Hillmorton High School – House Athletics
Come and join in the fun of our whānau house Athletics Competition Read more
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Tutor & Cando Photos
Tutor Group photographs will be taken on Tuesday 19 February 2019 and students are asked to wear correct school uniform. The Year 7 & 8 students will have a Base Camp photo and a Tutor Group photo. Read more
Hillmorton High School Tigers Sport Rugby 2019
We are pleased to offer Saturday Rugby for teenagers (both boys and girls) in 2019, which is the first time that this has happened in the 21st Century. Suburbs Rugby Football Club are also supporting this new initiative and we look forward to strengthening connections with this club and our community. All players, coaches, managers and supporters are welcome to sign up. Read more
Adult & Community Education Courses – Term One
There are still places available on some of our courses starting next week – Digital Photography Boot Camp; Japanese; Metalwork; Patchwork & Quilting; Yoga. Read more
Back to School Shopping Deal!
The Athletes Foot is a leading footwear specialist store offering both athletic footwear in conjunction with school footwear. Read more
2019 Metro School Bus Route 75 – Halswell to Hillmorton High School
75 Hillmorton – Halswell school service will commence on Monday 4 February 2019. It will operate the same route and timetable as last year. Read more
Holiday Programme at Hillmorton High School
Monday 7 Jan 2019 – Wednesday 30 Jan 2019 Read more
Y10 Campers Experience the Elements.
30 Year 10 students braved the rain to tramp into Living Springs from Victoria Park. Read more
Swim Like A Fish! by Ann Brokenshire
Today I had the absolute pleasure of heading to the Star Fish Swim School in Halswell to watch our school values in action. Read more
Tall Blacks New Zealand Basketball Team Visit Hillmorton
Following tournament week our school had the pleasure of hosting two Tall Black players for a skills session with our students here at Hillmorton High School. Read more
Enviro Crew Clean, Count and Cultivate.
The Hillmorton Environment Committee went on a hui to the beautiful Koukourarata – Port Levy. Read more
Hillmorton High School Senior A Boys Basketball Success Continues
The Senior A Boys Basketball team had a lot riding on their shoulders after coming back National Champions after 2017. They set out to do this all again for 2018. Heres a snapshot of the teams year from the coach, Andrea Kendrew…. Read more
Free Dental Care Year 9 – 18th Birthday
Free dental care is available for eligible teens from Year 9 until their 18th Birthday. Read more
Tall Blacks Vs Jordan – Game On!
Use our school promo code to save 20% off tickets Read more
Sports Tournament Highlights
2018 has been full of highlights and achievements for our sporting teams. This year we had five teams travel away to the winter tournament week including four senior teams and one junior team. Read more
“Our Personal Favourites” -Spring Quiz 2018 Champions
The 3rd Biennial Quiz was held on 30 August, to raise funds for 5 sports teams travelling to tournaments, and our Classics students travelling to Europe in 2019. Read more
Hon. Ron Mark meets our students
Student guides – Brittany Smith and Micaela Beukes are pictured here with the Minister of Defence Read more
Y11 History Quiz Team comes third in Canterbury
We sent three teams of cheerful, enthusiastic and intelligent historians to the annual Year 11 History Quiz at Christ’s College. Read more
Robocup Junior – 3rd Place Winners!
Congratulations to Samantha Dryden, Andre Scheepers, Allan Taylor, Riley Williams, Amos Lochhead & Om Patel who represented Hillmorton at the regional Robocup Competition. Read more
ABs visit with our local MP
Getting some tips!Isley Fakalata pictured with Ardie Savea Read more
Avau and Lynette took to centre stage whilst at the LIMITLESS CONFERENCE and shared their talents
Avau and Lynette took to centre stage whilst at the LIMITLESS CONFERENCE and shared their talents — by Eleanor SimOur thanks to the organisers of Limitless – April and her team for their work in mounting the Conference which some of our Year 10 students attended recently.
Sponsorship – Tigers Sport – “Play and Excel”
Hillmorton High Horomaka Tigers Sport are seeking ‘Gold Sponsors’ with whom to enter into a partnership with for a period of three years. Read more
Hillmorton High School’s 2018 Cross Country
The annual Cross Country was run a little differently this year! Olivia Gobbie offers her insight into this event: Read more
CYBER SAFETY PRESENTATION – Hillmorton High School Hall – Thursday 17 May, 6.30 pm – 8 pm
You are invited to a presentation hosted by NZ cyber security expert, John Parsons, on the issues and dangers associated with the inappropriate use of computers, mobile phones and the internet. Read more
Another great turn out for the second Hillmorton High School Quiz Night!
