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Academic Pathways NCEA and IB
Academic Pathways at Dio How it works: Students in Years 1-...
Working at Dio
Behind every great school is a great team of people. We'd lo...
Admissions
Applying for a place at Diocesan School involves a few...
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We know that choosing a school is a big decision. To help y...
Experience Dio
We’d love you and your daughter to experience our School’s w...
Community
Diocesan School values the wonderful relationship with the w...
Heritage Foundation
The Diocesan School Heritage Foundation is a charitable trus...
Open Day
We invite all families considering Dio to visit us at an Ope...
Frequently Asked Questions
Our FAQs are divided into three sections below. If you do no...
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Centre for Ethics
Our Centre for Ethics was launched by patron and Old Gir...
Anglican Identity
Service Learning at Dio Our desire to have Service Learning...
Education Outside the Classroom
To a curious mind, seeing is believing, that’s why we gi...
Sport
We also have plenty of team sports for girls to choose from....
Meaningful Leadership
In the Junior High School the Infinite programme will suppor...
Centre for Ethics
Some of our events...
Anglican Identity
Religious Studies Programme in Junior High School:
Centre for Enhancement of Learning
The Future Problem Solving programme is particularly fi...
Careers
Sixty percent of the jobs that our current students will end...
Education Outside the Classroom
The aims of our EOTC programme are:
Performing Arts
We have very talented teachers and coaches, and there are...
Sport
Excellent Facilities Dio embraces modern training methods t...
Leadership
Our Leadership Programme in the Senior School is designed to...
Circles of Care
Giving back to our community Our motto is Ut Serviamus, whi...
Centre for Enhancement of Learning
The Centre is open to all students for extra support across...
Study in New Zealand
About New Zealand We are a safe, clean, stable, modern...
Why a Girls' School?
Being an all-girls school is one of the key reasons for ou...
Student Testimonials and Success Stories
Student Testimonials Prin Chakmethakun (Thailand) I enjo...
Apply Online
Applications for 2022 and beyond are now open. Pl...
Apply Online as an International Student
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Old Girls' League
The League’s primary role is fellowship and reconnecting f...
Dio Sport
Our People ChairMegan Urwin School RepresentativeKatie Gly...
Curriculum & Exam Results
At Senior School we believe education is about independence,...
After School Activity Programme
The wide range of activities on offer, provide the girls wit...
Sport
Whichever sport your daughter chooses we have the team a...
Our Principal
Educational leadership Before her appointment to Diocesan,...
The Dio Difference
While we teach conceptual knowledge and understanding, it is...
Strategic Direction
The inspirational Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who is professor of...
Scholarships
Diocesan offers an internal scholarship programme that inves...
Education Review Office
"Programmes that teach citizenship, mindfulness and ethics a...
Uniform
The Diocesan Shop The Diocesan Shop is the exclusive stocki...
Anglican Identity
Religious Studies is also taught at Level 2 and Level...
Transport
Diocesan Buses From Your Door to Ours At Diocesan, we...
International Fees
All fees are stated in New Zealand dollars and are inclusive...
Privacy Policy
Copyright Statement Diocesan School either owns or has the...
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme
IB at a glance All Year 12 students who meet the entry requ...
IB Learner Profile
To this end the organization works with schools, governments...
Music at Dio
Dio Chamber OrchestraDio SymphonySenior Choir and St Cecilia...
Dance and Drama
Smokefree Stage Challenge - an annual inter-school dance and...
Careers/University
Diocesan’s Career Development Centre provides guidance...
Curriculum & Exam Results
We believe education is about independence, a thirst for kno...
Performing Arts
We encourage all girls to be involved in the arts, not only...
Term Dates
Academic excellence sits at the heart of all we do at Dioces...
Advertising Opportunities
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Our History
Bishop Neligan’s vision was clear: "To offer, on sound cl...
Head of Junior School
"We encourage all students to lead balanced lives and to fin...
Swimming Instructor
Experienced swim instructor competent in teaching students f...
Baby / Toddler and Pre-school Swimming Instructor
Swimming instructor who is experienced in teaching babies, t...
Employment FAQ
Recruitment and selection policy All vacancies are first...
Head of Senior School
Margaret grew up in Christchurch but has spent all her adult...
Netball Coaches Required
Netball Coaches Required We are seeking enthusiastic Netbal...
Maintenance
Diocesan School for Girls IT Systems including DioConnect ar...
The Duke of Edinburgh's Hillary Award
For more information contact The Duke of Edinburgh's Program...
The Duke of Edinburgh's Hillary Award
For more information contact The Duke of Edinburgh's Program...
Casual After School Care Supervisor
This role provides support to the Junior School by supervisi...
MakerSpace
We believe all learners have an opportunity to become digita...
Boarding
Find out more For further information about boarding at Dio...
Gardener
Behind every great school is a great team of people. W...
Open Day Registration
Register here to attend our next Open Day: Saturday 21 March...
Chemistry Teacher
As our new full-time Chemistry teacher, you’ll be: • Passio...
Development Administrator
• Part Time, 20 hours per week• Epsom location We are s...
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Senior Prizegiving 2019
A full list of all the Senior prize giving award winners fro...
