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The September High Achiever

Welcome to the September edition of the High Achiever.  

Once again, we celebrate the successes that we have been able to achieve this month, and look forward, once again, to coming back together in Term 4 to celebrate another year for the history books. We wish you all a safe, happy and relaxing October break, and hope you enjoy our coverage of this month.

Arohanui

The HBHS Media Team

Contents

🚵‍♂️ James MacDermid finishes on the podium in a World Cup event 🥉

by Wendy Moffitt

In his final race our Captain of Mountain Biking finishes in third place. He tells us about it as he prepares to head home.

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From the Headmaster

by Susan Hassall

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Our six NZSS Representatives for 2021

🏉 Six of the Best from Hamilton Boys’ High School named in the New Zealand Schools Rugby team 🇳🇿

by Nigel Hotham

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Txema’s 1st at the SSNZ Freestyle Series 2021 Cardrona Park Attack earlier in the season

🏂 Txema Mazet-Brown works towards competing in the Junior World Snowboarding Championships

by Wendy Moffitt

Our champion Year 11 snowboarder is hard at work as he aims to be selected in the New Zealand team for 2022.

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Hamilton Boys’ High School finishes first in the Waikato Premier Boys’ High School Lacrosse League 🥇

by Meaghan Cooley

Despite the early finish to the 2021 Waikato Secondary Schools’ Lacrosse season, HBHS finished first in the Premier Boys’ competition and in third place in the Junior Boys’ competition.

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🏆 HBHS wins Waikato Secondary Schools Chess Championship

by Graham Nolan

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🗣 Waikato Debating Results

by Aaron Kearney

Congratulations to our debaters on their achievements in the regional finals.

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⚽ Mr Tucker calls time on his football coaching career

by Lee Slomp

After 33 years, our Head of the Science Faculty, Mr Andrew Tucker, has come to the end of his run as an HBHS Football coach. One of the Senior Crimson team parents, Mrs Lee Slomp, reports on their season.

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Career Centre News - Jobs

by lynnette Ross

We have several job opportunities available for students

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🏆 Year 10 Speech Finals

by Wendy Moffitt

Congratulations to our Year 10 winner, Liam Weston.

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Multicultural Manaaki Centre Diversity Workshop

by Ashan Barr

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Congratulations to our Super 8 winning 2nd XV

🏆 2021 Super 8 Round Up

by Wendy Moffitt

The Super 8 competitions for 2021 are over, and we congratulate our title-winning teams.

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🏀 Rico Nelson attends the Steven Adams International Basketball Camp

by Wendy Moffitt

We caught up with Rico, appropriately enough in Gym 1 playing basketball, on what he learned at the fourth annual Steven Adams International Basketball Camp held in the July school holidays.

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👨‍🎓 HBHS teams win big in Waimaths Competition 🏆

by Wendy Moffitt

Congratulations to our Year 10 and 11 teams.

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2021 House Competition Update

by Wendy Moffitt

There's been a slight shuffle at the top and bottom of the House Competition points table, as the service points are added.

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Video: 3 of 4 NCDW Videos - Parents as career coaches

Career Resources for Parents and Caregivers

by lynnette Ross

How you can assist your child in their career journey. Valuable information provided by CATE (Careers and Transition Education NZ)

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Video: 2X2 Adventure Bike tackles the hills

HBHS Old Boy Timothy Allen's company secures a multi-million dollar production deal to manufacture electric motorcycles

by Wendy Moffitt

Tauranga-based electric motorcycle maker Ubco has raised another big chunk of capital, and secured a new manufacturing deal that will allow it to dramatically scale up production capacity from batches of hundreds to tens of thousands per year.

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⛵ Spirit of New Zealand - An Opportunity for ten HBHS Year 10 Students to go on a Five Day Voyage in February 2022

by Jeremy Tizard

This is a unique adventure on a tall ship with a total of 40 students from four schools working on a variety of challenging and enjoyable activities including hoisting sails, raft races, swims, chores and games both on the ship and ashore.

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The original school Library opened on 15 March, 1955. It is now a study centre.

The Library

by Lynette Burroughs

On the birth of a new school. . . 1955 “I like to think our school is much more than a building. To me it is a community of youth, cheerful in heart, buoyant in spirit, eager to face the adventure known as life. The community will endow these buildings with a soul.” Principal Mr H.D. Tait. Excerpt from the Hamiltonian 1955.

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The new gymnasium, 1959.

The Gymnasium

by Lynette Burroughs

The original facility was built in 1957.

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The Memorial Baths

by Lynette Burroughs

Soon after the opening of the new school, 1955, the Memorial Baths project was completed.

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46 Years of Kapa Haka!

by Lynette Burroughs

With the recent HBHS and HGHS elite Kapa Haka group of Te Maurea Whiritoi competing at the 2021 Tainui Regional Festival and qualifying for the National competition in 2022, we thought it was time to take a moment to look back to where this all started - 1975!!

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