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5 unusual facts about Shirley Boys' High School


Avonside Girls' High School

It will be co-located with Shirley Boys' High School at a site in east Christchurch yet to be announced.

King's High School, Dunedin

King's has many high profile inter-school affairs with Southland Boy's High School, Otago Boys' High School, Waitaki Boys' High School and Shirley Boys' High School.

Mairehau High School

The school is located at the northeast end of the suburb, near to Shirley, thus forming a coeducational alternative to Shirley Boys' High School, and Avonside Girls' High School.

Marian College, Christchurch

Because of the effects of the 2010 Canterbury earthquake on 4 September 2010 and the 2011 Christchurch earthquake (the February earthquake) on 22 February 2011, the school was relocated for the 2011 school year to St Bede's College, Christchurch and there was also some cooperation with Shirley Boys' High School which is near the school.

Shirley Boys' High School

It is situated on a 6 hectare site in the suburb of Shirley, 3.8 kilometres (13 minutes) from the city centre, but it will be co-located with Avonside Girls' High School at a site in east Christchurch yet to be announced.


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Hook and Jon went to Hamilton Boys' High School together, where Jon was head boy, while Stowers in the year above, was the lead singer in the band The Grinners (née Lyon), while Shannon Brown is well known on the New Zealand music circuit for his roles in bands such as Tadpole.

Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Gundelfingen

Its Australian partner school for the exchange program for female participants is the Mac.Robertson Girls' High School.

Bonifay, Florida

Bonifay is home to four public schools: Bonifay Elementary School, Bonifay Middle School, Holmes County (Bonifay) High School and Bethlehem School.

Bruce Jesson

He was educated at Christchurch Boys' High School (where he read Darwin's Origin of Species while a "lab boy" in the biology laboratory and became an atheist) and the University of Canterbury, where he gained a Bachelor's degree in law.

Carl Wunsche Sr. High School

Wunsche High School includes students who currently attend Dekaney High School, Spring High School and Westfield High School.

Christchurch Boys' High School

Established in 1881, the prime purpose of Christchurch Boys' High School was to prepare students for enrolment into the then newly formed Canterbury College, now known as the University of Canterbury.

Chung Cheng High School

The school's SAP status was further strengthened with the collaboration with Nanyang Girls' High School and High School Affiliated to Fudan University in Shanghai(NYCCFU) where students embark on a six-week immersion programme in Shanghai twice a year.

Chung Eui Girls' High School

Chung Eui Girls' High School is a girl's school in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Clare Mallory

She attended Southland Girls' High School where she was dux, University of Otago in Dunedin where she studied English and Latin, graduating with an M.A., and Somerville College, Oxford where she gained a First in English language.

Doug Woolerton

He was educated at Hamilton Boys' High School, and has a background in agriculture, having been a farmer for twenty-one years and director of a milk company for nine.

Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst

After matriculating from Pretoria Girls' High School she started work in 1939 as a cartographer in the Survey Department of the Witwatersrand Gold Mines.

Eunkwang Girls' High School

Eunkwang Girls' High School is a private girls' high school located in Seoul, South Korea.

Francis Douglas Memorial College

Annually, the school plays a rugby match against rival school New Plymouth Boys' High School, this being one of the major events on the school calendar.

Gertrud Theiler

Born on 11 September 1897 in Pretoria, South Africa, Theiler graduated from Pretoria Girls’ High School and spent a year at Rhodes University College in Grahamstown, South Africa, before transferring to South African College in Cape Town, where she graduated in 1918 with a Bachelor of Science degree.

Gisborne, New Zealand

Gisborne City has four main high (secondary) schools: Gisborne Boys' High, Gisborne Girls' High, Lytton High and Campion College.

Helen Darbishire

She was educated at Oxford Girls' High School before going as a scholar to Somerville College, Oxford, where she graduated first-class in English in 1903.

James Henry Pope

He transferred to the Otago Girls' High School in 1873, where the principal, Margaret Burn, regarded him as her right-hand man.

Jonathan Shapiro

The name Zapiro was derived from the nickname of a fellow pupil at Rondebosch Boys' High School, Martin Szapiro, whose friends called him Zap.

Jonathan Trott

Educated at Rondebosch Boys' High School and Stellenbosch University, he played for South Africa at both under-15 and under-19 level.

