Kaikorai Valley College is a large co-educational secondary school in

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, New Zealand. Initially starting as Kaikorai Valley High School in 1958, the school combined with Kenmure Intermediate School in 1996 to become Kaikorai Valley College,. It celebrated its 50th jubilee in 2008. The college has approximately 65 international students, and has sister school relationships with Sakuragaoka High School, Kun-ei Girls High School and Myojo Gakuen in Japan;

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in Hong Kong; and Harbin Number 13 Middle School in China. Facilities include its own theatre and dance studio. The college had continual improvements to facilities with new computer suites, well equipped science laboratories, a new full sized gymnasium and open plan design and technology areas. Furthermore, the brand new administration block was opened by John Key in 2012. The school also has a disabled and special needs unit. The school has its own radio show on

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. Pupils of Kaikorai Valley College use the adjacent Kaikorai Stream for outdoor education, studying

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and flow, learning fly fishing and monitoring

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Alumni

*Professor Richard Blaikie – Deputy Vice Chancellor Otago University * Howard Broad – former New Zealand Commissioner of Police 2006 – 2011. *

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, singer and songwriter for

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and Dimmer *

Robert Sarkies Robert Sarkies (born 6 March 1967) is a New Zealand film director and screenwriter. Sarkies grew up in the South Island city of Dunedin. He attended Kaikorai Valley College. His three feature films to date have been set in Dunedin, or in the lowe ...

film director *

Clayton Weatherston On 9 January 2008, 22-year-old Sophie Kate Elliott (born 11 June 1985) was stabbed to death by ex-boyfriend Clayton Robert Weatherston (born 9 January 1976), in Dunedin, New Zealand. The crime and trial were covered extensively in the news med ...

, dux in 1993, former University of Otago economics tutor and convicted murderer.

References

External links

Official website
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