2020 JMC Year Book

PRINCIPAL’S FOREWORD Our key focus this year has been to maintain our core values and purpose, despite the disruption of COVID-19. When we were faced with the prospect of distance learning, the staff rose to the challenge, as did the boys. In true McGlashan style, our community weathered the storm with calm and common sense. Our exceptional Pastoral Care and Learning Support programmes provided every boy with an invaluable additional layer of support and a real sense of belonging. This is the glue that binds us together as a community.

In recent years, we have increased our emphasis on the induction of incoming students, particularly at Year 7 and 9. At all levels, expert teachers lead the boys in setting a strong culture of academic excellence, routines, behavioural expectations and work ethic. Students are encouraged to make a broader contribution, not only to the college, but also to the wider community. McGlashan boys tend to maintain very strong connections beyond their school years, and I believe that their experiences here help to cement these lifelong bonds.

People often write to me and say how proud they are to be a part of the John McGlashan College community. This is a special place with high ideals and boundless opportunities, but it is the boys who give the school its character. Our students continue to excel, as is evident in these pages.

This yearbook showcases life at McGlashan and is intended as an historical record for the future. I hope you will refer to this edition as a reminder of the memories made and the friends and staff who have supported you along the way.

Thank you once again to everyone who contributed to this year's edition of the yearbook and congratulations on a fine record of life at McGlashan in 2020.

Neil Garry

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS As I write this, I’m in the Year 13 Common Room, which we wrestle from the boys after Prize-giving. This day is called the ‘Proof Reading Army Call to Arms.’ I call on a lot of goodwill from staff when putting this publication together. And people are busy - the machinery of Prize-givings, report writing, examination tutorials, school camps, Arts’ Week, the Year 9 film festival and the actual business of teaching the exceptional young men of this college takes up a lot of time. Things are busy and yet, so many people in this place put up their hands to help - and today there will be a number who help with the third and final proof - carving out a bit of time in their very busy schedules. For this, I am exceedingly grateful.

I am also exceedingly grateful to Tony Gomez. The man is a phenomenon and contributes hugely to this publication - through compiling some of the bigger sections and, perhaps more importantly, providing so many of the excellent photos. Thank you Tony. Thanks, also to Chris Knopp for the Pen Portraits section, Bryn Jones for help with the cover, all the proofers, particularly Ella Murdoch, Rachel Gardiner, Andrew Morrison and Helen Clulee who got through a power of proofing, Barry Kelk and Kelk Photography and Kirsten Sandall for help with the art collages.

David Schaumann Year Book Editor

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CONTENTS Part One: Staff, Boards, Prefects & Premier Prizes

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Part Two: Highlights of theYear

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Part Three: Boarding House Life

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Part Four: Form Class Photos

Part Five: Creative Writing

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Part Six: Achievements and College Awards

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Part Seven: Cultural Groups and Clubs

110 - 123

Part Eight: Sports Reports

124 - 179

Part Nine: Year 13 Pen Portraits

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“Lockdown was a peculiar time for McGlashan students including myself. Days consisted of one or two short meetings with subject teachers, then we were released to work at our own pace. I spent many mornings shut away in one room doing my schoolwork, whilst my sister worked in another and my mum taught in the lounge.

Although the quantity and quality of my schoolwork were impacted

by Covid-19 as internals were delayed or altered, looking back at this year it does not feel dissimilar to my past time at McGlashan, with lockdown seeming a lifetime ago as we seniors approach exams. ” Mason Prentice, Year 12

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Back Row: Richard Mountain, Craig Knights, Craig Preston, Simon White, Bryn Jones, Lars Thomsen, Clark Boswell, Ella Murdoch, Daryl Shields, Don Campbell 5th Row: Drew Campbell, Andrew Duncan, Andrew Morrison, David Beazley, Chung-Wei Wang, Steven McNulty, Tony Gomez, Troy Jennings, Anne Lucas, Hamish Cartwright, Troy Shoebridge 4th Row: Duncan McLean, Glen Clark, Claire Gregory, Sue Chilton, Penny Ferguson, Pam Garry, Helen Jennings, Anna Noble, Geoff Murdoch, Andrew Leitch, Stewart McDonald 3rd Row: Nick Price, Julie Tolson, Kimberley Sandall, Ruth North, Kirstyn Mawdsley, Emily Hall, Helen Clulee, Colleen O’Connor, Anita Veitch, Brent Wolf 2nd Row: Callum Hayde, Rachel Child, Jan Owen, Rachael Gardiner, Melissa Bell, Andrew Hore, Tori Fleming, Anne Burton, Tom Miles, Sean Wellmann Front Row: Tom Casey, Michele Rodger, Geoff Avis, Ainslie Anderson, John Veitch, Neil Garry, Chris Knopp, Brendan Porter, Donna Smith, David Schaumann, Barry Kelk

2020 – what a year. It started off with a wham bam.

Oh no – they are off to Vietnam. Day one – John and Anita Veitch, our Deputy Principal and his wife both resigned to head to the bright lights and much higher temperatures of Ho Chi Minh City – John as Principal of the International School and Anita has a specialist teaching position there. We were fortunate that John and Anita were not starting until the beginning of the Northern Hemisphere school year in July.

The arrival of the new school year heralded a new beginning for Ella Murdoch, who had been along the road at Columba College. Now she is teaching English to boys. Ella quietly goes about her day over in Gilray block and always has a smile on her face….even when limping along with a very dodgy Achilles.

Helen Jennings, who in 2019 arrived as a reliever, has continued in a more permanent role with Year 9 students.

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Steven McNulty strummed his way into the Music department. There are always plenty of sounds vibrating through the Specialist Block…… perhaps a metronome in the tech area would keep the hammers in time to the drums. The arrival of some new musical instruments certainly amped up those talented students.

Along with the sounds coming from the Specialist Block, are the smells – no, not of boys, but of the creations from within the Food Tech room. We welcomed the arrival of Duncan McLean from King’s High School to take charge. Scones, smoothies, steaks, plus so many other delights – parents be well assured if your son is taking Food Technology, he will be able to cook you a fabulous meal.

Teacher Aides are pretty special people in the lives of our students, and we were fortunate to have Claire Beadell, Julie Tolson and Sue Chilton join the junior

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school. These amazing ladies go above and beyond in helping the students with their learning, and also the teachers in the classrooms. Sue moved on part-way through the year and was replaced by Natasha Prior, who has seamlessly joined in with the Year 7s.

At the end of January, Nick and Shannon Price welcomed daughter Mila into their household. Older brother Isaiah is very happy to have a little sister – long may that last. In February, Glen and Lizzie Clark welcomed another son, William, into the family. Big brother Charlie is absolutely smitten.

Term One was moving along well, Andrew Hore had taken a few weeks leave to head to South Africa to play for New Zealand in the World Over-50s Cricket.

Sadly his time there was cut short (Andrew, we are sure you would have had the starring role in leading NZ to the gold medal) as along came Covid.

Where to go, what to do……with the guidance of the Ministry, Neil led us through this very uncertain and unprecedented time. Thank you Neil. Chris Knopp had the huge and unenviable task of changing the timetables for the staff and students so that we were not all overwhelmed during the days and weeks spent at home. All staff, whether teaching, supporting, accounting, office, grounds or boarding, did an outstanding job. To the teaching staff that had to set work, take zoom sessions, supervise their own children, plus no doubt cook lunch – I don’t know how you do it.

After nearly 35 years, keeping numerous Principals in check, Jan Owen made the difficult decision to leave her second home at McGlashan to spend some well-deserved time for herself and her family. Her knowledge, wisdom, organisational skills and easy going nature have been sorely missed through-out the McGlashan Family.

With time spent at home – dreaming of finishing off his house in Hawea, Don Campbell handed in his resignation, and will sadly leave us at the end of the year. Don has been a living legend around this place for a long time - he has a great connection with the boys and will be missed greatly.

Richard Mountain departed for Thailand at the start of Term Three to take up a position teaching English in Bangkok - he was able to start directly in classes over there without the jetlag – as 14 days in a hotel by himself under strict quarantine rules meant sleep was easy to catch up on. John and Anita, after many false starts, also jetted away to 14 days quarantine in Ho Chi Minh City – they had an 18 square metre room, no balcony but they did have an opening window. John said the highlight was every 4 days being allowed out to walk down the corridor to get a Covid test stick stuck up your nose.

So with the departure of John, came the arrival of Nigel Hunter, who had been a senior leader at Hamilton Boys’, back to his old Dunedin stomping grounds, but this time up in the hills rather than on

the flat land of his old school days at King’s High School. Nigel dropped off his son Jonny to join the Year 7s in the Link and moved into his new office very quickly. It sounds like there is more space in the office than what there had been in their temporary home - a small two bedroom flat that his wife Jacqui and daughter Phoebe had joined them in. And then when elder daughter Jemima came home in the holidays, it was a tight squeeze. Nigel has found out just how accommodating the staff at McGlashan are – Ainslie Anderson moved one street over so that the Hunter family could have some space and move into her family home.

Term Three also saw Carmen Harris, one of our fantastic relievers, take over from Anita in the interim, and Shannon Small replace Richard Mountain in the ESOL classroom.

David and Angela Beazley welcomed baby Arlo into their midst in July to join brother Beauden, and Simon and Steph White had daughter Fern arrive as baby sister to Harrison.

Geoff Murdoch has also made the difficult decision to resign from McGlashan – having a grandchild in Wellington made it much easier to leave Dunedin.

Geoff will be missed by the Maths department. He has shared his mathematics knowledge throughout the school - one staff member now knows that pi is not short for Pythagoras’ theorem. Good luck Geoff stay out of ‘Tiger Country’.

What a year for big good-byes - Melissa Bell leaves us at the end of this year to take up a lead position at the University of Otago Teachers’ College. Our loss will be their gain - Melissa has given so much to the students in her care and to staff with her wealth of professional knowledge and leadership as our Specialist Classroom Teacher. A big loss indeed.

Callum Hayde, old boy and Director of Business has also moved on to take up exciting new opportunities.

He goes with our best wishes and thanks for stopping the HoDs from getting too far in the red in their department budgets.

We said goodbye to Kirstyn Mawsdley, Director of Marketing, in October and the following week welcomed Kirstyn Sandall. Kirstyn celebrated her 40th birthday and surprised her guests by “tying the knot” with her fiancé, Mark. Congratulations and all the best for your future together.

We would also like to acknowledge the passing during the year of Peggy Richards, who had previously taught Art at McGlashan, Don Smith, who had been a long serving staff member and also heavily involved with the Pipeband, and Jane Leahy, who had been a valued member of the school Board of Trustees.

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TEACHING STAFF Senior Management Neil Garry Principal

Donald Campbell Social Science, Technology

Bryn Jones HOD Visual Art Helen Jennings Integrated Studies, English

Hamish Cartwright Science

John Veitch Deputy Principal Terms (1 & 2) Nigel Hunter Deputy Principal (Term 3 onwards)

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Annie Lucas Spanish

David Schaumann HOD English Troy Shoebridge Digital Technology

Duncan McLean Food Technology

Shannon Small ESOL (Term 3 onwards)

Steven McNulty HoD Music

Kimberley Fridd TIC Drama & Film

Andrew Morrison English, History

Rachael Gardiner TIC History, English, Careers Advisor

Richard Mountain ESOL, Art (left Term 3) Ella Murdoch English

Emily Hall Physics

Geoff Murdoch Mathematics

Carmen Harris Integrated Studies & Learning Support (Terms 3 & 4)

Donna Smith HOD Junior English and Learning Support Lars Thomsen Mathematics Anita Veitch Integrated Studies & Learning Support (Terms 1 & 2)

Anna Noble Director of International Students, HOD Languages, German

Andrew Hore Year 8 Homeroom teacher Physical Education

GENERAL STAFF

Kirstyn Sandall Director of Marketing & Development

Drew Campbell Director of Boarding

Callum Hayde Director of Business (Terms 1-3)

Pam Garry Library Manager

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Chung-Wei Wang Mathematics Simon White HOD Technology Brent Wolf TIC Commerce

Barry Kelk Chaplain

Ruth North Library Assistant

Troy Jennings Director of Sport

Carole Gardiner Assistant Librarian and Archivist

Daryl Shields Counsellor

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Administrative Staff

Maintenance

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Ann-Marie Chamberlain Accounts

Tony Beck Property Supervisor

Jan Bremner Science Technician

Rachel Childs Accounts

Craig Knights IT Administrator

Helen Clulee Receptionist

Teacher Aides Penny Ferguson Simon Maole Julie Tolson Natasha Prior Claire Gregory

Tori Fleming Administration

Pip Hayward Maree Deans

Jan Owen Principal’s P.A., Enrolments Coordinator (Retired Term 2)

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Colleen O’Connor International Student Manager

Tony Gomez Sports Coordinator

Victor Hodge (Retired Term 2) Duncan McBeath Lauren Hughes Canteen

Rebecca Simpson Catering Manager Stephen Donaldson Head Chef

Rosemary Stevenson Boarding Matron

Jason Shea Sous Chef

Chloe Rosenberg Baker Catering Assistants Tracy McCauley Charlotte Mosely Elena Hawkins Leah CookeMcDonnell Crystal CookeMcDonnell Laundry Debbie Haldane Kirby Leckie Cleaners Laura McIntosh Ayline Carey Julie Hamilton Kirby Leckie

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Balmacewen House), Henry Power (Dep. Capt. Balmacewen House), Fin Milne (Dep. Capt. Burns House), Aidan Hung (Dep. Capt. Burns House) Front Row Jack Colbourne (Capt. Gilray House), Caine Taylor (Dep. Capt. Ross House), Danny Adams (Capt. Balmacewen House), Sam Knight (Capt. Burns House) Absent Tevita Schaaf (Capt Ross House), Tom Gold (Dep. Capt. Gilray House)

CHAPLAINCY REPORT

Our Chapel theme for the year centered around Scripture:

in Chapel. This leads me to think of my other role, that of pastoral carer. The counsellors and I would agree that we have all seen more lads this year who have been ‘under the weather’ because of the many uncertainties the year has produced. This time spent ‘having yarns with Rev’ has brought me great joy and I hope some lads have benefitted too. It is privileged work.

I have been well supported by our Chapel Prefects, Simon Basel and Jonathan Brook. Musicians Dr Craig Preston, Mr Stewart McDonald, Sam Sinclair, Theo Hannagan, Rylan Urquhart and Lochlan Ing-Aram have been faithfully fronting up early on a Wednesday morning to set up and practice before supporting the pre Chapel singing session. Sam Tait has been amazing on the sound desk. To all of these people and all those who offered a last word or made a guest appearance in the online Chapels, thank you.

“Young men will see visions.” Acts 2 v 17 “In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.”

This theme was introduced at our first Chapel this year. Who would have dreamed that within 6 weeks we would be locked down and I would end up leading and filming 19 services to be online during the year? There were silver linings, however. While I am sure there will be boys who didn’t watch these, I have evidence that many family members and others watched the Chapels and we received encouraging feedback. The downside, however, was the lack of cohesion and sense of community caused by the absence of Chapel and assemblies. Over the five years at McGlashan, this group have lost so far 12.25% of their potential time

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MRS35JAN OWEN YEARS SERVICE

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Article provided courtesy of the ODT A word of warning - the R-word is banned in conversations with Jan Owen at the moment.

The John McGlashan College principal’s personal assistant is leaving her job after 35 years next Friday.

“I’m not calling it retirement. I’m calling it ‘moving on’. I don’t like the R-word.”

While Mrs Owen had enjoyed her time at the college “immensely”, she said it was time to go.

“I’m very sad to go. You could stay forever. I thought I could stay until the end of the year, but then I’d get to the end of the year and I’d say I’ll just stay another term, and it would just go on and on.”

A farewell function was held at the college yesterday, which included a guard of honour by the school’s pupils, and former staff singing her praises.

Over the past three decades, she has worked with three principals - Allan Paulin, Mike Corkery and the present principal Neil Garry - and gleaned an incredible amount of knowledge about the school, the boys and their families.

She said she frequently gets shoulder-tapped in public by former boys of the school, and now the

children of former pupils were attending the school.

“They still stop me in the street. It’s lovely. It’s nice that they remember me.

“It’s nice to see what they’re doing with their lives.”

Mrs Owen started her career as a secretary at the Dental School before moving to the quieter, no-drill, John McGlashan College environment .

She started at the college when it was still a small private school on the corner of Balmacewen Rd and Pilkington St. “It was a very different school then.”

In 1990, it became state-integrated, meaning the facilities were still privately owned, but staff and running costs were funded by the Government.

The college had grown into a much larger facility since then, she said.

“It’s been a big part - a huge part - of my life.”

Mrs Owen said she planned to spend more time with family, do some volunteer work, and travel overseas once the Covid-19 pandemic declined.

“I won’t be idle, believe me.

