was a student herself five years ago - here on her Facebook post she's got some wise words about making a difference: Link to her Facebook page here

Great to see more students turning up to make more beeswax wraps with Plastic Free Wanaka in Hawea last night. Thank you all for your time!

Here's Joel Suddaby teaching algebra to a group of Year 9s. Student tutoring has been a massive part of SIC this year, thanks to the needs and opportunities in response to the COVID19 pandemic, and it's been so impressive how students have responded to this.

Cece and Jaydon went over to Wanaka Primary School this week, to work out their plans for volunteering next term. Cece is going to be working with some young dancers and Jaydon with a group who are building a bird feeder. This is part of the plan to help these Year 6...

Acasia, Izzie, Julie, Ana and Ella took volunteering into their own hands when they headed out for a rubbish pick-up session this week - sometimes it's these small and significant efforts that make our community a better place.

Accolades for our volunteers from the Plastic Free Wanaka team... Thank you so much for your amazing students at last nights bee! They were helpful, assertive and brought great energy to the evenings activities.  We were so grateful to have the extra support, and...

Here are Lukas Schafer and Michael Gealogo with the football teams that they have been coaching each week for the 2020 football season. They've been happy to get back into this after lockdown. Michael noticed that, "After several weeks of quarantine, ... all the kids...

Annika Gibson and Emily Heath went trapping last weekend as volunteers. Annika writes, "Going trapping in Makarora is definitely something I would do again. The whole time we were out there, I didn’t feel like I was volunteering at all. It was so much fun and very...