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Thursday November 14, 2013 — By Andy Parsons (HOD)
Technology news
2013 has been another fabulous year in the Technology Department.
Monday November 18, 2013 — By Jeremy Shanks and Tayla Hohaia
Toroa House Report
After nine months of love and inclusiveness here at Logan Park, the students of Toroa have been left with a sense of enlightenment and inspiration by their supreme leaders Jeremy and Tayla.
Monday November 18, 2013 — By Paul Fielding
Vietnam Trip
Twenty one students and five teachers ventured out to Vietnam for our second full tour of this wonderful country for seventeen days in the April holidays. It was a fantastic and successful tour which will live long in everyone’s memories.
Thursday November 14, 2013 — By Brett Collins
Omimi House Day
For ‘House Day’ this year, the Omimi family travelled to the distant lands of Warrington beach.
Monday November 18, 2013 — By Sophie Hilton-Manning
Tautuku Camp in the snow!
At year 10 camp our class happened to go to Tautuku in one of the very few times it snows! I found myself wearing ALL my clothes I had brought and still being freezing, but that just made it all the more fun.
Monday November 18, 2013 — By Ava Straw
Tautuku Camp the highlight of Year 10
Year 10 camp was my absolute highlight for year 10.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Scott Bayne
Health & Physical Education Report
Over the past 3 years, the Health and Physical Education curriculum at Logan Park has been adapted to reflect the needs of our students. Today, students now learn more than simply basic skills and playing games.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Marion Brinsley
The Careers Department
These are some of the things the Careers Department was involved in this year.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By John Dodd (HOD)
Music Department Report
We are so spoiled in the Music Department, because every school day of the year we are treated to the creative sounds that our wonderful students create, and we get to witness the growth in skills, and the development of the ensembles that we support.
Wednesday November 20, 2013 — By Barbara Fitzsimons
Languages Department
2013 has been a busy year in French, Latin, Mandarin and Te Reo Maori with classes actively immersing themselves in listening, speaking, reading, writing and culture. We have also had students learning German and Spanish through distance learning.
Wednesday November 20, 2013 — By Yvonne Caulfield
Science Department Report
2013 has been another busy, successful year for the LPHS Science Department.
Thursday November 21, 2013 — By Kristan Mouat
English & Media Studies Department Report
We’ve had another exciting and rewarding year in English and Media Studies classes and in all the related extra-curricular areas. We were really proud of students’ achievements in NCEA and especially the 5 national NCEA scholarships awarded. Katrina Lamont, Pieta Ferens and Rhian Gaffney won scholarships in English and Gareth McMullen and Emelia Mixter in Media Studies.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Jacobi Kohu-Morris
Maori Student Leadership team
Kia Ora! The Maori Student Leadership Team (MSLT) of 2013 has been a real success. As a well-oiled machine we worked under the guidance of our wonderful Careers Advisor Ms Brinsley to start new projects, as well as continuing existing programmes from 2012.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Sarah Spicer (HOD)
Drama Department Report
The Drama department has been very busy in 2013. It all started with a change of HOD in January. After many years building a fantastic department Denise Walsh retired. Although she has been on hand to help me settle in. I arrived in New Zealand at the start of the year and it has been a great experience.
Tuesday November 26, 2013 — By Francine Vella
Sporting High Achievers
Sporting High Achievers for 2013.
Thursday November 14, 2013 — By Don Mackenzie (HOD)
Art Department Report
Claude Monet was once described as "an eye, but what an eye!" The LPHS Art Department similarly has been described as "an Art Department, but what an Art Department!" We wallowed in the reflected fame of Bene Stewart's folio making it into the Top Folio travelling exhibition. We also relished the Photography NCEA Scholarship gained by Emelia Mixter. Sequoia Cunningham and Pepa Belton have both won lucrative scholarships to study Art at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art.
Monday November 18, 2013 — By Paul Fielding
Aoraki House report
Well it has been another great year for Aoraki. We may not have carried away any of the cups or trophies but House spirit was always high. Our Year 13’s worked superbly as a team and organised all the activities required of them enthusiastically throughout.