“I’m not looking at this as the end. I’m looking at it as a new beginning - a new chapter.”

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REFLECTIONS FROM DEPARTING STAFF Beauty and the Pit

The Power of History

By Geoff Murdoch

By Melissa Bell

Golden learning moments. They don’t happen every day. But I love it when we’re together in class and a student offers a way of looking at a problem that the rest of us had completely missed. ‘You beauty!’

I begin every year with the hope that each student walking into the room will gain a more satisfying taste of mathematics in his mouth. This hope is not easily dimmed. At the same time, I know that maths is a subject that can drive us up the wall in frustration.

Worse still, it can be downright disheartening to the point that we are tempted to give up.

A few years ago, Mr Schaumann introduced us as staff to the learning pit. Still today, this image rings so true to my ongoing experience, not only of trying to learn Maths myself, but also of learning to teach it.

Times beyond number, I’ve been down in that pit, fumbling around in frustration. It’s a place both familiar and unfamiliar – familiar, because here I am again in the dark, getting wound up as I feel time slipping through my fingers with so little to show for my efforts; unfamiliar in the sense that I haven’t faced this particular type of problem before. Is this new challenge simply too big for me, too hard? Or do I have the tools but not yet the skills to use them effectively?

“If you are a student and are still reading this, I urge you to be patient in the pit – patient with yourself.”

If you are a student and are still reading this, I urge you to be patient in the pit – patient with yourself. Why bother? More often than not, it’s in the learning pit that understanding comes, not quickly or in great chunks, but a little here, a little there. This may involve asking for help. It certainly requires patience. The learning curve isn’t linear. It’s not smooth either. Why bother? Real learning is essential to many aspects of human growth. On top of that, with maths (and other subjects, too, no doubt), the dawning of new understanding boosts our prospects of enjoying the subject and appreciating its beauty.

I am fortunate to have taught at John McGlashan twice. For both of these terms I have taught senior history, and as I reflect on my time on the teaching staff at John McGlashan, I think mostly of the power of history as a subject.

History teaches us to research, to process information critically and thoughtfully and to structure an argument. But most importantly, in my opinion, history teaches us to understand and appreciate the perspectives and experiences of others.

“I love seeing the wonder in the boys faces as they realise that they are crawling through the Cu Chi tunnels used by the Vietcong.”

I often begin my Year 11 course by explaining that history is less about tanks and guns and more about people. This is never more evident than during our bi-yearly trips to Vietnam. I am often asked how I can run so many trips, but in all honesty, these trips have been a real highlight of my time here at McGlashan.

I love seeing the wonder in the boys faces as they realise that they are crawling through the Cu Chi tunnels used by the Vietcong and the sadness and shock as they walk through the dirt paths of My Lai and reflect on the atrocities of the massacre committed there. Disbelief at the photos chronicling the war at the War Museum in Ho Chi Minh City. The boys come away with a true appreciation of what it is like to live through hundreds of years of conflict. We talk a lot about resilience, here they witness it first hand.

They recognize people being happy and content even though they may possess very little. They admire the value placed on the family with many generations living and working together.

I am disappointed that due to Covid-19 the trip planned for this year has not been able to proceed, but I encourage all of our students, as they graduate and enter the big wide world, to consider the opportunity to travel. There is something powerful about standing in the place where history has happened, whether it is the Bay of Islands or Gallipoli.

Learn your history boys, for in the words of Dr Martin Luther King ‘We are not makers of history. We are made by history.’

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Don’s Last Yarn

By Don Campbell I have been fortunate and lucky with the opportunities I have experienced. Fortunate to be able to teach in both the workshop and in a regular classroom, enabling more of an all round perspective on the boys. Helped also by ideas from sound, experienced practitioners early in my teaching days.

“Coaching footy, going on camps and speaking the same language as the boys have all been a major contributor to an enjoyable time.”

Lucky there. Coaching footy, going on camps and speaking the same language as the boys have all been a major contributor to an enjoyable time. This has paid dividends in the classroom too. More luck and privilege came my way with the unique opportunity to show boys the effects of global warming on both sides of the Alps over the years.

The boys here have punched above their weight with class work and sports. That’s been great to witness and a testament to the calibre of the students here.

Boys here have been very generous with their time, humour, friendship and banter. This has been an ongoing source of appreciation, even well after they have left school.

This is a unique place with the boarding house and local catchment, kind of special with it’s own flavour.

We also have the world’s best morning teas. I wish the college well for the future.

STUDENT COUNCIL

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES REPORT This year will certainly be one for the history books.

With Covid-19 playing havoc across the globe and the intense fast-paced lockdown imposed on the country, education and educators were forced quickly into alternative forms of curriculum delivery. John McGlashan College picked up the challenge beautifully and delivered a seamless online programme in conjunction with a parent and community-backed desire to continue in the face of the unknown. The teaching staff, none of whom had been trained in the art of full online teaching technique rose to the challenge and I applaud them for their dedication, effort and desire in making sure our boys education was maintained to the highest standard. Covid-19 also put a halt to the various international student cultural and sporting trips with a view to a busy catch up year in 2021.

The international student numbers within the college remained strong throughout the year and also into 2021, a reflection on the quality of the college and its ability to provide a safe and sustainable education option going forward.

McGlashan welcomed four new teachers with three new Head of Department roles strengthening Music,

Food Technology, Digitech/Edutech and English and also saw a change in the Deputy Principal role with Nigel Hunter replacing John Veitch who took up an International Principal position in Vietnam.

Funding from The Parents and Friends’ Association enabled 2019 project initiatives to be completed this year, including the tennis and hockey court lighting the number one changing room and the state-of the-art Visual Reality Suite which sets McGlashan at the forefront of New Zealand schools utilising technologies such as this in the teaching and learning environment.

I would like to thank the Board of Trustees members who once again worked tirelessly and enthusiastically throughout the year, maintaining focus on what is best for the boys with attention to curriculum choices and department reviews, personnel, finance and property and ably supported by Aidan Hung as the college’s student representative. The partnership and cooperation with the Board of Proprietors is reflected in the campus, the culture and the community and it is a pleasure to be involved in such a dynamic environment.

Tim Hannagan

SCHOOL BOARDS

TRUSTEES Tim Hannagan (Chairperson) Ainslie Anderson (Staff Representative) Johnny Bell Lesley Brook Aidan Hung (Outgoing Student Rep)

PROPRIETORS

Hamish Ross (Incoming Student Rep) Naomi Ingram Rose Johnston Tracy Paterson Tumi Toro

Tony Sycamore (Chairperson)

Barry Kelk (Chaplain)

John Anderson

Tracy Paterson

Johnny Bell

Joff Riley

Simon Cameron

Seamus Sullivan

David Ford

Neal Wallace

George Friedlander Adam Gain

Val Farrow David Ford

Neil Garry (Principal)

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John Guthrie Rose Johnston

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PRINCIPAL’S ADDRESS SENIOR PRIZE-GIVING 2020

Friends and family, colleagues and students, welcome to the Senior Prize-giving for 2020. We have come together tonight to celebrate the achievements of the students in front of you. This is the first year that some of the pupils from Columba College are to cross the stage, and we extend a warm welcome to them. We hope you will all join us for supper and a chat in the Memorial Chapel after the Prize-giving.

John McGlashan College is no stranger to global pandemics. In 1918, just as World War One was ending, the college was about to open its doors for the first time when the Spanish Flu struck around the world.

Mr Arthur Butchers, the first principal, made the difficult decision to delay the opening of the college due to the outbreak. Within two months, New Zealand had lost 9000 of its citizens to the Spanish Flu, which was about half as many as there were casualties in the whole of the First World War. This was also a significant time in my own family.

One of my relatives, from Upper Junction in Northeast Valley, returned from the war in Europe, miraculously unscathed, only to die in Dunedin after contracting the disease. History has repeated itself 102 years later, but with modern medicine and good management, our losses have remained low compared to the rest of the world.

In the second week of March, just as Covid-19 began to emerge in New Zealand, community tracing identified a case connected to a Dunedin secondary school. One of our kitchen staff was a pupil at that school, and as I chatted with her late that afternoon, I asked if she knew the pupil concerned. Her reply was, ‘Yes – he is in my class.’ At that point, we arranged for her to go home directly, rather than staying to serve the evening meal to our boarders and boarding house staff. Of equal concern, was the fact that, earlier in the week, a number of our staff had attended the Wanaka Show as part of our marketing programme.

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Tension quickly grew around Covid’s arrival in the city, and the potential impact it could have on the college.

We left for Anniversary Weekend having arranged to meet with Board Chairs Tony Sycamore and Tim Hannagan, the Boarding Director Drew Campbell, Chaplain Barry Kelk and Deputy Principal John Veitch - a group which we nicknamed ‘The War Committee’.

By 2 o’clock on Monday, Otago Anniversary Day, the Prime Minister had announced that the country was going into lockdown. By the time we came together later in the day, the intent and purpose of the meeting took on a very different flavour. We met in the staff room, sitting at a reasonable distance from each other, and set to work. It was the beginning of many long hours of planning and organisation.

The first and most defining resolution, which was to underpin all our future decision-making, was the philosophy of ‘PEOPLE FIRST’. It was always clear to the group that the welfare of every member of the McGlashan community - boys, staff and parents - was to be held front and centre. We were adamant that this would drive our thinking as we met the challenges of the pandemic.

Before Anniversary Weekend, the staff had planned a social function, but because of the new restrictions, this had to be cancelled. An alternative was called for, and we came up with the idea of ‘pigeon-hole drinks’. As a gesture of goodwill, the board generously provided every staff member with a couple of small bottles of their favourite tipple. Most staff managed to clear their pigeon holes before they left school on Friday. It was a bit of fun and lightened a difficult week.

Throughout the lockdown, we stayed true to the philosophy of people first. The staff were paid 100% of their wages or salary; our distance learning programmes were balanced and effective, communication with parents and boys was ramped up and supported by our metaphorical ‘open door’ policy.

The staff pulled together to meet the challenges of online learning without fuss, and the boys met their obligations in good spirit. However, we did have to establish a few ground rules at the start. In the first week of distance learning, one boy arrived at his zoom classroom sitting up in bed in his pyjamas. We knocked that on the head fairly early.

At a recent assembly, I said to the boys, “As a nation, we are not yet out of the woods. But as a community, we have demonstrated our ability to cope with adversity and, if necessary, we can do it again, and do it well.” I think that is quite reassuring.

In seven months, our world has been transformed, and lessons have been learned.

Corona-19 has catalysed a rapid reinvention of teaching and learning programmes.

Many sectors of the economy have been placed on life support, and we have become familiar with the new language of epidemiology and genome sequencing.

The Minister of Health learned that mountain biking on Signal Hill during the lockdown was not such a good idea. But, in a national lesson of forgiveness, he has been allowed to redeem himself and has returned to Cabinet in a new portfolio.

And who would have thought that the DirectorGeneral of Health would have become a celebrity in his own right and have his own fan club?

We will continue to face the challenges posed by Covid-19. Firstly, we need to adapt and innovate, with learning programmes which provide students with safe, high-quality outcomes. Our community needs to see students as stakeholders in new systems of innovative learning and pastoral care which blend face-to-face engagement with the latest advances in digital technology. We need to be agile in finding ways to enable staff to work remotely, teach students online, provide pastoral care, and continue to support families who are experiencing hardship. Unfortunately, the pandemic is likely to increase inequity and inequality, with the result that many students will face greater academic, social and financial obstacles to study.

No matter what the future holds, John McGlashan College remains committed to the notion of ‘people first’, and I would like to salute you all for supporting us throughout this challenging year.

The other issue that has become obvious recently is the imbalance IT causes in the relationship between parents and teenagers. I believe this has created a generation gap. This is a tough time to raise children.

Their seemingly superior IT knowledge has parents at a disadvantage and, as a consequence, children seem to have gained the upper hand. The rocketing increase in the use of technology is having a significant impact on student welfare, causing issues around overconnectedness and the idealised depiction of the lives of others. Recent research has found that Facebook users had a more negative view of the world and lower overall life satisfaction. So, what do we do about it? Parents must set effective guidelines and limits to the use of digital technology, particularly at night or when their teenagers should be getting some sleep.

Part of this issue may be caused by parents being digitally distracted. Research indicates that 95% of adults sleep with their phone. Perhaps the answer is in our own hands.

Our strategy at John McGlashan College is to continue to work with parents in educating our students on how to adapt successfully to these challenges. Next year, Deputy Principal Nigel Hunter is planning a series of seminars for parents covering topics such as internet safety, and drug and alcohol abuse.

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This is my opportunity to acknowledge the professionalism and commitment of the staff. Thank you all for your hard work and absolute dedication to the boys. It is often difficult finding a balance between home and work, and it can be a constant juggling act with our own families, who often take second place to the needs of our students. This is not an easy job, and you give it your all. Thank you.

Unfortunately, we must farewell three members of staff.

Don Campbell 1996 – 2020, a quarter of a century of dedicated service. Don has hugely positive relationships with the boys and is a master teacher.

All the very best for your retirement Don. Lake Hawea beckons!!

Geoff Murdoch I will miss your laugh Geoff.

Another master teacher. A boy once said to me “It’s easier to just get on with the job in Mr Murdoch’s class, “there is no option available to cruise along and no place to hide.”

You are highly regarded by the staff and students Geoff. I know your family are at the centre of your decision to move to Wellington. Geoff is taking up a teaching position at Wellington College.

Melissa Bell 2002 – 2007 2014 – 2020 Melissa has given service to the college on two separate occasions. Once again, a superb master teacher at every level. Melissa moves off to the University of Otago’s College of Education as a senior administrative manager. Her legacy includes several memorable trips to Vietnam, her leadership of the Tramping Club and a strong and genuine educational connection with her students.

We are going to miss the professionalism these three bring to teaching and the staff dynamic.

I also want to acknowledge the core of student leadership at the college and in the boarding house; Krishan Luxmanan Ben Monoghan Robert Miller Henry Power

McGlashan is unique because of your input to governance and leadership, the Board of Trustees and Board of Proprietors, the Sports Council, the Parents and Friends’ Association, fundraising, reader and writers, coaching and management, camps and the underlying support you offer daily. Your contributions extend the opportunities that we can provide the boys.

We cannot do it without you My thanks to Tony Sycamore, Chairman of the Board of Proprietors, and Tim Hannagan, Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Chaplain Barry Kelk. Thank you for your complete and unselfish dedication to our boys, your focus on the well-being of the staff, your vision for the college and your unwavering support.

McGlashan is fortunate to have a particularly strong partnership between home and school. I congratulate the members of the Parents and Friends’ Association who have put in hours of unseen voluntary work to support the college. And to Chairperson, Pen Edmond.

Pen has been the powerhouse behind the PFA for a number of years and has been an incredibly hard worker, a fact which has not gone unnoticed. Thank you Pen. Although we were unable to hold the fete this year, the PFA managed to raise nearly $25,000 from the raffle. As I tour visitors around the school, I am always pointing out significant additions to the college made possible by the Parents and Friends’ Association - this is your legacy.

Finally, to the boys who are leaving - I want you to keep working hard, keep reaching higher, and know that we are proud of your efforts. Our very best wishes go with you into the future.

It is customary to end this address with words of wisdom from a famous philosopher or intellectual such as Einstein or Aristotle…or even a past president of the United States. But, earlier this week at our Wednesday Chapel service, Year 9 pupil Jack Tourelle made a very erudite statement which echoed Reverend Kelk’s lesson in Chapel, and my own sentiments for the future.

“Don’t be chained to what has happened this year.

Break free and start focussing on what you want to achieve in 2021, even if you feel afraid.”

Well done Jack, that says it all.

Thank you, everybody. Enjoy your evening and have a great Christmas and New Year.

We are grateful for your loyalty and your levelheaded, balanced approach. Their voice as student leaders has been limited to half the usual number of assemblies which has not made theirs an easy job, but they have remained committed and thoroughly reliable. Well done boys.

Once again, I want to thank and acknowledge all the parents out there.

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KRISHAN LUXMANAN HEAD PREFECT 2020

2020 has been interesting, to say the least. We are now beginning the end of a year full of surprises not only around the entire world, but within this very college as well. The Year 13 v teachers debate, for example, was won by the students this year. finally.

To be fair though, it was Mr Schaumann that taught the debaters how to debate after all so, we can’t joke too much.

In more serious news, Harrison Morton finally stopped growing this year. I don’t know if you’ve seen Harrison but legend has it the guy came out of the womb at 6 feet tall and 115kgs. But, this was an especially good thing for our first fifteen this year, who managed to win the middle four finals against St Kevin’s, 18 to 12.

I would like to thank a few of the amazing people that have made this success possible.

First of all, to my two deputies, Ben and Rob. Ben, you don’t know how much I’ve appreciated having you there to ping ideas off of and do the things that I forget to do. And Rob, your enthusiasm and strong mindset was truly inspiring leadership and the year most definitely would have been much worse without your presence.

