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It is important to begin this newsletter with a warm welcome to the

new members of SBHS Board of Trustees. This is a vital role within

any school and their support and guidance, while volunteering their

time and energy for the school and its students and staff is much

appreciated. Led by the newly appointed chair Jan Ormsby I am

looking forward to working closely with the BoT. It is also with pride

that I thank the outgoing board for their efforts during their own

tenures and of specific note are the efforts and contributions of Mr

John Rabbitt who ends a 16 year term on the SBHS BoT and finishes a

total of 21 years working on boards in southland schools.

Recognition within the student body continues and you will see later in the newsletter the recipients

of the 2019 Youthmark awards. Congratulations to these young men in their past accomplishments

and I wish them success with their continued endeavours. The selection of the Youthmark awards is

also a stark reminder that we are at the halfway point of the year and all our students need to check

in over the holidays with the goals and targets they have set for 2019.

The PTA, whose work and volunteered time is so much appreciated by the whole community have

once again held a very successful Surf ‘n Turf raffle. Congratulations to those who won prizes and

thanks to all of those who purchased tickets. The funds raised will be put towards the projects

highlighted and will benefit the students of the school directly as soon as possible.

It has been a privilege to see the work produced by the students throughout the school this term and

some of this culminated in the Conflict Project presentation for the Year 7 and 8 students. This was a

fantastic showcase of the level of achievement across this group.

Sport and cultural involvement are as strong as ever and the school will continue to encourage

participation in co-curricular activities with two major interschool events this term allowing our boys

to truly test themselves against the best from other areas. Our school choirs’ performances continue

to go from strength to strength and I recommend that you take any opportunity that you get to hear

them in action.

The cultural competition is in full rehearsal mode and I look forward to the performances and the

challenge for House honours.

Kind Regards

Simon Coe

Rector

Newsletter 5 – Term 2

June 2019

Southland Boys’ High School Te Kura Tua Rua o nga Tai-Tama ki Murihiku

Non Scholae Sed Vitae Discimus

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Sarah Brown I have been a member of the SBHS Board since being coopted in May 2018. I am a trained solicitor, now working as an independent director for local companies, and a publicly listed national company. I have previous experience in the education sector. I was the Chair of the Southern Institute of Technology [SIT] until May 2017, a position I held for 6 years. In recent times I worked for the Southland Regional Development Strategy [SoRDS], which focused on what needs to happen to ensure that Southland thrives as a region. I am very focused on how we ensure that Southland is a place that our children will want to live in years to come.

I am a strong supporter of the direction Southland Boys’ High School is travelling in, believing that the school is currently along the path of being the first-choice educator of boys in Southland, and I am keen to carry on this work.

Sarah Brown

Cam Froude I am Cam Froude an old boy of the School and Coldstream Hostel. I was originally from Western Southland but now live in Invercargill with my wife Nickalette, a teacher at Waihopai, and have 3 children. My eldest two attend SBHS and my youngest goes to Southland Girl’s High School. I work at Fonterra and have been a director for our own business. I have spent the past 2 terms of the WaihopaI School Board. During this time, I have gained some valuable skills that I bring to the SBHS board. I believe the children of the school come first and their achievement is a focus for the board. Along

with this the school and the board need to have a strong community involvement not only to keep you informed but help your children at the school. SBHS has always been a strong school with a good reputation and I would like it to continue to be the school that everyone wants to send their children to.

Cam Froude

Peter Heenan I was coopted to the SBHS Board in November 2016, having previously been on the board as Chair from 2004 to 2008. My background is accounting and finance. I am a Fellow Chartered Accountant and Chartered Member of the Institute of Directors. I currently Chair the Southern Institute of Technology and have a number of directorships on private companies and am a trustee for Hospice Southland. I have always lived in Southland and have enjoyed being involved in the

Southland Boys’ High School Board of Trustees Parent Representatives 2019 – 2022

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education sector and contributing where I can to our community. We have four children; the two oldest boys are past pupils of SBHS, and our youngest son is in year 12. SBHS provided the opportunities for the boys to learn skills, knowledge and social responsibility for their future. I am a strong supporter of the direction SBHS is heading - to motivate and inspire all students to achieve their best academically, culturally and physically.

