Congratulations Chloe Gray, Martha McAuley and Lucy Grant. Chloe won the Lower South Island Spelling Bee. Martha and Lucy won the highest scoring High School Hip Hop Crew at the recent Regionals. Great work girls!

The winners of the Reading Challenge were 9 Smith and Dawsons. We had a fun week in the library with different book- related competitions. Our first Bookface competition was won by Cherie-Rose Osten with a remarkable symmetrical creation. Tallulah Costa won the book Spine Poetry contest with her thoughtful poem "Fallen". And the team of Mikayla Preston, Destiny Crawford and Olivia Currie took top place in our Kahoot Book Quiz. Well done to all our winners and thank you to all those that took part. Special thanks to Ms Hanning for the cupcakes and PSTA for their financial support.

The Queen’s High Aerobics team had great success at the NZCAF Otago Schools Aerobics Championships. All of the nine strong team placed in their respective categories and qualified for nationals to be held Queenstown in September.

We welcome 7 new International students to Queen’s this term.

Please return cleaned cups and trophies to the school office ASAP.

On Friday evening, August 2nd at the Dunedin Town Hall the NZ schools Hip Hop Otago Championships were held.

Queen’s High School, Columba College and Bayfield High School collaborated and immersed their Year 12 & 13 French students in French for a day.

Workshops are being run for girls who play or are interested in playing rugby. Please see Miss Palmer for more information.

Students are attempting to complete 30 minutes of physical activity for 30 days in August.

Two Year 10 students took part in Te Rauawa O Te Pahī Marine Science programme for Year 10 Māori students.

Interested in High School Exchanges? Have a desire to see the world and experience a different culture?

Last term students were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to go to a marine biology workshop at Quarantine Island.

The competition was held on Thursday 27 June. This year’s adjudicator, Ms. Sam Montgomerie, commented on the high standard of the speeches presented, both in terms of development of ideas and of presentation.

At this seminar, UC Career Consultant Dave Petrie will talk with parents about how to support their teens in making informed decisions about their futures.

The University of Otago is recruiting 15-18 year old girls to take part in the SuNDial Project