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Karamu High School
Karamu High School is a co-educational state high school in Hastings, New Zealand for students in Years 9 to 13. The school is the main co-ed secondary school within Hastings City itself. The school’s campus is located to the easternmost end of Hastings City, adjacent to Windsor Park to the west and the Heretaunga Plains’ orchards to the east. History Karamu High School opened in 1962. Like many New Zealand secondary schools built in the 1960s, the school was originally built to the Nelson Two-Storey standard plan, characterised by two-storey H-shaped classroom blocks. While Karamu's two Nelson plan classroom blocks were demolished in 2010-11, the school retains its Nelson plan administration/hall block and its Nelson plan library building. School life Traditionally the school has always had a strong focus on cultural pursuits. It maintains a good reputation in dance and music competitions and provides a wide range of opportunities to students to this end. There is al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karamu , a theater in Cleveland, Ohio
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Karamu may refer to: * Karamu, New Zealand, a rural locality in the North Island of New Zealand * ''Coprosma robusta'', a tree known as karamu * ''Coprosma lucida'', a shrub sometimes called shining karamu * ''Coprosma macrocarpa'', a shrub called coastal karamu *Karamu (feast), a feast held on December 31 as part of the Kwanzaa celebrations *Karamu House Karamu House in the Fairfax neighborhood on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is the oldest African-American theater in the United States opening in 1915. Many of Langston Hughes's plays were developed and premièred at the theater. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Holmes (broadcaster)
Sir Paul Scott Holmes (29 April 19501 February 2013) was a New Zealand broadcaster who gained national recognition through his high-profile radio and television journalism. Holmes fronted one of first major prime time current affairs shows of the 1980s, ''Holmes'', which ran on TV One from 1989 to 2004. Holmes hosted the Newstalk ZB breakfast show from 1985 to 2008, and the Saturday morning show from 2009 to 2012. Holmes' other ventures included several notable hosting slots, including a short-lived weekly show on Prime Television in 2005, two stints as the anchor of '' This Is Your Life'' and from 2009 until his retirement in 2012 the Sunday morning political talk show Q+A. Due to his high-profile appearances and controversial manner, Holmes' personal life was often documented alongside his charitable efforts. He spent much of his career in the spotlight, including his campaigning of the Paralympics, the birth of his son, the collapse of his marriage, his daughter's drug pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Secondary Schools Of Nelson Plan Construction
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Schools In Hastings, New Zealand
A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory education, compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the ''School#Regional terms, Regional terms'' section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught is commonly called a university college or university. In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary (elementary in the U.S.) and secondary (middle school in the U.S.) education. Kindergarten or preschool provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5). University, vocational ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secondary Schools In The Hawke's Bay Region
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Constantine Karlis
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Aimee Fisher
Aimee Fisher (born 24 January 1995) is a New Zealand Sprint kayak, sprint canoeist. Fisher was born in Rotorua. She represented New Zealand at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she competed alongside Jaimee Lovett, Caitlin Regal, Caitlin Ryan and Kayla Imrie in the Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's K-4 500 metres, women's K-4 500 metres event. After having trained together for just 18 months, the young crew achieved a fifth place in the medal race. References External links * * * 1995 births Living people Olympic canoeists for New Zealand Canoeists at the 2016 Summer Olympics New Zealand female canoeists Sportspeople from Rotorua ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak {{NewZealand-canoe-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Labour Party
