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Epsom Girls Grammar School
, motto_translation = ''Through difficulties to greatness.'' , coordinates = , type = State Single Sex Girls Secondary (Year 9–13) with Boarding Facilities , established = 12 February 1917 , MOE = 64 , principal = Lorraine Pound , colours = Navy and gold , decile = 9Q , address = Silver Road, Epsom, Auckland, New Zealand , roll = () , homepage Epsom Girls Grammar School Epsom Girls Grammar School is a state secondary school for girls ranging from years 9 to 13 in Auckland, New Zealand. It had a roll of 2,200 as of 2012, including a number of boarders who live in nearby Epsom House, making it one of the largest schools in New Zealand. The principal is Lorraine Pound, the 11th principal, who succeeded Madeline Gunn in 2016. She succeeds a long line of distinguished educators such as Margaret Bendall and Miss Adams. Headmistresses/Principals * Annie Christina Morrison 1917–1929 * Agnes L. Laudon 1930–1947 * Margaret G. Johnston 1948–1952 * Marjory F.E. Adams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ōhinerau / Mount Hobson
Ōhinerau / Mount Hobson (also known as ''Ōhinerangi'' and ''Remuwera'') is a 143 m high volcanic cone in the Auckland volcanic field in Auckland, New Zealand. Located in the Remuera suburb, to the east of the Newmarket commercial suburb, it has been extensively modified by human use, first by Māori for use as a pā and later by use as quarry and pasture land before finally having a water reservoir installed in its cone to supply the surrounding area. An additional, partially buried, water reservoir was built on the low southern side of the mountain in 1955. English oaks and pohutukawa are the most common trees on the hill. Ōhinerau is named after Hinerau, a goddess of whirlwinds. Mount Hobson is named after Captain William Hobson. Remuwera was originally the name of a pa site on the hill that was also utilised for kumara and food gardens. The name Remuwera means the burnt edge of a flax garment. In the 2014 Treaty of Waitangi settlement with the Tamaki Makaurau Collec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilma Smith (musician)
Wilma Smith (born 1956) is a Fijian-born violinist. She was born in Suva, Fiji and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. She has been concertmaster of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and co-concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Australia from 2003-2014. She plays a 1761 Guadagnini violin. Career Born in Fiji, Smith studied at Auckland University and had an early professional experience with the Auckland Symphonia (now Philharmonia) and New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. She then continued her studies in Boston at the New England Conservatory with Dorothy DeLay and Louis Krasner, playing in masterclasses for many others including Josef Gingold, Yehudi Menuhin and Sándor Végh. Smith was the founding first violinist of the Lydian String Quartet, prizewinners at Evian, Banff and Portsmouth International Competitions and winners of the Naumburg Award for Chamber Music. Although the Lydian String Quartet was Smith's professional focus in Boston, she also worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Educational Institutions Established In 1917
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Schools In New Zealand
New Zealand has over 2,500 primary and secondary schools. State schools and state integrated schools are primarily funded by the central government. Private schools receive a lower level of state funding (about 25% of their costs). See Secondary education in New Zealand for more details. Population decline in rural and some urban areas has led to school closures in recent decades. This was a much debated topic in 2003–2004. Schools by region North Island *List of schools in the Auckland Region *List of schools in the Bay of Plenty Region * List of schools in the Gisborne Region * List of schools in the Hawke's Bay Region * List of schools in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region * List of schools in the Northland Region * List of schools in the Taranaki Region *List of schools in the Waikato Region *List of schools in the Wellington Region South Island and other islands * List of schools in the Canterbury Region ** List of schools in Christchurch *List of schools in the Chatham I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Chapple
Shirley Joan Chapple (10 March 1934 – 22 May 2013) was New Zealand’s first female plastic and hand surgeon. She was also a photographer and author. Early life and education Chapple was the middle child of five children of Kingsley and Winifred Chapple. Chapple and her siblings were educated at Te Matai Primary School in the Bay of Plenty, where Kingsley Chapple was headmaster. Chapple was a cousin of Maurice Gee. Chapple went on to Te Puke High School, and Epsom Girls' Grammar School. She completed a year at the University of Auckland before being accepted to the medical school at the University of Otago. Chapple excelled, being awarded the Stanley Wilson Prize when she graduated with distinction in surgery in 1957. She was one of nine female graduates among more than 90 students. Career Chapple returned to Auckland as a house surgeon, and completed her FRACS in general surgery in 1963. She was the second woman in New Zealand to gain a specialist surgical qualificat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chlöe Swarbrick
Chlöe Charlotte Swarbrick (born 26 June 1994) is a New Zealand politician. Following a high-profile but unsuccessful run for the 2016 Auckland mayoral election, she became a parliamentary candidate for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, standing in the 2017 New Zealand general election and was elected as a member of the New Zealand Parliament at the age of 23. In the 2020 election, Swarbrick was elected as the Member of Parliament for Auckland Central, becoming the second Green Party MP to win an electorate seat in the history of the party, and only the second minor party MP since the inception of MMP to win a general electorate seat without a tacit endorsement from a major party leader. Swarbrick is Green Party Spokesperson for Mental Health, Drug Law Reform, Education, Arts and Heritage, Tertiary Education, Small Business, Broadcasting, Youth and Local Government. Early life Swarbrick was born in Auckland in 1994 and went to Epsom Girls' Grammar School. Her parent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Flavell
