Logan Park did exceptionally well at this year's festival.

Congratulations to Cora Chapman and Jack Ta who are our 2023 Class Act winners.

This year, the school Kapa Haka group traveled to Invercargill to participate in the Otago/Southland regional Kapa Haka competition.

Once again, our amazing Year 13 students have been awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in financial scholarships for their continued studies:

Year 9 and 10 Drama and Dance students once again came together to perform the Logan Park Junior Show for local primary schools with an evening show for whanau.

The 2023 Aurora Otago Science and Technology Fair took place in August in Term 3.

We are lucky to have a wonderful team of staff at Logan Park who are committed to our students and enjoy seeing their successes.

The Head Prefects Cora Chapman and Ethan Lambeth share their thoughts on the year.

Whakatauki: Kua whetuurangitia koe. Return, take your place amongst the stars along with your ancestors that adorn the sky.

Another great year for Aoraki with a four-peat House trophy. Well done everyone.

Lyra Woolley (Year 10) was a finalist in the Play it Strange Youthtown Songwriting Competition.

Thanks to all of our wonderful Year 13 students who finished school in November

Each year the Otago Polynesian Festival is held in Term 3 at the Edgar Centre in Dunedin.

The annual Mana Pounamu Young Achievers' celebrating the vast and varied achievements of Rakatahi Māori (Māori youth) in secondary schools across Otago.

Check out some of the awesome things we have done and created in Technology this year!

After five years of close results Logan Park finally won back the Senior History Cup for the sixth time at the Balmacewan Golf Club at the end of Term Three.

This year has been a great year for Clayton, we have all come together at times and all have competed against each other at times.

It is inspiring to witness our students engaged in their own world and environment; to have the ability to explore issues or view beauty and confidently write about their values with creativity and innovation.

Building Dreams, Shaping Spaces: Highlights from a year in Design and Visual Communication

Step into the dynamic world of Product Design at Logan Park High.

Year 9 Product Design Students recently embarked on an exciting journey, teaming up with Te Pūkenga Otago Polytechnic, School of Design (Product) for a unique collaboration.

Four is a remarkable number of students to be selected for the National Shakespeare Schools Production. They have a limit of three from each school but the selectors insisted that there be an exception this year.

Omimi has had a fantastic year of building connections, participation and some great results in House competitions.

Toroa’s position as the ‘underdog’ of the four houses always places us in a bit of a tricky position when it comes to trying to move up the ranks.

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.

The Logan Park chess team (of Alexander Sun, Naoki Kozakai, Ramon Quennell, and Tyne Grant) flew up to Nationals looking forward to having a few days in Auckland, but with relatively low expectations for our results.

We welcomed all our new students and 11 new staff on Thursday 2 February.

Our Houses enjoyed exciting activities at their respective beaches in February.

We had our Media Film Night in October where students showed off their hard work and got to enjoy watching each others films.

To conclude their time at LPHS, the Music Prefects presented an evening concert in Manawa Toi Whakaari in Term 4, featuring a number of LPHS musical acts.

Logan Park High School was well represented this year for the annual Celebrate Design Secondary Schools Award Exhibition at Te Pūkenga (Otago Polytechnic).

The Logan Park High School Formal kicked off on the 4th of August with blasting tunes by one of our talented school bands (Giuliana, Jimmy, Charlie and Tomas) creating the vibe for a fun fuelled night at the Otago Museum.

Our open day on July 23 was a blast! Many potential students had a fantastic time exploring and experiencing all the fun activities we had to offer.

Karaoke Week is always a highlight of the Logan Park calendar and this year’s contest, held in Week Two of Term Three, was no exception.

The musical Rent was an exciting experience for all involved.

It is time to pause and consider all the wonderful years of creating and learning that has happened in this subject of Digital Design Technology.

Athletics Days was held at the start of March

In March, over 50 Year 13 students and staff spent a weekend at Tautuku Lodge in the beautiful Catlins.

We celebrated the United Nations Race Relations Day on 21 March with Special Assemblies

Our Theatresports Club had some hilarious Monday lunchtimes and learned a lot about improv through the wonderful leadership of our three Theatresports Prefects, Bruno McMillan, Eevee Rooney and Sebastian Cumming.

Logan Park was represented by 17 students at the Otago Secondary School Athletics championships in mid March.

2023 was another very good year for Logan Park badminton.

Friday nights in Term 2 there are over a 100 Logan Park students playing basketball in the Secondary School Competition.

