At the start of every year the year 7 & 8 students are divided into different house groups. There are Ngata, Shepard, Hilliary, Rutherford, and Batten. They are the names of famous New Zealanders. Here are there full names. Kate Shepard - she let woman vote. In the old days only men were allowed to vote for party's like national and labour. etc.
Sir Apirana Ngata - He was the first Maori to get a degree at university in 1893 and was the first New Zealander to get a double degree in 1896. Sir Edmund Hillary - the first ever New Zealander and the first person in the world to get to the peak of mount Everest he began to climb mount Everest in 1953. Sir Ernest Rutherford - He was a scientist. he studied radioactive things. Jean Batten - Beat a world record for riding solo with the fastest time flying to Australia to England and another one from New Zealand to England. We do lots of different games and sports within the house groups and we also have house points. I'm in Shepard.
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