Peter Heenan

Amy Kubrycht I am Amy Kubrycht. My two boys [aged 12 and 15] are both students at SBHS. I returned to Southland in 2015 after 16 years of living in London. My children were both born there and as such I have experience of the private and state education systems in both NZ and overseas. When the children were younger, I undertook a governance role as co-opted parent member of the Personnel Committee for their UK primary school. I did that for three years, whilst working part time, volunteering in the school library and chairing the school’s parent-teacher association. My education background is in Finance, Economics and Psychology and I have worked

in the field of human resources [HR] for over 20 years. Whilst at university, I spent 3 years as an Assistant Lecturer in the Psychology department, and I returned to teaching when I first came home – facilitating online degree and diploma courses in HR, Communication and Business Ethics at SIT2Learn. I’m now working full time as an HR Manager for local government and one of my interests is the future world of work. Our children will be doing very different jobs from those that we currently know and perform. I’m seeking to use my background, experience, knowledge and interest to help shape their future. It is important that the education our boys receive enables them to adapt to and perform in the new world of work and be valuable contributors to our local community as well as responsible global citizens.

Amy Kubrycht

Janice Ormsby I have served as a member of the SBHS Board since 2014. I am an experienced Governance Trustee and have been elected to two school boards, collectively, over 14 years in both the Primary and Secondary sector. SBHS is the school of choice for my husband, Andy, and I in relation to our three sons, Connor, Morgan and Jamie. Single sex education is critical to the development of boys learning to be good men, to achieve and experience success as males and to be supported by a team of experienced teaching professionals and role models who

understand boys’ education and what success looks like. I have high expectations that the Rector and his staff will lift our Academic and Cultural successes to match the levels of our sporting prowess. I am a team player and have been part of a team that has steered our school through a period of great change. From this momentum I have been responsible for developing a new culture of transparency and accountability by introducing:

1. SchoolDocs [Operational policy and process manual] which is now publicly accessible to staff, students, parents and board members via the school website

2. New Governance manual to support and enhance how the Board makes decisions

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3. Delegation schedule for the Board, Rector and staff which clearly defines who is responsible for which roles and who has financial delegations and responsibilities

Other Community board roles I have been involved in include South Alive Board, NZ Police Maori Advisory group, Local government Te Roopu Taiao, and SBHS rep on Invercargill Community of Learning [COL] and Invercargill Secondary Schools Support Network Trust at Number 10. I am employed as a Senior Support Officer for a Member of Parliament, a role I have had for almost 15 years with three different Members of Parliament. I am an “Old girl” of Southland Girls High School and attended Waiau College in my Intermediate years. It is always a privilege to serve our school community as a Parent.

Janice Ormsby

Emma Smaill My name is Emma Smaill, I am the mum of 3 boys, 2 of whom are at SBHS boarding at Coldstream. We own a farming business at Wendonside in Northern Southland. Being a mother of boys, I am passionate about boy’s education and boys succeeding in our fast paced and ever-changing world. I have extensive and current BOT experience that I bring to the SBHS BOT. I have been on our local primary school [roll of 110-120 kids] board for 6 years- 4 ½ of them as chairperson. In this time, we have navigated our way through

some challenging times making sure as a board we continually asked the difficult questions to ensure we meet the agreed values and goals set for our school community. I have completed personal professional development in the area of governance this certainly has raised my skill base and given me confidence in the chairperson’s role. I also have governance experience in running our business. For the past 5 I have chaired the governance advisory board for this business. I am pleased to be involved at SBHS on a board level to ask the questions- “so what does that mean for our students”- to encourage the boundaries to be pushed in all aspects of student’s time at SBHS- academically, culturally and sporting.

Emma Smaill

Paul Stirling My name is Paul Stirling. Along with my wife Wendy, we are sheep and beef farmers in Western Southland. I am a proud old boy of both Southland Boys’ High School and Coldstream Hostel. Our Son is in his second year at SBHS and boards at the Coldstream Hostel as a year 9 student. I like and believe in the traditional values that Southland Boys holds. The School motto “Not for school but life we are learning” is a true

reflection on how school life should be viewed. I have sat on the board at our local primary school for the last 6 years and I believe I offer a practical down to earth approach. Southland Boys’ High has had some big changes over the last few years and I believe in sound governance supporting management to help our boys achieve the best they can in a wide range of academic, sporting or cultural opportunities.

