Kia ora koutou

This week we congratulate our top performing academic students. 

Celebrating our top academic achievers is not all about high marks, Scholarships and excellences. It is about the love of learning. Learning and the knowledge gained from learning allows us to advance to greater awareness, advancement of ideas and increased curiosity about the world. Great learning, in the end, results in great research - and advances the fields of what we know and can do as a human race. Otago Girls’ High School has a long list of academic alumni - people who are still out in the world advancing research and knowledge in multiple fields. Advancing Women in Science, Women in the Arts, Women in Mathematics and Women in the Languages and Humanities.

Congratulations to all students on your individual success and the small and regular gains you make in learning every day. Being in class every lesson, every day means that most days you will learn lots, some days the learning will touch your heart and fire your imagination, and every day you will build your future and the eventual choices you will have in life. More than that, you will build friends, memories and support for life. Go into your learning confidently, knowing that when you struggle is exactly when you learn the most - and that you have great support for your learning here at Otago Girls’ High School. Please - just ask!

Ko te manu e kai ana i te miro, nona te ngahere. Heoi, ko te manu e kai ana i te ako, nona te ao

The bird that consumes the miro berry, owns the forest. However, the bird that consumes learning, owns the world.

Ngā mihi nui