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2011 Top Junior School Prize Winners

Tuesday, 6 December 2011 - Gina Svensen was awarded the 2011 Sydney Old Girls’ Award for Citizenship and All-round Excellence. She has participated and performed well in writing, mathematics (a perfect score in the ... MORE

9 Finalists Selected for YSPOTY Awards

Tuesday, 15 November 2011 - St Cuthbert’s College students achieved 10 finals placings in the 2011 Young Sports Person of the Year Awards. Following a selection process College Sport names students as finalists in ... MORE

Future Problem Solvers National Win

Tuesday, 1 November 2011 - After considerable team work and brain power was employed to solve possible problems that don’t even exist yet, our Y8 Future Problem Solving Team Anna Blair, Tiffany Goh, Juliette Danesh-Meyer ... MORE

TABLE TENNIS NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!

Monday, 12 September 2011 - The St Cuthbert’s College table tennis team won the National Secondary Schools Table Tennis Championships teams event in Palmerston North during tournament week. The successful team was Jennifer Tseng, Prim ... MORE

St Cuth's Girls to Compete in FedEx International Trade Challenge

Monday, 18 July 2011 - The Enterprise in Action (EiA) is a three-day event that comprises two international business challenges for young people (The Global Enterprise Challenge - GEC and the FedEx/JA International ... MORE

Stage Challenge National Winners!

Monday, 18 July 2011 - Led by Emma Jeffrey and Laura Beverley, a talented and committed team of student directors has been working for many months on the College’s entry for this very highly ... MORE

St Cuthbert’s Wins a Place at the National Physics Tournament

Sunday, 8 May 2011 - A team of St Cuthbert’s College physics students have won a place in a national tournament after six months of challenging investigations and tough competition from other schools. Carmen Chan, ... MORE

Girls’ Go 4 12 Adventure Racing Competition Winners

Thursday, 5 May 2011 - A St Cuthbert’s team has won the Girls’ Go 4 12 Adventure Racing event held at the Mohaka River in the Hawkes Bay. Forty-five teams from all over New Zealand ... MORE

Champion Surf Life Saving Sisters

Wednesday, 2 March 2011 - Hannah Williams (Y8) won three medals in the Oceans 11 U14 National Life Saving Championships. She and her sister Lauren (Y10) both took part in the event, held at ... MORE

Highly Commended Science Students

Sunday, 7 November 2010 - They are scientists in the making. The St Cuthbert’s College team of Vicky Tai, Elynna Yang, Jimin Kang and Harim Lee won Highly Commended in the New Zealand’s Next Top ... MORE

Sylvia Jiang Wins Rönisch Piano Competition

Monday, 25 October 2010 - Year 10 St Cuthbert’s College student Sylvia Jiang has just become the youngest person to win the Rönisch Auckland Secondary Schools Piano Competition. “I was quite nervous and I ... MORE

Florence Wins Eden Arts Young Artist Award

Monday, 18 October 2010 - Florence Cooper is the latest St Cuthbert’s College student to receive an award in the Eden Arts Young Artists Awards. She won the Younger Artist (age 16-18) category with a ... MORE

National U13 Hockey Winners

Tuesday, 12 October 2010 - They’re national hockey champions! Isla Bint, Miranda Stuart and Sacha Lala from St Cuthbert’s were key members of the Auckland U13 hockey team that competed successfully in Timaru recently at ... MORE

Australian Maths Competition Successes!

Tuesday, 21 September 2010 - It’s the world’s biggest mathematics competition and students of St Cuthbert’s excelled in it. Of the 240 St Cuthbert’s College students who entered this year’s Australian Mathematics Competition, one ... MORE

Dr David Krofcheck, Distinguished Scientist.