Paul Stirling

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Charlene Withy I, along with my husband, own a dairy farm near Dipton where we have lived for 18 years. I started out as an electrical technician, then spent several years on my OE, then returned home to retrain as an occupational therapist. When we started our family, we made the full commitment to dairy farming and moved to Southland. We have 4 children – our eldest son finished his Year 13 at SBHS in 2018. We have a son in Year 11 and another coming to SBHS in 2020 for Year 9. The boys board at Coldstream Hostel from Monday to Friday. Our children went to Dipton

Primary School, where I was on the Board for 8 years – 2.5 years as BoT chair. I enjoyed working alongside the other Board members and the Principal to get the best outcomes for the children at the school and learnt a lot about a board of trustees’ role and the education system. In 2018 I was coopted to the Southland Boys’ High School Board of Trustees and am pleased to be continuing in that role until my term ends in May 2021. I see SBHS providing our sons with, not only opportunities to gain great skills and knowledge in academic, sporting and cultural areas, but also to be a place where they are proud to belong. I believe that SBHS has a fantastic future, and I support the school as it aims to provide top-quality learning and a positive culture for students and staff.

Charleen Withy

Warren Ruwhiu Kaea Edwin Staff Representative Student Representative

Youthmark Recipients Congratulations to this year’s Youthmark Recipients

Sam Colyer Matthew Ellis Jaxon Taylor

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Ryan Taylor Kapila Tohiariki

Coming Events Date Event

Friday 28 June Smokefree RockQuest (evening)

Thursday 4 July

School Closes at 1.05pm

Year 7-8 Academic Counselling Interviews 2.00pm – 6.00pm

Year 9-13 Subject Interviews 2.00pm – 8.00pm

Friday 5 July

Year 7-8 Academic Counselling Interviews 9.00am – 3.00pm

No school for Year 7 and 8 students

Last day Term 2

Monday 22 July First day Term 3

Monday 29 July SBHS v Campion School 1st XV and 2nd XV Rugby teams

Thursday 1 August SBHS Open Day 4.00pm – 7.30pm

Thursday 1-2 August Careerfest at Stadium Southland

Monday 5-8 August

5-23 August

Year 13 ODE Ski Camps

Year 8 Deep Cove Camps

Thursday 8 August SBHS v WhitGift School 1st XV, 2nd XV and 1 other Rugby team

Sunday 11 August Blokes & Sheds

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Lost Property At the main office we are holding numerous items including watches, phone, phone case, headphones, bus

cards, keys, pen drives, prescription glasses. If your son has lost any of these items, you are more than

welcome to come and check to see if anything belongs to him. The office is open between 8.00am to 4.00pm

Monday to Friday.

PTA Wow, on behalf of the PTA a huge thank you to the whole school community for the tremendous effort in

selling raffle tickets. Thank you also to everyone who supported the raffle by buying tickets and to those

businesses who donated prizes. This has been a huge success. We have raised $10,500 to be used for Computers on Wheels and Beach Volleyball Courts. A special thank you to the boys and families who sold

many cards, your efforts are commendable. Congratulations to all the prize-winners. Kind regards Victoria O’Connell (PTA Co-Chair)

Surf n Turf Raffle Results

1st Aunty J 4 doz oysters, leg of lamb and $20 Southern Seafood voucher

2nd Stuart McFelin 3 doz oysters, leg of lamb 3rd Clayton Hogg 2 doz oysters, leg of lamb 4th Winner Pekepo 1 doz oysters, leg of lamb 5th Jo Johnson Salmon fillet voucher 6th Coe family Salmon fillet voucher 7th Murray Wood Leg of lamb 8th Karen Drake Leg of lamb 9th Geralda Leg of lamb

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10th B Auckram Leg of lamb 11th Saxon Leg of lamb 12th Justine Harden Leg of lamb 13th Murray Milne-Maresca Leg of lamb 14th Neville Frisby Leg of lamb 15th Simon Smith Leg of lamb 16th Richard Stevens Leg of lamb 17th Marty Powell Leg of lamb 18th Rachel Philpot Leg of lamb 19th Wendy Stirling Leg of lamb 20th Rosina Trainor Leg of lamb 21st Hera Fisher 1 doz oysters 22nd Rachael Beck 1 doz oysters 23rd Maverik Tonga 1 doz oysters 24th Sheree 1 doz oysters 25th Murray Pickett 1 doz oysters 26th Shaen 1 doz oysters 27th Tony Bruce 1 doz oysters 28th Megan McKenzie 1 doz oysters 29th Jayson K 1 doz oysters 30th Graham 1 doz oysters 31st Wayne McMurdo $20 Southern Seafood voucher 32nd Olivia $20 Southern Seafood voucher 33rd Nathan Stratford $20 Southern Seafood voucher 34th A Ashworth $20 Southern Seafood voucher 35th Rona Cowie $20 Southern Seafood voucher 36th Scarlett Young $20 Southern Seafood voucher 37th Marty Drummond $20 Southern Seafood voucher 38th B Auckram $20 Southern Seafood voucher 39th Sharon Butler $20 Southern Seafood voucher 40th Alan Sherman $20 Southern Seafood voucher 41st Hollie Cooper $20 Southern Seafood voucher 42nd Coulthard family $20 Southern Seafood voucher 43rd Chris McKenzie $20 Southern Seafood voucher 44th Savannah Sammons $20 Southern Seafood voucher 45th Melissa Escalon $20 Southern Seafood voucher Surf n Turf Prize List for Students

