Kaikorai Valley College
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The college has approximately 65 international students, and has sister school relationships with Sakuragaoka High School, Kun-ei Girls High School and Myojo Gakuen in Japan; Po Leung Kuk Ngan Po Ling College in Hong Kong; and Harbin Number 13 Middle School in China.[1]
Facilities include its own theatre and dance studio. The college had continual improvements to facilities with new computer suites, well equipped science laboratories, a new full sized gymnasium and open plan design and technology areas. Furthermore, the brand new administration block was opened by John Key in 2012.[2] The school also has a disabled and special needs unit.
The school has its own radio show on Otago Access Radio.[3]
Pupils of Kaikorai Valley College use the adjacent Kaikorai Stream for outdoor education, studying water quality and flow, learning fly fishing and monitoring waste water.[4]
Enrolment
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Notable alumni
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- Professor Richard Blaikie – Deputy Vice Chancellor Otago University[6]
- Howard Broad – former New Zealand Commissioner of Police 2006–2011.[7]
- Shayne Carter – singer and songwriter for Straitjacket Fits and Dimmer[8]
- Robert Sarkies – film director[9]
- Clayton Weatherston – dux in 1993, former University of Otago economics tutor and convicted murderer.[10]
References
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