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Past Students' Network
Launch Evening
Calling all past students. It’s time to reconnect, reminisce, and rediscover the school that shaped us. Join us for a relaxed evening of drinks, nibbles, and great company as we officially launch the HGHS Past Students' Network.
When: Friday 9 May 2025, 5.30 PM – 8:00 PM
Where: Hastings Girls' High School Library
Who: All past students – bring a friend, partner, daughter, or fellow old girl
Catch up with old friends and meet past students from different years. See how the school has grown and meet some of our current staff and students. Explore a collection of archive photos and school memories
Share your stories and help shape the future of the HGHS Past Students' Network.
Stay Connected with Hastings Girls' High School
We’re rebuilding our connection with past students through the HGHS Past Students' Network, and we’d love for you to be part of it.
Please fill in your details below to receive updates about upcoming events, reunions, and opportunities to stay involved with the school. Whether you left recently or decades ago, this is your chance to reconnect, share memories, and be part of our growing community.
Let’s celebrate where we’ve come from – together.
Meet Catherine our Principal
Here, at Hastings Girls’ High School - Ngā Rau Huia O Ākina, your daughter writes her own story around learning in which she takes centre stage. Knowing your daughter’s story and catering to her specific learning needs is our ‘why’. Putting our why at the heart of everything we do enables us to make the best decisions for our girls, whether it be in the classroom, on the sports field, or through one of our many performing arts opportunities. Everything we do is shaped around the strengths and interests of our students. Our innovative curriculum hooks students in and challenges them by discovering their passions and interests. Flexibility allows students to make choices and drive their own learning.
I feel proud to be the Principal of a school that celebrates diversity, embraces inclusivity, and has a rich and valued history.
Catherine Bentley, Principal
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Winners of the Prime Minister's Excellence in Education Awards
Since 2014, the Prime Minister’s Education Excellence Awards have been shining a light on teaching best practice by schools, kura, early learning services and kōhanga reo across Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Awards focus on the work of groups, teams and partnerships in English, Māori, or Pacific-medium settings. They highlight the combined effort needed to achieve improvement, equity and planned innovation.
In 2021 Hastings Girls' won in the category of Excellence in Leading
Transformative leadership is developing high trust relationships with Māori and Pacific communities at Hastings Girls’ High School.
Junior subject hubs focusing on students’ interests, replaced class streaming. Middle leadership is developing, alongside student agency and power sharing, while cultural identity is embraced in the new uniform.
Expert mentorship supports the principal through a wide-ranging change programme, where community agencies are embedded in professional learning.
University Entrance achievement for Māori and Pacific learners has reached parity with other students, for the very first time.
What the judges said
Transformational leadership at Hastings Girls’ High School - Ngā Rau Huia O Ākina established a warm and supportive school environment that embraces diversity. The school believes in leadership at all levels, with students informing leadership roles. Whānau voice also contributed to a good partnership between home and school – creating tailored opportunities for each girl.
