School News

HBHS Golf Team 1 won the Super 8 Championships by 17 shots this week.  The results and highlights are as follows:

Team 1

•          Denzel Ieremia 73, 73, 77 =  223  +4

•          Steven Kuggelijn 77, 76, 79 = 232  +13

•          Matthew Adams 80, 77, 78 = 235 +16

•          Shaun Steiner 76, 80, 79 = 235  +16

Team 2

•          Regan Kidd 75, 79, 76 = 231  +12

•          Hamish Kerr 75, 77, 78 = 230  +11

Hamilton Boys’ High School’s Argyle House residential hostel’s kitchen is the temporary home for staff and volunteer drivers from the YWCA’s Mobile Meals “meals on wheels” service. Argyle House usually caters for 130 student boarders.

YWCA Manager Anne Bennett noted  "Our Mobile Meals staff are finding the facilities excellent and are very appreciative of all HBHS' support.  The staff comment on how polite the boysare at Argyle House.  Two of the builders working on this YWCA site are exArgyle House students, so we're getting some of that good grounding here too!"

The YWCA’s own kitchen is unusable until late August, while the roof is being replaced. The adjoining Category II Historic Places Trust listed 1926 former Episcopal Chapel, also known as Te Whare Wahine is being seismically strengthened and reroofed. Thanks to Argyle House’s support, the YWCA is able to continue to prepare and deliver 600 “meals on wheels” each week to homes throughout Hamilton.

HBHS won four of the six categories during last night’s 2010 Waikato Secondary Schools Sports Awards. Alex Carr (Sports Captain and Captain of the 1^st XI Soccer Team) won the Student Leader of the Year. The HBHS 1^st XV Rugby team won Team of the Year, after winning the Sanix Secondary Schools World Championships, winning the Super Eight Rugby and coming second in the National competition. Mr Nigel Hotham won coach of the year for his work with the 1^st XV rugby team and touch team, While Nick Ross won Sportsman of the Year and the Supreme Award for overall sporting achievement.

Swimming Sports Individual Champions 2011

HBHS were the winners on the day, but only just, in the annual winter sports exchange with Tauranga Boys' College on a very grey, wet and cold day.  The 3rd XV, pictured right, scored a 51 - 0 victory against their Tauranga counterparts, therefore doing their part in a 6 - 5 HBHS exchange win.  The Under 14A and Under 15A rugby teams also had impressive wins, as did the Under 15A hockey team, but Tauranga took out both basketball fixtures and won the squash matches as well.  The full results are as follows: 

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Past and present HBHS teachers gathered at the school on Friday night to catch up with former colleagues and mark the second day of the HHS/HBHS/HGHS 100th Centennial celebrations.  A very festive time was had by all.  Photos from this event will be available shortly, free of charge, from the Centennial website.