MRS CATHY EWING, Principal

 
Welcome to the Nelson College for Girls website.  We hope that you will find here information that will give you a sense of all that our school can offer your daughter, in both academic and co-curricular activities.  We pride ourselves on providing a world class education for our young women in a very caring and supportive family environment.
 
Nelson College for Girls is a school with a very proud history.  In its 129 years it has produced young women who have gone into the world with confidence and a sense of pride in achieving to the best of their abilities.  Often they have been inspired by the successes of the women who have preceded them.  Our motto 'Pietas, Probitas et Sapientia' - Loyalty, Honesty and Wisdom - sums up well the values and essence of our school.
 
Nelson College for Girls offers its students the opportunity for a single sex education.  Educational research shows clearly that girls educated in a single sex environment appear to achieve better academically in a full range of subjects, including the sciences and mathematics.  They also fully participate in a wide range of co-curricular activities, with great enthusiasm and success.  As young women progress through the school, there is also considerable opportunity for leadership and the school recognises the importance of fostering the self-confidence and sense of pride that comes from providing these leadership opportunities.
 
In addition to the benefits of single sex education, our school also offers the opportunity for girls to share some senior classes with boys of Nelson College, through the close relationship between our schools.  This brings mutual benefits to both schools.
 
The great strength of Nelson College for Girls lies in the calibre of its staff.  They have a strong commitment to providing our students with a holistic education.  They are passionate about their curriculum subjects and therefore foster a love of learning in our young women.  They also create a very caring learning environment so that the pastoral needs of our students are also catered for.
 
We welcome you to this website and invite you to visit the College to see the information on these pages in action.  We know that you will find a vital community that your daughter would be proud to belong to.
 
Cathy Ewing
PRINCIPAL

 

     

UPCOMING EVENTS 

2012
  
Tuesday 21 February Year 9 Parents Evening 7 pm - 8.30 pm: Hall
Tuesday 28 February 'Connected':  Teens and Technology for Parents 7.30 - 9 pm:  Public event:  Hall
March  
Wednesday 7 March Senior Dance
Thursday 8 March School photos all day
Wednesday 14 March Year 13 Parents Evening 7 pm - 9 pm:  Library
Monday 19 March School Swimming Sports
Tuesday 20 March Teacher Only Day - school closed to students
April  
Sunday 1 April Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Festival:  Hall
Monday 2 April and
Tuesday 3 April		 Preparatory School Parent Interviews
Thursday 5 April Prep Merit Assembly 9 am
Last Day of Term 1
TERM 2  
Monday 23 April Term 2 commences
Wednesday 25 April ANZAC Day - school closed
Thursday 26 April and
Tuesday 1 May		 Parent Interviews

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WINTER UNIFORM - Years 7 and 9

For Uniform Shop opening hours click here to see extra opening times.

SENIOR PRIZEGIVING 2011

Senior Prizegiving was held on Wednesday 7 November with Christine Ferneyhough as Guest Speaker.  Christine gave an entertaining and inspiring talk interspersed with hilarious anecdotes and she held the whole audience enthralled. Christine was very gracious in her acknowledgement of the students' work for the year when she presented the Special Awards to the girls and is shown presenting Eleanor Strathern with a prize. Eleanor received several awards including the Emily Host Memorial Scholarship.

Comfrey Sanders was awarded the Waikato Old Girls' Association Prize and Karyn Anderson Rosebowl for the Arts Leader.  Comfrey has won a place at the Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School - a prestigious accolade as only twenty are offered nationwide. Comfrey is shown being presented with her prize by Mrs Cathy Ewing, Principal.

  

Oi Kei Li, an International Student from Hong Kong China, received prizes for Year 13 Mathematics, Statistics and Modelling as well as Chemistry.  She is shown with Mrs Kathryn Hunt, Head of Music.

She also was named the recipient of The Crissina E Boyes Memorial Scholarship and Christie Award given to a Year 13 Proxime Accessit to the Dux.

Georgia Thomson-Laing received the Year 13 prize for Physics, the Network Tasman Award for Year 13, the Page and Blackmore Senior Literary Prize and the George Rutherford Scholarship for Science.

Georgia was also named the recipient of The Atmore Memorial Scholarship and PTA Award to the Dux of Nelson College for Girls.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SPORTS WALL OF FAME

Calling all past students of Nelson College for Girls who have represented New Zealand in any senior sporting event.  We would like to have a Wall of Fame in our new Health & Fitness Centre with your name on it.  If you, or someone you know, has achieved this please contact the Head of PE at the College. 

A student's view (sound bite)

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