St Margaret's College has a proud reputation of community service and within the first two weeks of the academic year the Members' efforts have already been most impressive.
Sporting their new College T-shirts, Members participated in Orientation Week's Sports Day with much enthusiasm and energy as can be seen from this photo collage.
On arrival for the 2020 academic year and to signify their membership of the College, all Members were gifted a brand new St Margaret's scarf.
Our Members have now arrived and the academic year is off to a wonderful start!
On Thursday evening during Orientation Week, the College hosted wellbeing expert Adrienne Buckingham who presented an informative and interactive session to College Members on practical strategies to protect and support wellbeing.
At a special function held at the College on Sunday afternoon (16 February 2020), to welcome all our new Members and their families, the 2020 President of the Member's Association, Remin Reji Mathew gave a most impressive speech. This is what he said to an audience of around 400 people ...
The 13 College Leaders and 9 Members of this year’s Executive Committee have been hard at work getting ready for the arrival of the College’s Members on Saturday, 15 February.
The College is extremely proud of its Dean of Students, George Connolly, on being awarded a New Professional Scholarship worth US$1,500 by the New Zealand Association of Tertiary Education Accommodation Professionals (NZATEAP).
The College farewells two long-serving staff this month, namely Jenny Pilgrim (Administrator) and Eddie Blower (Accountant) who are both retiring in mid-December after 13 and 8 years of service respectively.
What a wonderful job the 2019 team of College Leaders has done this year. And how sad it is to farewell this amazing group of young people.
At the College's recent Valedictory Dinner, trophies were awarded to 49 Members in recognition of their respective achievements during 2019.
The College's much anticipated Valedictory Dinner took place on Sunday evening, 6 October.
Congratulations on your acceptance to St Margaret’s College! We would like to welcome you to our home away from home and we look forward to getting to know you over the coming year.
Last Saturday afternoon at 2 pm, one of the College's third-year Members, Thomas Powell, bravely had his locks shaved to raise funds for Leukaemia & Blood Cancer (LBC) New Zealand.
Following the earlier election of the President and Vice-President of the College's Members’ Association, the remaining seven office bearers have been chosen by College Members.
A happy bunch of 18 Members accompanied the Master and Dean of Students to the University's recent College Colours Awards Dinner for the Inter-College Sporting, Cultural and Gaming Competitions.
Prof Russell’s fascinating work on malaria - one of the major killers of humans world-wide - came as an addendum to his most serious concern, climate change (and a liberal sprinkling of engrossing anecdotes), then the two topics came together at the end with the case of the yellow-eyed penguin.
Voted Top Tutor in Health Sciences in the 2017 OUSA Teaching Excellence Awards, Paul Pearce is highly regarded by students, and in giving some insights to his personal story, he gave us a liberal sprinkling of fascinating - sometimes somewhat frightening - anecdotes, as well as his prediction for the Rugby World Cup result.
As we prepare for our Valedictory Dinner on 6 October, we reflect on the events and activities we've enjoyed at the College this year.
The freshness of the new season has coincided with a hive of activity at the College.
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