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The team of Finn Holden, Fred Mun, Liam Barnes and Corbin Fraser finished second out of 14 teams at the Otago-Southland Interschool Chess Championships in Dunedin on Saturday, with their only loss to Otago Boys' High School.

James Hargest College students Benjamin McIntyre and Shea Smith, both 16, travelled to Wellington on Thursday to receive their prize after winning best team video in the Treasury Schools Challenge 2018.

Congratulations to Amy Lee who has been selected as part of the NSSP group and will be attending workshops later in the year and has the chance to be selected for the trip to the Globe in 2019. It is no mean feat to be selected out of the hundreds perform

James Hargest students travelled to Queenstown for the Wakatipu Exchange yesterday. After some very close matches, Wakatipu won 8-6.

Workshops are being held and are open to all people who feel a connection with James Hargest College and would like to put a piece into the weaving of our Korowai.

Congratulations to all the students who competed in the very cold and damp conditions in Te Anau recently. While conditions were challenging at times, the effort and enthusiasm evident in the large JHC Team, was pleasing.

Well done to the LEO Club for collecting so many prescription glasses to go to Tonga and surrounding islands.

James Hargest Senior and Junior Campus performed in the recent Arts in Motion competition.

James Hargest Chess teams won both the Intermediate and Senior sections at the Chess Power tournament held at James Hargest yesterday.

Ex-Hargest student and award winning author, Ella West visited her old school on Thursday to hold a series of workshops with enthusiastic student writers.