Ordering lunch while singing in full operatic voice is not an easy thing to do - especially when you are surrounded by fellow pupils at the school canteen.
King's High School principal Dan Reddiex is the only secondary school principal in New Zealand to this year receive a Woolf Fisher Fellowship for educational excellence in teaching.
Staff organising this year's King's High School prizegivings have been forced to relocate the ceremonies from the school's performing arts centre to the Regent Theatre in the Octagon.
A King's High School chemistry teacher is preparing for his return to Nepal as a volunteer teacher by raising funds to buy books for Nepalese children, and practising the pronunciation of important Nepalese words.
The ''trauma'' of selling hundreds of raffle tickets and making thousands of cheese rolls will be little more than a distant memory for 23 King's High School pupils as they board a flight for London today.
They admit to being fierce competitors, and in a sport where seconds can mean the difference between winning and losing, that competitive streak can be crucial.
It's raining, it's cold, it's dark, you're in pain and you don't want to be there, but it's how you deal with those difficult moments that really counts, Olympian Bruce Kendall says.
Most of us know the first lines of poet William Wordsworth's Daffodils. And some of us are probably familiar with the recent phenomenon of turning classic works of literature into mash-ups. This is King's High School year 12 pupil Reuben Hilder's Daffodils: zombie mash-up.