A massive thank you to Mr Garry, Dr Preston and Mr Hunter. Although our partnership was a bit cut off due to Covid-19, the prefect team, and in fact the whole school, has received nothing but help, support, and guidance for everything we did throughout the year so a big thank you for that.

And to all the parents sitting out here tonight.

“Rob, your enthusiasm and strong Mums and Dads - you truly have provided for us the mindset was truly inspiring leadership greatest of privileges for which we are humbled and and the year most definitely would ever grateful for. have been much worse without your To the class of 2020, boys, we’re finally there. We’re finally getting out of this terrific environment. Thank presence” you for all the memories, the laughs, the arguments, We’ve also had a number of other successes in the and the man hugs. I hope you enjoy tonight, and what sporting sector this year. Notably, Adam Woodhouse could very possibly be the last time we walk in this came second in the national weightlifting champs gym. and has a clean and jerk best of 131kgs. That’s crazy.

And finally, to all the teachers and staff, not just Imagine, going to school with someone that could for a very privileged seven years, but also for such pick you up and snap you … with their legs. Also, we an amazing lockdown. Funnily enough, despite the saw Tom Gold place second in the NZ Under-19 50m distance, we actually got to know our teachers more Freestyle and third in the Open Men’s 50m Freestyle. during lockdown. For example, we met all of Ms Lucas’ These are just two of the many things our boys children and witnessed Mr Morrison being a dad. achieved throughout this year despite Covid-19. We Thank you, Mr Morrison and Ms Lucas, and all have here definitive evidence of the determination of the teachers for making our lockdown period such a McGlashan men to be better than both the competition smooth, efficient, and even fun experience. Lockdown and, more importantly, to be better than themselves. was so good that I do not know a single person sitting With so much going right, it’s easy to forget the major in this room today whose lockdown learning didn’t problems faced by our nation today - climate change, go smoothly. I do not know a single person who’s housing, pandemics - but it does bring a small sense complained or grumbled that they’re behind because of pride to see McGlashan men succeeding in the of lockdown, not a single person. In fact, while every midst of everything. other school’s students are talking about how much As some of you will know, a few of our much-loved they hated lockdown learning, I actually know a few members of staff have left this year - Mrs Jan Owen, boys who wouldn’t mind going back into lockdown.

Mr John Veitch and Mrs Anita Veitch. And in place of If that isn’t a testament to the stunning effort of our Mr Veitch, Mr Nigel Hunter has joined the team as teachers, I don’t know what is, so, thank you. the deputy-principal, with a very successful first few Now, I’ll leave you tonight with a warning. Beware months. I don’t know how he did it, but ever since Mr the McGlashan man. For when others flee, we fight.

Hunter got here, the number of mullets has dropped For when others hinder, we help. For when we come significantly. through this school, we leave as an unstoppable force But, all joking aside, I do consider this year a that can change this world, whether the world wants successful one, considering our circumstances, and to change or not.

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Nathan has worked tirelessly to meet this goal of being Dux of the college. Nathan completed the IB diploma this year and achieved excellent results across all his subjects. Nathan, we hope that you achieve the grades you deserve in your recently completed final examinations.

Next year, Nathan is looking at studying psychology and English Literature at Otago and will be staying at Studholme College.

Krishan undertook the IB diploma this year and has excelled in all his subjects, achieving several marks in the 80s and 90s. He received an Otago University Academic Excellence Scholarship for next year. As well as being one of the top academics at the school, Krishan has played a number of sports, has been involved heavily in community service and, of course, has served the college as Head Prefect.

Ben Monaghan Ben also studied the IB diploma. He had several grades in the 80-90% range and, for most of his other subjects, he gained Excellence endorsement. Ben has always been a hard-working student who has strived to achieve at the highest level. He has a high predicted score and we look forward to seeing the results of all his hard work. Next year, he is going to study physics at Canterbury University and will be staying at Rochester and Rutherford Hall.

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has been involved in science initiatives, particularly sustainability projects in the wider Dunedin community. He has also mentored and tutored younger students at the college. Congratulations and thank you Jonathan for your commitment.

Ted Friedlander Loyalty and Contribution to the college

Krishan Luxmanan

In addition to the Head Prefect award, Krishan is also rightly recognised for the Ted Friedlander award for loyalty and contribution to the college. With every step this year, and every speech or last word, Krishan has endorsed the values of the college.

This has been particularly notable in his leadership of the other boys.

It has been a challenging year, and Krishan has been a calm, steady presence, emanating a sense of unity and inclusivity at the college. His contribution has been invaluable.

Rex King Memorial Award

Ben Monaghan

Ben has excelled academically during his time at the college, gaining Academic Excellence Awards every year.

He was part of the Engineering Science Competition team that received a highly commended award. He has received two University of Canterbury scholarships.

Ben has also been involved in sport – namely waterpolo and futsal, playing both sports for most of his time at the college and is a Blues recipient for waterpolo. He is a keen debater and has been active in a wide variety of community service.

The Jonoel Award for Supporting the college’s Special Character

Max Walker

TS Holme Award

When asking staff for nominations for this award – Max was consistently the student who was suggested. He has a maturity beyond his years, is always positive in his dealings with staff, peers and younger students and - through his actions and attitude - embodies many of the attributes we value at the college. Max has been a service prefect in 2020, and his excellent leadership has been at the fore in organising events and volunteering both at the college and in the wider community.

Robert Millar

Robert is an outgoing student who has been involved in all aspects of the college. He has played a number of different sports for John McGlashan, has a sound academic record and is involved in a wide variety of service opportunities. He has shown positive interpersonal skills that allow him to adapt to different situations and get along with a wide variety of different people. Robert finds it easy to spark up conversations with a vast range of different personalities and this allows everyone to feel welcome and part of the school family. If you are looking for a student to complete a task, Robert is your man.

Principal’s Award to the Head Prefect

Krishan Luxmanan

The Lead and Inspire Award recognises the responsibilities and contributions the Head Prefect makes each year. Krishan has been an excellent ambassador for the college during numerous events and celebrations. He has been a great role model for the students and his warmth, compassion and positivity is infectious. Krishan’s contribution to the college is thoroughly appreciated.

Gaze Family Cup

Jonathan Brook

Jonathan receives this award in recognition of his excellent service to both the community and college, particularly upholding Christian values. Jonathan has been extensively involved in Chapel services and served as Special Character Prefect in 2020. He

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Once the school year had finished in 2019, a dedicated group of athletes competed in the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Athletics Championships in Wellington. In the final event of the meet, the 4 x 400m team won a thrilling race by a fraction of a second after Shay Veitch dove over the finish line. This event was held after the 2019 Senior Prize-giving and therefore is eligible for the 2020 award.

Liam Wilson

Para-athlete, Liam Wilson is the New Zealand record holder in seven events, including the T37 Senior men’s long jump. He is a member of the Athletics New Zealand High Performance Development Squad and has met qualifying standards for the Tokyo Olympics.

Boarding House Award The Ford Family Award

Angus Kenny

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Rower Angus Kenny claimed a silver medal in the South Island Secondary Schools’ Under-18 single and was third in the Club Nationals Under-20 double.

Angus was selected for the New Zealand Junior Trials and is in the Open and Under-20 Otago rowing teams.

Robert is the Head Boarder in the hostel and is also Deputy Head Boy. In the boarding house, Robert is a great leader and role model for our junior boys. He helps to organise activities for the junior boys, tutors and encourages boys to try new things. Robert has been asked to help out with a number of different tasks and all of these were done without any hesitation and extremely well, with enthusiasm. Robert can always be trusted to get the job done. Robert backs up his leadership with a solid academic track record. He is a true leader in the boarding house; someone that the juniors look up to and aspire to be.

Tom Gold

Tom Gold competed in the New Zealand Short Course Swimming Championships, claiming bronze in the open 50 metre freestyle, and in the Under-19 age group, won a silver in the 50 metre freestyle event and a bronze in the 50 metre butterfly. Tom also broke an Otago freestyle record that stood for 17 years and has qualified for the Olympic trials.

Best All-Round Athlete the Lloyd Cup

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Dominic Morrison

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Dominic takes the title of Best All Round Athlete ahead of a group of multi-talented individuals. Dominic has represented Otago in touch.

He is in the Senior A touch and basketball teams, First XV rugby, and a member of the athletics team. In athletics, Dominic was a member of the victorious 4 x 400 relay team at the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Championships and won the individual 400m at the Otago Secondary Schools’ Athletics Champs.

Ashley Stevenson has impressed this year with his academic record, and his commitment and dedication to his work. This has been reflected with him already gaining an overall Excellence Endorsement at Level Three and an Excellence subject endorsement in both agriculture and agribusiness.

He backs this up with his enthusiasm towards sport, and was recognized this year by being the captain of the Under-18 Blue rugby team.

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their academic studies, getting junior boys involved in activities, and being a positive role model in their lives. Ashley has displayed a passion for agriculture over his time at the college, through his practical and academic knowledge of how different farms work. We wish him all the best for his future.

Joe Mu

Joe receives this award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to music at the college. Joe has participated in a range of disciplines, including jazz band, choir, RockQuest, as well as organising musical performances for school events and mentoring junior bands at the college. Joe is going to study electrical engineering next year at the University of Canterbury.

The Roslyn Physiotherapy Health Sciences Award

Krishan Luxmanan

Krishan intends to study health sciences at Otago University next year and will be staying at Arana College. He has achieved excellent results in both chemistry and physics and this should ensure that he enters the competitive field of health sciences in good stead.

Premier Award for Passion, Interest and Excellence in Literature Neal Wallace Literary Award

Nathan Dockerty

Nathan receives this award for outstanding achievement and service to the college in the literary arts. He is a talented writer, and you would not find anyone more passionate about literature in all its facets. Nathan was a winner in the Re-Draft competition in 2019, a nationwide competition which sees gifted young writers published in a nationally distributed journal. He has also edited work for Inkster at the college, and mentored younger students with their writing. Last year, Nathan achieved scholarship English while in Year 12. He is working on a plan for a novel to begin writing this summer. This year, he was awarded a cultural Blue for writing and literature.

Seven Brothers’ Most significant contribution to the Arts

Danny Adams

Danny receives this award in recognition of his commitment to producing an art catalogue of the college collection, no small feat. This catalogue was finished, printed and bound just before the end of the year. He has worked consistently throughout the year, displaying student artwork around the college, and demonstrating a strong service to the arts. Next year, Danny is going to study design at Massey University.

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Highlights of the Year “The most important lesson I learned during Covid-19 was not an experience I am particularly fond of. The lockdown was a challenging time for everyone. I was scared, like many others, so I found it hard to concentrate during classes and homework completion was poor for the first few weeks. But after a period of stagnant learning and playing a lot of video games, I came to an epiphany that the fear of Covid is only an excuse I told myself in order to throw myself into the temptation of independence. After this moment of realisation, I understood that these temptations will be even more prevalent when I enter the adult world and their neon light will always tempt me with an almost irresistible urge.

But we must stand our ground against these temptations and we must be true to ourselves until the end.”

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ATHLETICS The college’s annual house competition got off to a strong start in 2020, with the day and a half long school athletics.

This year though, there were a number of key differences. Rather than separating out the standards and championship events, the longest jumpers, fastest runners and most testosterone imbued throwers were drafted out during the initial stages of each event and then competed for house points with the top three from each house.

What a difference this made. The boys were busy all day. They were cheering their peers as they competed and then raced off to the next event. So it’s unsurprising that the numbers for participation were up for all the houses. And very evenly spread too.

“The winning house was, unsurprisingly, Burns. Not really. Ross were mighty victors on the day” It’s often said amongst house leaders that participation is the key. This rule of thumb didn’t apply in 2020. There was very little difference between houses for standards events, where the number of participants makes a big difference. But the championship points were entirely different. One house dominated through the entire day - and whilst others jostled around a bit for the remaining positions, it was never really a contest.

The winning house was, unsurprisingly, Burns.

Not really. Ross were mighty victors on the day, and began talking a big game about a ‘Three-peat’ for the Elvidge Cup in 2020.

Ross House’s victory was helped by some outstanding individual efforts. Some of the boys in this house can certainly jump, run and throw. Individual results of note follow: Junior Champion Louis Brown won the 400m and 800m, was second in the long jump and high jump, and third in the 3000m. Finn Apii won the 100m, long jump, and in the day’s highlight, broke the high jump record with a jump of 1.44m to beat the old mark by a centimetre. Serge Meeuws was third after winning the shot put and 200m, and coming second in the 100m.

Nick Casey and Liam Barron dominated the Novice division with Nick taking out this group with wins in 400m, 800m, 1500m and discus. Liam won the high jump and long jump, and both boys placed second in numerous events. Henry Bowering was third in this division after winning the 200m, and coming second in the 100m In the Junior division, Isaac McConachie was first,

after winning the 3000m and javelin, and placing second on numerous occasions. John Mengel won the 400m, 800m, and 1500m to take out second place.

Seb Ferro won the sprints and was second in the long jump, placing third.

Matheson Colquhoun won the Intermediate title after dominating the 800m, 1500m, and 3000m and coming second in the 400m. Stanley McClure took out the sprint double and the triple jump, and was third in the long jump, finishing second in this division.

William Pringle was third after winning the long jump and placing in the sprints events.

Josh Hou took out the Senior division with wins in the 400m, 800m, 1500m, and 3000m. Thomas Sullivan won the sprint double and long jump, and came second in the 400m to take out second place. Gabe Ross was third in this division after winning the triple jump and javelin.

Well done to Nick Casey who won the Champion of Champions Cup. Ross dominated the house competition finishing on 575 points. Gilray just pipped Balmacewen with 462 points to 449 points. Burns finished with 383 points.

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AGRIBUSINESS In an effort to give back to our amazing partners (farmers and industry workers alike), Agribusiness in Schools, together with Marbecks, Silver Fern Farms and Dung Beetle Innovations, organised and delivered the inaugural dung beetle seminar at John McGlashan College. Continuing their collaboration in the Agribusiness programme, Columba College and John McGlashan College invited Dr Shaun Forgie to speak about the benefits of dung beetles in agricultural pursuits. Dr Forgie owns and runs a dung beetle breeding facility in the Auckland area and is seeing these incredible environmental cleaners released throughout New Zealand, especially in the North Island.

the seminar video on the school’s Agribusiness page soon and those interested in discovering more about this natural resource and ordering beetle packages can find all the information they need by visiting: https://dungbeetles.co.nz/ Dr C Preston

“... This is an exciting development as more of the South Island begin to take advantage of these incredible paddock cleaners.”

Around 35 McGlashan community farmers attended the seminar, then joined Dr Forgie to release a 2000 beetle-strong package at Garth and Debbie Mitchell’s farm. This package was generously donated to our Agribusiness programme by Dr Forgie.

The students will now have the opportunity to study the effects the beetles have on this farm and the surrounding area over a number of years, providing these and future students with one of the first real-life, long-term investigations offered at the colleges. Dung beetles contribute to soil aeration and drainage due to their practice of dragging dung 1560cm underground to breed. Parasites that complete their life-cycle in the dung, and consequently infect livestock are also taken underground and get eaten by beetle larvae, eventually reducing the need for extensive drenching practices above the ground.

Additionally, well-drained and aerated soil allows for significantly increased pasture growth after a few years of release, specifically around 30-40% after five years and up to 80% after nine years post-release.

Seminar delegates were very impressed with the presentation and many wondered why dung beetles were not encouraged more by government organisations and primary industry partners. Some of the delegates have now organised for Dr. Forgie to visit their region to run local seminars and release beetles on their farms. This is an exciting development as more of the South Island begins to take advantage of these incredible paddock cleaners. We are posting 29

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RAIL TRAIL Day One After a long trip from Dunedin, we hopped off the bus about 2 km from the Hyde pub. We started biking and met up with the rest of the parents. We then stopped and learned the parent helpers’ names (Steve Joint, Karl White, Steve Hamilton, Josh Jones, Vicky Sandford and Crystal Barton). We started again and hit the first tunnel almost immediately after stopping.

We hopped off and put our torches on and walked through the hundred metres of darkness, which was a relief from the boiling temperatures of Central Otago.

Our next stop was Waipiata where we waited for quite a while for everyone to catch up. This was because a group had raced off and arrived miles in front of the main group. We began the 8 km to Ranfurly quickly because everyone couldn’t wait until we could set up camp and jump into the pool to cool off. We took a quick trip through town following behind one of the school vans to the campground and then set up the tents as quickly as possible, motivated by the promise of ice blocks once each tent had been checked off. After a refreshing play in the pool, we had dinner which was made up of chips and a piece of fish or a hot dog. We then attempted to get to sleep while people in the tents next to us mucked about.

