School News

The 2010 junior leaders have been announced.  These young men will take on a range of responsibilities over the next four weeks to support the school, staff and their peers.  The junior leaders have made a commitment to help with services normally performed by the prefects at HBHS, including manning the SAFE room, helping with litter duty and setting a high standard of dress and conduct for the remaining Year 9 and 10 boys.  We thank them for their commitment to the school, and hope that this leadership experience will serve them well.

At the beginning of the year we held a muster that attracted around thirty

Congratulations to the HBHS Junior A Waterpolo team, who last night became HBHS's latest Waikato Champions.  The team beat Cambridge High School in the finals of the Waikato Junior Competition 12 - 9 in an absolute nail biter, with the scores tied at half time 7 all.  Player of the Tournament was Year 10 student Baxter Gordon.  The team now head to Auckland to play in the North Island Secondary Schools Championships on the 28th of November.  We wish them every success and congratulate them once more on their fine win last night.

The HBHS/HGHS Kapa Haka group secured a 3rd placing in the Te Reo section of  the National Kapa Haka Competition held last week in Rotorua.  This is a phenomenal achievement, as the competition included state, bi-lingual and total immersion schools.

Whaea Barton (Maori Dean, Lead Kapa Haka Tutor) explained that the judges hold Doctorates in Language.  They evaluated the quality of the scripts that each team provides before the competition, and then considered the diction and pronunciation of the competitors.

We congratulate the competitors, their tutors and their support team on this wonderful achievement.

Interview with Daniel Peters

We left on the last Wednesday of the second term; thirty five people went on the trip – 26 students and 9 adults.  We flew into Nadi, and stayed at the Hexagon Hotel.  We played the next day at Nadi College, which is the state high school.  That was awesome.  Selu Fotu attracted many screaming girls.  That evening we performed in the Sheraton Hotel Ballroom, which was the flashest place there.  That was with the International College: we performed with the College and the International College that day.

We had a four and a half hour ferry trip on the Yasawa Flier out to the top of the Yasawa chain of islands.  We stayed for two nights, performing on the second night. We went from there to some amazing limestone caves where the swimming was particularly good.  The acoustics were great, so the choir boys sounded amazing when they sang down there. We did lots of snorkeling, and saw lots of fish.