In this edition The HBHS Foundation
To our HBHS whānau
What a difference a year makes! Our first newsletter of 2021 is jam-packed with achievements, results and reports on all that has been going on in our very busy summer term. We have much to celebrate, with our Senior Sevens Rugby team rounding off 2020 with an historic eighth National Condor Sevens title, and our HBHS Class of OLD BOYS’ 2020 achieving some of our best NCEA year-level results, along with a fine collection of Scholarship examination passes. We congratulate FOUNDATION update our Junior Prize-winners from 2020, and profile all of the sporting and cultural accomplishments of our HBHS high achievers. It has been a joy to put together a newsletter that is so full of events and activities, and it is a timely reminder of how very fortunate we are GOLF was the winner here in Aotearoa New Zealand. We hope you enjoy our coverage of COMING UP Term 1 and we welcome any feedback and suggestions on making our coverage the best it can be. AGS EXCHANGE The annual Lodge HBHS Old Boys’ Foundation Golf Arohanui th [email protected] Above: Year 12 student Jared Mann (left) on the At AGS - OLD BOYS welcome tournament was held on March 12 and was a podium at the New Zealand Under 19 Elite Track roaring success. With the support of over 18 sponsors Cycling Championships in Invercargill in March. Wed 2nd June Contents: and more than $12,000 raised we once again count Jared was literally pipped at the post for gold in Pg 1 From the Headmaster the Individual Sprint, and also won bronze in the rsvp: [email protected] ourselves as lucky to be surrounded by great people. Pg 2 2021 Athletic Sports Day 3-man team event, riding for the Waikato Bay ______Pg 3 2021 Swimming Sports Day of Plenty. ______While some team members played more golf than Pg 4 - 5 Meet the Prefects they would have liked, and no one walked away with Pg 6 - 7 Junior Prize Giving 2020 LEADERS as COACHES the hole in one car…there is always next year. Pg 8 A Celebration of Academic Success Our Scholarship Results and Cambridge Thur 10th June Save the Date - Friday March 11th 2022 International Examination Highlights
Pg 9 Maadi Cup Rowing 2021 workshop by Andrew Miller of Roar Coaching Thanks to our incredible group of sponsors who make Pg 10 - 11 Summer Tournament Week 2021 this the GREAT day that it always is.
Pg 12 Our International Students tickets on sale via Facebook Pg 13 Results Round Up ______Pg 14 Well Being Day 2021 KEEP IN TOUCH & UP TO DATE
Pg 15 Staff News LIKE the HBHS Foundation FACEBOOK PAGE TODAY Pg 16 Year 9 Father Son Breakfast Old Boys’ Foundation Dinner www.facebook.com/HBHSFoundationOldBoys The High Achiever would like to thank: Mrs Susan Hassall Mr Todd Miller
Mr Jeremy Quigley Mr Simon Devitt
Our Student Leaders Mr Paul Gunn Above: Our Multicultural Manaaki Centre boys at the Eid Celebrations on March the 31st were the proud recipients of new bikes, thanks to the Hamilton East Rotary Mr Joel Baker Mr Murray McKenzie Club. Below: Our Sheilah Winn Shakespeare Group won the regional 15 minute Mr Logan Asplin Mrs Lynnette Ross scene competition with their performance of “Othello” and will head to Wellington Matua Stefan West Miss Brienna Booth to perform in the National Festival held over Queen’s Birthday weekend. With special guest Paddy Gower Mr Tim Aughton Ms Tonia Heeps Our International Students Mr Timothy Dent Wintec Atrium, Friday July 30th Mr Quentin West Mr Barney Killian
Mr Aaron Scott Mrs Naaz Shah tickets on sale via Facebook Mr Cyril Cloete Mr Dwight Ashton and everyone who contributed to our publication this term!
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HAMILTON BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL Issue 1, April 2021 HIGH ACHIEVER
Message from the Headmaster Term 2 Events
School Starts Dear Parents and Caregivers Monday 3 May
Parents Association Meeting Tuesday 4 May It is with a genuine sense of gratitude that we come to the end of a very full, very productive, and very successful first term. House Cross Country The beginning of a new school year allows us the opportunity to look Tuesday 11 May back at the previous year as we begin afresh, and we celebrate our Year 10 Father Son Breakfast academic achievements of 2020, and congratulate our students on their Thursday 13 May accomplishments in a year unlike any we have seen. We can celebrate that for us, the beginning of our new year was largely unaffected by Teacher Only Day what is becoming our new reality, and for this, we are thankful. Wednesday 19 May Term 1 is always an exciting time, as we welcome the over 500 students Parents Association Morning Tea who are new to our school family, along with our new staff members. Tuesday 25 May We have had much to celebrate, and the successes of our young men in Mufti Day: Ronald McDonald so many varied endeavours are reflected in the articles in this newsletter. House The 11 weeks of Term 1 have been settled and constructive, and we have Thursday 27 May established a wonderful start to the year ahead. Junior Examinations At the end of this term, and at the end of last year, we farewelled a Mon 31 May - Fri 4 June number of very special staff members, and we thank them for their invaluable contributions to our world. Every one of them has made a Auckland Grammar Exchange difference in the lives of the young men they have worked so hard to Wednesday 2 June support in their time here, and for this we are grateful. We will miss Queen’s Birthday them, they have left our world a stronger and better place, and we wish Monday 7 June them good fortune in their new ventures. New Plymouth BHS Exchange I wish you all a very happy and safe holiday break; enjoy some special Thursday 10 June time with your sons, before the most important consolidation of Term 2. Thank you again for the part you have played in ensuring that Term 1, Fieldays 2021, has been a time of which we can feel proud, and we look forward, Friday 18 June with a sense of hope and excitement, to all of the opportunities that the new year brings with it. Mufti Day: Mental Health Foundation Thursday 24 June Ngā mihi nui Open Day Tuesday 29 June
Susan Hassall HBHS Careers Expo HEADMASTER Thursday 1 July 5 - 8pm
Year 9 - 13 Parent Interviews Monday 5 July 3 - 7pm
Tauranga Boys’ College Exchange Thursday 8 July
End of Term 2 Friday 9 July 2:15pm
Peachgrove Road, Private Bag 3201, Hamilton 3240 > Telephone (07) 853 0440 > Fax (07) 853 0433 Athletic Sports Day
here were two things that were a little different about our Athletic Sports TDay this year. Firstly, Athletic Sports preceeded Swimming Sports, something that the eventual champion, Argyle House, was very happy about as it allowed them to get off to a flying start in this year’s House Competition, and secondly, cloud cover meant that temperatures were kept at a relatively bearable level. Two records were broken, by Liam Davis (Wilson) who set a new fastest time in the Intermediate 2000m Steeplechase of 6’27.38 minutes, and by Jesse Humberstone Kara (Argyle) who broke the Junior Discus record with a throw of 45.71 metres. It’s early days in the 2021 House Competition, but Argyle has established a handy gap with a Major Event win, over second-placed Taylor, and Baigent, Tait and Wilson all very close behind tied for third. Steel is currently languishing in sixth place, but it would be a very foolish commentator who wrote them off this early in the year. Congratulations to all of our age-group champions and to all of our athletes who competed with such enthusiam. A special thank you to Mr Todd Miller and the HPW Faculty on their efforts to organise another superb day out at Porritt Stadium. Photography by Ms Jamieson Hudson, Ben Trotter and Sean Witters.