Cricket continues to go very well at Logan Park High School. We won the grade for the 2022/23 season which was a fantastic result. Another highlight was playing one of our games on the University Oval, in front of the grandstand, the best ground in Dunedin.

Well done to our Cricket team who won the Premier Reserve Grade in Term 1.

The Boys 1st 11 football competed at the Linwood Cup Tournament at Logan Park during tournament week.

The Senior Girls First XI Football team attended tournament week in Timaru in August.

We had 2 junior boys teams in the Wednesday Secondary School League.

It was an awesome first term of futsal for our girls teams at the Edgar Centre.

The annual Otago/Southland Get 2 Go Challenge was held on the 14th September here in Dunedin.

What an exciting year for Logan Park Handball.

The Hillary Challenge 6 hour rogaine cycle run-race took place in Geraldine.

At the end of August was the New Zealand Hockey Secondary Schools Tournament, held in Greymouth. Two teams from Logan Park took the eight hour road trip up, one boys team, and one girls team. We stayed for a week and played hockey every day.

On the 27th of August, both the Boy’s and Girl’s 1st XI hockey teams traveled up to Greymouth to participate in the Tier 4 Hockey Tournaments.

Thanks to our PE / Sports departments for organising this end of term event

Term One ended with Groups competing in Tug of Wars

What a fantastic fun week over 100 Logan Park students had participating in the Junior Sports Have A Go Week in November.

On Thursday 30th of April, a strong group of three riders headed up to a chilly Coronet Peak, to face the snow and take on the Skoda Secondary Schools MTB Champs.

Students have really enjoyed playing netball this year.

Logan Park High School once again shone in the Dunedin Youth Petanque.

Logan Park registered two junior teams for the Co Ed Rippa Rugby Tournament which was held in Summer Tournament week at the end of March.

This year we had a girl's rugby team that competed in the under-15 Development Grade.

The LPHS Running Club started this year and we enjoyed running as a group.

Sports has been busy at LPHS this term.

Well done to Fletcher Melville in the Otago Surfing Championships at the beginning of the year.

Congratulations to Fletcher Melville on being Selected to the Otago surf high schools Scholastic surf Team.

Fletcher Melville went as part of the Southland Scholastics Surfing team to the 2023 National Scholastics Surfing Championships, held up in Gisborne during the September school holidays.

On Wednesday 15th February two Logan Park teams competed in the Secondary School Teams Tennis Tournament held in Dunedin.

Our social tennis players as well as our competitive teams had lots of fun in Term 1 playing this easily accessible sport.

Touch is played in Term 1 and 4, and we had great numbers this year.

Lauren Davey and Aedan Lehr competed in the SISS Duathlon in Oamaru in early March.

On Thursday 16th February five Logan Park teams travelled to Glendu Bay in Wanaka to compete in the Challenge Wanaka Otago Secondary School Triathlon Championships.

The Junior Boy’s Volleyball A Team has had a great season; we’ve had loads of fun and have greatly improved since the start of the year.

This year the volleyball Junior A Girls had a great season as we were able to go to two tournaments that really helped us improve our skills, understanding of the game, and brought the team closer together.

At the end of Term 1, during summer tournament week both the Senior Girls and Senior Boys A volleyball teams attended the Satellite Volleyball Champs in Christchurch.

After the secondary schools triathlon success on Thursday 16th of February, a group headed back to Wanaka, Friday lunch time.

Another successful year. This year epitomises the Logan Park school moto “Kua mutu kua timata” ‘it is finished and it has begun” Six year 13’s who have played for 5 yrs (a couple even played for LPHS when they were at intermediate) Cora Chapman, Erin Cade, Eve Cowperwaith, Ren Bartlett, Maddie Hannah and Taya Kain will leave the team this year (Kua mutu).

August 25th was National Poetry Day this year, and it landed at LPHS with some potency.

10Q took part in the big micro-plastics survey during Term 4.

The Logan Park Ki te Hāpori (Community Outreach Club) met each Monday lunch time through the year to make these play mats and wash bags for young children and rangatahi going into foster care in Otago and donated the items to Foster Hope.

In Week 2 of Term 4, the LPHS Orchestra performed in both assemblies.

There has been a creative buzz in 9X this year. The class has been active in supporting each other with their written and visual work and have entered regional and national writing competitions with great success.

Let’s celebrate this year’s Level 3 Hard Materials projects.

