Kia Ora everyone,

Fred Windsor passed away on Friday 24 April after a courageous battle with cancer.

Timaru Boys' extends a warm welcome to the new Director of Boarding at Thomas House, Richard Fogarty.

One of our 2020 Young Enterprise companies, Ecobalm, have been active during the lockdown commencing presales to raise funds for their start up endeavour.

Congratulations to Alex who was named and started training for the 2020 World U18 Ice Hockey Championships to be held in Luxembourg.

Thank you to all our students who have contributed some wonderful videos over the lockdown period for our Facebook page.

Support our PTA by purchasing the latest 2020|21 Entertainment Book - available digitally from https://www.entertainmentbook.co.nz/orderbooks/1370s72

Well done to our Food and Hospitality students.

Congratulations to Noah Hollamby and Ferg Sail who had a very successful trip to the Indoor Velodrome in Invercargill for the Age Group Track Nationals.

The end of Term 1 saw the Year 9 music module students focus on composition and performance.

During the lockdown, TBHS Junior Drama have been recording what their lives are like in their "Bubbles".

Timaru Boys' High School has been working with SchoolDocs to create a website for our policies and procedures.

Our local school Guidance Counsellors are running a survey on local students during the current lock down - our boys have all been emailed the link.

The 2019 school magazine The Timaruvian is due for publication.

A team of thirteen Year 13 students will be shaving their heads to raise funds and awareness for the Child Cancer Foundation by participating in Fun Razor.

During the lockdown, the art students were invited to create some artwork using every day items.

The YMCA will be taking the Year 9 and 10 Classes for the Mates and Dates Programme. This will be run alongside the Physical Education and Health programme, commencing at the end of May.

Timaru Boys' celebrated with our local community by hosting an Open Day on Sunday 15 March.

Hopefully, reports for all students will be emailed to you and your son later this week.

From National President Chris Moore.

Don Garland, Chairman Timaru High School Old Boys' Association

Kia ora to all the Old Boys of our great school.

School Sport NZ has announced that ALL NATIONAL Calendar sanctioned events are postponed until at least the start of Term 3 (July 20th).

The Timaru Link is in service alongside the MyWay by Metro on demand service was Timaru is in COVID-19 Level 3.

Below are some great Studying from Home Tips, courtesy of Auckland University.

For anyone who is finding themselves losing track of time when in front of the computer why not try the Healthy Browsing extension.

MoneyHub, a consumer finance website, has published a guide to hundreds of scholarships for any student planning to start university in 2021. The comprehensive list includes scholarships offered by every university as well as those specifically available to local students. A list of privately-funded, Maori, Pacific and International university scholarships completes the list. Applications close throughout the year, with tens of millions of dollars available. MoneyHub has also published a list of tips for scholarship success. For more details and to find suitable scholarships, visit the MoneyHub Scholarship page https://www.moneyhub.co.nz/scholarships-nz.html

The pdf version of the May 2020 Newsletter is available here