Posts Tagged ‘St Patrick’s School Taupo’

St Patrick’s School Taupō student donates unworn catwalk creation to school

Monday, May 30th, 2022

A young artist from St Patrick’s School Taupō who made an incredible cork outfit for a twice-cancelled event has now outgrown her creation. In 2019, Lucy Stapleton, then aged 9, came second in her age group with her coffee capsule outfit made for the Lake Taupō Hospice fundraiser Creative Catwalk. Collecting the coffee capsules turned Read more

Taupo school hosts language teacher from China

Friday, February 19th, 2016

“The approach to education is very different in New Zealand to that in China but kids here were lovely,” says Han Yu. “In China children in primary schools sit quietly and the teacher tells them everything but over here a teacher is just a facilitator of their learning so it is very different,” she said. Read more