Overall Individual Sellers Thaddeus Sciascia 9NAW 13 cards sold $100.00 voucher of choice & chocolate

Lachlan McIntyre 818 13 cards sold $100.00 voucher of choice & chocolate

Keiran Robertson 831 12 cards sold Trampoline voucher & chocolate

Dakota Crengle 831 11 cards sold FB Pies voucher & chocolate

Riley Halder 714 11 cards sold FB Pies voucher & chocolate

Great Effort Riley Stirling, Connor Robertson, Rory Coe, Slade Koenig (all received chocolate)

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Overall Family Tyrese and Kyah Kennedy

Senior School – Tutor Group (Pizza Lunch) 9SCK 33 cards sold

Junior School – Home Room (Pizza Lunch) 716 45 cards sold

$100.00 Voucher (Drawn from every entry for every 2 cards sold)

Kaydin Stephens 716

Deans’ Corner Firstly, the Deans, along with the Senior Management and staff of SBHS would like to thank all the students

who manage to make it to school, and all their classes on time and prepared for learning. We currently have

a few students we are tracking who are consistently late and we will be holding them accountable. If your

son is to be late for any reason, please ensure you contact the school.

Thank you to those of you who have had discussions with your sons about what an appropriate appointment

is during school time, and the need to be at School Assemblies. We have noticed an improvement for both,

and we will continue to monitor.

Finally, I would like to share a photo of our Year 9 students that received awards in a Year 9 Assembly.

These boys crossed our stage in recognition of their academic effort. It is always pleasing to see our young

men striving to be the best they can be and portraying our school values.

Leon Dunn

Kaiwhakahaere - Hauora

Senior Master - Pastoral

Year 7 and 8 Some Junior School students were lucky enough on

17 June to listen to Mr Russell Branks who spent time sharing his experiences of being a student of

Southland Boys' during the 1950s and then going on to fly Fighter Jets and being a Lead member of the

Airforce Aerobatics Squadron and once he left the Airforce flying for Qantas and even having to fly the

Queen.

This has tied in perfectly with the Junior School just finishing their Conflict Projects and the Year 7 students

about to start their Old Boys Projects.

The students were fascinated that during his time at Southland Boys' Mr Branks was caned, had compulsory

military training and that there was a firing range that was used; which is now the Long Jump Pit.

A great experience for the boys.

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Conflict Around the World During this Term the Junior School have been studying Conflict around the world. As part of this, some of

the students have chosen to write a diary entry from the point of view of someone at War.

Below is an extract from Thomas Spain (822).

War Diary Entry

Dear Diary July 2nd 1917

After a long couple of days walking and walking. We have finally made it to Passchendaele. It has been raining heavily all the way there. Freezing cold sleeping as well. But we have made it. As we gazed around we saw disaster. Dead trees everywhere. We were knee deep in mud. We needed to dig trenches, cause every step was a struggle.

We dug trenches for one hour, helping each other get it done. We were nearly finished when... BANG! The man right beside me fell to the ground. Shock took over my body. I froze. BANG! Another gunshot brang me back to reality. I dove head first into the trench. I rose to my feet hands shaking, head spinning this was my first real battle. The Sergeant ran past I stopped him. “Sarge I’m nervous” my voice was shaky. “This is no place for a nervous man” he replied as he trudged away shouting orders. I know we're all on the same team but it feels like we’re fighting for ourselves around here I decided to pick myself up and get going, I grabbed my gun and went into the fight. Men fell all around me. It was like lambs to the slaughter. My ears were ringing with gunshots. My shoulder was aching from all the firing. Reload after reload. The Turks just kept coming. Wave after wave. This is not what I signed up for. This was hell. Then... BANG I fell to my knees. My head was spinning but through my blurry vision I could see a man. His mouth was moving but I couldn’t hear him. He lay me down and I shut my eyes.

By Thomas Spain 822

On Tuesday 25 June our Junior School celebrated the end of their

Conflict study, with an evening where all Junior School (nearly 300)

projects were on display. Thank you so much to those that came

along to check out the great work that our Junior School produced.