Sports Award Winners 2019
The winners of the Diocesan Sports Awards for 2019
Sarah Wong wins National Spelling Bee
The Year 10 Dio student has triumphed over hundreds of stude...
Arts Award Winners 2019
Dio has 11 finalists in Young Sports Person of the Year Awards
A remarkable 11 Dio girls across a range of sports have been...
Anisha wins top prize at One Act Play Festival
Dio Thespian Anisha de Silva has taken a top prize in the Ne...
Dio Bands rock at BandQuest competition
Dio bands Shade and DeZire performed at the BandQuest compe...
Dio Orienteering - National Champions
Fantastic results for Dio at the NZSS Orienteering Champs l...
Dio takes out 5 awards at KBB Festival
The KBB Festival is now the largest youth music festival for...
Dio wins GOLD at Kids Sing
Congratulations to Virtuoso Voce who picked up Gold as well...
International Fencing success!
Dio fencers continued their successful run this year, with L...
Anneke Cummack wins silver at International Biology Olympiad
Anneke was part of a team of four representing New Zealand a...
NZCT Chamber Music Competition - Dio wins 3 major awards at Auckland finals.
32 girls were involved in the chamber music competition from...
Hip Hop Success!
Senior Hip Hop crew took second place at the Project Taurang...
2019 Alumna Merita - Kimberley Chambers
The Alumna Merita assembly honours a Diocesan Old Girl who h...
Dio girls selected for the NZ Bio Olympiad Camp
Congratulations to Anneke Cummack and Emma Wong-She who have...
Who is your inner scientist?
Year 5 student Deva Perese to represent Samoa at touch rugby
Junior School student Deva Perese, has been selected to repr...
Year 11 dancer Olivia Blanchard awarded two UK scholarships
Our Year 11 student Olivia Blanchard has been awarded not on...
Former Dio student Emma Uren wins Youth Laureate Award for writing
Former Dio Girl, (Class of 2018) Emma Uren has received a Yo...
2018 Junior High School Prize giving results
A list of prize winners from the 2018 JHS prize giving event...
2018 Senior Prize Giving Results
The 2018 Diocesan Senior Prize Giving results
Joy Kang and Conor Tarrant awarded joint Dio Dux for 2018.
We are proud to announce that the International Baccalaureat...
Dio Sports Awards Winners 2018
Dio Arts Award Winners 2018
The Diocesan Arts Awards were held on Wednesday 24 October i...
Dio wins Top School at National Swimming Championships
Dio swim team wins the top girls school at the 2018 National...
Dio Wins Gold at Big Sing National Finale
Congratulations to our St Cecelia singers for taking a gold...
Georgia Skelton on podium at World Champs
Our Year 12 student, Georgia Skelton, has just returned from...
Six KBB Festival Awards for Dio
The KBB Festival is now the largest youth music festival for...
Julliard beckons for 12 year old Dio Cellist
One of the world’s top music schools, Julliard, has come cal...
Dio Old Girl, Professor Margaret Brimble, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London
Dio Old Girl, Professor Margaret Brimble, has just became th...
Dio student selected to NZ youth sailing team to compete in Texas
Year 12 Dio student Alice Haslett has been selected to repr...
Dio girls take out multiple top scholarship awards
Dio students have once again gained exceptional results in...
Dio student selected for New Zealand Ski Team
A Year 10 Dio Student, Katie Crawford, has been selected to...
2017 Senior Prize Giving Winners
Year 11 Awards Academic Honours with Certificates for Top i...
2017 JHS Prizegiving Winners
View the prize recipients of Junior High School Prizegiving...
Lydia Watson awarded 2017 Diocesan School Dux
Dio is proud to announce that Lydia Watson is the Dux for 20...
Dio student wins top prize in Architectural Writing awards
Dio student Piper Whitehead (Year 13) has won the top prize...
Dio duo picked for World Trampolining Champs
Diocesan School duo, Sienna French and Halle Rankin Hastie,...
Dio Old Girl wins prestigious Engineering Competition
Dio Old Girl Arianna Ryan just captained a team of Engineeri...
Dio wins Top School at the 48 hour film festival
Dio has won Top School in the 2017 48-hour film festival for...
Dio Ski team wins North Island Secondary School Championships
After a 33 year wait, the Dio ski team took the overall win...
DIOHUB is here
Life as a Dio parent is about to get significantly easier. D...
Back to back NZ title for rowing team
Vel commodi quis eos accusantium ea quaerat.
Passion for music shining through in the Junior School
Sint et deleniti maxime quo vitae consequatur.
International dance opportunity
Vitae id ducimus esse est provident.
Rowers make it three in a row
Dolor vel ex quasi blanditiis optio.
Scholarship Success
Rerum odit et pariatur.
JHS Prize Giving
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Gold Award at CMNZ National Finals in Wellington
TrioAstor - Y12 He-Min Lee on piano, Maia-Dean Martin on vi...
Concerto and Aria competitions
Last week saw our annual Concerto and Aria Competitions take...
NZ Brainbee Competition
Last week a team of girls spearheaded by science teacher Mr...
