Newsletter - No 18

In this issue

THE WEEK AHEAD:
TERM 2, WEEK 9

Monday 25
Gateway Work Experience (all week)
11SCI Microbiology Trip 1 KT class

Tuesday 26
11SCI Microbiology Trip 2 MZ class

Wednesday 27
11SCI Microbiology Trip 2 PC class

Thursday 28

Friday 29
SISS Squash Championships

Sunday 1 July
World Challenge trip leaves

Term 2 Week 10

Monday 2 - Friday 6
National Kapa Haka finals

Monday 2
CBHS Interschool (Away)

Tuesday 3
CBHS Interschool (Away)

Wednesday 4

Thursday 5
Junior Exams

Friday 6
Junior Exams
End of Term 2

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Andrew Willmott

Mountain Biking Update

Mountain biking has been underway since the beginning of the term. While the weather has not been great, it has not limited the tracks we have ridden too much.

OBHS Prefects

Academic Tutorials

Junior exams are closing in fast. With only 3 school days to go, students need all hands on deck!

Richard Hall

A Message From The Rector

A senior centurion is a student who has passed 100% of the NCEA credits he is offered in a year.

Stewart Tagg

Community House Competition

Over the past two weeks our school community has been focused outwards, bringing in cans and other foodstuffs to donate to the Octacan Appeal, helping to stock up the city's foodbanks.

OBHS

OBHS v TBHS Interschool Results

The annual winter interschool between Otago Boys' and Timaru Boys' was held in Timaru on Wednesday.

Stewart Tagg

Save the Date - Mike King Returns

After his hugely influential talk with our Senior students at the start of the year, Mike King has accepted an invitation from OBHS to return to school to talk to our wider community early next term.

Lynn Vare

Smart Alex Creative Writing Competition

The Friends of the Turnbull Library (FoTL) have announced a creative writing competition open to all secondary school students in New Zealand and the South Pacific.

Enoka Taufua

Special Visitor for Homework Club

Sonny Bill Williams made a visit to our Pasifika Homework Club on Wednesday to share some words of encouragement and share bread with those who attended.

Harper Jury

Harper Jury - 2018 Gateway Student

Every Friday I am privileged to work at Southern Motor Court as part of the Gateway programme.

OBHS

Structural Engineering Scholarship

Please find attached scholarship guidelines and application form.

OBHS

Homestay Accommodation

From time to time we require homestay accommodation for both domestic and international students.

Flynn Steel

The Last Word

We have a few traditions in this mighty school of ours. Whether it’s the Christ’s College interschool, the last word or, so it seems, having a rather large weekend with a rather large recap on the Monday. These traditions are clearly very divergent of each other.

Peter Odgers

Otago/Southland Interschool Chess Championships

A record fourteen teams played in the fourteenth annual Otago/Southland Secondary Schools Chess Championships last Saturday in the John McGlashan library.