Investing in Māori boarding schools will help grow New Zealand’s future leaders, Minister for Māori Development Willie Jackson announced today. Budget 2021 invested $20 million over two years to build the next generation of Māori leaders to enable .
Two Government Ministers paid a special visit to Hukarere Girls' College today. Pictured are (from left) Deputy Head Girl Delta Huata; Minister and MP for Ikaroa-Rāwhiti Meka Whaitiri; Head Girl Josene Brown; Hukarere Girls' College Tumuaki Shona West; .
Hukarere Girls’ College student wins national award for portrayal of Nana’s Alzheimers battle 31 May 2021 15:15 PM Year 12 Hukarere Girls College student Lenaine Merrylees-Clarke.
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Media Release 31/05/2021
A young Hukarere Girls’ College student’s portrayal of her nana’s battle with Alzheimers disease has earned her a national accolade.
Lenaine Merrylees-Clarke, who is in year 12, won the Editor’s Choice Award in this year’s Write Off Line: Not There but Somewhere Young NZ Writers Secondary School Annual Writing Competition for her prose Forget-Me-Not.
While she says she gave it her all, she did not think she would receive an accolade given she had never entered any sort of writing competition previously. But seeing her name on the competition’s website was a humbling experience.