Welcome to our 2020 Yearbook.

On Sunday the 1st of November, our kapa haka group stood at their first ever competitive performance at the Tūhono Kapa Haka Festival.

As part of the year 12 Geography Course, all students are asked to attend a field trip as part of the unit called, “ From the mountains to the sea”, on Thursday the 19th to the 20th of March situated by the Bealey River in Arthur's Pass.

Learning Enhancement offers NCEA L1 credits.

This year we invited some of our senior students with Special Assessment Conditions to talk to our juniors.

Last Sunday 9th August, Anne Clark, our Cello itinerant teacher organised our CGHS String Quartet (Charlotte Cotton, Kate Gardiner, Heather Paget and Charlie Roberts) to perform for Ellen Doyle at the Hoon Hay Village.

For the first time this year, the school has partnered with the Eco-Action Nursery Trust to set up and operate a satellite nursery on the school grounds.

Christchurch Girls' High School has arguably one of the largest and most active groups of student librarians in the country.

2020 was a very interesting year to be learning about tourism. The impacts of Covid 19 were felt all around the world with the tourism industry having to react and adapt to massive change.

This year, the English Department introduced two new competitions for our budding authors. We opened up two categories - one for junior students and one for seniors - and the competition was open to any kind of writing, from poetry to prose, from fiction to non-fiction.

This year we welcomed students from China, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Chile and Mexico to study with us.

This year’s novel for the Jessie Clark competition was Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.

On Tuesday 11th August the Junior Alison Harper competition was held.

Every year, students in Year 12 are offered the opportunity to compete in the May Campbell Anderson Competition by completing an additional English exam. This is one of our department’s most prestigious awards and this year’s winner is Kate Gardiner with runner-up, Emily Koller.

On Tuesday the 4th of August, the yearly Senior Speech Competition was held. Competitors from Years 11 to 13 performed a variety of speeches on the day before the judges.

9 Kauri has been making connections and engaging empathetically with residents at Avon Life Rest Home.

School leaders took it upon themselves to make inspirational videos for the school community during the lockdown period.

As a way to encourage service while everyone was at home in Level 4, the House Prefects and I held an inter-house service challenge, facilitated via our student and house Instagram pages.

What did Year 13 get up to during lockdown?

Lockdown 2020 - a time to be remembered for years to come

Lockdown 2020 - Samantha Pegg

In November several groups set off for our annual Year 10 camp up to Craigieburn

On 10th November a group of keen French students took part in the Akaroa Amazing Race.

Chinese 2020

At the start of 2020, a group of Year 11 and 12 French students were very much looking forward to their trip to France in September.

This year's French Film Festival was held at the Lumière theatre.

Hallo!!! Well it would be fair to say that 2020 brought a number of interesting opportunities to the students studying German at Christchurch Girls’ High School.

Nau mai haere mai ki te tino whakahirahira nei Nga mihi nui ki a koutou katoa Talofa lava, i matua, malo le soifua. Afio mai. Warm greetings tonight to this very special occasion.

Good Evening to you all and welcome.

Kia ora and welcome students, whanau and teachers to our 2020 Senior Prizegiving.

You'd think that practically living at school for the past five years would make this speech easy to write and deliver, but it turns out that I really shouldn't have dropped English this year.

Christchurch Girls’ High School ï Te Kura o Hine Waiora held its annual prizegiving on Wednesday 4 November at Christchurch Boys' High School hall. Below is a list of the prizewinners:

December 4 was our last day of school and our junior prizegiving day. Year 9, Year 10, staff and at least 300 parents and whanau gathered together in the gym to celebrate the year of learning.

Christchurch Girls’ High School ⎪ Te Kura o Hine Waiora Junior Prizegiving 2020

This year the Christchurch Girls High School Aerobics team had many obstacles to overcome, but were still able to compete Regionally and Nationally in 2020.

The school had a fantastic day on Tuesday 25 February at Nga Puna Wai.

In December, 2020, 17 CGHS students competed at the Athletics National Championships in Tauranga.

This year has been challenging due to the pandemic that the world experienced.

Cantrices is our school’s auditioned choir, including students involved from Year 9-13.

This year there were four Chamber Groups containing 3-4 musicians in each one ranging from Year levels 10-13.

Cricket for 2020 has been very unusual with uncertainty if the season would continue to go ahead.