Friday November 22, 2013 — By Judith Nassua
International Students Māori Class
During our lessons with Mr Winiata we learned a lot about Māori culture, music and Māori art as well as how their lives used to be before Europeans arrived in New Zealand.
Thursday November 14, 2013 — By Paul Enright (HOD)
Humanities Department report
2013 started with a name change from Social Sciences to better reflect the spread and the focus of the subjects gathered together in our department and student successes in external exams to celebrate (including three NCEA Scholarships – two in History and one in Classical Studies). Humanities options remain popular with LPHS students and growth has led to the creation of a third History option at Year 11.
Monday December 2, 2013 — By Cathi Graham
Academic & Cultural High Achievers
Academic and Cultural High Achievers for 2013.
Friday December 13, 2013 — By Logan Park High School
Junior Prize-Giving 2013
Congratulations to all of our junior students, celebrated in this year's junior prize-giving. This year's special awards are as follows: John Crawford Memorial Prize for Initiative and Leadership in the Outdoors (Tautuku) (Boy) - Taine Clinch. John Crawford Memorial Prize for Initiative and Leadership in the Outdoors (Tautuku) (Girl) - Katharine Woolrych. PTSA Prize for Service to School (Junior Boy) - Grant McNaughton. PTSA Prize for Service to School (Junior Girl) - Erica Stedman. Principal’s Community Service Award - Oscar LaDell. Best Junior Performance in Sport (Boys) - Jaren Roy and Dylan Deans-Bennett. Best Junior Performance in Sport (Girl) - Isabel Locker. Best All-Round Student Award for Tikanga Maori - Emma Samuels. Pasifica Young Achiever - Lydie Lerquin. Jan Tucker Cup for Sporting and Cultural Service to School - George Maclaurin. Ross Nelson Cup for Most Outstanding All-round student - Henri Gaudin. Principal’s Award for Top Junior Diploma Year 9 - Ben Clayton. Principal’s Award for Top Junior Diploma Year 10 Kate Denys, Lydie Leurquin, Ava Straw and Katharine Woolrych. Runner-up to Junior Dux - Ava Straw. Mona King Memorial Award for Junior Dux - Katharine Woolrych.
Wednesday December 18, 2013 — By Cathi Graham
Staff Farewells
We are sorry to say goodbye to several staff members as the year ends. First of all, Deputy Principal Roger Tobin, who has been at Logan Park for the last 29 years. Roger will be moving on to PPTA as the Otago Division Field officer. The end of the Services Academy due to funding cuts means we will also lose the director, Simon Heptsonstall, who has been enormously energetic over the past two years leading the Academy students. We are also sad to say goodbye to Soo Graham, Coordinator of Adult Community Education (ACE), Christine Swindells, Internatonal Student Manager, Chris Gill, Maths teacher and Linda Bruce, Teacher Aide.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Jane Johnson
Senior Prizegiving Awards
List of Awards at Senior Prizegiving 2013, held at Otago University College of Education Auditorium, November 6th 2013.Special Awards:
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Scott Bayne
Sports Day
This year’s Sports Day, unlike last year, managed to last the whole day without raining, a great start! Once again each House was proudly represented with a barrage of colour and noise. With over 130 events to get through it showcased some of our best athletes, striving to break records, win points for their House and generally have fun along the way. Last year, Aoraki won the day and as previous winners sat in prime position by the finish line, but could this year see them moved?
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By John Dodd
The Year that Rocked
There have been some thunderous loud sounds going on at the back of the school, demonstrating that the art of rock’n’roll is still very much alive at LPHS.
Wednesday November 20, 2013 — By Amanda Wilson
Learning Support Unit - Te Roopu
A Place Where Great Things Happen!
Thursday November 21, 2013 — By Jacobi Kohu-Morris
Nga Manu Korero
I was so lucky to be able to compete at the annual Nga Manu Korero national speaking champs in September this year! After qualifying to represent the Otakau/Murihiku region with the support of our superb Kapa Haka group, our ropu fundraised to travel to Hamilton for the flagship event for all Maori public speakers. It was an amazing experience.
Tuesday November 12, 2013 — By Matthew Scadden
Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival 2013
The Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival was an amazing experience.
