Marlborough Girls' College
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Marlborough Girls' College is a single-sex secondary school in Blenheim
Blenheim, New Zealand
Blenheim is the most populous town in the region of Marlborough, in the north east of the South Island of New Zealand, and the seat of the regional council. It has a population of The area which surrounds the town is well known as a centre of New Zealand's wine industry...

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New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

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Marlborough is a province known for its thriving viticulture industry and is commonly referred to as the wine region of New Zealand. This region often has the highest number of sunshine hours in New Zealand (2,448 hours annually).

Marlborough Girls’ College is well equipped with a Performing Arts block, laboratories, a restaurant, Soft Materials rooms, Graphics rooms, two well-equipped gymnasiums, a dance studio, a weights room, hairdressing salon, Whanau room, two arts rooms, five computer labs, Guidance suite including a careers centre, student canteen and extensive sports fields with tennis courts and netball courts.

International students are welcomed at MGC. Every effort is made to make their stay as enjoyable as possible and the school has an enthusiastic international department.

History

This school was established in 1963. Previously Blenheim was served by the co-educational Marlborough College, which subsequently continued to serve as Marlborough Boys' College
Marlborough Boys' College
Marlborough Boys' College is a single-sex secondary school in Blenheim, New Zealand.-Overview:The first board of Marlborough High School met on 13 November 1899. Three acres on Stephenson Street were purchased for £600 and another were gifted by Thomas Carter, taking the grounds through to...

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Uniform

The uniform is a school tartan skirt, white blouse, school tie, blue jumper, and brown or black flat shoes.

Houses

The Marlborough Girls' College has four houses:
  • Awatere
  • Opawa
    Opawa
    Opawa is an inner suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, located 2.5 kilometres south-east of the city centre.The name is a contraction of Opaawaho, which means a place of an outer pā or outpost in Māori. Opaawaho or Ōpāwaho is the Māori name for the Heathcote River....

  • Kaituna
  • Wairau
    Wairau
    Wairau may refer to:*Wairau River, a river in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand's South Island*Wairau Valley, a valley of the Wairau River in the Marlborough Region*Wairau Valley, Auckland, a suburb of the North Shore...



They consist of girls Year 9 – 13 and have a prefect leader. Form classes are divided into the various Houses and all form classes from Year 11 are vertical form classes. This provides seniors with more leadership opportunities and students the opportunities to mix with different year groups. Year 9 and 10 form classes are horizontal, which means that Junior students have a smooth start to college.
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