Starting high school is a fairly big thing in your life when you’re twelve or thirteen. Books are written about it and movies are made about it. 

Head of Junior College Suzanne Waters talks about how she helps new students make a smooth transition into Hagley.

Bailey Backhouse-Richards really is one of Hagley’s ‘nice guys’ He is motivated, focused and contributes to the wider College.

It has been great to see prospective students and their parents, caregivers and whānau engage with Hagley and get to know us better, as we have begun to get to know them.

On the afternoon of Friendship Day, all year 9 classes joined together for the delivery of cards and gifts. It’s fun to see the students embrace the intent of the day, which is to be appreciative of the kind words written and acknowledge friendships they have developed throughout the year.

Our Year 13 School of Music students tackled a new task earlier this year and entered the National Shakespeare Composition Competition which is a part of the SGCNZ National University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival.

We’ve just learned that Hagley has been the successful recipient of funding to support a two year research project on advancing academic literacy, with a goal to improve outcomes for students entering university. This is great news!

Guta Goldstein, Auschwitz survivor and author of the book There Will Be Tomorrow, spoke at Hagley on July 1. At 86, Guta is one of the few survivors left from what she describes as an "evil" period of history. What did some of our Year 12 Philosophy students think about Guta and her story?

We will be sending out details of the NCEA standards you have been entered for as well as the invoice for your 2016 NCEA fees by the end of Term 2.

Nephtalim Antoine [Nephy] has packed plenty into his first two terms at at the New Zealand Drama School Toi Whakaari.

Welcome to our new parent trustee Andrew Swift and to to our new staff trustee Carmen Kenton, who have both just joined the Hagley Board.

University of Canterbury Fine Arts Scholar and sculpture student Giselle Fortune returned to Hagley recently to talk to Level 3 Art students about the transition from school to university.

Many of our Year 11-13 students will be sitting practice NCEA external examinations during the 2nd week of Term 3.