Following an exceptional launch season in 2012, The New Zealand Dance Company (NZDC) is thrilled to announce their six centre North Island tour of Language of Living this May/June. The company makes a one-night-only return to Auckland’s Aotea Centre before hitting the road to premiere the show in Wellington, Hawke’s Bay, Whangarei, Orewa and Warkworth. more..

Four of our Y13 students attended the PILOT programme, (Pacific Island Leaders Of Tomorrow) backed by the Universities and Polytechs. The students rotated around 3 workshops looking at Tertiary education providers and finished with a financial literacy workshop aimed at gaining information about managing funds while studying. Our students have made valuable contacts with Pasifika graduates, and our school will now have ongoing support from them more..

music@mahu offers instrument tuition to students during school time. Flute, clarinet and saxophone are taught through the music itinerant scheme and there is no charge for these lessons. Your student will come out of class to the music dept for 1/2 hour per week for their lesson. If you wish your student to have instrument tuition through the school, download the Instrument form more..

Mahurangi College's Senior Drama Students would like to invite you to step back into the past and come along to their performance of The Crucible, a play based on the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts which took place during 1692 and 1693. more..

A Blues Award is presented to a student who has achieved outstanding success in cultural activities (equivalent to regional placing in a competition). In order to gain a Blue, a student must fulfill the following criteria: more..

The theme for this year's Stage Challenge was gambling. The concept, devised by the Planning Team lead by Elya Martin, was based around a family struggling with this addiction. It depicted the tragedy the affects of gambling can have on relationships. Our students performance at the Aotea Centre was fantastic and left every student buzzing with excitement, relief, self-satisfaction and pride. more..

After a 2 hour bus ride, two of Mahurangi College’s choirs, Vocal Point and Perfect Pitch, arrived at Forum North, Whangarei, for the Big Sing competition. Eight choirs from Whangarei Boys High School were up against Vocal Point and Perfect Pitch. more..

The Performing Arts Academy was created at the end of 2011 and Is lead by Lyn Dahsper. Students from all levels of the senior school are given time and access to extra training and experiences to enrich their endeavours in their area of Performing Arts more..

On Friday the 2nd to Sunday the 4th the Jazz Band and Choir students enjoyed a great week at Music Intensive or most people would know as Band Camp. Everyone worked on song after song improving each group technically and also bonding everyone. more..

Mark Mitchell and Claire Thompson representing the Stage Challenge Foundation presented the awards to our successful Stage Challenge group at Tuesdays Assembly. The Stage Challenge team produced a great theme based on Wizard of Oz where a girl turnsher back on her home but then after many sad experiences with “friends” and others, she realizes home was not so bad and returns. This production produced some wonderful results for our school with 8 awards of excellence: more..

Last term the Arts Department opened it's doors to the community to showcase the work being done in class by our students. This was a successful evening involving wonderful performances from the music students and two short plays by our talented drama department. These were both powerful and comical. Also on display was the amazing art from the senior art classes which filled up the hall. Special thanks to Puhoi Cheese, Feast Catering and David Tate for sponsoring the evening. Josh Free, Cultural Rep more..

This year, not only did we have three fantastic speakers but all three placed second or third in their categories. No other school in Te Tai Tokerau was so well represented across the board to such a high standard. Ka pai to mahi kotiro ma! more..