Re-live the energy of our Centenary Celebration. Many, many, many past & present students & staff came together to celebrate 100 years of Ōpunakē High School in a weekend unlike any other – truly special. Massive thanks to James Aitken for capturing all the magic on film & photo. #legend He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata he tangata he tangata! What is the most important thing in the world? It is people it is people it is people!
Opunake High School
Nau mai, haere mai.
The warmest welcome to our new, Year 9 tauira &
whanau.
Your Welcome Powhiri isn't far away, Monday 2nd Feb.
See you just before 9am in our carpark, fresh new uniform, and ready for your first day with our kura. We can't wait!!!
10 hours ago
Somehow missed sharing this from our Instagram the other day, but heres all the important start dates!
And just like that... its the 2026 season at @opunakehigh.
We can't wait to meet our new students & catch up with our current ones.
1 day ago
Pickering Motors
*psssst*.... 🤫
Wanna see something cool?
Check out our NCEA results for the 2025 year 😱
Wowwee!
You smashed it our terrific tauira!!! 🥹
2 days ago
Great to see. Keep the up the good work team Opunake!!!
Thats amazing xx
Nick Vincent, show this to Anna Gribble
Congratulations Opunake High, a great school all round!
Super well done⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ka pai Opunake
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Wow, well done!
Well done
Well done Opunake Students.
Good work all
Absolutely amazing achievement mauriora
Brilliant 👏
👏👏
Congratulations 👏👏👏 well done!
Great inspirational Leader at the helm and awesome group of teachers!!!! Well done everyone.
Well done Opunake High School!!
Well done
ka mau te wehi Ōpūnake!Kia mau ki te mahi pai, ā, kia pai rawa tō koutou tau.🏔💚
Well done all our present and past students here. Plenty of you getting out and about these holidays!An outstanding performance by our athletes at the SLSNZ Central Regions IRB Competition in Paekākāriki, with every team dominating the podium and bringing home an incredible spread of medals across all grades — a true showcase of skill, teamwork and depth of talent. 👏🥇
Results:
Under 19 Female – Melah, Georgie, Bernie
🥇 Gold Assembly
🥇 Gold Mass
🥇 Gold Single
Under 23 Female – Bella, Ella, Leah
🥇 Gold Mass
🥇 Gold Assembly
🥇 Gold Single
Under 23 Female – Macy, Hilary, Bernie
🥉 Bronze Mass
🥈 Silver Assembly
🥈 Silver Single
Open Male – Caleb, Samuel, Victor
🥇 Gold Single
🥇 Gold Mass
🥈 Silver Assembly
An exceptional team effort with consistent podium finishes across the board — well done everyone! 💪🌊
Big thank you to
Coach Gavin Vanner,
Manager Amanda Drought
Sponsor Bull Pen Powders
Simon Drought for transporting the boats, motors etc. 
1 week ago
This video titled “D R E A M” is the first time Opunake High School has had a student submit their photography work this way, it was shot & edited entirely by Marcel – enjoy, and DREAM exactly where you are right now.
