Humanities

Paul Fielding — November 24, 2015

Four countries, fifty hours of international fights and sixteen hundred kilometres of road travel. All this within three weeks made for an exciting and hectic European tour nicknamed “Crossroads of Empires” undertaken by twenty four students and eight adults from Logan Park and Queens High over the third term holidays. Read More

Paul Enright — November 12, 2015

As the individual reports on activities and accomplishments by students in our department make clear, 2015 has been another year of success and achievement across a wide range of areas and interests. Read More

Clair Caird and Rachel Molteno — November 8, 2015

For three days at the end of April, our Year 11 Environmental Geography class went on a field trip to Mount Cook and the surrounding Waitaki basin.  Read More

Maeve Lonie — September 22, 2015

On Tuesday the 8th and Tuesday the 15th September respectively the Senior and Junior LPHS Classics quiz teams had the opportunity to prove their worth against competing teams from Columba College, Kavanagh, Kaikorai Valley, Otago Boys’ and Girls’ High Schools among others, in the 2015 Classics Quizzes organised by the Otago University Classics Department and the Classical Association of Otago.  Read More

Paul Fielding — September 19, 2015

Logan Park history students continue to dominate the latest rounds of annual school history quizzes in Dunedin.  Read More

Luke Major — August 19, 2015

Early in Term 3, my Year 13 Classics class had the privilege of being visited by a University of Otago lecturer, to expand our knowledge on Alexander the Great.  Read More

Kristan Mouat and Paul Enright — June 30, 2015

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.  Read More

Jacobi Kohu Morris — May 20, 2015

Youth Ambassador and winner of the Otago RSA Speech competition, Jacobi Kohu Morris attended the 2015 Anzac Day ceremony in Gallipoli. Read More

Arnika Hazelwood — March 31, 2015

After Jacobi Kohu-Morris won the Otago-Southland final of the RSA Speech competition, in Gore in February, he presented his speech at Government House in Wellington on March 12.  Read More

Paul Fielding — March 17, 2015

120 student delegates from Otago and Southland schools met March 13-15th at Otago University to debate global issues of poverty, hunger, female empowerment and child mortality. Read More

Arnika Hazelwood — February 15, 2015

Congratulations to our fabulous NZQA Scholarship recipients. We got 17 scholarships across a range of subjects including Drama, English, Media Studies, History, Physics, Biology, Statistics and German.   Read More