During week 7 of Term 3 a group of budding problem solvers from Year 9 - 11 sat the ICAS Maths competition.

In Term 3, Year 9 students took part in a Reading Challenge.

On Tuesday 19 September Dr Dominic Searles, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Otago, came to LPHS to give a talk about the Mathematics of Private Communication.

Our six French students who are going to New Caledonia next year in October are busy fundraising for this exciting event.

On Wednesday the 25th of November many LPHS juniors attended the Dunedin-wide Itinerant Music Teacher workshop day, held at Queen's and King's High Schools.

This year, the Art Prefects organised the first ever Painting competition. We had two categories, Open (for juniors) and Character design (open to all).

Kristan Mouat was remembered as a "gentle soul" at a packed memorial service.

This year our school lost one of its most appreciated leaders. Matua Tip, or simply “Tip” as he is usually known, has waved goodbye to Logan Park after 18 years of dedication. He’s leaving to spend quality time with his grandson in Australia.

The annual senior art exhibitions were held in late October this year.

We had two year 13 entries from Fabric Technology this year in the HETTANZ Fashion Awards, a national competition.

Adrian and Chloe from the Bachelor of Culinary Arts programme at Te Pūkenga (Otago Polytechnic) presented a food styling dessert presentation session for the Year 13 Hospitality students in Term Four.

On Wednesday November 1st we celebrated our Senior Prizegiving in the gym.

We celebrated our junior students and their achievements in December

This year at Senior Prizegiving we did something a little different and did a waerea/maioha to whakatau everyone into the school gymnasium. We also performed a couple of our Kapa Haka items to truly set the tone for the evening.

On the 23rd of September LPHS students took part in the last Otepoti climate action by attending the Climate vote festival.

We had two lunchtime concerts this term for students to showcase their musical talents.

Jack Ta is an accomplished jazz musician who has made a huge contribution to the Music department in his time at LPHS, and in September 2023 he won the New Zealand Jazz Improvisation Competition in Wellington, out of a pool of eight finalists chosen from around New Zealand.

Towards the end of Term Three, Year 9 and 10 Japanese classes, together with Year 9 French and Year 10 Te Reo Māori, celebrated spring with our annual Hanami picnic.

Te Kapua o Te Raki took the stage in Invercargill for the Te Hautonga Māori Performing Arts Competition.

Term Three saw the return of the Otago Regional OMAthalon Competition.

In August, Ms. K and Mr. Greer's year 11 Drama classes and Ms. Colbert year 10 Drama classes headed to the Dunedin Public Art Gallery to find inspiration for creating their own original performance pieces.

This year's International Food Festival, (traditionally organized by Kristan Mouat) was a fantastic event where we enjoyed delicious food from various cultures.

The Logan Park Jazz Band has had a busy year! Nick Cornish has stepped in to fill the rather large shoes left by Mr. Dodd when he retired last year, taking over directorship of the band with flair and passion.

Thank you to all our amazing writers for entering the Senior Writing Competition in Term Three. There was once again a fabulous selection of entries.

The New Zealand Senior Mathematics Competition ran again in 2023 on Thursday 10th August.

The AMC 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 3 to 12.

Early this year some budding mathematicians took part in the University of Otago Junior Mathematics Competition.

Our annual tradition of preparing a play in French (and other languages) was taken on by almost half of the Year 10 French class and we were finally able to put it on stage in September.

Our Debating teams continued to impress this year.

We are proud to announce that the Food Technology area has now a compost bin to start our journey in reducing organic waste in our landfill.

On Saturday, the 9th of September, nine students from LPHS took part in the annual French Speech Competition at Columba College.

Culture Club has been an opportunity for us to exchange our cultures with SMAN 28 Jakarta, a high school in Indonesia.

The last weeks of term 4 are a perfect time to collaborate for our school environment. Students of the Enviro group and several language classes have been busy weeding around our Manuka and Kanuka groves that we planted last year as part of our mahi for our school community.

A wonderful evening was attended by an interesting mix of Art and Technology students as guests for dinner by the Year 1 Bachelor of Culinary Arts ākoka in Term 3.

On the 16th of August, Year 13 Geography headed off on our field trip, this year to Queenstown, to study cultural development in the area.

The Celebrate Art Awards are held every year at Otago Art School, Te Pūkenga.

2023 has seen the choir continue to grow our voices, repertoire and relationships with each other.

