The Voices Festival featured a range of fabulous choirs from schools from all over Canterbury over a full three-night choir extravaganza held at the Charles Luney Auditorium last week.

Our senior musicians performed at the hugely successful Musical Extravaganza last term. Come and see more performances from this talented group of young musicians at the Music Soiree on September 22nd. 

Congratulations to our two students, Daniel Curtis and Jason Laurie, for completing a 12 week Internship with Z Energy. 

You will be aware that we are doing considerable work on our Education Brief for our school renovation.

On Friday it was announced that Starpath has won the Y7-10 Best Game category in the nationwide Future Transport competition run by the New Zealand Transport Authority.

Proceed will help Kapahaka raise money for uniforms and extra tuition costs so they can compete on behalf of RHS in the regionals. Drawn just in time for Father's Day.

On Friday the 6th of August, four lucky senior students: Kate Stedman (13SN), Olivia Kennington (13SN), Aidan Morris (13IT), and Joshua Daglish (12GN) had the amazing opportunity to visit NASA’S plane SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy) telescope at Christchurch Airport, with the three physics teachers: Emma Trott, Sue Napier, and Maree Vercoe.

It is time for students currently in Years 10 to 12 to apply for their senior courses for next year.

By Jason Alexander and Francesca Zhang, Year 12 students who interviewed each other.

Alyssa Whinham and Luke White both had success at the NZ Futsal nationals held in Palmerston North during the July school holidays.

Congratulations to Toby Buckner (11PL) and Emma McMorran (13SN), who were selected for the National Secondary Schools Brass Band.

We are holding a second interview day for all year levels on Thursday 14th September from 9:30am to 8:00pm. 

Kate Stedman writes about her experiences at the Youth ANZAAS camp in Melbourne in July.

It has been a very busy start to term three! We welcomed 23 new students, and with a new and improved international orientation programme, things got off to a great start.

Lyn Young, Ashley Mendoza, Emily Xu, Sahiti Peddisetti and Michelle Li competed in the Brain Bee Competition in Dunedin recently. This is their account of the experience.

Remember the Library is a Community and School Library so everyone is welcome and it is free to join.

The Concert Band have been working hard over the last two terms for the up and coming Concert Band Festival, which is being held on Sunday September 17th. 

On the 27th of September at 7:30pm, the Social Well-being Committee will be running another social in the hall. Tickets will be on sale for $6 the week before. We will keep you updated in the notices. The last social was awesome and we are excited for this one to be even bigger and better.

There is a growing awareness in education about the significance that well-being plays in student engagement and success, and in supporting staff to be at their optimum professionally. 

In week 7 and 8, from the 5th to the 13th of September, we will receive a visit from a school in New Caledonia. 

Congratulations to Max Killoh who came third in the Junior category of the Sigma D-Photo Amateur Photographer of the Year competition. 

The Jazz Band competed in the annual Jazz Quest Competition on August 6th. They were delighted to be awarded a 'Gold' certificate for their performance which included a variety of standards of latin, swing and ballad styles. Tim Bridgman's lovely alto saxophone solo In Angel Eyes was particularly impressive. You will hear more from the Jazz Band at the Music Soiree on Sept 22nd. 

It seems a long time since Matariki already, yet it was only in week 9 of last term that the school celebrated this significant mid-winter event. 

This Term, in weeks 2 and 3, we welcomed 16 students and two teachers from Takefu Higashi High School – our sister school in Japan.