Middleton Grange School

Middleton Grange School
File:Middleton Grange School 01.JPG Middleton Grange School in 2012 In thy light shall we see light
Address
30 Acacia Avenue Upper Riccarton Christchurch 8041 New Zealand
Coordinates
Information
Type	State Integrated Composite(Years 1-13)
Established	1964
Ministry of Education Institution no.	335
Principal	Richard Vanderpyl
School roll	1362 (March 2016)
Socio-economic decile	9Q
Website	middleton.school.nz

Middleton Grange School (abbreviated MGS) in Christchurch, New Zealand, is a state-integrated Christian co-educational Year 1 to 13 school. It's currently New Zealand's largest evangelical Christian school.

History

Established in 1964 by the Christian Schools Trust, as an independent Christian school and became integrated into the state system in 1996. Middleton Grange School's academic structure consists of four departments, Primary School, Middle School, Senior College and International College.

Middleton Grange School belongs to the Christchurch Christian Schools Network (CSN) and the New Zealand Association for Christian Schools (NZACS).

The school premises used to house the Christchurch headquarters of the Maxim Institute, a conservative Christian thinktank. Bruce Logan was once Middleton Grange's former curriculum director.

The school was ordered in 2010 to apologise and compensate a former employee for firing him because of his homosexuality.

Houses

Pupils and teachers are divided into specific houses which then compete in (mostly) sporting and cultural activities. There are four of these, named after early British explorers of Antarctica, as Robert Falcon Scott stayed at Middleton Grange's original gentry house before embarking on his ill-fated expedition.

Middleton Grange House Names & their Colours

	Scott	Named after Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912), who was a British Royal Naval officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13.
	Wilson	Named after Dr Edward Adrian Wilson ("Uncle Bill") (23 July 1872 – 29 March 1912). He was a notable English polar explorer, physician, naturalist, painter and ornithologist.
	Shackleton	Named after Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE, (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922), an Anglo-Irish explorer who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
	Bowen	Named after Sir Charles Bowen (1830 - 12 December 1917). He was a prominent mountaineer and explorer of the Andes, and a Christchurch City Council member.

Notable alumni

• Graham Capill - Former leader, Christian Heritage. Eldest son of Don Capill, First Middleton Grange Vice-Principal.
• Jeremy Kench - Professional basketball player

Notable staff

• Vic Pollard (Former Associate Principal)
• Bruce Logan (Former Curriculum Director)

External links

• Education Review Office (ERO) reports