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New Plymouth Girls' High School

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Established
  
1885

Principal
  
Victoria Kerr

Socio-economic decile
  
7O

Founded
  
1885

Ministry of Education Institution no.
  
172

School roll
  
1231 (July 2016)

Phone
  
+64 6-757 3899

Ministry of education institution number
  
172

Type
  
State single sex girls' secondary (Year 9-13) with boarding facilities

Address
  
60 Northgate, Strandon, New Plymouth 4312, New Zealand

Motto
  
Et Comitate, Et Virtute, Et Sapientia

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New Plymouth Girls' High School is a girls' state secondary school in Strandon, New Plymouth, New Zealand. It was founded in 1885.

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It is currently one of two of New Plymouth's girls' schools along with Sacred Heart Girls' College and has a current roll of 1231 students.

Students are put into four houses for school activities such as swimming sports, athletics, and house plays. These houses are Tokomaru (yellow), Kurahaupo (blue), Aotea (red) and Tainui (green). The houses are named after four of the first Māori waka to arrive in New Zealand.

Notable alumni and faculty

  • Dale Copeland, collage and assemblage artist
  • Ida Gaskin, English teacher, Mastermind winner
  • Leila Hurle, principal and senior school inspector
  • Michele Leggott, poet and Professor of English at the University of Auckland
  • Melanie Lynskey, New Zealand-born actress
  • Toni Street, television presenter and sports commentator
  • June Opie, polio sufferer and broadcaster who wrote "Over My Dead Body"
  • Maud Ruby Taylor who for almost 3 decades broadcast on NZ Radio as "Aunt Daisy"
  • Paige Hareb, professional surfer
  • Kendra Cocksedge, rugby player for the New Zealand Black Ferns rugby team

    • References

    New Plymouth Girls' High School Wikipedia
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