Junior Championship: 1st Jesse Humberstone Kara Argyle 78 2nd Kiwa Rata Argyle 57 3rd Navdeep Sidhu Tait 44
Intermediate Championship: 1st Liam Davis Wilson 80 2nd= John Anderson Argyle 60 2nd= Ewald Schreuder Tait 60
Senior Championship: 1st Liam McKee Taylor 80 2nd Joseph Morgan Taylor 64 3rd Jean-Paul Biladi Baigent 56
House Competition Points: Athletic Sports (Major Event) after one event House: Track Points: Field Points: Total Points: Overall: Argyle 6 6 12 1st Taylor 4 5 9 2nd Baigent 5 1 6 3rd= Tait 2 4 6 3rd= Wilson 3 3 6 3rd= Steel 1 2 3 6th
2 > High Achiever | April 2021 www.hbhs.school.nz Swimming Sports Day
e may have moved to Alert Level 2 at the beginning of the first week Win March, but thankfully the 2021 Swimming Sports was still able to go ahead, albeit as a competitive-swimmers- only event with no spectators. With the emphasis on serious swimming and with March temperatures mercifully dropping, records aplenty were broken, with five new benchmarks set. Dominic Fawkner (Taylor) set two new records, in the Senior 100m Freestyle with a time of 52.7 seconds, and in the Senior 200m, a time of 1’57 minutes. His fellow Taylor House swimmer Ciaran Watson set a new record in the Open 100m Butterfly, with a time of 59.81 seconds, and Carlos Hardie (Wilson) set a record in the Open 100m Medley with a time of 1’01.47 minutes. Junior Champion Miles Julian (Steel) was our final record-breaker, in the Junior 100m Breastroke, swimming a time of 1’16.13 minutes. Wilson House cemented their reputation as a swimming powerhouse, once again taking out the House Competition, with Steel House coming back from disaster in the Athletic Sports to finish second. It’s all very tight at the moment, with only a few points separating all six Houses after two events. Congratulations to all of our swimmers, and thanks to Mr Quigley and Mr Teokotai-White on their efforts in organising such a successful event in these ever-trying circumstances. Photography by Ben Trotter.
Junior Championship: 1st Miles Julian Steel 72 2nd= Max Downey Steel 48 2nd= Ethan Macdonald Steel 48
Intermediate Championship: 1st= Matthew Bruning Steel 62 1st= Elijah Singleton Wilson 62 3rd Joshua Edwards Tait 58
Senior Championship: 1st Carlos Hardie Wilson 86 2nd Ciaran Watson Taylor 70 3rd Dominic Fawkner Taylor 58
House Competition: Swimming Sports House: Total Points: Final Place: Overall (after 4 events): Wilson 6 1st 1st Steel 5 2nd 2nd Tait 4 3rd 5th Taylor 3 4th 3rd= Argyle 2 5th 3rd= Baigent 1 6th 6th
High Achiever | April 2021 < 3 Meet the Prefects
e say hello and welcome to our Student Leaders of 2021. Their first Media duty is to take a Committee photo that best represents their Committee and their role around the school, and every year we challenge them to outdo their predecessors and have a little Wfun in the process. We proudly present our Prefects of 2021, and we hope you enjoy their efforts. ACADEMIC
Left: The Academic Committee of 2021 prove that they can study anywhere, anyhow, and that is a valuable skill in our current reality! Drowning in knowledge, back row from left: Tebijan Kalarathan, Sankalp Lanka, Deputy Head Prefect and Leader of the Academic Committee Travis Palmer, Matthew Kim and Logan Palmer. Front row from left: Cheng-Yu Dong, Thomas Spaans and Myles Landon.
CULTURAL
Left: We find the Cultural Committee in their natural habitat, bringing the noise. From left, as conductor, Captain of Arts and Leader of the Cultural CommitteeTimothy Evans, Jarvis Buckell on double bass, Dean Ralph on piano, Robert Hoskins on camera, George Ballard making his mark, Moses McGoon with staff, and on guitarTakoha Lunjevich. In front, kneeling, zen master Matthew Lee.
LEADERSHIP
Left: The Leadership Committee are not leading by example at all, with an unimpressed Mr Power having to supervise the entire Committee on Litter Detention... (just kidding!) From left,Adam Wilson, Daniel Dobson, Morgan Gardiner, Benjamin Russell, Hanyoung Lee, George Chaplow, Keran Van Staden, and Deputy Head Prefect and Leader of the Leadership Committee,Matthew Clark.
4 > High Achiever | April 2021 www.hbhs.school.nz SERVICE
Left: The Service Committee is armed, not remotely dangerous, and ready for action this year. From left: Deputy Head Prefect and Leader of the Service Committee Thomas Hayward, Parth Dave on broom, Levi Cressy-Baggottwith pitchfork, Keegan Caines with the yellow card, Jamie Barker and Leneshen Govender on litter duty, Ethan Barton holding the wheelbarrow, with Uvindu Ranasinghe on board.
HEAD PREFECT
Below: Presiding over all of our Committees this year is our Head Prefect for 2021, Sean Ralph.
We also wish to congratulate our House Captains for 2021
SENIOR HOUSE LEADERS House: Captain: Deputy Captain: Argyle Ethan Barton Samuel Boros Baigent Ethan Herbert Kaleb Saxon Steel Daniel Dobson Dean Ralph Tait Xavier Tiffany Adam Wilson Taylor Oliver Gordon Benjamin Russell Wilson Brodie Robinson Dylan Wilson
JUNIOR HOUSE LEADERS House: Captain: Deputy Captain: Argyle Ricci Putohe Nikau Dromgool Baigent Labeeb Ahmad Mekaal Mehdi Steel Liam Weston Harry Pugh Tait Ziggy Coleman Ishaan Singh Taylor Kaelan Haggie Kinnon Broekhuizen Wilson Isaac Bates Ollie Parkinson
SPORTS
Right: We take our sport seriously at HBHS, and no-one takes it more seriously than our Sports Committee. With their game faces on, back row from left: George Reeves, Gus Nelson, Gabe Robinson, Samuel Boros and Oliver Gordon. Kneeling from left: Cole McClure and Samuel Nelson. Front row and seated: Captain of Sports and Leader of the Sports Committee,Taha Kemara.
High Achiever | April 2021 < 5 Junior Prize Giving 2020
ecause it falls on the very last day of the school year, we have wait to officiallty celebrate our Junior Achievers of 2020 in our print productions. So without further ado, we present the full list of prize winners from Junior Prize Giving and congratulate each and every Bone of them on their efforts. A special congratulations to Junior Dux of 2020, Alex Liu. Year 9 Band Prizes: Matthew Nichol 2nd in Copper Keelan Gannon 3rd in 1023 Ethan Wanless 3rd in Colbalt Malakhai Fauchereau 1st in Copper Parsa Soltanizand 2nd in 1023 Kayde Jones 2nd in Colbalt Jackson Wallace 1st in 1023 Jonathan Reed 1st in Colbalt Ryan McCracken 3rd in Jade Amish Kumar 2nd in Jade Oliver Ward 3rd in 1022 Cole Sammons 3rd in Scarlet Muhammad Hassan Naveed 1st in Jade Eshan Azim 2nd in 1022 Jaxon Wells 2nd in Scarlet Christopher Watson 1st in 1022 Alex Devitt 1st in Scarlet Jarren Xin 3rd in Bronze Jiaxuan Lang 2nd in Bronze Thinuka Sirisoma 3rd in 1021 Sarmad Naseem 3rd in Silver Luke Tan 1st in Bronze Jonathan Siddapur 2nd in 1021 Carter Smith 2nd in Silver Joshua Munro 1st in 1021 Anh Nguyen 1st in Silver Year 9 Subject Prizes: Rohit Gulla First in English Edan McChesney 3rd in 1016 Brayden Bates 3rd in Platinum Justin Yang First in Mathematics Caleb Mujiono 2nd in 1016 George Roose 2nd in Platinum Rupert Leary First in Science Devesh Kumar 1st in 1016 Reeshab Thapliyal 1st in Platinum Jack Graham First in Social Studies Edwin Benny 3rd in 1015 Christopher Weal 3rd in Red Year 10 Band Prizes: Tsz Kin So 2nd in 1015 Ashal Jose 2nd in Red Flynn Pierce 3rd in 1033 Aly Mahmoud 1st in 1015 Jacob Holwill 