Avonside Girls' High School
| Avonside Girls' High School | |
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| Address | |
| 180 Avonside Drive Christchurch New Zealand |
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| Information | |
| Type | Girls state secondary school (Year 9-13) |
| Motto | Summa Sequere (Aim at the highest - seek to attain the best) |
| Established | 1919 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 324 |
| Principal | Sue Hume |
| School roll | 875[1] (March 2016) |
| Socio-economic decile | 6N[2] |
| Website | avonside |
Avonside Girls' High School is a large urban high school in the Christchurch, New Zealand suburb of Avonside. It has more than 1200 girls from Year 9 to Year 13. It will be co-located with Shirley Boys' High School at a site in east Christchurch where the QEII swimming pool used to be.
History
The school originally opened in January 1919 on its current site as a satellite campus of Christchurch Girls' High School. It became a separate school in its own right in 1928.[3]
Earthquake
Following the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake, the school site closed, with classes operating out of Burnside High School in the afternoons. Two school blocks, including the Main Block, were condemned following the earthquake and have been demolished.
Students returned to the Avonside site at the beginning of 2012,[4] with relocatable and prefabricated classrooms filling gaps left by the condemned buildings, but due to significant land damage adjacient to the school site, Avonside Girls' High may close or relocate from 2014.[5] Education Minister Hekia Parata announced on 16 October 2013 that the school would co-located with Shirley Boys' High School at a site in east Christchurch yet to be announced.[6]
Notable staff
Before she entered politics, Marian Hobbs was principal of the school.[7] Jean Herbison, later New Zealand's first female chancellor of a New Zealand university, taught at the school from 1952 to 1959.[8]
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