Term 3 saw lots continuing to happen in the sports scene.

Thanks to all of our staff for their energy and professionalism during a challenging year.

We enjoyed our mihi whakatau to welcome all the new students and staff to Logan Park at the start of 2021.

Our School Head Prefects for Logan Park were announced at our Senior Prizegiving at the end of 2020.

Another very busy year for the Technology Department and a very successful one with regards to our students and their outcomes in the various technology areas.

2021 has been a spectacular year for Clayton house. Throughout the year, we claimed multiple victories for the house, showing off our fantastic all-round skill and aptness. However, due to our honourable, sportsmanlike nature, we felt it necessary to concede a select few competitions to the other floundering houses.

This year, Omimi House has gotten involved in a wide variety of activities.

2021 has been yet another successful year for Aoraki; from Athletics day to Cross Country and the O’Mathalon peoples varied and extensive talents have been showcased. Please enjoy the following reflections of Aoraki 2021

Toroa House had an amazing year of fun, participation and great results!

View the gallery of Clayton House Group photos here.

View the gallery of Omimi House Group photos here.

View the gallery of Aoraki House Group photos here.

View the gallery of Toroa House Group photos here.

This year all our students who are learning Korean got to connect with Korean students studying English in Korea.

Throughout late 2020 and early 2021, we (Paxton Hall and Beanjamin Mead) sat several tests for the NZ Chemistry Olympiad.

Talchum (탈춤) could be characterized as a Korean dance performed while wearing a mask, mimicry, miming, speaking, and even sometimes singing.

A two day trip around Dunedin starting and finishing at school.

Senior Media Studies students have started making their movies for 2021.

We celebrated Race Unity day with a special assembly in March.

We had a wonderful sunny Athletics Day in March.

A number of our students were awarded top university scholarships at the end of 2020.

Our school prefects were announced in assembly in March.

Performance of Romeo and Juliet at Logan Park March 5th 2021

We were pleased with our overall NCEA results from 2020.

Every Wednesday our Year 11 and 12 French students get to try out French cooking - cakes were originally prepared at home and brought to class, but later we got to cook these delicious treats ourselves.

We have started the year with a fantastic bunch of library prefects; Laura Canton, Isabel McMillan, Shannon Westworth and Kaitaia Wiseman.

Congratulations to Tui Kaitai-Martin and Laura Canton for their speeches in the Rotary 4-Way Speech competition in February.

In January, 3 of our students were selected to attend the Rotary National Science and Technology Forum in Auckland.

The Korean tea ceremony is a part of traditional Korean culture. It includes dressing up in a hanbok (traditional Korean dress), drinking some green tea and having some small snacks with it.

Year 9 Food Technology have spent the year gaining valuable kitchen skills in order to further their understanding of techniques and processes and prepare them for next year.

The Yr 13 Physical Education class visited the University of Otago’s School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences in February.

Leilani Baeumer competed in the Southern Regional Surf Life Saving Championships, held in Christchurch at the end of February.

On Saturday the 14th August the Logan Park High School Formal was held at the Glenroy Auditorium.

The first of our Year 10 classes enjoyed building confidence, outdoor adventures and experiences at Tautuku in the beautiful Catlins area in February.

It was a stunning day at Challenge Wanaka/Otago Secondary School Triathlon Championships on Thursday 18th February.

In February we celebrated our outstanding academic successes in NCEA exams.

We had great weather for our annual team-building House Days at various Dunedin beaches.

A number of our students helped to organise the Dunedin Climate Strike in April.

We've had a great year in Futsal.

The Junior Show was a little gorier than usual this year.

If you had told me 5 years ago that I would be up here giving a speech as a head prefect at prizegiving I would have laughed at you, or swore at you first and then laughed at you. I can't say that public speaking has ever featured on my bucket list.

Hi everyone!

Logan Park High School Board of Trustees 2021: John Bradfield, Mara Wolkenhauer, Ronda Tokona, Richard Mitchell, Sally Spittle, Paul Fielding, Nicolas Alvarez Rey-Virag, Kristan Mouat and Peter Hills.

We had a much larger group of actors this year in Theatresports.

Our 2nd annual Staff Book Cafe was held at the end of term 4.

2021 was another very good year for Logan Park badminton.

Cricket continues to go well at Logan Park High School. This year we farewelled Matthew Cowles as team captain and player over the last five years. He ended the season with a great win over the Kaikorai women’s team at Chingford Park in late March.

We have had a lot of wonderful writing entered in our Junior Writing Competition.

This year our Students Sports Council held many events, including the annual sports day and weekly Interhouse games, including Futsal, Netball, Omnikin ball and more.

A fantastic week was had by our students.

Logan Park volleyball is in an exciting development phase. We had two Junior teams attend the Otago Junior Championships.