Wednesday November 20, 2013 — By Jane Johnson
Blues Awards 2013
List of awards recipients from Blues Assembly 2013
Monday November 18, 2013 — By Paul Fielding
Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) 2013
This year was a clean sweep for LPHS at this annual event! We won best team (United Kingdom) for the third year in a row and carried off the two individual best speakers’ awards too.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Sarah Spicer
Selecon Award for Technical Excellence
Congratulations to Oscar Mcnoe who was awarded the Selecon Award for Technical Excellence at the South Island Regional TheatreFest recently.
Friday October 11, 2013 — By Christine Swindells
BOT Year 9 Scholarships
Board of Trustees Year 9 Scholarships recipients for 2013.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Scott Bayne
Futsal Report
This year has seen Logan Park enter an unprecedented 12 teams playing futsal in term 1. With teams in every category, there were nearly a hundred students playing futsal, more than any other school in Dunedin. This year, all of our senior teams were named after Champion League teams, although I spent far too long explaining to most players who PSG were! Our junior teams were named after Premiership teams in the English league. They played over 70 games and scored over 270 goals!
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Marion Brinsley
Pacific Islands Student Community Group
Kia orana! Talofa! Malo e lelei! Bonjour! Aloha! This group is open to all students with Pacifica heritage and interest. We have met regularly throughout the year to share in one another’s cultures and company.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Karen Penaia
Pacific Island Pearls
The Pacific is the calm ocean washing on the smooth sand of the land. Pearls are the jewels of the ocean. We are the Pacific Island Pearls of Logan Park High School (Polynesian Performance Group) who have just recently started up again since 2004. We formed this group to perform at the Polynesian and Maori Festival 2013. We do this to showcase the dignity of our cultures.
Monday November 18, 2013 — By Akari Okawa (Japan)
International student outdoor experience - Camp Waihola
My first camp with the international students was fun.
Tuesday March 19, 2013 — By Antonia Rolf & Marla Steuer (Germany)
Race Unity Assembly
On the 19th of March 2013, we had our Race Unity Assembly. It was a good opportunity to get to know all of the different cultures, which are represented at Logan Park High School.
Monday November 18, 2013 — By Paul Fielding
Cricket report
It has been another very busy and successful cricket season this year.
Monday November 25, 2013 — By Jane Johnson (Principal)
Message from the Principal 2013
Kia-ora students, parents/grandparents, friends and staff in the Logan Park Whānau – this year’s school milestones, comings and goings, educational projects begun and completed have kept us challenged and fulfilled, which you can see for yourselves as you check out our stories within the new electronic format which is our 2013 magazine. That’s right folks – no printed copies! Kua mutu; kua timata.
Monday November 25, 2013 — By Poppy Johns
Stage Challenge
Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to lead Logan Park High School in Stage Challenge 2013, a regional dance competition against other schools in Otago.
Monday November 18, 2013 — By Paul Fielding
Quiz success for Humanities students
It has been another great year for our young social scientists on the local quiz scene.
Thursday November 14, 2013 — By John Major (HOD)
Maths Department news
The Maths Department have had a very successful year in 2013.
Monday November 18, 2013 — By Paul Fielding
Badminton
Badminton continues to thrive at Logan Park with two boys' teams and one girls’ team playing in 2013.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Morag MacTaggart
Writers' Group 2013
We have had another busy year in Writers' Group. Held every Monday lunchtime and open to all who wish to come, Writers' Group can often get very loud! We enter competitions, share our writing, try out writing games and activities and manage to eat our lunch as well.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Hanna Ott
Logan Park Philharmonic Orchestra Rides Again!
It's been a good year for the orchestra. A hard year, but a good year nonetheless.
Wednesday November 20, 2013 — By Ruth Barnett (Chairperson)
Board of Trustees Report
Kua mutu kua timata "It is finished, but has again begun" is on our school crest and seems to fit the end of year which is a time of finishing and a time of beginning. I am going to write about some things which have finished and some things which have begun at Logan Park High School in 2013.
Tuesday October 22, 2013 — By Christine Swindells
Best School Film in the 48 Hour Film Competition
Logan Park students took top honours in the Otago Southland final of the 48 Hour Film Competition.
