AUCKLAND | NEW ZEALAND | VOLUME CXV The King’s Collegian 2016 The King’s Collegian | 2016 | Volume CXV Canice McElroy (Year 13, Middlemore) The King’s Collegian 2016 AUCKLAND | NEW ZEALAND | VOLUME CXV Contents People of King’s 3 Visual Arts 61 Cross Country and Design 67 Middle Distance Running 135 Address from the Headmaster 4 Photography 71 Cycling 138 Chairman’s Address 5 Math Olympiad 73 Equestrian 140 King’s College personnel 7 Technology Department 75 Football 141 Golf 149 Academic success 11 Hockey 150 Houses 77 Half Colours and Full Colours 12-13 Netball 159 Averill House 78 Orienteering 162 Greenbank House 80 Rowing 163 Major House 82 Campus life 15 Rugby 171 Marsden House 84 Heart of the College - our Chapel 16 Sailing 182 Middlemore House 86 Community Service at King’s 18 Skiing 183 King’s Mid-Winter Formal Parnell House 88 20 Squash 184 Peart House Counselling and Wellbeing at King’s 26 90 Swimming 185 School House Careers Centre 27 92 Tennis 186 PIHA 28 Selwyn House 94 Touch 193 Special Assemblies 29 St John’s House 96 Triathlon and Duathlon 194 Out and about 31 Taylor House 98 Water polo Te Putake Lodge 100 195 Cultural life 33 Sport 103 King’s Class of 2016 199 Cultural activities 34 Head Boy’s Address 200 Music at King’s 35 Head of Sport’s report 104 House Music 42 Sports Roll of Honour 106 Head Girl’s Address 201 Glee Club 45 Special Awards 107 King’s Class of 2016 202 Senior Drama 48 Sports Prizes and Awards 111 Autographs 230 Junior Drama 50 Archery 117 Debating 52 Athletics 118 Kapa Haka 54 Badminton 120 Library 56 Basketball 122 Literacy week 57 Clay Target Shooting 126 Creative writing at King’s 59 Cricket 127 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We acknowledge and thank all contributors for their input into the 2016 edition of The King’s Collegian. EDITORS: Ariane Adam and John Bean PHOTOGRAPHY: PhotoLife, Simon Watts (BWMedia Photography Ltd.), Jessie Chester, Danielle Harpur and Leah White DESIGN: MOSHA PRINT: Fuji Xerox New Zealand People of King’s People of King’s | Academic success | Campus life | Cultural life | Houses | Sport | Class of 2016 Message from the Headmaster developing their potential. Every opportunity the school I start this end-of-year creates or provides to accentuate a student’s ability is to have long-term benefits to the student themselves. Every dissertation by acknowledging opportunity taken at this level has future national and the students of our College. They international impact. I understand and acknowledge the are an impressive cohort and, tremendous impact a school and its teachers have on the development of teenagers who, at the age they are, are in my belief, have the ability to so very impressionable and influenced. To understand this realise the most significant of is to understand the imperative of providing a top quality achievements both collectively education, every day. and individually. They are eager In this respect I appreciate and deeply value the school’s to learn, engaged and responsive. commitment to “providing the best all round education it is possible to attain”. This statement remains prophetic and imperative, as equally relevant to the history of the school as it is to the future. It is on this foundation that we have established innovations and developments for the future of While my arrival at King’s College has been relatively recent, King’s College. the students have made quite an impression and I am proud to be advocating their position and quality. In this school are the future leaders, developers, explorers, innovators, performers, sporting heroes, academics and In many regards King’s College has the responsibility to direction establishers of New Zealand and the World. In this prepare its students for a dynamic and unknown future. school lies such potential that one accepts a heightened Concurrently, we seek to maintain and instill in our young responsibility to provide to them the best education. people the traditions and values of King’s College and all that an Anglican schooling seeks to realise. While, notionally, I, for one, am very excited by both the responsibility and these intentions appear contradictory I believe that we can the aspiration. achieve both. We seek for our students to be venturing in to Virtus Pollet. the world with all the skill, knowledge and abilities required for them to flourish both in New Zealand and beyond. We Simon Lamb Headmaster also aspire for them to go out into the world with a strong foundation, the values and beliefs of an Anglican faith. One train of thought would be that, once this is achieved, King’s College has succeeded in all that the school