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Year 9 - Food Technology

Year 9 Food Technologists have been learning how to make the perfect bread dough. They put this to good use this week where they created dough for pizza. They will be creating and developing their own...

Young Farmers Agricultural Experience Da...

Senior agriculture students attended a NZYF Agricultural Experience Day in Oamaru recently. The purpose of the trip was to expose high school students to various facets of working in the agriculture s...

Moto X success

Year 10 student Grason Veitch competed in Hastings last weekend finishing 1st in junior 125/250 class.

Time to Report the Findings

Now at week six of the term, many of our senior students have completed units of work that are being assessed with tests, reports due or assignments for internal assessment credits. These biology stud...

Year 13 Food and Nutrition make Sushi

Students are currently working towards the influence of multinational food corporations on eating patterns in New Zealand. Practicals are based around 'healthy fast food' alternatives. Rice balls on M...

A Message from the Rector

Connections are important for us all. As human beings our ability to connect to each other is a fundamental survival tool.

Community Spirit Recognised

A huge thank you on behalf of the Flight Centre and the Halberg Disability Sport Foundation to Flynn Meyer for volunteering his time to support the Disability Water Sports Day held at Brighton Beach a...

Boys' Ace Tennis Training

On Monday afternoon the interschool tennis team trained on the refurbished courts with extra coaching from Otago representative player Ryan Eggers.

Biology Visit to Otago University

The Year 13 biology class were invited to tour the School of Physical Education last week and to test their skills in the flume, on the VO2 Max treadmill and hot room.

A Note of Thanks

We would like to thank the families that have supported the school by purchasing their sons 2016 stationery and senior workbooks from Paper Plus.

South Island Secondary Schools’ Triathlo...

Bad news before the team had even departed. Louis Harris suffering a broken collar-bone and wrist while training on the eve of the race; our Intermediate boys’ team out.

Our Athletes on a National Stage

An outstanding effort by these three hostel boys who represented Southland Athletics in the nationals last weekend.

Young Team Impresses

Our Senior Volleyball team travelled to Christchurch last weekend to participate in the Senior Volleyball Mainlands (South Island) Tournament.

Connecting the past to shape our student...

On Tuesday we remembered the life of Alexander Aitken, father, World War One veteran, mathematical genius, teacher, sportsman, musician and old boy. We were lucky enough to be joined by his niece, Bev...

Defibrillator presented to the school

After major fundraising efforts the Parents Association were able to purchase and have presented the school with a defibrillator.

Year 9 Drama

9T English prepares themselves outside on a glorious Dunedin day and presents slam poems centred around the theme of "identity" - some very impressive performances here!

10T's Week at Camp

10T spent last week at Mount Aspiring.

New Zealand Boarding Schools Student Con...

The 'Heads of Boarding Student Conference' was held at St Matthews Collegiate in Masterton last weekend. OBHS Head of House Mitch Pryde attended and has returned to the OBHS Hostel brimming with idea...

The Forces were with us!

Today our students had the opportunity to visit the Defence Forces bus as part of their future career planning.

Debate Update

This week saw the start of the Dunedin Secondary Schools Senior Debate Competition. A seven round contest run by the University of Otago involving schools from around Dunedin.