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Samuel Marsden Collegiate School student wins Katherine Mansfield Short Story Competition

27/10/2017

For the second year in a row, a Samuel Marsden Collegiate School student has won the Katherine Mansfield Short Story competition for secondary students.

Sarah May was awarded first prize at a ceremony at Turnbull Library. Her winning story, Morning Coffee, can be read here.

"I want to study English - it is my passion," Sarah said. "When you put your heart into something, it's really nice to have someone pat you on the back and say 'Hey, you did a good job!'"

Queen Margaret College students win international tech competition with tsunami app

27/09/2017

A trio of Year 6 students at Queen Margaret College in Wellington have won an international competition after creating an app idea to help people evacuate during a tsunami.

Eimear Fitzgerald, Isabel Haupt and Jaskiran Rahi entered their “Evac-U-Buddy” app prototype in the “Search for the Next Tech Girl Superhero” competition this year and won the New Zealand Primary School division in September.

Kristin School student achieves Bolshoi Ballet dream

18/09/2017

Year 11 Kristin School student Harriet Powell has become the first New Zealander to be awarded a four-year full-time position training at the prestigious 244-year-old Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Russia.

At the end of six weeks of intensive training in Moscow, 10 girls out of 90 dancers from around the world were accepted in the latest intake. Harriet is now one step closer to achieving her goal of being a principal dancer at Bolshoi Ballet Company or Mariinsky Ballet Company.

Queen Margaret College students grow green thumbs

08/09/2017

Queen Margaret College students have been pulling on their gloves to keep their school green.

The Junior Gardening Club is an initiative started this year after school gardener Sara Bishop noticed girls were interested in the garden.

Every Friday lunchtime the girls grab their watering cans and gardening gloves to meet with Sara to learn how to grow different plants.

“The children were very inquisitive about what I was doing so I thought it would be a good idea to educate them with a gardening club,” Sara explains.

Queen Margaret College student makes two rep teams

07/09/2017

A senior student at Queen Margaret College has proven her talent on the Hockey field this month after making not one, but two representative teams.

Year 13 student and captain of the Queen Margaret College Premier 1 First XI Hockey team and Capital Under 18 Women, Estelle Macadré has made both the Capital National Hockey League (NHL) women’s team and the Junior Black Sticks squad.

She has been playing hockey for Queen Margaret College since Year 1 and most recently led the First XI to their grade finals.