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Hamilton Boys' High School
Address
Map
Peachgrove Road, Hamilton
Coordinates37°47′12″S 175°17′47″E / 37.7868°S 175.2964°E / -37.7868; 175.2964
Information
TypeState single-sex boys, Secondary (Year 9-13) with Boarding Facilities
MottoSapiens fortunam fingit sibi (A wise man carves his own fortune)
Established1911
Ministry of Education Institution no.131
PrincipalSusan Hassall
School roll1845
Socio-economic decile8
Websitewww.hbhs.school.nz

Hamilton Boys' High School is a boys' secondary school in Hamilton, New Zealand. The school was established as Hamilton High School in 1911 but was later split into separate boys' and girls' schools. The school crest features a lion, sash and star, and bears the motto "Sapiens Fortunam Fingit Sibi" which translates to "a wise man carves his own fortune". The school colours are black and red.

Most of the school's approximately 1800 students are day boys from Hamilton and surrounding townships such as Cambridge, Te Awamutu, and Morrinsville. Around 120 boys are housed in an onsite boarding hostel, Argyle House, which forms one of the six houses into which the school is divided. The boarding house is located on the school grounds, but is essentially a private institution, with students paying approximately $9,000 per year to attend.

In 1999 the school appointed Susan Hassall to head the school. In doing so the school became one of the first boys' schools in New Zealand to appoint a female headmaster.[1]

Academic

The school offers both the state run NCEA and external Cambridge International Examinations for students to undertake.[2]

Sport

Hamilton Boys' High School fields a number of sports teams in a variety of codes. In recent years it has won the New Zealand secondary schools competitions for rowing, cricket, rugby, touch rugby, rugby sevens and clay target shooting. Its football and hockey teams are also often in the top ten teams in New Zealand.

In particular, the school has won the Gillette Cup for schoolboy cricket three times since it was established in 1990, and it has won the Maadi Cup for rowing Eights six times and the Springbok Shield for Fours thirteen times (a national record), including the last five years consecutively.

The U15 A rugby team annually competes at the national U15 rugby tournament, although despite having made it to the finals eight times Hamilton Boys' High have never won it.

Currently it holds the Maadi Cup (rowing), Moascar Cup (rugby) and Gillette Cup (cricket), arguably the three biggest prizes in New Zealand schoolboy sport. It also won the competitions for touch rugby and clay target shooting.

The school is one of the Super 8 schools.

Hamilton Boys' High School competes regularly against another Hamilton school, St Paul's Collegiate. The two schools are traditional foes, and games between them generate intense but good-natured rivalry.

In 2009 the school won the national secondary rugby championship school for the second year in a row defeating St Bede's College in the final 17-0.

Houses

Hamilton Boys' High School currently has six houses. All of the day boy houses are named after former headmasters of the school.

  • Tait - Red
  • Taylor - Green
  • Wilson - Blue
  • Steel - Grey
  • Baigent - Yellow
  • Argyle - Black

Enrolment

Like all previously selective state schools, Hamilton Boys' High School operates an enrolment scheme.

Enrolment was traditionally by academic examination followed by an interview. Alternatively a student might be enrolled if he had a family connection to the school. The school still examines new students but only for the purposes of streaming students.

Notable Old Boys

As well as a number of All Blacks and All Whites, the following people are Old Boys of Hamilton Boys' High School:

Headmasters

  • Eben Wilson MA 1911 - 1937
  • Harold Tait MA, OBE 1938 - 1957
  • Aubrey Baigent MA, BCom 1958 - 1969
  • Richard Taylor BA, BSc 1970 - 1979
  • Tony Steel MA (hons) 1980 - 1989
  • James Bennett DipEd, MNZM, JP 1990 - 1999
  • Susan Hassall MA (hons), DipTchg 1999 -

References

  1. ^ "Boys' schools flexing their ABS". Subtext: The newsletter of the Education Forum. 2004. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  2. ^ "Hamilton Boys' High School - Academic". Hamilton Boys' High School. Hamilton Boys' High School. Retrieved 2008-01-04.
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