Monday November 18, 2013 — By Christine Beck
Gateway 2013
It’s been another successful year for year 12 and 13 students testing out possible future careers.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Sarah Spicer
Year 9 Drama Performance - 'Bearnie's Incredible Illucinations'
Year 9 students have performed Bearnie's Incredible Illucinations this year, much to the delight of parents and friends.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Scott Bayne
Interhouse Cross Country
This year’s Inter-House Cross Country took place on a sunny Wednesday in July. The competition was won by Aoraki in 2012 and competition was going to be fierce as not only were there points for the annual House trophy up for grabs, but also the prestige of winning the House cup, which is held by whichever House won the last Inter-House competition, in this case Omimi for Sports Day.
Wednesday November 20, 2013 — By Akari Okawa (Japan)
International student outdoor experience - Lake Tekapo and Mount Cook/Aoraki
It was a nice trip to Lake Tekapo and Mt.Cook with 6 people including me. I spent almost all the time having much fun with Ina and Clara.
Wednesday November 20, 2013 — By Johann Breust (Germany)
International student outdoor experience - Camp Tirohanga
While the senior students wrote their practice exams, the international students went on a trip to Tirohanga Camp, near Mosgiel. After we left school, we first went to Sandfly Beach, a beach on the Otago Peninsula. We tried sand surfing and saw the sea lions. In the afternoon we arrived at Tirohanga.
Monday April 1, 2013 — By Haruka Ibori and Yuri Kitaba (Japan)
International Concert
The International Concert night was a great success with many awesome performances. We worked really hard on all our performances for the International Concert.
Friday November 22, 2013 — By Paul Fielding
Logan Park Wins 20/20 Colts Cricket Tournament
Logan Park High School defeated Taieri College in the final of the recent 20/20 Colts cricket tournament held at Mosgiel on the 18th and 19th of November.
Friday November 22, 2013 — By Marla Steuer & Antonia Rolf (GLS, Germany)
International student outdoor experience - Milford Sound
For our second trip in term one, we went to Milford Sound. We set off from school in three vans for Te Anau. After a long drive we finally arrived at our hostel, which had an awesome view of the lake.
Monday November 25, 2013 — By Blake Mcalevey-Scurr & Jeremy Shanks
1st XI Boys Hockey
The 2013 LPHS Boys 1st XI hockey team has had a good, fun year. We had an extremely promising start - our ranks were refilled with talented players, after a lot of people left at the end of last year. Especially pleasing to see was the high standard of the juniors who joined our team. After our good start and a strong season, we made it to the semi-finals, losing to King's in a close match.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Matthew Scadden
Chamber Music Group
We were pleased to have another strong showing at this year's Regional NZCT Chamber Music Contest.
Tuesday October 22, 2013 — By Sarah Wilson & Tayla Hohaia
Logan Park Bowling strong in 2013
2013 has been yet another successful year for Logan Park High School Bowls, despite the small number of participants we have had some great achievements.
Monday November 18, 2013 — By Christine Beck
lingua latina MMXIII
I’m sure the ancient Romans would be proud of us at Logan Park with our 6th consecutive win at the Otago Junior Classics Quiz. We celebrated our success with a Mt Olympus party, wondering how the gods ever got away with doing what they did. As well as following some ancient traditions, we follow a few AD 3rd millennium ones of our own including “cicero”, “calculi” and “fruti bursti”.
Tuesday November 12, 2013 — By Connor Seddon
Debating
This year saw the emergence of a terrifying new entity, a united debating society.
Friday April 19, 2013 — By Pippi Miller
The Road That Wasn't There - The Playhouse Theatre Dunedin
This is a story about a girl who followed a map off the edge of the world… In New Zealand there are 56,000 kilometres of paper roads that exist only on surveyor's maps. Or do they? From an award-winning company comes a dark fairytale combining puppetry, shadow play, and music into an original story for children and adults.
Wednesday November 20, 2013 — By Connor Seddon
Film Club
Despite elaborate plans involving zeppelins and mass decapitations, film club this year was spent watching videos from every corner of YouTube.