is required to accomplish. My belief is that the responsibility is well described in these terms but, in fact, is far greater than that. In looking to the past one can acknowledge the vast array of former King’s College students attending this school and the influence that they have had, or currently have, on New Zealand society and that of the world. It is not hard to find King’s College Collegians instrumental in the many dynamics and influencers of domestic and international issues. At a glance we can acknowledge that we celebrated two in the past two terms in awarding Collegian of the Year to Simon Moore, and an Honours Tie to Sir Rob Fenwick. Therefore, one can easily argue that, in the current student cohort exists future national and international leaders. So, if King’s College has in its current and future enrolments the leaders of New Zealand and the World, the school then must ensure it takes every opportunity to extend and develop the thinking and academic capability of each student seriously. As a school prerogative, the student’s ability to learn and develop his or her own sense of self is an imperative intention. Every day the school should be providing the opportunity for all students to be maximising and SIMON LAMB AND ROSS GREEN 4 Message from our Chairman those connections extend right throughout the wider King’s As I reflect back over 2016, it’s community. We are immensely grateful to him. been another busy year in the There have also been some changes to the Board this year life of the College. It will be with the departure of Garth Poole, Kay Hawk and Clare Litten. Our Trust deed provides for a four-year term of office remembered as a year of change which may be extended by agreement but boards must for two notable reasons. constantly be “refreshed” with new members who bring with them new energy and new thinking. Our three retiring members have all served the College with dedication and commitment during their term of office and have been very At the end of Term 1 we said goodbye to our Headmaster generous with their time and expertise. Michael Leach after a short but distinguished term and at At our 2015 College prizegiving I talked about a number of the beginning of Term 2 Headmaster Simon Lamb joined new initiatives that were being introduced in 2016. Perhaps us from Takapuna Grammar School with his wife Catherine. the most notable of those was the introduction of girls And very shortly thereafter we welcomed the newest into Year 11 for the first time. As a result, we now have an member of the extended King’s family, as young George extra Year group of girls and, a record number of girls at Lamb took up residence at the College. King’s. The change was welcomed by our staff and has been It was also the year when we farewelled our long-serving well received by the boys in the senior school, and well chaplain, the Reverend Warner Wilder, after 28 years supported by our King’s community. of absolutely devoted service to our College. We The other significant change was the establishment of a acknowledge that the time has finally come for Warner to separate residential facility for Year 9 Boarders: Te Pūtake move on and to direct some of his boundless energy, and Lodge. I appreciate that this represents a significant that wonderful zest for life he so obviously possesses, in the departure from the traditional King’s boarding model and direction of Mervis and their four very gorgeous, but very I’m sure there are a number of Old Collegians who might busy young children. question the need for it. For me the new Year 9 boarding During his time as chaplain at King’s, the “Rev” has touched concept is an example of adjusting to the evolving needs of the lives of many who have passed through the College and our community. SIMON LAMB AND ROSS GREEN The King’s Collegian | 2016 5 People of King’s | Academic success | Campus life | Cultural life | Houses | Sport | Class of 2016 I think the challenge for traditional schools like King’s is to distill the values that underpin our traditions and to “It is our hope that King’s has hold dear to those values while being able to meet the changing needs of our community. To be perfectly frank, prepared you well, academically whenever I hear someone start a sentence with “back in of course, but perhaps more my day”, I move quickly to change the subject. The world importantly that we have taught is a very different place “these days” and thankfully so is you the simple but the most King’s College. important lessons of simple And finally to our departing Year 13 students, on behalf Christian values...” of the Board, I extend our very best wishes.