Teams from all backgrounds competed to be crowned Quiz Champion, with parents, staff and students all gaining places in the top five teams. Read more
Hillmorton Senior A Basketball Boys qualify for Division 1!
With four teams fighting for two spots in Division One, Hillmorton High School’s Senior Boys basketball team set out to win a weekend of games against the top schools in order to move into Division One. Read more
Summer Tournament Week
Over Summer Tournament week Mr Sharr and Mr Freear took a strong womens and mens Volleyball team to compete in the Satellite Tournament which attracted a range of Canterbury Secondary Schools. Read more
South Island Secondary Schools’ Athletics Championships
Denim Winiata and Tile Fetu travelled to Timaru to compete against the top athletes in the South Island in the Secondary Athletics Championships (SISS Athletics). Read more
My name is Ellen …
Ellen is from Taiwan. She has been studying at Hillmorton for the past two years and shares her thoughts about her time with us. Read more
Get your thinking caps on again – it’s time for Hillmorton High School’s Quiz Night!
Thursday 12 April 2018 will see the 2nd school Quiz Night starting at 7 pm in the school hall. Doors open at 6:30 pm. Read more
Hannah is home!
After living and studying here as an international student, Hannah is back in New Zealand four years later, visiting her second home, wearing her much-loved Hillmorton dragon boating hoodie. Read more
Ieuan Edwards competes in the Canterbury Secondary Schools Triathlon 2018
Ieuan Edwards competed in the event attracting athletes from schools all over Christchurch, which included a 350m swim, 9km bike and a 3km run! Read more
Athletics Day 2018
All Hillmorton High School students gave their best efforts at Athletics Day competing in a range of track and field events Read more
Horomaka māra kai story
Our story about our wonderful māra kai and communal effort is now live on the home page of the Te Puni Kōkiri website … Read more
NZ Cricket Tournament Highlights
There were some good individual performances in this year round robin qualifying rounds of the NZ Secondary Schools’ Tournament. Read more
Hello Cafe!
Hello Café is supported by Engineering New Zealand and Massey University, and delivered by Futureintech . Read more
Hillmorton High School – Night Classes 2018
Adult and Community Education Programme Read more
Year 10 Camp Goes Bush
34 Year 10 students went camping in the native forest in the hills above Living Springs for 3 days of outdoor experiences. Read more
Middle School Prize Giving
Our Middle School Prize Giving was held Friday 8 December. Read more
Feeding the Foodbank
Feeding the Foodbank — by Eleanor SimMembers of the Middle School Council took the ‘takings’ from the recent Feed the Foodbank Mufti Day to the Christchurch City Mission.
David Riley visits Hillmorton
Off Loading with Sonny Bill Williams and Jammin’ with Steven Adams are popular books in our library. Read more
The New Generation of the Environment Committee
After 5 years of the Environment Committee, the original members are leaving Hillmorton this year. Now there is a new generation of Year 7 and Year 9 students on board who have just been on a riparian planting mission in Koukourarata Marae (Port Levy). Read more
HHS Community Day
Come and be apart of the amazing annual HHS Community Day on November the 25th! Great events and food for all! Read more
Horomaka’s Precious Treasure
My name is Precious Croal, I am 16 years old and I recently participated as one of the candidates in the 2017 Miss Philippines/New Zealand competition. Read more
“The Mix” play at Halswell Primary School
There was clapping, singing, actions as the audience joined in! Read more
Whanaungatanga – A Caring Community
We are very proud that our students exhibit our school value of whanaungatanga when in public as well as here at school. Read more
Classics Tour See the Sights of Europe
24 students from Hillmorton and Ashburton College got to see Pope Francis up close and plenty more too. Read more
Boys’ Basketball – South Island Champs vs North Island Champs at Nationals
Following their first place in our local premier competition and first place at the South Island tournament, our boys went on to Nationals, heading into the final undefeated. They played against Stratford High, North Island Champs. Read more
Girls’ Basketball Success
For the first time in more than 20 years our girls’ basketball team went to the South Island tournament and then Nationals, following on from their first year playing in the local premier grade. Read more
Water Only!
The school has gone water only! The Middle School Council has been working on promoting the policy that the Board implemented. We were very happy to get the support of our Classics students this week advertising their new house coloured drink bottles which the council is selling. By Eleanor Sim
Inaugural Hillmorton High School Quiz Night is a smash hit
The end of Term 3 saw the first community Quiz Night for friends and whanau of Hillmorton High School. Read more
Stress-free day!
