News
Posted on: Monday the 10th of June, 2013
NZ Chamber Music Competition successes for Dio girls
This last week has seen our girls perform to an amazingly high standard in the heats of this national competition. We had eight entries, ranging from Year 9 newcomers through to our Year 13 trio. This was the largest entry, per student ratio, from sc...Read More...
Posted on: Tuesday the 4th of June, 2013
Diocesan bike building project benefits foster children
Left to right: Year 11 Diocesan students Yasmine Dai, Amelia Vincent, Abi Wang, Krishna Shah and Hannah RiceMore than 20 Auckland foster children have their own shiny new bikes to ride thanks to an initiative at Diocesan School for Girls which taug...
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Posted on: Tuesday the 28th of May, 2013
Evelyn Qian Back to Compete with World’s Best Young Biologists
Diocesan student Evelyn Qian has surprised herself and national judges by being selected for the second year in a row to represent New Zealand at the Biology Olympiad in Switzerland in July.Evelyn, 17, who came home from last year's Olympiad in Sin...
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Posted on: Monday the 20th of May, 2013
Junior Einstein gets hot spot on TV show
Show us an ingenious invention and you could be on television.That was the challenge to a class of year 5 students from Diocesan School for Girls.
The student who designed the best invention using the Let's Get Inventin' application for iPads woul...
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Posted on: Wednesday the 24th of April, 2013
Diocesan Orienteering Team places 4th at World Champs
(L to R) Diocesan students Gemma Scown, Lauren Holmes, Hayley Ewen, Hannah Pitman-Bell and Catherine Andrew after coming fourth in the World Schools Orienteering Championships in Portugal.A five-strong Orienteering team from Auckland’s Dioces...
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Posted on: Friday the 19th of April, 2013
Diocesan Dux wins coveted Scholarship to Cambridge
Former Diocesan School student and 2012 Dux, Kerry Mackereth, has been awarded a coveted scholarship worth around $180,000 to attend Cambridge University in England where she will major in Political Science.The 18-year-old Auckland Universit...
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Posted on: Thursday the 18th of April, 2013
Erin Street development
Driving to and from school, you may have noticed some construction activity at the school-owned properties located in Erin Street and wondered what this was.Two new tennis and two new netball courts, together with a small spectator pavilion and anc...
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Posted on: Wednesday the 17th of April, 2013
Students set a course for Portugal
There won’t be much time to take in the scenery when five of Auckland’s best young orienteers hit the ground running at the World Schools Orienteering Championships in Portugal next week.The Diocesan School students won the right to rep...
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Posted on: Saturday the 13th of April, 2013
IT teacher gets inventin'
Diocesan’s Junior School IT teacher, Mark Edwards, can claim a world first for his work helping to develop a new iPad app that helps students to transform their ideas into inventions.The producers of the popular TVNZ series Let’s Get In...
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Posted on: Monday the 18th of March, 2013
ISNZ Award for Shelley Ryde
Congratulations to Shelley Ryde, Head of Visual Arts at Diocesan, on receiving an Independent Schools of New Zealand Honours Award. The awards are made annually and acknowledge and celebrate outstanding staff within ISNZ member schools.Shelle...
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Posted on: Sunday the 10th of March, 2013
World class researcher honoured
Photo credit: New Zealand HeraldIn late November 2012 Professor Margaret Brimble was awarded the Rutherford Medal, New Zealand’s highest honour for Science and Technology, by the Royal Society of New Zealand at their Annual Research Honours D...
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