Technology Faculty

Lockdown demonstrated how many of the skills within Technology are vital when we have to get down to the fundamentals of life and living. Students could utilse their cooking ability and have real life learning when the way that we shopped for food and food availability changed. Students became resourceful when they couldn’t necessarily access what they needed, and we all became much more technologically savvy with our online learning. We are very proud of the student success and resilience shown this year within the Technology Faculty. Even though a lot of the junior option courses were shortened significantly in Terms 1 and 2 due to lockdown, there was still a lot of high-quality project work that has come through this year. The staff of Maiken Calkoen, Julie Burn, Lutz Weber, Neil Moir, Pauline Woodmass, Jeremy Wright, Elijah Martin, and Racheal Tuika tried new contexts for learning and experiences, and we were lucky to have Mathew Scott and Kelly Parker teach Elijah Martin’s classes while he had 15 weeks away as part of the Hawke’s Bay Magpies squad. This year we had the Arts and Technology Exhibition which showcased a lot of student work and this is something we hope to build in the future. We wish Lutz Weber well as he leaves us at the end of the year to take up his new role at Hastings Boys High School. His hard work, excellent teaching, and unique sense of humour will be missed.