{{Short description|State composite school in New Zealand}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=February 2024}} {{Infobox school | name = Collingwood Area School | native_name = {{lang|mi|Te Kura o Aorere}} | latin_name = | image = Collingwood Area School MRD.jpg | image_size = | caption = Waharoa (entrance structure) of school | location = | address = Lewis Street, Collingwood | postal_code = 7073 | country = New Zealand | coordinates = {{coord|40|40|57|S|172|40|46|E|type:edu|display=inline,title}} | district = | authority = | chairperson = | principal = Kate Staniford | assistantprincipals = | administrator = | staff = | teaching_staff = | enrollment = {{NZ school roll data|290|y||y}} <small>({{NZ school roll data|||y}})</small> | MOE = 290 | national_ranking = | classes = | classes_offered = | avg_class_size = | ratio = | graduates = | gender = Co-educational | lower_age = | upper_age = | houses = | schooltype = area school | fundingtype = Government-funded | type = | system = | age_range = Years 1–13 | language = English | classrooms = | campus = | campus_size = | campus_type = | hours_in_day = | athletics = | slogan = | song = | fight_song = | motto = {{Langx|mi|Ka eke ngātahi tātou i te ngaru o te angitu}} | motto_translation = Together we ride the wave of lifelong success | rival = | sports = | colours = Gold and black | yearbook = | publication = | opened = {{Start date and age|1859|||df=y}} | established = | founded = | status = Open | feeder_schools = | website = {{URL|http://www.collingwood-area.school.nz/}} }} '''Collingwood Area School''' ({{langx|mi|Te Kura o Aorere}}) is an area school in the Golden Bay / Mohua town of Collingwood in New Zealand. The school dates back to 1859, when it was founded as '''Collingwood School'''. It was known as '''Collingwood District High School''' from 1937 to 1978.
==History== left|thumb|The second Collingwood School building in 1889 A few months after the beginning of the 1856 gold rush in Collingwood, parents were already petitioning the Nelson Board of Education for a school to be set up. Collingwood was established as a school district in 1858, and the school was established in 1859 as Collingwood School, at a cost of £150; the head of the school, John Edward Neame, was on a salary of £108, with an assistant mistress on a salary of £24.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last1=Win |first1=Cheryl |title=Collingwood Kids: 150 years of learning |last2=Isbister |first2=Sandy |publisher=Collingwood Area School |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-473-14699-3 |location=Collingwood}}</ref> The school building on Lewis Street was near the site of the present school; the decayed 1859 schoolhouse was replaced in 1880 by a building with an ornamental belfry and large porch.<ref name=":0" />
In 1936, it expanded to include a class for secondary students, with an initial roll of 12, and the following year it became a district high school. In 1978, it became an area school, and undertook a major reconstruction with many new buildings, including a new primary classroom and administration block, at a cost of $265,750.<ref name="School history" /> Area schools, found in rural areas of New Zealand, educate years 1 to 13, with teachers able to work with any children in that range.<ref name="School history">{{Cite web |title=A Brief History of the School |url=http://www.collingwood-area.school.nz/sites/collingwood/files/Part2_A%20history%20of%20the%20school.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160121024044/http://collingwood-area.school.nz/sites/collingwood/files/Part2_A%20history%20of%20the%20school.pdf |archive-date=21 January 2016 |access-date=21 September 2015 |website=Collingwood Area School}}</ref>
The school has a roll of {{NZ school roll data|290|y|y|y|as of |.}} In 2023, the school undertook a $9 million upgrade that included 10 new classrooms, a library, and technology, science and administration buildings, as well as a revamp of the school gym.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Jones |first1=Katy |last2=Ridout |first2=Amy |date=11 December 2018 |title=$30 million announced for three schools at the top of the south |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/109245455/30-million-announced-for-three-schools-at-the-top-of-the-south |access-date=10 February 2024 |work=Stuff |archive-date=13 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231113004653/https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/109245455/30-million-announced-for-three-schools-at-the-top-of-the-south |url-status=live }}</ref>
==School bell== thumb|School photo, 1889 thumb|School photo, 1904 The school's original bell was lost in the 1920s. In 1964, Rear Admiral Richard Washbourn, who had close family connections with Golden Bay, bought the bell of HMS ''Chevron'' from the Rosyth Dockyard for £8, and donated it to the school the following year. Washbourn wrote at the time that "Collingwood is a very remote little settlement one hundred miles from the nearest town and it will do the young good to have some reminder of the world outside.....even if that reminder only serves the mundane purpose of calling them to their studies".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://brisray.com/dad/chevron-bell.htm |title=HMS Chevron's bell |date=17 July 2022 |access-date=10 February 2024 |archive-date=13 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240213193824/https://brisray.com/dad/chevron-bell.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Notable staff== * Philip Woollaston – politician<ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19811110.2.93.2 |title=Mr P. T. E. Woollaston: 'Open, democratic government needed' |date=10 November 1981 |work=The Press |page=20 |access-date=1 February 2024 |via=PapersPast |archive-date=31 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131125159/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19811110.2.93.2 |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Principals=== The following is an incomplete list of headmasters and principals of Collingwood School, Collingwood District High School and Collingwood Area School. {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;" !No. !Name !Term |- | align=center | 1 | John Neame<!