Awakeri School

 

We are Awakeri School in the Bay of Plenty of New Zealand. We are 12km south-west from Whakatane. This map shows the North Island of New Zealand.

Our school has about 350 students aged from 5 to 13 years.

We are in the little community of Awakeri. Awakeri is a farming community also with lots of fruit growers and other horticulture. A lot of people have only heard of the Awakeri Hot Springs but Awakeri is a lot more than that. The village consists of a petrol station, dairy, takeaways, and liquor store. It also has an Events Centre, which has a gymnasium, lounge and a kitchen/ bar.

Awakeri is in a small community but still holds many events. Such as, Top School held every year with all the schools in the area competing. Our school also has it own calf club and has held the group day. One other thing that not many other schools do, we have a musical production every year. For example we have done: Joseph and the Technicolour Dream coat, Florence, Peter Pan, Elvis and Windust........

Students have many sports to choose from. The school is strong in soccer (120 out of 350 play soccer) and hockey. The school also has netball and cricket teams, but no rugby teams at the moment! We are good at crosscountry running, touch rugby, swimming and triathlons.

We have buses running around the community to get the kids who live around the School. There are 2 bus runs: White Pine Bush, Station Road, Macdonalds Road and Angle/ Putiki. Our senior students are bus monitors. They look after the little kids on the bus.

 

Over all, our school is really exciting so welcome to our website!

For lots more information about our school, e.g. our Charter, School Fees, Bus Runs, Enrolment Zone etc Click here.