Week 2M 129.15-10.45am Year 12 Careers Expo, Westpac Centre 1.15-2.00pm University of Melbourne liaison visit4.00pm School cross-country races, North Hagley...
The Term 2 programme began well this weekend with four activities on offer.
On Saturday evening 70 College boys along with 25 St Margaret's girls went Ice Skating and had a great time. This was one of many planned joint...
The National Party's Deputy Leader and Spokesperson for Finance, the Rt Hon Bill English visited College today to speak with senior commerce students and staff on the state of the economy and the National Party's vision for the...
Justin Standring (flute), Hamish Grigg (French horn), Todd Gibson-Cornish (bassoon) and Isaac McCluskey (bass trombone) have been selected as members of the New Zealand Secondary Schools' Orchestra.
During the holidays the boys...
The first Chapel service of the new term was held on Monday, with ANZAC commemorations as its focus.
The Chaplain, Rev Bosco Peters quoted from a speech by Pope Benedict on a recent visit to the White House, which the Chaplain...
Friday 11. of April 2008
House Music
Thursday 10 April saw the College community come together for the annual House Music evening. An overflowing Assembly Hall witnessed an amazing standard of work that kept everyone entertained for two hours. Adjudicator Mrs...
Wednesday 09. of April 2008
Year 9 Camp
Year 9 boys and a number of staff returned from a week long camp at Peel Forest on Friday.
Mostly fine weather combined with a number of challenging activities kept staff busy and boys well occupied.
A full report on the Year...
Stephen Brett and Steve Fualau are pictured with members of the Christ's College Touch Team during the Crusaders' visit to College on Tuesday, 8 April.
Both players were only too willing to pass on some helpful tips to...
Christ’s College was represented by 40 boys at this year’s Maadi Cup regatta. Over 2000 rowers from 110 schools attended the regatta at Lake Ruataniwha, making it the biggest regatta ever held in New Zealand. Races were staged at...
Every year the New Zealand Association of Language Teachers acknowledges the success of students who have achieved a very high level of linguistic proficiency in comparison to their peers nationwide.
This year, Excellence...
This weekend the boarders had the choice of Laser Strike on Saturday evening, and a trip to Hanmer Springs on Sunday for Quadbiking and a visit to the Hot Pools.The Year 9s took full advantage of the Laser Strike activity and all...
The National Club Athletics Championships were held in Auckland over the weekend (March 28-30) and College athletes put in some outstanding performances.Guy Archibald won the M19 Javelin with a throw of 59.62m and was 5th in the...
The College supported Earth Hour with an Earth Day on Friday, 28 March.
Many staff and students championed the cause in a number of ways throughout the day, including:Cycling to schoolNot communicating by emailSwitching off...
Wednesday 19. of March 2008
Open Day
The College opened its gates to interested members of the public on Tuesday for its annual Open Day.
As they entered the gates, younger visitors were presented with a 'secret mission' envelope which contained a pair of 3D...
On Sunday 16 March, 40 boarders "set sail" for Akaroa on a Mystery Activity Day.
None of the boys knew where they were going or what they were doing. On arrival in Akaroa most of the group went aboard the Fox 11, a double...
Five Houses have become the custodians of their own worm farms.
The farms, which are located in School, Richards, Rolleston and Corfe/Condell's House grounds, are part of the on-going initiative at College to increase our...
Thursday 13. of March 2008
Chapel News
At Chapel this morning, Mr Raymond Eberhard, the General Manager of Hohepa Homes, addressed staff and boys. Hohepa Homes was established in Canterbury in 1965 as a means of supporting intellectually disabled people to live...
Glorious weather and excellent handicapping saw a great day's racing for the CCOBA annual yacht race in the Marlborough Sounds.The race under the direction of Jonny Oswald, and supervised by the committee boat of Alistair...
Hamish Simcock (Y10, Julius) has won first prize in the ECAN "Earth Hour Design Competition".
Look out for his winning design which has been placed on the back of two Metro buses.
The design reads - 'Save Power with Earth Hour,...
Morgan Thomson (Y13) and Dan Macfarlane (Y10) travelled to Darfield for this weekend's Motocross activity, assisted by Sam Harrison.
The event was Round 3 of a series and the boys were only involved in this latest round....
Artist and Christ's College Head of Art, Mr Darryn George was the toast of the Christchurch Art Gallery this evening as his stunning new project was unveiled in the William A. Sutton Gallery.
The walls of the gallery themselves...
On Thursday 6 March 2008 in near perfect conditions the Christ's College Triathlon team competed in the annual CSS Triathlon Competition.This year College fielded several teams - David Chapman, Jack Ensor and Sam Dunford-Baker,...
Christ’s College vs Christchurch Boys’ High School 3/4 March 2008, at CCCG1
A rained out match against St Bede's saw College approach the traditional interschool against Christchurch Boys' High School feeling rather underdone....
After a superb two days of athletics sports on Thursday and Friday, the heavens opened on Saturday to wash out much of the sport. Luckily for the boarders, the Saturday evening activity was indoors and over 40 boys took the...
The 2008 Athletic Sports wound up on Friday afternoon. The two day event enjoyed perfect conditions with friendly inter-House rivalry intensifying during the final races as Houses competed for the overall House...
