Ilminster Intermediate student Pippa Keyworth is carried up Titirangi piggy back style as part of a leadership wananga involving students from Ilminster and three outside schools. Ilminster’s Mokena Ihiimaera-Wikotu is holding the medicine ball.
From learning to surf to a police-led team challenge . . . 60 students got to try their hand at a range of activities during a leadership wananga hosted by Ilminster Intermediate this week,
Student leaders from Taupō, Taradale and Northcross intermediate schools worked together with Ilminster counterparts in what
has become a traditional event.
The wananga, established 20 years ago, gives the students the opportunity to learn about leadership through challenge, discovery, demonstration and inquiry.
It was cancelled last year due to the Cyclone Gabrielle but all four schools were determined to reinstate the event this year.
Students took part in a range of activities — surfing, learning about the cultural significance of the Titirangi maunga/Kaiti Hill), paid their respects at the C Company Memorial House, worked with Tairawhiti Parafed, completed a team challenge led by the police on Titirangi and had a korero with More FM announcer Bevan Chapman about the positive impacts of responding to community needs
