Figure 1.--Here is one of New Zealan's mosdt prestigious private schools. It is located on extensive, well-tended grounds with a range of older and more modern purpose-built buildings.
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Figure 1.--Here is one of New Zealan's mosdt prestigious private schools. It is located on extensive, well-tended grounds with a range of older and more modern purpose-built buildings. |
There are no little red school houses in New Zealand. The rural elementary schools are normally white wooden buildings. Many of the older secondary schools show the enduring influence of the British public schools. Newer schools have the increasingly universal look of subruban one-story schools common in America and Europe. Some of the traditional preparatory and secondary schools have, like their counterparts in England, lovely grounds.
Deep in the heart of Southwell School in March a rose garden stretching down 3 classrooms holds some amazing features to smell and examine. The beautiful sprinkling of yellow dots on the delicate soft rose petals are eye catching. The evil looking leaves with their chainsaw jagged edges are like the deadly teeth of a shark. An army of ants march up the rock hard stem. They have a giant feast on aphids that are swarming on the stem. Thorns
cover the stems like a sharp spiked deadly maze. The perfumed smell from the snow white petals attracts noses and makes them want to take deep sniffs. Some of the rose bushes in the rose garden are as tall as an 11 year old boy, and others as small a 2 year old. Turning heads you can see more rose bushes. Beautiful dark reds, yellows as bright as the sun. Little buds are still urging their way out to open up to the outside world and become
part of a rose garden.
Kent Mickleson, Year 7, Southwell School, 1999
The College Chapel, which was completely renovated in 1994, is the central feature of the College, and highlights the special character of
the College. Used for liturgies, and for special occasions, it plays a major role in the spiritual development of all the College's students. A multi-media projector, for video and slide presentations, makes the Sacred Heart College Chapel one of an excepionally high standard.
Sacred Heart College