Congratulations to Kate Will-Tofia and Maria Hessell for winning these awards.

Staff were spoiled by Year 11 Food Technology students in November.

Congratulations to Nico Alvarez Rey-Virag who has been selected as a Youth MP

Clayton, Toroa, Aoraki, Omimi all battling for the ultimate prize, Game Show supremacy. A grueling challenge of over 60 questions across 21 categories spanning from Star Wars to History, Geography to Video games. There can only be one winner.

We had lots of activities in our Youth Week in November during the last week with seniors

Student film directors and actors were showcased in our annual Media Movie Night in November.

As part of Youth Week in November our Students Sports Council organised this entertaining event.

2021 has been an extremely fruitful year for the Logan Park High School chess club! The chess room has been buzzing with activity every Friday, and the club has reached an all-time high, both in participation and in success in local competitions.

This year, we have had a dedicated group of students attend New Zealand Sign Language Club.

Known affectionately as ‘Techni’, Technicolour Sandwich has grown over the last few years into a lively haven of lgbt+ advocacy and community within the school. This year in particular has been full of success for us.

Petanque was played in both Term 1 and Term 4 this year, with consistent membership from Rebecca Scott, Matthew Scott and Nathan Mutch. It was a pleasure to see so many juniors show an interest during our Junior Sports Week, and it suggests the sport is likely to grow from here.

2021 was another successful year for hockey at Logan Park. The Girls’ 1st XI played well throughout the season and came fifth in Division 2 of the Dunedin-wide competition, winning an exciting playoff with Queens in what turned out to be our final game.

2021 has been a varied and colourful year for our Learning Support Class.

This year in Enviro Club, we have had a strong group of people attending each week.

Lydie Leurquin came to visit our Year 9 and 10 Latin classes and the senior Classics classes in November.

Our school orchestra organised some special performances at the end of October.

When Shima Jack received a phone call saying she had won a national writing award, she did not believe it.

Congratulations to Tui Kaitai-Martin and Eva Woodhouse for their Mana Pounamu Young Achievers’ Awards.

On Wednesday, November 10, our Year 10 Dance Class performed their self-choreographed pieces to an audience in the Contemporary Dance Showcase.

The Collection is a collaborative art project between artist Arati Kushwaha and the Logan Park Year 10 art classes.

In November, Logan Park High School hosted a lunchtime Skateboarding Jam for the student skaters of all year groups.

2021 saw another busy and enjoyable year in the Food Technology department.

2021 has been a mostly busy year for students involved in eSports. We’ve had competitions almost all year round, with additions of our LPHS Minecraft Server which was introduced in early Term 2, followed by the Tetris tournament that was held in Term 3.

Sailing has kicked off again in Term 4 with a splash or two!

Writers’ club got off to a great start with New Zealand playwright, Tim Hambleton, speaking to our group on Friday the 19th March.

The Logan Park High School Dungeons and Dragons club has just started this year.

If you are in the foyer of the LPHS gym, look out for this newly crafted cabinet positioned just above the defibrillator.

Considering the circumstances, I would say that this was a successful year of hockey for Logan Park High School.

The Otago Daily Times recently covered Logan Park's first experience with Covid-19.

Congratulations to Holly Bettis for her latest artistic endeavors

The 2021 water polo season was a great success with 25 players involved over Terms One and Four.

The 2021 season fielded 79 players across nine teams.

In our 9L Social Studies class, we have been working on Action Research projects during Term 4.

Logan Park Football had its ups and downs again in 2021.

The LPHS Senior Writing Competition was judged in September.

The LPHS Student Council has been extremely successful this year.

We celebrated our senior students' successes on Monday 15 November

We celebrated our junior students' successes on Tuesday 14 December

The Otago Secondary School Celebrate show was held in August this year.

The Photo Club was an initiative of Arts Prefect Hugo Calder.

The first year of a brand new club for the Logan Park art department!

The ICAS Mathematics Competition is a yearly international competition open to high school students throughout New Zealand and 20 other countries globally.

In November our Logan Park community was deeply saddened by the death of much loved Angela Henderson.

Dr Thompson won a national Service to Sport Award in February.

Thanks to all of our wonderful, diverse, creative, fabulous Year 13 leavers

Congratulations to all of our Yr 13 leavers who collectively have won over $400,000 worth of University Scholarships.

In Term 3 the art department, for the first time, held an inter-house photography competition.

The Australian Mathematics Competition is an engaging 30-problem competition that demonstrates the importance and relevance of mathematics in students’ everyday lives; it is open to students in years 4 to 13.

“She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.” ― Annie Dillard, The Living

Our Makers Club and other entrepreneurial students held a Market Day during Youth Week.

Students engaged in the Space programme have been attending Skill Sec workshops on Wednesday mornings.

