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Argyle House Term 2 Newsletter

Welcome to the Term 2 edition of the Argyle House Newsletter! We hope you enjoy your holiday time together and look forward to seeing you all back here next term.

Contents

🏴 From the Head of Boarding

by Murray McKenzie

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Maz Parkes and Cooper Phillips

🏴 National Junior Motocross Champions 🏍 πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ

by Murray McKenzie

Maz Parkes (Year 9) and Cooper Phillips (Year 11) were both crowned National Junior Motocross Champions.

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🏴 Team Crawford Racing – Speedway New Zealand Ministocks 🏎

by Murray McKenzie

Brothers George Crawford (Year 10) and Jimmy Crawford (Year 9) have had an exceptional race season competing strongly in over 30 meetings in both North and South Island Championships for the 2022-23 season.

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From left, Argyle House's Alex Arnold, Oli Mathis and Raharuhi Palmer (along with Liam Sturm at left) in action in Japan

🏴 Argyle Rugby represents at World Sanix Tournament πŸ‰ πŸ† 🌎

by Wendy Moffitt, Cam Moorby & Liam Sturm

Our 1st XV Rugby team members did us proud in Japan!

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🏴 Sutherland House Triumphs in Nail-Biting General Knowledge for Matthew Allen Cup

by Luke Katene

In a highly anticipated and fiercely contested battle of knowledge, Sutherland House emerged as the victor after a thrilling recount which funnily enough was requested by Bennett House after they came out as the winner.

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🏴 Housekeeping Issues πŸ‘• ⏰

by Murray McKenzie

Unnamed clothing and weekend return times.

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🏴 D League Basketball πŸ€

by Murray McKenzie

'Bricked Up', a team of players from Argyle House, won their league game comfortably 42 - 18 on Wednesday 21st June.

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Ryan McCarthy educates the Year 11s on how to make the most of their training

🏴 Wellbeing guest speaker educates Argyle House on health, fitness and nutrition πŸ₯¦πŸ₯‘πŸ₯—

by Luke Katene

The Hostel had a visit from Ryan McCarthy, a local fitness guru, to see if amongst other things we could get the boys to eat their veggies!

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🏴 Games Room Table Tennis action on a Friday night πŸ“

by Murray McKenzie

This is a popular place for some competitive and recreational activity seven days a week.

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🏴 Year 9 2024 Interviews

by Murray McKenzie

75 Year 8 students were interviewed by Mrs Hassall (Headmaster), Mr Rahiti Teokotai-White (Senior Master), Mr Andy Thomson (Dean of Boarding), and Mr Murray McKenzie (Head of Boarding), at different times over Weeks 1-3, concluding on Friday the 12th of May. Twelve brothers of current boarders were included in the total that were interviewed.

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🏴 Super 8 Cross Country πŸƒβ€β™‚οΈ

by Murray McKenzie

Was held in Palmerston North on Tuesday the 6th of June.

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🏴 Our champion racer, Jack Mear 🏎

by Murray McKenzie

This Year 9 boarder continues to achieve excellent Karting results.

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Motocross champions Maz Parkes and Cooper Phillips

🏴 Open Day at HBHS

by Murray McKenzie

Was held on Tuesday the 20th of June.

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🏴 Saturday morning sport πŸ‰βš½

by Murray McKenzie

This is a typical image on a Saturday morning here at Argyle House as the boys ready themselves for their co-curricular activities.

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🏴 Young entrepreneurs show off their products in the Waikato Y.E.S. Pitch Competition πŸ’°

by Luke Katene

The HBHS Business Studies contingent was well represented by Grove Year 13s at the annual Young Enterprise Scheme Pitch Day.

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🏴 Argyle House welcomes New Boarder, Kent Mills (Year 10) from New Plymouth

by Murray McKenzie

Kent has been private boarding all year, moving into Argyle House on Sunday the 14th of May.

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🏴 HBHS School Ball 2023 πŸ•Ί πŸŽ‡

by Murray McKenzie

Was held at the WINTEC Atrium on Wednesday the 21st of June for Year 13 students and their partners.

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Argyle's outstanding readers, from left, Lewis Wheeler and Liam Callaghan (absent, Jack Mear)

🏴 Update: Reading in Junior Prep πŸ“–

by Andy Thomson

In the last newsletter we indicated that we were making changes to reading in Junior Prep. The aim of this change was to foster a love for reading and enhance the reading ability of our students.

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Video: House Cross Country 2023

🏴 Argyle takes out the House Country for the second year running πŸƒβ€β™‚οΈ

by Wendy Moffitt

The (mighty) House in Blackβ„’ was too strong once again.

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🏴 Reality check for Bennett as Sutherland take Tug o' War in a clean sweep πŸ†

by Rahiti Teokotai-White

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🏴 Intentions Form 2024

by Murray McKenzie

Many thanks to the families that have already completed their son's intentions for 2024. This method has proved overwhelmingly successful with only 10% of boarding families still to submit their response.

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Man of the Week, Term 2 Week 9, Shakur Cook

🏴 Man of the week, Term 2 Week 9 πŸ‰

by Wendy Moffitt

This points-scoring machine helped the Under 15A team secure an impressive win.

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Term 2 Week 2 Man of the Week, Mitchell Swann

🏴 Man of the Week, Term 2 Week 8 πŸ‰ 🧒

by Wendy Moffitt

Our Man of the Week won his Honours Cap last Saturday.

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Term 2 Week 7 Man of the Week, Hudson Rillstone

🏴 Man of the Week, Term 2 Week 7 πŸƒβ€β™‚οΈ

by Wendy Moffitt

This week's winner is one of our budding distance-running talents.

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Term 2 Week 6 Man of the Week, Kiwa Rata

🏴 Man of the Week, Term 2 Week 6 πŸ‰ πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ

by Wendy Moffitt

Congratulations to another one of our talented Touch players on his National selection.

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Term 2 Week 5 Man of the Week, Rangiwai Lunjevich

🏴 Man of the Week, Term 2 Week 5 πŸ‰ πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ

by Wendy Moffitt

This week's Man of the Week is one of our newly-named New Zealand representatives.

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Man of the Week, Carlos Kata

🏴 Man of the Week, Term 2 Week 4 🌺

by Wendy Moffitt

This week's Man of the Week helped make history at the Super 8 Cultural Festival.

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Maz Parkes and Cooper Phillips

🏴 Men of the Week, Term 2 Week 1 🏍 πŸ† πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ

by Wendy Moffitt

We celebrated two newly-crowned National Champions at our first House meeting for Term 2.

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🏴 Hostel Parent Representatives

by Murray McKenzie

For Argyle House parents and caregivers to contact about any hostel matters.

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