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Shirley Boys' High School is a public all boys school, located in the city of Christchurch, East Coast of the South Island of New Zealand (Google Maps: Shirley Boys' High School). The school was originally built to accommodate 600 students but currently has a roll of approximately 1400. These students range from grade 9 to grade 13 with an age ragnge of 12-18 years old.

Within the New Zealand Education system, students are assesed through the National Certificate of Education Achievement Programme (NCEA). This means that students are assessed on work they did throughout their academic year as well as a final examination. The certificate is offered at level 1 in year 11, level 2 in year 12 and level 3 & 4 in year 13.

SBHS is represented by Mr John Laurenson (Headmaster) and over 100 teaching and support staff. The teach with the aspiration "to Educate Boys' towards Excellence".

In 2004, a house system was established within the school. This was to ensure that despite the ever growing school roll, the students were still able to identify themselves with their education. Four of the five school houses were named after famous New Zealanders who excelled in areas such as leadership, academic ability, physical endeavor, cultural and environmental awareness. - Blake - Mullins - Rutherford - Snell The fifth house was later added to the system to accommodate for a further increase in students, it was named after the highest mountain in New Zealand, Aoraki.



During our time at SBHS, Christchurch was hit by an 6.3 magnitude earthquake. SBHS was one of the most damaged schools in Christchurch and we were fortunate not to be physically hurt. However, SBHS was the worst school to be hit in the whole of Christchurch. This led to some damage of the school building, the school library, music department, sports field, tennis court and many other of the school facilities used to enhance the students education. After the earthquake, Shirley Boys' shared resources with Papinui High School and adapted their school timetable around the times of 1pm and 6pm. This change is temporary as works to rebuild the school begin.

Due to the circumstances, we were unable to complete a lot of our work here, but you can find out about what we completed and what we were planning to do, below. We would like to thank all staff and students at Shirley Boys' for their constant hopsitality to us and their support and assistance prior to and during the earthquake. We wish them every success in their rebuild and would like to offer them our support in any way we can.

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