The boys are very proud of what they have done, so enjoyed the

opportunity to share their work with the SBHS Community. Also, a

big thank you to the SBHS PTA for supplying the cakes and slices

for all our visitors.

Ambassadors Report Recently the Year 8 Ambassadors attended the Young Leaders Day in Dunedin. The boys had a great day,

and these are some words of wisdom they gained:

I believe a leader needs to block out the negativity and focus on the positive side of things, no matter how many times you are told that you are bad at this or bad at that. Keep striving to be the best you can be.

Tim Richardson Everyone can be a leader; you don’t have to have a title to lead. To be a good leader you just have to be

able to talk to people. Be the helping hand you all have the potential to lead. Whether it is in your group,

class or sports team. Thomas Spain

If you have something on your mind and its building up sometimes it’s good just to let it out to someone likes of us Ambassadors, Teachers, and Tessa the Student Counsellor.

Don’t live life with regret always persevere towards something you want and if you want it enough to keep at it and eventually you will get it!

“A problem shared is a problem halved”

Lucas Jennings

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If you want to get far in life you must persevere and give it ago, which means you need to step up and get

more involved in what you don’t usually get involved with. Angus Burnett

As a leader you need to be a good listener to listen to everyone's opinion, so you are not just thinking about

what you want.

Also, you need to listen to someone that is trying to talk to you because you might be their inspiration to

help them with a better life or overcome something, they have inside of them holding them back. With the stuff that someone has given to you they might need help so you can be the one to change them and help

them. Will Cairns

Humility! Humility is not thinking you are better than everyone else, it is doing what the prefects did last week, they didn’t mention half the great stuff they had achieved. When we were at Young Leaders Day a

guy talked to us about how he was Head boy, one day a girl said “Hi”. to him but he didn’t reply, later that

day he received a note saying, “Are you too good for us now that you are head boy?” The main message is don’t think you are better than everyone else because of what you have, be humble and think of each other

as equals because no matter what we can always learn from each other. James McLeay

Sticks and stone may break your bones, but words will never hurt me. Well, they will. You may think that

being beat up and kicked in the face may hurt but being verbally abused is much worse than you think. If you see a kid around the school and you rock on up to them thinking you're the man and you say something

like “Your trash at Fortnite!’ or “Pow, you stink!” how is that going to make them feel? They might be big and tough but deep down they will be heartbroken. After that little negative comment, they might have a

terrible day and go home and have a sulk on their bed, all thanks to you and your comment. So next time you are in that situation, stop, have a think, is it worth it?

Charlie Hopcroft One of the many things we learnt at young leaders' day was its ok to not be ok. If you're going through some tough times, or you’ve done something wrong and its eating you up inside. Tell someone! They will

listen and help you. The toughest times in life is when you feel like you are alone you will never be alone someone will always be there for you. And remember anything is fixable. Live life to the fullest.

Thomas Jennings

Southland Social Science Fair Congratulations to the Year 7 and 8 boys who entered their Conflict Projects into the Southland Social

Sciences Fair.

Results:

Kaedin de Garnham 2nd Conflict and Disaster Section

Thomas Jennings Merit Award Environment Section

Adnan Uzun Merit Award Year 7&8 Section

Kaedin de Garnham Thomas Jennings Adnan Uzan

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SBHS Junior School Cross Country Some Year 8 students wrote about their cross-country experience that was held here at school on Friday 7

June. The results are under the sports section in this newsletter.

I loved running the cross country. As we lined up “Ready, set, go!” We shot off like a bullet. Halfway

around the course I found my pace. As I trudged down the home straight all my friends were cheering my

name “Go Ryan, go!”. Ryan MacKay Rm20G

It was a nice day for a run. It had been raining the day before so when we set off and went around the

posts and got to the middle of the field and I saw some boys fall over and splash-mud went everywhere!

On the last 100m there was someone ten metres in front of me and I used the last bit of my energy and

passed him!

Jack Robins Rm 31G

I like to run and when I finished, I felt good! Shaelle Karetai Rm 19G

I felt good when I finished because of the relief of a warm classroom on my body. Ngakau Heke Rm 17G

Year 12 Hello we are Herb-Box.

We are Year 12 YES enterprise group who have created the

Herb-Box. The Herb-Box is a miniaturized rustic and

convenient take on the classical herb garden crafted from

upcycled materials, aiming to replace the environmentally

damaging and second-class herbs present in most culinary

institutes and homes. We invite you to join us in our journey

to change the face of New Zealand’s culinary landscape.