-- Q125182034 --> | 1859–1861<ref name="School history"/> |- | |- | align=center | | Francis O'Sullivan | 1869–1875<ref name=":0" /> |- | align=center | | Ezra Brook Dixon | 1875–1876<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-NHSJ06_05-t1-body1-d2.html |title=Ezra Brook Dixon: pioneer settler at Paynes Ford, Takaka Valley |year=2002 |journal=Nelson Historical Society Journal |volume=6 |issue=5 |pages=23–24 |access-date=10 February 2024 |archive-date=20 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240320113346/https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-NHSJ06_05-t1-body1-d2.html |url-status=live }}</ref> |- | align=center | | Edward Canavan<!-- Q123763955 --> | fl. 1878<ref>{{cite news |title=Collingwood |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC18780108.2.13 |access-date=28 March 2024 |work=The Colonist |volume=XX |issue=2333 |date=8 January 1878 |page=3}}</ref> |- | align=center | | Joseph William Humphreys<!-- Q125189274 --> | fl. 1880<ref>{{cite news |title=Education Board |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM18801105.2.8 |access-date=28 March 2024 |work=Nelson Evening Mail |volume=XV |issue=218 |date=5 November 1880 |page=2}}</ref> |- | align=center | | Mr Anderson | fl. 1885<ref>{{cite news |title=Annual report of the Inspector of Schools laid before the Nelson Education Board, January 8th, 1886 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM18860116.2.15.2 |access-date=28 March 2024 |work=Nelson Evening Mail |volume=XX |issue=13 |date=16 January 1886 |page=5}}</ref> |- |- | align=center | | Alfred Thomas White | 1898–1903<ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC18981130.2.13 |title=Education board |date=30 November 1898 |work=The Colonist |volume=42 |issue=9342 |page=2 |access-date=28 March 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GBARG19030903.2.39 |title=untitled |date=1 October 1903 |work=Golden Bay Argus |volume=9 |issue=18 |page=4 |access-date=10 February 2024}}</ref> |- | align=center | | Herbert Basil Score Sanders | 1904–1911<ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19040523.2.7 |title=untitled |date=23 May 1904 |work=Nelson Evening Mail |volume=38 |issue=96 |page=2 |access-date=10 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC19110211.2.10 |title=Personal |date=11 February 1911 |work=The Colonist |volume=53 |issue=13028 |page=2 |access-date=10 February 2024 |archive-date=28 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240328060831/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC19110211.2.10 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- | |- | align=center | | Hollis Hill |?–1934<ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19341005.2.48 |title=Teacher's appeal |date=5 October 1934 |work=Nelson Evening Mail |volume=66 |page=5 |access-date=10 February 2024 |archive-date=28 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240328060831/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19341005.2.48 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- | |- | align=center | | Arthur Osborne Stanley | align=center |1936–1939<ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19361216.2.17 |title=Education board's monthly meeting |date=16 December 1936 |work=Nelson Evening Mail |volume=70 |page=3 |access-date=10 February 2024 |archive-date=28 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240328060751/https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19361216.2.17 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GRA19390920.2.8 |title=Westport notes |date=20 September 1939 |work=Grey River Argus |page=3 |access-date=28 March 2024}}</ref> |- | align=center | | George Henry Ralph | align=center |1939–1948<ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM19391017.2.47 |title=Personal |date=17 October 1939 |work=Nelson Evening Mail |volume=73 |page=4 |access-date=10 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GRA19480422.2.62.4 |title=New school for Charleston |date=22 April 1948 |work=Grey River Argus |page=8 |access-date=10 February 2024}}</ref> |- | align=center | | James A. Hook |1948–?<ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GRA19480529.2.61.1 |title=Buller district schools |date=29 May 1948 |work=Grey River Argus |page=8 |access-date=10 February 2024}}</ref> |- | align=center | | John Garner | 2002–2014 |- | align=center | | Janelle Mckenzie | 2014–2016<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/92967115/coastal-taranaki-principal-resigns-suddenly |title=Coastal Taranaki principal resigns suddenly |first=Christina |last=Persico |date=25 May 2017 |work=Stuff |access-date=10 February 2024 |archive-date=13 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230813044316/https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/92967115/coastal-taranaki-principal-resigns-suddenly |url-status=live }}</ref> |- | align=center | | Caroline Gray | 2016–2018<ref name="Stuff 25 Jan 2019">{{cite news |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/110113103/long-serving-nelson-principal-accepts-new-role-in-golden-bay |title=Long serving Nelson principal accepts new role in Golden Bay |first=Katy |last=Jones |date=25 January 2019 |work=Stuff |access-date=10 February 2024 |archive-date=14 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231214065721/https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/110113103/long-serving-nelson-principal-accepts-new-role-in-golden-bay |url-status=live }}</ref> |- | align=center | | Hugh Gully | 2019–2024<ref name="Stuff 25 Jan 2019"/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360555762/sellers-market-teachers-amid-shortage |title='Seller's market' for teachers amid shortage |first=Katy |last=Jones |date=25 January 2025 |work=The Press |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> |- | align=center | | Kate Staniford | 2025–present<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/360712411/new-twizel-area-school-will-have-new-principal-when-built |title=New Twizel Area School will have new principal when built |first=Doug |last=Sail |date=7 June 2025 |work=Timaru Herald |access-date=28 October 2025}}</ref> |}
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