Te Kapa Haka o Putaringamotu performing at the 2017 Regional Secondary Schools Kapa Haka competition October 2107.

For a range of generally positive reasons our school is at a crossroad. The board is facing a series of once-in-a-generation decisions, which is an exciting prospect for us all.

Important dates and events from January 20 - February 6 2018.

Andrea Andrews recently presented an open letter at the NZEI Annual Conference about pay equity and what it would mean for her as a person. Here is her letter.

The Environment committee had a fantastic run this year that started with getting the school involved in volunteer activities with the Christchurch City Council and Trees for Canterbury and ended the year with their mural being put up above the staff room entrance just in time for term 4. 

Recently 10NI held a City Mission collection. Students were able to donate money, clothing, toiletries and food. 

Kapa Haka in 2017 started off with huge numbers and enthusiasm which carried throughout the year. 

Congratulations to Leah Albrow who has been invited to compete in the FPS International Conference in the USA in 2018.

On the 1st of November Kohanga Ako attended the Christchurch Special Olympics Athletics Day at Rawhiti Domain. While the sun decided not to turn out a great day was had by all and Riccarton High School well very well represented.

As a number of our students have been developing projects that involve intricate work that the workshop doesn’t have the facilities to accomplish, we have approached companies in the community to help us out. These companies have opened their doors to our students, in some cases allowing them to learn onsite.

The school is looking for an adult who understands the basics of radio control, rigging sails and racing yachts to lead the Radio Yachting group, and a second adult to support the leader. 

We farewell the following staff: Mary Edmundson, Joanne Thomson, Philippa Rendall, Fiona McDonald, Joe Gallagher, Helen Jermy, Graham Henderson, Anna Willows, Ripeka Tamepo, Sue Julian and David Tapp.

Congratulations to all our students who have achieved on the sports fields recently:

A round-up of some of the happenings in the Art department this term.

Fees-free tertiary education and industry training is now a reality for first-time students enrolling in courses for 2018. 

This year, the top awards went to Shauna Lionnet (Proxime Accessit) and Kate Stedman (top student and Dux).

The PTA would like to thank all families for their support during the year and we wish you all a Safe and Merry Christmas and New Year.

The PTA sells second-hand uniforms on behalf of families and will be holding two uniform sales - 9th December 2017 9:00am - 11:00am and 20th January 2018 9:00am – 11:00am in the school hall. 

A massive thank you to all of the students who helped in the Library this year. 

Over the last year, students from Riccarton High have been researching soldiers who are named on the Honors Board in the Riccarton Memorial Library.

On the last day of October, a group of lucky level 2 students from both Physics classes got the opportunity to have an educational flight over Christchurch and Lyttelton Harbour.

Congratulations to Vanessa Ye (12IT) and Kate Stedman (13SN) who have been accepted for Powering Potential this year. 

A team led by Matthew Woermann competed in the Regional Evolocity competition, where they had to design and construct an electric vehicle. 

Congratulations to Yan Gong, who has been offered one of the UC International First Year Scholarships to assist with his university studies next year. Yan is one of only twenty-five students worldwide to receive the scholarship that recognises and supports top-achieving international students.