I'm so proud of all the amazing students in this photo!

and imagine where you want to be in five years. 

We were very lucky to receive some of the funding received from a Fuel Your School grant to WHS - here we are with Jeremy and Hayley from Z Energy, Dan Milward and our students. No, I don't know where the hat came from. 

A huge thanks to the Rotary Club of Mount Victoria Wellington, for sponsoring the Take Charge! book for each of the 2016 Upwards participants! The book comes from Sandy Vincent-Guy's experience and her Take Charge! programme. 

We didn't have our books yet as they were still at the printers' - but we did get our nice snazzy certificates for all the amazing people in this photo! 

I'm really glad we held classes in the wharenui for each school - it was a great chance to connect further. Here we're talking about whakapapa and the people who support us. 

Gamefroot is part of Te Papa's Mahuki programme this year (helping make their exhibits more accessible via digital), and the lucky students at this pilot school could choose to take part in Upwards or in Dan's game development workshop, which he co-ran with Rachel from NZCER. 

This was a lot of students' favourite exercise - work out what to buy with a set food budget and the grocery flyers. It was hard!

A rare moment everyone is sitting down... which is probably how I could get a photo!

We were lucky enough to go on a tour of Government House with the rest of the Year 9s. 

Here the tour guide is telling us about how the Governor-General is more important than the Prime Minister, even.