Opened in 1963 at 106 Moohan Street. Merged with Parkway College (which opened in 1972) to form Wainuiomata High School in 2002 moving to Parkway. The old site was abandoned and in 2005 used as a filming location. Much of the old school was destroyed in an arson attack in 2010. Part now used by the Wainuiomata Little Theatre.
Wainuiomata College
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Interview with John Clarke
Date: 7 April 2000 - 07 Apr 2000
From: Race Relations Conciliators Oral History Project
By: Clarke, Herbert John Te Kauru, 1942-
Reference: OHInt-0751-01
Description: New Zealand Race Relations Conciliator from 1992 to 1995. Born in Te Araroa, 1942. Recalls attending Te Araroa School - describes moving to Auckland to attend St Stephen's College. Describes Tikanga Maori at St Steven's College. Discusses attending Auckland Teacher's Training College and describes how he got a job teaching in Maori schools on the east coast of the North Island - mentions Hoani Waititi. Mentions time he spent teaching in Awanui, Wairoa, Te Teko, and at Epuni Primary School. Recalls 'pioneering' the teaching of Te Reo at Wainuiomata College - mentions wife Kathy. Also mentions teaching at Aotea College and being the principal of Ngata Memorial College, Ruatoria. Recalls getting the Woolfe Fisher Scholarship - describes his study as well as the countries and schools he visited - mentions Eton. Recalls his appointment to the Winston Churchill Trust Board. Discusses his appointment at Wellington High School and Community Institute upon return to New Zealand. Recalls being seconded to the Department of Education. Talks about being invited to take up the position of Race Relations Conciliator - recalls race relations in New Zealand at the time of his appointment. Describes seminars relating to race relations that were organised and run by the Office of the Race Relations Conciliator in conjunction with local government authorities. Discusses the Office's involvement in the Moutoa Gardens dispute, the Whangape dispute and the Conciliator's role in the protests at Waitangi on Waitangi Day - mentions Ken Mair. Discusses how the Office dealt with complaints - discusses biculturalism and multiculturalism. Access Contact - See Oral History Librarian Interviewer(s) - Megan Hutching Accompanying material - Copies of published articles from journals and newspapers Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-012706, OHC-012707 Quantity: 2 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 2.03 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-5441 Abstract Available - transcript(s) available. 'Justice Matters' Journal, December 1999/ Issues 8, and photocopied articles include copies of photographs of John Clarke Search dates: 1942 - 2000
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Personal papers
Date: [1960-1997]
From: O'Brien, Rosemary, fl 1940-2003 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7790-3
Description: Papers mostly relating to O'Brien's working life and including testimonials, brief memoir and card on her retirement from Wellington High School in 1997; also card for her attendance at Avondale College's 50th jubilee (1995) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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Bromhead, Peter, 1933- :Drug testing in school ... Imagine getting a D for maths and an...
Date: 2000
From: Various artists :Collection of photocopies, newspaper clippings and bromides of cartoons by Bromhead (A-314-1), Brockie (A-314-2) and J. C. Hill (A-314-3).
By: Bromhead, Peter, 1933-; Dominion (Newspaper)
Reference: A-314-1-029
Description: Two schoolboys outside Wainuiomata College discuss its drug testing programme. Quantity: 1 newspaper clipping.. Physical Description: Newspaper clipping, coloured, 130 x 180 mm.
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Nigel Swinn standing beside a mural at Wainuiomata College
Date: [ca 14 December 1974]
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: EP/1974/7636-F
Description: Nigel Swinn stands beside a mural at Wainuiomata College, taken ca 14 December 1974 by an unidentified Evening Post staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate negative, 35mm
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Tree planting on a hill above Wainuiomata
Date: 1974
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AW-1078
Description: All frames show a group of people planting trees on a steep hill looking south west over Wainuiomata. Wainuiomata College is seen in the lower left corner of frames 5 to 10. The group includes several children. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film
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Tree planting on a hill above Wainuiomata
Date: 1974
From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs
Reference: AW-1077
Description: All frames show a group of people planting trees on a steep hill looking south west over Wainuiomata. Wainuiomata College is seen in the lower left corner of frames 3 to 7. The group includes several children and a couple of dogs. Unless otherwise stated, all persons are unidentified. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra, accompanying the corresponding proof sheet Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film
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Photographic prints relating to education
Date: 1950-2000
From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference: PAColl-7327-1-061
Description: Photographs related to secondary school education, arranged alphabetically from V to W, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.