Newsletter - No 38

In this issue

The Week Ahead
Term 4 Week 8

Monday 4

Monday 4 - Saturday 9
National 1st XI Cricket finals

Monday 4 - Thursday 7
Leadership Camp at Mt Aspiring

Tuesday 5
Junior Futsal finals

Wednesday 6

Thursday 7

Friday 8
Junior Prizegiving 10.30am
School Auditorium

End of 2017 School Year

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Tom Stevens

Outstanding Public Speaking Results for OBHS Students

This year has been extremely successful for OBHS students studying Speech NZ’s Public Speaking and Communication Syllabus in the Shand at lunchtimes and after school.

Lynn Vare

Summer Reading

Summer holidays are looming and it's a great time for students, and their families, to get off the screens and get stuck into a good book.

Andrew Turner

A Message From The Deputy Rector

It’s hard to believe we are already in December, the final week of what has been a fantastic year.

Jake McClean

My Week at Camp

On camp at Mt Aspiring we did lots of swimming.

Pru Casey

Junior Water Polo Team Compete at SI Championships

The Otago Boys' Junior Water Polo team competed at the South Island Championships last weekend.

OBHS

New OBHS School Jacket

From 2018 there will be a new style of jacket for our junior boys to wear at school on wet and cold days.

Cheryl Brown

9S Camp Haiku

9S have returned from a week at the OBHS lodge in the Matukituki Valley. In English this week they have written Haiku poems about their experiences.

Lynn Vare

Free Books???

Nothing like announcing there is a pile of free books to cause a stampede!!

PTA

School Uniform Required For Second Hand Uniform Sales

If you would like to donate or sell any uniform no longer required please deliver it to the school office between 8.00am and 4.00pm before Wednesday 13 December.

Adrienne Buckingham

Engagement: Distraction vs Focus in the Classroom

Parents, as you read your son’s report there maybe be a few telling buzz words that creep in again and again: unfocussed, too social, easily distracted. And, if I’m honest, my own reports from high school probably say the same.

Stewart Tagg

Tennyson Shield Blues...

This morning our junior school was joined in our auditorium by our friends from down the hill at Otago Girls’ High School to enjoy our annual Tennyson Shield contest.