1st in Red Finlay Wheeler 2nd in 1033 Sailosi Havea 1st in 1033 Hyun-Jun Yoo 3rd in 1014 Grady Bruce 3rd in Gold Youyang Fu 2nd in 1014 Benedict Kadiya 1st = in Gold John Iglesia 3rd in 1032 Dulina Haegoda 1st in 1014 Daniel Ormsby 1st = in Gold Saheel Kumar 2nd in 1032 Theo Richards 1st in 1032 Kyle Barker 3rd in 1013 Joel Pervan 3rd in Grey Connor Petrie 2nd in 1013 Tom Cooley 2nd in Grey Raharuhi Palmer 3rd in 1031 Lakshvir Sidhu 1st in 1013 Thomas Hancock 1st in Grey Kyle van Zyl 2nd in 1031 Sean Witters 1st in 1031 Thomas Burt 3rd in 1012 Henry Seavill 3rd in Maroon Raihan Aizam 2nd in 1012 Loneet Velaidan 2nd in Maroon John Kalapurayil Mathew 3rd in 1029 Cam Sundararaj 1st in 1012 Samuel Lawn 1st in Maroon Rishevdeep Singh-Dhaliwal 2nd in 1029 st Rahul Nair 1 in 1029 Below: Winner of the McCaffie Cup for Orion Overton 3rd in Navy Leadership, Rangiwai Lunjevich. Joshua Waller 2nd in Navy Josh Workman 3rd in 1028 Shohzad Dhillon 1st in Navy Jack Argent 2nd in 1028 Kyan Trebes 1st in 1028 Ethan Clothier 3rd in Nickel Matthew Emett 1st = in Nickel Israel O’Neill 3rd in 1027 Caleb Morgan 1st = in Nickel Bryn Carter 2nd in 1027 Junhyeok Kang 1st in 1027 Harrison McMullen 3rd in Orange Deacan Brill 2nd in Orange Aram Qadami 3rd in 1026 Dian Jacobs 1st in Orange Brenner Ley 2nd in 1026 Lakindu Balasooriya 1st in 1026 Kesarindra Weeraman 3rd in White Mitchell Moore 2nd in White Joshua Baker 3rd = in 1025 Daniel Hoskins 1st in White Keshav Dutt 3rd = in 1025 Riley Fulton 2nd in 1025 Janadhee Balasooriya 3rd in Green Daniel Stott 1st in 1025 Matthew Niwa 2nd in Green Oliver Swney 1st in Green Joseph Kim 3rd in 1024 Sunwoo Chang 2nd in 1024 Liam Clay 3rd in Copper Manaseh Esop 1st in 1024
6 > High Achiever | April 2021 www.hbhs.school.nz Year 10 Subject Prizes: in Year 10 to Rangiwai Lunjevich
Dulina Haegoda First in NCEA The H D Tait Memorial Prize for Outstanding Accounting Character and Ability in Year 10 to Ben Parker First in Adventure Based Thomas Ter Beek Learning Noah Bremner First in Art The Emilie and Michael Gudex Prize for All- Daniel Dizon First in Business Studies Round Excellence and Potential in Year 10 to Benjamin Douglas First in Chinese Samuel Priest Wyatt Winke First in Drama Thomas Ter Beek First in NCEA Year 9 Premier Academic Awards: Economics Alexander Trotter First in Electronics Allen Yuan Fifth in Year 9 Noah Clewlow First in Elite Luke Tan Fourth in Year 9 Sport Daniel Loy Third in Year 9 Alex Liu First in NCEA Justin Yang Second in Year 9 English Rupert Leary First in Year 9 Junhyeok Kang First in English Language Learning Year 10 Premier Academic Awards: Mathesh Kishore First in Film and Television Hamish McKelvie Third equal in Year Above: Michael Morrison-Ruru Trophy winner, Wyatt Winke First in Food 10 Liam Weston. Below: Junior Dux for 2020 Technology Alexander Mayo Third equal in Year and winner of the Susan Hassall Cup, Alex Harrison Peaker First in German 10 Liu. Bottom: Flynn Pierce, Finlay Wheeler, Sailosi Havea, John Iglesia and Saheel Kumar Noah Bremner First in Graphics and Thomas Ter Beek Second in Year 10 were the band prize winners in 1033 and 1032. Design Congratulations to all of our prize-winners on Charlie Jackson First in History / Alex Liu their achievements throughout what was a Geography Susan Hassall Cup and Junior Dux for 2020 challenging year. Kia kaha to you all. Hithen Raaj First in Information Technology Muboyu Jia First in Music Alexander Mayo First in NCEA Mathematics Alex Liu First in NCEA Science Hamish McKelvie First in NCEA Social Studies Hamish McKelvie First in Spanish Divyne Shadrock First in Te Reo Māori Benjamin Shute First in Technology Metal Jack Fitzgerald First in Technology Wood
Special Prizes:
The Michael Morrison-Ruru Trophy for Greatest Enthusiasm in Year 9 to Liam Weston
The Headmaster’s Award for Citizenship for Outstanding Civic Responsibility in Year 9 to Ishaan Singh
The Eben Wilson Memorial Prize for Excellence in Year 9 to Jack Graham
The McHaffie Cup for Outstanding Leadership
High Achiever | April 2021 < 7 2020 Academic Highlights
t was always going to be a monumental Economics Alexander Khatoev Painting task for our Class of 2020 to break English Matthew Lee (Year 12) Drama Inew ground with their NCEA, CIE and Hamana Mahuika Calculus Scholarship results, but they did us all very Three Scholarships: Alexander Matthews English proud with what they achieved during a Ethan Hight Economics Campbell McRobbie Technology once-in-a-generation global pandemic. The Health & Physical Ethan Morgan Biology results are in, and we congratulate all of Education Logan Palmer (Year 12) Statistics our students on their efforts in what was a Statistics Travis Palmer (Year 12) English trying and exhausting year. Our NCEA pass Drishya Patel Economics rates at each year level were some of our Two Scholarships: Caleb Thomas Geography best yet, with 87.4% of candidates passing Joshua Gordon Biology at Level 1, 93% passing at Level 2 and 85.4% Physics Scholarships by subject: passing at Level 3. Our University Entrance Accounting 1 rate was also up, with 62.9% of Level 3 Marcus Holmes Economics Art History 1 candidates successfully gaining their UE. English Biology 4 Highlights in the Cambridge International Calculus 3 Examination programme included Michael Mohid Rizwan Geography Chemistry 3 Lin finishing Top in New Zealand in IGCSE German Classical Studies 1 Co-ordinated Sciences, and Top in the World Drama 1 in IGSCE Mathematics. Tebijan Kalarathan Jonathan Sangkhamyong Geography Earth & Space Science 1 also gained a Top in the World award in Health & Physical Economics 6 Economics and we congratulate these boys Education English 7 on this exceptional achievement. Finally, Geography 3 our Year 12 and 13 Scholarship candidates Harrison Thien English German 1 gained 49 Scholarships with an impressive 10 History Health & Physical Education 2 passes at Outstanding level. These results History 1 follow and once again, we congratulate our One Scholarship at Outstanding level: Media Studies 1 academic achievers on their efforts. Cheng-Yu Dong Technology (O) Painting 1 T.C. Koroheke Satele English (O) Physics 4 2020 SCHOLARSHIPS Statistics 5 One Scholarship: Technology 3 Six Scholarships with two at Outstanding Shantia Enteshari Media Studies level: Hayden Evans Economics Number of Scholarships 39 James-Hardy Rorimpandey Biology Jet Hughes Technology Outstanding Scholarships 10 Calculus Jackson Keightley English TOTAL 49 Chemistry (O) E a r t h & S p a c e Science Physics Statistics (O)
Five Scholarships with three at Outstanding level: Zyean Cutler Calculus Chemistry (O) Economics Physics (O) Statistics (O)
Eushin Kang Accounting (O) Biology (O) Chemistry Physics Statistics (O) Above: From left, Harrison Thien, Mohid Rizwan, Zyean Cutler, Ryan Choy, and Dux of 2020 and Four Scholarships: Premier Scholar’s Award recipient, Eushin Kang, at the Senior Prize Giving in November, 2020. Between them, these students achieved an impressive 20 Scholarships, with Zyean and Eushin Ryan Choy Art History attaining three apiece at Outstanding Level amongst their individual totals of 5. Congratulations to all Classical Studies of our academic star performers on their efforts in 2020.
