Junior value badges awarded
By Elaine Kelly | Posted: Wednesday May 4, 2022
“The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.” Ayad Akthar (playwright and novelist).
In junior assembly this week the winners of respect badges were announced. These badges are part of the Junior Value Badges reward scheme which is in it’s inaugural year. They are a Rector’s Award. The scheme was designed to help boys focus on the value of the term and it rewards boys who collect positive postcards, house points and a good grade point average in their effort grades.
The value for Term 1 was respect and a total of 128 boys earned themselves a badge. This represents 35% of the junior school. The names of the recipients are listed below.
There were a few standout performances that are worthy of a special mention. These boys were top in the various categories in their year group.
Highest GPA for effort:
Year 9 with 4.3 - Will Cone, Ben Couling, Charlie Hore and Nathan Lau
Year 10 with 4.52 - David Cole and Jack Ussher
Highest number of positive postcards:
Year 9 with 4 postcards - Dustin Young
Year 10 with 3 postcards - Izaak Fruean
Highest number of housepoints:
Year 9 with 11 house points - Joshua Geddes
Year 10 with 15 house points - Jack Ussher
The Junior Value Badges scheme will also contribute towards the ongoing house competition and the results are as follows:
1st Place - Park House with 37 badges
2nd Place - McIndoe House with 36 badges
3rd Place - Aspinall House with 28 badges
4th Place - Saxton House with 26 badges
Boys must meet 2 criteria to gain a badge. The criteria for gaining a badge are as follows:
Criteria 1 - either a positive postcard home OR a shout out from a member of the public.
Criteria 2 - either a GPA for effort of 3.9+ OR top 10% of house points gained.
The value of the term of term 2 is courage. With this value, we hope to encourage your son to have the courage to try something new at OBHS. This could be trying out a new sport or club, making a concerted effort in class to be brave and put his hand up more or take some risks in his learning. It could mean even having the courage to stand up for others and speak out when he sees something wrong.
Term 2 is the time for the junior boys to show us what they are made of!
Respect badge recipients:
Nirbighna Acharya, Ottis Allan, Moetaz Al Ghanem, Samuel Asher, Tom Bankshaw, Lucas Begg, Murphy Best, Harry Bond, Coby Booth, Sam Brophy, Cameron Brown, Hugo Buitenhek, Alex Bull, Jake Butler, Thomas Cargill, Joesph Chen, Oak Chisholm, David Cole, Will Cone, Ben Couling, Benjamin Crump, Samuel Crump, Max Cutfield, Liam Davis, Cormac De La Harpe, Elliot Deaker, Lewis Deaker, Charlie Deedman, Oliver Devereux, Sam Drake, Levi Dykstra, Caleb Elder, Liam Elder, Fou Eteuati, Jacob Fleming, Jeremy Frei, Izaak Fruean, Louis Fyfe, Sasmin Gamage, Joshua Geddes, Lucas Gibson, Alex Glover, Jonty Graham, Hamish Grindlay, Flynn Hall, Jamie Hall, Zach Hall, Wajih Hasan, Shaun Hasler, Fletcher Hawken, Charlie Hore, Harry Humphrey, Archie Hyslop, Ruie Hyslop, Oliver Jamieson, Vansh Jaswal, Sunny Jiang, Mikko Johnston, Kaiau Karena, Toby Kerr, Michael Kirkland, Afe Lale Sululoto, Nathan Lau, Jayden Lu, Henry Lucas, Flynn MacGill-Brown, Ega Mackenzie, Oliver MacKenzie, Xander Maguire, Adam Mainvil-Baxter, Tom Maley, Finn Marshall, Hector McCallum, Max McCaul, Ollie McCulloch, Grevel McFarland, Conor McIntyre, Yoash Mirisagie, Luca Mirosa, Rowan Morgan, William Munro, Shabir Nabizada, Yusuf Nagdee, Robbie Nichol, William Nichol, Chase Nicolaou, Toby Ollerenshaw, Toby Orchiston, Oscar Orellana, Charlie Ottrey, Alexi Owen, Dallas Pankhurst, Gunha Park, William Parry, Nevin Peiris, Yash Prasad, Will Pyper, Amir Rasoli, Muhammad Rhamadian, Zakariya Rizwan, Kase Robertson, Darrius Rogers, Neo Salomonsson, Rupene Skipper, Gianni Stuart, Kai Sugiyama, Ashish Sujith, Max Sutherland, Ethan Suttie, Dawa Tamang, Alex Tavendale, Tamati Taylor, Ben Thompson, Harry Townsend, Eli Tucker, Ollie Turnbull, Joseph Uehara, Jack Ussher, Jayden van Kessel, Oban Voice, Alex Williamson, Talvin Williamson, Nate Wilson, Itay Wishoof, Kannin Yahya, Aaron Young, Charlie Young and Dustin Young.