Day Two We awoke to the sound of Mr Campbell rustling our tents and saying “wake up” and then him moving on to the next tent. We packed our stuff and then went to get breakfast which comprised of toast and cereals.

After eating, we packed our tents and started to get ready to depart and carry on. We sent the slower people off, then we did a final sweep of the campsite and started biking to Wedderburn. We caught up to the slower group about halfway and then soon reached Wedderburn Station. We had a morning tea of chips and muesli bars and then started biking to Oturehua where we would have lunch.

We had a little climb to the highest point and then had a really nice long downhill for about 6-8kms. We stopped and had rolls for lunch then headed off down the Ida Valley. We had a quick break and were soon reaching the viaduct into the Poolburn Valley. About 3kms later, we reached the first tunnel and hopped off our bikes. We were pretty much all together because we stopped at Auripo beforehand so we didn’t

have to wait long. We turned on our head torches and headed into the darkness. After about a good 75 metres, we came out and into the hot sun. We carried on and came up to the second tunnel and repeated the process. We arrived in Lauder shortly after and soon arrived at Omakau. We set up camp and we rushed into the pool to cool down. We had a much better sleep than the last night because everyone was pretty tired.

Day Three We awakened to Mr Campbell coming round to each tent telling us to start packing up our stuff after breakfast. There was a lot of grumbling as people stretched out their stiff legs. We ate our breakfast and prepared to leave. We started out strong, looking forward to the big and long downhill into Chatto Creek.

We took off as soon as we had passed underneath the underpass and started speeding up. We kept the fast pace all the way to Chatto Creek and then had a short rest. Mrs Smith told us we had to go slower, otherwise we would arrive way ahead of schedule and have to wait for the bus without much shade. We slowed down a bit and, because we had a bit of time, we stopped at Galloway and waited for everyone to catch up.

We stopped at Alexandra and had some lunch then started sprinting to Clyde trying to get there as soon as possible. Pretty soon, we were at the end and were talking to the other group who were waiting to get our bikes so they could go. We waited there for 30-60 minutes before getting on the bus and heading back to school. We arrived at John McGlashan and started trickling out through the doors, all of our butts aching after the last three days.

We collected our gear and then the boarders went up to the hostel and the day-boys were picked up by their caregivers.

We were all pretty proud of what we had achieved and I’m sure we would all love to do it again after some recovery time.

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MEDEA Ancient Greece has influenced our society in many ways. One of the most prominent ways being theatre.

Greek Theatre is a very unique style of drama as there are many steps taken to ensure the performance is historically accurate in terms of both the costumes and the style it is performed in. Recently the Year 11, 12 and 13 drama classes have completed their Greek Theatre performance internals, and it certainly was a rollercoaster. A rocky introduction due to being in lockdown and learning independently from home, threw everyone off a bit, and that was just the start of the ‘drama’.

Two groups were formed in each of the separate senior classes and we all began to learn our lines.

We presented short 10-minute segments from the historical Greek play, Medea by Euripides. Medea tells the tragic story of a woman driven mad by her exhusband, whose anger leads her to do the horrific act of taking the lives of her children as revenge. Although

“A rocky introduction due to lockdown and learning independently from home threw everyone off a bit, and that was just the start of the ‘drama.”

pinned correctly. Spoiler alert: they were not easy to wear, and they caused a lot of stress!) And finally, we had to perform while wearing full Greek masks. This all seemed like a recipe for disaster, and in the days leading up to the performance, it certainly seemed like disaster was inevitable.

It was a new experience for everybody in the class as it exposed us to a new type of theatre that we would have otherwise most likely never looked into. The interesting and unique use of choreographed chorus movement was a shock to everyone as we all tried to create our own exciting scenes.

Now that the performance is over and we have hung up our togas for the last time, we can’t all help but feel a little relieved we won’t have to do it again anytime soon, but also (and more importantly) glad and nostalgic. This is because we have now got a far broader knowledge and appreciation for other forms of theatre.

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the story is rather grotesque and surrounded by dark themes, the performances still worked and were great successes.

Learning page-long monologues was not the only difficult task faced by the class though, not at all!

Staying true to the historical Greek performance, we had to perform outdoors while wearing togas (Ms Fridd said the togas would be “easy” to wear and that they would, “not come off during the performance if

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WANAKA SHOW Friday 13th and Saturday 14th March saw the team of Mr Garry, Mr Campbell, Rev Kelk, Dr Preston and Ms Mawdsley in Wanaka at the annual A & P Show.

We spent the two days talking with a wide-range of visitors - predominantly current and prospective parents and students - and also connected with a large number of Old Collegians. It is always fantastic to engage with people in their local community.

On Friday night, after the show had finished, we hosted a group of alumni and friends of the college and shared many stories about the days gone by at John McGlashan College. It becomes quite apparent at events like these how strong the bonds of the college are. It is also true that it is all about connection. Now more than ever, perhaps.

The five of us talk regularly about how proud we are of the college and, therefore, how easy it is to talk positively about what we offer. We have an excellent ‘product’. We love our location at the show, further away from other schools, right near the entrance and walkway and with space for our corn-hole boards (thanks Mr White). It is quintessentially McGlashan.

Thanks, as always, to all of the locals for their support and a huge thank you to the staff for the time they take away from their families in order for us to keep doing what we do here at McGlashan.

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Burns. Mighty Burns. Triumphant Burns.

Some may claim that this article about the Cross Country stretches the truth a little. This is a slanderous accusation - the information herein is entirely factual, except for the opening paragraph, which is made up nonsense.

It is a little known fact that the tradition of the John McGlashan College Cross County dates back to 1779 Scotland, when young Jonas McGlashan’s prize friesian cow absconded from the river paddock and trotted off towards the neighbouring town, and Clan McGlashan ran hard in pursuit. None were faster than Robert Burns (the bard was visiting the district, in search of discounted haggis ingredients). Burns chased the errant cattle beast up hill and down dale, through the winding hill country of the Highlands, eventually capturing it thanks to a spectacular spear tackle. Burns was fastest ‘across the country’, crowned champion and toasted merrily by clan McGlashan.

This is, of course, the second most prestigious victory for a Burns in the McGlashan Cross Country.

Tuesday the fourth of August 2020, was the greatest.

Burns won the cross country, For the first time in many years, Burns was not last (as it was the last time it won the Elvidge Cup for the overall house competition). It was not third, as so often has been the case. It was not second. Burns won.

Novice Grade 1st A Loe Burns, 2nd C Light Balm, 3rd W Hancox Gilr, 4th L Barron Balm, 5th N Casey Balm And Burns won the overall competition.

Year 8 Boys 1st D O’Brien Ross, 2nd L Brown Gilr, 3rd A Goldsmith Balm, 4th M Jarvie Burn, 5th J Levy Balm And Burns won the overall competition.

Year 7 1st N McCoubrey Burns, 2nd A Walker Ross, 3rd E Jennings Burns, 4th O Rongen Gilr, 5th J Hunter Burns And, as for the overall competition - the house with the greatest heart, with the highest level of participation, with the most spirit and grit (and likely with the fewest members of the First XV, who were by-and-large pathetic) triumphed. In case you missed it, it wasn’t Balmac (Last), Gilray (Next to last), Ross, (Second next to last) but Burns. Mighty Burns.

Triumphant Burns.

“First J Hou Ross, Second G Westgate Gilr, Third J Thomsen-Fawcett Burns” Now, there are other important results from the day, and there were many outstanding individual performances.

Firstly, Burns won the overall competition.

Senior Grade 1st J Hou Ross, 2nd G Westgate Gilr, 3rd Jed T.F. Burns, 4th R Johnston Burns, 5th W Morshuis Gilr And Burns won the overall competition.

Intermediate Grade 1st M Colquhoun Ross, 2nd S Stedman Balm, 3rd J Pearson Burn, 4th H Elliot Ross, 5th L Casey Balm And Burns won the overall competition.

Junior Grade 1st J Mengel Ross, 2nd H Meltzer Gilr, 3rd J Cushen Gilr, 4th J Chagnon Gilr, 5th L Mackay Ross And Burns won the overall competition.

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JUNIOR SPEAKERS

PREPARED READING AND SPEECH COMPETITIONS This year the oratory battles of our top speakers from Year 7 and 8 were hotly contested and not without drama. In July, one of the best, Angus Burns, was ruled out of the final, following a serious injury in period one motorskills. Instead of delivering his wellrehearsed reading, he had to hear of the results from Accident and Emergency. Top honours were awarded to Glenn Ericsson who lit up the stage with his delivery of an excerpt from The Curse of the Gloamglozer by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell.

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In October we hosted the best of the speakers from the four homerooms again. This time they were to deliver a speech on a topic of either personal or environmental health. The learning involved researching, processing and rewriting information into a persuasive speech, is a valued part of our Social English programme. Dan O’Brien’s message of the undermining nature of cutting down our tall poppies, to both our personal and community health, rose to the top. By gaining first in the speech final and fourth in the prepared reading final, Dan became our overall winner of the Sir John White Speech Award for 2020.

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RAY MA - GOOGLE Google Code-In is an annual contest ran by Google. Every year, people interested Open-source organisations apply and Google accepts more than 20 of them to become the Mentoring Organisations.

Once the contest starts, the student participants are able to choose from thousands of available tasks to complete. Completing 1+ tasks,gains the student a digital certificate. Completing 3+ tasks, gains the student a Google Code-In T-Shirt. Students that are selected as a finalist by a Mentoring Organisation, are given a Google Code-In Jacket. Those who are selected as a runner-up, get a Google Code-In backpack. A student who is selected as a Grand Prize Winner is awarded a paid trip to Google’s Headquarters in San Francisco,California as well as a large selection of Google merchandise.

Google.After ten minutes of waking up everyone in the house and telling them the good news, Ray promptly notified Mr Shoebridge, his Digital Technology teacher, via email. Mr Shoebridge was aware of the competition and very supportive of Ray’s participation.

And then ... Covid-19 hit. Despite all his success and the level of performance, the pandemic curtailed any hope of travelling to Google HQ. An alternative prize was given instead - but nothing can take away just how impressive this achievement is.

“Out of thousands of contestants around the world, he was one of 58 winners.”

Ray found out about Google Code-In at the start of 2019. He has a love of coding and enjoys solving challenging problems. As soon as he saw the contest, he knew it was something he could excel at. On 3 December 2019 the competition registration was open, Ray signed up for the contest and a journey began.

Throughout the contest, Ray had many ups and downs, tackling one task after another, doing community and infrastructure work while his tasks were awaiting review. However all the hard work paid off!

On Sunday, 2 Feb 2020, Ray received an email. He had been waiting for most of the day, since he knew that emails would be sent to the finalists, runners up and winners. Ray had begun to wonder if perhaps he had not done enough. He also knew that no-one else in his organisation had received one.

Then it came:“You’re a Google Code-In 2019 Grand Prize Winner!”

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FORMAL

THANKS, KELKS, FOR THE FANTASTIC PHOTOS Due to Covid-19, our planned date for the formal had to be deferred. We managed to put together and organise a senior formal for 2020 during the first weekend of Term Three. Consequently, it was a struggle to find a free weekend to hold the formal, as bookings for venues filled up quickly. The first free date following the lockdown period was not until the 31st of October, which meant a late Term Four formal.

A couple of weeks into planning around this later date, I received an email from the Otago Museum saying they had an available date on Saturday the 25th of July due to a cancellation and offered the booking to us. This offered the benefit of an earlier formal, however, instead of four months to organise the event we would have only one. The general consensus from the boys was that October was too late and an earlier formal would be better, so we went for it.

Following a frantic six weeks of planning, countless emails, meetings, and phone calls, we put together a solid outline for the night. We had the Year 12 boys and their partners arrive first, later joined by the Year 13 boys. The guests were welcomed into an amazing venue that had been decorated by Gravity Events, and were played in by the very talented Dr Preston, Mr James and Mr McNulty.

Once seated, the boys and their partners were served a delicious rolled chicken and roast beef dinner with fresh vegetables and sides. The dinner is always a favourite at the event and it was once again a hit this year.

After dinner, there was a live band playing in the Hutton Theatre for the guests to enjoy, as well as photo opportunities on both floors. It was a successful night that the boys and their partners thoroughly enjoyed and will hopefully remember for years to come.

Billy Elwood

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ODT CLASS ACT Krishan Luxmanan Having Sri Lankan parents but growing up in Dunedin has given Krishan Luxmanan a perspective not many others have.

The 17-year-old John McGlashan College Head Prefect has grown up with two different cultures that have helped shape who he is today.

“They are two very different cultures, I feel like I’ve been able to get the best of both worlds.”

“The older I get the more I realise how lucky I am to have grown up with not only the rich Tamil culture of my parents, but also the amazing opportunities that Kiwi culture and my school has offered me.”

Krishan has thrived in Dunedin by immersing himself in a number of academic, cultural and sporting activities.

He began undertaking his International Baccalaureate last year, and hopes to achieve highly in his exams this year.

He created an app a few year ago called Swipe Maths, an interactive maths game.

More recently, Krishan is learning web development in the hopes of starting an online tutoring venture with his friends.

Being the oldest of four siblings means family is very important to Krishan.

“I like to spend a lot of time hanging out with and

annoying my three siblings — mostly this year as I’ve realised that this could very well be the last year I’m at home with them if I decide to go to a hall of residence or flat during university.

“I try to impart pearls of wisdom every now and then.”

He is also an active member of the Dunedin Tamil Society, and is looking forward to upcoming celebrations with the group.

In his spare time, Krishan reads extensively — he says he likes reading about anything and everything.

“I really like learning, I’ll read books about anything just so I can find out more about a specific thing.

“It’s really interesting to learn about the secret forces that drive the world and to learn about the things that make people tick.”

Krishan hopes to study first year health sciences and enter the health industry, ultimately wanting to make it a better experience for people.

Achievements: Head prefect (2020); NCEA Level 1 achieved with excellence with 132 excellence credits; founder of InTuition NZ; excellence in IB year 1 economics, English, mathematics, Spanish and chemistry, and merit in physics (2019); excellence endorsed in NCEA Level 2 mathematics; school year group speech finals winner Year 8, Year 9, Year 10 and Year 11; 3rd place at Otago Secondary Schools’ Petanque Championships (2018); school Second XI cricket team captain (2019, 2020); Partnership for Youth sustainability and leadership conference participant (2018).

Role models: Oprah, Elon Musk, Muhammad Ali. Hopes for the future: To study first year health science at the University of Otago and improve the health industry experience for people.

Mitchell Joint Not many 8-year-olds decide on a career and stick to it.

But for Mitchell Joint, serving in the New Zealand Defence Force was a decision he locked in at a young age.

The 17-year-old John McGlashan College prefect wants to be a pilot for the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

At the age of about 8, he first saw a Defence Force aircraft at the Taieri Airfield, and since then it has been “a goal that keeps me coming back”.

“After that, I began riding my bike down to the airfield and talking to the local pilots, finding out as much as I could. I’ve been hooked on the idea since.”

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Editorial disclaimer: The author of this article may have affiliations to a house that came third in the recent competition. This may create a smidgeon of bias. There may be other perspectives on this topic.

However, no one else could be found to write the article so - needs must.

Broken, disjointed preparation. Covid. Last minute leadership changes. This year’s haka competition had it all.

Firstly, we should be clear that the right house won.

Ross, lead by Tevita Schaaf, were magnificent - power, intensity, timing, control, ferocity - they had it all.

They won fair and square, and as is tradition, Tevita also won the right to lead the full school in a haka to cap off the competition. This is always a fantastic spectacle - 500+ boys going full tilt at the school haka, having been primed by their performance as a house, always impresses. This year was no exception.

Then there were the other houses. Gilray performed first. They wasted no time in making an impression. They really wasted no time. Their haka, though intense was over in a world record time of 8.96 seconds. Feet stamped with the pace and intensity of a jack-hammer. Arms and legs were a-blur. It was nearly over before it began.

Objective, unbiased observers might note that Burns’ haka, impressively lead by Ben Joseph, who stepped up at the last minute, was as intense and more controlled and evenly paced than Gilray’s. Thus, Mighty Burns produced a haka of which they should be proud - and they turned things around quickly from lacklustre efforts during the early stages of the preparation. Burns were superb. And placed third.

And Balmac. Well, you do the maths.

Well done Ross but be warned, Burns have two more years of Ben Joseph leading their haka. We’re coming after you - quicker than a Gilray haka...

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and over the past five years he has progressed to his current position of unit warrant officer, leading the 42 Squadron Dunedin Air Training Corps.

He was selected to attend both the junior and senior non-commissioned officer leadership courses at the Burnham Military Camp and gained the highest leadership award across all senior cadets in the South Island.

He enjoys the community aspect of Cadet Forces and the experiences on base.

“I like working as a team to achieve goals, and also having the opportunity to do things people my age don’t often get to do.”

