Hutt Intermediate School (HIS) is an intermediate school

School

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 located in Lower Hutt

Lower Hutt

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, New Zealand

New Zealand

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The school was founded in 1948, and currently has a total number of 685 students and a teaching staff of 45.

The principal, up until the end of 2006, was Neil Withington. He was the principal of Hutt Intermediate School for six years, and has left to take up a position at Victoria University of Wellington

Victoria University of Wellington

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. Mike Gillatt has taken up the position since.

Houses at Hutt Intermediate

The four houses in the school (in alphabetical order) are Bracken

Thomas Bracken

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 (green), Brooke

Rupert Brooke

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 (blue), Burns (white) and Byron (red), named after British poets. The houses compete fiercely to win the House Cup, awarded at the end of every school year.
Every student and member of staff in the school, other than the principal and deputy principals, subscribe to one of these houses.
It is often the case that families will align themselves to certain houses, such as where the oldest sibling of a family was in Burns, their younger siblings, children and grandchildren who attend the school will also be in Burns.On their jerseys they have a ribbon to show which house they are in.

Famous people that have attended Hutt Intermediate

Anna Paquin

Anna Paquin

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 and Nick Willis

Nick Willis

Nicholas Ian Willis MNZM is a New Zealand middle distance runner. He won the silver medal in the 1500m at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing with a time of 3:34.16 minutes. He was a gold medallist in the 1500 metres at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and a bronze medallist at the 2010...

attended this school during 1994 and 1995.