Josh Bekhuis

Bekhuis began his career with Southland in 2006 after a successful time with the Southland Boys' High School First XV.

Keir Thomas

He was educated at Trinity C.E. High School and Xaverian College, before going on to receive a first class BA Hons degree from the University of Glamorgan.

Krishna Bharat

He completed his schooling from St. Joseph's Boys' High School in Bangalore, and received an undergraduate degree in computer science from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Leeds Girls' High School

In 2004 LGHS was the highest performing school within the Leeds LEA area, achieving top results at both GCSE and A Level.

Maharani Girls' High School, Darjeeling

Maharani Girls' High School is a Higher Secondary school for girls' located at Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.

Mapo District

There are eight high schools, including Seoul Girls' High School, along with 12 middle schools and 20 elementary schools serving the community.

Maria Fahey

Fahey was a member of the highly successful Timaru Girls' High School team during the late 1990s, and was part of the New Zealand Cricket Academy in 2002.

Mario Miranda

He studied at St. Joseph's Boys' High School, Bangalore and then did a B.A. in History at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, while focusing on the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).

Methodist High School, Kanpur

The school is run and managed by the Methodist Church in India, which also runs a number of schools and colleges in India such as the I T College, Lucknow UP, the Lucknow Christian College, the Calcutta Boys' School and the Calcutta Girls' High School, Kolkata and the Baldwin Boys High School and Baldwin Girls High School, Bangalore, to name a few.

Michigan Mega Conference

Consequently, current member schools Dearborn Heights Robichaud and Romulus filed complaints against the conference for denying their admission as members to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the United States Department of Education.

Mike Minogue

He attended Timaru Boys' High School, Silverstream College, and Victoria University.

Mike Solari

Solari got his start as playing both ways at El Camino Sr. High School in South San Francisco, California (Class of 1973), where he was a standout, particularly on the offensive side of the ball (tackle).

Mirpur Govt. High School

The school came under government control under the Ershad regime, and was given its present name.

Nanyang Girls' High School

The campus has an auditorium, two lecture theatres, four computer laboratories (PC), an iMac laboratory and a three-storey library (with iMacs at the third level).

Naparima Girls' High School

Entry into the institution is done after writing the Secondary Entrance Assessment.

Napier Boys' High School

In 2002 Napier Boys' High School teacher, Reuben John Martin was arrested for manufacturing Class B MDMA, more commonly known as ecstasy.

Originally built in brick in 1926, the school has now been fully redeveloped in the Art Deco style, in keeping with the Napier City theme.

Nawab Faizunnesa

In 1873, Faizunnesa Choudhurani established a high school for girls in Comilla, which is one of the earliest female schools privately established in Indian subcontinent, which is now called Nawab Faizunnesa Government Girls' High School.

Normanhurst Boys' High School

The school has an area of 6.3 hectares, and is within five minutes walk of Normanhurst railway station.

Panducot, Bulacan

Residents would usually go to Sta. Lucia Natl. High School for secondary education and to Bulacan State University for tertiary education.

Skipton Girls' High School

Each house is named after a woman or women of note from history: Bronte (red) is named after the Brontë sisters, Curie (yellow) after Marie Curie, Franklin (blue) after Rosalind Franklin and Johnson (green) after Amy Johnson.

South Canterbury Rugby Football Union

Timaru Boys' High School and Roncalli College 1st XV –play in the Crusaders Region Secondary Schools' Rugby Championship "The Press Cup"

Southland Boys' High School

Southland Boys' High School (SBHS) is an all-boys school in Invercargill, New Zealand, and has been the only one in the city since Marist Brothers was merged with St Catherines to form Verdon College in 1982.

Southland Sharks

Their away trip began with the Sharks losing in overtime to the second place Waikato Pistons at Hamilton Boys' High School.

Southwell School

Southwell School is considered to be a feeder school for St Paul's Collegiate School, although significant numbers of its students go on to attend other schools, most commonly Hamilton Boys' High School and Waikato Diocesan for Girls.

St. Augustine Girls' High School

It is located on Evans Street in St. Augustine.

St. Josephs Boys' High School

The school is affiliated to the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education.

Timaru Girls' High School

The school is a stone's throw away from the Catholic Roncalli College.


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