Roses, chicken burgers, a lamb and a rabbit, Sumo wrestling and a bouncy castle – what more could you ask for? Read more
HHS High Performance Athletes training with UC student coaches
The High Performance Athlete Group (HPAG) over the past few weeks have been attending training sessions run by the strength and conditioning coaching students at the University of Canterbury. Read more
Short-term students experience life at Hillmorton and in Christchurch
Making the most of their summer holidays, a number of students from the Northern Hemisphere experienced life at Hillmorton at the beginning of Term Three. Read more
Year 9s Experience Social Responsibility in the City
9I and 9P joined forces to experience social responsibility in the City Centre. Read more
2.7 Metres of Snow up Mt Hutt
The International Students, Y11s and the Outdoor Education class came together for a day of snowsports up Mt Hutt. Read more
Term Two farewells
As Term Term came to an end, it was time to say farewell to four of our students, with Tarek and Thania returning to Chile, and Fabian and Marie returning to Germany. Read more
ShadowTech Day for Year 11 girls
Year 11 girls headed out to IT companies around the city with ShadowTech to work with professionals for the day during Term 2. Read more
Hillmorton Remembers
Hillmorton History Students attended services around Christchurch Read more
Geographers Make Sense of Akaroa Harbour
Y13 Geography went to Wainui to investigate the area Read more
Canterbury Y11 History Quiz Success
Two teams of Y11 History students battled 33 other teams in this years quiz. Read more
History Adventures to the Mackenzie Country
Year 13 History teamed up with Year 12 Geography for an adventure in Mt Cook and Tekapo Read more
Students experience Hillmorton and Christchurch for a few days
“I don’t want to leave Hillmorton!” said one young Japanese student visiting us recently. Read more
HHS News
What’s been happening at HHS?
⟵ swipe ⟶
Hillmorton High School – House Athletics
Come and join in the fun of our whānau house Athletics Competition Read more
Tutor & Cando Photos
Tutor Group photographs will be taken on Tuesday 19 February 2019 and students are asked to wear correct school uniform. The Year 7 & 8 students will have a Base Camp photo and a Tutor Group photo. Read more
Hillmorton High School Tigers Sport Rugby 2019
We are pleased to offer Saturday Rugby for teenagers (both boys and girls) in 2019, which is the first time that this has happened in the 21st Century. Suburbs Rugby Football Club are also supporting this new initiative and we look forward to strengthening connections with this club and our community. All players, coaches, managers and supporters are welcome to sign up. Read more
Adult & Community Education Courses – Term One
There are still places available on some of our courses starting next week – Digital Photography Boot Camp; Japanese; Metalwork; Patchwork & Quilting; Yoga. Read more
Back to School Shopping Deal!
The Athletes Foot is a leading footwear specialist store offering both athletic footwear in conjunction with school footwear. Read more
2019 Metro School Bus Route 75 – Halswell to Hillmorton High School
75 Hillmorton – Halswell school service will commence on Monday 4 February 2019. It will operate the same route and timetable as last year. Read more
Holiday Programme at Hillmorton High School
Monday 7 Jan 2019 – Wednesday 30 Jan 2019 Read more
Y10 Campers Experience the Elements.
30 Year 10 students braved the rain to tramp into Living Springs from Victoria Park. Read more
Swim Like A Fish! by Ann Brokenshire
Today I had the absolute pleasure of heading to the Star Fish Swim School in Halswell to watch our school values in action. Read more
Tall Blacks New Zealand Basketball Team Visit Hillmorton
Following tournament week our school had the pleasure of hosting two Tall Black players for a skills session with our students here at Hillmorton High School. Read more
Enviro Crew Clean, Count and Cultivate.
The Hillmorton Environment Committee went on a hui to the beautiful Koukourarata – Port Levy. Read more
Hillmorton High School Senior A Boys Basketball Success Continues
The Senior A Boys Basketball team had a lot riding on their shoulders after coming back National Champions after 2017. They set out to do this all again for 2018. Heres a snapshot of the teams year from the coach, Andrea Kendrew…. Read more
Free Dental Care Year 9 – 18th Birthday
Free dental care is available for eligible teens from Year 9 until their 18th Birthday. Read more
Tall Blacks Vs Jordan – Game On!
