Otago Girls' High School
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| Otago Girls' High School | |
| Motto | Recti Cultus Pectora Roborant - The Right Education Makes The Heart As Strong As Oak |
| Type | State single sex girls secondary (Year 9-13) |
| Year established | 1871 |
| Address | 41 Tennyson Street, Dunedin |
| Coordinates | 45°52′30″S 170°30′00″E / 45.874981°S 170.499946°ECoordinates: 45°52′30″S 170°30′00″E / 45.874981°S 170.499946°E |
| Principal | Jan Anderson |
| School roll | 772 |
| Socio-economic decile (10 is highest) | 9 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 378 |
| Website | www.otagogirls.school.nz |
Otago Girls' High School is a secondary school in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. It was opened 6 February,1871, after a long campaign by educationalist Learmonth Whyte Dalrymple. It is reputedly the oldest girls state-run secondary school in Australasia and the sixth oldest of its type in the world[1].
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[edit] Building History
At its foundation the school occupied a neo-classical building on its present site which it shared with Otago Boys High School. A new building on another site was built for the boys which they marched away to occupy in 1885. In 1910 the present main block was opened, designed by Edmund Anscombe (1874-1948) and the old building on Tennyson Street was demolished. Anscombe's conception of a rouge-brick Elizabethan mansion, dreaming in the sun, was slowly extended. Temporary structures were replaced in the 1970s by Ministry of Education blocks, contextualised by the use of brick to the Anscombe building. In the 1980s the main block was scheduled for demolition. After protest it was restored and extended by a sympathetic addition designed by E.J.Ted McCoy, and in 1987 was listed as a Category I Historic Place.[2] The school has since acquired part of the old King Edward Technical School site. It has erected structures there accessible by way of a pedestrian underpass beneath Smith Street.
[edit] Alumnae
- Grace Joel, painter of the nude
- Ethel Benjamin, New Zealand's first female lawyer.[1]
- Mai Chen, constitutional lawyer
- Emily Hancock Siedeberg, New Zealand's first female doctor
- Yvette Williams, first New Zealand woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
- Sylvia Cartwright, Governor General of New Zealand.
- Alison Holst, famous cook
- Juliet Marillier, Author
[edit] References
- ^ Otago Museum article
- ^ "Register of Historic Places". New Zealand Historic Places Trust. http://www.historic.org.nz/Register/ListingDetail.asp?RID=2202&sm=. Retrieved on 2008-07-07.
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