Seeing Double at Rangi Ruru

A record number of twins are together in the same class is at Rangi Ruru Girls’ School in Christchurch.

The three sets of twins are Megan and Kirstin Liddell, Livvy and Sarah Pride, and Georgia and Liv Harris.

All of the girls are enjoying being in a class together in fact one of their teachers, Erin Fitzpatrick says it's quite a novelty for them.

“The Year 13 girls have hardly ever shared a class with each other let alone all been in the one class as they are for English. They have usually been separated as a rule, something that is often set up in the early years of primary school to encourage them to make their own friends. They laugh at this now because they said it's become a bit futile at Rangi as they all have the same friends,” she says.

The girls say when they were younger there were more squabbles and they really wanted to be their own person and have their separate space, but as they've got older they now genuinely enjoy each other's company.

Georgia and Liv Harris are actually triplets with their brother Scott making up the third sibling.

“We reckon he should come to Rangi for a day but persuading him to wear the uniform might be a problem,” says Liv.

Livvy and Sarah Pride share a couple of the same subjects at school but the other sets of twins tend to have quite different school pursuits.

Megan and Kirstin Liddell are the only set of identical twins.

“It’s sometimes resulted in odd conversations with teachers who think they are talking to one of us but it’s the wrong one,” laughs Megan. “When we were younger we tried to trick our parents but we just couldn’t fool them however hard we tried.”

Erin Fitzpatrick says all the girls genuinely enjoy being with each other in class.

"You couldn’t find three more sets of engaged learners,” she says