Okaihau

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Okaihau is a village in the Far North district in the Northland on the North Island of New Zealand. It is located on State Highway 1 between Waihou Valley in the northwest and Lake Omapere in the east.

The place was connected by the Okaihau branch line to the North Auckland Line of the New Zealand rail network from 29 October 1923 to November 1, 1987. The platform iste next to an area that was formerly the shunting yard, north of the town is never put into service northernmost railway tunnel in New Zealand. An already nearly completed extension of the route to Rangiahua was never put into operation and later dismantled.

Education

History

The first official record of a school come from 1874, before Joseph Harrison had already worked in 1870 and 1871 as a teacher in the village. The settlers organized on the MPs for Bay of Islands, McCloud, the timber for a school and the government agreed to build the school and to pay a teacher. The school was built in 1874 and the beginning had 21 students.

1889, the school was too small and was now only used as a school for Upper Waihou. A larger building was erected, which was known until the reorganization over 40 years later as " high school ". Other schools in the area, which were founded later were the Upper Waihou, Rangi Point, Cooks Road, Utakura, Okaihau East and the Okaihau Public Works School. Because of the large influx of workers due to the planned construction of the railway line to Kaitaia was the latter, a school for the government sector, required. This school had up to three teachers.

Before 1938, there was no institution of higher education in the near Okaihau. The students had to commute to boarding school or with the Okaihau - branch-line to either Kaikohe to Auckland or Whangarei. Because of the few compounds the students but often came in this case until after 18:00 clock back home. On April 4, 1938, summarized the small schools and opened the new school Consolidated School with 180 students. The first director was A. Burnett.

1947, the number of pupils were so far increased that the Consolidated School District High School was for and built with two additional, prefabricated, buildings served as both the primary school as well as secondary school. First headmaster was J. Lee. In 1963, the school was expanded by another building on the other side of the street.

In 1973, the high school to college and Okaihau Laurenson was the first headmaster. At the same time, a primary school was established at the new building on the other side of the street with N. Thomson as head teacher. End of 1973, 263 students attended the college and 219 primary school.

Today's schools

The Okaihau College in 2009 had a decile rating of 2 and 426 students. The students are at 67% of Maori and 28% of European descent. The school has about 35 teachers and 25 support staff. The school offers the usual education up to NCEA Level 3 with a focus on performing arts and education outside the classroom. About 90 % of students come by bus from a catchment area between Mangamuka Bridge, Motukiore, Ohaeawai and Waimate North. The Okaihau College has four houses which are named after four indigenous trees: Kauri, Rimu, Totara and Puriri.

The primary school Okaihau Primary School for grades 1 to 6 in 2009 had a decile rating of 4 and 157 students.