Sarah Davy

Sarah Davy attended TGHS from 1979 – 1983 where her three favourite things were studying history, hanging out in the ‘old gym’ (a TGHS historic building) and watching old films of TGHS school life that Mrs Connie would screen on a 16mm projector for Social Studies.

History Librarian at Selwyn Libraries

Sarah Davy

Sarah Davy attended TGHS from 1979 – 1983 where her three favourite things were studying history, hanging out in the ‘old gym’ (a TGHS historic building) and watching old films of TGHS school life that Mrs Connie would screen on a 16mm projector for Social Studies.

Sarah completed her BA in History and Film at Victoria University Te Herenga Waka in 1990, going on to the University of East Anglia in 1991 on a scholarship to learn film archiving, resulting in an MA.

She worked at the British Film Institute National Archive for 6 years, and at the audiovisual archive of Aotearoa, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision for 15. She is now the Local History Librarian at Selwyn Libraries, where she works with communities to preserve and share their stories of life in the Selwyn District, through exhibitions, oral history and online collections.

She has made a life in history thanks to inspiration from TGHS.