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Warkworth School’s new sign was unveiled on March 28 with senior students from the kapa haka group singing a beautiful waiata to welcome its arrival.
However, it’s more than just a sign.
It symbolises the school, with each of its constituent elements carefully considered to represent different stages of a student’s development.
Warkworth’s Totally Wrapped director Danie Bosch said instead of just using a plain old panel with a frame “which everybody does, we wanted to do something really special for them. And the idea just kind of unfolded”.
“The concrete is the solid foundation the school provides. The timber is to show how kids are strong yet mould-able, and have room to grow like the trees it came from,” he said.
“And we liked how metal shapes metal. So the metal reflects not only the strength of the students but also their hopes for the future, and how they shape each other’s lives.”
He and his wife, co-owner Elani, fell in love with the idea from the start, he said.
Principal Karney Dawson said the school strived to be great, to be excellent, and “to be the best we can be”.
“We needed the sign to represent all of that to our community,” he said.
“The old sign was small and hidden away on a bit of board. So that meant when you were coming from the junior campus to the senior campus, you couldn’t see it. And it just seemed very token.”
Funded by the Board of Trustees, the new sign took around two months to complete as much of it was fabricated off site and designs needed to be looked at carefully for strength over time.