Earlier this year, Mitchell attended one of New Zealand’s largest Cadet Forces exercises with more than 1500 cadets, and led a platoon of 60 cadets over the 10-day exercise at Waiouru Military Camp.

Last year he completed his first solo flight over Blenheim.

He was awarded top aviator for the highestachieving student, an RNZAF recommendation and a scholarship towards flight training.

Mitchell has worked hard in school, and acknowledges while schooling does not come naturally to him, he sees it as contributing to his end goal.

He has already started the process of applying for the New Zealand Defence Force, and is focused on his service in the Cadet Forces and NCEA grades to get everything lined up to join next year.

“I’m really looking forward to serving my country in the NZDF.” Achievements: 42 Squadron Dunedin Air Training Corps leading air cadet (2017); cadet corporal (2017); cadet sergeant (2018); cadet warrant officer (20192020); selected for the New Zealand Cadet Forces’ National Aviation Course (2019); led cadet unit team in New Zealand Air Training Corps Sparrowhawk competition (2019); 1st U19 Otago Southland Secondary Schools’ Slalom Water Ski Championships (2020); South Island Secondary Schools’ Downhill Mountain Bike Champs (2018-19); prefect (2020); scholar’s tie (2019); NCEA level 1 excellence endorsed (2018); NCEA level 2 merit endorsed (2019).

Role models: Corporal Willie Apiata VC and my parents.

Hopes for the future: To join the New Zealand Defence Force and be a pilot.

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PREPARED SPEECH YEAR 10 What if you grew up with Adolf Hitler as your hero, instead of Brendon McCullum? Having the right heroes to grow up with sometimes requires, surprisingly, a bit of luck. A scary thought considering these people shape who we are and what we bring to the world. On Thursday 24 September, the twelve Year 10 speech finalists explored this idea of role-models, delving into themes such as the meaning of a ‘hero’, the different types of heroes in our lives, and the good and bad impacts our heroes have on us.

These strong beliefs, ideas, and stories that were presented during the finals made for very tough judging, and Mr Schaumann and I found ourselves disagreeing on more than a few points. However, the ingredient that we both thought won it for Hamish McIntyre was his powerful delivery; things like varying his tone, projecting his voice, and effectively using body movement to keep his audience hooked worked to create an especially impactful speech. Hamish’s original and relatable content reinforced this impact, securing his victory.

In second place we had Edward Diaz-Farron, who not only presented a very lively and engaging speech

but also impressively chose to do so without the use of cue cards, demonstrating a distinctive confidence that was backed up by his cheerful presentation.

Coming up hot on Edward’s heels in third place we had a strong and thought-provoking presentation by Luca Bevin, who artfully displayed his ability to hook the audience, not only with the mastery of his voice but also his intriguing ideas.

“The strong beliefs, ideas, and stories that were presented during the finals made for very tough judging” All in all, a very good effort by the twelve finalists who each demonstrated an amazing confidence in being able to stand up in front of their peers and present their thoughts and ideas. Without a doubt, we have here a bunch of inspiring lads who we could all expect to be appearing on our TV screens one day -solid effort boys.

Krishan Luxmanan

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DUNG BEETLES! With the advent of an increase in regenerative farming in New Zealand, Tussock and Debbie Mitchell have kindly agreed to help the Department of Agricultural Science and Business yet again. After the release of the dung beetles on their farm earlier this year, they have now donated two hectares of land for a long term regenerative farming project.

“We extend our sincere thanks to the Mitchells for making it possible to provide real-life and contextualized studies for the girls and boys who are part of our department.”

This project will run parallel to the dung beetle project to see the kind of synergistic effect they exert on the pastures, soils and animal health. ‘Control paddocks’ will serve as a comparison as to the potential benefits of the beetles and the regenerative method of growing feed.

Unlike conventional pastures that contain 3-4 species of grass, regenerative mixes have anywhere

from 15-40 species including tall growth species like sunflowers. The idea is to provide variety to grazing animals and ensure deep root penetration for wellaerated and draining soils capable of supporting extensive microflora and fauna.

The paddock in question has been turned over for the last time and undergone a few processing steps and was ready for sowing in early October. There will be no more tilling there as this releases the valuable carbon stores needed to produce the best soils (according to the theory). 91kg of seed is currently on its way from the Maniototo!

We extend our sincere thanks to the Mitchells for making it possible to provide real-life and contextualized studies for the girls and boys who are part of our department. If you would like more information about Agricultural and Environmental Science and the two-year Agribusiness programme, contact Dr. Craig Preston at McGlashan and Mr Sam Doran at Columba College

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MASSEY SCHOOL OF DESIGN On Wednesday the 5th of August, Mr Jones took 5 students, Billy Elwood, Roy Feng, Danny Adams, Will Duffy and Jack Colbourne up to Wellington along with Tania McDonald (Danny’s Mum) and Rachel Duffy (Will’s Mum) for a visit to Massey University.

Last year, Danny, Billy, Will and Jack received automatic entry into the Bachelor of Design course after an interview with Astrid Visser, the Design Kaihapai at the School of Design, so a visit was in order for them to see where they wanted to study.

At 6:30am we boarded the plane and took off, landing in Wellington with surprisingly little turbulence at around 8:30 am. From the airport, we got into taxis and drove to Massey University, outside the old Museum entrance to meet Gwyn Jones, Mr Jones’ son. Gwyn is an old boy of the college and is in his final year at Massey studying Industrial Design.

He was kind enough to take us around the campus and give us some inside knowledge into the area and courses.

The first building we visited was the Industrial Design Center which held some amazing equipment.

We visited the Fab Lab where we met a lecturer who told us about the workshop and what students did there using different materials. Next, we visited the tech room of Massey, where another lecturer took us through all the different areas: there was a resin and chemical room; an anti-sawdust room; a digital fabrication and laser cutting room; and a general workshop area.

Gwyn then took us to the other side of the campus where we looked at the photography department. Yet another kind lecturer showed us around this area showing us the dark rooms, printers, the camera

library and computer labs. After leaving there we were on our way to the Visual Communication Design (VCD) area when we met Astrid Visser (Head of Admissions) who took us to a quiet spot to plan our courses.

We then went to the fashion design department located inside the old museum where we viewed what goes on there. At about 11am, our tour with Gwyn at the university had come to an end but our day was not over.

We met up with Sam Clulee, another old boy, who showed us around the two halls of accommodation, Kainga Rua or KR and The Cube; they are both 5-10 minute walks from the CBD and the Campus.

From there we walked all the way to the end of town in school shoes, where we found that the cable cars were temporarily out of order so we jumped into a taxi and went to the top to look over Wellington and its surrounds. We walked down through the Botanical Gardens and arrived outside Parliament.

We were then given two hours to roam Wellington and meet back outside Te Papa where we spent an hour investigating the museum.

From there, we got back into some taxis and arrived at the airport around 4:15 pm. After 25,000 steps in school shoes, we were all feeling pretty tired as we waited in the airport till our plane departed at 6 pm.

As we landed back to Dunedin at around 7:30pm we finished the day with a sigh of relief, more confidence in our choices, some painful feet and a good night’s sleep.

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TIMARU BOYS’ EXCHANGE On Tuesday 11th August, 200 boys from Timaru arrived ready to participate in a number of codes.

The day started well for McGlashan with a gym full of boys cheering on our senior basketball team who held a handy lead at one stage after half time, and managed to hold on for a close 98-95 victory. In another close game, our junior team lost their game 84-86.

Down at Logan Park Turf, our junior footballers had a comprehensive 5 - 0 victory. The senior team lost their match 1- 4.

In the gym in the afternoon our badminton players dominated to win every match and the tie 6- 0.

Our chess players had a convincing 13 -3 win in the school library.

Out at Brighton, the trap shooters lost by 7 shots overall.

At the hockey turf, our Second XI went down 1 - 3, with both the others matches drawn, the First XI drew 0 - 0, and the Under-15 1-1.

Both the junior rugby teams played well in the morning at Bishopscourt with the Under-14s winning 51-12, and in a hard fought match, the junior colts held on for a 34-26 victory. In the later game at Bishopscourt, the Second XV won another narrow match 21-17.

Back at McGlashan’s rugby field the First XV were backed by a supportive group of boys, with the school haka a highlight off the field. On the field, in a seesaw battle, with some excellent tries scored by both teams, a last minute penalty by Timaru looked to have won them the game. With time on the clock, we won a penalty, and Josh Whaanga kicked a great penalty under immense pressure to have the final whistle blow with the home team the victors 24-23. Well done to Andrew McKenzie who was awarded his 50th game white cap, and to Elias O’Kane who was presented a 15-games cap.

Overall, it was a great day for us results-wise, and also in the manner which we played the games.

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LINWOOD CUP Howling gales, burning sunshine, pelting hail, pristine playing turf, boggy underfoot conditions, elation, pain, and celebrations. The replacement Linwood Cup Football tournament in Invercargill had it all.

John McGlashan College are the proud owners of the winner’s medal for an unbeaten run through the tournament.

Pool play had us playing Bayfield High School and Verdon College - both teams were easily dispatched in challenging conditions either underfoot or against winds that were overpowering at times.

‘Every penalty kick taken by our team was expertly placed away from their keeper who did not look like saving anything.’

The semi-final draw saw us playing against James Hargest College in the first semi-final on the turf.

We scored an early goal and were ahead for most of the game until a late equaliser forced a short extra time, but the inevitable penalty shootout ensued.

Confidence in Mason Prentice, our goal keeper, was high as he had previously saved two penalties that were awarded against the lads in pool play and earlier in the match. Time after time, our boys stepped up to the penalty shot full of confidence in their own ability to bulge the onion sack behind the opposing goalkeeper. John McGlashan College won the penalty shootout 4-2. Mason Prentice easily saved two of the James Hargest penalty attempts.

The final saw us playing a known foe in Kavanagh College. Earlier in the season, John McGlashan College had come back from 3-1 in one game to draw 3-3. We knew the teams were evenly matched and were excited about the spectacle that was to be played. Again, an early goal put us in a commanding position to control the game but Kavanagh kept pushing. Sudden breakout after breakout was foiled by our defensive team who were having an outstanding game. Kavanagh resorted to long shots which eventually caused the game to be tied by the time of the final whistle. An extra twenty minutes of chess-like football was played with no change to the score.

Back to penalty shoot-outs. We had been here before; we just needed to do what we did last time.

The first five players for both teams stepped up to the mark and both teams were tied at 4-4 at the end. The goalkeepers saved one goal a-piece. The boys from John McGlashan College stood together in a line

reassuring each other of the victory as, one-by-one, they were required to face potential glory. And glory it was for each lad. Every penalty kick taken by our team was expertly placed away from their keeper who did not look like saving anything - he seemed somewhat resigned to the inevitable - we had eight goals at this stage. The opposite was true for our star, Mason Prentice who fully put his body on the line, inching closer and closer to every subsequent penalty attempt by the opposition. It was Kavanagh College’s fourth attempt that sealed everyone’s fate. Mason picked the right direction to dive and emphatically saved it. Eight goals to seven and victory was ours.

Well done boys for an amazing tournament. Captain Joe La Hood, who did an excellent job leading the boys on and off the field, summarised the tournament by saying “This tournament was the best First XI Football tournament that he had been part of.”

Thank you to coach Ben Lund, your expertise and expectations were greatly appreciated. Thank you to Russell Lund for managing the team so well. Thank you also to Ainslie Anderson for putting this whole tournament together for the college.

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The tournament commenced on the 29th of February. Upon arriving, we were confronted with some last-minute changes to our team’s composition.

It was decided that Ben Monaghan, Ali Dohan and Nathan Dockerty would form John McGlashan 1, while McGlashan 2 would comprise of Harry Scott, Archie Dunn and Caleb Oakley for the first day and Max Baldwin, Archie Dunn and Krishan Luxmanan for the second day. We then entered the briefing room and were informed about the two enjoyable but intensive days of debating to follow.

Before we left the room, the first motion [debating topic] was announced. We were against the motion, which proposed replacing external examinations with internal assessments. An untidy debate gave way to our first victory, after which we returned to the briefing room for our next motion. This motion stated that journalists should disclose how they voted. We were affirming. We prepared a case explaining how this would reveal bias, however, the opposing team, James Hargest 2, argued that journalists should not publish opinion pieces at all. Though we were disrupted by this unanticipated move, we transformed the debate into one on freedom of speech, where we had the high ground. Thus, our second win was earned.

In the third round, we faced the famously formidable Columba 1. We debated the merits of globalisation but started on the back foot as they opened with an overwhelming tide of clear, strong points. The debate did not improve from there. We listened in horror as our case was coldly dismembered while their case held fast against our attempts at rebuttal. Thus, we

were awarded our first defeat. In our final debate of the day, we debated against the use of the death penalty.

Using “neo-christian” arguments, we narrowly won against Otago Boys 1. Afterwards, we went home for some much-needed rest.

Feeling refreshed, we returned for the second day. Our first debate of the day pitted us against Kavanagh 1. We were debating against voluntourism by young, unskilled people. We attempted to prove why these volunteers were doing more harm than good in impoverished communities. The adjudication for the debate took many minutes, and though it was close, we lost. Our next debate was the last before semi-finals. Against Columba 3, we debated for the banning of alternative medicines. Thankfully, this team was an easier foe than Columba 1. We proved why these medicines sociologically undermine proven medicines, therefore winning the debate.

Unfortunately, we did not get into the semi-finals.

We finished 6th in the tournament with 4 wins and 2 losses.

For a team with one first-time debater in it, this was a very respectable result. Of note was the fact that Ben Monaghan was selected for the development squad - a just reward for his efforts over the two days.

McGlashan 2 acquitted themselves well, despite the changes to speakers over the two days. These boys, most very new to debating, evolved from novices and rank beginners to seasoned campaigners and took away a 50:50 split of wins and losses - a very respectable effort.

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“TAWKING THE TAWK” It has been said that “you’ve gotta talk the talk if you are going to walk the walk”, so senior drama students have just had expert accent coaching to support the work they are doing in class and bring another dimension to their acting skills.

Year 11 and 12 students were fortunate to have a special voice coaching session with Hilary Norris.

Hilary is a professional actor, director, accent & dialect coach who is based in Wellington. Students are currently working on scenes from a testimonial play called Bystander 9/11, based on the events surrounding the terror attacks on September 11th 2001 in New York City.

Born in Oxford, UK, Hilary moved to New Zealand in the early 1970s, where she has been employed as a professional actor, director and teacher ever since.

Having acted and directed in most of the country’s professional theatres, she has also been seen in television drama and international feature films such as The Hobbit and Light Between Oceans. She has been a voice artist for RNZ National, voiced advertisements and narrated books. For the last 25 years, she has also taught communication skills for academics, lawyers and health professionals, including running workshops on vocal and communication skills. In addition, she has coached numerous theatre and film actors in voice and accent skills for more than 10 years.

At the start of her accent workshop, Hilary took students through a range of basic voice exercises, to get used to the way they needed to manipulate their mouths to get the New York ‘twang’. Students also quickly realised that there is no ‘one’ New York accent, and being a city of immigrants for many generations, there is a range of different New York sounds across the city. The tried out a range of different ones, including Italian American.

Students then used their scripts to apply the accent work they had learned to their own characters in the play. Bystander 9/11 is a documentary drama drawn from the experiences of New Yorkers during the September 11th attacks and their immediate aftermath. The story begins in the subways underneath the towers and continues in a changed world. The students viewed a range of documentaries surrounding the 9/11 events, and I talked about my own experiences of spending time at Ground Zero in 2010 and seeing One World Trade Centre being built.

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YEAR 7 CAMP Camp Columba 2020 for our Year 7s was brought to life by larger-than-life instructors, a great bunch of parent helpers, our teachers and the camaraderie that grew from doing challenging things together as individuals and developing in teams.

Zeroing in on a few of our awe-inspiring activities takes us on a flight to the skies at the Flying Kiwi, Queen songs being bellowed by our zipline instructor, vivid memories of diminishing grip and strength on the rock climbing and abseiling, and mastering kayak manoeuvres, so that we could triumph in the game of Kayak Conquest! The feeling of pushing through challenges and achieving goals is an epic feeling to hold onto.

A drone flyover captured the sight of arrows hitting targets and occasionally claiming an elusive death shot (it’s ok, they were only animal pictures on wool bales), air rifles knocking off energy drink cans, dubious rafts ‘afloat’ in the lake, challenging caterpillar walking, spiderweb climb-throughs, bouncy pillow madness, water sliding and cage soccer. Consequently, by Thursday, the adults were dealing with some very weary and cranky kids.

Whether it was scoring a hoop at the Flying Kiwi, getting Ellie in the bucket on the zipline, stepping out on the abseiling platform or just getting through the night with 15 or so others in our bunk room, we had to, at times, take hold of our comfort zones and give them a shake up. The lessons learned will last beyond 2020. Even the little lessons, like how to perfectly toast a marshmallow over an open fire, are worthwhile.