The New Zealand Labour Party ( mi, Rōpū Reipa o Aotearoa), or simply Labour (), is a centre-left political party in New Zealand. The party's platform programme describes its founding principle as democratic socialism, while observers describe Labour as social-democratic and pragmatic in practice. The party participates in the international Progressive Alliance. It is one of two major political parties in New Zealand, alongside its traditional rival, the National Party. The New Zealand Labour Party formed in 1916 out of various socialist parties and trade unions. It is the country's oldest political party still in existence. Alongside the National Party, Labour has alternated in leading governments of New Zealand since the 1930s. , there have been six periods of Labour government under ten Labour prime ministers. The party has traditionally been supported by working class, urban, Māori, Pasifika, immigrant and trade unionist New Zealanders, and has had strongholds in i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meka Whaitiri
Melissa Heni Mekameka Whaitiri (born 11 January 1965) is a New Zealand Labour Party politician and Member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. She was elected to Parliament in the 2013 Ikaroa-Rāwhiti by-election and is currently Minister of Customs, Minister for Veterans and Minister for Food Safety. Early life Whaitiri was born in Manutuke near Gisborne in 1965. Her parents were Wirangi Wiremu Whaitiri, a Korean War veteran, and Mei Whaitiri (née Irihapiti Robin), who was the model used for the Pania of the Reef statue in Napier in 1954. Whaitiri's father was a native speaker of te reo Māori who taught the language to his daughter. She has four siblings and was brought up in the Hastings suburb of Whakatu by a whānau of mostly freezing workers. She has affiliation to Rongowhakaata and Ngāti Kahungunu. At Karamu High School, she was head girl. She first worked at a freezing works before obtaining a master's degree in education from Victoria University of We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawke's Bay Today
''Hawke's Bay Today'' is a daily compact newspaper published in Hastings, New Zealand and serving Hastings, Napier and the Hawke's Bay region. It is owned by APN News & Media. The ''Hawke's Bay Today'' is New Zealand's youngest newspaper, founded on 3 May 1999. History ''Hawke's Bay Today'' was launched on 3 May 1999, a merger of the dailies the ''Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune'' in Hastings and ''Napier's Daily Telegraph''. Its earliest incarnation was "a Saturday morning weekly named the ''Hawke's Bay Herald and Ahuriri Advocate'', which first rolled off the presses in Napier on 24 September 1857," according to the company website. The Saturday evening ''Hawke's Bay Today'' was discontinued in 2002 to make way for the new weekend edition published on Saturday mornings. In 2005 the local news content of the ''Dannevirke News Dannevirke ( " work of the Danes", a reference to Danevirke; mi, Taniwaka, lit= or ''Tāmaki-nui-a-Rua'', the area where the town is), is a rural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Trask
Keith Charles Trask (born 27 November 1960) is a former New Zealand rower who won an Olympic gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Early life Trask was born in 1960 in Hastings, New Zealand. Trask has a twin brother Paul. Their parents are Charles (died 2015) and Maureen Trask. They received their education in Hastings; first at Mayfair School and then at Hastings Intermediate. Rowing career Trask was selected to compete at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow with the coxed four but did not compete due to the Olympics boycott. He believes that he missed out being selected for the New Zealand eight in 1982 despite being "good enough to be there"; the team went on to win gold at the 1982 World Rowing Championships at Rotsee in Switzerland without him. In 1983, he moved from the Hawke's Bay to Auckland so that he could join the North Shore Rowing Club to increase his chances to get picked for a national team. In 1983 the crew of Conrad Robertson, Greg Johnst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Reeves (radio Broadcaster)
Jason Reeves (born May 1976, Hastings) is a radio broadcaster and television presenter from New Zealand. He currently co-hosts the breakfast show on Coast. He has previously worked for other stations such as Auckland's Classic Hits 97.4, The Edge and for ZM . Career Reeves began his radio career in 1994 at the age of 18 after leaving Karamu High School, and worked on Hot 93FM in Hawkes Bay. He remained there until 1996, when he moved to another Hawkes Bay Station, Xtreme 100. In 1997, he moved to Hamilton to work on the then local station, The Edge, originally on the drive time show, but moved to the breakfast show with Jay-Jay Feeney in 1998. Reeves worked at The Edge as it progressed from a local Hamilton station to a nationwide network station based in Auckland, which happened in late 2001. At the end of 2004, Reeves left The Edge, reportedly as a result of a prank carried out by his breakfast co-hosts Jay-Jay Feeney and Dominic Harvey. Jay Jay and Dom started sending J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
