Our technology department is split across two sites. On our Aldwins site we cater for our Year 7-13 high school students. In addition to this, we also have another team catering for schools who don't have specialist technology classes in their own kura, so they are bused to our Avonside Drive team for 1.5 hours every week of the year for specialist technology learning.

Year 10

Year 11

Year 12

In addition to having technology on our High School campus, we also have Technology at our old site on Avonside Drive. There are 23 partnership schools who are bused to us each week for specialist technology classes in Food, Fabrics, Digital Technologies, Robotics, Makerspace, Hard Materials and Product Design. Each term students experience a different curriculum area.

Below are some of the awesome things they have made or learned about at tech.

In August our students helped to design and decorate Elmer, our elephant (along the same lines as the penguins and giraffes you see around). 

All subjects participated; one group spray painted him, the Hard Materials class made shoes, Fabrics sewed a beautiful blanket and made the tail, Food made a recipe book of things elephants might like to eat and Makerspace made badges on his trunk and head, representing all the things we do at our Tech Centre. 

The end result was something quite beautiful. It has now been donated to the community to go on display. Keep an eye out for our technology Elmer.

Food

Makerspace

Fabrics

This year the course for Environmental Design in Year 8, continued to explore environmental issues which are current and relevant to our local and global environment.  The philosophy of the course is quite simply "Poipoia te kakano kia puawai" - nurture the seed and it will blossom (he whakatauki). 

Product Design

Robotics

2023 has been a positive year, with our young learners lapping up their introduction to robotics, coding and computational thinking in Robotics.

This year we have added the new Lego Spike kits into the mix, along with the older yet still very good Lego EV3 kits. The Spike kits offer learners a chance to use the widely used Scratch like code which Lego has called Word Blocks.

Students got stuck in building their battle-bots, line-following robots and even a break-dancing robot to name a few, learning the process of building, programming and testing their robotic creations.

Hard Materials

Digital Technologies

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