A big thank you goes out to the adults who made camp happen and for the substantial effort that you put into working with us. We have the deepest regards for the effort that you put into making us do, learn, and grow at this camp.

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MUSIC This year has brought a lot of changes to the Music Department. As the new head of the subject area, I have looked to bring my appreciation for diverse styles of music into the classroom and allow students from all backgrounds to bring their own strengths and interests into their learning.

New musical groups have been forming around the school, including the Brotherhood Choir led by Amelia Mah. With the annual Big Sing competition not taking place this year, they entered the regional Online Sing competition via video submission. Their performance at the senior prizegiving was very well-received.

“Our junior group State of Me ... were awarded first place for the Otago region as well as the best bassist award for Matthew Hanna’s performance.”

Our ever-popular rock groups have continued to thrive with both new and old students. Smokefree Rockquest and Bandquest still took place this year despite the

complications Covid-19 brought, with our two senior groups Fiordland Moose Revival and Black Orangutan entering via video submission. Sam Sinclair in Year 11 from Fiordland Moose Revival took out the APRA Lyric Award for his two original songs ‘Ok’ and ‘Sunday’. Our junior group State of Me performed live at the regional final at Taieri College once restrictions were lifted, and were awarded first place for the Otago region as well as the best bassist award for Matthew Hanna’s performance.

Congratulations boys for an outstanding achievement!

With the support of the Parents and Friends’ Association we have been lucky to purchase a wide range of new equipment for the department, including class sets of MIDI keyboards and acoustic guitars, as well as studio recording and live-sound equipment. The students and staff of the music department look forward to what the future holds, and to sharing our compositions and performances with you next year.

Steven McNulty

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In July this year, I was selected to be in the quiz show ‘Brain Busters’. Airing on TVNZ Two, this show features Year 8s and 9s from across Aotearoa. I travelled to Whitebait studios in Christchurch for filming. There were four parts in the quiz: quick fire, specialist subject (I chose science), obstacle course, and a solo round. I was lucky enough to get through to the final solo round and win $333 dollars! It was an interesting experience as I got to see what happened in the TV studios behind the scenes and how many takes it took the presenter to get it right!

Dan O’Brien

VALEDICTORIAN SPEECHES Thursday 24 September featured one of the highlights of the English Department calendar - our annual Valedictorian Speech Afternoon, featuring the fantastic lads from the two Level Three NCEA English classes.

There is something special about watching a McGlashan Man stand up straight, put his shoulders back, look his parents in the eyes and publicly acknowledge them for all they have done. It is also special to hear them talk so warmly about their peers - the brotherhood they so freely call it, and have them thank their mates and wish them well for the bright futures that lie ahead.

Gratitude and the importance of mate-ship were two clear threads that came out of the evening’s speeches. So too, the importance of savouring all the experiences that are on offer and the growth that comes from the wide range of opportunities the boys took up.

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Tell me a little bit about your connection to Dunedin? I was actually born, raised and educated in Dunedin. I always considered Dunedin my home even though it was 25 years ago that I left. I remember Dunedin as a great place to grow up, where people are friendly and the city was large enough to have everything I could want, but not so large that living here came with all the big-city challenges. The city I have returned to still has a unique feel and it is great to be back.

Why did you become a teacher? I remember school as a positive experience and from a young age, I appreciated the positive impact that a great teacher could have. I chose teaching as a career when I was very young. My favourite subject was mathematics so it was an obvious decision to teach mathematics and hopefully share the love of my subject. I have always enjoyed watching other people learn and grow; teaching can be a very rewarding job.

What is your educational experience before coming to John McGlashan? My first teaching position was at New Plymouth Boys’ where I taught for 4 years. I then traveled to the UK on a working holiday where I was HOD Mathematics at Bearwood College.

I returned to New Plymouth Boys where I worked as Head of Mathematics and Hostel Manager over a period of 12 years. My most recent appointment was at Hamilton Boys’ where I was Deputy Headmaster for 5 years and had responsibility for teaching and learning. I recently completed a Masters in Education with a particular focus on student management and wellbeing.

How would you describe your educational philosophy? Put as simply as possible, teachers must prepare students for life beyond school. To do

this we must offer a range of experiences and create a broad definition of what constitutes learning. The need to maintain high academic standards remains fundamental, but we need to remember that sport, drama, music, school camps, etc, are examples of experiences that can enrich the lives and futures of our students. Schools must develop student character to help them manage situations that may involve challenge and adversity, success and failure, patience and determination. Our students should feel supported as individuals who can occupy a key space within a community. They must be encouraged to be creative and critical thinkers but also understand the need for structure, consistent expectations and consequences/outcomes of decisions and choices.

What do you think of John McGlashan College after working here for two weeks? John McGlashan is a special and unique school. It has a wonderful history founded on an act of generosity. The facilities are second to none and demonstrate a clear strategic vision due to excellent leadership and governance.

The college has a strong and positive culture with values that I feel a strong personal alignment with.

I recognise that all students are cared for, are encouraged to dream big and strive to reach their potential. There is an obvious, positive, and strong connection to the wider college community including the past pupils and parents. All the students and staff have been incredibly supportive and welcoming, making my recent relocation as smooth as I could have hoped for. If I needed any further confirmation of what a great college John McGlashan is, I need only look to my son who is in Year 7. He has already made friends, speaks highly of his teachers and is engaged in college life. He is very happy to be a Johnnies’ boy.

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This is the camp the class had been waiting for - three days at Cardrona skiing and boarding in the pursuit of NCEA Excellence.

The weather was forecast to turn nasty by Friday which put pressure on the amount of skiing and lesson time we had. In saying that, the boys worked well on their turning and control on a range of terrain in lessons and had time to practice and develop their skill. This resulted in surprisingly good skill progression by most with boys eager to learn.

“Notable mentions have to go to Matt Ford’s venison backstraps and George Connor’s Stewart Island blue cod bites and West Coast whitebait fritters.”

One of the highlights of the camp is the boys “cooking” for themselves, or in Angus McGregor’s case, ringing Mum to go and get pizza! Notable mentions have to go to Matt Ford’s venison backstraps and George Connor’s Stewart Island blue cod bites and West Coast whitebait fritters. It is fair to say that not too many vegetables were consumed unless you count the Wattie’s tomato sauce.

The weather did turn on us on Friday and we could not complete the last day, but all assessments were done so it was a quiet trip back to Dunedin. Thanks to Stewart McDonald and Marty Dean for their help on the camp. It was tough but someone had to do it.

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SEEKING TO SERVE This year marks another year of opportunities to serve in the local community. At McGlashan, the term ‘community service’ takes on a different meaning. The act of service and serving others is a key component of what we are about and what makes a McGlashan man.

We were very pleased to help the Otago Community Hospice, not only washing and cleaning their fleet of 14 cars that serve the South Canterbury, Otago and Southland region, but also helping them with the annual Otago Community Hospice appeal.

“A wide range of McGlashan men put their hands up to give up their time this year.”

A wide range of McGlashan men put their hands up to give up their time this year. Some of the students did it as part of their IBDP CAS programme, others did it as part of their Duke of Edinburgh award, and yet others wanted to do it because they wanted to serve something other than themselves.

We appreciated being able to help Presbyterian Support in their annual Octacan appeal too. The college had a mufti-day to support this cause and was able to provide around 700 cans for the foodbank. In all, thousands of cans were collected in the appeal, which we were asked to count, sort and pack at the Presbyterian Support office.

The local community are also benefiting from this outward focus. Boarding house students are often seen down at Maori Hill School working in the gardens and other parts of the school. We will also have opportunities to serve next year by clearing possum traps provided by City Sanctuary. Funding has been found to provide one in every 10 houses in Maori Hill with possum traps to catch these pests that frequent the area. Our students will have yet another opportunity to give their time and serve the local community and the environment.

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Boarding House Life “I was lucky enough to spend my lockdown at Lake Hawea Station.

I could hardly call it a “lockdown” as there was so much area and action on the farm. We had been kept busy with work, doing jobs like mustering and clipping foot rot. We had also been taking advantage of the free time and using it to keep fit, with high hopes for the sporting season to return. Towards the end of the lockdown our bubble decided to have a running/biking day where Finn and I ran a marathon around the station. It was fair to say we were kept busy as we waited for school and work to return to normal. I was very fortunate to have such an awesome place to call home for a couple months, and an even more awesome bubble to spend it with.”

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YEAR 9 This year was one for the books. It has been one to remember with Covid-19 and having a lockdown, different sporting achievements and academic achievements.

We started off with a bang when we had to do the Rail Trail in week four of Term One which really helped us get to know the boys. For some of us, it wasn’t far from home, but for the rest of us it was unfamiliar.

Another highlight for the year would have to be the hunting competition. Nearly all the boys competed and had a great time. But soon after that great weekend, a disaster struck… Covid-19. There was a community infection and it was a downward spiral from there. It wasn’t all bad because after a quick nine weeks we were back at it again, keen to get into all the sports and work we had missed out on.

Academically, the boys have been preparing and studying for exams, which will impact the rest of our schooling here at John McGlashan. Some academic success stories include Charlie Pearson, winning the technology side of the Dunedin Science Fair and Jack Sandford, who was awarded the librarian badge after becoming a school librarian. The rest of the boys are hoping to get their prizes after their exams.

We had a lot of sporting achievements this year including our Under-15 hockey team getting second in the second XI grade. They drew 1-1 but lost in a shootout. We had seven boarders playing in this team: Simon Cavanagh, Jock Duncan, Adam Mcnab, Will Hancox, Max Porter and Billy Hutton- Atkins. Another achievement was Jack Steele and Angus Loe getting fifth in their curling nationals. Matt O’Meara got a few placings in the Otago Secondary Schools’ Swimming Championships and broke the Otago Secondary Schools’ record in the 50m backstroke. Charlie Pearson and Angus Loe won the Junior R Football League, beating King’s 4-2 in the final, with Charlie scoring from behind half way. At the Otago Athletics Championships, Simon Cavanagh won the 800m and the shot put in the Under-14 Boys. Angus Loe won the 1500 and the 3k. In our school cross country, the boys from the hostel got a clean sweep with Angus Loe first, Charlie Light second, and Will Hancox third.

Altogether, we had a great year in our first year at Johnnies - we’ve made friends that we will have for a lifetime and memories we will keep forever. And we’re ready to make many more next year in Year 10.

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YEAR 10 Year 10, 2020 has been a great year for all the boarders and has really shown that the boys have stepped up throughout the year. For some it has been an amazing year for achievements that they have gained, one of these being Nic Hinton and George Brensell beating Taine Dyson’s quad in rowing.

Another is Max Hore making the First XI for hockey which is an extraordinary achievement for someone at such a young age and he also made the Junior Colts rugby team. Along with Max, we had George Brensell, Henry Scott, Taine Dyson, Ben Barnett, Zavier Paterson, Max Simpson and Henry Cleaver all making a valuable contribution to the team. This team had a great photographer named Oakland Young who came through to most of the games and did well capturing key moments of each.

“All the boys are looking forward to digging into their exams and having a well earned break after Arts Week and the school camps.”

There have also been some outstanding academic achievements by the lads. One of these was in our first NCEA Mathematics internal where Daniel Burnett, Nic Hinton, Fergus Wright and Sam Johnston did very well.

With all the achievements this year for the Year 10 boys, there was quite a large reward when Mr Doran repaid all the Year 10 boys for their good behaviour with pizza, which disappeared in a matter of seconds.

All the Year 10 boys have been getting out of their comfort zones doing things for the community such as coaching basketball at Maori Hill School or teaching preschool kids how to throw and kick balls.

It all adds up to a bigger picture of gaining our Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award which is an award that all the boys get at the end of the year after doing a certain amount of tasks and activities.

All this pretty much sums up the year with the many good things despite the rare let down that Covid-19 brough, it has been a positive year where we have grown.

Harry Stevens and Sam Schell

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YEAR 11 This unpredictable year was a new type of challenge that all of our boarders had to overcome. The boys still got plenty of school and sport into these terms.

Despite the interrupted year of school, boys within our year group still managed to achieve highly.

Every boy at some point in the year got a go in Senior Hall in the much preferred single rooms. The boys worked very hard during lockdown which took up a large proportion of the second term. The majority of boys enjoyed their lockdown duration and the new style of learning which consisted of many, many zoom calls.

The First XV rugby team consisted of seven Year 11 boys. These boys finished fifth in the Otago competition.

The First XI hockey team consisted of Charlie Breen and Jack Hazlett from the hostel. This team was very fortunate to have been able to go on a South Island Hockey tournament. At this tournament, they placed seventh. In the Dunedin competition, they lost in the final to the top ranked South Island team, King’s. Jack Hazlett also played in the Otago Under-18 hockey.

Mark Smith had another dominant year in the rowing circuit. He claimed a world record halfway through the year and even got the privilege to row against a former Olympic Champion, Eric Murray, which he lost, narrowly. Mark and Zack Cleaver-Donovan received Blues awards for rowing this year. Jack Timu was selected into the New Zealand Under-16 boys touch team which was a significant achievement. He also won a Blue for touch. Will Pringle, Stanley McClure, Caleb Dixon and James Paterson all qualified for the South Island athletics due to their performances at the Otago Athletics. Unfortunately for these boys, the South Island event did not go ahead due to Covid-19.

Sam Williams and Harry Ollerenshaw made the Otago Under-16 touch team and Jack Timu, Stanley McClure made the Otago Under-18 touch team. The JMC Second XV which included Charles Engelbrecht, Archie McRae, Caleb Dixon and Alban Gosse had an outstanding season with many very brutal and close encounters with the JMC Thirds. However, they came out on top and won the Under-18 comp beating King’s Seconds by a couple of tries.

With mocks all over the boys must now knuckle down and get into the new routine of studying and preparing for their final exams that are not too far ahead. With this being our first year of NCEA and first year of being seniors, it is fair to say most of us will be feeling rather nervous as our final NCEA exams close in.

Soon enough though, we’ll be departing for a well deserved break.

Jack Hazlett and George Hancox

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YEAR 12 Year 12 started off with another ‘new kid’ in Ben Dyson who fitted in with the lads with ease. The rest of the boys came back feeling good and ready to fire on all cylinders for a big 2020 - both in and out of the classroom. Despite this, the lads may not have been fully prepared for what was to come. Term One was cut a bit short by the unfortunate events in March robbing many boys of the start to their winter sport season.

The challenges brought about by the lockdown, however, did not stop our Year 12s from connecting with each other through some rather interesting Zoom calls. The time soon came however when we could return to the hostel and resume our schooling in the now longer second term. It took a very long time before regular activities such as our sports could resume which was a hard adjustment that had to be made for most of our Year 12s. The boys found themselves involved in enough backyard cricket to drive any person crazy with a fair few dodgy umpire calls keeping things interesting. Thankfully the rest of the country pulled through and a much needed drop to level one allowed our boys to fully resume their normal hostel lives, meaning they could finish the first half of the year strongly with all winter sports in full swing and morale high.

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All of this led up to Term Four, where all the lads have made it through mocks with mixed results and are looking forward to study leave where no doubt the lads will be looking to dig in for some good results to finish this stop-start year. As we move into Term Four, we lose Harry Scott from our year group as he moves to Dunedin to become a day boy. He will certainly be missed from the hostel.

And soon, we will ease ourselves into the summer holidays and a well deserved break after a more than eventful year at the hostel for the Year 12s.

Ryan Johnston and Darcy Nevill

“The boys were fizzed at being able to finish their winter sports seasons.”

Term Three came along with a more regular turn of events. The boys were fizzed at being able to finish their winter sports seasons, while also trying to push through the rest of their internals, “So I can pass the year,” as Jack Miller would say. The rugby boys finished well with good Year 12 representation in both the First XV who won the Middle Four Cup and the undefeated Under-18 competition winning Second XV coached by the ‘specialist touch player’ Mr Campbell.

As well as that, the First XI hockey boys, led by Josh Stevens and Lachie Crowle, battled away all season but unfortunately fell short in the final to King’s. In addition to that the curlers, captained by Darcy Nevill, clutched a silver medal at the New Zealand Nationals in Naseby.

The final part of the term saw most of the boys using their spare time on the golf course. From this, William Smillie seemed to be the front runner for the biggest missiles in the hostel hitting massive bombs with his trusty driver at all times of day ranging from 6:30am to 9:30pm and Hugo Cochrane with a probing 69

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YEAR 13 With 2020 drawing to a close, the Year 13 group has finished off our time at the boarding house. We started off as 25 strangers and have left as a group of lifelong mates. We have gained and lost a few boys over the years but the memories we made will never be forgotten.

2020 was an interesting year with a few disruptions causing the boys to spend a lot of time at home earlier in the year. The day the boys all got back from lockdown was one full of plenty of yarns, most of which were rather unbelievable. There was plenty of time to get up to a bit of mischief when we were all at the hostel, unable to go anywhere other than school which made for some unforgettable moments.

