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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2019
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FEBRUARY 22, 2019
A growing school One of the first tasks for Cambridge High’s news headmaster has been to talk about expansion. In his five years at Sha Tin College in Hong Kong Greg Thornton was required to deal with such issues as removing monkeys from the campus. In his new role as headmaster at Cambridge High he will be adding, rather than removing. His new school’s role is around 1600, and as Cambridge expands, so the numbers rise. The school has recently extended and renovated its Science, Language and Library facilities and now it is looking at increasing classroom numbers. Plans for this year include renovation work and replacing the present S-Block. Greg, who hails from Auckland, has arrived in Cambridge with his wife Teresa and two children who are enrolled at Cambridge Middle and Cambridge East schools. He succeeds Phil McCreery who retired at the end of 2018 having completed 13 years in the role. The new headmaster shares one significant thing in common with the new board chairman – his surname. Karl Thornton is no relation, though. Greg Thornton previously served as deputy principal at Mount Aspiring College and taught at Takapuna Grammar, Manurewa High School and Rangitoto College, a school he also went to as a student. He has formed a strong early impression of his new school, and he was welcomed at the first powhiri at Cambridge High this year. Continued on page 2
Cambridge High School’s new headmaster Greg Thornton (right) pictured with (left to right) the school’s deputy head girl and boy Charlotte Mitchell and Liam Petrie, Head Boy Matthew McHugh and Head Girl Ella Higgins.
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