8 > High Achiever | April 2021 www.hbhs.school.nz Rowing 2021
AON MAADI CUP REPORT Under 18 Novice Coxed Four: Gold Valler, William Milne and Cameron Natta Rhys Laker, Dylan McConnell, Fynley (cox) finished fourth fter the disappointment of 2020, our Berkers, Kellan Fleming and Alex Cooper Rowing squad was determined to make (cox) Under 15 Coxed Four (Crew 2): Athe absolute most of this year’s Maadi Rhys Laker, Dylan McConnell, Fynley Cup, and they absolutely did so, with 12 Under 16 Coxed Eight: Bronze Berkers, Kellan Fleming and Sean Witters crews making it through to A finals, 3 crews Josh Syme, William Milne, Johno O’Brien, (cox) finished fifth to B finals and 1 crew contesting a C final. Xavier Scarlett, Tyrone Urbancic, Dylan By the time racing was done on Saturday Worthington, Tama Merrilees, Lucas Cooke Under 18 Coxed Eight: the 27th of March, the HBHS Rowing Squad and Jamie Zyza (cox) William Mackintosh, Ethan Johnson, Adam had won 4 gold and 2 bronze medals. Wilson, Alex Pollack, Seamus Foley, Daniel Congratulations to all of our medallists and Under 15 Coxed Four (Crew 1): Humphrey, Toby Smith, Charlie Mackintosh thanks and congratulations to all of the Josh Wickers, Dylan Worthington, Caleb and Oliver Duncan (cox) finished fourth parents, coaches and supporters of HBHS Rowing for their tireless efforts behind the scenes. Here are all of the results from the A finals:
Under 17 Coxed Eight: Gold William Mackintosh, Ethan Johnson, Adam Wilson, Daniel Humphrey, Toby Smith, Logan Jenner, Josh Syme, Lucas Cooke and Oliver Duncan (cox)
Under 15 Coxed Octuple Sculls: Gold Rhys Laker, Dylan Worthington, Josh Wickers, William Milne, Caleb Valler, Dylan McConnell, Boaz King, Kellan Fleming and Cameron Natta(cox)
Under 16 Coxed Four: Josh Syme, William Milne, Xavier Scarlett, Johno O’Brien and Alex Cooper (cox) finished eighth
Under 18 Novice Coxed Eight: Lachlan Douglas, Cole Sammons, Fynley Berkers, Shae Asiata, Jesse Humberstone- Kara, Finn Kempster, Jack Paterson, Wynston Roberts and Sean Witters (cox)
Under 15 Coxed Eight (Crew 1): Bronze Rhys Laker, Dylan Worthington, Josh Wickers, William Milne, Caleb Valler, Dylan McConnell, Boaz King, Kellan Fleming and Cameron Natta(cox)
Under 15 Coxed Eight (Crew 2): Lachlan Douglas, Cole Sammons, Fynley Berkers, Shae Asiata, Jesse-Humberstone Kara, Finn Kempster, Jack Paterson, Wynston Roberts and Sean Witters (cox) finished sixth
Under 17 Coxed Four: Gold William Mackintosh, Ethan Johnson, Adam Wilson, Daniel Humphrey and Oliver Duncan Top: Our victorious Under 17 Eight with Mrs Hassall and Head Prefect Sean Ralph. Middle: The Under (cox) 15 Octuple Sculls with their gold medals and trophy. Bottom left: The Under 17 Coxed Four with their trophy. Bottom right: The Under 18 Novice Coxed Four on the gold medal podium.
High Achiever | April 2021 < 9 Summer Tournament Week 2021
Summer Tournament Week this year fell on the one-year anniversary of New Zealand’s Level 4 lockdown commencement. Therefore, we are absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to celebrate Summer Tournament Week as it happened from all over Aotearoa New Zealand.
ur Summer Tournament Week diary Oactually begins two days early, and with a National title courtesy of our Open Water Swimming team. Carlos Hardie, Dominic Fawkner and Quinn Boyle headed to Rotorua on Saturday the 20th of March to compete against schools from all over the country, many of which had bigger squads than ours. However, strong performances in multiple events by all swimmers, with top ten finishes by Ciaran Watson and Josh Baker, along Above: Our victorious Under 15 Sevens Team celebrate their win at the North Island Secondary Schools Tournament with Mrs Hassall. with age group race title wins in the 500m event by Dominic and Quinn meant that the Under 20 Boys Enduro race. Not such loss to Pakuranga College, leaving the team HBHS amassed enough points to take out the a happy beginning for our Ultimate Frisbee in 12th place at the end of their tournament. overall championships. team at the New Zealand Secondary Schools The 1st XI Cricket team carried on their Tournament in Taupo, who began with a winning way, with an 8 wicket win over till in the weekend, on Sunday our 10 - 9 win over New Plymouth Boys’ High Whangarei Boys’ High School, and will now SMountain Biking team had a very good School, but followed this with a string of face St Peter’s Cambridge on Wednesday. day of competition at the North Island losses against Westlake Boys’ High School It was another win and a loss for our Secondary School Championships held in 2 - 11, Fraser High School 5 - 9, and Hutt Volleyballers, losing 1 - 3 to Nayland College Auckland. Fletcher Adams won the Under 15 Valley High School 12 - 15. It was one of and then beating Otumoetai College 3 - 0 Boys Cross Country race, and older brother each for our Volleyball team at the New having qualified for Division 4. Our Tennis Hunter finished 2nd in the Under 16 event. Zealand Secondary Schools Tournament in team lost to Shirley Boys’ High School 1 - 2, Hunter and Fletcher then teamed up with Palmerston North, who began with a 1 - 3 then had a very good win over King’s College Cory Hartgill to contest the Under 20 Cross loss to Taita College, but then came back with 3 - 0. Down at the Blue Lakes, Rotorua, our Country Relay, and finished in 3rd place a 3 - 1 win over Marlborough Boys’ College. Waka Ama paddlers were in action, with against teams of Year 13 riders. Our Softball team did exactly the same at Rico Southon finishing 4th in the J16 Plate the New Zealand Secondary Schools Division Final, and Kereama Southon finishing in ver the Kaimais we headed and at Mount 1 Championships in Papkura, losing 2 - 5 to 10th place in the J16 Championship Final. OMaunganui, our Under 15 Rugby Sevens Mt Albert Grammar and then bouncing back Our Softballers had a mixed bag of results, team powered through pool play on Sunday, with a colossal 17 - 2 drubbing of Alfriston beginning with an 11 - 5 win over One Tree beating Tauranga Boys’ College 19 - 7, Wesley College. Our Tennis team started well at Hill College, but followed this up with losses College 36 - 0, and St Paul’s Collegiate 38 - 5. the New Zealand Secondary Schools Top 8 against Rosehill College 3 - 6, and Mt Albert On Monday they faced Rotorua Boys’ High Teams event in Auckland, beating Auckland Grammar 0 - 10. Finally, our Division 2 School in the semi-finals, beating them 27 - 5, Grammar B 2 - 1. Finally, it’s been a solid Waterpolo team had a good Tuesday, beating to face Tauranga Boys’ College once more in start for our Division 2 Waterpolo team at Mt Roskill Grammar School Mixed 8 - 0, and the final. Our team improved on their earlier the North Island Secondary Schools Division Rosmini College B 10 - 2. performance, beating Tauranga 25 - 5 to 2 Tournament in Tauranga, with a 9 - 7 win take out the North Island Secondary Schools over Rongotai College. ednesday meant play-offs were looming, Under 15 Rugby Sevens title. Kia kaha, team. Wand our 1st XI Cricket team beat St Peter’s uesday saw our Mountain Biking team Cambridge by 46 runs to set up a final against he week officially began on Monday the Twrap up their competition with a 5th place St Paul’s Collegiate on Thursday. HBHS set a T22nd of March, and our 1st XI Cricket team for Callum Carmichael in the Under 20 Boys target of 225, with George Reeves hitting a kicked things off with a 7-wicket win over Mt Downhill and a 4th for Ethan Elmiger in the century, and this proved too big a chase for Maunganui College in the Northern Regional Under 17 event. Our Ultimate Frisbee team the opposition. Our Volleyball team made Qualifying Tournament for the Gillette started their play-offs with an 11 - 3 win over the quarter finals courtesy of two wins, over Cup. Captain of Mountain Biking, James Gisborne Boys’ High School, but were unable Havelock North High 3 - 0, and One Tree Hill MacDermid, continued the team’s run of to sustain this, losing 6 - 10 to New Plymouth College 3 - 1. Our Tennis players finished success, picking up a silver medal in Boys’ High School and finishing with a 6 - 9 their campaign with an excellent 2 - 1 win
