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Southland Boys' High School SOUTHLAND BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL SOUTHLANDIAN 2008 SOUTHLAND BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL established 1881 SOUTHLAND BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL 181 Herbert Street | PO Box 1543 | Invercargill 9840 | New Zealand Ph: +64 3 211 3003 | Fax: +64 3 218 7414 | Email: [email protected] | Web: www.sbhs.school.nz .sbhs.school.nz www eb: W | [email protected] Email: +64 3 218 7414 218 3 +64 ax: F | 3003 211 3 +64 : Ph ew Zealand ew N | 9840 vercargill In PO Box 1543 Box PO | treet S erbert H 181 YS’ HIGH SCHOOL HIGH YS’ BO AND SOUTHL Contents Rectors Report ............................................................2 Student’s Work ...........................................................26 2Staff 2008 ..................................................................6 School Production ......................................................33 Student Editorial ........................................................10 Prime Minister visits SBHS .........................................36 Board of Trustees ......................................................12 Prefects ......................................................................44 Old Boys’ Association ...............................................12 Sport ...........................................................................49 Parent Teacher Association ........................................13 Class Photos ..............................................................79 History trip to Vietnam ................................................20 2007 Prizegiving List ..................................................99 Page 1 Compiled & Typset by Sandie Manning Layout & Printed by Craigs Design & Print, Invercargill, New Zealand Compiled & Typeset by Sandie Manning Centre Pages Layout & Print by Craigs Design & Print, Invercargill, New Zealand Design & Layout by Ben Cannon Centre Pages: Design & Layout by Ben Cannon (Year 13 Student 2008) (Year 13 Student 2008) the southlandian 2008 Not for school but for life we are learning The Rector’s Report The key to a successful boys’ school in the 21st century is to provide a balanced programme that enables the young men who leave it to successfully take their place in the world. The speed of change in society and the subsequent demands on schools’ resources mean more than ever, that effective management and leadership must be about getting greater clarity around what we should focus on and what constitutes good practise. With increasingly diminishing resource, trying to be all things to all people is a recipe for failing in our core business of effectively delivering the curriculum. Ian M. Baldwin In 1991 the NZ Planning Council published a document Rector 2008 entitled ‘Tomorrows Skills”. This excellent document predicted the following changes in employment as we moved to the new economy: • the move to service sector employment • the move from manual work The point is that over 17 years the message hasn’t • the move to information intensive jobs changed! • the move to jobs requiring higher levels of education What the Planning Council thought was needed then is Gradually we would see our international trade dollars still what is needed now. generated less from primary and secondary industries to What is new is that for the first time, there are some very tertiary and quaternary industries: tourism, education, clear messages on how we should be teaching and an health, information services, financial services, transport attempt at explicitly stating the values that purportedly and intellectual property. reflect the society we live in. The types of generic skills required for the new economy So what is your school doing to ensure that we meet the were: demands of the new curriculum and the new economy? • the ability to continue learning/adapting throughout life Our senior staff and BOT are currently engaged in a • communication/interpersonal skills futures planning exercise where the strategic direction of • information skills the school will be set for the next 5 years. • business/managerial skills Some statements from that section of the strategic planning • technology/computer skills document entitled “Facing our challenges”, suggest that • language skills this group have a very clear view about what matters” • thinking/creative and problem solving skills • number skills Community Seventeen years on, let me read you the vision of the new “In order for SBHS to remain relevant to or appropriate curriculum document, the document that will drive the to our community we have to participate and adapt to the shape of schools in the foreseeable future. changing needs of our community.” Page The generic Key Competencies that schools are to help “We have to be able to deliver on our promises and our points of excellence… the reason why people have chosen 2 students develop are: • Thinking to be part of us.” • Using language, symbols and texts • Managing self; Relating to others Relevance of curriculum and pedagogy • Participating and contributing “We have to ensure that our curriculum is relevant and our pedagogy reflects the relevance to our young people. These competencies are to be developed in an environment We need to drive and manage innovation…. we need to that demonstrates the following values; Excellence; resource it and we need to advocate for new and fresh Innovation, Inquiry and Curiosity; Diversity; Equity; approaches.” Community and Participation, Ecological Sustainability; Integrity; Respect. Marketing The expected end result of this is that, “…young people If we are going to market our success, our achievements will be confident, connected, actively involved, lifelong and being proud of who we are then we have to ensure learners.” consistency of message and quality of delivery. We need to Non Scholae Sed Vitae Discimus work closely together to develop our ideas and share them We have leadership opportunities for our boys on with the community. a level that is not experienced in any other school that I am aware of. Mentoring, peer support, peer Resource tutoring, Colours, Blues, you name it, at any level, Driving change requires resource - we need to find new boys in this school can demonstrate leadership and support and innovative ways to generate this. our adage that “older look after younger”. The Boys’ High Way is a growing culture of values, Point of Excellence traditions, rituals, ceremonies and understanding of We have to be bold in putting forward what our self that can be articulated by most boys in this school. points of excellence are. We have to be consistent and Effectively it is the way in which we work with each other, uncompromising in ensuring that our values are clear. the way we demonstrate respect, the way that older look Persevering (relentlessly) is something we can be all proud after younger, the way that we step up in a crisis, the way of. that we front up and tell the truth. It is about becoming We need to focus more on selection, recruitment and aware that some of the richness in life is the experience of retention of staff. We need to think about how we look being part of something bigger than yourself! after, develop and value more, the people who make us what we are. We must promote ourselves as the “place to Curriculum be”. Some indicators of readiness and progress include this year’s recognition of us by the Education Review Office We can, and will, become the school of choice for staff, as a “School of Best Practice’ in raising boys’ achievement, boys and their families. We want Southland Boys’ High because we have consistently higher achievement levels in School to be the pre-eminent boys’ school in New Zealand, Literacy and Numeracy against national benchmarks. providing excellence in education in its widest possible The appointment of Jacque Russell as Head of Curriculum context. In marketing terms, this means providing the “full Design is further evidence of progress. Jacque’s focus will product range”, encompassing achievement in academia, be to drive informed change to meet the demands of the sport, cultural pursuits, community involvement and Revised New Zealand Curriculum. The establishment of leadership. It also means recognising that we are about working relationships with innovative schools across New contributing in a significant way to the transition of boys Zealand, Australia and Canada through contacts that we into men. We don’t just want to be ‘a good boys’ school’, have made through the Education Review Office and we want to be ‘the best boys’ school’. We want Southland the Ministry of Education School Support Services will Boys’ High School to be the school that develops critical support this crucial developmental work. and independent thinkers who live by our guiding values and have a deep understanding of old world ethics. Sport We are indeed fortunate then, when considering these Whether it’s three All Blacks in the Munster game, or 17 challenges, that we have a staff that is resilient and expert, nationally ranked athletes who act as superb role models, valued and respected, who are leaders in their fields and or the creation of a High Performance Centre run by Peter who contribute willingly an overall ethos that they help Skelt, or the very high participation rates in team and shape. individual sport: we are the envy of many schools in the South Island, and indeed in New Zealand. The wonderful thing about the Board’s planning document is that in all aspects it is totally consistent with the most Performing Arts important research reviews published in New Zealand in The creation
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