Wednesday November 20, 2013 — By Simon Heptonstall (Director)
Services Academy Report
January found the slightly courteous new students, quickly understanding that there was a little bit more to military marching and discipline. They soon opened their ears more than their mouths and got stuck into working together as a team in preparation for the 2 week induction course at Burnham military camp.
Thursday November 21, 2013 — By Kristan Mouat
Public Speaking
We have had a number of successes this year in Public Speaking.
Thursday November 21, 2013 — By Tipene Winiata
Languages -Te Reo 2013
Riding on the coat tail of success and fulfilment of 2012, Maori students set to work immediately on a plan of attack of how best to continue, develop, support, and promote their school, with a collective goal to be decisively more active in the promotion of Te Reo and Tikanga processes within the School, the local community and the wider southern district.
Wednesday November 13, 2013 — By Philip Cadzow
Outward Bound
My time at Outward Bound was amazing. With the instructors taking great care not to let my watch know what was coming next; we were left in a state of both constant excitement and exhaustion.
Wednesday June 12, 2013 — By Francine Vella
Girls Badminton
This year Logan Park has had two girls' Badminton teams.
Wednesday November 27, 2013 — By Jane Johnson (Principal)
Noi Hudson Tribute
Nanny Noi Hudson was honoured by staff, students and whanau in October 2013 for her outstanding contribution to Logan Park High School. At a special tribute evening in the school whare, speakers thanked Noi for her 18 years of Board representation as Adviser on Maori matters.
Wednesday November 27, 2013 — By Jane Johnson (Principal)
2014 School Prefects
Congratulations to the following students who have been chosen as the 2014 School Prefects.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Scott Bayne
Interhouse Indoor Rowing
This year’s annual Inter-House indoor rowing competition took place in Term 4 in October. Last year’s competition was won by Toroa by 6 points, and the competition was expected to be as fierce as it was last year.
Wednesday November 13, 2013 — By Tait Hamilton
Rugby
With boys from Yr 9, 10 and 11, the Logan Park Wolverines had a large spread of players including members of all shapes, sizes and ability levels.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Morag MacTaggart
Logan Park High School Writing Prize Results
The English Dept had a large range of very talented pieces to choose from. Thank you to all who entered.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Meg Van Hale
Creative writing - 1st Place - Meg Van Hale
Creative writing by Meg Van Hale.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Josephine Devereux
Poetry- 1st place - Josephine Devereux
Poetry work by Josephine Devereux
Thursday November 28, 2013 — By Barbara Fitzsimons
New Caledonia Trip Plans
Planning for French Immersion Trip to New Caledonia April 2014
Thursday November 28, 2013 — By Andy Parsons
Sailing
Many a Monday evening during Terms 1 & 4 was spent challenging the elements on Otago Harbour. A keen group of sailors honed skills in water safety, racing, capsizing and water fighting.
Friday November 29, 2013 — By Dianne Rooney
ELLINZ
This year in response to a growing number of new migrant students enrolling at Logan Park High School, a contract was signed to be part of an exciting new online English learning course (ELLINZ).
Sunday December 1, 2013 — By Paul Enright
Student Successes in “Young Historians Awards”
Each year the New Zealand History Teachers association and the New Zealand Historical Association jointly hold a nationwide competition to make awards to research undertaken by secondary school students as part of their assessment programme. Schools are encouraged to choose and submit work from one student at each year level to be assessed by a national panel with representatives of both organisations.
Monday December 9, 2013 — By Lydie Leurquin
Year 10 Girls Volleyball Tournament
This year, volleyball has been a great experience. We have played some great games, we have learned a lot from each other, but most importantly, we have had such fun.
Friday October 11, 2013 — By Christine Swindells
Class Act 2013
Jasmine Seifert-Simpson and Matthew Scadden are Logan Park's Class Act recipients for 2013.
Tuesday October 22, 2013 — By Kristan Mouat
NZ author offers inspiration
Renowned NZ author David Hill shared his inspirations and insights to over 300 Logan Park students.
Wednesday September 18, 2013 — By Duncan Trickey
Girls Rugby Sevens
The girls' rugby sevens season was short but lots of fun.
Tuesday October 1, 2013 — By Sarah Spicer
Botanic Garden's 150th Celebrations Performance
Logan Park Players were delighted to be asked to perform at the Botanic Garden's 150th celebration day.