Taylor Flavell (born 5 July 1994) is a New Zealand born Australian female squash player. She has been competing on the PSA World Tour and achieved a highest singles career ranking of 91. Taylor placed third at the 2019 World Doubles Squash Championships with fellow player Selena Shaikh. Currently Taylor is the Studio Manager oF45ref> Chinatown Melbourne - a fitness organisation that is the fastest growing gym franchise in the world. She was appointed as the club coach for the Melbourne Cricket Club The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) is a sports club based in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1838 and is one of the oldest sports clubs in Australia. The MCC is responsible for management and development of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, ... squash section in 2018. References 1994 births Living people Australian female squash players Sportspeople from Rotorua 21st-century Australian women {{Australia-squash-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annalie Longo
Annalie Antonia Longo (born 1 July 1991) is an association football player who represents New Zealand at international level. She has played for Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory in the Australian W-League. From her time in the W-League with Melbourne Victory, Longo is dubbed the Kiwi Messi by the fans for her ability on the ball and goalscoring prowess. Early life Longo got into football when she used to go with her dad, Paul, to watch her brothers, Jason and Julian, play for Eden Football Club. She joined the club which merged with Mt Roskill to become Three Kings United. Club career Three Kings United Longo played for Three Kings United from when she first started playing football through all childhood and also while playing for Epsom Girls and training with the Wynton Rufer Soccer School of Excellence. She made her debut for Three Kings United senior women's football team in the Northern Premier Women's League in 2004. Epsom Girls' Grammar School Longo played football at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Moller Okin
Susan Moller Okin (July 19, 1946 – March 3, 2004) was a liberal feminist political philosopher and author. Life Okin was born in 1946 in Auckland, New Zealand. She attended Remuera Primary School and Remuera Intermediate and Epsom Girls' Grammar School, where she was Dux in 1963. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Auckland in 1966, a master of philosophy degree from Somerville College, Oxford in 1970 and a doctorate from Harvard in 1975. She taught at the University of Auckland, Vassar, Brandeis and Harvard before joining Stanford's faculty. Okin became the Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society at Stanford University in 1990. Okin held a visiting professorship at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at the time of her death in 2004. Okin was found dead in her home in Lincoln, Massachusetts on March 3, 2004. She was 57 years old. The cause of death is still unknown, but authorities do not believe there was any foul p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lois White
Anna Lois White (2 November 1903 – 13 September 1984), known in the art world as Lois (pronounced Loyce) White, was a New Zealand painter of the modernist school. She taught at the Elam Art School of the University of Auckland from 1927 until 1963. Early life White was the youngest of four children of Auckland architect Arthur Herbert White and Annie White (Phillips). Her maternal grandfather ran W. Phillips & Sons, an importer of prints and artists' materials. She attended Epsom Girls' Grammar School from 1919 to 1922, excelling at all subjects, moving on to study at Elam in 1923. Career In 1927 she became a part-time tutor at Elam, teaching the junior drawing classes, while at the same time taking a part-time position teaching art at Takapuna Grammar School. From 1934 she was full-time at Elam until her retirement in January 1963. Her career as a painter continued in concurrently with her teaching career, being accepted as a full "Working Member" of the Auckland Soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Spencer (gymnast)
Jean Charlotte Spencer (later Lang, born 10 June 1940) is a New Zealand Olympic gymnast. Born in the United Kingdom, she now lives in Australia. Private life Spencer was born in 1940 in Woodford, now Greater London, Great Britain, but part of Essex at the time of her birth. She received her secondary education at Epsom Girls' Grammar School in Auckland, New Zealand, where she was dux. She attended Auckland University College and graduated Master of Science with Honours in physics in 1964. She later moved to Australia. In 2013, Lang and another Epsom Girls' Grammar School alumna established an annual prize for excellence in physics so that the recipients can enrol at a university to study physics or engineering. Gymnastics career Spencer represented her country at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, in gymnastics. In the vault, she came 76th. In the floor exercise, she was 81st. On the uneven bars, she came 75th. On the balance beam, she was 79th. In the Women's individ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Walker (designer)
Karen Elizabeth Walker (born December 1969) is a noted New Zealand fashion designer. Private life Walker was born in December 1969. She grew up in the Auckland suburb of Remuera and attended Epsom Girls' Grammar School. Aged 21, she married Mikhail Gherman. Career Walker began her fashion label in 1987, and opened her first store in Newmarket, Auckland, in 1995. She began selling to Barneys New York in 1998, the same year she showed her first runway collection. In late 2011, she signed a partnership with United States-based retail chain Anthropologie. She has designed clothes worn by Björk, Sienna Miller, Natalie Portman, M.I.A., Alexa Chung, Beth Ditto, Michael Haneke, Liv Tyler, Rihanna, Claire Danes, Zooey Deschanel and Jennifer Lopez. She designed clothes worn by Kate Winslet in the Michel Gondry film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In the 2004 New Year Honours, Walker was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the fashion indu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
