Middleton Grange School

Middleton Grange School
Location
Acacia Avenue Riccarton Christchurch New Zealand
Coordinates	43°32′13″S 172°34′34″E / 43.5369°S 172.5760°E / -43.5369; 172.5760Coordinates: 43°32′13″S 172°34′34″E / 43.5369°S 172.5760°E / -43.5369; 172.5760
Information
Type	Composite(Years 1-13) State Integrated
Motto	In thy light shall we see light
Established	1964
Ministry of Education Institution no.	335
Principal	Richard Vanderpyl
School roll	1,129(2009)
Socio-economic decile	9
Website	middleton.school.nz

Middleton Grange School (abbreviated MGS) in Christchurch, New Zealand, is a Christian co-educational state integrated school for Year 1 to 13. It is currently New Zealand's largest evangelical Christian school (fee-paying).

History

Established in 1964 by the Christian Schools Trust, as an independent Christian school and became integrated into the state system in 1996. MGS's academic structure consists of four schools, primary school, middle school, senior college and international college.

Middleton Grange School belongs to the Christchurch Christian Schools Network(CSN) and the New Zealand Association for Christian Schools(NZACS).

The school premises used to house the Christchurch headquarters of the Maxim Institute, a conservative Christian thinktank. Bruce Logan, was once Middleton Grange's former curriculum director.

The school was ordered in 2010 to apologise and compensate a former employee for firing him because of his homosexuality.^[1]

Houses

Secondary school pupils are divided into specific houses which then compete in (mostly) sporting activities. There are four of these, named after early British explorers of Antarctica, as Robert Falcon Scott stayed at Middleton Grange's original gentry house before embarking on his ill-fated expedition.

Middleton Grange House Names & their Colours

	Scott	Named after Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 – 29 March 1912), who was a British Royal Naval officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13.
	Wilson	Named after Dr Edward Adrian Wilson ("Uncle Bill") (23 July 1872 – 29 March 1912). He was a notable English polar explorer, physician, naturalist, painter and ornithologist.
	Shackleton	Named after Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE, (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922), an Anglo-Irish explorer who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
	Bowen	Named after Sir Charles Christopher Bowen (1830 - 12 December 1917). He was a prominent mountaineer and explorer of the Andes, and a Christchurch City Council member.

Notable alumni

• Graham Capill - former leader, Christian Heritage. Eldest son of Don Capill, first Middleton Grange Vice-Principal.
• Serena Rongonui - television presenter, What Now?.

Notable staff

• Vic Pollard (Associate Principal)
• Bruce Logan (former Curriculum Director)

References

1. ^ "Gay coach sacked from Christian school". The Press. 21 July 2010. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/3940616/Gay-coach-sacked-from-Christian-school. Retrieved 25 October 2011.