Open Day

Thank you to all the whanau and friends who visited Cashmere High School on the 10 June for our annual Open Day.

We thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to be able to showcase our wonderful school to our community. Our staff and students really appreciated the opportunity to be able to interact with all of you throughout the night. Ko Te iringa o Kahukura ko te korowai matauraka ō tātou tīpuna

New Board members

Introducing two new Board members, James O’Connell and David Tikao! We are extremely lucky to have both James and David serving on our Board. Both James and David have extensive experience in both management and governance. James works in executive management roles supporting businesses, while David’s expertise is in Finance, currently working for Ngai Tahu.

Waimea Exchange

Cashmere hosted Waimea College Sport today in the annual exchange. A huge thanks to the Waimea staff and students who made the trip down.

Cashmere won the exchange and retained the shield for 2021. Cashmere edges ahead in the overall standings 10-9 of the exchange.

Huge thanks to the captains, players, families, coaches and staff involved in making the exchange happen. Great to see the Cashmere support throughout the day!

Rockquest 2021

Congratulations to Portland who got 1st place at the Smokefreerockquest Canterbury finals on Friday! Briannah Jarvis also won the award for best vocalist! Special mention to Burning Monk and T3 for their performances in the final as well! We are so proud of all three bands and all the mahi they put into preparing for this event!

The Big Sing

The Big Sing is a national, inter-school, competition and massed choral performance. Eleven schools and nineteen choirs competed, including one of our choirs, 'Octaves' the girls chorus. The girls sang their programme extremely well during the day before singing again in the Gala Concert in the evening. The event ended with all the choirs combining to perform the massed item "A Te Tarakihi". This was accompanied by Grant Bartley on the piano, with two year 10's Jacob Hickman and Nicolae Didenco on percussion. 

Best of Broadway

Our Performing Arts staff and students have been working incredibly hard to bring you the ‘Best of Broadway’. Tickets are on sale now - www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/best-of-broadway-tickets-157728336701

Languages Week

Language week was another opportunity to celebrate the wonderful diversity of cultures that make up Cashmere High School. Leo and Becky from Brazilian Beatz NZ came to do a workshop with some of our students.

Year 10 and Year 11 Principal’s Assemblies

Congratulations to all the recipients of awards at our Year 10 and Year 11 Principal’s Assemblies. A special mention to Mathew Fairhall and Meghan Baker who received COVE awards for their outstanding service to our school community.

Noho Marae

The annual noho marae took forty four students, three staff, and one student teacher, up to Kaikōura for three days last week. This Included a stop at Kaiapoi Pā which allowed our ākonga to stand on wāhi tapu and hear stories of this historical place of significance. 

Previous principals visit

We were delighted to host three of our previous Principals on the 4th June. Unfortunately, Mr Chapman could not make it today due to ill health. However it was a great opportunity to show them some of the new developments around the school.

Winter Sport

Winter sport at Cashmere has started strongly with an increase in the number of competitive teams in the major sports and outstanding performances across several different sports to begin Term 2.  A number of students have been named in representative teams for winter sports.

Handball - Senior team competing in Wellington.  Michael Zandbergen, Josh Bruce-Campbell, Pol Huertas, Paul Pringot, Hector Pringot, George Ladley, Zen Kuwasaki, Kaspar Hayes, Seb Linscott. 

Hockey - Kaia Jorgenson, Elliott Smith, Matthew Fairhall

Football - Three students from last year have signed onto American programmes (Angus Johnson, Bailey Jordan, Jake Grove)

Netball – Stella Shields and Esther Pratten in U15 teams

Volleyball – Esther Pratten, Brooke Smith, Emily Simpson, Noah Smith and PE teacher Luke Hulston represented Canterbury at the National Volleyball Champs.

Basketball –U15 Girls Ellie McDougal, Indi Beeforth; U15 Boys Sam Kenny; U17 Girls Amelia Cunningham, Keira Hill; U17 Boys Alex Wenmoth, Harry Weston, Reuben Booth, Jayden Olsen.  

A special mention to Charlie Hazlett being awarded School Sport Canterbury Most Outstanding male athlete.

Who's who at Cashmere

Kia ora whānau

Ko Les Wilson tōku ingoa

Ko Tuahiwi te marae

Ko Ngāi Tahu te iwi

Kia ora, my name is Les Wilson, I am currently the Property Manager at Cashmere High. I have been in this role for over two years.

I am originally from Invercargill but have called Christchurch home for close to twenty years despite still managing to roll my R’s.

I have a wonderful wife Rebecca who is a Kaihautū Whakaako/Deputy Principal at another Kura on the East of Christchurch, no escape from the school chat for us.

I have five tamariki, Joseph, Reuben, Brooklyn, Sienna and Grayson. aging from 10- 18 years.

Previously I worked in two other kura on the East Side of Christchurch which I loved, but was excited to move to Cashmere for this role.

My job entails managing the day to day running of all things property, whether it be organising contractors, overseeing property projects and even restocking the soap in the toilets!

I love my job as no two days are ever the same, my role has a lot of variety but the best thing is I work alongside a great team that does the best for our kids and community.

The kura has changed over the short period that I have been here and with the final stages of the projects moving towards completion I am excited to see how the kura will look and feel in the years to come.

Ngā mihi

Les

The two weeks ahead