On the 27th May a group of Logan Park students took part in the New Zealand Physics and Mathematics Competition. NZPMC is a nationally standardised Physics and Mathematics competition open to all secondary students across Aotearoa. The questions are designed to guide and challenge young Kiwi Scientists to extend their interests in Physics and Mathematics.

To mark the end of the first semester Year Nine Art course students had a half day at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

We were very lucky this year to have had Lili Guillot from Montpellier staying with us and being a wonderful homestay sister to Bram Casey in la terminale.

Our German class we were busy in Term Three decorating tote bags with German expressions to then exchange with a class from Tahuna Intermediate who have been preparing bags for us.

Taking place over 4 days, a Medieval Scavenger Hunt saw participants scouring entries in an explorer’s notebook. Next they were time travelling through the Viking Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Holy Roman Empire and the Ming Dynasty.

One Friday night fifty people crammed themselves into four vans and headed for Queenstown.

On Tuesday the 8th and Tuesday the 15th of August respectively, the Logan Park Senior and Junior Classics Quiz teams were victorious in the annual Classical Association of Otago Inter-Schools' Classics Quiz of 2023.

Our trip to the West Coast began with a 1 hour drive to Lawrence, and then continuing up along to Alexandra where we stopped for lunch.

Students and staff had a great time competing in the Interhouse O'Mathalon at the beginning of August.

Congratulations to our 2023 Year 9 LPHS Scholarship recipients.

The Learning and Support Department have had a couple of exciting trips in Term 3.

On Wednesday 3rd May a group of Logan Park High School students sat the Computational and Algorithmic Thinking Competition.

On Tuesday the 30th of May, the LPHS chamber music groups performed at Balmacewen Intermediate and Summerset Retirement Village.

LPHS students performed confidently in the Regional Chamber Music Contest, and many groups came away with awards.

On Thursday, 29 June, our year 9 Drama and Dance students performed their show, for friends and whanau.

The first six weeks of Term Three were a busy time for the Enviro-group. We organised two group competitions in that time - here are the results of those:

The snowy weather in Aoraki/Mt Cook did nothing to stop the year 11 geography classes having a blast. Ms Summerfield, Mr O’Farrell, Mr Dixon, and Mr Parsons even managed to fill us with some information.

On Saturday 24 June the Logan Park Library hosted the Otago / Southland Interschool Team Championship chess Tournament. We were the defending champions. The top place school from both Otago and Southland would get to go to Nationals in September.

On Friday the 16th of July four Logan Park students: Elaine Li, Samayah Madill, Oskar Weber, and Bodhi Boroughf, participated in the annual Japanese Trivia Quiz, organised by the New Zealand Association of Japanese Language Teachers.

Logan Park was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to host three post graduate students from WEN (Women in Engineering Network) at Auckland University. They came to give a talk about the applications of science and mathematics in the field of engineering.

Jordan Turner has once again entered into the Tūhura Photography Competition organised by the Otago Museum.

The Virtual Triathlon took place at the Stadium. Teams of 3 rowed 1.5Km, rode 3Km then ran 1.5Km. Logan had 4 Junior and 3 Senior teams.

All our French classes had the opportunity to take part in a French community afternoon on the 12th of June.

Our quatrieme and troisieme (Year 9 and 10 French) had ample opportunities in Term 2 to use their French in authentic situations.

In June Sasha Barnes-Gardner had the opportunity to participate in a three-day cake decorating workshop.

Dunedin school principal Kristan Mouat, who died suddenly on Saturday (10 June) in her sleep, is being remembered as an "amazing teacher" and "beautiful person."

Well known neuro-science speaker / educator Nathan Wallis visited us in May

Congratulations to our 2 teams who performed in the regional Shakespeare festival in April and won awards at the nationals in June

On Monday, May 22nd, a delegation from the Jeollanam-do Office of Education (a local Ministry of Education in Korea) visited LPHS.

The Year 9 Library Lessons begin with a Library Orientation.

Our chamber music group received coaching from Naoto Segawa, a former adjudicator for the competition and professional percussionist who came down from Wellington for a few days to coach us.

On Saturday the 20th of May, a group of Logan Park students organised and played in a pop up concert in the Otago museum.

In April, we heard that our application was successful and that LPHS was selected as one of the schools to receive a very generous donation of 12 Kala brand ukuleles in an assortment of colours, plus a ukulele tuner.

Twenty-four year 13 students headed off for the annual “Back Yard Journey”, the trip involves a two day trip around Dunedin, using bikes, rafts and their legs!

