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Parent evenings postponed to Term 2 and rostering home update

Dear Parents / Caregivers,Teenaa koutou ki a koutou, I hope you and your whaanau are doing well after the week that had a bit of everything including weather bombs, ongoing COVID disruption and government announcements about the easing of some restrictions. This latest piece provides us with the hope that, as the modelling points to case numbers declining, so too the government is easing the public health measures and gathering limits. This, along with vaccine passes no longer required for ...

Cell Phone Action Plan Update

Dear Parents / Caregivers,Teenaa koutou, Thank you for your support and feedback over the past 2 weeks with the implementation of our banning of cell phones during lesson time. Staff have noticed a real difference in the classroom, with students more focused on the lessons and far fewer confrontations than we experienced last year. We want to remind everyone at home that phones can be used be during movement time (5 minutes between lessons), break times and before and after school. There really...

End of Week 2 update

Dear Parents / Caregivers,Teenaa koutou ki a koutou, I hope everyone has a good book for the wet weekend ahead, or perhaps you want to read this attachment – there are a few things for us to get through for you today in preparation for next week, the first full 5-day week of the year. Uniform remindersCell phone procedureCOVID case protocolFacemasks Ngaa mihi Greg ThorntonPrincipal...

Final communication home for 2021

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Year 13 Camp Update

Dear Parents / Caregivers and Students in Year 13Teenaa koutou ki a koutou, Firstly, welcome back to you all and I hope that the first few days have gone well. It has been great seeing you fill up CHS again and talking with some of you about what your plans for the year. I want to thank the huge numbers of Year 13 students that had a big presence in this opening week. I appreciate the welcome you have provided our Year 9s as they get started at CHS and we have got 2022 off to great start. Secon...

SoundSplash and Ministry of Health requirements post

Good afternoon, We are aware that several members of our community were at SoundSplash and this has been confirmed as a place of interest from 6am on Friday, January 21, to 9.15am on Sunday, January 23. Anyone at the festival is being asked to self-monitor for Covid symptoms for 10 days. If you have symptoms please get a test and remain at home until the outcome of the test in known. As with all external places of interest, please follow the Ministry of Health requirements. In this instance yo...

Welcome Back - Start of 2022

Teenaa koutou e te whaanau. Nau mai hoki mai ki e te whaanau o te kura tuarua o Te Oko Horoi, Dear Parents, Caregivers and StudentsWelcome back to Cambridge High School I hope that you have been able to enjoy some down time with your friends and family and were able to re-charge after the particularly challenging year we had last year. In the face of the disruption, we were able to achieve an incredible amount as a school for our students and the community, but it took a lot of energy. Looking a...

Final Communication Home 2021

Teenaa koutou,Dear Parents / Caregivers, This is the final communication from me for the year, and what a year it has been. We have all been through a lot and I have certainly appreciated the support of family, friends and colleagues during such challenging and unprecedented times. I am really looking forward to taking time out to recharge and hope that you can also find time to refresh and reconnect with those close to you over the summer. It is easy for us to think that the whole year has been...

Final Week of Term 3

Good morning Whaanau, The last week of term is upon us.  Please find attached plans for this week.  The attachment for Seniors also covers details for assessment week in the first week of next term. Kind RegardsGreg ThorntonPrincipalCambridge High School...

Further details about the end of year calendar

Good afternoon everyone, Teenaa koutou,  It has been great to see all the students back at school again over the last week. When I catch up with them they are enthusiastic about being back and getting on top of their learning. They are getting great support from staff and also found that the transition to online learning was much smoother this time around. We seem to have all learnt more about how to manage the challenges of continuing on with learning and dealing with the uncertainty that ...

Introducing the new CHS website

Teenaa koutou whaanau,Dear Parents / Caregivers, I trust that you have all had a great break and enjoyed having the family around again. We are now in week 3 of Term 3. It never ceases to amaze me how quickly the year disappears from this point. It is a staggering reality that in a little more than 10 school weeks we will be farewelling our senior students for their NCEA examinations. Fortunately, there is a lot more great events this term – visit the school website to see the school calendar ...

The road to Matariki at CHS

The digging of the Hangi on Friday morning, July 9.Photos by: Troy Lennox, Jack Lennox and Molly NorvillMatariki won’t become an official national public holiday until June 24 next year. But for CHS, attempts to entrench the event in the school’s future culture have already begun. On July 9, the school hosted an inaugural community celebration of the holiday, as the culmination of Te Wiki O Te Ao Maori—a week-long celebration of Maori culture. Te Wiki O Te Ao Maori saw the school’s a...

From fax-machines to now: A history of the CHS school website

With the launch of CHS’ new website, we decided to take a trip down memory lane to the dawn of the Web—right back to 1998, when Cambridge High School first entered Cyberspace. This is the internet, after all, where everything that you do or say is recorded—so memory lane is pretty infallible. Picture the time. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets has just come out. Titanic had just won 11 Oscars at the 70th Academy Awards. Google, believe it or not, was founded. Everyone had th...

Short-story writers and artists wanted!

This section of the CHS Foyer is for student-made graphic design, short films, short stories and art/cartoons. Creativity, really. If you want to be a regular contributor, or just send one piece in, get in touch at thechsfoyer@camhigh.school.nz. ...

Welcome to the CHS Foyer

Welcome to the CHS Foyer.  We’re launching Cambridge High School’s first-ever student newspaper as part of the revamped website. By students, for students, the “newspaper” will cover school goings-on and issues relevant to teenagers, as well as providing a platform for student fiction, art and comics. Over the coming weeks, expect stories on everything from NCEA, to the S Block renovations, to an essay on the intricacies of Mr Ludlam’s incomprehensible diagrams. We're looking...

Columnists and opinion writers wanted!

Have an opinion? Why not share it!  (Hundreds of reasons, probably. But if it's an opinion on something important to education, teenagers or Cambridge High school--and you'd be happy with your grandma reading it... send us a message at thechsfoyer@camhigh.school.nz....