Use our school promo code to save 20% off tickets Read more
Sports Tournament Highlights
2018 has been full of highlights and achievements for our sporting teams. This year we had five teams travel away to the winter tournament week including four senior teams and one junior team. Read more
“Our Personal Favourites” -Spring Quiz 2018 Champions
The 3rd Biennial Quiz was held on 30 August, to raise funds for 5 sports teams travelling to tournaments, and our Classics students travelling to Europe in 2019. Read more
Hon. Ron Mark meets our students
Student guides – Brittany Smith and Micaela Beukes are pictured here with the Minister of Defence Read more
Y11 History Quiz Team comes third in Canterbury
We sent three teams of cheerful, enthusiastic and intelligent historians to the annual Year 11 History Quiz at Christ’s College. Read more
Robocup Junior – 3rd Place Winners!
Congratulations to Samantha Dryden, Andre Scheepers, Allan Taylor, Riley Williams, Amos Lochhead & Om Patel who represented Hillmorton at the regional Robocup Competition. Read more
ABs visit with our local MP
Getting some tips!Isley Fakalata pictured with Ardie Savea Read more
Avau and Lynette took to centre stage whilst at the LIMITLESS CONFERENCE and shared their talents
Avau and Lynette took to centre stage whilst at the LIMITLESS CONFERENCE and shared their talents — by Eleanor SimOur thanks to the organisers of Limitless – April and her team for their work in mounting the Conference which some of our Year 10 students attended recently.
Sponsorship – Tigers Sport – “Play and Excel”
Hillmorton High Horomaka Tigers Sport are seeking ‘Gold Sponsors’ with whom to enter into a partnership with for a period of three years. Read more
Hillmorton High School’s 2018 Cross Country
The annual Cross Country was run a little differently this year! Olivia Gobbie offers her insight into this event: Read more
CYBER SAFETY PRESENTATION – Hillmorton High School Hall – Thursday 17 May, 6.30 pm – 8 pm
You are invited to a presentation hosted by NZ cyber security expert, John Parsons, on the issues and dangers associated with the inappropriate use of computers, mobile phones and the internet. Read more
Another great turn out for the second Hillmorton High School Quiz Night!
Teams from all backgrounds competed to be crowned Quiz Champion, with parents, staff and students all gaining places in the top five teams. Read more
Hillmorton Senior A Basketball Boys qualify for Division 1!
With four teams fighting for two spots in Division One, Hillmorton High School’s Senior Boys basketball team set out to win a weekend of games against the top schools in order to move into Division One. Read more
Summer Tournament Week
Over Summer Tournament week Mr Sharr and Mr Freear took a strong womens and mens Volleyball team to compete in the Satellite Tournament which attracted a range of Canterbury Secondary Schools. Read more
South Island Secondary Schools’ Athletics Championships
Denim Winiata and Tile Fetu travelled to Timaru to compete against the top athletes in the South Island in the Secondary Athletics Championships (SISS Athletics). Read more
My name is Ellen …
Ellen is from Taiwan. She has been studying at Hillmorton for the past two years and shares her thoughts about her time with us. Read more
Get your thinking caps on again – it’s time for Hillmorton High School’s Quiz Night!
Thursday 12 April 2018 will see the 2nd school Quiz Night starting at 7 pm in the school hall. Doors open at 6:30 pm. Read more
Hannah is home!
After living and studying here as an international student, Hannah is back in New Zealand four years later, visiting her second home, wearing her much-loved Hillmorton dragon boating hoodie. Read more
Ieuan Edwards competes in the Canterbury Secondary Schools Triathlon 2018
Ieuan Edwards competed in the event attracting athletes from schools all over Christchurch, which included a 350m swim, 9km bike and a 3km run! Read more
Athletics Day 2018
All Hillmorton High School students gave their best efforts at Athletics Day competing in a range of track and field events Read more
Horomaka māra kai story
Our story about our wonderful māra kai and communal effort is now live on the home page of the Te Puni Kōkiri website … Read more
NZ Cricket Tournament Highlights
There were some good individual performances in this year round robin qualifying rounds of the NZ Secondary Schools’ Tournament. Read more
Hello Cafe!
Hello Café is supported by Engineering New Zealand and Massey University, and delivered by Futureintech . Read more
Hillmorton High School – Night Classes 2018
Adult and Community Education Programme Read more
Year 10 Camp Goes Bush
34 Year 10 students went camping in the native forest in the hills above Living Springs for 3 days of outdoor experiences. Read more
Middle School Prize Giving
Our Middle School Prize Giving was held Friday 8 December. Read more
Feeding the Foodbank
Feeding the Foodbank — by Eleanor SimMembers of the Middle School Council took the ‘takings’ from the recent Feed the Foodbank Mufti Day to the Christchurch City Mission.