The CGHS 1st XI Cricket team travelled to Palmerston North in early December to participate in the Gillette Venus Cup – the National Secondary Schoolgirls Twenty20 Cricket Tournament.

At Girls' High it is our great fortune to have an abundance of students who have extreme talent and interest in the arts and cultural fields.

This year I was very excited to re-introduce the dance committee as it had been four years, (since 2016), since the last dance committee at school.

It has been a crazy year in the land of Drama. We welcomed our Year 9's and had begun the year with a lip sync. Our Year 10’s were feeling overdramatic and were ready to perform their own version of a Soap Opera. The seniors had leapt into Melodrama, Greek Theatre and The Glass Menagerie. Then bam! Covid 19 lockdown..

In Term 3, CGHS fencing students had great success at the Mid-South Secondary Schools Fencing Championships. Our students competed in both the individual events and in the team events, producing some outstanding results.

2020 was a rollercoaster year for the Futsal Senior A team.

2020 has been a very disrupted year for the Garden Club due to COVID-19.

This year our International group at school was called the Global relations group.

Over the lockdown this year, Year 9 Ako classes completed a COVID-19 Legacy Project, making memories of their individual and collective lockdown experiences. Each class took their own approach but some highlights included:

On Friday 14th February, six Year 13 students from Culinary Studies were lucky enough to take part in a baking tutorial with Allyson Gofton at Ballantynes. She started off with a brief history of her experience in the Food industry and Food in a Minute.

Jazz Band this year has contained students from year 9-13.

On Friday the 27th of November, our junior Kī-o-rahi team participated in the Canterbury Secondary Schools Kī-o-rahi tournament at Ngā Puna Wai.

Tournament week was an extremely successful one for CGHS netballers.

This year we had roughly 70 students from all year groups including some CBHS boys.

Every year we hold Pink Day Carnival on the field to raise money for Breast Cancer

Last year the CGHS Sevens team was very proud of its success.

The CGHS Seven's team travelled to Auckland to defend their national title in December.

After a long absence, Theatre Sports was once again thriving at Christchurch Girls’ High School Te Kura O Hine Waiora, under the leadership of a group of dedicated and enthusiastic Year 12 students.

On Saturday 19th September the South Island Secondary School Ski Champs were held at Cardrona.

The Sports Colours Awards ceremony was held on 30th October.

Despite the difficulties and challenges of COVID -19, we have managed to still complete a very successful and fun volleyball season for 2020.

The summer season started well in January with trainings in the CBHS pool and with senior coach, Dave Bone leading the way.

The Australian Mathematics Competition is sat by the most talented mathematicians in New Zealand and Australia.

9BYS has proudly presented our Charities Prefects with the funds they raised from making and selling masks for the CGHS 2020 Year 9 Charity - Starship Children's Hospital.

A small group of Yr 12 students entered the Gateway class of 2020.

In August, the Music Department produced their ‘Works in Progress’ concert (a little later than normal, owing to this year’s unusual circumstances) to a large, appreciative audience in the PAC.

This year was an interesting year, to say the least!

Although this year hasn’t run as smoothly as we anticipated, Deans have had a great year.

2020 without a doubt has been one to remember.

2020 was a great year for Selwyn, through thick and thin!

Wow! What a year 2020 has been for Sheppard House!

As we are all aware, 2020 has been a crazy, uncertain year. However, the perseverance of all Rolleston students despite the circumstances has proved rewarding and worthwhile.

In March this year Year 11 Geography classes travelled south to learn some new geography skills, explore the town and gather data on the tourism patterns in Queenstown. The data collected was used for the students' first Geography internal assessment of the year.

On the evening of Monday November 9th, we celebrated some of our outstanding Whānau and Pasifika students for their contributions to our school.

Year 11 Art students have been looking at the theme of War to base their work on this year.

To begin our school year, we headed up to Temple Basin Ski Lodge to learn a thing or two about zonation and alpine plants.

In July this year the Year 13 French class experienced an aspect of French culture at a local Crêperie, La Maison des Crêpes, and we also made our own crêpes later in the year.

Click on the photo to read a short introduction for each new staff member.

Year 9 Camps took place in Waipara during Term 1. Year 9 students took part in a variety of activities such as water sliding, raft building and terrifying tree swinging. They had a wonderful time.

On Friday 21st February, a group of eight Year 13 Economics students were invited along to the Reserve Bank luncheon hosted by the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce.

On February 3, we started the school day with our traditional Powhiri.