Despite the late start to the season the lads got stuck into sport with many boys making first teams in their respective codes with Will Duffy, Jack Colbourne, Caleb Moody and Ashley Stevenson all captaining their sides. Angus Kenny continued to excel in his rowing making the RPC trials and Liam Ferguson made the Under-18 Highlanders rugby team.

The brilliant quality of hostel haircuts continued to keep the senior management at school busy chasing boys to fix their hair.

“The brilliant quality of hostel haircuts continued to keep the senior management busy chasing boys to fix their hair.”

A large portion of the year group took up golf at the hostel course that consisted of one hole, the rubbish bin outside, which just so happened to be in front of plenty of windows. This resulted in Mr Campbell’s collection of golf clubs growing rapidly.

After five years at the hostel, the boys have turned into men. The confidence presented in the lads has skyrocketed to levels that are almost too high for some boys’ own good. Some have changed as they progressed through the years becoming much wiser and mastering the art of being sneaky and the ways of doing things where they don’t get caught. This led to many more late night antics with plenty of fun being had. One thing hasn’t changed and probably never will, Ned Hancox can still be heard from three blocks down the street!

With the year coming to an end, all the boys have got their plans sorted for next year, whether it be university studies or joining the workforce. We would like to wish them all the best and look forward to catching up to see how things all panned out.

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Form Class Photos 2020 I remember not being able to play badminton, even though we had a net setup outside because it was always far too windy to play and we lost a lot of shuttles. My parents were busy building a new fence for our house, which was keeping them busy, but they couldn’t take me and my sister anywhere. In the first two weeks of lockdown, we beat Terraria then we didn’t know what to do afterwards. Luckily, the Zoom school thing started. Between classes I ran somewhere to do a Pokémon Go raid and just managed to get back puffing for my next class.

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Back Row: Angus Burns, Finn Apii, Jacob Levy, Mac Forde, Jayden Toro, Eddie Scott, Cody Gradwell, Archie McDiarmid 2nd Row: Mr Andrew Duncan, Hayden Phillips, Fergus Millar, Patrick McKenzie, Jack Divers, Jacob Lawrence, Ryan Hamilton, Maita Madambi, Middle Row: Liam Ferguson, Riley Meason, Harrison Morton, Cam Forde, Adam Woodhouse, Mr S White

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YEAR 13 CLASS OF 2020

Back Row: Caine Taylor, Oliver Bolton, Bailey Phizacklea, Tom Crawford, Harrison Morton, Tevita Schaaf, Joshua Jukes, Zach McConnon, Jack Colbourne, Tom Gold 6th Row: Riley Meason, Caleb Le Cong, Thomas Sullivan, Sam Knight, Callum White, Dominic Morrison, Cam Forde, Flynn Cooper-Forster, Gabe Ross, Mitchell Joint, Mason Calvert 5th Row: Julian Hamilton, Scott Perkins, Macauley Ward, Danny Adams, Krishan Luxmanan, Angus Kenny, Ben Monaghan, Liam George, Fin Milne, Patrick Bezett, Caleb Moody 4th Row: Robert Millar, Charlie Grey, Ben Guilford, Ned Hancox, Will Duffy, Ashley Stevenson, William Shallard, Cameron Leydon, Max Walker, William Cotton, Jacob Yee 3rd Row: Lucas Stalker, Harry McKenzie, Simon Basel, Jack Murray, Jonathan Brook, Nathan Dockerty, Luka Barson-McLean, Sam Hope, Jack Lundy, Joe Mu, Harley Herbert, Billy Ellwood 2nd Row: Thomas Greenaway, William McLauchlan, Liam Ferguson, Will Morshius, Zachary Bowmar, Edward Temple, Jackson McBreen, Jaquan Fraser-Mapusua, George Kerr, Eli Familton, Josh Hou, Connor Seyb Front Row: Aidan Dougherty, Chris Denton, Alex Parks, Thomas McIver, Lourenco Botafogo, Henry Power, Andrew McKenzie, Roy Feng, Aidan Hung, Cyrus Leung, Hamish Lowery, Adam Woodhouse Absent: Alex Hopgood

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Creative Writing

Lockdown daily routines and activities were really fun. Our days started an hour before online school began, with dad waking me up for. After online school and Zoom chats with my friends, the day was mine until it came time for our evening project. Dad and I were building a motorbike. The project took about five weeks to finish and we were really happy with the results. It was my favourite ever project to do with my Dad. I got to learn all about how a motorbike works. I also learned how to be safe on the road while biking because we would sometimes go biking up the road and down steep hills. Overall, lockdown was a fun learning experience for me. The only downside was no fast food.

George Bary, Year 7

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HOPE A boy rocks uncontrollably inside a spider-web ridden antique wardrobe.

Blood drips onto the wooden base of the wardrobe off his calf, which is pumping out blood like a garden hose. He rips a bit of fabric off his jeans and wraps it tightly around the wound. He screws up his face as he tries to fight off the tears. Glass smashes in what’s left of the small, torn up apartment as a low groan echoes through the room. “Go away. Go away,” the boy mumbles to himself. He buries his face in his hands. Beside him, a 7mm rifle rests against the back of the cupboard. He inhales a breath of contaminated air, kicks open the creaky wardrobe doors and loads his gun.

Four shots ring through the room as the Crawler lets out a piercing scream as it falls to the ground. Small clumps of hair dot its scaly forehead, an eye dangles uselessly at its chin, blood spotted ribs poke through the many holes in its bloody T-shirt. The boy limps on to the street with rifle strapped across his back, his left hand clutching his left leg.

He isn’t much to look at - hole-ridden, woolen-collared, brown motorcycle jacket, baggy leather jeans, and muddish brown hair that droops down his eyes. The air is tense and he keeps a close lookout for any Crawlers that might be roaming the streets. The sidewalk is littered with bodies, and abandoned cars crowd the street.

Suddenly, he hears a loud crack of a gun firing, and a bullet pings off a brick near him, so he turns and tries to run in the other direction. The boy limps through a dark, quiet alleyway. Behind him, a can tips over and he flinches. His heart skips two beats as he raises his rifle ready to shoot. A small, skinny raccoon stumbles from between the trash can and a box, scavenging for any food scraps that it might find. Food. The boy fires, but misses, and the raccoon scutters back into the orange mist to safety.

“Grmm.” The boy loses his footing and goes tumbling down the alley. “Ahh!” He screams. He stops near another box and sees the outline of a Crawler charging through the mist towards him, half a raccoon clenched in its bony hand. The boy’s leg is aching with pain. He tries to load his gun but his hands keep trembling and he drops his bullets and they roll behind him. The crawler is now only feet away from him. At last he grabs a bullet, pulls the bolt forwards, and a shot rings out. But, he didn’t fire.

The body of the crawler lays twitching at the top of the alley and another crawler emerges from the mist. Its hand reaches out towards him, trying to touch him. He gasps. The boy clutches his rifle in one hand and tries to crawl away. “Hey, it’s okay,” says a calm female voice behind him. “It’s okay, I don’t want to hurt you. Come out.”

For the first time in his life, the boy gets a feeling that he has never had before: hope.

Jack Steele, Year 9

ARTIFACT James, a world-renowned archaeologist, and his son Bruce, arrive at the excavation site of what they hope to be the biggest discovery of the century: the remains of a vast empire, buried beneath the sand in a baking desert.

The ground here is cracked and dry like it hasn’t had an appointment with the rain for far too long, and the sun beats down relentlessly on the landscape.

James, his eyes already calculating where they will begin to dig, stumbles across the arid ground, mapping out where everything will go.

Bruce inquires after him, “So, dad, what is it we’re looking for, exactly?”

James pauses for a moment and glances down at his son, sweat gleaming on their squinting faces. He pats Bruce on the shoulder, exhales deeply through his nose, and returns his gaze to the desert.

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tell me more about this ancient civilisation. I’m helping you dig, remember? I deserve answers.”

James chuckles, “OK, you’ve got a deal.”

“So,” James begins, as the two of them plop down onto some foldable chairs to eat their ham and cheese sandwiches. “You know that an archaeologist’s job is to discover artifacts, yeah? Well, from there we learn more about how civilisations lived in certain times and places. We learn of their daily lives, their different types of government, and how they interacted. Almost all societies also had beliefs and religions very different from those we have today. You still follow?”

Bruce looked very deep in thought as he swung his foot back and forth, kicking up the sand underneath his boot. “Yeah, mostly. But I don’t really understand why we’re looking for artifacts from this specific culture.

What was so important about them?”

James thought for a moment before answering. “So, this society consisted of humans with an extremely varied level of intelligence. The smart ones, well, they were really quite special. They played an instrumental part in developing the ideas we have today. However, they were extremely cruel leaders who ruled by instilling fear and reserving education and healthcare for the elite. This resulted in masses of uneducated people, who on top of that were fed false information. It’s not hard to imagine why this civilisation crumbled.”

Bruce was still kicking at the sand when his foot caught on an object poking through the ground. James burst out laughing, “Nice one, Bruce! We haven’t even started working and you’ve already dug something up.

You’re doing my job better than I am!”

Bruce let out a laugh, “Yeah, but what is it?” He bent down to retrieve it from the desert floor and passed it to his father. It was a hard and thin rectangular object, and black all over. James rubbed some sand off of it and revealed an emblem on the back. Bruce was shaking with excitement, while James inspected the artifact closely.

“Oh, I think I’ve found one of these before on another dig.” James expanded. “It took some time for us to figure out what it was because it was written in the old language. We haven’t spoken it for hundreds of years, you know, but this three-part symbol is actually made up of letters they used. These letters are called ‘USA’.

They called this particular artifact the ‘iPhone 11.’”

Josh Chagnon, Year 10

FIRE Ifarov was now a mile away from his target, standing upright on the ridge of a blue-tiled roof. From his position, he could almost see the entire forest, a massive expanse of trees that covered hundreds of miles in any given direction. If he turned around, he would be able to see the towering peaks of Infirkata, watching over the forest with silent indifference.

Ifarov raised his bow, pointing it towards the middle of the forest. With the strong southerly tailwind aiding its path, he notched an arrow and fired.

The projectile soared through the air, gaining altitude as it did so.

Ifarov turned and closed his eyes. The arrow started to pick up speed, whipping through the night sky like a falcon closing in on its prey. Ifarov began walking away as his missile began to lose altitude. By the time that he had dropped down from the rooftop, the arrow had hit its target.

Ifarov opened his eyes and they started to glow, illuminating the area in front of him with blue light.

And then came the explosion. A loud BOOM shook the ground, echoing against the mountains to the south, and dispersing amongst the trees in the north.

If Ifarov had remained on the rooftop, he would have seen the fire. Consuming everything in its wake, the flames soon covered the entire forest.

And then there was the smoke. The thick black gas rose up from the chaos, blocking out any hope of survival like the stars it had enveloped.

But Ifarov saw none of that.

He was already on his way home.

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“Never mind that boy, I’ve got a job for you.” Jamal was now sitting in a chair opposite, twiddling his fingers in anticipation. “The great hall,” Jamal looked at him inquisitively. He’d heard many things about the church. Right in the centre of the city, it towered over the landscape like a scowling headmaster. It was supposed to be a sacred place, but somehow it always felt dark and brooding. He used to hate Sundays as a child. The whole city used to gather in prayer, his family among them. For the entire two hours he’d be clinging at his father’s leg, overwhelmed by the cavernous chapel. “I need you to deliver a message to Grand Priest De’Anthony. Just mention my name and he’ll understand.” Riggman handed over a scroll encased in a glass tube, “Go through the lower west door and follow the hallway to the Chamber of Remembrance” Riggman explained. Normally chirpy, today his boss had an air of sobriety about him. Jamal knew this must be important. Tensions had been rising ever since Gand Priest Tyreke died. Nothing felt the same anymore.

There was a new sense around town, like the entire city was on edge. The very earth beneath his feet felt tense.

“I won’t let you down Sir,” Jamal reassured him, hiding the nerves flooding his mind.

“Off you go then,” he said, flustered. There were no words of encouragement or farewell today. Riggman shooed him away with a flick of his hand and went back to tinkering.

The fish shop was now open for business and Jamal had to burrow his way through the crowd hovering out front. He checked again to make sure the scroll was safe inside his tunic and set off. Today’s task was longer than usual; he guessed it’d be early afternoon by the time he was back. He didn’t come this way often.

In fact he couldn’t remember the last time he was in the square. People like him weren’t welcome after all.

On the southside he was just another boy, but here he was almost a unicorn to everyone else. He couldn’t hate them for staring, but the dirty looks he was getting made his blood boil. The closer he got to the square, the more hostile it became. Mothers shielded their children, others would avert their eyes. It made him sick.

He had to cross the road before a group of young men could get to him. They jeered and spat as he hurried off.

He first caught a glimpse of the church about two blocks away. Immediately his stomach knotted. It radiated an energy he couldn’t explain; it was only a building. Making his way into the square, it seemed oddly quiet. All of a sudden he felt very alone. The slums couldn’t hide him anymore, there were no shadows to lurk in. Two old men playing chess were the only sign there was once life in the city. Gone was the former glory: no cars lined the streets, the fountain ran dry, the grass had yellowed. The church’s presence loomed and he gravitated towards it. The steeple was probably only 10 metres high but could have been a mountain at that point. It’s very aura seeped out into the world. Jamal could’ve sworn it was touching him. In fact it was. He reached for the handle on the great oak door and pulled, but it wouldn’t budge. He looked around for ideas and then jumped, startled. The door had cracked open ever so slightly. Tentatively, he reached his fingers through and nudged it further. He slipped inside and was immediately shrouded in darkness. He didn’t like this. He hugged his arms to try and rub away the goosebumps. He was turning around to find a light when something warm brushed his hand.

His limbs went stiff.

He tried to move but his feet betrayed him.

The thud of his heart pounded his brain.

“Hello child.”

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THE BLACKSMITH Bang! Bang! A hot, stuffy atmosphere corrupted the tepid weather outside. A pile of coal, red hot was piled against charred bricks. And amongst the heavy and intense smell of ash, drops of sweat rolled down his rough, scarred face. The crevices, unevenly inserted into his skin, didn’t tell all of his story.

I was his special tool, as he said. The tool that he picked up. The tool that he tended to. The tool that he used. I was a hammer. Lifted up high I was, and after that slow ascent, a quick descent clanged me against the malleable metal. A gradient of hot colours dimmed as the metal cooled. His pace quickened. Clang! Clang! Clang!

At last, he rested me, carefully laying me down on the table. He dipped the sharp blade down into the cool water. Steam came out, and then, a sizzle. He lifted his creation back up, and chucked it on top of me. A sigh exited his mouth, and a glove whisked through the air, flopping on the ground. He picked the sword back up, pushed his finger against the point, and a drop of blood floated down, and splashed on the anvil. The blood spread out, shiny and thin. Leather, a product from a distant land, precisely cut, was wrapped tightly around the handle. The creation was finished. A sleek 80cm sword, forged with a mix of imperial bronze and adamantine, and the handle wrapped around with leather from a distant land. The perfect weapon.

There was a knock at the door. A tall powerful man gently opened the bulky metal door. He had a leather bag, tied up, filled to the brim with heavy coins.

“Paratus est ad ferrum?” (“Is the blade ready?”)

“Ita.” (“Yes”) The blacksmith handed over the blade, kneeling down.

“Pulchra!” (“Beautiful!”)

The man dropped the bag into two clasped hands. He admired the blade, and exited out.

The blacksmith prepared a cloth, and hot water, getting ready for the crimson stains on his recent creation.

He asked himself: “Am I the villain in this story?”

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Some catch my skin. They don’t feel cold, but familiar. We meet as friends.

It’s dark out. Rainclouds hide invisible stars.

Light from illuminated suburbs shrinks from a congregation of shadows.

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A hundred thousand faerie lights cast broken reflections in an inky harbour.

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The next street-light catches me.

I pause in its aura, study its reflection in the ground and the rain.

So much life is out there, but here? I am the only one

Nathan Dockerty Year 13

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THE PINOCCHIO PARADOX If Pinocchio says “My nose will grow now,” it would cause a paradox.

When you think about it, it’s mind-bendingly straightforward. If Pinocchio said, ‘My nose will grow now,’ it would mean that he would be lying, which would then make his nose grow. But then when Pinocchio’s nose did grow he would be telling the truth, and so his nose doesn’t need to grow. But that then means Pinocchio is lying, which would then make his nose grow. But then it does grow so he was telling the truth, and so his nose doesn’t need to grow. It just keeps on going, and going, and going, and going, and going, and going, and going, and going, and going. As you think this, an immense chasm of confusion and cognitive load opens up in your thinking process and envelops you whole, not even bothering to think, look, or chew.