2017 Women2Watch
On Tuesday we celebrated our Annual Women2Watch assembly. W...
Big Sing regional success
Last Thursday Diocesan choristers excelled themselves at the...
TrioAstor create Dio music history
On Friday we had 30 girls involved in the Auckland District...
Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Competition winners
Sunt quia et atque vero enim.
Congratulations to Piper Whitehead – National Debating team
In recent weeks, Year 13 student Piper Whitehead has been se...
ISNZ celebrates Margaret van Meeuwen's long service to our school
The Independent Schools of New Zealand this week celebrated...
Q & A with Christine Lewis, Year 9 Dean
A Q & A with our Year 9 Dean, Languages Teacher, Water Polo...
Your True Colours
This is the education at Diocesan we aspire to...
A Humane View of Education
Information at our fingertips alone, does not amount to a gr...
Effective teaching
Effective teaching and what a highly effective teacher does...
How today's Health and Physical Education curriculum takes a holistic approach to learning
Teachers within Dio’s Health and Physical Education faculty...
The importance of the middle school years
Parents often wonder about the middle years of education wh...
Interesting research about girls and confidence
Principal Heather McRae discusses new US research over gende...
Commissioning Assembly for 2019
Transcript of Principal Heather McRae's commissioning speech...
International Women's Day
In celebration of International Women's Day today, our Princ...
Meet our Director of Sport - Katie Glynn
A Q&A session with Katie Glynn, Dio's Sports Director and f...
Aksheen Dhillon: a voice for youth
Aksheen Dhillon is heading to Parliament to be a voice for t...
Holiday Camp like no other on Earth
In a few short weeks, a group of Diocesan students will bold...
Community Service big drawcard for young global travellers
The big OE is a right of passage for many young Kiwis, but o...
Dio computer science pioneer is inspiring a new generation
Dio Teacher is fostering an interest in computer science and...
Celebrating Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori / Māori Language Week
At Dio we have been celebrating Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori!
Dio girl experiences prestigious US Art School
Year 12 student Shellie Hu, was recently accepted into a 6 w...
Broadway stardom for Dio Old Girl
Recent Dio Old Girl, Libby Johnston, is being awarded a Pres...
Dio's single sex status won't change
As one of New Zealand’s leading independent girls’ school, D...
International Women's Day - Thursday 8 March
In recognition of International Women's Day on Thursday, Hea...
Diocesan enters the Haier Big Hoot art trail
New Zealand public have a unique opportunity to view origina...
A short history of the Dio roses
It’s not often a school propagates its own rose variety, bu...
Dio Old girl wins prestigious Engineering Competition
Dio Old girl wins prestigious Engineering Competition
Head Prefect and Deputy Prefect for 2018 announced
Diocesan School for Girls is thrilled to announce that Zoe T...
Passion Drives Dio’s First Student-Written Musical
Composing and producing an original musical isn’t usually as...
Passion for music shining through in the Junior School
The passion for singing in the Diocesan Junior School goes b...
Ethics and its place in education
Canvas magazine takes a look at whether teaching ethics shou...
Be bold for change: International Women's Day opinion piece
By Heidi Bernard, year 13 student
Dio Duo picked for World Trampolining Champs
Dio Duo Sienna French and Halle Rankin Hastie have been pick...
World Challenge 2016
The year two Diocesan teams traveled to Peru and Bolivia for...
International dance opportunity
Year 13 dancer Alisha Huang recently received the news that...
Students' 10,000 KM trip to school
International Student Representative Yuri Kim talks to us ab...
Swimmer looks to Tokyo 2020
Year 13 student Annabelle Paterson talks to us on swimming a...
Service Learning
Service Learning is a big part of who we are at Diocesan. B...
Keeping our young people safe online
Recently we had Internet expert Brett Lee in to discuss his...
The learning framework in our Junior School
Head of the Junior School Suzanne Brewin explains the Intern...
Our Strategic Direction
Principal Heather McRae explains our strategy and vision for...
A student take on scholarship exams
We spoke to three of our Year 13 IB students, Natalee Zhu, T...
Making the leap from high school to university
Diocesan Career Development Services Director, Liz Morris, h...
Why a girls' school?
Heather McRae looks at the difference an all girls' school m...
Why Dio for Hockey?
Staff member, Old Girl and NZ Blackstick Katie Glynn gives h...
PR1ME Mathematics - math that works
Deputy Principal and Head of the Junior School Sue Brewin ex...
What is the key to innovation in education?
How Change Knowledge is the answer to that very question.
Ethics and its place in education
Director for the Centre of Ethics Nina Blumenfeld discusses...
Sailing with Team SCA
Code Captain Eleanor Carll shares a brief insight into their...
The evolution of the Caring Shed
The Caring Shed at Diocesan is a way for our community to gi...
Education and Neuroscience
Parents and educators are often very persuaded by new ideas...
Prefect's vision for 2015
Each year our Year 13’s develop a goal that they work togeth...
Sir Peter Blake Trust Youth EnviroLeaders Forum 2015
As one of 52 students chosen from hundreds, Year 13 student...
Homework, does it really matter?
After an analysis of research, we now know that there are wa...