Sunday, 12 September 2010 - Distinguished scientist speaks at College Dr David Krofcheck, who is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics at the University of Auckland, spoke to a ... MORE

Junior Skiers Win Silver at the Ski Championships

Sunday, 12 September 2010 - For the first time ever St Cuthbert’s College has sent students to compete at the North Island Primary School Ski Champs. Our two teams represented the college at the competition ... MORE

Briana´s Jumping for Joy!

Thursday, 15 July 2010 - Y12 student Briana Mitchell has been selected to represent New Zealand as a gymnast at the next Commonwealth Games. “I am very excited,” says Briana, “I can’t really believe ... MORE

Emerging Leaders Making their Mark

Wednesday, 30 June 2010 - Two St Cuthbert’s College old girls were among the six “Emerging Leaders” honoured at the Sir Peter Blake Trust Leadership Awards last weekend. It is coincidentally one year ... MORE

First & Second Places in Lawn Bowls

Tuesday, 18 May 2010 - In the Auckland Secondary Schools’ Lawn Bowls Championships at Remuera Bowling Club yesterday [17 May], two students from St Cuthbert’s College took first and second places. Year 12 students Kimberley Lee ... MORE

"We Remember Them"

Tuesday, 27 April 2010 - The Anzac Day service at St Cuthbert’s College was challenging. Whilst it properly commemorated New Zealand soldiers who have fought – especially recalling those who fell at Gallipoli in World ... MORE

Lucy Diver Awarded Writing Mentorship

Thursday, 22 April 2010 - Lucy Diver’s passion for writing is paying off. Sixteen-year-old Lucy, who lives in Epsom, is one of the first students in the country to be awarded a writing mentorship under ... MORE

Premier Water Polo Team in the Finals

Thursday, 15 April 2010 - The Premier Water Polo Team won bronze at the North Island Secondary Schools Water Polo Championships over the weekend of 20 – 21 March. The team narrowly missed out making ... MORE

St Cuthbert´s College Scoops Triathlon Honours

Thursday, 25 March 2010 - At a thrilling New Zealand Secondary Schools' Triathlon Championships, St Cuthbert’s College scooped several of the top places. Year 11 student Elise Salt enjoyed a dramatic finish as she came from ... MORE

Stop Short Sight with Sunlight?

Thursday, 11 February 2010 - Short-sighted? St Cuthbert's College student, Hannah Ng (15) joins scientists in an attempt to find a way to prevent short-sightedness in children… and picks up invaluable opportunities along the way.       ... MORE

Bianca is a Halberg Finalist

Sunday, 7 February 2010 - St Cuthbert’s College Year 13 student Bianca Barbarich-Bacher was a finalist at last Thursday’s prestigious Halberg Awards. The awards, organised each year by the Halberg Trust, salute outstanding sporting achievement by ... MORE

Three Top Tennis Titles go to St Cuthbert´s

Sunday, 1 November 2009 - St Cuthbert's College has for the first time scooped all three top tennis titles in the Auckland Secondary Schools tennis championships.The College’s Senior A, Intermediate A and Junior A teams ... MORE

International Show Jumping Winners

Tuesday, 27 October 2009 - St Cuthbert’s College equestrian Lily Tootil (Y8) riding her borrowed horse Maynita won the top overall place in the individual competition at the Federation Equestre Internationale (FEI) Under 14 Show ... MORE

30 Awards Plus 2 Golds for St Cuthbert´s!

Monday, 26 October 2009 - St Cuthbert’s College stole the show at the 50th NIWA Auckland Science and Technology Fair this week with thirty two awards including two Gold Awards and two nominations to “Realise ... MORE

Seven Cycling Golds!

Monday, 28 September 2009 - We had a hugely successful weekend at the NZ Secondary Schools Cycling Champs in Palmerston North at the weekend. In our biggest national medal haul ever we won 7 gold medals, ... MORE

Sparkling Silver Performance at Big Sing!

Monday, 31 August 2009 - St Cuthbert’s College’s premier choir Saints Alive received a silver award at the Big Sing Finale in Dunedin at the weekend. “They absolutely sparkled,” says Associate Director of Music ... MORE

KBB Gold!

