Logan Park High School held its junior prizegiving recently. The prize list is. -
There is a certain level of pride a history teacher can take from co-writing an NCEA teaching unit for the Ministry of Education.
It's always a nice surprise when you are selected for a scholarship, Mathew Denys says.
Logan Park High School year 12 art pupil Luke Major explores the life and times of a woman in a series of portraits titled An Elder.
Imagine there's no countries, It isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion too, Imagine all the people, Living life in peace, You may say that I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one, I hope someday you'll join us, And the world will be as one.
Sleep. At a time when we arguably need it more than we ever will in the future, teenagers are getting it the least.
It has taken more than a decade, but the 100-year-old bronze bell which used to call pupils to class at King Edward Technical College is finally being put on display at Logan Park High School.
Near-death experiences have a way of making you reassess what is important in life.
Logan Park High School held its junior prizegiving recently.
Delving through old family photographs, diary entries, newspaper articles and books about life in Scotland in the early 1800s can be quite addictive, as Frances Barnett has discovered.
There was no blood, but there was plenty of sweat, a few tears and about 60 Logan Park High School pupils gasping for air and flapping blistered hands, all rowing frantically in an attempt to beat New Zealand rowers Mahe Drysdale and Emma Twigg.
Logan Park High School musicians Jacobi Kohu-Morris (15, left) and Blake McAlevey-Scurr (17) provide some entertainment as international pupils at the school celebrate Race Unity Day.
Describing how poverty is New Zealand's "fastest-growing industry" has won a Logan Park High School year 10 pupil the Otago Schools Junior Speech Competition.
Watching dozens of dreadful 1950s B-grade sci-fi films, notorious for over-acting and technical shortcomings, has paid off for Logan Park High School co-dux Rhian Gaffney.
I sat on the hard compacted earth; roots digging up into my straightened legs, probing through my purple and black striped tights.
Years ago, there was a time when bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Journey were marketable, when pick-up trucks were popular, when they were still making new episodes of Dukes of Hazzard, and when Budweiser beer could be drunk openly in public.
I don't know many people who have the dedication and commitment to stick at one job for 45 years, let alone one where you spend your days surrounded by groups of, at times, "challenging" teenagers, doing too much work for not enough pay.
When you have been a teacher for 47 years, there must be a good reason.
Over the weekend of March 27 and 28, Otago University played host to the Dunedin Festival of Film and Television Craft, which brought the who's-who of the New Zealand television, film and media industries to our beautiful city for two days of free workshops at the St David Street Lecture Theatre, writes Georgia Rose.
You may remember that recently both Barack Obama and John Key came out personally in favour of gay marriage, writes Emelia Mixter of Logan Park High School.