School News

HBHS hosted the 2011 Maori and Pacific Island Awards in the school hall last night.  The evening was very well attended, and a range of performances were put on for our visitors.  A particular highligh was the fantastic guest speaker, Lale Ieremia, who is a Director of Arrow International Construction Group. He was involved in an inspirational interview by Rahiti Teokotai-White (pictured right) about his youth, education, family and business.

Award Winners:

Sport

Junior winner: Matiu Pouri-Lane   (Wrestling)

Senior winner: Joseph Webber    (Rugby, Touch)

Year 11 

The 2011 Visual Art Exhibition held yesterday evening was an opportunity for our Year 11, 12 and 13 students to show the culmination of their year's work - the bulk of the course - which is worth 12 credits at each respective level.  The works were completed in the following media: painting, design, architectural design, fashion design, book illustration and photography.  This represents an impressive breadth of work and talent within the school.  Approximately 70 students were involved in last evening's offering.

Everyone who came to the exhibition was delighted with the quality of the art works that they saw; Mr Sutherland received consistently positive feedback for the boys.  It was great to see the staff support for our budding artists as well.  The Visual Arts Exhibition is the last of a series of events put on by HBHS to promote and support the Arts in 2011.  The highlight of the year for the Art Department itself was 'In Pictura Est'... and workshops provided for local primary and intermediate schools, as well as the sustained community links around the 'Transfusion' Art Competition.

Congratulations to the Year 10 leaders for 2011. These young men will assume a range of responsibilities in the coming weeks to support the smooth running of HBHS.  The Year 10 leaders fill the roles left by the prefects, once the senior students have completed their year's academic work and begin examination study.

‘My Father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.’    Clarence Budington Kelland

Congratulations to our 2012 Academic Honours students.  These students attained at least an Excellence endorsement for Level 2 NCEA during 2012, and many have also received outstanding grades in the Cambridge International Examinations.