10 > High Achiever | April 2021 www.hbhs.school.nz over Auckland Grammar A to finish 2nd overall Seiga Ikemura finished 5th, Jakob Arthur 6th, - 4, only to go down 10 - 16 to Fraser High in the New Zealand Secondary Schools Top Thomas Ter Beek 7th and Blake Irwin 8th, School, and our Senior B team beat Rongotai 8 teams event, and we congratulate them and in Division 4, Flynn Pierce finished 7th College B 20 - 8, Mount Albert Grammar B on this effort. Down at the Blue Lakes, our and Thomas Marchant 8th. Angus Reeves 17 - 11, and Waiuku College 16 - 14. Roll on Waka Ama crews made two championships won the Stableford and Maiorere Harmon finals Friday! semi-finals, in the J16 500m and the J16 finished in 3rd place. 250m events. It was a win and a loss for riday saw another National title, and our Softball team, going down 3 - 10 to One hursday saw a number of tournaments Fit’s congratulations to our Junior Futsal Tree Hill College and then coming back very Twrap up, and our 1st XI Cricket team team on their superb 4 - 3 victory over strongly to monster Alfriston College 11 - qualified for the Gillette Cup in December Selwyn College. The Senior team lost 2 - 3 2. The first results from the Futsal teams courtesy of a 6 wicket win over St Paul’s to Tauranga Boys’ College in their semi- came in from the New Zealand Secondary Collegiate. Our Volleyball team lost their final, but ended on a winning note, beating Schools Tournament in Wellington and they quarter-final 1 - 3 to Christ’s College but Scots College 6 - 2 to finish 3rd. At the 3x3 were uniformly good, with the Junior team recovered to beat Marlborough Boys’ College Basketball Championships, our Junior A team beating Wellington College 6 - 1, Bayfield 3 - 1 and went on to play off for th5 and 6th won their quarter final against Rangitoto College 11 - 0 and finishing with a 4 - 4 draw place. Out on the Blue Lakes Xenon Herbert College, 16 - 9, beat St John’s College 16 - 9 against Mt Albert Grammar. The Senior finished in 6th place in the J19 Single in in the semi-final, only to lose 7 - 13 in the team took out St Pat’s Wellington 3 - 2 and the Championship race at the Waka Ama final to Rosmini College, to finish 2nd overall. then beat Horowhenua College 5 - 1. Our competition. Our Softballteam beat Rosehill The Junior B team won their quarter-final Basketball teams were also in action for the College 8 - 6 and in a very tight play-off for against Takapuna Grammar 14 - 9, but lost first time on Wednesday at the New Zealand 3rd and 4th, went down 5 - 6 to Alfriston their semi-final to Sancta Maria 19 - 21 to Secondary Schools 3x3 Championships in College to finish 4th overall in New Zealand. eventually finish 3rd after beating Rosmini Auckland and they have been all about the Our Division 2 Waterpolo team ended their College. The Senior A team finished pool play winning, with the Junior Elite team beating tournament with a 9 - 6 win over Hutt Valley with straight wins over St Peter’s Auckland Kelston Boys’ High School 16 - 6, and St High School to finish in 7th place overall, and 14 - 11, St John’s College 19 - 17, and Kelston Andrew’s College 16 - 13, and the Junior Red our Division 1 Waterpolo team started their Boys’ High School 17 - 11, then beat Rosmini team beat Rosmini College 21 - 14, Sancta North Island Secondary Schools Division 1 in their quarter-final 18 - 15, only to lose to Maria 16 - 14, and St Paul’s Collegiate 15 - Tournament campaign with solid wins over St John’s in the semi-finals. They finished in 13. The Senior Elite team beat Mt Albert Palmerston North Boys’ High School 11 - 2, 4th place behind Westlake Boys’ High School Grammar 16 - 11, Hastings Boys’ High School and Rosmini College 14 - 8. The Junior and in the play-offs. Finally our Senior B team 21 - 19 and Liston High School 21 - 10, and Senior Futsal teams continued their strong blasted their way past Sancta Maria 18 - 10 the Senior B team were equally successful, run of form, with the Junior team thumping and Aquinas College 16 - 9 to finish top of beating Sancta Maria College 19 - 9, Kaipara Middleton Grange College 14 - 1 and then their pool, then beat St John’s College 17 - 16 College 19 - 11 and St Paul’s Collegiate 21 beating St Pat’s Silverstream 5 - 1 to finish in their quarter final, Wellington College 18 - 11. The Division 2 Waterpolo team lost top of their pool. The quarter-final was far - 11 in their semi-final and finished with a 14 their quarter final against Palmerston North tighter, with the team eventually winning - 11 victory over Glendowie College to take Boys’ High School 8 - 11, and then lost their on penalties against Rongotai College. out 1st place. The Division 1 Waterpolo team play-off match against Rongotai College Thankfully, for their coach’s nerves, the kept on winning, beating Tauranga Boys’ 7 - 10. Our Athletics team returned from team then won their semi-final against Scots College 19 - 4, King’s College 13 - 6, then the Waikato Bay of Plenty Championships College 2 - 0 to put themselves into the final. won their quarter final against Sacred Heart laden with medals - 8 gold, 11 silver and 1 The Senior team were equally dominant in College 8 - 4. At the Waikato Secondary bronze in total. Highlights included Joseph pool play, beating St Bernard College 7 - 2 Schools Lunden Links, our Number 3 Golf Morgan winning the John Walker Classic as and Otumoetai College 8 - 1 to top their team of Blake Irwin, Maiaorere Harmon, well as the 800m, and Henry Palmer taking pool and then won easily in their quarter Angus Reeves and Thomas Ter Beek finished out the 100m and 200m sprint double. Our final against Westlake Boys’ High School 5 2nd overall, with Ben Wright making the best other gold medalists were Liam Davis, who - 0. Finally, our 3x3 Basketball teams have individual round of 70. won the Intermediate Boys High Jump and continued to dominate, with our Junior A the 2000m Steeplechase, Kiwa Rata, who team beating Pukekohe High School 13 - 11 n Saturday, our Division 1 Waterpolo won the Junior Boys’ 80m Hurdles and Liam in overtime, Rongotai College 21 - 11, and Oteam won HBHS’s first ever North Island McKee, who won the Senior Boys’ Triple Rosmini College 13 - 12 to book themselves a Secondary Schools Tournament, and became Jump. HBHS Golfers featured prominently spot in the quarter-finals. The Junior B team the first Waikato team to win since Church at the Waikato Secondary Schools Matchplay beat Destiny School 13 - 5, St Peter’s 21 - 11, College took out the title in 1983 (Editor’s Championships, often facing off against each Long Bay College 13 - 9, but went down to St note... to put this in perspective, I was at high other. In Division 1, Jakob Bird finished John’s 6 - 9, however, that was still enough school when this last happened!). The team 4th and Ben Wright 6th. In Division 2, Cole to get them into Friday’s quarter-finals. The secured the victory in a penalty shootout Tosland finished 2nd, Ricci Putohe 3rd, Isaac Senior A Team beat Westlake Boys’ High against a heavily-favoured Rangitoto College Steel 7th and Chris Seel 8th. In Division 3 School 21 - 18, One Tree Hill College 19 team. Results continue on pg 12
High Achiever | April 2021 < 11 Our International Students
In our regular feature we catch up with our International Student Community to find out what it’s like to see HBHS life through the eyes of someone from another country. It has been a challenging time so we wanted to see how they were coping in 2021.
or most of us in Aotearoa New Zealand, life is pretty much back to normal, apart Ffrom the obvious exception that we can’t travel overseas. What this means for our International Students is that they have not seen their families or friends in the flesh since January 2020, and they don’t know Above: From left, thanks to Flynn Fan, Jacky Shou, Feihong Dong, Kevin Zheng, Jack Su, Ryu Tanpisuth, for certain when they might next see home Kotaro Fujimoto and Haruto Shimojo for sharing their time and experiences with us. again. Obviously Facetime and Skype have the country during the holidays, and Mt answer was, unanimously, food! Top of been invaluable, but our International boys Ruapehu, Wellington, Taupo, Christchurch, their lists were real sushi, Japanese buffet have had to cope with circumstances few of Queenstown and Milford Sound have been restaurants, proper barbeque and hotpot, us have ever experienced, so we feel it’s vital ticked off the travel list. Auckland was a although they have made the most of to see how they have managed. favourite because it was reminiscent of Hamilton’s restaurants and agree that Bangkok, and gave the boys a much needed they are a useful substitute for now. We We sat down on a wet Wednesday dose of big-city life, as Hamilton can feel finished by asking if there was anything we morning with a group of students from pretty small. Keeping occupied and having could do to help, and the answer was, make China, Japan and Thailand to ask them a plan has been essential, and the boys have a connection. Just have a conversation how they have been doing. The boys have made the most of HBHS sporting life, playing and check in. We thank our International either been staying in the Hostel or with football, rugby and badminton to keep busy. students for sharing their experiences with homestay families and they have very much When we asked them what they missed the us, and we look forward to helping them appreciated the opportunity to see most, apart from family and friends, the navigate this crazy-COVID new reality.
