Timaru Girls' High School

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Timaru Girls' High School is a secondary school in Timaru, New Zealand, founded in 1880. Timaru Girls' High provides education for girls aged between 13 – 18 years of age (class levels - years 9 to 13). It also has a boarding facility within the school grounds for pupils not living in Timaru itself and also caters for international students. The school motto is Scientia Potestas Est – Knowledge is Power. The school is a stone's throw away from the Catholic Roncalli College.HousesThe school has 4 colour houses named after New Zealand native flowers and each student is put into one of them to encourage team spirit. The colours are: Yellow = KowhaiBlue = KoniniGreen = NgaioRed = RataThere are several House events per year, Swimming Sports, Athletics, Cross Country, Aitkens and Waters Cup Day and House ChoirsNotable alumnaeMaria Fahey - cricketerJo Goodhew - MPElizabeth Gunn - paediatricianJean Hay - early childhood educatorControversyIn September 2011, a school girl wanted to support the country's Blue Friday, a nationwide campaign to raise awareness of prostate cancer. She was banned from supporting it because students were only allowed to support female causes, even though the girl's own grandfather had died from this cancer. This raised issues in the newspapers