Thursday, 27 August 2009 - The four St Cuthbert’s College Y9-13 ensembles entered in the competitive section of the 2009 KBB Music Festival have each won gold or silver awards. Three also made top ... MORE

International Bronze Medal

Wednesday, 5 August 2009 - Y13 Prefect Hyun-Sun Roh has just returned home from the 41st International Chemistry Olympiad in Cambridge, England and she has a bronze medal to prove it. “A year ago, ... MORE

Bianca a World Champion!

Wednesday, 5 August 2009 - St Cuthbert’s very own Bianca Barbarich-Bacher (and partner Alexandra Maloney) are New Zealand’s latest sailing World Champions having just won the Women’s 420 World Championship in Riva del Garda, Italy. ... MORE

The Aeneid Wins Gold

Monday, 27 July 2009 - After winning the Y11 cup at the Auckland Classical Association’s Latin Reading competition in 2007, Sinead was determined to return in 2008 and claim the senior (Y12 and 13) title. ... MORE

Passionate Teacher Honoured

Sunday, 26 July 2009 - Head of Technology, Mrs Sandie MacLeod-Smith, has received the 2009 independent Schools of New Zealand (ISNZ) Teaching for Excellence Award (Y7-10), for her passion and commitment to the profession. Originally ... MORE

2009 Making Their Mark Awards

Sunday, 5 July 2009 - A structural geologist, a paediatrician turned writer, an aeronautics professor and a UNICEF representative were all celebrated yesterday morning at the St Cuthbert’s College annual Making Their Mark awards breakfast. Inspired ... MORE

Student Awarded Travel Scholarship to attend Science Camp

Thursday, 18 June 2009 - Y13 student Emily Cole was presented a travel scholarship to attend the 2009 Asian Science Camp in Japan at a College assembly this morning.  Emily was selected by the Maurice Wilkins ... MORE

Better Than 100 Others

Tuesday, 16 June 2009 - Congratulations to St Cuthbert’s College Y13 student Esther Kim, whose piano trio Leidenschaft won the finals of the Auckland regional New Zealand Community Trust Chamber Music Contest, on Sunday.  One hundred ... MORE

Passion For The Bard Leads to National Finals

Thursday, 11 June 2009 - Charlotte Taylor's passion for the Shakespearean character Puck earned her second place at the annual Bernina/Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand (SGCNZ) costume design competition. The Y13 student was one of ... MORE

St Cuthbert´s/Auckland Grammar Second in Hillary Challenge

Wednesday, 10 June 2009 - Congratulations to Y13 students Anna Gray, Holly Rabone and Libby Crum, who along with five students from Auckland Grammar School were runner up at the recent Genesis Energy Secondary Schools ... MORE

Shakespeare Success

Tuesday, 9 June 2009 - St Cuthbert’s College had a very successful trip to Wellington for the 2009 SGCNZ National University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare over Queen's Birthday weekend.  The College received four awards and ... MORE

Top Triathlete Tells All

Winning a national sports title is one thing, but winning it for three different disciplines, on your own, and in your first competitive year is an outstanding achievement. St Cuthbert’s ... MORE

Prime Minister Attends St Cuthbert’s College Scholars Assembly

Seventy St Cuthbert’s College students and former students were presented with scholars’ awards by the Prime Minister Mr John Key on Friday 8 May, at a special assembly acknowledging their ... MORE

St Cuthbert’s Chemistry Queen

Some say boys are better at science and girls are better at English, but 16-year-old Hyun-Sun Roh disproves that theory. The Y13 St Cuthbert’s College Prefect is one of four ... MORE

St Cuthbert´s College Strongly Represented at Shakespeare Competition

St Cuthbert’s College is thrilled with the results from the Auckland regional 2009 SGCNZ National University of Otago Sheilah Winn Shakespeare competition held at Massey High School at the weekend. ... MORE

