Three go to the head of the class
St Peter’s Catholic Primary is a small school, of under 200 students. But that hasn’t stopped the school from producing head students for three separate Waikato high schools in 2021. Elsie Williams, Gemma Hall and…
St Peter’s Catholic Primary is a small school, of under 200 students. But that hasn’t stopped the school from producing head students for three separate Waikato high schools in 2021. Elsie Williams, Gemma Hall and…
Down with the kids By Matteo Di Maio Late last year, one of the American Democratic Party’s more idiosyncratic presidential candidates stepped onto a stage in Philadelphia. Andrew Yang, the former test-prep entrepreneur turned long-shot…
Cambridge High School was far from alone when its plans for a student production were upturned by Covid-19. But it was one of few schools to push through with its musical, which CHS brought to…
Opinion – By Matteo Di Maio. Mike Hosking (for once) has a point. In a recent column, the Herald commentator cautioned that there would be no fabled “youthquake” this year – to the detriment of…
During lockdown, Cambridge High School principal Greg Thornton began his commute to work by walking down his hallway to his son’s bedroom. From this makeshift “office,” Thornton directed the school’s Covid-19 response, recording video…
As a lethal form of influenza ravaged its way across New Zealand in November 1918, Cambridge nurses Linda Veale and Margaret Watt worked quickly to transform the Town Hall into an emergency hospital. On…
On the Rue Victorien Cantineu, just out of Cambridge’s “Sister City” Le Quesnoy, a recently pitched makeshift banner reads “Merci a Nos Heros. Aidez-les, restez chez vous.” The translation is “Thanks to our [medical] heroes….
