Another week has flown by.

Tell us about the activities and successes your son has been involved in so that as a community we can celebrate with them.

Each week at Senior Assembly one of our prefects addresses the students.  We would like to share their thoughts with the school community in our weekly newsletter.

On Thursday our Year 11 students attended the Drive to Survive Expo at the Edgar Stadium.

The Russell McVeagh Regional Debate Competition is an annual contest held at and organised by the University of Otago. Schools from all around Otago and Southland come together for a debating tournament spanning two days and seven debates.

When we first arrived we went for a swim in the Matukituki river. On Sunday we went kayaking. We began near the Raspberry Flat carpark and went back down to the lodge from there. There were some rapids that were quite fun going through and going backwards through some of them.

On Wednesday evening the Otago Secondary Sports Association held a development session for Sports Prefects throughout Otago.

This week in science 9T used chromatography to investigate the colours in the ink of their felt pens. What a surprise to see that brown is made up of black, purple, red and yellow  and bright blue pens have pink ink in them! Josh wrote a poem to explain how chromatography works.  

Year 12 Physics students investigate the elasticity of rubber bands.  A nice change from book work and good practice for the upcoming practical internal.  

This week Level 2 Biology students studied animals of the estuary with full day laboratory experiences.

This week the last of the summer interschool fixtures was held at Southland Boys' High School.

1st XI Captain Taine Bayly has received the honour of a letter from the Governor General, Sir Jerry Mateparae, inviting him to play in the Governor General's Youth XI team this weekend

Phase two of the tennis court upgrade is underway.

Last weekend saw 52 boys from OBHS compete in the Otago Secondary School Athletic Champsionships.

The senior volleyball team have qualified for Division 1 at Nationals by winning the Senior Otago Championship over the weekend. A great achievement against more experienced teams in the region. The team will now travel up to Palmerston North on the 3rd of April to the Secondary School Nationals. All the best!

Over the course of five days recently, Ewan Syme competed in the Age Group Track Nationals at the ILT Velodrome in Invercargill, his third year competing at this level.

The last days of summer are upon us and the Dunedin Secondary School Surf Ladder has only one more competition to run - on April 4th.

Kia ora koutou . He panui for any Year 13 students interested in going to the University of Otago in 2017. There is an On Campus Experience (OCE) scholarship you can apply for to check out University life.

Congratulations to Elliott Alloo and Harrison Flintoff who both qualified and competed in the New Zealand National Division 2 Swimming Championships held in Invercargill last week. Elliott won gold in the 50m breaststroke and silver in the 100m breaststroke (after being beaten by only .04 of a second). While Harrison did not receive any medals he swam extremely well and achieved a number of personal bests. Well done boys.

The 2016/2017 Entertainment Book will soon be available. Order now to receive additional "Early Bird" vouchers.

The Otago Boys' High School Parents Association is once again making our superb cheese rolls! We don’t want to brag, but rumour has it that our cheese rolls are by far the best in Dunedin! Well filled with delicious cheese and real onion – okay so we are bragging! But it is very true!

Our annual fees day will be held on Wednesday 23 March. School fee invoices and a payment envelope were sent home at the beginning of March.