Napier Girls' High School
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| Girls' High School | |
| Motto | Ad Lucem "Towards the Light" |
| Type | State, Girls, Secondary with boarding facilities |
| Year established | 1884 |
| Address | Clyde Road, Napier, New Zealand |
| Coordinates | |
| Principal | Mrs Mary Nixon |
| School roll | 888 |
| Socio-economic decile (10 is highest) | 8 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 217 |
| Website | http://www.nghs.school.nz/ |
Napier Girls High School is a state secondary school on Clyde Road, Napier, New Zealand. It has a school roll of 888 in 2007.
[edit] Houses
There are house competitions in place with the four houses being:
- Blue
- Red
- Green
- Gold
[edit] History
In July 1883 plans were submitted to the Board of Governors for a school for girls in Napier. In August of the same year the Board advertised for a Lady principal who would be required to teach English, Latin, French and Mathematics and take charge of the Boarding establishment. Miss M.E. Hewett was appointed, and the school opened on January 29, 1884. The original school course included English, French, Latin, German, Drawing, Singing and Calisthenics. Thirty nine pupils were on the books that first day, and one boarder was enrolled.
The original school building had classrooms on the ground floor, and rooms for the boarders upstairs. It stood where the main hostel building, Hewett House, now stands. It was badly damaged in the 1931 earthquake, and had to be demolished. The main building of the present school, named Spencer Building after Miss A.E.J. Spencer, the school's third principal, stands in what was the original playing area of the first school.
