Our house name sakes

At Botany Downs we have four houses, Hillary, Batten, Blake and Sheppard. This mural shows us their famous faces and is huge! We all stood by our house and talked about why each of these people are famous New Zealanders. We know that Hillary was the first man to climb Mt Everest; Batten flew solo in her plane across the ocean; Blake helped us to win the America's cup and was a tireless campaigner for keeping the oceans clean and Sheppard was a brave woman who fought for women to have the right to vote (and NZ was the first country in the world to let women do so).
We are very proud of our mural and want to thank the team of painters and staff who have put in many hours to create this masterpiece.