Summer Tournament Week results continued from pg 11.
inally, on Saturday, our Triathlon team Fsecured two team silver medals at the National Secondary Schools Championships in New Plymouth. Carlos Hardie, Ethan Herbert and Ethan Barton secured the first medal in the 3-man event, and then joined Hamish Rodley to compete in the 4-man race. Each athlete completed a mini-triathlon then passed a timing transponder on to the next team member like a relay baton. Ethan Herbert suffered a serious crash in the last cycle leg, and the boys saw him to the medics tent then took the transponder and ran as a threesome, once again winning a silver medal st in a fantastic display of team work. Just a few of our Summer Tournament Week teams. Above: Our 1 XI Cricket team after winning their final against St Paul’s Collegiate. The team will now compete in the Gillette Cup in December. Below left: Our Division 2 Waterpolo team. Below right: Our Senior Volleyballers in action. It has been an absolutely brilliant week-and- a-bit of competition, and we congratulate all of our athletes on their efforts. We must also thank all of the teachers, coaches, parents and supporters who put in countless hours behind the scenes to help our athletes be the best they can be. HBHS sport is as good as those who support it, and that support is superb.
12 > High Achiever | April 2021 www.hbhs.school.nz Results Round Up
It’s been a busy, mostly disruption-free term, our riders finished on the podium. Captain of in Charge of Debating Mr Aaron Kearney so we check in with our sports teams and Mountain Biking James MacDermid finished would like to thank Ms Melissa Young for her cultural performers to see how they have second in the Under 19 Downhill race and support, and Miss Josie Momm, who leaves fared. Fletcher Adams is now an Under 15 National us at the end of this term, for her work with Champion after winning the Under 15 Cross our junior debaters. fter our school year officially finished Country event. Ain December, our athletes continued ur HBHS Sailing team headed to Lake to compete, and we rounded off 2020 he HBHS Tennis team competed in the ORotoroa for the Burgess Cup competition with a collection of National titles. At the TWaikato Secondary Schools Championships in early March, and the team were utterly New Zealand Secondary Schools Athletics in March, and in the Junior and Intermediate dominant, taking out the overall competition Championships, Joe Morgan won bronze events were utterly dominant, completely with a total of 127.7 points, with nearest in the Senior Boys 1500m and Captain of closing out the semi-finals and finals. In rivals Cambridge High School on 89.4 points. Sport Charles Annals won gold in the Senior the Junior Boys Singles, Ben Stephens took Harry McMullan won the Optimist race Boys Triple Jump. Our Sevens teams were out the title, with Flynn McGregor finishing and Hugo McMullan took out the Open P utterly dominant at their respective National 2nd, Thando Thebe 3rd and George Roose Class. Ruaridh Martynoga finished 2nd in the Tournaments, with our Senior Sevens team 4th. Andy Nguyen and Thomas Hancock Starling, Max Wimmer also finished 2nd in the taking out the title for the sixth consecutive were runners up in the Junior Doubles. In Laser, and Campbell Rae finished behind him year, and the eighth time in total. Cody the Intermediate Singles, Jack McGregor in 4th place. Nordstrom was named as Player of the was the winner, with Oliver Taylor in 2nd Tournament, and he, Taha Kemara and Noah place, Hamish Kerr 3rd and Cody Paul 4th. BHS has gone from strength to strength in Hotham made the Tournament team. Not Robin Kros and Jacob Kilgour sealed the Hthe world of bagpiping in recent years and to be outdone, their junior counterparts, the clean sweep by winning the Intermediate the run of good results keeps on coming. On Under 15 Sevens team went on to win their Doubles title. In the Senior competition, the weekend of the 20th and 21st of March, championship, cementing HBHS’s reputation Max Stephens as the defending champion 1800 competitors from across New Zealand as the best boys sevens rugby school in the narrowly lost in a tightly contested match, travelled to Hastings to compete as members country. and Kitt Douglasand Travis Palmer also of 48 different pipe bands at the New finished as runners up in the Senior Doubles. Zealand National Pipe Band Championships. ur school year had only just begun when Eight current students and six HBHS Old OYear 11 student, and newly-minted BHS teams also featured prominently Boys competed on March the 19th and National Open Water Champion, Quinn Hin the Waikato Regional Debating 20th at this event. Our students did very Boyle swam the length of Lake Taupo, a Competition. We sent eight teams, ranging well considering five of the students were literal marathon, in February. Quinn finished from Year 13 to Year 10, who competed in competing at their first National competition the 42km swim in just over 13 hours, battling the Junior (Year 11 and below) and Open with our senior players finishing 3rd overall in the cold lake temperatures and sunburn, divisions. At the end of three rounds, HBHS the Juvenile Grade. What is notable about and is one of the youngest ever competitors 5 (Hamish McKelvie, Josef Gillgren and this achievement is that they placed ahead to complete this event. He is a prolific fund Cam Sundararaj) and HBHS 7 (Daniel Dizon, of St Andrew’s College, and the last time a raiser when he competes, and has donated Alex Liu and Hithen Raaj) were 1st and 2nd North Island Juvenile Pipe Band achieved this to a wide range of charitable causes including respectively and faced off in the Junior feat was 14 years ago. Our learner students the Whakaari White Island burns victims, Final. This was won by HBHS 5 in a 2-1 split. placed 10th in the Juvenile Grade and Class the Australian bushfires, the Cancer Society HBHS 2 (Levi Pruden, Hitesh Malhotra and of 2020 Old Boy Patrick Chen finished 1st in and Otamarakau Primary School amongst Campbell Wood) and HBHS 1 (Logan Palmer, drumming in the Grade Two Street March others. In late-breaking news, Quinn Travis Palmer and Robert Hoskins) finished event. recently competed in the North Island Zone 2nd and 3rd respectively in the Open field and Championships and came away with a win in faced off in one of the semi-finals. This was i-o-rahi is a relatively new addition to our the 3.8km event and a silver in the 500m. won by HBHS 1 who faced their old foes, St Ksporting codes, but it is one where we Peter’s Cambridge 1, in the Grand Final. This have previously performed very well, and he first of our annual sporting exchanges was the same team that beat us at the end this year, after finishing 4th at the Waikato Twas contested with New Plymouth Boys’ of the schools’ competition last year. This Secondary Schools Championship, our High School, and it was a no contest, with year, we repeated our regional success in combined HGHS and HBHS team qualified for HBHS winning every fixture in cricket, beating them by a 3-2 split. A five person the National Tournament to be held at the touch, tennis and rugby sevens. The second development squad was named, which end of April. exchange of Term 1 was with Westlake Boys’ included Levi Pruden and Jovan Xin, and High School and the results were regrettably Levi was named as Most Promising Speaker, inally, congratulations to Jared Mann very different, with Westlake winning the with Jovan receiving a Highly Commended Fon his individual silver medal at the pre-season exchange 8 - 3. award. The Waikato Regional team was New Zealand Under 19 Elite Track Cycling also named and includes Travis Palmer and Championships held in Invercargill in the n March at the Torpedo 7 Mountain Biking Robert Hoskins, with Robert being named as 750m Sprint, and team bronze in the 3-man IClub Championships in Christchurch, two of the Best Speaker of the Tournament. Teacher Sprint.
