“Riverina was so new and we all felt special. I was a foundation pupil in Year 2 and could then stop catching the bus up to Howick Intermediate and walk to school.” Linda Reid (nee Wolstenholme)
“Remember the big bottle drive we had in the pouring rain. Throwing steel coke cans off the jungle gym and playing bulrush on the soccer field. Walking home on the “black track” near the motorway.” Andrew Davies
“There were lots of cabbage trees because they were very common in Pakuranga then. I remember a science lesson when our teacher took us down to the end of the field and showed us a very big beautiful spider in one of the cabbage trees.” Nicky Hawes (nee Knight)
“Standard 4 teacher, Mr Todd, challenged us to ‘think’. I remember he asked the class, ‘What was the first human cure for a condition?’ Of course we came up with well-known household medications… “No, the first human cure for a condition was the scratch”. Merren Davies.
“I have such wonderful memories of primary school: playing hopscotch, Jump Rope for Heart, Friday sausage sizzles and popsicles, weekly homework, scratch and sniff stickers from the teachers and school galas... how much of it is still the same?” Holly Cheong, former student