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King’sNO 138 AUTUMN 2017 Insights intoCourier the life, soul and purpose of the King’s College community King’s Rowing succeed with every stroke Pages 28-29 Celebrating top Farewell to Richard Aitken: NCEA and Murray Bean encouraging a CIE results Pages 14-15 collaborative approach Page 10 Page 44 AirpointsTM on the house Earn Airpoints DollarsTM when you sell your property with Bayleys. BUILT FOR EVERY DAY. Bayleys is the only full service real estate company that gives you Airpoints Dollars™ when you sell your property. INCLUDING TOMORROW. BMW i is a world of visionary electric vehicles, innovative mobility services, inspiring design This means not only will you get a great result, we’ll also put something towards your next getaway to celebrate. and a new understanding of premium that is strongly defined by sustainability. 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Proudly supporting KING’S COLLEGE 1953-2017 KING’S FRIENDS Annual General Meeting For more information about our investment in youth phone Richard Aitken: encouraging a Headmaster’s Garden Party ANZAC Day Service collaborative approach - 44 0800 4 XEROX or visit fujixerox.co.nz 7. Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park Experience David Hosking: community-minded KING’S BOARD businessman - 45 Message from the Chairman Bill Cashmore: dynamic deputy 34. for Auckland - 45 New Board Members welcomed 19. KCOCA UPDATE ANTIPODEANS IN PERU Message from our President 9. Executive Officer Reports 43. KING’S FOUNDATION FAREWELL EVENT FOR 20. REV WILDER Foundation Bequests Programme KING’S CULTURE 35. Literacy Week and Untamed Stories KCOCA ANNUAL DINNER 10. King’s at Polyfest Ron Paterson - complaints expert 46. STUDENT ACADEMIC RECENT EVENTS SUCCESSES 22. 36. KCOCA Golf Day KCOCA at Field Days Top NCEA and CIE results KING’S MARKETING ANZAC DAY 2017 Meet our 2017 Student Leadership Team ‘Find yourself at King’s’ campaign launch ANZAC Day speaker: Graeme MacCormick Students rewarded at CIE Awards night Top scholars overseas 48. 24. 37. INTERNATIONAL SUCCESS Anna Chitty: smart operator KING’S SPORT WAR STORY 12. The people behind sport at King’s Jack Innes Walker - recovered 100 years on STUDENT AND STAFF NEWS New Student Health Council 50. POTENTIALITY DATABASE Outstanding Educator Award 28. 38. House Swimming Sports KING’S ROWING KCOCA BURSARIES 2017 House Athletics Feature: succeeding with every stroke 51. Triathlon Championships success Interview with rowing parents and students NZ Men’s Water Polo Player of the Year GLOBE DOWNUNDER and Coach of the Year 31. 14. KING’S ARCHIVES 52. The history of our Memorial Building OLD COLLEGIAN NEWS KING’S STAFF Tim Southee: record-setting Old Collegian Farewell Murray Bean Neil Maidment: hello from Hong Kong New Reverend welcomed to King’s Obituaries and weddings Credits The King’s Courier is published three times a year by King’s College and the King’s College Old Collegians’ Association, PO Box 22012, Otahuhu, Auckland 1640. If you have a potential story idea or article for consideration for the King’s Courier, please contact Head of Communications, Ariane Adam at [email protected] for King’s College news, or Robin Beckett at [email protected] for KCOCA news. Advertising: Development Manager, Robert Brooke: 64 9 276 0679 / [email protected]. Change of address: Database Administrator, Shiree Milligan: 09 276 0684 / [email protected] Editor: Ariane Adam Contributing writers: Simon Lamb, Ross Green (Selwyn, 1968-72), John Bean, Jeanette Paine, Ariane Adam, Terry Gould (Major, 1969-72), Robin Beckett (Marsden/Major, 1955-59), Kirsty Beckett, Kit Haines Design, layout, print and production: Hannah Richards - Fuji Xerox Contributing photographers: Simon Watts (BW Media Photography). Next issue : Deadline for copy for the Winter 2017 issue is Monday 22 May 2017. KING’S HEADMASTER KING’S BOARD • 100 per cent of our girls gained NCEA Level 3. establishing a support mechanism for students who are sustaining high levels of performance • King’s College gained the most for the sports in which they are involved. Outstanding Scholarships in the New Zealand Scholarships Our Elite Sports Mentoring Programme offers Examinations than ever before. students mentoring for their sporting pursuits, MESSAGE FROM as well as mentoring for academic purposes. • The most King’s College students awarded For their sports, King’s College seeks to THE CHAIRMAN – 19 in total – at the 2016 Outstanding complement the sporting programmes Cambridge Learner Awards ceremony. supporting students with conditioning, These students received a number of Top nutritional and specific sport related advice and in the World, Top in New Zealand, and High support. This will be provided by the sporting Achievement recognitions. staff at the College who have a wide range of It feels like we’re off and running and well long-term thinking, and decisions once We are pleased with the results of 2016 and we sporting experience and capability, including One aspect of our into another busy year at King’s. A new made are not easily revisited. We are look forward to further academic progress in staff who are new arrivals to the College. strategic planning staff member recently asked me if it’s inviting participation in this process from a 2017. In this regard, we have made some great always this busy at King’s – I think the wide variety of staff as well as external In terms of our students’ academic progress, progressions in the tracking of student data to process is work simple answer is, yes! stakeholders and we encourage your we seek to also offer an academic mentor to a point where we can now analyse current feedback on the proposed plans. each student who can assist with this. The We welcomed a new cohort of boys into student data as they are traversing their currently in progress academic staff member will offer one-to-one Year 9 along with our second intake of A key catalyst for this property planning academic programmes. advice and support to the assist student with on the development Year 11 girls. And of course, it’s not just work, and in effect the first stage of our This gives us great capability to be more the demands of his/her academic programme. students who are new to King’s. We also long-term property plan, is a recent responsive and to support our students to Students will benefit from the experience and of a master property welcomed at the start of this year, 19 new decision by the Board to purchase just ensure that all are placed to reach their expertise of their academic mentor. plan that will staff members and three new Board over three acres of land from the Royal potential. At a college like King’s, it is members. You can read about our new Auckland and Grange Golf Club, including With support on the sporting and academic MESSAGE FROM important that all students pass, and pass well. articulate a vision for Board members on page 8. the existing clubhouse building. We are arenas, students will be assisted to perform This message is being communicated strongly hopeful the details of this purchase will be well in both spaces. There will be occasions I’d like to make a special welcome to THE HEADMASTER to our current students as it is a fundamental King’s for the next 15 completed within the next few months and where the College programme can be altered our new chaplain Rev Warren Watson goal for 2017. King’s College is an academic settlement is scheduled for late 2019. to accommodate the sporting commitments a to 20 years. and his wife Sarah who have both settled school with a determined aspiration for student may need to deliver on. In this way we in very well at the College and I know King’s has enjoyed a long and very close students to achieve academically. anticipate that students will be able to manage they are enjoying being part of our relationship with the Royal Auckland and In terms of other goals for 2017, we have the expectations of both their sporting King’s community.