High Achiever | April 2021 < 13 Well Being Day 2021
FRIDAY 12 MARCH 2021
he Well Being Day is now three years old, and in the COVID-19 era where Teveryday life is only one emergency press conference away from being upended, it has absolutely proven its worth for our Year 13 students. Our seniors were given a selection of workshops and presenters to choose from and spent the day learning invaluable life skills and self care techniques. Options included everything from cooking meals, budgeting, physical and mental health care, crafting distinctive C.V.’s through to learning how to stay safe on nights out on the town. The response to the day was resoundingly positive, and our Year 13 students were incredibly appreciative of the workshops Above: Gabe Robinson (left) and Joseph Ollington (right) sample their easy and healthy and the life skills being taught. The keynote cooking efforts. Below: From left, Thomas Hayward, Jarvis Buckell, Ben Trotter and Boston speaker was the incredible Sacha Coburn, Horwood study the fine art of crafting an effective C.V. founder and Chief Operational Officer of Coffee Culture, as well as a much sought after motivational speaker. A huge thank you must go to Mr Barney Killian and the Service Committee for the hours and hours of effort that went into organising the day and getting the right speakers and presenters in front of the boys. Kia kaha to you, sir!
Photography by Robuti Benetiti, Daniel Dowd and Elijah Shirley.
Thank you to the following presenters:
Tony Agar, Hamilton Budgeting Advisory Trust Suzie Fourie, University of Waikato, Community Care Hunter Moon, A young man’s guide to Below: Our own Mr Bair provides insights and expertise on managing stress, amongst other leadership things in his seminar on developing your own personal identity. Pienaar Pizo, Change your world with your mindset Mrs Naaz Shah, The road to sporting success and beyond Thomas Pearse & Mario Sasso, Making good decisions, School Community Officer, New Zealand Police Nick Read, The Foundations of Health and Fitness - a vehicle for wellbeing Mr Dan Bair, Crafting Your Own Identity Sandro Moto, Breathwork and human enhancement coach Andrea Bryant, Ace Your Application Nicola Roberts & Ben Anderson, Managing Your Money, Westpac Mrs Coralie Stoner Easy and Healthy Cooking
14 > High Achiever | April 2021 www.hbhs.school.nz Staff News
t the beginning of this year we for language and reading. The refreshing time as the Dean of Māori students and his congratulated Ms Caitlyn Brown on honesty and beautiful manners of her contributions to the Ngā Mangai Homework Aher marriage to Josh, and Miss Amber students are appreciated and she is enjoying Centre amongst many others. Mr Campbell Evemy on getting married to Cam. Mr Fraser becoming more familiar with the traditions Wood contributed in multiple ways and in Kilgour and his wife Kendra welcomed son and culture of HBHS multiple roles, first as a Year level Dean, and Arthur to their family and to Argyle House, then as the Director of Advanced Learning and over Easter, Mr Maurice Matthews and Mr Kyle Martin made the move south of the Programmes, where he was a driving force Mrs Alice Matthews celebrated the birth of a Bombays and joins the Technology Faculty as behind our successes in the Scholarship granddaughter. TCR of Graphics from Saint Peter’s College in examinations in recent years. He was Epsom. He has enjoyed managing the Year 9 also an active participant in our sporting We begin welcoming the staff Class of White Cricket team, and is looking forward to programme, helping to develop futsal and 2021, with Mr Joel Baker, our new Assistant getting to know all of the boys and boosting seeing our teams make their way to success Principal in charge of Curriculum and creativity within his subject area. on the National stage. We wish them every Achievement. Mr Baker comes to us from success in their new roles and thank them for Cambridge High School, and prior to that Ms Karlie Simmons joins the Social Sciences everything they have done for us. taught at Tauranga Boys’ College. As a Faculty from the University of Waikato and member of the HPW Faculty, he has already is teaching Social Studies and History. She is Leaving us at the end of this term is involved himself in basketball, running the really excited to be a part of our team and is Miss Josie Momm, who heads to the D League and managing a Year 9 basketball looking forward to getting to know more of Correspondence School after three years team. He is looking forward to settling into the parents as the year progresses. at HBHS teaching Mathematics, and being the school and getting to know as many an integral part of our school debating students and staff as possible. We also welcomed Ms Emma Chambers, Ms success. Miss Amber Evemy heads south to Mandy Fletcher, Ms Amy Grinter and Ms Christchurch where she will take up a role Ms Michelle Coursey joins HBHS from our Katrina Hartley. as an itinerant Music teacher after teaching sister school and is teaching in the English at HBHS for three years and performing in Faculty with two additional Social Studies Joining our support staff this year isMs countless groups and shows in countless classes. She is looking forward to being a Sheree Williamson who is working two different ways. We thank Mrs Karen part of our strong debating programme and days a week in the Health Centre. Mr Chris Cakebread for stepping in at short notice working with our talented speakers and Wells has joined the Science Faculty as a for the English Faculty this term, prior to the wants to help students improve their writing Technician. Mrs Raewyn Hallett started in arrival of Ms Coursey, Mrs Gemma Hickman and accuracy skills. Reception last year, and Ms Raewyn Hallett for teaching a term in the Maths Faculty and joined our Nursing team in 2020. Mr Inga Tamou for teaching Psychology while Mr Stephan Germishuys joins the Miss Van der Toorn was on maternity leave Mathematics Faculty fresh from Gore High Before we farewell our staff leaving at the with her daughter Ivah. Finally, we must, School in the deep south. He trained in end of Term 1, we must acknowledge two sadly, say goodbye to an absolute stalwart South Africa, so will fit right into his faculty very special staff members who left us at of our school, Mrs Sandy Scott. Mrs Scott of choice and will be teaching Year 9 and the end of 2020. Matua Toti West and Mr has been at HBHS for 23 years and two terms 10 classes. Mr Germishuys is very excited Campbell Wood headed to HGHS to take up and has worked tirelessly as an advocate for to have joined our school and is thoroughly Assistant Principal roles and we thank them hundreds of our learning support students. looking forward to getting involved in our for all that they contributed over their years When she started at HBHS, Mrs Scott was world here. at HBHS. Matua West was an instrumental going to fill in at Reception for Mrs Clark for figure in the multiple successes of our kapa 6 weeks, and our Year 9 Dean Mr Scottwas Mr Andrew Gibbs is our new Assistant haka group, Te Maurea Whiritoi, and we are still at primary school! We thank her for Principal in charge of Communications and hugely grateful for the countless hours he everything she has done to support students Organisation and hails from St Paul’s. He devoted to this group. We also thank him for and staff in her time here and wish her joins our contingent of Old Boys on the raising the profile of Te Reo Māori and our every success in her new ventures. She is an staff and is teaching Outdoor Education and Māori students at our school through his absolute treasure and we will miss her! Physical Education.
Ms Margaret Malan joins the English Faculty as the TCR of NCEA Internal Assessments after teaching at Sacred heart Girls’ College, Hamilton for 13 years. After completing her Masters Degree in South Africa she lectured at tertiary level and then a range of schools. She is looking forward to working with a range of students and developing their Above: From left, Mr Andrew Gibbs, Ms Karlie Simmons, Ms Amy Grinter, Mr Kyle Martin, Mr Joel confidence in English and nurturing a love Baker, Ms Emma Chambers, Ms Margaret Malan, Ms Mandy Fletcher and Ms Michelle Coursey.
High Achiever | April 2021 < 15 Father Son Breakfast
TUESDAY 9 MARCH
t our first Father and Son Breakfast for 2021, we welcomed our Year 9 families Ato HBHS to share great food and make connections. The guest speaker was former All Black and now-HBHS teacher and coach, Mr Todd Miller, who shared his insights into what it takes to be a good father and a good son. We hope you enjoy our images from this very special morning. Above: Hadley Bryant (left) and Guy Bryant Above: Ethan Scott (right) and Matthew Scott
Above: Logan Thompson (left) and Grant Thompson Above: Conner Kennedy (right) and Paul Kennedy
Above: Guest speaker Mr Todd Miller Above: Riley Turner (right) and Nick Turner Above: From left, Angus Neale, Drew Knuckey and Camden Marsh enjoy their morning with their Dads
Above: Jack Thornley (right) and Michael Thornley Above: Vicente Mendez-Rea (right) and Simon Mendez-Ponce
Above: Wyatt Wink (right) and Michael Wink Above: Noah Harrison Old (left) and Cameron Old Above: Liam West (right) and James West
16 > High Achiever | April 2021 www.hbhs.school.nz Uniform Caps Through the Decades – how times changed . . . Polio epidemic closes Hamilton Boys’ High Worn by Murray Keenan Initially worn with schools for more than 10 Fly the flag! School House System
pride as part of the to represent your country or a group to show your Our House system in 1959 was first compulsory daily weeks - 1925! constituted as follows; McCaw (first uniform. support. A gathering point. Chairman of the Board of Governors), The start of the School year was delayed until mid- Moving forward to School (Looking forward to the advent of O.B. HHS 1925 - 28 April, due to an outbreak of poliomyelitis that swept the 60’s and 70’s, a a school hostel), and Wilson and Tait Worn by T. E. Mills the country. period of social after our first two Headmasters.
