Queen's High School is a state single-sex girls' secondary school in Dunedin.
| Queen's High School | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
 | |
195 Surrey Street Saint Clair Dunedin 9012 New Zealand | |
| Coordinates | 45°54′13″S 170°29′31″E / 45.903551°S 170.492071°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Girls' Secondary |
| Motto | Latin: Amore Discimus Discendi Vivere (Through Love of Learning, We Learn to Live.) |
| Established | 1955 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 384 |
| Principal | Barbara Agnew[1] |
| School roll | 546[2] (August 2024) |
| Socio-economic decile | 5M[3] |
| Website | queens.school.nz |
It is located at the southern end of the city close to the boundary between the suburbs of St Clair and Forbury, next to the parallel single-sex boys' school, King's, with which it shares some facilities.
Pat Harrison (later Dame Pat) was principal of the school from 1975 to 1994.[4]
Notable people associated with Queen's include drama teacher Terry McTavish and alumna chemical engineer Gretchen Kivell.[5][6]
References
edit- ^ "Principal's Welcome - Queen's High School". Queens.school.nz. 20 June 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
- ^ "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 17 September 2024.
- ^ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ^ Houlahan, Mike (2 April 2018). "'Shining light' remembered". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
- ^ "New Year Honours 2019 - Citations for Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC)". www.dpmc.govt.nz. 31 December 2018. Retrieved 12 November 2024.
- ^ "Meet Gretchen Kivell" (PDF). U3A Forum, newsletter 57. November 2017.
 | This New Zealand school-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |