School News

The HBHS Colts cricket team have beaten Whangarei Boys' High School by 6 wickets, and have won through to the National Junior Cricket finals.  Whangarei batted first and set HBHS 142 to win, a total which HBHS chased down losing only 4 wickets and with overs to spare.  Congratulations to the team, and to coach Mr Brian Jones on their success.  A more detailed match report will follow.

Congratulations to the HBHS 2nd XI on their win yesterday, in what has been described as a "historic" result.  The team beat St Peter's 1st XI 2 - 0 yesterday afternoon at HBHS.

Congratulations to HBHS Year 13 student Niall Anderson who won the Media prize at the National Basketball League awards evening on Sunday 14 July. Niall has covered the Waikato Pistons and the NBL this season for the Waikato Times, the Stuff website and NZHoops.co.nz. and was up against all of the basketball journalists from around New Zealand.

For a full list of award winners, follow the link below:

http://www.basketball.org.nz/news/sharks-are-the-champions/

HBHS Year 13 student Nicholas Woods and his older brother Zac, an HBHS Old Boy, were named in the Junior Men's Black Sticks Squad this weekend, following the completion of the National Under 21 Tournament on Saturday afternoon.  This team will compete in the Junior Men's Hockey World Cup in India from the 6th to the 15th of December, and we congratulate Nicholas and Zac on their selection. 

All Black strength and conditioning trainer Nick Gill spoke to all 1^st and 2^nd code representative players during a lunchtime session in the school hall on Wednesday 20 June.  The All Blacks themselves conducted a closed training session at HBHS Gym on Thursday, from 9.00 to noon.

His main message what about how, as athletes, the boys can get the best out of their performance.  He discussed the ways that the intake of food relates to performance, the fact that sleep patterns have a significant bearing on wellbeing (recommending between 8 – 10 hours of sleep a night), and that eating every two to three hours a day supports recovery and physical output.

He also talked about using technology to help with training – in particular MyNetDiary, which allows you to calculate the number of kilojoules you should be consuming for peak performance in your particular sport, given your body weight and training frequency.  It can also scan barcodes for nutritional content; a number of the 1^st XV rugby players are already beginning to experiment with this programme. 

Hamilton Boys’ High School appointed a new library manager at the beginning of 2012.  Mr Nick Vincent commented on his experiences to date:

I understand you’ve worked in outside the school system...

I’ve worked in public libraries; that’s where I have got my training.  My experiences have been in public libraries.  I started working in Auckland, then moved on to Hamilton, and then took a position at Matamata as the library manager there. 

What are the specific strengths that you bring to this position?

I have research skills – I’m keen to support staff and students who use databases and the books in the library to find information. I’m very strong on collection management and getting the right books for the audience.

What would you say characterises a teen male reader?

The teen male reader often tends to enjoy adventure fiction, action, World War II books, vehicles, outdoors and non-fiction adventure.

How do you select new books?

We get new books pretty much all of the year around.  Myself and Toni [Koning, teacher librarian] will go to Whitcoulls and PaperPlus to cater for the audience and pick up new releases that would fit the profile of our readers.