Please contact us at herb.boxyes@gmail.com for further

information and pricing.

Cheers Herb-Box

Prefects Patch Peer Mediation Course On Thursday the 13th of June, the entire Year 13 group took part in a Leadership through Peer Mediation

course. They learned the different types of personalities during conflicts. On top of this they practiced skills

and techniques on becoming good listeners and resolving conflict with Peer Mediation. Here we have some

students playing a new game about paying attention and brainstorming about mediation.

Jimmy Lee Wilson

Photos courtesy of Kane Pickett

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Big Brother (Tuakana Teina big brother little brother) The newly implemented 'Big Brother' program at SBHS has opened leadership opportunities for all Year 13

boys. They have been assigned to mentor the Year 9 and 10 students. 'Big Brother' is when the Year 13

cohort mentor groups of Year 9 and 10 students every Friday at tutor and guide them through leadership

and skill building activities. The program allows the Year 13s to develop and apply their leadership skills in

mentoring the younger students as well as getting to know them and their aspirations. In return the Year 9

and 10 students are able to pick up valuable leadership skills from the older students as well as strengthening

friendships with their peers and their sense of belonging in the Senior School.

by Jaxon Taylor

School Ball 2019 On the 31st of May 2019 SBHS and SGHS had their

annual school ball held at Transport World. The

theme this year was Grease. Leading up to the

ball there was a lot of excitement and buzz and

the boys were rearing to go. We were lucky

enough to have a Teachers’ Only Day, so had

time to get our suits primed for the occasion. At

last the Classic Cars started rolling in to drop off

everyone at Transport World. Once the 300

students arrived, the band kicked off and the

Grand March officially started the Ball.

Throughout the night we got to showcase our skill

on the dancefloor, showing off what we had

learnt at Ball Room Dancing Lessons. The night

went very fast and was a lot of fun, with dancing as well as the School Song and the school Haka happening

at various times. Everyone looked spectacular and had a night to remember.

Ryan Taylor

House Competitions This year's annual House Competitions have been underway since Week 7 of Term 2. These have been a

hugely successful. They are organised and run by the Prefects. The purpose of House Competitions is to

engage boys of all year groups around the school during lunchtimes and entertain them with activities where

they can be competitive, have plenty of fun and use some energy. This year’s competition has started with

Dodgeball and has gone very smoothly as there are plenty of boys from all years participating and working

together in their House Teams. We look to continue the competition into Term 3 and organise a variety of

sports to suit the boys’ abilities and interests. The House Competitions have also been a great opportunity

for the Prefects to have a leadership role in the school.

Harry Taylor

Nga Manu Korero On Thursday the 13th of June a combined Roopu of Tauira

from Southland Boys’ High School, Southland Girls’ High

School, James Hargest College, Aparima College, Aurora

College and Verdon College travelled to Otepoti to tautoko

the speakers performing at Nga Manu Korero. As one big

group we stayed at Te Marae O Otakou, where we spent

some memorable time with other schools and students

and built on Maori tikanga, such as

whakawhanaungatanga. Collectively, we all embraced our

Maori culture and stood to tautoko each brave speaker on

the stage from Murihiku. By taking a unique approach

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Kalani-Joe Batchelor delivered a speech on “How My Culture Is More Than a Performance” and proudly

represented Southland Boys’ High. It was a great experience for students to whakakaha, whakamana,

tautoko and awhina the speakers who stood at Nga Manu Korero and share the experience with them.

Seiyan Thompson- Tonga

Big Sing Competition On Tuesday 18th June, Momentum took

part in the annual New Zealand Choral

Federation Big Sing competition held at

First Church.

Each competing choir has to present a

programme containing a piece of choral

Art music, a New Zealand/Pasifika

composition, and one of their own

choosing. Momentum sang Pemulwuy by

Australian composer Paul Jarman, May

The Road Rise To Meet You by New

Zealand composer David Hamilton and the

pop hit Faith by George Michael.

As the last choir to perform for the evening, there was a lot of anticipation about the performance, and the

programme went down well with the audience, who clearly enjoyed the range and enthusiasm that

Momentum presented. For those who were unable to be there, you can view the performance on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/miaJxo_hEBs. Special thanks must go to Miss Sarfaiti who played piano for the choir.

ACCELL Programme In ACCELL we have been working on a “Food” module where we have been reading, writing and talking

about growing, harvesting and producing food and meals. Sebastian, Kevin and David produced their own

food by making and eating Banana, Berry Delights! It was great fun and tasted delicious! We have now

started work on a “Climate” module.