change was Today we are divided into 6 Houses happening, and comprising Wilson and Tait, Argyle
Senior Student (Hostel), plus 3 subsequent Headmasters
Body / Student — Baigent, Taylor and Steel. O.B. HHS 1928 Council were given Worn by Archie Brown Wilson Eben Wilson, MA. Headmaster, 34 a voice for the first years. Philosophical. Visionary. Loved life time, allowing for and all that was beautiful and had a kindly discussion and tolerance. eventually abolition of cap wearing Tait Better known as HD, Harold David O.B. HHS 1933 from the daily Tait, MA. Headmaster, 20 years. Excelled Worn by John Anderson uniform. During the Second World War the Labour in Sporting & Academic Fields. Empathetic Teacher. 1958, he was They are now Minister of Education, H.G.R. Mason, introduced awarded the OBE. considered a regulations on honouring the flag in schools.
coveted award for Baigent Aubrey Baigent, MA Canterbury,
Sporting and B. Com, Dip.Ed. Headmaster, 10 years. O.B. HBHS 1958 - 62 Cultural success The Ceremony of Honouring the Flag Regulations Strengths in sport and drama were put to Worn by Marc Shaw In a pre-internet era, the during a Students Correspondence School used to regularly broadcast came into force in Schools during November good use until his retirement in 1970. School life. a short lesson on the radio, for students who lived 1941. The Ministry of Education required state Argyle Our present hostel was opened in in remote areas. This amounted to about 40 lessons Excerpt from the schools to 'observe the ceremony of honouring 1965 with 80 boarders, in Argyle Street. It per month. Once the country’s entire school roll Hamiltonian – 1924 – was the only boys' state boarding became confined to home by the polio epidemic, the flag' to commemorate several days. Some of ANZAC DAY PARADE establishment between Auckland and O.B. HBHS 1961 the Correspondence School had to step up to these days, such as Waitangi Day and Anzac Day, New Plymouth and eastwards to ‘Our only official provide 40 radio classes every week. Worn by William Spencer parade so far this are still commemorated, while others like Empire Gisborne. year was held on Past students and teachers recall how the lessons Anzac Day. Owing to Day and Dominion Day are no longer observed. Taylor Richard Taylor (always known as were also sent out in green canvas envelopes, to be the train strike, the Dick), BA, B.Sc. Headmaster, 10 years. country pupils were completed and returned to local schools, where During the 1980’S regulations relating to school Encouraged a philosophy of respect for absent, but all the teachers sat in empty classrooms to mark them. the individual, a winning formula. town boys were O.B. HBHS 1965 ceremonies became voluntary, though here at present, and both in Because polio affected children more than adults, Steel AG (Tony) Steel, MA. Headmaster, Donated by Jim Bennett appearance and in Hamilton Boys’ High School we continue to raise the entire population was not in ‘lock-down’, 10 years. ex All Black, Member of conduct, were a although children were confined to home and all credit to the School. our flag in recognition of significant events, Parliament. Dedicated and successful, public gatherings were cancelled. Families who After this parade we people and daily observance. recognised for his service to education. were taken to task by were unlucky enough to have a child contract polio
a correspondent of however faced the added stress of quarantine. Principal HBHS 1970’s the "Waikato Times" for not removing our Ian Thomas Young Johnston O.B. 1925-29 Head Prefect's Foreword Hamiltonian December 1958 This little silver pin has had Worn by Anthony Street caps during the quite a journey since being sounding of the "Last ‘In 1925 we had this big infantile paralysis epidemic ‘The school was again chosen as the neatest and most presented to its original owner. It
Post." But we were and we never started school until April. My attractive in Hamilton, a tribute to the vision of our came to Archives via the NZ quite in order, as we introduction to secondary school was by previous headmaster, Mr Tait. The erection of a new Navy, who found it in with were on a military correspondence. It used to be posted to us and we several donated items. It made flagpole and the construction of the long-awaited brick parade.’ its way back to HBHS in 2011! would need to post it back. In those days it only cost entrances have added to the general appearance of the pennies or tuppence.” O.B. HBHS 1970 school. HHS Lapel Pin c. 1930’s
Hamilton Boys’ High School Foundation Old Boys b David Braithwaite 1950 - 1955 HBHS The
It is with much Treasured stories from the past. . . sadness that we acknowledge
and share with you the passing TWO SCHOOLS: 1955 of our most treasured and Hamilton Boys’ High School respected
Band c. 1960 Old Boy... the wonderful Excerpt from the Hamiltonian Cadet’s Report – 1960 David Braithwaite. Our School Emblem. . .
‘A period of overcast weather during the first week A Foundation The star represents of school made military drill a little more bearable, David (L) & his good mate Ron Student and excellence. but this relief was soon offset by the cacophony Wiberg (R) addressing a School inaugural Prefect which was emitted from the gymnasium changing Assembly, in the uniform of the The virtue of arete, of room. It was found that the newly formed pipe band of HBHS in 1955, day, 2011. This sums up their striving to be the very best humour, passion and was responsible for this, but good work by Mr Fell when the then HHS one can be, in every part of commitment to the School. soon produced a rapid transformation and the pipe was split into HBHS our journey. band is now a very real asset to the cadet battalion and HGHS, David remained a true and loyal
of the school.’ The success of the Pipe Band supporter of the school for the entirety of his life. The sash, through continues today with a talented group of pipers and the middle of the crest, represents the love and drummers proudly representing the school and An accomplished Old Boy who went on to become a care we must feel for each winning competitions at National level. successful businessman responsible for the other, and which we must development of Centre Place, the completion of the demonstrate through our The long – planned for separation of the boys’ and girls’ Waikato Stadium, who served the city as a Councillor focus on service to others. schools became a reality. and as Mayor and was an ongoing supporter of and
Archivist n. donor to the Hamilton Gardens. Sapiens fortunam fingit sibi In 1954, due to an increase in the school roll, a partial move began. A wise man carves A keeper of information, who David was also the founding member, alongside his rd his own fortune. First Assistant Mr Senior and 10 Masters took the 3 and assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, great mate Ron Wiberg, of the HBHS Foundation th 'He Tangata maarama 4 form boys to the new Peachgrove campus. maintains control over, and provides access to and was arguably our most dedicated Old Boy. A maana e whakairo toona records and archives determined to have long-term loving husband, dedicated father, Poppa and great In 1955, all the boys crossed the river and the Hamilton ara' value. friend. David's achievements have been vast and his Boys’ High School was established. passion for HBHS beyond measure. It was therefore Mindful words that are For stories from days gone by or The Minister of Education formally opened the School on fitting that David left this world piped from the still important to apply to 4th February 1955, with a school roll of 556. donations of memorabilia, please Waikato Cathedral Church of St Peter by a HBHS our everyday lives now, call. . . From this point on the history of the Hamilton High Piper and his passing was marked both with the HCC in 2021. Schools, the activities of the boys’ and girls’ schools are flag flying at half-mast and a rousing HBHS Haka recorded separately. performed as he departed. Excerpt from the 1950’s Memories, David Excerpt from the 1961 Jubilee Booklet. Lynette Burroughs Kua hinga te totara i te wao nui a Tane... A mighty Armishaw. OB 1954 – 1958 “One lasting memory ARCHIVIST “What with the noise of the machines and workmen, totara has fallen. of the boys’ is exploring the gully, building Phone 07 8530440 ext. 2406 the dust in the summer, the ankle-deep slush in tracks through the swamp, using any building winter and the absence of any type of heating, 1954 Hours Tuesday 9.00am - 2.00pm, David Joseph Braithwaite OBE materials they could get their hands on. The was a hard year for all.” Wednesday / Thursday 9.00am - 1.30pm 16 April 1937 - 18 March 2021 builders eventually kicked up a fuss when good timber started to disappear.”