Saturday June 1, 2013 — By Jenny Millar
New Zealand Post Book Awards Quiz
In June we had four Year 9 teams competing against other secondary schools in the New Zealand Post Book Awards quiz and retained the title.
Tuesday November 12, 2013 — By Hannah Tregonning
Girls Hockey
From a highly successful end to our last season, the LPHS 1st XI Girls Hockey team managed to keep our position in the 1st division competition. Seeing as it was a heavily dominated Year 13 team during 2012, this meant that for this year we were expecting a lot of younger players to step up. The focus of the season became to build and grow a great team who would consistently put their best foot forwards and that’s exactly what they did.
Wednesday November 13, 2013 — By Charlie Ruffman
Rotary Science Forum
This summer we (Peter, Charlie and Jasmine) were lucky enough to attend the 2013 Rotary National Science and Technology Forum. This was two weeks of science and Awesome!
Friday October 25, 2013 — By Ibrahim Mohamed
Year 12 PE Coaching Trip to North East Valley Normal School
On Friday 25 October, the Year 12 P.E class went to North East Valley Normal School. We went there as part of our leadership internal worth four credits.
Monday August 12, 2013 — By Runa Falanitule
Year 12 PE Snowboarding Trip
The Year 12 PE class went to Ohau ski fields early in Term 3 as part of the Level 2 Physical Education course.
Wednesday November 13, 2013 — By Jenny Millar
David Hill, Author Visit
On Friday 22 February this year we hosted David Hill one of New Zealand's most renowned author of novels for children and young adults.
Wednesday November 13, 2013 — By Pam McKelvey
Curators Club
A small but enthusiastic group of art- minded students, and some teachers, made work for three Curators' Club exhibitions this year.
Wednesday August 14, 2013 — By Heather Brown
Netball
The school fielded five teams again this year; Senior A and Senior B team and a Junior A, a 9B and 9C teams.
Wednesday November 13, 2013 — By Connor Seddon
Water Polo
Finally Logan Park has a water polo team, after four years of waiting I’m finally able to thrash Otago Boys.
Monday September 23, 2013 — By Francine Vella
Kingaroy High School Visit
Kingaroy High School from Kingaroy in Queensland have been visiting Logan Park as part of their South Island Tour for aprox eight years.
Wednesday August 14, 2013 — By Francine Vella
Get2Go Challenge
The Get2Go Challenge is run by the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre over a school day in different locations throughout New Zealand. Students must be in Year 9 or 10 to enter.
Monday November 11, 2013 — By Richard Brown
Choir
The choir has had another enjoyable year under the direction of Hana Fahy.
Tuesday November 12, 2013 — By Scott Bayne
Football 2013
The football season started off with some challenging weather conditions, but saw more players joining than in many years.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Sarah Spicer
Review of 'Tribes' at the Fortune Theatre
Over 100 drama students went to see Tribes by Nina Raine along with Ms Johnson, Ms Fraser and Mrs Spicer. The quietly devastating Tribes does more than revolve around a young deaf man’s place in his family: it makes you hear the world differently.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Sarah Spicer
'Equus' - Level 3 NCEA production
Equus is a dark exploration of many themes including religion, passion and the role of medicine in society. The complex relationship between a psychiatrist and a troubled boy was performed brilliantly by Matthew Scadden and Blake McAlevey-Scurr.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Sarah Spicer
Year 12 Performances get top marks
Year 12 have been really challenged this year by a range of texts.
Wednesday November 20, 2013 — By Cathi Graham
Wakamatsu High School exchange
It was great to welcome six students from Wakamatsu High School. Students from the school have been visiting Logan Park for several years. It is wonderful to have such a close ‘sister school’ relationship with this school in Chiba.
Monday November 11, 2013 — By Zoe Priest Forsyth
Wakamatsu High School exchange
When students from our Wakamatsu sister school came to visit it was very interesting to hear about their lives in Japan. I enjoyed the experience as I’m going to travel there next year and volunteer to help families still affected by the tsunami. Unfortunately the students only had a short time with us but we enjoyed the experience together.
