Dargaville High School trips

School Trips

Dargaville High School students have a number of opportunities to enhance their learning outside of the classroom. We believe in developing life skills and encouraging our students to be an asset in the community. What better way of developing these skills than by visiting other countries, places of interest and utilising the fantastic facilities of the North?

Spirit of Adventure

The Spirit of Adventure Trust was established to provide the youth of New Zealand access to a character development programme through sail training. During the course of each voyage, the Trust aims to give young New Zealanders an equal opportunity to learn and develop from each other qualities of independence, understanding and community spirit through the medium of the sea

The Trust ensures that every trainee on either Youth Development 10 Day programmes, or during specially designed voyages for young people with disabilities, or those that are disadvantaged, are given every opportunity to achieve personal goals.

Every year, Dargaville High School has sponsorship for two students to take up the Spirit of Adventure challenge.

Outward Bound

Mind, Body, Soul is the Outward Bound experience for 16 to 18 year olds. Over the 21 day adventure students will develop friendships that will last a lifetime. Through learning outdoor skills like sailing, kayaking, bush and navigation, students will leave with a strong sense of personal responsibility and independence. Some of the benefits students will get from a Mind, Body, Soul course are:

  • Life-long friendships with 13 other individuals you have never met before
  • Excitement and adventure where you will challenge your limits (and develop some abs!).
  • Discover what is important to you and a sense of your future potential
  • Learn from both success and failure to become more self aware and know that 'you can do it.
  • Develop personal responsibility and decisiveness in your responses to challenging situations.

At Dargaville High School we have been fortunate enough to receive sponsorship for a male and female student to participate on the Outward Bound course.

Field Trips

Many opportunities exist at the High School for learning. We believe field trips are an essential element in developing knowledge and understanding. All school trips will have written information and permission slip sent home with your child. Field trips have included:

  • Year 9 and Year 13 Camps – Peer support training
  • Sandspit & Goat Island – Biology
  • Dargaville Museum
  • Learning about the Treaty of Waitangi – Bay of Islands
  • Environmental development at Gordon Street Project
  • Kai Iwi Lakes – Science and the Police Academy
  • Auckland Museum – Art trip
  • Tai Tokerau cultural festival
  • Cinema trip
  • Trounson Kauri Park
  • Waipoua forest and stream
  • Court House
  • Local Marae
  • District Council