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...
February 3, 2022SoundSplash 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...
February 3, 2022Welcome 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...
January 27, 2022Final 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...
December 21, 2021Final 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...
September 28, 2021Further 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 ...
September 21, 2021Introducing 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 ...
August 9, 2021The 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...
July 16, 2021From 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...
July 16, 2021Short-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. ...
March 26, 2021Welcome 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...
December 4, 2020Columnists 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....
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