In 2025, Christchurch Girls’ High School looked both forward and inward, celebrating sporting success, cultural partnership, meaningful school taonga, and the long-awaited beginning of a new chapter in the school’s physical rebuild.
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Ngāi Tūāhuriri creates a waiata for the school, acknowledging the special relationship between the school and the Ōtākaro / Avon River.
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CGHS’ first golf team competes at the Canterbury Secondary Schools Golf Championships at Avondale Golf Course. The team is Jiseon Yeon, Jiwon Yeon, and Alyssia Chu, with Alyssia Chu winning the girls’ stableford prize with 39 stablefords.
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Tayla Cox wins the Canterbury Secondary Schools Road Race for junior girls with a time of 10.47 over 3km.
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The New Zealand Black Ferns visit and speak with school rugby players.
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Lily McGonigal wins the Secondary School Individual Squash Championship played at Squash HQ in Christchurch.
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Tayla Cox wins the U16 South Island Schools’ Cross Country Festival.
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At the SISS Equestrian Championship at McLeans Island, the CGHS Red Team wins the Champion Team Overall award. The team includes Abbie Doncliff, Brooke Wendelken, Millie Dolan, Lola Gray, Emilia Immler, and Grace Stalker.
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The pounamu touchstone is presented to the school at Senior Prizegiving. The gift is described as a taonga embodying the mana, mauri, and spirit of the kura, with the first generation of students adding their mauri to the stone.
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The new school build is finally put into action. Fourteen years after the earthquakes that caused the original damage, the R Block prefabs are demolished and work begins following the turning of the first sod ceremony.
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Justine Cormack is noted as Concertmaster with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra from 2025 onward.
