We are opening the gates to our school campsite at Orohaki and inviting our community to visit.

We are opening the school for an evening that offers an opportunity for prospective 2022 Year 9 students and their parents to meet us, learn about what we do, and take a look around.

The first week of March we invited a variety of tertiary providers to our school.

The Learning Community Hub workshops for Filipino community are back again in 2021.

Read on for updates as they are sent through to us.....

The Canterbury Model United Nations was recently held at the University of Canterbury, and Riccarton High School was very lucky to have two Year 10 students participating in the event.

On Sunday the 21st of March, 2021, the year 12 Biology classes of Riccarton High School departed on a great adventure. The trip to Temple Basin had begun...

Since the beginning of last year, a number of school staff have been engaged in a professional learning programme called New Pedagogies for Deep Learning (NPDL). While a global programme with thousands of schools participating, it is highly local in focus and has anchored the work of the Pūtaringamotu Kāhui Ako.

It has been two years since the 15 March tragedy here in Christchurch, and we still grieve for our Muslim community. Although we cannot change our past, we can look forward and make positive changes in our actions to celebrate diversity and unity in our community.

Our reduced international cohort is humming along nicely this term.

MoneyHub, a consumer finance website, has published a guide to hundreds of scholarships for any student planning to start university in 2022.

Congratulations to these students who received either an Academic award or leadership recognition at an evening held at Christchurch Girls' High School. It was organized by MoE- Learning Community Hub for encouraging students from ethnic backgrounds.

Introducing Janine Ogier, our new Board Chair.

Year 8 day is back in 2021, and RHS will be hosting students from our contributing schools, who will visit and experience a day in a high school.

We gave our new staff members a chance to introduce themselves. Keep reading to find out more!

Over a 100 students enjoyed following clues to find Easter eggs hidden around the Library.

Several of our senior students were invited to be on a panel to discuss leadership with the Year 7 and 8 students at Riccarton Primary School for leadership week.

We here at Youthtown want to invite your students to join us on our FREE Break-away April Holiday programmes!

Our first Student Achievement Interview Day will be on Thursday, 27 May (week 4 of term 2) from 9:00am until 7:00pm.

The Health and PE faculty would like to get RHS community feedback on the Health Education programme we offer. Please take a moment to follow the links (below) for more information about the programme and to fill out the short survey.

Riccarton High School now has a new bucket hat as part of the school uniform – this replaces the option of a plain navy hat previously used as our sun hat.

We specifically ask that parents do not use the Main South Road driveway and the library carpark as a drop-off or pick-up point, or drive onto the school grounds through the main gate (entered from Vicki Street).

Your PTA would like to invite all interested members of the parent community at RHS to come along to an information evening at the Library.

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