Each pint of blood donated can help save up to three lives and will touch the lives of many more. Join the Blood Bank of Hawaiʻi on April 4 and make an impact on the health of the community.
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Start dates for spring team sports. Remember that the athletic participation form must be completed and submitted through Magnus Health before tryouts begin.
Admission Applications
Applications for students to apply to Punahou for the 2019 – 2020 school year are now available in Ravenna, an online application system. Please visit the Admission and Financial Aid page for more information.
Join the Punahou ‘ohana in honoring Dr. Scott over the coming year. Attend a regional celebration, share your personal message of gratitude, and contribute to one of the two community gifts in his name.
Today at Punahou
The student-organized Sustainability Fair on April 12 was a big hit, with activities, recycled arts and crafts, games and local treats! Surfrider Foundation, Sustainable Coastlines, Art Explorium, Blue Planet Foundation, RHA Energy Partners and Nalo Made Lemonade also helped make it a special day.
Maya Soetoro-Ng ’88 inspired the Punahou community as the Chapel’s 2019 Kong Spirit and Health Speaker, teaching about inner peace, peace between people and peace in service to others.
Jake Tsukada took a first-pitch offering and slammed it over the right field fence to walk fourth-ranked Punahou off with a 5-4 victory over No. 3 Iolani in the 10th inning of an Interscholastic League of Honolulu Division I matchup at Goeas Field.
Novell Goodman ’20, Norissa Goodman ’20, Siya Kumar ’20 and Celia Valenzuela ’21 wanted to do something to show that Punahou cares about the environment and is part of Hawai‘i’s environmental scene.
Check out all the hard (and fun!) work that went into making this year’s Third-Grade Lū‘au one to remember. What a great way to cap off a yearlong study of Hawaiian history and culture.
Continuing his worldwide farewell tour – this time across California – President Jim Scott ’70 bid alumni and friends a fond aloha and mahalo ahead of his retirement from Punahou at the end of June.
With a young roster including three freshmen and three sophomores, Punahou hasn’t missed a beat. Junior Jack Deuchar had 13 kills while hitting .423 and Christian Hong added seven as the visiting Buffanblu outlasted Kamehameha 25-19, 25-21 on Thursday night at humid Kekuhaupio Gymnasium.
Out on a lanai in the Sidney and Minnie Kosasa Community, students select from a variety of fresh-caught fish – but not to eat. It’s for gyotaku, the Japanese art of fish printing.
Construction for Sidney and Minnie Kosasa Community for Grades 2 – 5 has entered the home stretch. Interior finish work on the studios is ongoing, as is exterior tile installation and painting.
Max Moonier's golden goal in the 87th minute lifted the Buffanblu over the Raiders, 1-0, for the school's 21st state title at Waipio Peninsula Soccer Stadium.
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The student-organized Sustainability Fair on April 12 was a big hit, with activities, recycled arts and crafts, games and local treats! Surfrider Foundation, Sustainable Coastlines, Art Explorium, Blue Planet Foundation, RHA Energy Partners and Nalo Made Lemonade also helped make it a special day.
Today at Punahou
The Outdoor Education Department has provided unique, age-appropriate, outdoor experiences for Punahou students for more than 50 years.
As part of a pilot underway at Punahou, grades are all but gone in a handful of Academy classrooms, replaced by a mastery-based model of assessment, in which students get robust, frequent feedback of their progress based on skill sets.
Stellar SATs and a high GPA have long been considered the holy grail to get into the nation’s most elite universities, but an increasing number of colleges have been focusing more on skill sets and unique contributions than on a student’s ability to take tests.
Academy faculty Terry Yamamoto-Edwards shares insights from her year-long sabbatical living with her son in Spain.
One of the Aims of a Punahou Education is to provide students with rich opportunities and experiences for exploration, growth and mastery.
In the robotics classroom at the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind (HSDB), a table was covered with wires, gears and robot pieces.
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The Outdoor Education Department has provided unique, age-appropriate, outdoor experiences for Punahou students for more than 50 years.
Alumni Stories
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Award-winning kumu hula Māpuana de Silva holds true to the traditional vision and values she learned from her teachers.
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As co-founder of Hui Ku Maoli Ola and Papahana Kuaola, Matt Kapalikū Schirman ’92 is at the center of a movement to restore native plant species and ahupua‘a management practices.
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With her own radio show on KTUH and as a scholar at the University of Hawai‘i, Paige Okamura ’09 is part of the new wave of Hawaiian language revival.
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Inspired by his Punahou teachers, Arita established the A.I.M. High Endowed Financial Aid Fund to provide young students with the opportunity to dream big and to achieve their fullest potential.
Loveday Conquest ’66 remembers well the stepped-up pace of HWs and reading assignments during her freshman year at the Claremont Colleges.
Punahou’s instructional centers are creating a K – 12 network to transform teaching and learning.
During an evening event, Punahou 'ohana guests experienced a sneak peek of the innovation and invention happening in D. Kenneth Richardson ’48 Learning Lab in Mamiya Science Center, which supports Punahou's future K – 12 Learning Commons.