James Hargest College
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| Motto | Keep Faith |
| Type | State Co-Educational Secondary (Year 7-13) with divided campuses |
| Year established | 1958 |
| Address | 6 and 288 Layard Street , Invercargill |
| Principal | Paul O'Connor (Both Campuses) |
| School roll | approximately 1800 |
| Socio-economic decile (10 is high) | 8 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 552 |
| Website | www.jameshargest.school.nz |
James Hargest College is a large school of about 1800 students in Invercargill, New Zealand. The school caters from Year 7-13.
The school is divided into two campuses, known as James Hargest Junior Campus (Year 7-8) and James Hargest Senior Campus (Year 9-13). The campuses are on opposite sides of Layard Street and are separated by about a 15 minute walk.
James Hargest College is named after Brigadier-General James Hargest.
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[edit] Junior Campus
James Hargest Junior Campus was formerly known as Rosedale Intermediate School until it became part of the former James Hargest High School to make James Hargest College as part of the Ministry of Education review of schools in 2004. Other intermediate schools in the city merged with the newly formed James Hargest Junior Campus, increasing the school's roll and stretching resources. Because of this, a new technology block has been built, and several new classrooms have been built since the merge. There is 20 homeroom classrooms. The subjects in the New Technology Block include Science,Art,Woodwork,Foods & Textiles technology,And An ICT & Media Suite.
[edit] Senior Campus
The senior campus is much larger and has more students. The school has a very new, modern, NZD$2.2 million library, officially opened in 2004 which also includes the Guidance and Careers Centre. The library has a classroom with desks, computers and an Interactive Whiteboard, as well as a reading room where students can browse the library's collection of magazines, newspapers and many books. There are also video cassettes available for hire.
The campus' classrooms are split into different blocks for different subjects, making the campus easy to navigate and learn your way around quickly.
- B Block - Mainly Science, with the Year 13 common room also.
- C Block - Commerce. Subjects include: Information Technology, Economics, Accounting, Fabrics Technology and Foods Technology.
- D Block - Design. Subjects include: Art, Graphics, Design Technology (woodworking, metalworking etc.), Electronics and one Science classroom.
- E Block - English and Mathematics.
- F Block - Social Sciences. These include Social Studies, History, Tourism and Geography.
- G Block - This block consists of two small gymansiums and one large gymnasium with a viewing gallery. The Hargest Centre is also located in this block (see below).
- M Block - In this block some small music practise rooms and a big class room (also used for concert band practise)are located in.
- N Block - Four classrooms, mainly Mathematics.
- P Block - Foreign languages and Health Education.
[edit] Hargest Centre
The Hargest Centre is a large building at the senior campus. The large gymnasium viewing gallery is popular with students who often go there to watch interclass sports at lunch break. There is a cafeteria at the centre, where students can purchase their lunch, and there are tables for the older students to eat indoors.
[edit] Sports at Hargest
School sports are popular and well established at Hargest. The school frequently shares inter school sporting competitions with rivals Logan Park High School in Dunedin and Gore High School in Gore.
Students can partake in a very wide variety of sports to represent the school, and there are often notices for tryouts in provincial sports teams.
Everyone at Hargest is placed into a school house. These are Menzies (green), Watson (blue), Thomson (red) and Hamilton (yellow). Near the beginning of each school year, the four houses compete for points at an athletics competition at Surrey Park Athletics Park, next to Stadium Southland. Menzies has won the athletics day with most points in recent years.
[edit] Famous ex-pupils
- Steven Broad, New Zealand Idol.
