AJ is our Head girl. She lives on a dairy farm with her parents and older brother and is studying Biology, Chemistry, Accounting, Calculus and PE at Level 3.

AJ gets involved: 

• She has played the piano for the past 9 years and sits grade 8 piano this year.

• She has passed NCEA music performance level 3.

• In August she played in the Dame Malvina Major Youth Performance Showcase for rising talent in New Plymouth.

• She plays in the school’s concert band and has been placed in the yearly Welsh McCarthy and Altrusa music performances.

• For the past two years she has received the J.E Mortimer Challenge cup for most outstanding year’s effort.

• She works 12 hours each week as a lifeguard at the Hawera Powerco Aquatic Centre - she’s worked there for two and half years.

• She holds a full drivers licence.

• She’s given blood Climbed Mount Taranaki in January this year.

• AJ is co captain of the girls first eleven hockey

• Last year she won the senior girls triathlon.

• She participated in the Stage Challenge that performed in Palmerston North this year and was head of the sound, music and lighting committee.

• For the last two years she has attended the SADD (Students against driving drunk) conference in Wellington and this year helped organise a quiz and disco to raise awareness in the school.

Next year AJ hopes to attend Massey University and study for a Bachelor of Human Nutrition, majoring in Sports and Exercise.

We hope she finds time to do this!