Foundation Running Costs – a Recap

As the Foundation is now well and truly established and our initial set-up grant is now spent, the Foundation’s Trust board has resolved to ask Past Pupils to consider making a voluntary contribution to the Foundation’s ongoing administration costs. An amount of $5 per annum per past pupil would be sufficient to cover running costs […]

2024 Foundation Award recipient

It was wonderful to once again present a Year 13 student with the Linwood Te Aratai Foundation Trust award. This award was established in 2023 by Past Pupil Garth Stevenson. The recipient for 2024 was Brandon Clarenbeek who was also awarded Te Aratai College Dux for 2024. Brandon is off to Canterbury University next year […]

Foundation Spotlight – Simon Thwaites

Simon Thwaites – a man with a passion to help our Kura Simon Thwaites, entrepreneur and owner of Silver Skies has been a Foundation Trustee since our inception in early 2019. He was invited to join the Foundation by Teacher Representative at the time, Richard Jolly. From the minute Simon joined us, he added a […]

Ernie Poole Bequest

Ernie Pool was one of a group of influential staff members at Linwood High School in the late 1950s and 1960s. Poole was a stalwart of the Social Science Department, and a key player in the school’s cadet programme. Poole went on to become the commanding officer of the Nelson, Marlborough West Coast and Canterbury […]