School News

Congratulations to Steven French, Rory Donovan and Daniel Johnson who came third in the country for a secondary school team website in the "TVNZ6 Netguide School Multimedia Challenge". The team travelled to the TVNZ building in Auckland for the awards ceremony which was a hive of eager finalists. This prestigious event is hotly contested from students around the country, many of whom have been designing website for years. This was the first year these boys had learnt how to code and layout a web site and their entry can be viewed along with the other winners on the www.tvnz6netguidemultimediachallenge.co.nz site. Their website was completed for a Year 10 project in Information Technology where they had to design a site to teach others about an aspect within the school curriculum. This team chose to cover adventure sports from under the Health and Physical Education area of school. Their site delivers a great mix of unique content with easy navigation, an attractive colour scheme and subtle animation.

Hamilton Boys’ High School is delighted to congratulate our 20 successful Scholarship examination students. Our most successful student, Siva Manoharan, received Outstanding Scholarships in Chemistry, Mathematics with Calculus, Statistics and Modelling, as well as standard Scholarships in Accounting and Physics. Ben Ingram, Jordan McMahon, Edward Scrimgeour, Sam Waetford and Thomas White were close on his heels with four Scholarship passes each, in a range of subjects. Results in Physics were especially pleasing, with 10 Scholarships (including an Outstanding Scholarship for Boris Pfahringer) for our students. Another Outstanding Scholarship was gained by David Dela Rue in Economics, bringing the total of Outstanding Scholarships to 6.

The results are in, and the HBHS class of 2013 can be very proud of the 59 Scholarship passes, with 9 at Outstanding level, that they achieved in New Zealand's premier secondary school examinations held at the end of last year.  Stand-out performers include Year 12 students Adam Cameron and Sebastien Vanneste who won Economics Scholarships, and James Robertson who achieved HBHS's first ever Agriculture and Horticulture Scholarship.  2013 Dux David Cuellar won four Scholarships, as did Caleb Sampson who achieved three of his four at Outstanding level.  Youssuf Bahr secured an impressive five Scholarship passes, as did Liam Bullen.  A special congratulations must go to Sam McCabe (pictured at right) who won six Scholarships, with three at Outstanding level, and a Top in Subject award in Physics.  As a result, Sam has been named as a Premier Scholar and will be recognised as such by the Governor General.  Congratulations to all of these students on a set of excellent results.

We are delighted to announce the first of the 2011 Scholarships to be awarded to Hamilton Boys' High School students for tertiary study in the New Year.  The following students (shown from left to right) have won these prizes:

Daniel Madley, The Auckland Jubilee Award ($6,000.00)

Zhan Ye Chen, The University of Auckland Scholarship ($50,000.00)

Heath Larsen, The David Johnstone Trust Waikato University Science Degree Scholarship ($5,000.00)

Scott Cudby, The Massey Captain's Club To study a Business Degree

Oliver McMillan, The University of Auckland Chancellor's Award for Top Maori and Pacific Scholars ($35,000.00)

 Yesterday, a senior assembly was held to celebrate the academic achievements of the Year 11, 12 and 13 students from 2012.  Successful Scholarship examination candidates were acknowledged and congratulated for achieving their goals, and for setting such a fine example for the senior students of 2013.  HBHS New Zealand, Outstanding and Premier Scholars were recognised for their Scholarship success and the Year 12 Academic Excellence students were presented with their badges.  These were in recognition of their outstanding achievements in NCEA Level 1 and IGCSE. 

The Year 12 Academic Excellence students were presented by Deputy Headmaster Mr Stuart Hakeney, and were congratulated by Headmaster Mrs Susan Hassall and Premier Scholar for 2012, Thomas Simpson.  These students are:

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The following 38 students were honoured at this morning’s first full school assembly for their outstanding academic achievements as Year 12 students in 2012.  They were awarded this honour for the excellent results in the Cambridge International Examinations, as well as having their Level 2 NCEA qualification endorsed at Merit or Excellence level.  This is the largest number of Academic Honours students ever, testament to the abilities and achievements of these students.  The 2013 Academic Honours students are...

Youssuf Bahr

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