Master planning for the three kura is underway this year. During this phase of planning the project team is exploring and confirming site and building layouts and design, cultural features, and locations of the kura on each of the sites. We also look at ways to stage construction of the kura. Read our April newsletter...

Managing the complexities of the construction process for Blenheim’s new college and intermediate school campuses is top of mind for the architects working on Te Tātoru o Wairau. As one of the Ministry of Education’s largest and most complex infrastructure projects, Te Tātoru o Wairau will co-locate Marlborough Boys’ and Girls’ Colleges on the site currently occupied by the girls’ college and Bohally Intermediate, with the intermediate to be rebuilt on the current Marlborough

As she watches the ākonga of Bohally Intermediate’s newly revitalised Māori language class do an activity at Tua Mātene marae, their teacher Pera Wills reflects on the benefits te ao Māori in the classroom has for them – as it once did for her. Pera, who attended Whitney Street School’s first te reo Māori class as a child in the 1980s, and then Bohally’s bilingual class in 1990, has just started teaching the intermediate’s first Māori bilingual class in 10 years. With whānau