Students to promote Makoura College

NOVEL APPROACH: Georgia Hutchby-Way, Shea Hullah and Wendy Hemi are aiming to highlight the positive at Makoura College. PHOTO/LYNDA FERINGA

A pair of student leaders at Makoura College will help spearhead a novel marketing and promotional strategy for the school.

The 17-year-olds, Georgia Hutchby-Way and Shea Hullah, who have studied design art, took up the opportunity this year to help promote the college.

This will be done through media in the region, in the school magazine and newsletters and in signs, images and display boards at the school and during events such as transition, orientation and open days.

Wendy Hemi, who started last term as college pou arihi (student support and counsellor), said the pair would aim to highlight positive and informative news in the initiative.

The pair would also be involved with enhancing social media for the school and promotion through digital media, and join the marketing committee that included teachers and other staff.

"We feel the school has a lot of good stories to tell and we're keen to have them told," Mrs Hemi said.

The brief for the pair will also involve photographs and articles, the posting of students' images and "positive" slogans for the school and its aims and events.

Ms Hutchby-Way said: "We have the chance to come up with ideas and take them back to the committee, where the ideas will be finalised."