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Boys reaching their potential in life and learning

School leaders for 2012
Nick Tipa (Deputy Head Boy), Thomas Wardhaugh (Head Boy), Joshua Dawson (Head of School Hostel)

18 May

The May newsletter is available at: Newsletters

16 May

Today Wednesday (16th) we hosted the Interschool fixture against Southland Boys' High School. The results were as follows:

10 May

The results of the Interschool fixture versus Timaru Boys' High School played in Timaru yesterday were:

9 May

Jeremy Rei, a Year 13 Student and Prefect was named as the winner of the TrustPower DunedinYouth Community Award announced earlier this week. Jeremy has an impressive array of services that he has performed within the community (both inside and outside of the School environment). He joins previous O.B.H.S. winners, Daniel Benn and Cameron Third in being awarded this honour. We congratulate Jeremy on this achievement.

1 May

May is Careers month. During this time all students will be given the ooportunity to hear about future career options and perhaps learning about the educational pre-requisites leading to a particular vocation. Some useful career sites are listed on the Just Up page

24 March

A recent article in the Otago Daily Times highlighted the successes of our students. The article can be found at: Student Success

21 February

Scholarship results released

The following students were awarded Scholarships following the 2011 NCEA Examinations. The School congratulates all recipients and wishes them all the best for their future endeavours.

Christian Holtorf    German - Outstanding (Top Student in New Zealand - German) and Biology

Jack Conroy            Biology and Media Studies

Thomas Double      Biology and Statistics and Modelling

Sadit Reza                Biology and Physical Education

Rhys Woods             Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Statistics and Modelling - Outstanding

Peter Sise                Statistics and Modelling

Sam Doran               Economics

James Swan            Physical Education

The School also congratulates all those students who gained Merit or Excellence endorsements for their subject work in the 2011 NCEA examinations. A list of those students can be found at: Endorsements

The Rector named the 2012 Prefects and presented them with their badges and ties. They are as follows:

Fergus Bevin-McCrimmon, Troy Callender, Sean Connor, Sam Ellis, Eamon Frazer, Sam Gabbusch, Ben Gray, Edward Haslam, Ben Hendry, Alex Hodgson, William Holdom, Arthur Ibbotson, Kasun Kumarasinghe, Sam Madden, Aleki Morris, Sekonaia Pole, Jeremy Rei, Josh Renton, Tom Stevens.

2011 in Review

At the end of term 4 the junior boys were involved in various activities including a day at Warrington Beach, indoor games at the Edgar Centre, and trips to the movies and the Orokonui Sanctuary. Our current (2011) Year 10 students had a day where they were introduced to the requirements of NCEA - a precursor to next year while the year 9's enjoyed a day of activities around school. An important part of each day has been a community clean-up in the environs close to the school and a large amount of litter was found and removed.

The 2011 School year concluded today with the Junior Prize-giving being held in the Maurice Joel Theatre. A list of prize winners can be found at: Junior Prize winners

Our senior prize-giving was held before a large attendance of parents and supporters of the school. The presentation of prizes was interspersed with top quality musical items from the Barber-shop Quartet and the Choir, while Chanuka De Silva delivered his Head Prefect's address in amusing style. The Head Prefect for 2012 was announced as being Thomas Wardhaugh with Nick Tipa as his deputy. Joshua Dawson was named as Head of the School Hostel for 2012.

The Dux of Otago Boys' High School for 2011 is Rhys Woods. Congratulations to Rhys on an outstanding effort across all subjects.

The full prize list for the Senior prize giving can be found at: Prizegiving

At our Senior school assembly in October a new innovation to recocognise excellence was introduced with the awarding of "Honours Blazers'. The recipients of these are students who have achieved at the very highest level - New Zealand representation. The blazers are distinctive with their fully piped edgings and will be awarded across all of the areas that the school offers, sporting, cultural and academic.
Yesterday's recipients of the first (2011) Honours Blazers to be awarded were:
Michael Collins - New Zealand Secondary Schools Rugby Team
Nick Elder - New Zealand Under 18 Hockey Team
Sam Madden - New Zealand Secondary Schools Choir
Nick Tipa- New Zealand Secondary Schools Choir

 While it is easy to judge the success of the 2011 Winter Interschool fixtures based on the results of the 1st XV - winning 5 of the 6 games played, the results across all sports were equally impressive with convincing wins against most of our opponents; firmly placing us as one of the top Dunedin sporting schools. The results of each event follows:

 
The following Year 9 students were awarded 2011 O.B.H.S. Academic, Cultural or Sporting Scholarships.

Academic
Sam Angus, Tor Demmers, Clayton Woods, Braeden Crake, Johnny Mottershead, Scott Bezett, Callum Gordon, Bailey Brandham, Jack Lim, Josh Gale

Cultural
Henry Hodgson, Tokerau Joseph, Matariki Pakaua

Sporting
Daniel Cleminson, Joe Cook-Green, Sam Timmins, Blake Buttar-Scurr, Dylan Buttar-Scurr,
Aarie Verwey, Lachie McGregor, Christian Blackie, Liam Howden Wilson, Heta Scarf-Matthews