David Riley visits Hillmorton
Off Loading with Sonny Bill Williams and Jammin’ with Steven Adams are popular books in our library. Read more
The New Generation of the Environment Committee
After 5 years of the Environment Committee, the original members are leaving Hillmorton this year. Now there is a new generation of Year 7 and Year 9 students on board who have just been on a riparian planting mission in Koukourarata Marae (Port Levy). Read more
HHS Community Day
Come and be apart of the amazing annual HHS Community Day on November the 25th! Great events and food for all! Read more
Horomaka’s Precious Treasure
My name is Precious Croal, I am 16 years old and I recently participated as one of the candidates in the 2017 Miss Philippines/New Zealand competition. Read more
“The Mix” play at Halswell Primary School
There was clapping, singing, actions as the audience joined in! Read more
Whanaungatanga – A Caring Community
We are very proud that our students exhibit our school value of whanaungatanga when in public as well as here at school. Read more
Classics Tour See the Sights of Europe
24 students from Hillmorton and Ashburton College got to see Pope Francis up close and plenty more too. Read more
Boys’ Basketball – South Island Champs vs North Island Champs at Nationals
Following their first place in our local premier competition and first place at the South Island tournament, our boys went on to Nationals, heading into the final undefeated. They played against Stratford High, North Island Champs. Read more
Girls’ Basketball Success
For the first time in more than 20 years our girls’ basketball team went to the South Island tournament and then Nationals, following on from their first year playing in the local premier grade. Read more
Water Only!
The school has gone water only! The Middle School Council has been working on promoting the policy that the Board implemented. We were very happy to get the support of our Classics students this week advertising their new house coloured drink bottles which the council is selling. By Eleanor Sim
Inaugural Hillmorton High School Quiz Night is a smash hit
The end of Term 3 saw the first community Quiz Night for friends and whanau of Hillmorton High School. Read more
Stress-free day!
Roses, chicken burgers, a lamb and a rabbit, Sumo wrestling and a bouncy castle – what more could you ask for? Read more
HHS High Performance Athletes training with UC student coaches
The High Performance Athlete Group (HPAG) over the past few weeks have been attending training sessions run by the strength and conditioning coaching students at the University of Canterbury. Read more
Short-term students experience life at Hillmorton and in Christchurch
Making the most of their summer holidays, a number of students from the Northern Hemisphere experienced life at Hillmorton at the beginning of Term Three. Read more
Year 9s Experience Social Responsibility in the City
9I and 9P joined forces to experience social responsibility in the City Centre. Read more
2.7 Metres of Snow up Mt Hutt
The International Students, Y11s and the Outdoor Education class came together for a day of snowsports up Mt Hutt. Read more
Term Two farewells
As Term Term came to an end, it was time to say farewell to four of our students, with Tarek and Thania returning to Chile, and Fabian and Marie returning to Germany. Read more
ShadowTech Day for Year 11 girls
Year 11 girls headed out to IT companies around the city with ShadowTech to work with professionals for the day during Term 2. Read more
Hillmorton Remembers
Hillmorton History Students attended services around Christchurch Read more
Geographers Make Sense of Akaroa Harbour
Y13 Geography went to Wainui to investigate the area Read more
Canterbury Y11 History Quiz Success
Two teams of Y11 History students battled 33 other teams in this years quiz. Read more
History Adventures to the Mackenzie Country
Year 13 History teamed up with Year 12 Geography for an adventure in Mt Cook and Tekapo Read more
Students experience Hillmorton and Christchurch for a few days
“I don’t want to leave Hillmorton!” said one young Japanese student visiting us recently. Read more
I gained an Outstanding Scholarship in Geography, an Excellence endorsement in Level 3 NCEA and a prestigious University of Auckland Scholarship. This still wasn’t enough to win the Hillmorton High School Academic Dux. The student who beat me had been excelling in university papers, and also gained a University of Canterbury Scholarship.
James Adams
I gained an Outstanding Scholarship in Geography, an Excellence endorsement in Level 3 NCEA and a prestigious University of Auckland Scholarship. This still wasn’t enough to win the Hillmorton High School Academic Dux. The student who beat me had been excelling in university papers, and also gained a University of Canterbury Scholarship.
James Adams