Hamilton's Fraser High School

Infobox NZ school
name = Hamilton's Fraser High SchoolTe Kura Tuarua o Taniwharau
badge =
motto = -
type = State Co-educational Secondary School (Y9-13)
established = 1920
address = 72 Ellicott Road, Hamilton
principal = M S Elliott
roll = 1817
decile = 4 [ [http://www.minedu.govt.nz/web/downloadable/dl7698_v1/decile-changes-2007-2008-web-state-s-integ.xls Decile change 2007 to 2008 for state & state integrated schools] ]
MOE = 135
homepage = http://www.fraser-high.school.nz
formerly http://www.wave.co.nz/~hfhs/school.html

Hamilton's Fraser High School (HFHS) is the second largest secondary school in Hamilton, New Zealand. The school began in 1920 as Hamilton Technical Day School (later amended to Hamilton's Technical High School in 1924). From its central city site on the Garden Place Hill, now occupied by Wintec, the school was an integral part of the growth and development of Hamilton. For the next 50 years, many of the pupils went on to become influential commercial, political, sporting and cultural leaders in Hamilton.

In 1970 the school moved to the northwest suburbs of Hamilton and was re-established as a comprehensive co-educational secondary school. At this time the school was called Fraser High School. The school took its name from the original Principal, Whampoa Fraser. In 1998 the name was modified slightly to Hamilton's Fraser High School to reflect their historical link to Hamilton Technical Day School, and to give a stronger geographical link to Hamilton. The Māori name of the school is "Te Kura Tuarua o Taniwharau".

In 2001 the school suffered a huge loss when the school gymnasium was burnt down by vandals. A newer and larger gym was built in its place thanks to large support from the community. Also the school opened a brand new Technology block, on the 19th of October 2007, which has very similar architecture to the Gymnasium.

Hamiltons Fraser High School is the home to the country's last school-based cadet unit, which recently celebrated its 75th Jubilee celebration. [http://jubilee.hfhscu.org.nz HFHSCU Julibee website] The [http://www.hfhscu.org.nz Hamilton's Fraser High School Cadet Unit] provides on a rotating basis the duty of providing honour guards to the cenotaph on ANZAC Day, sharing this with the Hamilton City Cadet Corps, Hamilton Air Training Corps, TS Rangiri Sea Cadet Corps.

The school has a guidance and careers department and medical facilities. Guidance counselling and medical treatment is provided to all students when required.

The principal of the school, Martin Elliott, caused some controversy over his use of obscenities during his ill-fated run for the Mayoralty of Hamilton.

Construction is slowly progressing on Ministry of Education funded new multi-million dollar technical block which will accommodate such subjects as soft and hard fabrics, catering and automotive. Hamilton Fraser High School contains approximately 1800 students and 200 staff.

There are 5 houses: Te Arawa-Yellow, Aotea-Blue, Tainui-Green, Tokumaru-Red and Mataatua-Black & White.

Hamilton Technical College

Fraser High was previously known as Hamilton Technical College, which was located in the current Wintec building.

External links

* http://www.fraser-high.school.nz
* http://www.wave.co.nz/~hfhs/school.html
* http://www.hfhscu.org.nz
* http://www.fraserscience.school.nz

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