School House Newsletter Term 3 Week 4

By Vai Mahutariki | Posted: Saturday August 21, 2021

Welcome to our Week 4 Newsletter

Good afternoon Hostel parents, hope everyone is keeping safe during these lockdown times. Thank you again to all our parents who made the long journey to quickly pick up with your sons and return them home with you. Although very short notice it ran very smoothly thanks to everyone's cooperation.

Vaccination

This is to inform you that now 12-15 year old children can be vaccinated. We at School House Hostel are in the process of coordinating a mass vaccination for our boys in the hostel once we return back to school and onsite as a group. This of course is optional and not compulsory, however if you would like us to support your son/s in this then let us know by emailing [email protected]

If you have the opportunity, you can also do this while the boys are with you now, before returning back to hostel.

Man of the Week

Week 3

Congratulations to Year 13 Deputy Head of Hostel Jak Stevenson for going above and beyond in not only helping around the hostel with the boys but also helping the Housemasters. A great example of leadership. Well done Jak.

Congratulations to Year 12 Cody Campbell for having great success in his learning at school achieving high grades and also adding great value to the 1st XV in the Semi Final win. Well done Cody.

Week 4

Congratulations to Year 13 Finn Hurley, for a Man of the Match performance for the 1st XV including the match winning drop goal from a long distance out with full time approaching. Finn was calm and collective under pressure making vital breaks at key moments in the game and nailing his goal kicks in the final. Well done Finn.

Congratulations to Year 9 Charlie Ottrey for his Man of the Match performance for his rugby team scoring 5 tries against Waitaki Boys. Charlie is also a great help around the hostel and has received great positive feedback from his teachers in his learning and engagement in his lessons. Well done Charlie.

CONGRATULATIONS

A massive “Up the Hoops” to our hostel boys involved in the 1st XV this season for their Championship Win in the Final at Forsyth Barr Stadium on Saturday 14th August against South Boys’ High School. A hard fought win was made even more satisfying from key contributions from our hostel boys. Hostel boys involved in the final were:

Semisi Tupou Ta’eiloa - Captain

Finn Hurley

Alex McLaughlan

Jacob Bowell

Filipo Whitehouse-Opetaia Tovio

Aaron Morrison

Oscar Anderson

Cody Campbell

Phoenix Tapatu

Scott Alexander

Hostel 1st XV Squad members also include:

Sebastian Whiston

Rota Lafita

Sonny Gibbard

Harry Minty

Special Acknowledgement to Year 13 Head of Hostel Jake Burgess for organising the "Hoops Army" all season and coordinating the ball boys for home games. Also to all our hostel boys who continue to show up and support our school teams every week. Well done.

SCIENCE FAIR WINNERS

Congratulations to Year 11 International Students Marco Cheu and Tony Tang for competing at the 2021 Otago Science and Technology Fair Competition at the Otago Museum for students Year 7 - 13. They won the Australian Corrosion Association Prize and the University of Otago Geology Department and Geoscience Society of NZ Otago Branch Award for their entry titled “Basalt and Granite -two non-identical brothers”.

ACTIVITIES

Our hostel enjoyed attending the start of the NPC Representative Rugby Season with Otago vs Southland at Forsyth Barr Stadium. With many of our boys hailing from both of these two regions there was alot of excitement and anticipation for this match. Awesome to see some of our Southland hostel boys supporting Marty Banks - Southland captain kicking a penalty to even the scores with three minutes to go. Added to this, Housemaster Christian Lio-Willie was making his debut for Otago. It was his decisive break through the middle of the field and long run that led to the winning score in the last two minutes of the game! Overall a great night had by all watching some great rugby.

Hostel Lockdown Life

Our boys onsite who were unable to return home have been working hard in their learning and engagement in their lessons each week day with the support of our staff. They have been well cared for and kept busy with onsite activities such as game nights and fitness sessions to keep that balance in their life. Thanks to Weekend Matron Claudia Wollaston and Housemaster Jess Drumm for leading our boys and staff today in a workout.

Notices

Make sure all hostel boys regularly check our Hostel2021 Google Classroom page for messages and times for when online Zoom calls will be for all Hostel boys to attend and login to. Next one will be Tuesday 24th August - 11:00am for all Juniors

- 1:30pm for all Seniors

School Sport NZ, in conjunction with its sport partners, regretfully announce the cancellation of all sanctioned events on its calendar through to Monday 6th September 2021. This includes all events scheduled within the Winter Tournament Week window.

School Sport NZ will review the viability of future events on the School Sport NZ calendar on Wednesday 1st September, or as appropriate with changes to alert level protocols.

https://www.nzsssc.org.nz/newsarticle/107214?newsfeedId=1207557