The King’s Collegian 2020 AUCKLAND | NEW ZEALAND | VOLUME CXIX Contents Small House Music 48 People of King’s 3 Asia Committee 50 Houses 171 Chess Club 52 Message from the Headmaster 4 Averill House 172 Debating 53 Message from the Chair 6 Greenbank House 175 Kapa Haka 56 King’s College Staff 7 Major House 178 Library 58 Scholars and Prefects 10 Marion Bruce House 181 Creative Writing 60 Staff Photo 12 Marsden House 184 Visual Arts 62 Middlemore House 187 Technology Department 74 Parnell House 190 13 Maths Olympiad 77 Colours Awards Peart House 193 Extracurricular 78 2020 Colours Awards 14 School House 196 Academic Colours 14 Selwyn House 199 Sporting Colours 14 Sport 79 St John’s House 202 Cultural Colours 16 Taylor House 205 Head of Sport’s Report 80 Community Service Colours 16 Te Pūtake Lodge 208 Sports Roll of Honour 82 Service Colours 17 Archery 90 Patches 17 Athletics 92 211 Badges 18 Class of 2020 Badminton 95 Head Boy’s Address 212 Basketball 97 Head Girl’s Address 213 19 Clay Target Shooting 99 Campus life King’s Class of 2020 214 Cricket 100 Heart of the College 20 From Year 0 King’s School to Cross-Country 111 Round Square 22 Year 13 King’s College 245 CrossFit 113 Media Studies 23 Autographs 246 Cycling 114 Counselling and Wellbeing 24 Football 117 Health, Fitness and Wellbeing 25 Golf 124 King’s Careers Centre 26 Hockey 125 Māori and Pasifika students 27 Netball 132 +Group 30 Orienteering 136 Out and About 31 Rowing 138 Phillips Society 32 Rugby 144 King’s College in Lockdown 33 Sailing 156 COVID-19 and Psychology 35 Snow Sports 158 Squash 159 Cultural Life 37 Swimming 160 Tennis 161 Cultural Activities 38 Touch 166 Music at King’s 39 Triathlon/Duathlon 167 Glee Club 47 Water Polo 168 Acknowledgements We acknowledge and thank all contributors for their input into the Editor: Georgia Moselen-Sloog. 2020 edition of The King’s Collegian. Photography: PhotoLife, Simon Watts (BWMedia Photography Ltd). Every care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information Design and Layout: Ria Little. provided by the contributors who are each afforded an opportunity to Printing: SOAR Print. review their copy before the publication is sent to print. The King’s Collegian | 2020 1 People of King’s The King’s Collegian | 2020 3 Message from the Headmaster While 2020 marks itself in history for all the reasons and events which we know too well, it might be lost on some that it also marks the passing of one of the greatest educators and educational influencers in the world. This year, Ken Robinson passed away and I do not intend to mourn his passing, rather celebrate the influence of an educational maestro. Ken’s primary message focused on the need for creativity in the overwhelming pressure for data-based leadership and conformity. He argued that we all need the content of the sciences and mathematics alongside the essentials of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship. In my mind the best inventors, developers and pioneers have that: the ability to know what they know laced with the ability and propensity to see what others can’t. The first principle is this: that human beings are naturally different and diverse. Educational systems such as that dictated by the American No Child Left Behind Act are based on conformity, not diversity. What schools are encouraged to do is to find out what kids can do across a very narrow spectrum of achievement. If you sit students down, hour after hour, doing low-grade, laborious work, don’t be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a SIMON LAMB, HEADMASTER. psychological condition. They’re suffering from childhood. Students prosper best with a broad curriculum that celebrates their various talents, not just a small range of them. And, by the way, the Arts aren’t just important because they improve Maths scores. They’re important because they speak to parts of the children’s being which are otherwise untouched. The second principle that drives human life flourishing is curiosity. If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will often learn without any further assistance. Children are natural learners. Curiosity is the engine of achievement. “ We all create our own Then to add to this, there is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lives through this lifeblood of the success of schools, and teaching is a creative profession. Teaching, properly conceived, is not a delivery restless process of system. You know you’re not there just to pass on received information. Great teachers automatically do that, but what great imagining alternatives teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke and engage. You see, in the end, education is about learning. People can spend an and possibilities. One of awful lot of time discussing education without ever discussing learning. The whole point of education is to get people to learn. the roles of education is And the third principle is this: that human life is inherently creative. It’s why we all have different résumés. We create our to awaken and develop lives, and we can recreate them as we go through them. It’s the common currency of being a human being. It’s why human these powers of creativity. culture is so interesting, diverse and dynamic. We all create our own lives through this restless process of imagining alternatives and possibilities. One of the roles of education is to awaken and develop these powers of creativity. Instead, what we sometimes see in New Zealand and beyond is a culture of standardisation. The point is that education is not a mechanical system. It’s a human system. It’s about people; people who either do want to learn or don’t want to learn. ” 4 The King’s Collegian | 2020 People of King’s | Colours Awards | Campus life | Cultural life | Sport | Houses | Class of 2020 The real role of leadership in education is not, and should not be, command “and control. The real role of leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility. And if you create that, people will rise to it and achieve things that you completely did not anticipate and couldn’t have expected.” There is a place in America called Death Valley. It is the hottest, To this end I thank the Board for their support of, commitment driest place in the USA and nothing grows there because it to and investment in King’s College. They are a dynamic group doesn’t rain. In the winter of 2004, it rained in Death Valley – who are united in their intention to seek the best outcomes and seven inches (18cm) over a very short period. And in the spring development of the College. I make special mention of Chairman of 2005, there was a phenomenon; the whole floor of Death Simon Power and the support he offers both the College and Valley was carpeted in flowers for a while. What it proved is this: myself as Headmaster. His passion for King’s is both palpable Death Valley isn’t dead, it’s dormant. Right beneath the surface and pragmatic. are seeds of possibility waiting for the right conditions to come I also issue tremendous acknowledgement and appreciation to about, and with organic systems, if the conditions are right, life is the many King’s College community groups and affiliates who inevitable. It happens all the time. work tirelessly for the benefit of the College. I especially include If you take a school and change the conditions, give people a the Friends’ Committee, the Foundation Board, the KCOCA and different sense of possibility, a different set of expectations the Floreat Semper, to name a few. and a broader range of opportunities, cherish and value the The final word must go the students of King’s College, of course. relationships between teachers and learners, you offer people On so many occasions, they have proved their worth. I thank the discretion to be creative and to innovate in what they do and them for their commitment, their irrepressible energy and their a school that was once bereft will spring to life. sense of grace and decorum, particularly to those who are Great leaders know that. The real role of leadership in education leaving this year. I also thank them for reminding us teachers is not, and should not be, command and control. The real role of often of what really matters and why we are really here. As Ken leadership is climate control, creating a climate of possibility. And Robinson would suggest, each is naturally different and diverse if you create that, people will rise to it and achieve things that and that would be one of their greatest strengths. you completely did not anticipate and couldn’t have expected. To understand all this would be to understand and celebrate the Virtus Pollet. positive changes that we have made in recent years at King’s Simon Lamb, College. This year, more than any other in my career, creativity Headmaster. has enabled possibility and progress in the face of significant interruption. And that’s what we all need; it’s what our students need to flourish, to floreat, into their future. The King’s Collegian | 2020 5 Message from the Chair Well, 2020 was a year that will not be quickly forgotten – COVID-19 hung over the College and the rest of New Zealand, making it a year in which many and varied challenges were placed in front of King’s.