School News

NEW - The 2nd XI football team continue to be unbeaten with a 2 - 0 win over Pakuranga and now face Macleans College this afternoon.  The Under 15 rugby team have beaten Mt Albert Grammar 24 - 0 and will now face St Bede's Christchurch in the final tomorrow at 12pm. 

HBHS teams will be in action today contending for national titles.  The 2nd XI hockey team play St Peter's Auckland after notching up a 9 - 0 win over Cambridge High School and the 1st XI hockey team face Wellington College.  The Under 15 rugby team play Mt Albert Grammar and the Under 14's face New Plymouth Boys' High School.  Finally, the 1st XI football team play Christchurch Boys' High School and the unbeaten 2nd XI footballers face play-off action today as well.  Good luck to these teams and we will post updates and results as soon as they come to hand.

Congratulations to Jonty Keaney and Nick Woods. They have both been selected for the 2012 Hockey New Zealand Under 18 TigerTurf Junior Academy Men’s Team.

The team list is as follows:

1 Matthew Brougham 18 Central Midfielder

2 David Brydon 16 Canterbury Midfielder

3 Cameron Gibbons 17 Auckland Defender

4 Alexander Hanham 16 North Harbour Midfielder

5 Connor Herewini 18 Midlands Striker

6 Sam Jimmieson 17 Auckland Defender

7 Jonty Keaney 17 Midlands Striker

8 Kim Kingstone 18 Auckland Midfielder

Want to see where the theory of evolution was born? Or maybe you want to climb a glacier on a 19 000ft volcano? Even better, how do you feel about planning the entire trip (and we mean the entire trip) with your tour group members once you land in the Ecuadorian capital of Quito? At yesterdays’ middle school assembly, World Challenge representative Ms Ellen Donnelly presented students with the opportunity to do all of this and more, should they become members of the HBHS Ecuador and Galapagos Islands scheduled to depart next year. A World Challenge experience has four phases, Acclimatisation, Trekking, Project and finally Relax and Recreation. (Article cont)

HBHS staff were encouraged by the Social Club to enter into the spirit of the Rugby World Cup today by wearing their team's colours.  The staff come from very diverse backgrounds, so there was a riot of colour amongst the ubiquitous black.  Particularly striking was the couture of the Argentinian contingent, lead by Maurice and Alice Matthews.  The Canadian, Irish, Welsh, Australian, South African, Tongan, Samoan and American teams were also well represented. 

Hamilton will host the All Blacks when they take on the winner of the Asia qualifier (likely to be Japan) on 16 September 2011, before hosting Wales twice – first when they go up against the winner of the Oceania qualifier (likely to be Samoa) on 18 September 2011, and then when they face Fiji on 2 October 2011.

'Sapper Moore-Jones', a 45 minute play penned by HBHS Old Boy Campbell Smith about our school's first art teacher and WWI veteran Horace Moore-Jones, was performed for the first time ever on Saturday afternoon.  As part of the Centennial celebrations, drama teacher Colin Leach directed Blake Wong, Galileo Finlayson-Ble and Andrew Eastwick in a dramatisation of Moore-Jones' life.

Mr Moore-Jones saw active service in the Gallipoli campaign of 1915. His painting 'Simpson and his Donkey' is regarded as an iconic record of the stoicism of the ANZACs and the pathos of their situation.  On returning to New Zealand Moore-Jones became the first HBHS art teacher, and died after saving the lives of a number of people in the 1922 Hamilton Hotel fire.  His brief but extra-ordinary life provided Smith with the framework of a engaging one act play.

The performance was both well attended, and well recieved.