WESTLAKE BOYS HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK 2014 WESTLAKE BOYS HIGH SCHOOL 2014 2014 PREFECTS Back Row: Cody Williams, Caleb Gemmell, Tayne Pryde, Harry Bauer 4th Row: Danyon Morgan-Puterangi, Matthew Bilton, Kalani Partridge-Fruean, Mitchell Dye, Oliver Fetherston, Carl Razon, Mostafa Youssef, Jeman Park, Jacob Siermans, Danial Valikhani 3rd Row: Wesley Healiss, Jayden King, Bradley Leuila, Judd Baker, Ugo Pierantoni, Yanni Wetzell, Sam Sherriff, James Pearce, Olivier Stroomer, Campbell Wang, Cameron Nayler 2nd Row: Rohan Luthra, Ben Partridge, Nathan Regal, Edward Jelley, Matthew Roets, Ray Ong, Omar Hassan, Jono King, Joshua Hansen, Leewaine Scott Front Row: Radi Baboe, Benedict Tan, Mac Jordan, Mr D Ferguson (Headmaster), Christopher Hagan (Deputy Head Boy), Michael Lough (Head Boy), Samuel Brotherton (Deputy Head Boy), Mr J Cachopa (Deputy Headmaster), Joseph Sajjaphanroi, Chad James, Benett Tan Absent: Brett Bakkerus, Michael Coetzer, Callum Blackburn, Matt Southey CONTENTS FORMAL REPORTS CULTURE Headmaster's Report 2 Library, Future Problem Solving 96 Head Boy's Report 7 Culture Week 97 Board of Trustees Report 8 Chinese Night, Korean Evening 98 High Achievers 9 Nga Manu Korero,- Positive Thinking 99 Successes at Westlake 12 School Production 100 E.R.O. Visit 14 Year 13 Ball 102 Staff 2014 16 Debating 104 Amnesty International, Robotics 105 FACULTIES Art 106 Art History, Careers 20 SPORT Commerce 21 Badminton 112 Computing 22 Adventure Racing, Chess 113 Drama 23 Basketball 114 ESOL, FPS 24 Cricket 116 English 25 Cross Country 118 Gateway 26 Cycling 120 International Department 27 Dragon Boating, Duke of Edinburgh 121 Languages 28 Football 122 Learner Support, Ways of Seeing 29 Hockey 124 Mathematics 30 Golf, Petanque 126 Media Studies 31 Lacrosse 127 Music 32 Orienteering, Sailing 128 Outdoor Education 35 Road Running 129 Outdoor Pursuits Centre 36 Rowing 130 Peer Mentoring, Peer Tutoring 37 Rugby 132 Physical Education 38 Rugby League 134 Science 39 Skiing, Snowboarding 135 Social Science 40 Squash, Surfing 136 Sports Institute 41 Swimming 137 Technology 42 Table Tennis 138 Te Tari Maori 43 Rugby Sevens, Ultimate Frisbee 139 Tennis 140 HOUSES Touch Rugby 141 Hood 44 Track and Field 142 Pupuke 51 Volleyball 144 Murchison 58 Waterpolo 145 Smale 65 NZ Representatives 146 Ururoto 72 Sports Teams A-Z 147 Stanley 79 Groups A-Z 182 WW01 86 OVERSEAS TRIPS WESTLAKERS Languages Exchange to France 87 Westlakers Report 184 Music Tour to Europe 88 Old Boys Profiles 190 Hockey Tour to Melbourne 90 Football Tour to Spain 91 Language Trip tp China 92 TO FINISH Long Serving Staff 198 Cricket Tour to South Africa 93 Editor's Note, Property 200 Distance Running Tour to Africa 94 Staff Travel Awards 95 FORMAL REPORTS WESTLAKE BOYS HIGH SCHOOL 1 Mr Ferguson speaks to Danyon Morgan-Puterangi, Charlie Crabbe and Vili Tu'ipulotu. HEADMASTER'S REPORT HEADMASTER'S ANNUAL REPORT FROM SENIOR PRIZEGIVING 2014 has been another year to remember for our school. Planet”, we hosted the New Zealand Schools’ KBB Festival and the New Zealand Boys’ Schools’ Deputy Headmasters’ Conference, we So much happens at Westlake Boys that it is easy to forget some of our had some more exams, Nigel Latta came and spoke at the school, we accomplishments, as well as taking them for granted. Our young men won a few national titles, we won a few Auckland titles, we appeared achieve so much on a weekly basis. It has been a pleasure this year to on another live TV 1st XV game where we beat Rosmini in the 4th report on so many of their achievements in the Newsletter every Friday minute of injury time, we had the start of the Westlakers $100 Club, for their parents and our wider community. the start of the new gymnasium, a new astro turf , sports teams from Here is a quick summary of some notable things from 2014 so far: Chile and Tonga visited us…. I could go on. And who knows what Term One included news on our best ever exam results, and we had the Term Four will bring. measles, we hosted the New Zealand Cambridge awards for the first Who wants to work in or attend a school where not much happens? time, had our first ever lock down emergency rehearsal, three reunions in I know there is a lot of disruption, I know we ask a lot of our students Australia, Duncan Garner at our Father Son breakfast, and said goodbye and I know how hard our fantastic staff work. But it makes our school to three staff who had contributed a combined 60 years to our school. a terrific place to be part of, where we try to create opportunities for In Term Two we welcomed ERO