Monday November 11, 2013 — By Viet Anh Tran (Vietnam)
International Food Festival
During my last year at Logan Park High School, I have participated in lots of activities. All of them were so fun but the best one was the international food festival. As an international prefect, I organised it with the help of the International Office. It was such an awesome experience.
Wednesday November 20, 2013 — By Barbara Fitzsimons
French 2013
We have had a great year in the classroom with students setting goals and making choices with their own learning styles, in a framework of high academic achievement.
Wednesday November 20, 2013 — By Barbara Fitzsimons
School Wide Positive Behaviour for Learning
This positive behaviour initiative is in its third year at Logan Park and we have had three main foci for this year.
Wednesday November 20, 2013 — By Ina Schröer (Germany)
Spirit of New Zealand
My name is Ina Schröer and I was one of the fifty teenagers, who had the great opportunity of spending ten awesome days on a sailing boat called the Spirit of New Zealand. The Spirit of Adventure Trust offered us a life-changing time, full of amazing experiences.
Thursday November 21, 2013 — By Helen Prime
Essay competition winner
Helen Prime and Charlie Hilton received awards from the Athenaeum & Mechanics' Institute for their entries in the Year 12 essay competition. Helen and Charlie won a cash prize of $500 each and also $500 each for the school. This is Helen's essay.
Thursday November 21, 2013 — By Kristan Mouat
Youth Week
Youth Week, organised by Interact, was celebrated in the last week of term 3.
Tuesday November 12, 2013 — By Emma Samuels
LPHS Kapa Haka
This year's experiences in LPHS Kapa Haka.
Friday November 22, 2013 — By Sarah Pringle
Formal 2013
Casino Royale was the theme for this year's formal. It was held at The Savoy, a very elegant venue which suited our theme perfectly.
Monday November 11, 2013 — By Gong Chawaroj (Thailand)
International Student Experience
The story of what it is like to be an new international student at Logan Park.
Tuesday November 12, 2013 — By Francine Vella
Table Tennis Club
A highly successful new sporting initiative for Logan Park has been the introduction of the lunch time Table Tennis club.
Monday November 18, 2013 — By Roseamanda van der Linde
Sprouts Enviro Club
Even though we have greatly missed our inspiring Year 13 leaders from 2012, the passion from us never died as the younger members of the Logan Park High School Environmental Group continued on their legacy into the new year brimming with exciting ideas on how we could make 2013 an even better one, with an already early on mural promised to be continued along the back of the canteen, to be painted this summer.
Tuesday November 12, 2013 — By Paul Fielding
Boys Badminton
Another very good year for boys' badminton at Logan Park with two teams playing on Wednesdays after school at Badminton Hall.
Wednesday November 13, 2013 — By Philip Cadzow
Clayton Head Boy
I've greatly enjoyed being Head Boy of Clayton this year.
Monday July 15, 2013 — By Jordan Hibbard, Angela Wilson and Danielle Calnan
Basketball Teams Overview
This year LPHS had some great basketball teams who all played well and had very exciting seasons.
Tuesday September 10, 2013 — By Danielle Calnan
Basketball TIC comments
This year Logan Park had its largest number of participants in Basketball, over 100 students across 9 teams.
Wednesday November 13, 2013 — By Runa Falanitule, Jaren Roy, Katalina Ahokovi, Oliver Edan-Mann
Basketball Coaches Comments
A word from our coaches and players:
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Isla Benham
Formal Writing - 1st Place - Isla Benham
Formal writing by Isla Benham
Saturday March 9, 2013 — By Francine Vella
Representative Athletics
Logan Park were well represented this year in the Otago Athletics Championships.
Thursday November 21, 2013 — By Kristan Mouat
Karaoke Week
The Interact Club, supported by Student Council, organised Karaoke week.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Keith Huckle
My year at the Services Academy
This year everyone was able to get their NCEA level 1, and or level 2. Also some level 3 credits by doing unit standards in careers and outdoor activities.
Tuesday October 22, 2013 — By Suzanne Robins
Debating success at Otago Southland Russell McVeagh Debating competition
Congratulations to Connor Seddon, Helen Prime and Jacobi Kohu-Morris who represented Logan Park High School with considerable vigour and skill at the Otago Southland Russell McVeagh Debating competition on the 17th and 18th of May.
