SOUTHLAND GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL
High School in Invercargill
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They are particularly valuable for the graduate as a citizen and are ready transferable to many occupations and careers . Invercargill Girls' High School opened in Ramsay's Hall, Tay Street on 10 February 1879 under the principalship of Miss E M Hood and with 30 pupils. With this example and with the assistance of Sir John Richardson Speaker of the Provincial Council and MP for Clutha , they had decided their own city should have a girls' school. The high wooden fence which separated the two groups eventually became a brick wall. During Miss Stevenson's time, construction began on a substantial building on the corner of Forth and Ness Streets.
In 1907, with Miss Christina Cruickshank as Principal, the School moved into its third home. Each pupil was allotted a shelf of books to transport on her bicycle and re shelve at the new school. Others remember how gingerly the carload of science chemicals was driven across the railway lines. The Southland nature of the Girls' High School is probably best reflected in the persistent efforts, from the beginning of the century, to establish a boarding hostel.
It reopened as Rata House in 1947, readopted the original estate name of Enwood in 1956 and has weathered periods of economic depression and the opening of country schools in the decades since. Motivated by an abiding concern for the education of girls, the curriculum has been expanded to include a wide variety of subjects, cultural and sporting activities. Areas such as outdoor education, technology, guidance and careers advice have been developed to cater for contemporary needs. The girls who brought hot potatoes in the pockets to school as a means of keeping warm would find the climate just as inclement but the heating systems greatly improved.
A school like Southland Girls' High School with a long history also has strong traditions. Like the community of which it is a part, the School has suffered and played its role in two World Wars, through the Great Influenza epidemic and the later polio outbreak. And it was in 1913 that two staff members, Miss Violet Cheyne Farnie and Mr Charles Gray, composed the words and music for the School Song. Even as early as November 2003 it was clear that the Ministry of Education had a preference for Year 7 13 schools as opposed to Intermediate year 7 8 and High schools year 9 13 . New teachers were employed and thus began a series of building projects including a new staffroom and canteen on the East wing site and a foods, materials, 3 science rooms and a much needed second gymnasium on the West wing site.
The two wings very much reflect our learning community's philosophy of integrated and inclusiveness with all girls years 7 13 spread over both sites. Woven through all the changing decades is the strong thread of the School motto given to us in the first decade Non Scholae Sed Vitae Discimus, not for school but for life we are learning a motto as relevant today as it was all those years ago
In 1907, with Miss Christina Cruickshank as Principal, the School moved into its third home. Each pupil was allotted a shelf of books to transport on her bicycle and re shelve at the new school. Others remember how gingerly the carload of science chemicals was driven across the railway lines. The Southland nature of the Girls' High School is probably best reflected in the persistent efforts, from the beginning of the century, to establish a boarding hostel.
It reopened as Rata House in 1947, readopted the original estate name of Enwood in 1956 and has weathered periods of economic depression and the opening of country schools in the decades since. Motivated by an abiding concern for the education of girls, the curriculum has been expanded to include a wide variety of subjects, cultural and sporting activities. Areas such as outdoor education, technology, guidance and careers advice have been developed to cater for contemporary needs. The girls who brought hot potatoes in the pockets to school as a means of keeping warm would find the climate just as inclement but the heating systems greatly improved.
A school like Southland Girls' High School with a long history also has strong traditions. Like the community of which it is a part, the School has suffered and played its role in two World Wars, through the Great Influenza epidemic and the later polio outbreak. And it was in 1913 that two staff members, Miss Violet Cheyne Farnie and Mr Charles Gray, composed the words and music for the School Song. Even as early as November 2003 it was clear that the Ministry of Education had a preference for Year 7 13 schools as opposed to Intermediate year 7 8 and High schools year 9 13 . New teachers were employed and thus began a series of building projects including a new staffroom and canteen on the East wing site and a foods, materials, 3 science rooms and a much needed second gymnasium on the West wing site.
The two wings very much reflect our learning community's philosophy of integrated and inclusiveness with all girls years 7 13 spread over both sites. Woven through all the changing decades is the strong thread of the School motto given to us in the first decade Non Scholae Sed Vitae Discimus, not for school but for life we are learning a motto as relevant today as it was all those years ago
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