Tania Ward

e-tutor ACCELL

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SBHS Sports

Achievements – Please let us know of your son’s achievements and we are happy to put this on

our website and in the newsletters. We reply on parents advising us as the sporting codes do

not always inform us of our student’s achievements.

Athletics

Congratulations to Sam Colyer (left in photo), representing New Zealand

at the Oceania Athletic Champs in Townsville on 25 June. Sam won a

silver medal for his 6.98m (PB). A great achievement Sam.

Badminton Congratulations to our team of Jamie Connell, Brad Erskine, Barnaby Bird & Shea Small who were placed 2nd

in the Southland Secondary School Badminton Champs held recently – well done to these boys.

Cross Country

Year 7 & 8 SBHS Results 11 Year Old 12 Year Old 13 Years Old

1st Achindra Abeysinghe 1st Jacob Boniface 1st James McLeay

2nd Alex Stevens 2nd Jimmy Taylor 2nd Thomas Jennings

3rd Seth Morrow 3rd Tom Gray 3rd Thomas Collard

4th Billy Crimp 4th Caydin Keach-Savage 4th Oliver Piggott

5th Tate Forbes-Murch 5th Ryder Sheehan 5th Liam Ramsey

6th Riley Black 6th Jrelyq Stockman-Koiatu 6th Kade Jackson

Southland Primary Schools Cross Country Results 21 June 2019 (Waimumu) 11 Year Old Boys 12 Year Old Boys 13 Year Old Boys

7th Achindra Abeysinghe 2nd Jacob Boniface 1st James McLeay

8th Alex Stevens 3rd Tom Gray 2nd Thomas Collard

26th Tate Forbes-Murch 4th Jimmy Taylor 3rd Thomas Jennings

58th Billy Crimp 5th Ryder Sheehan 5th Liam Ramsey

63rd Riley Black 24th Jrelyq Stockman-Koiatu 10th Oliver Piggott

65th Cooper McDonald 26th Caydin Keach-Savage

Senior School Cross Country Results Under 14 Under 16 (Year 10)

Patrick Howes (short course) 14.21 min Sebastian Carston (short course) 13.55min

Under 16 (Year 11) Over 16

Jonson Tatana 18.48min Jaxon Taylor 14.51min

House Points for Senior Cross Country

1st Coldstream 114 2nd Pearce 92

3rd Grant 79 4th Uttley 64

5th Deaker 49

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New Zealand Cross Country Champs Congratulations to Jaxon Taylor and Patrick Howes who competed in Timaru last weekend. Jaxon placed

24th out of a massive 195 competitors in the Senior Boys 6km race. Patrick ran hard to place 75th in the

Year 9 grade.

Cycling Registrations are being taken for term 2 Learn to Ride Track – this offers beginner children aged 10 and up

and introduction to track cycling – minimum height restriction 130cm. Starts Wednesday 24 and Friday 26

July from 4pm – 5pm and runs until the end of the school term. Select either Wednesday or Friday but not

both days. The cost is $85.00 fee includes track hire, bike hire, coach and water bottle.

Interschools

Southland Boys’ High School v Otago Boys’ High School – 22 May 2019 Sport SBHS Otago

Rugby 1st XV 8 22

Rugby 2nd XV 24 10

Basketball 1st V 77 99

Basketball Junior 74 52

Football 1st XI 0 7

Football Junior 1 4

Hockey 1st XI 1 5

Debating Best Debater Overall Winners

Badminton 1 5

Trapshooting 264 250

Overall Result OBHS 7 – SBHS 3

Rugby 1st XV Basketball 1st V Football 1st XI

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Debating Rugby 2nd XV

Photos courtesy of Kane Picket

SBHS v Waitaki Boys’ Interschool – 11-12 June 2019

Sport SBHS Waitaki Boys’

Debating 285 287

Basketball 1st V 57 91

Trapshooting 239 254

Hockey 1st XI 13 0

Football 1st XI 1 3

Rugby 1st XV 36 10

Smallbore Shooting 725.011 728.019

SBHS 5 – Waitaki 2

Hockey 1st XI

Trapshooting

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Basketball 1st V

Photos courtesy E Prentice from Oamaru

SBHS v Kings’ Interschool – 27 June 2019

Sport SBHS Kings’

