Category: News
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A new van!
On the 13th of March the Ted Manson Foundation delivered to Glen Innes School a brand new 11 seater Toyota van for their use for transporting children and their work in Truancy. This is the first time the school has had a vehicle for the past 17 years with the last one belonging to Tamaki…
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Fun Run
For several years now Breakfast Club in partnership with the Glen Innes Police and Glen Innes, Glen Taylor Schools run the Police Qualifying distance (2.4km) from Mission Bay to St Heliers Bay. This years run was on the 8th of March. Each year we organize three Fun Runs, and this is the first. The second…
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David Tua
On the 6th of March Breakfast Club’s contacts at the Glen Innes Police arranged for one of our student volunteers to spend a session training with David Tua. Issac Carr (Student) is in a boxing gym in West Auckland and when he heard of this offer was over the moon. 5am on the 6th of…
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What I learned from 64 Shots: Leadership in a crazy world
Recently, I had the opportunity to attend an insightful speech by Kevin Roberts, a renowned business leader and book writer – one of which was the incredible book “64 Shots: Leadership in a crazy world”, at R Marine Auckland. The event, hosted by the Breakfast Club and attended by relevant partners and sponsors, provided…
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Operation Attend
Operation Attend is a Police Operation carried out yearly throughout New Zealand, in an effort to curb truancy. In Glen Innes we do things differently than the rest of New Zealand, and as such are the only district with the results that children are returning to school. What we do differently is: Team up with…
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Christmas Store 2018
A bit of history… In 2013 Breakfast Club put on a Christmas Banquet at Glen Innes School and invited 250 family members from some of the highest needs families living in Glen Innes, Glen Taylor and St Pius Schools. It was a wonderful event delivered in the spirit of Christmas, and the following year it…
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Te Kohanga School
Te Kohanga is a small rural primary school which sits near the Waikato River. The school is 15 minutes away from its closest town, Port Waikato, a popular West Coast surf beach. The school is situated at the foot of a mountain and surrounded by farm land with the majority of the school’s students traveling…
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Newsletter -June 2017
As usual, I must apologise for my tardiness in getting out a newsletter before now. My main problem is finding the time from being out on the road to sitting down putting my ideas into words. Hopefully now, with a new team member on board, that time will be found. Here are a few of…
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Christmas Store
For the second year in a row the Silver Ferns gave up their time and came to St Kentigern’s College for three hours and trained 80 of our girls from mainly Decile One Schools in Auckland and Tauramanui.
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Silver Ferns
For the second year in a row the Silver Ferns gave up their time and came to St Kentigern’s College for three hours and trained 80 of our girls from mainly Decile One Schools in Auckland and Tauramanui.