Our Kapa Haka group performed in October at Polyfest at the Edgar Centre.

The year 2021 saw the birth of the student initiative CANDID, an anonymous writing anthology based in Logan Park High School, founded and edited by Year 12 students, Shima Jack, Naomi Jutel, and Maia Puricelli Callau.

This year the Circle Folding club have made tetrahedrons, icosahedrons and dodecahedrons using paper circles.

In August, two teams competed in the New Zealand Engineering Science Competition.

Congratulations to Paxton Hall and Cindy Chou, our Otago Daily Times Class Act award winners for 2021.

Congratulations to our Year 10 Scientists who won the Otago Science Quiz.

Congratulations to our Year 9 Scholarship recipients for 2021.

Under the guidance of our new Art and Painting teacher Brigid Allan, Learning Support students Ben and Zane were hard at work creating a collage based on their interests.

Congratulations to many of our junior Maths enthusiasts for their excellent results in the Otago competition. Alexander Sun was placed in the Top 30 of all entrants. (The photo captures some of the competitors).

Congratulations to our Shakespeare teams for their wonderful performances in April.

Our one act play thespians dominated in the Otago Theatrefest competition this year.

The Learning Support class have enjoyed a great year of a variety of recipes as they cook twice a week in the Foods Room.

During Term 3 the Toroa groups have been set a series of tasks by the Taskmaster (Ms Caulfield) and her trusty sidekicks Qrowe Brittenden and Holly Bettis.

Our adventure racers competed again in August.

These two annual events, organised by the University of Otago Department of Classics, are a highly anticipated part of the calendar for those keen on Latin and Classics.

In September, we were lucky to host Jono Squire who came to give a talk to a group of Senior Physics students.

LPHS library and the University of Otago has collaborated to create a Tertiary Transition program for our Year 13 students who are planning to head to university study.

In Term 3, Year 9 students have taken part in a reading challenge. Despite the interruption of a lockdown the results were fantastic.

We celebrated Te Wiki o te Reo Maori in September.

New Zealand students in Years 11, 12, and 13 can enter the Poetry NZ Yearbook Student Poetry Competition annually, with winners announced each year on National Poetry Day. Logan Park is thrilled to celebrate with Year 12 student Shima Jack on her placing this year.

We all found ourselves back in Lockdown Level 4 on August 18 2021.

As part of our awesome Maths Week in August we had an Interhouse O'MAthalon.

In August some of our senior English students attended a talk given by Paul Hersey, a Dunedin-based author and photographer.

Congratulations to Darcy Monteath Yr 12 who was a national runner-up.

Congratulations to Cambell Drake who won the Southern South Island semi-finals with Grace Fagerland placing second.

In August a number of our junior students met with our local community schools leadership team.

Thanks to everyone involved in Open Day in August.

At the beginning of August, the members of Paul's Reversing Truck Big Band set out on an exciting week-long trip to Blenhiem to participate in the Southern Jam Youth Jazz Festival.

A fantastic and creative start to the program saw students creating characters out of shapes, objects and various other activities to stimulate imagination.

Our annual Year 12 PE Ski/Snowboarding trip took place at the Remarkables Ski Field in August.

Food Technology continues to be an enjoyable and busy time.

Thanks to two of our senior Kapa Haka leaders, Tui Kaitai-Martin and Abigail Real.

We have worked hard to update our uniform over the past year.

Logan Park had some stand out groups in the Otago Chamber Music competition in July.

Year 11 student Maia Penhey represented our kura in Ngā Manu Kōrero speech competitions in June.

Thanks to Ben Connolly who organised our Food Bank collection in June.

We enjoyed the new Game Show format as a House Group competition in June.

Congratulations to our bands who got through to the Rockquest finals.

Karaoke Week was a wonderful way to end Term 2.

“Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue. But if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand thus, but use all gently…”

In Term Two Logan Park had one competitor each in the Dunedin-Otaru Sister City Society Japanese Speech Competition and the NZAJLT Trivia Quiz.

Logan Park High School is incredibly proud of our supportive and diverse community.

Congratulations to our champion chess team again.

Congratulations to Ella Verberne and Ava Reid

On Friday the second of July, Logan Park held its first ever Makers Club Market.

The team had a great first half of the season.

During Semester One Hard Materials students worked on developing fabulous skills in the workshop and enjoyed the addition of our new laser cutter allowing design embellishment with ease and accuracy.

We have several property projects currently underway.

Congratulations to our choir who performed in the Big Sing in June.

Congratulations to accomplished public speaker Olivia Goldsmith.

On Wednesday the 30th of June, our senior French and Korean classes spent an afternoon cooking and tasting delicious dishes from these two cultures.