Young Violinist Takes To The Stage

St Cuthbert’s College Y13 student Esther Kim is one of the featured violinists with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (APO) at this Saturday’s SKYCITY Starlight Symphony in the Auckland Domain. Esther ... MORE

2009 College Leaders

Welcome to our College Leaders for 2009Head Girl: Anna GrayDeputy Head Girls: Alex MerryLucy Player BishopCharlotte Taylor Head Boarder: Alice McRae                   Deputy Head Boarder: Lanu Faletau  Prefects: Chloe ... MORE

Year 8 Pianist in Secondary School Finals

St Cuthbert’s College student Sylvia Jiang not only competed far above her age group at the recent inaugural Ronisch Auckland Secondary Schools Piano Competition, but the Year 8 student made ... MORE

NIWA Science Winners

Ever wondered which brand of sunscreen is the best? St Cuthbert’s College student Vicky Tai can help you decide. Vicky’s project on the effectiveness of broadspectrum labels on New Zealand ... MORE

2009 University Scholarships

Thirteen St Cuthbert’s College students have already been awarded university scholarships for 2009, three of which are full scholarships to overseas universities. Larissa Eruera (Y12) has won a full scholarship to ... MORE

Millie Dives to Australia

St Cuthbert’s College Year 8 student Millie Hall, in her second year of springboard diving, has shown outstanding improvement to become one of New Zealand’s top 13-year-old divers. Millie has ... MORE

St Cuthbert’s College Coach Commentates for Silver Ferns

Twelve years as a top inter-provincial goal shooter and wing attack has not stopped St Cuthbert’s College Sports Director Mrs Kiri Wills adding to her netball expertise. After appearing for ... MORE

St Cuthbert’s College Student Trains in Spain

St Cuthbert’s College student Kataraina Hunia returns to New Zealand on Wednesday 8 October after five very successful months training at the Bruguera Tennis Academy in Barcelona, Spain. The 15-year-old ... MORE

St Cuthbert’s College Cyclists Take The Medals

The St Cuthbert’s College cycling team came away from the Perry Foundation New Zealand Secondary School Cycling Championships, held at the weekend, with nine medals making sporting history for the ... MORE

St Cuthbert’s College Prepare Gifts for Christmas

Christmas is still months away but St Cuthbert’s College is already getting into the festive spirit. Students from the College have collected nearly 300 gift-filled shoeboxes to give to Operation ... MORE

Golden Week for St Cuthbert’s College

St Cuthbert’s College had an outstanding run of achievements last week. The week began with three gold awards at the 25th annual KBB Music Festival and ended with a first ... MORE

Top of the Top in New Zealand

The St Cuthbert’s College 1st XI hockey team topped the national secondary school premier league with a 1-0 win against Christchurch’s St Margaret’s College on Friday.It is the first time ... MORE

Three Golds Result in Gala Night Performances

St Cuthbert’s College students have performed extremely well in the 25th annual KBB Music Festival.The Stage Band, Sebastian Squad and Black Watch Orchestra all achieved top four placings in their ... MORE

St Cuthbert’s College Claim 2008 Intercity Hockey Championships

The St Cuthbert’s College 1st XI hockey team won the Auckland Intercity Hockey Championships last night, in an exciting, fast-paced game against Diocesan School 1st XI. The 4-1 win makes ... MORE

Making Us Proud

The Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) annual awards may not be for a few months, but St Cuthbert’s College team Campaign has already bagged a competition in the lead ... MORE

Making Their Mark Awards

Four exceptional women were celebrated this morning at the St Cuthbert’s College inaugural Making Their Mark awards. Inspired by the Sir Peter Blake Leadership Awards, the awards are a new ... MORE

Passion for Business Leadership starts at College

St Cuthbert’s College Old Girl Rebecca Caughey, 26, was awarded one of six Sir Peter Blake Trust Emerging Leaders Awards at a ceremony held in the Grand Hall at Parliament ... MORE

