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Jared Heads to Jamzac

Year 10 student Jared Billyard is heading to Jamzac (New Zealand's first National Parkour and Freerunning Competition) being held in Auckland next month. 

Year 13 Evening

Our Year 13s are a fine year group for whom we have targetted extra support this year to help ensure we avoid what is sometimes called the "7th form year" or "checking out in July". Every year we hear...

Lost Property from Mt Aspiring Camps

A small number of items (pictured above) have yet to be claimed from the lost property returned from our term 1 camps to the Mt Aspiring Lodge. 

Otago/Southland Secondary Schools Athlet...

Congratulations to all boys who competed in the Otago/Southland Secondary Schools Athletics Championships held in Invercargill last weekend.

International Student Interschool

The first interschool event for international students between OBHS and OGHS was held successfully on Monday 20 March. More than 30 students joined together to play sports like dodgeball, basketball ...

10H Camp at Mt Aspiring

The final Year 10 camp for the season returned to school on Friday 24th March after a great week in the Matukituki Valley.

The Deadly Beam…

Creative writing by Year 11 student Thomas Ryan.

In Memoriam

We acknowledge the recent passing of the following old boys of the school.

Visit To Marine Sciences Laboratory

This week the three Year 12 Biology classes set off down to the peninsula to visit the Marine Sciences lab at Portobello.

OB's New Crop Measure Themselves Up Agai...

Old Boy Sam Timmins stopped by for a chat at school on Wednesday. He had time to catch up with a few of the new crop of basketballers in the school.

Lost In The Bush

Creative writing from Year 11 student Harry Hansen

Scientists Seek Solution

9S grapple with the eternal question... just what percentage of a parsnip is sugar? As part of their class work, these students used a variety of experiments and data analysis to find the answer to t...

Volleyball News

This Sunday our Senior A Volleyball team will travel to Palmerston North to compete in the 2017 Volleyball National Championships. 

Football Talent Scouted

Year 9 student Oli Colloty will spend 3 nights in Masterton during the upcoming school holidays.  

Junior Debaters Fight the Good Fight (ag...

This week our squad of Junior Debaters kicked into the DSS Debate Competition properly! Previous weeks have seen our boys involved in practice rounds but now it's the real deal. Good luck boys!

Recently the Board of Trustees (includin...

This group is tasked with the governance of your school. Their role is very specific, to chart the current and future direction of the school. In this way the Foundations mission is similar.

1st XI Take Out Title

For the sixth time in the last seven years the OBHS First XI has won the Otago/Southland title to qualify for the NZ Finals to be held in December.

The Last Word

Hey everyone. I have been “um”ing and “ah”ing about what I could talk about with this last word. I thought I might talk about something inspirational… maybe finish with a quote of some sort? I’m only ...

Success at New Zealand Track and Field C...

Four senior pupils competed in the New Zealand Track and Field Championships in Hamilton from 17-19 March with great success. They enjoyed competing beside some of New Zealand’s best athletes - Eliza ...