Hawera High School

Hāwera High School
Location
13 Camberwell Road, Hāwera New Zealand
Coordinates	39.5853°S 174.2744°E / -39.5853; 174.2744
Information
Type	State co-educational secondary, years 9–13
Motto	Infirmioribus Succurrendo Fortior, Strength Through Service, Kia Kaha Te Awhina
Opened	1919
Principal	Rachel Williams[1]
School roll	[2] (August 2024)
Socio-economic decile	5M[3]

Hāwera High School was a secondary school in the New Zealand town of Hāwera, which operated from 1901 until 2022.

History

The school's history began as a primary school in 1875, which was reformed as a district high school in 1901. In 1919, the school was again changed, this time as a technical school, with an opening roll of 180 students. The school moved from its original site in Princes Street to a new base in Camberwell Road two years later. The school had a roll of around 400 by the outbreak of World War II. The roll continued to grow in the post-war years, reaching a peak of over 1000 in the early 1970s.^[4] The current roll sits between 720 and 750 students.

In late 2021, it was announced that Hāwera High School and Hāwera Intermediate would close, and a new, Years 7–13, school would open in 2023.^[5] The new school was named Te Paepae o Aotea, a name gifted by local iwi Ngāti Ruanui and Ngāruahine.^[6]

Notable students

Main category: People educated at Hawera High School

• Aroha Awarau, playwright and journalist
• Michael Bent (born 1986), Rugby Union Player, International Rugby Player for Ireland
• Ian Clarke (1931–1997), All Black and rugby administrator
• Enid Evans (1914–2011), chief librarian at the Auckland War Memorial Museum Library
• Issac Luke (born 1987), rugby league player
• Ronald Hugh Morrieson (1922–1972), author
• Margaret Nielsen (1933–2023), pianist and music teacher
• William Sheat (1899–1982), member of parliament^[7]
• Hiwi Tauroa (1927–2018), rugby union player and Race Relations Conciliator
• Lene Westgaard-Halle (born 1979), politician, member of the Norwegian Parliament
• Adine Wilson (née Harper, born 1979), Silver Fern

References

1. Matthews, Jane (7 November 2017). "Hāwera High School's new principal makes history".
2. "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
3. "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Archived from the original on 24 January 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
4. School history, Hawera High School official website
5. "Hāwera". Education in New Zealand. 9 November 2021. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
6. "New school: Te Paepae o Aotea open evenings help to keep community informed". Stratford Press. The New Zealand Herald. 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
7. Traue, James Edward (1978). Who's Who in New Zealand, 1978 (11th ed.). Wellington: Reed Publishing. p. 246.