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A courageous end to term 2

By Elaine Kelly | Posted: Tuesday July 5, 2022

“All happiness depends on courage and work.” Honoré de Balzac.

This week in junior assembly, the awards for the School Value of the Term were handed out. In total, 135 boys received Courage Badges. This is an increase on the 128 badges that were given last term.

A big thank-you should go to the teaching staff who took the time to write positive postcards and award house points. The staff recognise that giving these out helps to improve relationships with boys, which in turn leads to better learning in the classroom. Boys are hopefully seeing that if they do the mahi, they get the rewards.

In Term One, Year 9 students laid down the gauntlet to Year 10 by gaining the majority of badges. This clearly gave Year 10 students the push they needed not to be outdone by their younger brothers, winning 59% of Courage Badges awarded in Term Two.

Year 10 boys were certainly on fire this term, coming top in the following notable categories :

  • Highest GPA for effort in the junior school is Ben Crump Year 10 (4.68)

  • Highest number of house points is David Cole Year 10 (11 points)

  • Highest number of positive postcards is William Nichol Year 10 (5 postcards)

As ever, the House Competition rages on when it comes to these badges. Again, it was a close run thing with Park house coming first with 37 badges. Aspinall and McIndoe vied for second place with Aspinall eventually claiming it winning 35 badges over McIndoe’s 34 and in fourth place came Saxton with 29 badges.

Badges look great worn on the tie or the shirt collar and boys should wear their badges with pride around the school! Badges not only look great but they are a reminder to those yet to gain a badge that they have something to aim for every term. The school value for Term Three is Perseverance.

What does perseverance mean in terms of boys’ learning? It means a lot of different things. Some boys may think they need less perseverance in their academic learning, as this comes easier to them. Does that mean they don’t need to persevere? Of course not. There is always the next, more difficult task to applying oneself to. So, next term, boys try some of the following:

  • DON’T GIVE UP, even though you may find the work hard.

  • TRY to make breakthroughs in your learning and get to the next level, one step at a time.

  • REMIND yourself of the progress you have already made this year. This will give you energy to go on in the future!

All boys can find some area in which to persevere. For some, it will be in their academic learning. For a number of boys, it is persevering through difficult circumstances that will be their challenge. For others, it may mean persevering with a sport that they feel weaker at, or learning a musical instrument that they feel like giving up.

In all of your pursuits next term, use the brotherhood at Otago Boy’s to support you. This is how all great teams reach success, by persevering and by supporting and encouraging each other to do so. Year 10 may have come out on top this term but it is up to them now to help their younger brothers to persevere. This will show that they truly are “Men of Oak”. Kia kaha!

Courage Badges were awarded to:

Fraser Anderson, Samuel Asher, Lucas Begg, Harry Bezett, Hayden Black, Angus Broderick, Sam Brophy, Louis Brown, Hugo Buitenhek, Alex Bull, Vance Butler, Thomas Cargill, Ethan Carr, Joseph Chen, Matthew Chiles, David Cole, Will Cone, Ben Couling, Benjamin Crump, Samuel Crump, Max Cutfield, Flynn Dalley, Liam Davis, Sean Davison, Cormac De La Harpe, Elliot Deaker, Luis Deaker, George Deedman, Ahron Del Rosario, Oliver Devereux, Will Ding, Sam Drake, Caleb Elder, Liam Elder, Jacob Fleming, Jeremy Frei, Louis Fyfe, Sasmin Gamage, Joshua Geddes, Lucas Gibson, Matthew Glover, Hamish Grindlay, Flynn Hall, Wajih Hasan, Shaun Hasler, Fletcher Hawken, Harison Heslip, Sam Holborow, Ashton Hollamby, Charlie Hore, Harry Humphrey, Achie Hyslop, Ruie Hyslop, Oliver Jamieson, Vansh Jaswal, Sunny Jiang, Emil Johnson, Mikko Johnston, Toby Kerr, Michael Kirkland, Perry Koni, Afe Lale Sululoto, Nathan Lau, Alexander Lea, Jayden Lu, Henry Lucas, Flynn MacGill-Brown, Caleb MacGregor, Ega Mackenzie, Oliver MacKenzie, Xander Maguire, Adam Mainvil-Baxter, Finn Marshall, Hunter Martin, Toby McClean, Mason McCreanor, Harry McGregor, Conor McIntyre, Yoash Mirisagie, Luca Mirosa, Rowan Morgan, William Munro, Gabe Murphy, Shabir Nabizada, Yusuf Nagdee, Robbie Nichol, William Nichol, Te-Ava-A-Katu Nicholas, Chase Nicolaou, Toby Ollerenshaw, Toby Orchiston, Charlie Ottrey, Alexis Owen, Gunha Park, William Parry, Archie Potter, Xavier Preedy, Will Pyper, Amir Rasoli, Muhammad Rhamadian, Matty Richards, Zakariya Rizwan, Kase Robertson, Darrius Rogers, Neo Salomonsson, Henry Savage, Leo Shields, Rupene Skipper, Jude Smillie, Eden Smith, Isaac Smith, Josh Smith, Kai Sugiyama, Max Sutherland, Ethan Suttie, Mahmood Taha, Mouhammad Ali Taha, Dawa Tamang, Alex Tavendale, Nicholas Thom, Ben Thompson, Harry Townsend, Dade Tredoux, Kaedyn Trow, Eli Tucker, Ollie Turnbull, Nixon Turner, Jack Ussher, Roland van Rooyen, Oban Voice, Talvin Williamson, Itay Wishoof, Kannin Yahya, Aaron Young and Dustin Young.

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