School News

HBHS student Regan Ware has been named in the NZSS A Squad, while Wade McLean-Te Huia has a place in the Barbarians – the B Squad.  After a long period of selection, the A and B squads of the 2012 NZSS Rugby team have been named and will begin training together this weekend.  From March until as recently as last weekend, over a hundred hopeful school boy rugby players have been vying for places on the NZSS team.  Last weekend 58 boys trained together in Rotorua, where final team selections were made.  The A squad goes on camp today, preparing for a test against Samoa next Saturday and Australia, the week after. 

During the second week of December the HBHS Premier Touch Team won the Secondary School National Touch Tournament. The team beat Rotorua Boys 5-4 in the final, to become National champions for the second consecutive year.

The attraction of studying in a University-focused city was the deciding factor in Hamilton Boys' High School 2010 Dux Vidit Singh's decision to head to Dunedin.  The $5,000 University of Otago Dux Scholarship recipient says "Dunedin is a great place to experience student life.  It's almost as if the whole place has been geared up for students."

Vidit was accepted into Otago's sought-after Health Sciences First Year course.  "I wanted to study Medicine and I thought Otago had a relaxed atmosphere, but at the same time a high level of education."  The health Sciences course is a prerequisite for entry to the Otago Medical School and several other disciplines Otago offers, such as Dentistry, Physiotherapy and Pharmacy. Vidit says that he appreciated the way the course's different papers in Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Human Body Systems integrate to make everything about the human body 'fit into place.'

It has been fantastic to be Head Boy at such a great school. The main responsibilities I’ve undertaken this year have been providing leadership and support for the students and prefects that I work with. There aren’t any set jobs as such, which means that you are at everyone’s service for different things. I’ve had a chance to learn to run meetings effectively, as well as help out where necessary.