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SOSE and Science students embarked on a 12-day study tour of the South Island of New Zealand in the April school holidays.

The adventure began in Christchurch and took students through the farmlands of the Canterbury Plains, through to stunning Lake Tekapo and the Church of the Good Shepherd, across the Southern Alps and Mt Cook, to the West Coast and back to Christchurch.

The students were treated to such experiences as:

• Visiting Glowworm Grotto at Te Anau
• Mt Cook walk
• Tour of the Cadbury Chocolate Factory at Dunedin
• Dissecting Squid at Otago University
• Visiting the locations for filming The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia.
• Jet boating across the Shotover River in Queenstown
• Crossing New Zealand's greatest mountain range, the Southern Alps, and travelling through lush beech forests and past serene lakes
• Seeing Fox Glacier, a solid tongue of ice 13km long and 5 storeys high
• Travelling by Gondola cableway up 450m over Queenstown
• Viewing the incredible sights of Milford Sound, Mitre Peak and Bowen Falls.
• Experiencing a 6.2 earthquake during a lecture about earthquakes at Christchurch University

A special highlight for a number of students was the Colleges participation in the centenary of ANZAC Day Dawn service in Christchurch. A special thanks to the College students Ben Jenkins and Taylah Wittwer for laying the wreath at the Cenotaph as representatives from Australia and St 91������.

The College thanks Mr Batten, Mr Brennan, Mrs Kain, Mr Henry, Ms Kusta, and Dr Nagabhushan without whose support the trip would not have been possible.