Tuesday November 12, 2013 — By Blake McAlevey-Scurr
Jazz Band
This year the Logan Park High School Jazz band has gone through a year of growth and revitalisation under the accomplished direction of Calder Prescott.
Thursday October 24, 2013 — By Christine Colbert
Junior Shakespeare Competition
The Year 10 Drama students presented their entries for this year’s Shakespeare Cup at a very successful evening for parents on Thursday October the 24th.
Saturday November 16, 2013 — By Jacobi Kohu-Morris
Youth Parliament 2013
In April 2013, I was privileged enough to be appointed as the Youth Member of Parliament representing the Rt. Hon Winston Peters for a six-month tenure. As much of an honour as it was, I will never forget the disgust so evident in Mr Tobin and Mr Enright’s (both staunch Labourites) eyes when they learnt I was representing Winston, and that he had chosen me. It would seem they are the only members of Grey Power who don’t like dear Winston!
Wednesday November 13, 2013 — By Philip Cadzow
Rock climbing
Climbing this year has been great; every Tuesday and Friday lunchtimes we would gather in the wall to climb.
Tuesday December 3, 2013 — By Francine Vella
Junior Sports tournament
Junior Sports Tournament Week was held in mid November. Logan Park competed in Handball, Cricket and Volleyball with successes in Cricket and Handball.
Thursday December 5, 2013 — By Scott Bayne
Futsal Term 4 Report
So, after seven weeks of competition the Futsal season for 2013 finally comes to an end. With four teams, two boys and two girls in the competition, it has been great to see the players improve with every game, and they all show great potential for next year and beyond.
Tuesday October 22, 2013 — By Christine Swindells
World Universities Debating Championship
Four former Logan Park High School students have been selected for the Otago University Debating Societies two teams to compete at the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship in Chennai, India.
Wednesday November 13, 2013 — By Danielle Calnan
Year 10 Girls Volleyball
Since Year 9 this team has been showing a lot of promise. With a few new additions to the team this year, the girls have developed a strong base of knowledge and skills.
Monday November 18, 2013 — By Clara Ballas
Differences in the School System of Germany and New Zealand
Germany and New Zealand have quite different school systems.
Monday November 25, 2013 — By Marco Seifert-Simpson
My Spirit of Adventure voyage
Earlier this year I was lucky enough to be able to fill a spot on the Spirit of New Zealand 637th voyage from Bluff to New Plymouth (682nm (1263km). Another Logan Parker by the name of Matthew Scadden was also on this voyage.
Tuesday November 26, 2013 — By Gam
My experience at Logan Park
In recent years we have been happy to welcome a group of students from Thailand who come to improve their English during their school holidays in April. Here is Gam's contribution.
Tuesday November 26, 2013 — By Sophie Raab & Lisa Meyer
International students enjoy learning to Surf
We had a great time surfing at St Clair beach. We got our wet suits and surfing boards for a really good price and the surfing teachers were really patient and kind.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Lydie Leurquin
The Homework Club
The After School Homework Club has been an amazing experience this year. The teachers that are involved in the club are wonderful. They all bring something different. Mr Pirie for Science and Maths, Ms Brinsley for English, Drama and Careers, and Matua Tip for Te Reo Maori.
Tuesday December 3, 2013 — By Kristan Mouat
Elwing Discoveries Adventure
Maria Larsen, Year 10, won the "Heads Up for Kids - Elwing Discoveries" competition, winning a trip sailing to Stewart Island.
Tuesday July 16, 2013 — By Abby Wolfe (Coach)
Y10 A Girls Basketball
The Junior A Girls Basketball team had a fun and successful season this year.
Tuesday November 19, 2013 — By Arnika Hazelwood
A Day in the Life of Logan Park High School
A gallery of photos from 2013.
Monday November 25, 2013 — By
Logan Park High School 2013 Magazine
Kia Ora and welcome to our first online magazine. It is packed full of all the adventures and activities that Logan Park students have enjoyed during 2013, as well as their achievements in the classroom, playing sport and all the hundreds of musical and cultural events and other great “stuff” that make up a busy school year.