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NewsDecember 14

Logan Park High School junior prizegiving

Logan Park High School held its junior prizegiving recently. The prize list is. -
DunedinJune 20

Making history was easy

There is a certain level of pride a history teacher can take from co-writing an NCEA teaching unit for the Ministry of Education.
Making history was easy
Making history was easy
DunedinJune 6

Chance of a lifetime comes out of the blue

It's always a nice surprise when you are selected for a scholarship, Mathew Denys says.
Chance of a lifetime comes out of the blue
Chance of a lifetime comes out of the blue
NewsFebruary 25

Excellence in art

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.
NewsFebruary 25

New Zealanders must stand together for our future

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.
NewsFebruary 25

Awake to the need for more sleep

Sleep. At a time when we arguably need it more than we ever will in the future, teenagers are getting it the least.
DunedinFebruary 21

School to display bell 10 years on

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.
School to display bell 10 years on
School to display bell 10 years on
DunedinDecember 20

Brush with death spurs life choice

Near-death experiences have a way of making you reassess what is important in life.
Brush with death spurs life choice
Brush with death spurs life choice
DunedinDecember 12

Logan Park High School junior prizes

Logan Park High School held its junior prizegiving recently.
DunedinOctober 27

Family history places 1st-equal in contest

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.
DunedinOctober 24

Pupils put their backs into competing

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.
DunedinMarch 22

Celebrating diversity

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.
Celebrating diversity
Celebrating diversity
DunedinNovember 30

Poverty speech a winner

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.
Poverty speech a winner
Poverty speech a winner
DunedinNovember 25

Doing his homework pays off

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.
Doing his homework pays off
Doing his homework pays off
NewsNovember 20

Mullet mania has had its day

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.
NewsNovember 20

Enduring the waiting game

I sat on the hard compacted earth; roots digging up into my straightened legs, probing through my purple and black striped tights.
NewsNovember 20

Teacher a hard act to follow

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.
DunedinNovember 11

Drama teacher to take final bow

When you have been a teacher for 47 years, there must be a good reason.
Drama teacher to take final bow
Drama teacher to take final bow
NewsSeptember 5

Film and TV festival 'golden opportunity'

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.
NewsJune 11

Separate or equal?

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.
NewsJune 5

National class size plans get a D - for dumb

National seems to have decided class size won't make much of a difference to our education system, writes Theresa Grigg, of Logan Park High School.
NewsJune 1

Teachers and Govt need to work together

Who really knows about education?
NewsMay 11

The decline of the music industry

If there's one thing that pretty much everybody can agree on, it's that everybody loves music, in at least one way or another, and music, in some form has been around for almost, if not, just as long as humans have existed.
NewsMay 11

Hipsters: An encroaching menace

Dunedin high school student Gareth McMullen is no fan of hipsters. Chances are that you have seen them. Perhaps you have spotted them in the mall, wearing headphones around their necks, shiny pastel coloured shoes, and absurd skinny jeans that, to the disgust of the unfortunate witness, leave little to the imagination.  In case you aren't familiar with this trend, these people, if one can even refer to them as such, are known as "hipsters."
DunedinApril 22

Netball ban means game over for Dunedin boy

All Samuel-James Fisher wants to do is lace up his sneakers and play the game he loves.
Netball ban means game over for Dunedin boy
Netball ban means game over for Dunedin boy