Senior Management

Mr Shane Tong

Mr Tong is married to Michelle with two boys, Mitchell and Christian. Mr Tong began his teaching career at Cambridge some years ago before moving to Raglan Area School as an Assistant Principal. His new role at Cambridge High School involves curriculum and staff administration.

Mrs Sandra McKinnon

Mrs McKinnon has been at Cambridge High School since 1991. Prior to that she taught at Matamata College and Putaruru College. Mrs McKinnon was the Head of the Social Sciences faculty before moving into her current position. Her main role is the responsibility for the liaison between NZQA and the school.

Mr John McDonnell

Mr McDonnell hails from Wanganui where until recently, he was an Assistant Principal of Wanganui High School.  Mr McDonnell is looking forward to his new role as Deputy Principal of Cambridge High School and living in the Waikato.  Mr McDonnell is married to Margaret and has two children.

Ms Tara Kanji

Assistant Principal (Welfare and Pastoral Care)

Ms Kanji returns to Cambridge High School after a 13 year absence during which she held a teaching and pastoral position at Hamilton Boys' High School.  "Much has changed since I last taught here, although the school continues to be a prosperous and vibrant community high school".  Tara looks forward to her new challenge stream lining systems in the area of Pastoral Care and Student Welfare.

Mr Richard Carter

Mr Carter is married to Brenda and they have 2 adult children and 3 grandchildren.

For many years Mr Carter was involved with the importing and distribution of milking equipment, and then changed direction to take some time off with Brenda for travel of the holiday type rather than for business. From the profit environment to the not-for-profit environment saw a move to Sport Waikato as Operations Manager, and now to Cambridge High School. Both these roles have similar responsibilities and budgets, but within quite different environments. Over the last seven years he has been on the board of the Waikato Chamber of Commerce, and a judge for the annual Westpac Waikato Business Excellence Awards

A  major focus of the Business Manager role  is to enable the school (and hence teachers and support staff) to achieve more from the available resources through maximising entitlements, implementing more efficient systems and processes, negotiating cost savings, and identifying  new funding streams.