School House Newsletter - Term 2 - Week 5 & 6
By Vai Mahutariki | Posted: Monday May 29, 2023
Welcome to this weeks School House Newsletter
Talofa lava and greetings to our School House hostel families. It has been a busy 8 days, with a few special moments and opportunities. Here are some updates and happenings.
Men of the Week 5 & 6
Congratulations to Year 13 hostel prefect, Ben Kinney, who has been outstanding help around the hostel and supporting others especially in some tutoring in boys learning. Well done Ben.
Congratulations to Year 10 Jack Muir, who has been a great help around the hostel especially in supporting the Housekeeping team at times. Nominated by staff, well done Jack.
Congratulations to Year 13 hostel prefects Phoenix Tapatu and William Thode who were named man of the match for their performances in the 1st XV game against Kings High School both leading the team to victory.
Congratulations to Year 9 Rahui Valli who scored 5 tries in the Inter-Hostel rugby match between our School House hostel and Thomas House hostel from Timaru Boys High School. A great display of talent and skill. Well done Rahui.
Congratulations to Year 9 Bob Tisdall who put in a great shift in the Inter-Hostel rugby match in the front row and secured the highlight of the match at the end with a well taken conversion to the delight of the entire School House contingent. Well done Bob.
Activities
Our boys enjoyed attending the final Highlanders home game on Friday night and also the final home game for All Black legend, Aaron Smith. An exciting match to view and great to see the Highlanders win the battle at the end of the game.
School House vs Thomas House Rugby Match
On Wednesday 24th May, the entire Year 9 hostel group along with some supporting Year 13s travelled to Oamaru and Excelsior RFC to meet Thomas House hostel from Timaru Boys High School and compete in the inaugural Hostel Year 9 rugby match. Filled with excitement and energy our year 9s got stuck into the opportunity of playing together as a group and having some fun along the way. Every boy who was able to play enjoyed the opportunity to join in on the match and added value to the team. With that connection and desire to develop their brotherhood, School House hostel game out on top winning the game 59-7. Well done to Captain Marley Leevey for leading by example on and off the field and well supported by his vice captain Rahui Valli and the rest of the team. Special acknowledgement to our boys who don't usually play rugby for getting involved and adding value. This was a great opportunity to bring our boys together as one and continue to build that brotherhood and togetherness. Thank you to our parents who traveled far to support our boys and special thanks to Jason Forest from North Otago Rugby and the Excelsior RFC for putting on a great venue and aftermath meal for our boys and their supporters. We look forward to seeing Thomas House next year.
Hair-cutting Session
A number of our boys like to give each other haircuts and we thought it would be great to bring in some expertise and help train and give our boys some helpful tips to improve their hair-cutting skills. We were grateful to have expert barber Andrew Muasika who does all the All Blacks and Highlanders when they are in town, pass on his knowledge to our boys and give them some confidence in what they were doing and also touched up a couple of there was a little error. Our boys cutting hair got some real good information and reinforcement on what they have been doing. Looking for to the next session and further development for our boys.
Timaru Boys High School Inter-School
Good luck to all our boys competing today in the Inter-School with Timaru Boys High School.
Leave:
Please make sure you get Leave in for your son/s well in advance. We have recently had some near misses of rides and transport as families have not put leave in and therefore we have not planned for drop offs and on a couple of occasions recently when boys have almost missed their buses or transport as our vehicles were already out and about doing other jobs when boys have said they needed to be dropped off to go home but no leave was put in and so we were unaware of them departing or going home etc.
Important Dates:
Kings Birthday Weekend - Friday 2nd June - Monday 5th June - Weekend Out!
Just a reminder that we have a long weekend coming up in two weeks across New Zealand in honour of the King of England,s birthday. This is a weekend out for all except the International students. There is no exception as there is no weekend sport or activities for our students. Please make sure you get your Leave in well in advance.
Manuia le aso.
Sports Results
Weekend Results:
Rugby:
OBHS U14 Stripes 45 - 19 Kings U14 Wildcats
OBHS U14 Hoops 19 - 68 Kings U14 Leopards
OBHS U15 Red 22 - 20 Kings U15 Tigers
OBHS Colts Red 0 - 90 Mount Aspiring College
OBHS Senior Reds 47 - 0 Kings U16 Panthers
OBHS U15 Blue 31 - 19 South Otago HS 2nd XV
OBHS Colts Blue 3 - 24 John McGlashan 2nd XV
OBHS 3rd XV 81 - 0 Kings HS 3rd XV
OBHS 2nd XV 26 - 15 Dunstan HS 1st XV
OBHS 1st XV 54 - 3 John McGlashan 1st XV
Cross Country:
Caversham Relays (Thursday)
Junior U15 Boys 2km - OBHS Juniors 3rd Place
Senior O15 Boys 2km - OBHS A 1st, OBHS B 3rd
South Canterbury Schools Cross Country (Sunday)
Senior Boys - Jake Owen 1st Overall
Swimming - Otago Secondary Schools Champs:
Toby Hill - Men U14 100m Breaststroke - 3rd
Henry Hodgson - Men U14 400m Freestyle - 4th
Aleksandr Kivilev - Men O15 100m individual medley - 3rd
Men O15 50m Breaststroke - 3rd
Max McCaul - Men O15 50m Butterfly - 4th
Bogdan Moskalenko - Men O15 50m Butterfly - 3rd
Taka Sugiyama - Men O15 200 Freestyle - 2nd
Men O15 400m Freestyle- 2nd
Men O15 200m individual medley - 3rd
Neo Salomonsson - Men U14 100m Backstroke - 1st (6 x new Otago Secondary School Records!!!)
Men U14 50m Freestyle - 1st
Men U14 100m individual medley - 1st
Men U14 50m Butterfly - 1st
Men U14 100m Butterfly - 1st
Men U14 200m Butterfly - 1st
Men U14 50m Backstroke - 1st
Men U14 200m individual medley - 1st
OBHS Men 200m Medley Relay - 2nd
(Aleksandr Kivilev, Taka Sugiyama, Neo Salomonsson, Max McCaul)
Midweek Results:
Hockey (Monday and Tuesday)
OBHS 3rd XI 1 - 3 SOHS 1st XI
OBHS White 0 - 8 John McGlashan U15B
OBHS Blue 2 - 2 John McGlashan U15A
OBHS 2nd XI 3 - 4 Logan Park 1st XI
OBHS 1st XI 4 - 1 Kings HS 1st XI
Football (Wednesday)
OBHS 1st XI 3 - 0 Kings 2nd XI (Played Monday)
OBHS Yr 9 Whites 3 - 3 Bayfield Juniors
OBHS Yr 10 Whites 8 - 0 South Otago Juniors
OBHS Yr 9 Blues 2 - 2 Kings Jnr 1st XI
OBHS Yr 10 Blues 17 - 0 Kings Jnr 2nd XI
OBHS 4th XI 3 - 5 Bayfield Seniors
OBHS 3rd XI 6 - 0 South Otago Seniors
OBHS 2nd XI 0 - 3 John McGlashan 1st XI
OBHS 1st XI 1 - 0 Waitaki Boys 1st XI
Rugby (Year 9 Hostel Interschool with Timaru Boys HS)
OBHS Hostel 59 - 7 TBHS Hostel
Curling (Wednesday)
OBHS Blues 2 - 6 John McGlashan
Ice Hockey (Wednesday)
OBHS Tornadoes 8 - 1 Ice Queens
Enjoy the Long Weekend
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