Godley Peaks has a long history with Timaru Boys’ High School. As a youngster, former station owner Bruce Scott was sent off to ‘the big smoke’ as a boarder. He was at school with Peter Lewis, father of the current owner, Warren Lewis.

In 1984, Bruce Scott gifted the Sutherlands Hut woolshed to Timaru Boys’ High School for them to use for outdoor education and for school camps. Warren Lewis remembers getting the hut ready for handover. A whole crew of old boys came in for the weekend and spent the days shovelling manure and cleaning and the evenings spinning yarns. That same woolshed has been converted into a classic camp experience that thousands of boys have benefitted from.

Every year in Term 1, all Year 9 classes spend a week at John Scott Lodge. International students, Outdoor Education students, and student leaders all travel inland to explore the landscape, and themselves.

This special lodge sits in a sheltered hollow with trees providing shelter and a nearby tarn formed from Pollock Stream offers the perfect backdrop. The original Sutherlands Hut sits behind and is still in use by musterers and station workers today.