Our Shakespeare performers had some wonderful successes at the National Sheilah Winn Shakespeare festival held in Wellington over Queen's Birthday Weekend.   We won 5 major awards and had over 25 students involved.

Our Senior Prefects and House Prefects worked with Ms Johnson to organise a special Arts assembly, in the last week of Term 2 focusing on reinforcing the message of respecting our beautiful environment.

The Harraway’s Otago Secondary School Netball Tournament was held at the Edgar Centre during Sunday 8th and Monday 9th June. 

Congratulations to all competitors who competed in French, Latin and Maori in the recent World Champs. 

It was a cold and rainy Thursday and I had been looking forward to this day for weeks. Instead of going to my regular Environmental Studies class, I went to the Whanau room to meet my teacher Tip, some students from Polytech and eight other pupils from my Outdoor Education class. 

Our Head of Humanities, Paul Enright and Lara Hearn-Rollo, Head of History at Queens High School are continuing the work they began last year with the Ministry of Education developing national History resources to allow Maori history to be taught from a Maori perspective in New Zealand schools. 

Our popular and talented all-comers choir conducted by Music teacher Hana Fahy, performed "Minoi Minoi," in the Dunedin Town Hall. 

Approximately twenty International students from Japan, Germany, Vietnam and Austria were looking forward to seeing some fluffy little penguins - live. After driving through curvy roads and experiencing a beautiful view along the coast, we arrived at the delightful spot - the Otago Peninsula, right on Taiaroa Head. 

The annual International Concert in June was a wonderful must-see experience. Over 30 students from a range of countries performed. Everyone practised, sweated and almost lost their hope, but in the end everything was great. Because the students had so much fun, the audience also had fun.

Both Year 11 classes have recently completed an enjoyable Hospitality unit where they selected and trialled a variety of hot finger-foods suitable for functions. 

Jasper Holloway, of our rock band Sycamore won the Apra Lyric Award for best lyrics at the Smokefree Rockquest Otago regional finals in June.   Sycamore was placed second in the band category.  Oliver Robson (bass), Jasper Holloway (lead guitar) and Rani Cohen (drums) impressed with their musicianship and originality. 

Annie Kennedy Atchison, Rosa Miller and Hugh Gibson from 9L qualified for the semi-final of the NZ Spelling Bee, that was held in Dunedin in August.

I have been here for three months but it seems on the one hand like three weeks and on the other hand like three years. Three weeks because the time here is flying so fast. With my four host siblings I never get bored and there is still so much to discover in Dunedin. Three years because I have already experienced so much and have a relationship with my friends and my host family as if I have known them for my whole life.

A Kiwi experience is about to draw to a close for a group of our international students. The 12 students, from Austria and Germany, will be returning to high school in their own countries having spent between three months and one year at Logan Park. 

Peer Reading finished with a celebration and party in the Reading Room of the library on Friday 19 June. A total of 43 students from Yrs 9, 10, 11 and 13 took part in the programme. 

We hosted the Otago-Southland Nga Manu Korero speaking competition here at Logan Park on June 12. 

Jacobi Kohu-Morris has won another speech title. He competed in the Lions Speech competition in early June in Oamaru. 

In June this year, Year 11 student Josh Grills acted in The Other Side of the World,  a film funded by Short Film Otago.

Lots of current and ex-Logan Parkers and their families were involved in the beautiful Dunedin Mid-Winter Carnival, held in mid-June to celebrate the longest night. 

KiwiHost is a 2 day customer service course. 

We competed in football, badminton, hockey, netball, basketball and rugby in the Co-ed Sports Tournament in Dunedin in June.

It’s not often that too much snow is a problem for skiers. However, a school ski trip in mid-June became a non-skiing trip due to blizzards in Wanaka. 

We had 4 students competing in the Otago Cross Country Championships in June. 

Thanks to all of our school community for supporting the Octacan drive to support local foodbanks and those affected by the June floods in Dunedin.

Congratulations to Reva Grills and Luke Major who have been selected in the top 24 actors in New Zealand.

Logan Park entered four teams in the ODT Spelling Quiz on Tuesday 16th June. 

Congratulations to all of our filmmakers involved in the Rialto 48 Hour Film competition. At the City Finals in June, we won numerous awards including Top School in Otago, Best Actor in Otago as well as City Runner-up.  Team "Woof Bloody Woof" is also a national finalist in the Rising Talent section. 

Over 70 keen Year 12 Biologists enjoyed their field trip in May.

The FIFA U20 World Cup Football Tournament in Dunedin has provided lots of inspiration recently. Solomon Liesbeth, Year 11 and Shae Moore, Year 10 were selected as part of the Dunedin ballcrew. 

22 students from Furman University visited Logan Park at the end of May. Most of them are training to be teachers or educational psychologists. They visited classes and spoke with Logan Park teachers and students about our curriculum, assessment and pedagogy.

10L and 10J, spent an adventurous week at Tautuku Camp in the Catlins area in May. Students enjoyed the range of activities including abseiling, kayaking, tramping, playing on the rockwall and confidence course as well as the legendary mud-walk.