page_title: Aro Valley
section_title: Features of interest
hierarchical_section_title: Aro Valley / Education / Features of interest
caption_attribution_description: The School of Practical Philosophy on Aro Street, in Aro Valley, Wellington
context_page_description: The Aro Valley forms a small inner-city suburb of Wellington in New Zealand. It takes its name from the stream which originally flowed where modern Epuni Street is. The stream's Māori name was originally Wai-Mapihi, but it was commonly called Te Aro Stream due to it running through the Te Aro flat.
context_section_description: Aro Valley Community Centre (complex with public hall and pre-school; former site of Holy Family School) and the surrounding Aro park is the site of the Annual Aro Valley Fair, Arolympics and other events through the year.
  Wesleyan Methodist Hall built in 1903 (restored in 2019) at western end of Aro Street has had many community uses and is now flats.
  William Booth Memorial Training College (formerly a Salvation Army officer-training establishment, now the School of Practical Philosophy)
  Mickey Mouse Motors (as featured in the film Goodbye Pork Pie, ceased trading since 2003, and is now the micro brewery Garage Project)
  Aro Valley War Memorial (at beginning of Holloway Road and the western end of Aro Street)
caption: The School of Practical Philosophy on Aro Street
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