New Zealand Well Represented by Epsom Pair

St Cuthbert’s College students Bianca Barbarich-Bacher (15) and Jazmine Lynch (17) have yet another achievement to add to their list of sporting accomplishments. The two competed as part of the ... MORE

Olympic dream reality for Old Girl

St Cuthbert’s College students and Old Girls have a special reason to watch the Olympic Games this year. Old Girl Kim Noakes, 25, is playing for the New Zealand Woman’s ... MORE

Students Encouraged by Visiting Speakers

St Cuthbert’s College students will begin their holidays with interesting discussion starters following the first two presentations of the College’s 2008 Speakers Series. Herald columnist Tapu Misa spoke last Thursday ... MORE

Students Gather Toys for Peru

St Cuthbert’s College junior students have rallied together to show support for their senior peers by collecting toys for a group who are off to South America tomorrow [Thursday June ... MORE

Students Learn From Experienced Professional

St Cuthbert’s College English and drama students were lucky enough to be taught and entertained by renowned Kiwi author, director and television personality Oscar Kightley last week. Mr Kightley was ... MORE

Hitting the High Notes

It has been a busy but highly successful time for music at St Cuthbert’s College. Last Wednesday [June 11], the Saints Alive choir and Black Watch singers competed at the ... MORE

French students experience Kiwi life in Auckland

Five students from the prestigious Lycée Louis le Grand in Paris, begin their first of thirty days as Kiwi students at St Cuthbert’s College today. The arrival signifies the beginning ... MORE

St Cuthbert’s and Grammar ‘evening with experts’ a success as always

St Cuthbert’s College and Auckland Grammar paired up for their annual careers’ evening on Wednesday 11 June. The joint venture, held at St Cuthbert’s College this year, is an evening ... MORE

Two Sessions, One Hundred Teams, Four Hundred Competitors

St Cuthbert’s College was swamped with over 400 students and supporters from around Auckland last Friday [June 6], for the Annual Regional Kids’ Lit Quiz. Each three hour session had ... MORE

St Cuthbert’s student awarded top scholarship

St Cuthbert’s College Old Girl, Juliet Greer, was officially honoured for her first placing in Scholarship Visual Arts last year, at a Top Scholar Awards Ceremony at Government House in ... MORE

Teacher among top twelve in country

St Cuthbert’s College mathematics teacher, Mrs Vicky Binedell, won one of only twelve teaching awards at the NeiTA Excellence in Teaching and Leadership Awards earlier this month. Unbeknown to Mrs ... MORE

St Cuthbert´s chick rocks stage of strangers

St Cuthbert’s College student Kate West-Walker spent Saturday May 24 rocking the stage at the third annual Band of Strangers gig held at the Logan Campbell Centre in Greenlane. Kate, ... MORE

St Cuthbert’s College Science Stars

Not only are more girls taking science at St Cuthbert’s College, but they are also doing it very well. Chemistry, biology and physics are now in the top six most ... MORE

And the awards go to...

Sixty three St Cuthbert’s College students and former students were awarded Scholars badges yesterday at a special ceremony acknowledging their academic achievements in 2007. The students who were in Year ... MORE

Sax supports single-sex schooling

St Cuthbert’s College hosted distinguished American single-sex education specialist Dr Leonard Sax for a series of seminars yesterday. A family physician, psychologist, author, and founder and executive director of the ... MORE

Tennis team wins nationals without top player

The St Cuthbert’s College Senior A tennis team has won the New Zealand Secondary School Tennis Championships for the third year in a row, but this time without its number ... MORE

Decisions, decisions, decisions

It can be tough choosing which universities to apply for when leaving school. But for Tiffany Yu, a St Cuthbert’s College graduate in 2007, the challenge is in deciding which ... MORE

