Southland Boys' High School

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Southland Boys' High School
Motto	Non Scholae Sed Vitae Discimus Not for school but for life we are learning
Type	State Single Sex Boys Secondary (Year 7-13) with Boarding Facilities
Year established	1881
Address	Herbert Street, Invercargill, New Zealand
Coordinates
Principal	Ian Baldwin
School roll	1070
Socio-economic decile (10 is highest)	5^[1]
Ministry of Education Institution no.	404
Website	www.sbhs.school.nz

Southland Boys' High School (SBHS) is an all-boys school in Invercargill, New Zealand, and has been the only one in the city since Marist Brothers was merged with St Catherines to form Verdon College around 1980.

[edit] History

SBHS was founded in 1881 and, in 1926, the original brick building was opened on the present Herbert St site. This building is called the Pearce Block in memory of Mr T. Pearce who was rector from around 1904 to 1929. Subsequent buildings were named after George Uttley, Malcolm Leadbetter, Don Grant and Laurie Cornwell. The gymnasium was named after Jim Page.

Southland Boys High School

The west end of the Pearce Block suffered a fire during Easter 1980 which was well recorded in the 1980 year book "The Southlandian". The fire extensively damaged three class rooms on the upper floor whilst the Rector's, DP's and Senior Master's offices on the ground floor were water damaged.

Well-known former students include Jeremy Waldron, who graduated in 1970 and is now a prominent legal and political philosopher in the United States, and Andrew White, who played rugby for the All Blacks in the 1920s. Back in the early 1980's there were several rows of framed photo's in the downstairs corridor of the Grant Block of Old Boys who had gone on to represent New Zealand at rugby or cricket. The Leadbetter Wing also had framed photo's of the First 15 rugby team dating back to around 1913.

The school co-hosted the 2006 State Twenty20 Cricket Knock-Out Tournament in Invercargill.