Christchurch Girls’ High School
Christchurch Girls' High School/Te Kura o Hine Waiora 2018
2018 was a another great year for Christchurch Girls' High School/Te Kura o Hine Waiora. Read more…Board of Trustees 2018
A list of the current Board of Trustees. Read more…Chair of the Board's Prizegiving Speech
Julian Bowden delivered his speech at the senior prizegiving. Read more…Video: Year 9 Curriculum Project
The Year 9 students had a range of guest speakers and taster sessions. Read more…Year 9 Camp
In February this year, 250 brand new year 9 students were bused off to Waipara Boy’s Brigade for their camp. It was a fun-packed week ... Read more…Year 10 Camps
Our Year 10 camps in Term 4 were a success again this year. Read more…Video: Year 10 Junior Curriculum Project
This year the Year 10 group worked on a variety of projects as part of our Junior Curriculum Project. Read more…Year 11 Geography Field Trip
On the 8-10 March, five Year 11 Geography classes had a field trip to get an introduction to Geography and to investigate the tourism ... Read more…Year 11 Mountain Biking Field Trip
Every year at the end of Term 3 the Year 11 Physical Education students head to Hanmer Springs to experience some ‘proper’ mountain ... Read more…Year 12 P.E. Field Trip
Every year in June the Year 12 Physical Education students head to Boyle River, in the Lewis Pass, to experience some of what the ... Read more…Year 12 Tourism Field Trip
On Friday 18th May the two Year 12 Tourism classes travelled to Akaroa for a one-day trip to see the popular tourist destination on ... Read more…BrainBee Neuroscience Competition
On Monday 25 June Atithi Chamoli, Treasa Glubb, Mary O’Leary and Heli Pate, accompanied by Jason Aaron and Sarah O’Leary, travelled ... Read more…Year 13 Biology
For a week at the end of May, each Year 13 Biology class travelled to Wainui and spent a night in YMCA accommodation by the shore front. Read more…Year 13 Leavers' Formal
"A Night at the Oscars" was the theme for this year's leavers' formal. Read more…Jessie Clark Memorial Prize for Appreciation of Jane Austen
Congratulations to all the girls who participated in this competition in Term 2. Read more…Junior Alison Harper Competition
It was a fabulous event with students performing monologues and duologues from Shakespearean plays, as well as extracts written by ... Read more…Junior Speech Competition
The Junior Speech Competition was, as expected, a highlight in the English calendar for 2018. Read more…Junior Chirnside Prize for the Appreciation of Shakespeare
Junior girls were invited to take a quote from a Shakespearean Drama and create an A4 poster. Read more…Senior Alison Harper Competition
The annual Senior Alison Harper Competition was held at school on Friday 13 April. Read more…Senior Chirnside Competition 2018
Congratulations to the winners of the Senior Chirnside Shakespeare Competition, 2018, which was held on 30 August. Read more…Senior Speech Competition
On Thursday 9 August, eight senior students partook in the CGHS Senior Speech Competition. The competition was fierce, with eight ... Read more…Fiscal Policy Challenge
The Fiscal Policy Challenge tasks senior Economics students to make recommendations to the Tax Working Group on the New Zealand tax ... Read more…CGHS Film Festival
The annual CGHS Film Festival was held on the 16th August in the PAC. It was a fabulous event that showcased seven short films, all ... Read more…Governor General Opens New Performing Arts Centre
On the 27th of May 2018, students and staff members of CGHS flooded into the gym for the long-awaited opening of the Performing Arts ... Read more…International Food Day
On Tuesday the 1st of May, the International Club held an International Food Day. Read more…Video: Junior Prizegiving
On December 2018 the school gym was packed with staff, students and many parents for our first ever Junior Prizegiving. Read more…Monetary Policy Challenge 2018
A group of five of our top senior economists, Charlotte Partington, Sarah Bates, Lily Trotter, Akeira Worthington and Beth Wray took ... Read more…Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival
On Saturday 7 April, eighteen girls represented Christchurch Girls' High School at the annual University of Otago, Sheilah Winn ... Read more…Charities Committee
This has been an incredibly busy year for the Charities Committee, with large fundraisers happening every term. It started off with a ... Read more…World Challenge to Myanmar 2018
On Monday 3rd December ten students and two staff members together with their accompanying guide flew via Singapore to Yangon in Myanmar. Read more…Garden Club
This year in the Garden Club we had a fantastic group of girls who showed a great amount of interest and commitment in the garden. Read more…Senior Film Club
Senior Film Club this year has enjoyed meeting once a week to view films, discuss our favourites and warn each other about films that ... Read more…International Club
The International Club is a space for students of all nationalities to embrace new cultures. Read more…Knitting Club
