Howick College

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Howick College
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Address
Howick College
Sandspit Road
Cockle Bay
Auckland 2014
New Zealand
Coordinates 36°54′26″S174°56′20″E / 36.9071°S 174.9389°E / -36.9071; 174.9389
Information
Funding type State
MottoInspiring a community of passionate learners. Whakamanawahia tētehi hapori o ngā ākonga hihiri [1]
Established1974
Ministry of Education Institution no. 87
PrincipalDale Burden
Years offered9–13
Gender Co-educational
School roll2111 [2] (April 2023)
Socio-economic decile8Pv [3]
Website www.howickcollege.school.nz

Howick College is a state co-educational secondary school located in the eastern Auckland, New Zealand suburb of Cockle Bay. Serving Years 9 to 13, the school has a roll of 2111 students as of April 2023. [2]

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History

Howick College was established in 1974 to serve the Howick area of eastern Auckland. [4] The school was built to the "S68" design, characterised by single-storey classroom blocks with reinforced masonry walls, low-pitched roofs, internal open courtyards and protruding clerestory windows. [5]

The school abolished corporal punishment of students before it even opened, becoming one of the first schools in New Zealand to do so. Corporal punishment was abolished nationwide sixteen years later, in July 1990. [6]

Enrolment

At the August 2012 Education Review Office (ERO) review of the school, Howick College had 1806 students enrolled, including 48 international students. The school roll's gender composition was 52% male and 48% female; and its ethnic composition was 47% European New Zealanders (Pākehā), 14% Other European, 13% Māori, 8% Asian, 5% Pasifika, 6% Indian, and 6% Other. [7]

House system

Howick College has six school houses: [8]

BacotNamed after John Thomas Watson Bacot, a surgeon who came out to the Howick area with the Fencibles.
BellNamed after the building Bell House situated at the Howick Colonial Village.
InghamNamed after the first principal of Howick College, Mr Don Ingham.
IrvineNamed after one of the early English settlers, Captain John Irvine.
MacDonaldNamed after Captain Alexander MacDonald, who was voted into the position of Warden of Howick.
MinervaNamed after the one of the first ship "Minerva" which transported the first settlers and Fencibles to Howick in 1847.

Principals

Notable alumni

Cultural references

In the bro'Town première episode "The Weakest Link" (2004), one of the schools competing in the high school quiz challenge is named "Howick Beijing College", a reference to the Howick area's large Chinese migrant population. [18]

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  3. ↑ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
  4. ↑ "Howick College Charter 2013–15" (PDF). Howick College Board of Trustees. Retrieved 28 August 2013.[ permanent dead link ]
  5. ↑ "Catalogue of Standard School Building Types" (PDF). Christchurch: Ministry of Education. August 2013. pp. 43–46.
  6. ↑ "College votes to ban corporal punishment". Howick and Pakuranga Times. 19 October 1987. Archived from the original on 20 June 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
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