POROUTAWHAO SENIORS1939 

Back: Tabby Hapeta, Ramon Thornton, Bernard Webb, Percy Nicholson, Des Scott, Phil Kilsby, Roy Speirs, Keith Mackie, David Kilsby, Alan Tait, Cecil Harrison, Claude Coleman

Middle: Doreen Aldrich, Betty Carle, Joan MacFarlane, Rene Arcus, Pat Sloan, Freda Tabor, Evelyn Winiata, Bobbi Arcus, Jean Arcus, Dorothy Cresswell, Muriel Kilsby

Front: Marie Nicholson, Janie Hartley, Wiki Hapeta, Watea Wehipeihana, Tira Tiepa, Hilda Hood, Ruth Old

POROUTAWHAO Std 3-41973

Back: Mr Rowe, Neil Hirini, Paul Cockrell, Bryan Harrison, Jim Rowe, Kevin Gwynn, Dean Jamieson, Bruce Burnell, Robin Sinclair, Barry Stone, Mr King (PN Training College)

Middle: Mero Mininnick, Diane Sciascia, Yolande Watson, Wendy Bartholomew, Vanessa Ransom, Renata Hill, Sharon Edlin, Kathleen Anderson

Front: Margaret Mackie, Ngaire McBrydie, Tania Hartley, Flora Bartholomew, Christine Mackie, Raewyn Nicholls, Susan Manson, Donna Kiriona 

Do you recognise these staff members from Poroutawhao School 1960?

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Poroutawhao Staff 1987

BACK: Mr. G. Isaac, Mr. W. B. Cross (Principal)

FRONT: Ms. S. Maclean, Ms. W. Ashton, Ms. D. Cooper

Poroutawhao Staff 1988

Back: Diane Cooper, Jan Braddock

Front: Grant Isaac, Barry Cross, Rosalind ThomsonPrincipal: Mr. W. B. Cross

2002Poroutawhao Staff

FROM LEFT: Betty Ingram, Alistair Hudson, Joanne Calder, Katharina Galvin, Judith Davis, Neil Hirini,  Natalie Turner.

Every photograph is a window into the past- and sometimes what you see surprises you. Children singing a waiata about being kind to animals seems like a modern day school lesson, but the writing on this slide is from 1924! In the 1920s only a few private schools taught the grammer of Te Reo. Tragically, all the other schools saw speaking Te Reo as a caning offence. Was this slide of one of the private schools- or a smaller group or club? We just don't know.

Or maybe these children were located at Waiata Shores, near Auckland (although even then, few schools used Te Reo names for locations back in the 1920s).

Art historian Walter Benjamin coined a term called 'optical unconsciousness' and part of that is seeing a photograph in hindsight. The people in it do not know the future, but we do. Whatever this photograph depicted it seems like it belongs in our present than in it's past.

But the past is full of surprises!

Shannon School, 1975, school photo.

Back row - left to right:

Ricky Tetomo, Leslie Harper, Riki Waerea, ???, Richard Locke, Mario Anderson, Peter Bracken, Simon Campbell (?)

3rd row - left to right:

Stephen Hick (family was connected to Wahine Disaster), Paul McAleese, Richard Law, Tony Takarua, Warren Peach ( dad Teddy Peach ran the local butcher), ???, Brett Devine, Eddie Lamb

2nd row - left to right:

Selena Winiata, Cindy Hawkins, Jane Cunningham, Janine Nepia, Carmen Wills, Julie Foreman (daughter of long-time Librarian, Jenny Foreman), Raewyn McLeod, Cheryle Carmont

1st row - left to right:

Paula Moore, Maria Whiti, Alison Falkner, Christine Tyson, Mandy Cupples, Adrienne Vinsen (daughter of famous, memorable Shannon figure Bib and Mavis Vinsen)

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Names provided by Carmen Wills, 15 December 2022.

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