Every Thursday a group of keen knitters and those who wanted to learn met in the library at lunchtime. What the group most enjoyed was ... Read more…Robotics
A small yet keen group of girls were involved in the Robotics club this year. Read more…Scribblers Writers Group
As president, I can truthfully say that Scribblers is a creative plane of liberation that enables a place of celebration and support ... Read more…Senior Book Club
The Senior Book Club is a tight-knit group of the senior school’s most voracious bookworms. Read more…Sign Language
The New Zealand Sign Language class ran weekly on a Monday afternoon and saw a small group of girls, made up by all year levels, excel ... Read more…Chamber Group
This year Christchurch Girls’ High School has three main chamber groups. Read more…Orchestra Festival
On Monday the 17th of September, the combined CGHS/CBHS Orchestra and the String Orchestra took part in the annual Orchestra Festival, ... Read more…Concert Band
The Christchurch Girls’ and Christchurch Boys’ High School Concert Band had a great year. We had seven Girls’ High students involved ... Read more…Model United Nations
United Nations Youth conferences are run for youth by youth; these are held at regional, national and international levels. Those who ... Read more…Orchestra Festival
On Monday the 17th of September, the combined CGHS/CBHS Orchestra and the String Orchestra took part in the annual Orchestra Festival, ... Read more…Orchestra
This year the Christchurch Girls’ and Boys’ High School combined Orchestra has been working incredibly hard towards all the events and ... Read more…String Orchestra
This year has been another busy year for the Christchurch Girls’ and Boys’ High School Combined String Orchestra. Read more…Kapa Haka 2018
The kapa haka in 2018 consisted of about 30 members and was led by Samantha Moore and Aliyah Teirney – Lambert, with great support ... Read more…Pasifika Leaders’ Breakfast
On Friday 25 June, Ella Tanoa–Kell and Jayanna Tia were acknowledged for their leadership of our Pasifika students at a breakfast ... Read more…Pasifika Speech Competitions
Temukisa Fetuao and Ema Pasikala represented Christchurch Girls’ High School / Te Kura o Hine Waiora at the Pasifika speech ... Read more…Polyfest 2018
On Saturday 17th of March 2018, the Christchurch Girls' High/Te Kura o Hine Waiora Polyfest group set off to perform at the Canterbury ... Read more…Athletics
The CGHS Athletics Sports were held on Friday 20 February on the Burnside High School lower field. Read more…Badminton
This year Christchurch Girls’ High School had a total of 17 badminton groups, which was a lot more than in previous years. Read more…Equestrian
The Christchurch Girls' High School / Te Kura O Hine Waiora Equestrian Team had a fantastic year and came away with some great results ... Read more…Football
The football team endured a season of “what ifs” on their way to finishing tied for 5th in the Wednesday Premier competition and ... Read more…Hockey
The hockey season has zoomed by with six teams competing in an exhilarating season. Read more…Futsal
The fast-paced game of futsal was well represented at Christchurch Girls’ High this year, with two fabulous junior teams entered into ... Read more…Ki O Rahi
At the end of Term 2, our Ki-o-rahi teams participated in the first ever ‘girls’ division at the Canterbury Secondary Schools ... Read more…Life Saving
This year there was again a keen group of girls across every year group who took part in the Royal Life Saving awards programme. Read more…Mountain biking
CGHS students enjoyed success at the South Island XCO Mountain Biking Cross Country Championships on 4 February at Halswell Quarry. Read more…Netball
Once again the CGHS Netball Club has had an awesome season this year with a total of 22 teams competing in the Wednesday and Saturday ... Read more…New Zealand Representatives
NZ Colours 2018 Read more…Snow Sports
At the start of the ski season, both the ski and snowboard teams entered the Canterbury school sport competition, held at Mt Hutt ski ... Read more…Rugby
Rugby at Christchurch Girls' High School is a growing sport and this year the 1st XV had a number of successes. Read more…Rock Climbing
In this invigorating and sociable sport, personal records have been broken by the Christchurch Girls’ High School Rock Climbing Group. Read more…Track Cycling
Esme Maillard (13DTP) competed at the Elite Track National Cycling Championships in Invercargill between 21-25 February. Esme achieved ... Read more…Tennis
We have had another successful year of tennis at school attracting a lot of new players across the junior years as well as combining ... Read more…Triathlon
What another fantastic year it’s been for our multisport team! Our strong team of triathletes and duathletes certainly made an ... Read more…Volleyball
Volleyball has been a popular sport this year with a combination of competitive and social teams playing in Term 1 and Term 4 in the ... Read more…Water Polo
2018 has been a successful year for the CGHS Water Polo Team. With the same young team that carried on from last year, we took on the ... Read more…
