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Otago Boys' High School

Newsletter - No 17 - 2023

THE WEEK AHEAD:

Term 2, Week 8

Monday 12
Christ's College Interschool (away)
Big Sing Regional finale
PPTA action - rostering home Year 11 and 12

Tuesday 13
Christ's College Interschool (away)
PPTA action - rostering home Year 9 and 13

Wednesday 14
PPTA action - rostering home Year 10 and 11

Thursday 15
Nga Manu Korero regionals
Production full day rehearsal
PPTA action - rostering home Year 12 and 13 

Friday 16
Nga Manu Korero regionals
Production full day rehearsal


Term 2, Week 9

Monday 19
Production full day rehearsal
12ODR (DT) rock climbing assessment day
PPTA action - rostering home Year 9 and 10

Tuesday 20
PPTA action - rostering home Year 11 and 12

Wednesday 21
12ODR (AW) rock climbing assessment day
PPTA action - rostering home Year 9 and 13

Wednesday 21 - Saturday 24
The Magic City OBHS/OGHS school production performances

Thursday 22
13ODR (DT) rock climbing assessment day
PPTA action - rostering home Year 10 and 11

Friday 23
13ODR (AW) rock climbing assessment day

Contents

A message from the Rector

by Richard Hall

This morning the school has been informed of the next round of industrial action.

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OBHS Prefect - Ollie Oberlin-Brown

The Last Word

by Ollie Oberlin-Brown

I knew I had to write this speech for over a term. I wrote this last night.

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Artist - Oscar Sharpe

Year 9 Art

by Anna Ward

Year 9 Art students from Terms 1 and 2 have been exploring drawing and print-making techniques with their self-portraits and animal drawings.

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Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) - Pitch Day

by Gwyn Pratley

On Wednesday, 7 June 2023, the Year 13 Business Studies students pitched their Young Enterprise Scheme ideas to a panel of judges at Polson Higgs in Dunedin.

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Festival for the Future

by Kent Twaites

This week, OBHS students Haroon Hassan, John Pupualii, Tevita Lenati and Vasilis Jouanides have attended the Festival of the Future Leadership Retreat held in Wellington.

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Cross Country Champs

by Richard Sykes

Dunedin turned on another stunning day on Thursday 8 June, albeit a touch on the chilly side, for the Otago Champs at Kaikorai Valley College.

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Gateway 2023

by Jaxon Greer/Jacqueline Irving

I am the third Gateway student that EB Engineering Solutions has hosted for The Gateway Experience.

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Scholarship Tutorial Programme

by Richard Harvey

The Scholarship Tutorial Programme conducts tutorials for a variety of NCEA Scholarship subjects across different secondary schools in Dunedin for those students entered in Scholarship exams.

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Sam Hughes contesting the Otago/Southland Road Cycling Champs

Otago/Southland Road Cycling Championships

by Andrew Willmott

The Otago/Southland Road Cycling Champs were held at Teretonga, on Tuesday, 30 May, in perfect conditions (and all finished in time just before the rain started).

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Bouldering

by Alastair Campbell

In Term 2 the indoor bouldering group has gone from strength to strength.

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Swimming success

by OBHS

The pool is the new beach for our boys that participated in the recent Otago Secondary School Championships (28 May) and the Neptune King’s Birthday Meet (3 - 4 June).

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OBHS v Christ's College

OBHS v Christ's College Interschool

by OBHS

The annual winter interschool fixture between Otago Boys' High School and Christ's College will be held in Christchurch on Tuesday, 13 June.

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Internal assessments

by OBHS

Below is a list of internal assessments that are due to be submitted next week.

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OBHS/OGHS production - Magic City

by OBHS/OGHS

So get ready to be transported to a world where love is a game of cards.

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OBHS Tours

by OBHS

We welcome and invite new students and their whānau to book a tour of OBHS, to look around our school and meet our Rector and staff.

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Support our international student programme

by Wayne Angus

Over the coming term break in July, our international students in the hostel need to be placed with homestay families.

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Looking for a shed?

by Johnny Simmons

This year some of the boys in the Year 13 Woodwork class will be making relocatable sheds for sale to the public.

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