It turns out our Year 9 drama classes are a fantastic bunch of clowns.

2023 had the first French camp in a long time and it was a wonderful opportunity for our eight Senior French students to meet up with about 45 other students from five different high schools.

This time the Climate Action took the shape of an afternoon in the Octagon where different organisations provided information, possible actions, entertainment and food to generate a positive forum for everyone to share ideas and initiatives that everyone can do on a daily basis to have a positive impact on the environment rather than contributing to climate change.

Senior Drama students were lucky enough to meet two professional theatre artists who were in town to perform at the Dunedin Fringe Festival.

Taniwha “Supernatural creatures – some terrifying, others protective – are legendary in Māori tradition. Known as taniwha, they lurked in watery dens, or in caves, and were often depicted as dragons or serpents, with fiery eyes and lashing tails. Crucial to the stories of deadly taniwha were the heroic slayers, who triumphed with their cunning and courage.”

The Learning and Support Class had a fantastic day out at Iconic Farms in Sawyers Bay in Term One.

To conclude our busy year here at Logan Park the year 11 Māori class and the kapa haka group had a shared kai where we all helped to prepare the kai for a hangi lunch.

Our Year 10 classes attended camp in February, March and May this year.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Trade and Justice visited to consult with students on Human Rights for the UN Council

Congratulations to Claire Metcalfe, our Office Administrator who won $5,000 worth of vouchers for our school for The Warehouse Stationery

Year 9 students practiced and learnt different technologies this year in Digital.

Our Kapa Haka Group number about 25 students ranging from year 9 to year 13. We have been revisiting our old songs as a baseline for our new students to learn how our group works together.

Year 11 and 12 Design and Visual Communication students went on a fieldtrip to visit the building site for the trades training centre at Te Pūkenga (Otago Polytechnic) in Term 1.

5 Year 12 females were selected for a leadership workshop at the university encouraging young women in leadership in March.

Lydie Leurquin spoke to Social Studies classes in March. See the Otago Daily Times article below:

Year 12 and 13 Media Studies students were testing film equipment and editing software during Term One.

As a Group (2/3) we decided to support our fundraising efforts through a non-uniform day for the cyclone victims on the North Island and organised a waffle event!

Thanks to everyone who got involved in our recent school clean up.

Quite a few Logan Park students attended the climate action awareness protest in the Octagon on Friday the 3rd of March and expressed their worry about too many organisations as well as individuals not changing fast enough to make a difference to our warming planet.

Year 13 Peer Mentors enjoyed meeting with Year 9 students during Term One

It was dark, cold and raining in the morning when we gathered to take our bio trip to Warrington beach in March.

Gideon and Isla Craigie both performed with the Mosgiel Brass Band, at the Otago Regional contest, in Roxburgh in April.

Thanks to Head Prefect Ethan Lambeth and his band of Easter helpers for the giant Easter Egg Hunt in April

The Year 12 Level 2 Physical Education classes completed the Taieri leadership challenge in Term One.

The Digital Design Technology classes worked really well in Term 1 this year.

The Year 13 Geography class visited St Clair and Tomahawk beaches on Wednesday the 15th of March to assist in the data collection for an internal, regarding beach profiles, longitudinal drift and erosion.

In Korean culture, drinking tea is not just a simple act of consuming a beverage. It is an experience to enlighten and involve all your five senses.

The Learning and Support Class enjoyed a visit to Larnach's Castle in Term 1 where we learned about the early history of the Larnach family and the construction of the castle.

We appreciated meeting so many Yr 9 whanau at our afternoon tea in March

The senior Fabric Technology students started the year strongly.

Senior School Prefects, House leaders, Sports Prefects and Prefects / Leaders of clubs were announced early in Term One.

The Level 3 Yr 13 Physical Education students visited the University of Otago’s School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences department in February.

As we know food plays such an important role in our lives and tells us a lot about different cultures. That is why we started our culture club this year again with a shared lunch and we had a great variety of delicious treats ranging from Klepons from Indonesia to Baos from China as well as delicious Sushi and shortbread.

A month too late – but our French classes all had a taste of the delicious Galette des Rois – at the beginning of February instead on the actual date of 6 January.

Year 9 Design and Visual Communication students started the course with a creative exercise designing their name.

In February we celebrated some of our top scholars

Some of our musicians featured in the Otago Daily Times at the end of January