West Coast Trades Academy

27/10/2026

✨️✨️All 2026 Students, whanau and friends are invited! Awards, food, celebration and fun!✨️✨️

25/10/2026

As our Trades Academy nears the end of thecyear, its just brilliant to see our tutors and students making the very most of the final few weeks 💚💚💚💚 Papa Taiao - West Coast 💚💚💚

19/10/2026

🚨🚨 DON'T MISS OUT! 🚨🚨

🎓 WEST COAST TRADES ACADEMY – 2027 ENROLMENTS!

⏰ FINAL WEEK FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST!

📢 APPLICATIONS CLOSE THIS FRIDAY, 23 OCTOBER 2026!

Thinking about joining the West Coast Trades Academy in 2027?

Whether you're interested in trades, hospitality, outdoor adventure, technology or other hands-on career pathways, now is your chance!

⚠️ If you haven't submitted your Expression of Interest yet, you MUST do so by this Friday!

🌐 APPLY NOW: www.wcta.ac.nz
Greymouth High School Westland High School Hokitika John Paul II High School, Greymouth Karamea Area School Reefton Area School South Westland Area School Buller High School Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu - The Correspondence School Whenua Iti Outdoors Tai Poutini Polytechnic Papa Taiao - West Coast

The West Coast Trades Academy gives secondary school students the chance to start training for a trade while they are still at school.

11/10/2026

🎉 WEST COAST TRADES ACADEMY – 2026 END OF YEAR CELEBRATION & STUDENT AWARDS 🎉

It’s time to celebrate an incredible year for our West Coast Trades Academy students!

We warmly invite ALL students who have participated in the West Coast Trades Academy during 2026, along with their friends and whānau, to join us for our annual End of Year Celebration and Student Awards.

🏆 Thursday 5 November 2026
🎭 Regent Theatre, Greymouth
🕠 Please be seated by 5.30pm

This is a very special evening recognising the hard work, achievements and successes of our students across all of our Trades Academy programmes.

Our students, schools, tutors, providers and whānau invest so much into Trades Academy throughout the year, and this evening is our opportunity to come together as one West Coast community and celebrate what our rangatahi have achieved.
✨ Students – bring your whānau!
✨ Dress smartly / semi-formal
✨ Light refreshments and food is provided following the awards.

Please RSVP for catering and planning purposes to [email protected]

Please share and help us get the word out to every 2026 Trades Academy student. 💚
Greymouth High School Westland High School Hokitika Reefton Area School Karamea Area School South Westland Area School John Paul II High School, Greymouth Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu - The Correspondence School Papa Taiao - West Coast Tai Poutini Polytechnic Whenua Iti Outdoors

30/09/2026

☕👩‍🍳 COULD THIS BE YOU IN 2027? 👨‍🍳🍽️

There is still time to enrol in Café Skills or Cheffing & Bakery with West Coast Trades Academy for 2027!

Check out these awesome photos from our final day of Term 3, when our Cheffing and Cafe Skills students took their learning into the real world at the Copthorne Hotel Greymouth.

Students spent the day alongside Chef Chris and the Copthorne team learning how to set up for lunch service, practising their barista skills, preparing a two-choice lunch menu, and putting their front-of-house skills into action serving real guests. 🙌

🌏 Dream of becoming a chef and travelling the world?
☕ Love the idea of working in cafés or restaurants?
🏨 Interested in hotels, tourism or hospitality right here on the West Coast?

Start your journey with the West Coast Trades Academy in 2027.

🔥 ENROLMENTS ARE OPEN NOW - and there’s still time to get in on the action!

Head to www.wcta.ac.nz to register your interest.

A huge thank you to the team at Copthorne Hotel Greymouth and Tai Poutini Polytechnic for giving our students such a fantastic real-world learning experience. 💙

29/09/2026

👏👏 We have just reported the NCEA results for our Conservation and Earthcare students and we are more than impressed!! Each student gained 20 or more credits at NCEA level or 3.

If you want to achieve results like this next year, whilst learning about conservation and our environment, you still have time to enrol for our 2027 programs.
Go to www.wcta.ac.nz NOW! 🙏👌

Papa Taiao - West Coast Papa Taiao
Greymouth High School Buller High School Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu - The Correspondence School John Paul II High School, Greymouth Westland High School Hokitika Karamea Area School South Westland Area School

22/09/2026

👋 Would you like to learn stuff like this!!?? 👇

We still have places left on our Conservation Trades Academy programs for 2027.
To find out more, and to sign.up go to :

www.wcta.ac.nz

Expressions of Interest will close soon. DO NOT MISS OUT!

Papa Taiao - West Coast
Greymouth High School Reefton Area School Karamea Area School John Paul II High School, Greymouth Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu - The Correspondence School South Westland Area School Buller High School Westland High School Hokitika

21/09/2026

🎓 MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN ABOUT TRADES ACADEMY AT Greymouth High School !

Thank you to everyone who came along to Greymouth High School’s Senior Course Selection Evening last Thursday. It was fantastic speaking with so many students and whānau about the wide range of West Coast Trades Academy opportunities available in 2027.

If you missed the evening, there are two more opportunities tomorrow, Wednesday:

📍 2.00 pm – Catch-up assembly for students who could not attend last week
📍 3.00 pm – Ngā Here Kahikatea Senior Course Information

Come along, meet us and find out how Trades Academy can support your learning, NCEA achievement and future career pathway.

Expressions of interest are open now:
👉 www.wcta.ac.nz

17/09/2026

Tonight at Greymouth High School !
We will be presenting all available West Coast Trades Academy courses for 2027, including new courses and changes with our providers!
See you there at 6pm!

💚2027 Senior Course Information Evening (for current Y10, 11 and 12)💚

16/09/2026

🎓 AN AWESOME EVENING AT Reefton Area School !!

We had a fantastic time at Reefton Area School last night, speaking with students and whānau about the exciting West Coast Trades Academy opportunities available in 2027.

The support shown by the school and wider Reefton community was outstanding, with lots of interest across a wide range of programmes. Thank you to everyone who came along and made us feel so welcome.

📍 Next stop: Greymouth High School tonight for their senior course selection presentations.

To enrol for a West Coast Trades Academy programme for 2027 you must fill in the online form - go to www.wcta.ac.nz