Congratulations to our wonderful school librarian Jenny Millar who was awarded Honorary Life Membership of SLANZA School Library Association of New Zealand Aoteroa, Te Puna Whare Matauranga a Kura.
Posted: Thursday August 7, 2014
Logan Park High School did very well in the Dunedin Secondary Schools Poetry Competition, with 5 out of 8 of the 'places' (highly commended included) going to our school.
Posted: Thursday August 7, 2014
Karaoke Week was the bomb!It was held in the last week of Term 2. We had lots of fantastic acts and entertainment.
Posted: Wednesday August 6, 2014
In the last week of Term Two, all of the Year 8 students from Tahuna Intermediate School visited our school for rock-climbing lessons on our climbing wall in preparation for their outside experience at Long Beach in Term Three.
Posted: Thursday July 3, 2014
The Drama department were delighted to host the 2014 Junior Shakespeare Festival on June 26th.
Posted: Thursday July 3, 2014
Our Media Studies students were invited to film two short segments for TV 3's comedy show, 7 Days.The show involves famous New Zealanders and comedians taking a look at the week's news and having a laugh.
Posted: Tuesday July 1, 2014
Logan Park High School hosted a Pink Ribbon Breakfast on Wednesday 28th May to raise funds for the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation.
Posted: Tuesday July 1, 2014
Mathew Denys Year 13, was selected to attend the World Science Conference in Jerusalem, Israel in August, along with 5 other top science students from around New Zealand.
Posted: Tuesday July 1, 2014
LPHS students Pippi Miller and Josephine Devereux joined the Fortune Theatre School Ambassador Programme this year.
Posted: Tuesday July 1, 2014
Year 10 students were delighted to see professionals at work in our black box theatre.
Posted: Tuesday July 1, 2014
A powerful speech about using education as a weapon to defeat poverty, crime and the inter-generational cycle of hardship has won Jacobi Kohu-Morris the Nga Manu Korero Otago Southland Senior English section of the speech contest for the second year in a row.
Posted: Tuesday July 1, 2014
Paul Enright (Head of Social Sciences at Logan Park High School) and Lara Hearn (ex-LPHS student and currently teacher at Queens' High School) were invited by Pita Sharples (Minister of Maori Affairs) to the national launch of the NZ secondary schools' History Teaching and Learning Guide for NCEA, which Paul...
Posted: Tuesday July 1, 2014
We had two teams of Year 9 and 10 students participating in the Dunedin Secondary Schools' Scrabble Tournament at the Dunedin Public Library in May.
Posted: Tuesday July 1, 2014
Ella Dodd and Malakai Maamaloa were our school's 2014The Edge Radio interns. They were able to get industry experience in scripting and voicing radio advertisements as well as organising school-wide events.
Posted: Tuesday July 1, 2014
The following is Ava Straw's winning writing from the 'Murder in the Bookshop' event for the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival 2014. The writing had to be 150 words, based on 'found' objects at UBS (including a dead body!).
Posted: Tuesday July 1, 2014
Our Charities Group Cupcake Friday was enthusiastically supported by more than 200 people and raised $240 for the Red Cross to use for flood relief work in the Solomon Islands.
Posted: Tuesday July 1, 2014
Logan Park Boys Rugby team have been competing in the Colts B league this year.
Posted: Tuesday July 1, 2014
Logan Park had 10 girls playing rugby in a combined side with Taieri this year.
Posted: Tuesday July 1, 2014
Milford Sound was named as the eighth Wonder of the World by Rudyard Kipling. And now I have lots of reasons to agree with him. Recently our group of international students went on a trip to Milford Sound.
Posted: Tuesday July 1, 2014
Traditionally Logan Park High School Teams have done very well winning the contest from 2009 and our other teams making the top four. Questions cover the books and authors nominated for the awards as well as sections on History, Geography, Science and General knowledge.
Posted: Tuesday July 1, 2014