Enrolments 2024

Our Year 9 enrolments have closed for 2024. Unfortunatley due to our high in zone demand for places at Cashmere High, we will not be offering any out of zone places.

Careers Expo - Passion and Purpose

Thank you to all our students, friends and whanau who took the time to attend our Careers Expo - Passion and Purpose, on Tuesday. This was a well attended event, providing our community with the opportunity to learn more about future pathways in a wide range of areas. Many thanks to Mr Mike Bennett and Mrs Nic Falloon who organised the event.

Artists of the Month - July & August

Dance Success

A big congratulations to our dancers who competed at DanceNZMade.

• Connie Colquhoun and Georgia Stokes both placed 3rd and entered into nationals.
• Lucy Chen and Katie Robertson placed 2nd
• Connie Colquhoun, Lucy Chen, Sophia Brown, Millie Bradford-Woodland and Lily Dougherty were 5 of 300 dancers to be chosen for NZ Best Dancer.

The competition team was 2nd runner up of the overall competition scoring 95/100 and qualified for nationals.

COVE Awards

Over the last two weeks we have held our Year 9 and Year 10 Principal Assemblies. As always these assemblies are a great opportunity to acknowledge the outstanding achievements of our students. I am always amazed at the depth and breadth of our students’ successes. A special mention to Greta Prince (Year 9) and Clementine Bruce (Year 10) who received our COVE Awards for their outstanding service to our school and wider community. Both of these students are immersed in the life of the school, they are aspirational yet humble, and they are achieving at an exceptional level. These assemblies always remind me how lucky we are to work with such exceptional young people.

Winter Sports Season is Coming to an End

Best of luck to all our winter sports teams as they conclude their seasons over the next couple of weeks. It has been great to see so many students involved in our winter sports programmes. I wish our premier teams all the best for week 7 when they head away for the Winter Tournament Week in week 7.

Skiing Success

It was an awesome day up at Mount Hutt last week for our Ski team competing in the Canterbury Schools Ski and Snowboard Champs. For many of the students it was their first time racing. A great day was had by all with our team finishing second in the co-ed schools competition.

From the Archives

1995 Staff Photo

Who’s Who at Cashmere High - Shaun Edwards-Brown

Hi, I’m Shaun Edwards-Brown, or rather Mr EB as I have become known. I am privileged to be the Head of Drama and Dance here at Te Iringa ō Kahukura, Cashmere High School. I began here as a student teacher way back in 2001 and have been here ever since. In my time at Cashmere I have watched the place grow and blossom into the best school in the city, and feel a great deal of pride that I have managed to be a small part of that growth.

Teaching Performing Arts is such a rewarding journey. One in which we get to have the chance to share in the dreams and aspirations of our young people and walk with them as they strive towards reaching them. It's almost impossible to really explain the joy that it brings us all in the performing arts when we see one our akōnga step on to the stage for the first time nervous and unsure of what may come and then leave the stage bursting with pride and joy for what they have accomplished. Being trusted to be a part of that process is something that none of us take for granted, and all of us are thankful for.

Outside of school I love to get to the gym as often as I can, in a vain attempt to fight off middle age, and whenever I can get down and support my local Football team, the mighty Coastal Spirit (sorry to all the Cash Tech students). I am a lover of local theatre and a single malt whisky, especially when they are together. However my biggest love is of course my family; my wife Vicki, my children Lane and Neeve, and the ridiculous number of pets that run our lives, some of which I’m sure think they are people.

If I could give students one piece of advice, it would be to do what you love, because if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life. You may even get to work in a place as wonderful as our great school.

Me te arohanui

Mr EB

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