Shakespeare Festival Winners to Act in Wellington

St Cuthbert's College and Epsom Girls’ Grammar School will represent Auckland at the Shakespeare Globe Centre New Zealand s University of Otago Sheilah Winn Festival of Shakespeare in Wellington after ... MORE

First in for a Girls’ School in Auckland Debating

An all girls’ school won the Auckland region Russell McVeagh debating competition for the first time in its history over the weekend. St Cuthbert’s College won the competition in a ... MORE

St Cuthbert’s Star Sailors

Ten St Cuthbert’s College girls weren’t afraid of showing the boys how it was done at the Auckland Secondary Schools’ Fleet Racing Regatta last week. On the way to victory ... MORE

Focused on the Future

Jane Canning’s mind is set on the future. In May, St Cuthbert’s College student Jane Canning will travel to Michigan to compete at the Future Problem Solving International Conference after ... MORE

Students get a head-start for future careers

For four St Cuthbert’s College students, summer wasn’t all about relaxing before their final year at school. Shivani Pillay, Ella Tunnicliffe-Glass, Zoe Butters and Grace Zhang spent two weeks at ... MORE

College Leaders

Welcome to the new Leaders of St Cuthbert’s College 2008. Head Girl: Nupur Upadhyay Deputy Head Girls:Jamie Wiles Nicola Peat Charlotte WalkerHead of Boarding:Chynna GleesonDeputy Head of Boarding:Victoria Heaven Prefects:Sophie ... MORE

Documenting a Family History of War

A College assignment led three generations of a family to explore their history in war. When Year Nine student Olivia Kazmierow was given the opportunity to research and produce work ... MORE

ASB Young Sportsperson of the Year Awards

Seven St Cuthbert’s College students won an ASB Young Sportsperson of the Year Award for their individual sports and two were nominated for the supreme award in a glittering ceremony ... MORE

HARK! The Herald Angels.......Wrap.

The refrigerator door makes for a great exhibition space for most primary school art.But some of St Cuthbert's College’s Y2 students are taking their art to a wider stage, and ... MORE

YES To Success

Auckland judges can only say YES to St Cuthbert’s College’s Quest for success.A St Cuthbert’s team, named Quest, won the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) Auckland Central Company of ... MORE

Rewarding Hard Work

The 2007 Cultural Honours Awards Evening was a great success for all those involved with 89 students receiving awards.The night was kicked off by the sounding of the Putatara (Shell ... MORE

Second Time Round Just as Sweet

It was déjà vu for the St Cuthbert’s College squash team recently, as they won the National Secondary School’s Squash Teams Championship for the second year in a row.Held in ... MORE

An evening with the artists

Over the past three terms St Cuthbert’s College has had the assistance and expertise of a writer and two artists in residence.Recently they came together in the Frances Compton Library ... MORE

No horsing around for Charlotte

St Cuthbert’s College student Charlotte Guy recently won the national Under11 Dressage Performance Award at the Great Hage Young Rider Dressage Awards in Napier.12-year-old Charlotte was also 3rd in the ... MORE

Statistically Fabulous

The final year of school is always challenging for students. The pressure of exams and University looming over the horizon seems more than enough pressure, well not for Tiffany Ma ... MORE

Trying it again

After two years of not being able to compete in a multisport event, Ashleigh James made up for lost time earlier this year.Ashleigh won the Auckland Secondary Schools Senior girls ... MORE

Literary Heaven

Four St Cuthbert’s College students are on their way to England after winning the National Literature Quiz recently.Held in Auckland in conjunction with the Storylines Festival, the ‘Lit Quiz” was ... MORE

The science of being brilliant

15 outstanding students from throughout New Zealand recently participated in a selection camp for the New Zealand team to attend the International Biology Olympiad.St Cuthbert’s College student, Ruth Bollen was ... MORE

Kahunui Launch

The College has officially launched the concept of its own outdoor education facility called Kahunui.The programme will be surpervised by Director's of Kahunui Christine Furminger and husband John.To find out more click ... MORE