Once again a number of our creative students performed in the Mid-Winter Carnival in June

On a superb Dunedin winter's day over a hundred Logan Park students competed in Badminton, Basketball, Curling, Hockey, Football and Netball against rival Dunedin Co-Ed schools. Those playing outside enjoyed the sun after snow earlier in the week.

Congratulations to Oe Hayward who continues to impress in the bagpiping scene.

Library week in June this year was a Murder Mystery event.

If it weren't for your gumboots, where would you be?

At the start of Term 2, a group of Logan Park students spent the morning on a tour of the Tahuna Wastewater Treatment Plant in South Dunedin.

On Wednesday, the 12th of May the first students arrived at 7.30am at Toitu for our visit to find out about encounters between Maori and Pakeha in the early 19th century. Luckily tables and chairs were there and card games entertained most of the students.

We were really lucky to have four former Logan Park students come to visit 10K in their Social Studies class to talk about their career paths, their memories of Logan Park and any advice they could give to students.

A fantastic educational experience for year 9 art students during Term 2.

Kōrero Mai, Kōrero Atu, Mauri Tū Mauri Ora. Speak up, Stand Together, Stop bullying.

A team of 75 Logan Park students competed in the Dunedin Region Showquest competition on the 24th of May.

On Thursday 6th May 22 Logan Park students, accompanied by Esther Kristel and Michelle Summerfield, spent a full day at the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival.

From the 31st of May to the 4th of June we held our very first Pasifika Island week.

On Tuesday the 25th and Wednesday the 26th of May, the Year 13 Bio classes got the awesome opportunity to visit the Otago University Marine Science Facilities.

Term 2 saw the final groups of Year 10 students enjoying Tautuku Camp.

The Hillary Challenge 6 hour rogaine cycle runrace took part at Spencer Park, Christchurch.

The summer water polo season had two LPHS teams competing.

As part of the Year 11 Physical Education programme at Logan Park, we take our students out to Long Beach to complete two assessments for NCEA credits.

From the beginning of Term Two the Learning Support Art class spent time developing skills in hand sewing.

The CAT competition tests logical and mathematical skills of students and Logan Park High School has traditionally done very well in this competition.

Congratulations to the awesome team behind Showquest 2021.

Starting off Term Two with a bang? Or was it more of a thud? We’ll let you ask our suspects.

Logan Park High School Kapa Haka members led the Mihi whakatau for the Otago Highlanders Academy Rugby Players in May.

The Learning and Support Class have had some really interesting Outdoor Educational trips in Term Two.

Year 10 Food Technology students have enjoyed planning an original food product to develop, trial and sell at a lunch time Market Stall.

The Music Department has been busy in Term 2.

Our school cross country was held on Thursday 20 May.

57 students had an absolutely wonderful time at the Music Camp at Tirohanga on 26 till the 28th of March.

In March we enjoyed meeting parents and whanau of our 2021 Year 9 students.

At the end of Term One the Year 9's have all embarked on our 'Book Tasting Experience'. They had the opportunity to 'sample' a number of books in a restaurant-style setting.

Writers’ Club got off to a great start with playwright Tim Hambleton speaking to our group on Friday 19th March.

Over the weekend of the 19/20th of March five bagpipers from the John McGlashan College Pipe Band (of which several LPHS students are members) competed at the RNZPBA National Pipe Band Championships. Everyone had an awesome time, and all played extremely well.

From the 12th of March to the 15th of March Logan Park held a Year 13 Leadership camp at Tautuku Lodge in the Catlins attended by sixty Year 13 students.

During Wellness Week (Week 9, Term 1) students from the Level 2 Health Education class implemented a variety of Health Promotion Campaigns within the Logan Park community.

Paxton Hall and Alexander Sun were selected to attend the NZ International Biology Oympiad training and selection camp in the April holidays.

Thanks to all the teams that entered for Tennis in Term 1 – the standard is getting better all the time and I am sure we will have some more teams entering the competitive grade in Term 4.

La troisième (Year 10 French) went to the cooking room in Term One and prepared some beautiful dishes, ranging from pain au chocolat and crêpes to une tarte au pesto et tomates – the recipes came from our French pen pal class and we tried them out! C’était délicieux!

Term One, one Year 9 Social Studies class went for a walk up to the Northern Cemetery to draw a precis sketch of our harbour and the surrounding landscapes.

The Otago Athletics Champs held in March were a highlight with strong performances from our team.

We had a strong team competing at the South Island Secondary Schools Athletics Champs in April.

Term 2 continues to be busy and varied with lots of students enjoying a range of sporting opportunities.

Large numbers of students are enjoying their winter sports from the social through to the much more competitive.

Our Student Sports Council has been running for over 10 years. It is made up of Sports Prefects, the Sports Coordinator and students who are keen to be involved in organising fun events.