Hamilton Boys' High School

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Hamilton Boys' High School
Image:hbhscrest.jpg
Motto Sapiens fortunam fingit sibi
Type State single-sex boys, Secondary (Year 9-13) with Boarding Facilities
Year established 1911
Address Private Bag 3201, Hamilton
Coordinates
Headmaster Susan Hassall
School roll 1800
Socio-economic decile (10 is highest) 8
Ministry of Education Institution no. 131
Website www.hbhs.school.nz

Hamilton Boys' High School is a boys' secondary school in Hamilton, New Zealand. The school was established as Hamilton High School in 1911 but was later split into separate boys' and girls' schools. The school crest features a lion, sash and star, and bears the motto "Sapiens Fortunam Fingit Sibi" which translates to "a wise man carves his own fortune". The school colours are black and red.

Most of the school's approximately 1800 students are day boys from Hamilton and surrounding townships such as Cambridge, Te Awamutu, and Morrinsville. Around 120 boys are housed in an onsite boarding hostel, Argyle House, which forms one of the six houses into which the school is divided. The boarding house is located on the school grounds, but is essentially a private institution, with students paying approximately $9,000 per year to attend.

In 1999 the school appointed Susan Hassall to head the school. In doing so the school became the first boys' school in New Zealand to appoint a female headmaster.[1]

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[edit] Academic

The school offers both the state run NCEA and external Cambridge International Examinations for students to undertake.[2]


[edit] Sport

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Hamilton Boys' High School fields a number of sports teams in a variety of codes. In recent years it has won the New Zealand secondary schools competitions for rowing , cricket, touch rugby, rugby sevens and clay target shooting. Its football, rugby and hockey teams are also often in the top ten teams in New Zealand. Its Under 15 rugby team has been one of the most successful in New Zealand, appearing in 8 national finals (only Auckland Grammar School and the now defunct St Stephen's School have appeared in more), however it has never won this competition.

In particular, the school has won the Gillette Cup for schoolboy cricket twice since it was established in 1990, and it has won the Maadi Cup for rowing Eights five times and the Springbok Shield for Fours eight times, including the last four years consecutively. In 2008 it comprehensively won the Star trophy for top rowing school in New Zealand.

The school is one of the Super 8 schools.

Hamilton Boys' High School competes regularly against another Hamilton school, St Paul's Collegiate. The two schools are traditional foes, and games between them generate intense but good-natured rivalry.

[edit] Houses

Hamilton Boys' High School currently has six houses. All of the day boy houses are named after former headmasters of the school.

  • Tait - Red
  • Taylor - Green
  • Wilson - Blue
  • Steel - Grey
  • Baigent - Yellow
  • Argyle - Black

[edit] Enrolment

Like all previously selective state schools, Hamilton Boys' High School operates an enrolment scheme.

Enrolment was traditionally by academic examination followed by an interview. Alternatively a student might be enrolled if he had a family connection to the school. The school still examines new students but only for the purposes of streaming students.

[edit] Notable Old Boys

As well as a number of All Blacks and All Whites, the following people are Old Boys of Hamilton Boys' High School:

[edit] Headmasters

  • Eben Wilson MA 1911 - 1937
  • Harold Tait MA, OBE 1938 - 1957
  • Aubrey Baigent MA, BCom 1958 - 1969
  • Richard Taylor BA, BSc 1970 - 1979
  • Tony Steel MA (hons) 1980 - 1989
  • James Bennett DipEd, MNZM, JP 1990 - 1999
  • Susan Hassall MA (hons), DipTchg 1999 -

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Boys' schools flexing their ABS. Subtext: The newsletter of the Education Forum (May 2004).
  2. ^ Hamilton Boys' High School - Academic (English). Hamilton Boys' High School. Hamilton Boys' High School. Retrieved on 2008-01-04.
Super 8 schools

Gisborne Boys' High School | Hamilton Boys' High School | Hastings Boys' High School | Napier Boys' High School | New Plymouth Boys' High School | Palmerston North Boys' High School | Rotorua Boys' High School | Tauranga Boys' College |