Badminton 2 4

Basketball Juniors 72 74

Basketball 1st V 78 92

Chess 18.5 16.5

Debating Win Loss

Football Junior 2 11

Football 1st XI 0 10

Golf 3 1

Hockey 1st XI 0 6

Rugby 2nd XV 31 12

Rugby 1st XV 17 7

Smallbore 686.7 728.11

Surfing 7 21

Trapshooting 177 224

SBHS 5 Kings 9 Oliver Howes Smallbore Photo courtesy Megan Howes

Rifle Target Shooting From right Lucas Gutsell, Tomas Gill, Oliver Howes, Ben

Black, Monty Hopcroft, Jonty Baldock. SBHS boys prefer to

shoot in shorts on cold nights. They breed them tough in

the South. Rifle target shooting happens on Tuesday and

Wednesday nights at the Range between 7:30pm and 9:00

pm.

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Softball Reuben O’Neill, Mitchell Tweedie, Josh Richardson, Kiahn

Johnson (SBHS), and Ben Symon (SBHS) all from

Southland have returned home from Prague after

representing in the New Zealand Softball Under 19

Academy Team.

Kiahn and Ben travelled with the team to Czech Republic

to participate in a softball tournament playing against

teams from Israel and Czech Republic. The team lost a few

games in their pool play but managed to win the

tournament by beating Israel 7-0.

Congratulations Kiahn and Ben.

Leadership Workshop An opportunity for youth to enhance their leadership skills. Keynote speaker Chloe Swarbrick – New

Zealand’s youngest MP. Venue Bill Richardson Transport World on 11 July 2019 from 1.00pm – 5.00pm a

light snack will be provided. For further information and to register contact youth.council@icc.govt.nz.

Table Tennis Year 7 & 8 Champs Table Tennis Stadium, Lindisfarne Street, Invercargill, Monday 26 August 2019 starting

time 9.30am finishing approximately 2.30pm. Permission forms in Sports Office.

Year 9-13 Southland Secondary Schools Champs, Table Tennis Stadium, Lindisfarne Street, Invercargill,

Monday 4 August 9.30am – 3.00am approx. Permission forms are in the Sports Office.

Sports at SBHS Term 3, 2019 Weekly Competition Start Date Entries Due

Whack n Run Squash 7 & 8 31 July 5 July

Whack n Run Squash 9-13 1 August 5 July

Table Tennis 7-13 30 July 23 July

Badminton 7 & 8 1 August 23 July

Badminton 9-13 30 July 23 July

One Day Event

Moto-X SISS 7-13 13 July 1 July

Ki O Rahi 30 July 22 July

Otago/Southland Skiing

& Snowboarding Champs 5 August 26 July

Table Tennis Champs 9-13 5 August 29 July

Sthlnd Indoor Bowls 8 August 2 August

NZ Duathlon 18 August 2 August

Venue Teretonga Park

Southland Squash 9-13 30 August 20 August

Sthlnd Rock Climbing 8 September TBC

Just Boyz Netball League 7-13 19 September 30 August

Interschools

Balmacewan (Dunedin) 7 & 8 27 August

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Winter Tournament Week 2-6 September

Hockey

Football

Golf

Rugby – Under 15 Tournament Team

Rowing – Any boys interested in rowing please contact Dougal Macdonald 029 200 1629 (Waihopai Rowing

Club) or Hamish Fox 027 294 9017 (Invercargill Rowing Club)

Andrea Mulligan has permission slips, these are sent to classes and also emailed home for all Year 7 & 8

students, boys can also pick them up from the Sports Office. Year 9-13 forms are held in the Sports Office.

We will not accept late entries for any sports as these dates are set by the sporting codes as they need to

arrange draws, team lists etc

Southland Sharks v Southern Huskies 5th July at Stadium Southland

Tickets available at the Main Office from Monday 1 July

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World Challenge

Working in partnership with World Challenge, we’re excited to bring you something out of the ordinary – an

expedition travelling to Ecuador in 2020. This once in a lifetime opportunity that will set students apart, empowering

you to stand strong in front of employers and universities. The whole World Challenge experience is a great opportunity for students to be challenged and develop some unique and real-world life skills and hopefully gain some valuable perspective by travelling a country and immersing themselves in a culture vastly different to their own. Feel free to contact Miss Hogan at school or World Challenge on 0800 456 134 if you have any questions or visit the links below:

Southland Boys’ High School – Ecuador:https://weareworldchallenge.com/australasia/southlandboyshighschool/ Forever Changed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HranDlRKG0E Safety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owlmpXjSdtg Our Travellers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsqKKXjLZgc

We hope you take up this opportunity for the adventure of a lifetime in Ecuador!

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Community Notices

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