Career Insights for Our Junior Students
While senior students have been making the most of their Wānanga Days, our junior students have also enjoyed a welcome change from their usual timetable.
Giving back to the OB's Backyard
As we kicked off our Junior Programme today, it was all about service.
Tohu Teina mō ngā Tikanga / Junior Values Badges 2026 - Respect
"<strong>Men are respectable only as they respect.</strong>" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
2025 - Tohu Teina mō ngā Tikanga / Junior Values Badges: Honour Badge
"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honour is what you know about yourself." – Lois McMaster Bujold
2025 - Tohu Teina mō ngā Tikanga / Junior Values Badges
<em>"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." – Pat Riley</em>
Junior Prizegiving
Junior prizegiving will be held in the school auditorium on <strong>Friday, 5 December</strong> at 10.30am.
Boys Rise to the Challenge
Year 9 and 10 exams are now done and dusted.
Junior Exams: 6th and 7th November
As we approach the end of the academic year, it's time for our Year 9 and 10 students to begin preparing for the upcoming Year 9 and 10 school exams in Mathematics, English, Science, and Social Studies.
Junior School Exams Approaching
Advance warning to all parents and whānau of Year 9 and 10 students.
Tohu Teina mō ngā Tikanga / Junior Values Badges
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." - Vince Lombardi.
Teamwork in Action at Get 2 Go
Our combined Otago Boys' and Otago Girls' High Schools' Mixed Open Team performed exceptionally well at this week's Get 2 Go Regional Competition.
Junior Ski Trip
Don't miss out!
Tohu Teina mo nga Tikanga / Junior Values Badges
<strong><em>“Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners” </em></strong><em>Laurence Sterne, Novelist</em>
Junior prizegiving
On the final day of the academic year, our junior school came together to celebrate the achievements of our Year 9 and 10 students.
Above the Hoops Awards 2024
<strong><em>“He has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct” (Walter Lippmann, writer and political commentator).</em></strong>
Years 9 and 10 Art
There has been some exceptional work completed in the art room this term.
Honouring boys who uphold our values
“Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact, we achieve excellence by acting rightly.” Plato
White Ribbon visit
On Wednesday this week we had an extended Junior Assembly with guests from the White Ribbon Ride, who are on their tour around the lower South Island speaking to the boys.
Junior prizegiving
Junior prizegiving will be held in the school auditorium on <strong>Tuesday, 10 December</strong> at 10.30am.
Junior exams
This past Wednesday and Thursday, our Year 9 and 10 students sat their exams across Social Studies, English, Maths, and Science (which included a hands-on practical assessment).

