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Year 12 Geography Field Trip to Central ...

Last week Year 12 Geography students travelled to Central Otago studying a range of climatic factors.

Cover Shot - Year 11 Creative Writing

The helicopter was a five seater. Matt and Alex had emerged from the control center carrying nothing but their boots and a backpack with two days worth of supplies. They had been given new clothes to ...

The Last Word

For all of us in the audience today we are students who are all in the second half of their OBHS schooling career. For Year 13 we have only 1 term, Year 12 5 terms and Year 11 9 terms left. 

2017 Gateway Applications 

Scholarship Statistics

Our Scholarship Statistics boys, who deserve huge acknowledgement for attending Thursday evening or Saturday morning tutorials all year, take a small break to undertake a triangle distinguishability t...

Old Boy Sir Ron Scott (1942-46) passes a...

Obituary for Sir Ron Scott

News from the Library

In the recent holidays the library window seats were all reupholstered, and so the new ‘reading only’ area was born in style and comfort! If you’ve ever been lucky enough to visit the library during i...

The Number Pi

9T spent their Mathematics lesson this morning finding out for themselves the value of the number pi.

OBHS 2016 Class Acts

Congratulations to this years outstanding recipients, Ben Sinnamon and Declan Su'a.  

Gateway

Year 13 student Flynn Berkett is attending a Hospitality Course at the Otago Polytechnic.

Hostel News

We are now almost mid way through the third term. The Hostel boys have settled back into hostel life well following the holidays and have been busy with their activities.

Winner of NZ Association of Teachers of ...

Congratulations to Year 11 student Alexander Grant, the 2016 winner of the NEWZATS (NZ Association of Teachers of Singing) Aparima Senior Awards at Marama Hall, Otago University last Sunday.

O'MAthalon Success

On Tuesday 16 August the annual NumberWorks’nWords O’MAthalon was held at the Lion Foundation Arena for Years 9 and 10. 

OB's Rowers Named in Otago Team

Congratulations to Olly Higgins and Todd Bezett who have been named in the 2016 Otago Interprovincial Under 20 Mens Rowing Team. Old boys Scott Bezett and Corey Lewis have also been named in this tea...

Paralympian Speaks at Assembly

As the Olympics are coming to a close for a majority of our athletes we reflect on the triumphs and losses that we have faced not just as teams but as a nation

Moto X Titles Won

Year 10 student Grason Veitch travelled to Blenheim last week to compete in the Marlbourgh Moto X Championship on Saturday.  

A Note of Thanks from the Parents Associ...

The Otago Boys’ High School Parents Association would like to express their gratitude to all the volunteers who turned up on Saturday to help with the cheese roll making. A great fun day was had by ...

Arch Jelley 1936-1940

As an athletics coach, Arch Jelley is all about the numbers. Except the one that changes each year he hits his birthday. That he's long past caring about.

Apocalypse Writing

I can handle all of the death and murder. I can handle the misshapen, diseased corpses. The one thing that I can't handle about this god forsaken apocalypse is the isolation. With no one I care about ...

In Memoriam 

We acknowledge the recent passing of the following Old Boys of the school