Tuesday 26. of February 2008
Boys on Bikes
Many College boys opted to jump on their bikes this morning in support of a Bike to School day. Boarders set off early for a cycle around the park, while dayboys began arriving shortly afterwards from all parts of Christchurch.
The Senior Scholarships and Gold Awards were announced by the Headmaster on Friday. The recipients are:
ScholarshipsTR Moore Scholarship (Y13)OTE Clifford, AKA Smith
Senior Somes ScholarshipEPM Elder, CS Hadfield
TR Moore...
Today in assembly the Headmaster reported the school's Scholarship results, released yesterday.47 individual subjects were achieved, with seven of those 'Outstanding'. The awards were made to 23 students.Special mention was made...
Three Year 9 classes began a series of ICT workshops today under the guidance of ICT Head of Department, Mr Paul Rodley and technician, Mr James Tolchard.
Comfortably seated in the main IT suite, the boys first created folders...
Despite the weather on Friday night, 130 boys attended the opening game of the Super 14 at the AMI Stadium as the Crusaders took on the Brumbies. Saturday was a total washout with all sport cancelled and unfortunately the 40 boys...
Valentine's Day got off to a very early start this morning as College boys and St Margaret's College girls left their respective marks on each other's schools.
St Margaret's girls walked through their front gates under the...
From next week the College will be introducing a new award. A blazer pocket badge will be awarded to those students with outstanding achievements at NCEA level 1 and level 2. The badge is similar to our colours badge, but...
On Sunday, 10 February a group of Old Boy Classic Car enthusiasts took part in the annual 'Day Out In The Car' run. The cars gathered around the Quad and then proceeded to Motukarara where they had morning tea and viewed a...
For the first time, College classes are being held on two sites as the Cranmer Centre has been brought into full time use. Now the home of the Commerce Department, staff and boys are getting used to this exciting development. The...
The wet weather didn't dampen the spirits of the 2008 Year 9 group as they gathered with their parents in the Chapel this morning.
In welcoming the new boys to College, the Headmaster spoke of the partnership between the...
A number of the new Year 9 boarders began their induction and orientation process on Sunday 3rd February and kicked things off with a team building visit to Adrenaline Forest for a high wire challenge course.
Over the next 5...
The traditional end-of-year events to farewell Year 13 students were enjoyed by a large number of College parents and friends recently.
The Carol Service in Christ Church Cathedral provided a spiritual and festive atmosphere,...
The National Secondary Schools' Athletics Championships which were held in Wanganui on 8-9 December, involved some 1000 athletes. This year's College team could arguably be described as the strongest yet, bringing home one gold...
AON New Zealand has generously funded a new rowing trailer for the College rowing fleet. The trailer is made of aluminium and replaces the old steel trailer that the College has had for many years.
Headmaster Simon Leese...
Last week Year 9 and 10 boys were involved in activities dedicated to discovering ways to protect and enhance our environment. Led by staff members, the boys were involved in the following activities:
Visiting Orana Park to...
Years 9 and 10 boys have been enjoying a three day Te Reo and Tikanga Maori course under the tutelage of staff from the CPIT Te Mataranga Maori Department. The boys have been engaged in a number of cultural activities including...
Sam Hall's superb form continued in the weekend as he scored his second century of the term. Opening the batting, Sam batted the entire innings against St Thomas' and ended undefeated on 132. Hall combined well with Chris...
Te Ao Maori: (a glimpse at the Maori world)Monday 3, Tuesday 4, Wednesday 5 December 2007
Dress for the Three DaysCollege tracksuit top and pants, House jersey or singlet and house shorts, PE shoes and sports socksDayboys...
The annual Christ's College Intermediate Schools' Science Competition took place on Wednesday 21 November. Again, this was a keenly fought contest between Year 7 boys and girls from city and country schools around Christchurch....
Wednesday 21. of November 2007
Carol Service
College extends an invitation to parents and friends to attend this year's Carol Service on Thursday 6 December from 7pm in the Christ Church Cathedral.
Re car-parking - the College has been advised by the Cathedral that...
The following have been appointed School Prefects for the 2008 year:Winston Cosgrove, Head of School, (School)Anton Smith, Deputy Head of School, (Somes)Oliver Johnstone, Head of House, Condell’sChris McGoldrick, Head of House,...
Six boys passed their PADI Open Water certificates and completed their dive training this weekend in Kaikoura. The boys were Jos Hoetjes, Richard Wilson, Jeremy McDonnell, Robbie Fairgray, Guy Wilson and Ned Allison. The course...
Last Thursday evening saw the 2007 Boarding Awards Dinner held in the Dining Hall. The evening is an opportunity to look back over the year, reflect on what has been achieved, both individually and as a group, and...
At this morning's Chapel service, Dr Randal Allardyce from the Department of Surgery at the Christchurch Medical School accepted a cheque on behalf of the Canterbury Charity Hospital Trust. The cheque, in the amount of $1640, was...
Held in the Christ's College OBT, the results of the 2007 INVISION Film Festival were as follows:Best Short Film: Elliot from Christchurch Rudolf Steiner SchoolBest Documentary: Appreciate It from Linwood...
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