as well as Jerome Kaino. We had our students that they enjoy, take advantage of and learn from so they first ever Knight, Sir John Hood who, in Term Three, hosted a dinner become a better person. for us in Rhodes House at Oxford University. The drama department Henry David Thoreau the American philosopher said that “Success presented “Once On Chunuk Bear”, the 1st XV were live on TV, we usually comes to those people who are too busy to be looking for it”. squeezed in some exams, Ray Ong won Westlake’s Got Talent, Jayden We should all take credit this year for the seal of approval we received King won the Auckland Maori Speech Contest. We hosted the North from the Education Review Office. They were incredibly impressed Shore schools’ Kapa Haka Festival and we finished the term wishing 130 by our staff and students alike and the phrase that stays with me of our musicians all the very best for their trip of a lifetime to Europe, five months after they have gone, is that we are a kind school and the biggest ever overseas trip we have ever undertaken, along with they hadn’t necessarily expected this is in a large boys’ school. They Westlake Girls. talked to me further about this at a debrief meeting and commented Term Three saw a brand new prospectus translated into four languages, that they noticed people are nice to each other in all areas of the a new school promotional video, there was “A Return To The Forbidden school. Again, this is something that will be taken for granted by The trophies to be presented at the Sportsman's Dinner. The Headmaster with the Junior Cross Country Team at Auckland Champs. 2 WESTLAKE BOYS HIGH SCHOOL FORMAL REPORTS HEADMASTER'S REPORT The Prefects are announced at School Assembly. most people here. We treat each other well. Occasionally there are proud of and the 125 Scholarships our young men achieved at the end disagreements, there are bound to be with two and a half thousand of last year were very much the icing on the cake. This placed us in the of us working here every day, but I like to think that when there are, top three schools in New Zealand, closely behind Auckland Grammar we deal with them sensibly and move on. School and Wellington College. How brilliant it is that there are three boys’ schools sitting at the top of the Scholarship league table. Thank The Education Review Office described our school as positive, you to Miss Harland for her leadership of our scholarship programme. settled and as being a very high performing school, which was We are looking forward to more successes again next year. reflected in them telling us that they wouldn’t be back to see us for another five years. Our young men showed a sense of belonging, Our top seven scholars at our Scholars’ Assembly this year achieved show pride in their school and perform at a high level in Sport, Arts, 38 Scholarships. This has never been done before. Well done to Sam Culture and Leadership. They said a lot more and whilst we like to Walsh, our Dux for 2013, Jesse Medcalf, our Proxime Accessit, and think that Westlake is a happy, high achieving institution, it is nice to the other students in the top six: James Rankin, Tom Wang, Kevin have it confirmed by people who go into a lot of schools. Howe, Max Rogers and Sam Lie. Also for the first time, we had a Level 3 NCEA student achieve 102 Excellence credits, an incredible Academic achievement from Joel Zaia. This is my fifth Prizegiving as Headmaster and each year I have been In our strategic plan five years ago and our subsequent annual plans, very proud to be able to report on us achieving our best every exam we had set very detailed, carefully thought through goals. Our most results. I’m delighted that this has happened again this year. recent five year plan, that we have spent a long time on this year, now The headline combined pass rates of 97% at IGCSE or level 1, 95% at talks of us improving our exam results every year. We know that this AS level or level 2 and 93% at A2 or level 3 are something to be really is getting harder, an inevitable consequence of the high pass rates we Some of the Westlake Student Coaches of 2014. FORMAL REPORTS WESTLAKE BOYS HIGH SCHOOL 3 The boys support the 1st XV in the North Harbour Final against Rosmini College at North Harbour Stadium. The challenge I give to all of our senior students is to try and make the at premier grade, we can be proud of our sporting efforts this year. 2014 results our best ever. What they need to focus on individually are The 1st XV won the North Harbour title for the third year in a row after their own results.