You find yourself in this empty, caliginous mist, and out of the corner of your eye you see something moving rapidly, spiralling out of control. It looks like a person, maybe the same size as Gollum, but with a nose ever lengthening and shortening, its body multiplying at impossible, supersonic speeds, the cloning rate accelerating rapidly. It’s hardly even possible to make anything out. Finally, the writhing mass of Lilliputian humanoid figures with pointy stabby noses of varying lengths, stabbing at you mercilessly, squeezes you from all sides. You are nothing but a little crimson, custard-slice of squashed meat surrounded by an infinitely growing number of indistinguishable duplicates, filling the universe.

Dan O’Brien Year 8

MORTAL DIFFERENCES Have you ever wondered about the true meaning of immortal? There are Greek gods who can’t die. Then there are the hunters of Artemis, who don’t die of old age, but can be killed. The same goes for the elves in The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit. Then there’s the Turritopsis Dohrnii, a real life jellyfish, which, when it becomes old or damaged, transforms its cells back to its childhood state.

According to Google Assistant, the meaning of immortal is living forever; never dying or decaying. People call the Turriopsis Dohrnii immortal. They also call the hunters of Artemis immortal. Kobe Bryant’s legacy is meant to be immortal. All are different and the same. Yin and Yang, or as Mum says, ‘Like chalk ‘n’ cheese.’

Could you imagine being immortal? Watching the world go by, painfully slowly or, as the case may be, in the blink of an eye: a bird’s eye view of a slowly decaying and dying world.

Or, could you think of spending your life submerged, unaware of the carnage above you, only knowing something is happening from the fact that your domain and habitat are growing larger by the second and that those big transparent blue upside-down mountains are shrinking. We could only imagine what it would feel like to transform your cells. Would it be like putting your clothes on, trying to squeeze out a poo, or would it be so painful it would be like giving birth?

Wouldn’t it be incredible to watch a legacy in action from wherever dead people go; humans yelling, ‘Kobe’ whenever they ‘swish a three.’ No one would ever forget the amazing skill you wielded, or the amount of ankles broken.

We humans have no recollection or idea of what immortality feels like. We never will.

Dan O’Brien Year 8

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BATTLE SCARS is over.

I see my peers, everyone running in different directions going down different paths.

Sunlight peeks through the glass on a balmy day.

Tropical breeze, Kauri trees.

Bell chirps in tune with the birds.

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Finding myself down a gravel path.

Flax leaves whip flowers dance, bees congregate to pollinate.

Nature hums along, the earth turns.

Loose gravel underfoot losing my balance looking for grip.

Gravity pulls me down hard.

No longer does the wind carry me.

Sun hat strap hops like a kangaroo, layer of armour stripped away by the summer heat.

Shoelaces once woven now flail like headless snakes.

Gruesome gash, grazed genu, gravel grave.

Flesh is torn blood is born, a magma river runs down my leg.

Groups form games begin, fun is had.

We huddle up, a plan is established.

The countdown starts.

My frigid comrades, unable to move frantically still.

Panicked expressions, the game’s digression.

My legs are working, hard but the wind carries me.

Lungs inflate and then release, a gargantuan storm.

One foot after the other, matching the beat played by my heart.

I, am a wounded warrior.

Chain mail armour forms where the injury occured.

A lattice of skin and blood represents the battle.

Freshly cut grass clings to my dilapidated shoes.

Shoes that fail, to keep up with my pace.

Reaching out a hand pulling myself up we all know the game, is back on.

Blaring of the siren signals that the countdown

Paolo Corona Year 12

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IN THE GAME Once again, I had fallen for the same mistake - thinking.

The pass came to me. Snapping into game mode, I turned, controlling the orange ball with the smallest tap of a foot. I kicked it wide to the fullback who cleared it away along the large, open field. The trees stood politely back from the edge of the pitch, pretending to be interested as the light, slightly chill wind waved their branches. It was a rare fine day, the sun calmly warming the afternoon practice through a mostly cloudless sky, but its rays did not reach my mood.

“Good!” The coach yelled. “Play it back from the middle.” I took a brief glance around to shore up my position.

The other centreback and I returned to our posts at the edge of the penalty box, guarding the goalkeeper from our teammates who would try once more to breach the lines. One player had retrieved the ball by now.

There were better things for me to do than this. What would I gain from this practice - skills at football of course. Did I actually want that? As for staying fit, and being healthy - blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I don’t want to be unhealthy, but that isn’t much of a problem for me. I walk to school every day and I don’t eat much junk food.

Compared to, perhaps, reading The Neverending Story. Now that would be far more enjoyable, more comfortable, more relaxing, and would engage my restless brain more. Much better than charging around a field of grass requiring no more skills than an eighteenth-century halfwit could possess. What on earth was I doing here?

The striker was coming. I ran right to cut him off, but I could not accelerate fast enough. He was past me.

All I could do was watch him shoot. The goalie stood no chance from that range. The net flinched under the impact, billowing around the collision as the ball ended up at rest firmly over the line.

“Defence!” the coach reprimanded. “He shouldn’t be able to run right through you like that.” Abashed, I turned to look at the grass, hoping it might help me. “That one was yours.” Of course. The problem with having a good coach was that he always noticed when it was my mistake. Singled out once again. “You need to be more alert, more onto the game. I’m expecting better on game day.” I nodded, pretending that the words were some revealing insight.

Realistically, they did little to solidify my quandary. Would I ever be satisfied with sticking with sport to the extent where my mind wouldn’t wander? The whole thing was feeding into itself - because I was thinking about not doing football, I was not playing so well in football, which made me think about not doing football. I tried to shake the thoughts from my head and concentrate on the game, giving enough attention to wander closer to the goal to be ready for an incoming ball from the far wing.

I contemplated all the things I needed to get done this afternoon. I would probably not be finished until half past eight. All because of this stupid practice, devouring a valuable hour and a half. There was still homework from four different subjects to do, not to mention ...

I managed to get to the cross - barely. A weak pass from the stretched-out toe, altering its direction for a teammate to pick up before the opposition could snaffle it. From there, I only needed to watch as he beat a person and cleared it. Again, I had only just allowed us to defeat an assault by getting the ball to my more competent teammates.

I tried to focus on the game, this time, to give it my best effort. The attacking team started at the centre of the pitch, coming to try us defenders of our skills once again. Pass, pass, pass. Once it went near me, and I headed towards it to meet it, but again a pass was made. A tackle, a clearance. Back to the start. A pass, a dribble, beating a defender, a goal. All on the far side of the pitch.

Even in this practice, with six players a team, I barely ever ended up doing anything. Just an occasional touch here and there, and I knew it was worse in a full game with 11. So much time spent standing around, running to position, being ready yet only rarely doing anything. Was this really the best use of my time?

Martin Brook Year 11

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THE GRAPPLE WITH THE ABSTRACT Of the squares And just as suddenly as he was pulled under He is grabbed by his scruff and Of the other two sides Yanked back into The hard wooden timber By interrogative scolds The grapple with the abstract

Pleading eyes scan his surroundings Dark liquid seeping through the walls and floor It rises again threatening him

Unravels upon the growing distance From the real worldA cascade down a waterfall of numbers and letters and symbols and curves

x^2-1? B^2-4ac? cos^2(x)+sin^2(x)=1? y=mx+c? dy/ dx=dy/dt / dx/dt?

Parabolas?

Circles?

Triangles?

Imaginary numbers? Square Roots?

Pythagoras? De Moivre? Simpson? Newton?

In a right angle triangle Into a daze of perplexity and tumult

He is swallowed up By the endless opportunity By the branches that constantly poke his mind By the numbing aqueous sinkhole By the constant free fall towards the abyss By cheery smiles either side By the books, the paper, the pens, the rulers By stern eyes peering through spectacles And he takes his last breath before

From the cluttered desks and tables He meanders down a stream of consciousness The square of the hypotenuse Stopping only to flounder about in a puddle of hopelessness

He is overtaken by crashing waves And drowned beneath the seas

His eyes peer past Blue faded mediocre scrawl, Into a maelstrom of disorientating formulae and rule

Miro Williams Year 12

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“Covid-19 impacted on everyone at Johnnies and beyond.

Everything from home life to school classes were heavily affected.

But it served as a great learning experience for everyone involved.

Zoom calls gave both the learner and the teacher a new challenge to be faced. But through careful communication and support from everyone over the Zoom calls, we were all able to find our way through an uncertain time. I found it especially helpful to join optional extra online classes that teachers had set up.”

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Back Row: Joseph Grace, Nath Sirisaowaluk, Caleb Oakley, Aaron Jones, Jack Pearson, Darcy Nevill, Archie Dunn Middle Row: Jed Thompson-Fawcett, Ali Dohan, Hayden Elliott, Paolo Corona, Miro Williams, Grayson Westgate, Oscar Lobb, Freddy Wright Front Row: Hudson Ross, Max Kirkwood, Thomas Hill, Flook Chinsaswat, William Tong, Mason Prentice, Daniel Lund, Samuel Garry, Toby Dean

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Back Row: Caleb Oakley, Hayden Elliott, Aaron Jones, Miro Williams, Archie Dunn, Toby Dean Front: Ali Dohan, Max Kirkwood, Jed Thompson-Fawcett, Mason Prentice, Daniel Lund, Samuel Garry

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SCHOLARS’ TIES (FOR LEVEL TW0, 2019)

Back Row: Luka Barson-McLean, Krishan Luxmanan, Tom Crawford, Jack Murray, Thomas Sullivan, Ben Monaghan Front Row: Joe Mu, Nathan Dockerty, Jonathan Brook, Harry McKenzie, Will Morshius, Ned Hancox

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Back Row: Krishan Luxmanan, Tom Crawford, Jack Murray, Front Row: Nathan Dockerty, Jonathan Brook, Joe Mu, Thomas Sullivan

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BLUES RECIPIENTS Freddy Wright Rowing

Jack Pearson Rowing

Angus Kenny Rowing

Mark Smith Rowing

Zack CleaverDonovan Rowing

Miro Williams Rowing

Ben Dyson Rowing

Noah Coutts Rowing

Josh Hou Athletics

Dominic Morrison Athletics

Thomas Sullivan Athletics

Liam Wilson Athletics

Jack Timu Touch

Josh Whaanga Touch

Oscar Sycamore Touch

Eli Familton Moto-X

Ben Monaghan Water Polo

Grayson Westgate Triathlon

Callum White Golf

Michael Buttery Touch Referee

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BLUES RECIPIENTS Samuel Stedman Surf Life Saving

Max Gaffney Tennis

Matheson Colquhoun Duathlon

Adam Woodhouse Weightlifting

Cam Forde Basketball

Sam Hope Basketball

Aidan Dougherty Ice Hockey

Noah Coutts Rowing

MCG Dan Kunac Trap Shooting

Jack Robertson Trap Shooting

Hunter Cockerill Trap Shooting

Thomas Meder Hockey

Will Duffy Hockey

Josh Stevens Hockey

Liam Ferguson Rugby

Darcy Nevill Curling

Josh Whaanga Rugby

Billy Elwood Hockey

Liam Casey Hockey

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MCGLASHAN CHALLENGE

DANNY ADAMS In March 2019, I began a McGlashan Challenge.

This idea was sparked from Mr Jones, asking if I would like to finish off Jack Pacey’s 2018 attempt to document and catalogue the artwork around the college. Jack gathered information about nine of the different artists and their works.

In order to complete the John McGlashan College Art Catalogue 2020, I formatted, researched, wrote, photographed and catalogued all the information about every influential and professional art piece and its artist, located throughout the school campus.

Every piece includes information on the artist, the location, the value, the medium and how the school received it.

Mr Jones’ vast knowledge of the pieces was invaluable, however, not everything was known which required me to undertake some significant research.

Finding works throughout the school turned into a more difficult task than expected as we believed that one was lost (it was found). I photographed and edited, to reduce glare, every piece apart from the “Entry” picture which was taken by Barry Kelk.

There have been multiple changes to the book whilst I made it, including at least 10 different cover options and many different formats. There are currently 29 known artists, with 49 art pieces, throughout the school. The approximate value of the college’s collection is around $221,000, however, not everything has been valued.

This project has been a significant undertaking

during the past two years. From the planting of the seed by Mr Jones to the completed document I have been required to maintain my focus on this goal, completing it piece by piece, so as not to rush it. I wanted to finish this project to a high standard, ensuring that the area that I am passionate about is well recorded and recognised.

The catalogue has been through many drafts and proofs to get it to its finished state. It is now a McGlashan document that will be stored in the archives and various places around the school, including the Principal’s office.

I would encourage boys in the future to pursue more McGlashan Challenges based on areas of interest.

Get stuck in and start something that nobody has done before, leaving a legacy to be followed.

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SENIOR PRIZE-GIVING 2020 SPECIAL PRIZES Senior Agriculture Norwood New Holland Prize Academic Excellence in Agricultural Sciences Ashley Stevenson Senior Art Artzone Award for Senior Art Billy Ellwood Will Duffy Senior Biology Sir Charles and Lady Alice Ferguson Trophy Nathan Dockerty Senior Chemistry Prize Jonathan Brook Senior Physics Prize Jonathan Brook Digital Technology Senior Digitech Award Labes Brothers Cup Ned Hancox Year 11 Digitech Award Labes Brothers Cup Martin Brook Senior Mathematics A A Paulin Prize Jack Murray

Senior English A E Hartill Prize Nathan Dockerty Senior ESOL Kenny Liu Senior Commerce Prize Forsythe Barr CETA medal for commerce Tom Crawford Thomson Family Cup Senior History Prize Nathan Dockerty Senior Languages Prize Commitment to Spanish Joe Mu Senior Languages Prize Commitment to German Reidstra Cup Ben Monaghan

Year 13 ACADEMIC AWARDS

Senior Award for Design and Visual Communication Ned Hancox

Danny Adams Excellence in Visual Art.

Senior Award for Food Technology Macauley Ward

Simon Basel Merit in Biology, Mathematics, English and Spanish.

Studies in Physical Education Senior Award Harry McKenzie Dominic Morrison

Honor Bercinskas-Gauld Excellence in Drama.

Creative Writing Year 11 Martin Brook

Patrick Bezett Merit in Mathematics.

Creative Writing Year 12 & 13 Dr F R Riley Award Nathan Dockerty

Oliver Bolton Excellence in History. Merit in Biology and English.

Speech Year 11 Sheon Luxmanan

Lourenco Botafogo Excellence in English. Merit in Calculus and German.

Speech Year 12 & 13 Sir John White Award Krishan Luxmanan

Zachary Bowmar Merit in Digital Technology.

Chess Contribution to College Chess Guthrie Cup Martin Brook

Mason Calvert Merit in Physics and Stage 1 University Mathematics.

Debating Top College Speaker Reid Trophy Nathan Dockerty

William Cotton Merit in Agribusiness, Geography, Economics and Food Technology.

J S Thomson Cup for Debating Most Promising Speaker Archie Dunn

Tom Crawford Excellence in Accounting, Physics and Stage 1 University Mathematics.

Drama Contribution to school drama Harrison Cup Tama Anthony-Whigham

Chris Denton Merit in Biology and English.

Will Duffy Excellence in Visual Art and History. Merit in Design and Visual Communication.

The College Award for Service to the Performing Arts Hamish Ross

Tom Gold Merit in English.

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Sam Hope Merit in Agribusiness and Food Technology.

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Josh Hou Excellence in Physical Education. Merit in Biology and Chemistry.

Aidan Hung Excellence in Spanish. Merit in English, History and Mathematics.

Caleb Le Cong Merit in Visual Art. Hamish Lowery Excellence in Visual Art. Emma McCaughan Excellence in Agribusiness.

Harry McKenzie Excellence in Furniture Design Technology and Physical Education. Merit in Accounting and Mathematics.

William McLauchlan Merit in Calculus.

Robert Millar Excellence in Accounting.

Merit in Agriculture and Statistics.

Caleb Moody Merit in Mathematics.

Roy Feng Merit in Theory of Knowledge.

Alex Parks Merit in German, History and Statistics.

Scott Perkins Merit in Visual Art. Henry Power Excellence in Furniture Design Technology. Merit in Agriculture.

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Macauley Ward Excellence in Food Technology.

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Callum White Merit in Physical Education.

Ben Monaghan Excellence in Economics, English, Physics, Visual Art and Theory of Knowledge.

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Tom Colbourne Excellence in Physical Education.

Pippa Collins Merit in Agribusiness.

Dominic Morrison Excellence in Agribusiness, Agriculture and Physical Education. Merit in Accounting.

George Conner Excellence in Food Technology.

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Joe Mu Excellence in Spanish and Physics. Merit in Chemistry, Economics and Theory of Knowledge.

Lachie Crowle Merit in Physical Education.

Jack Murray Excellence in Chemistry, Physics and Stage 1 University Mathematics. Merit in Design and Visual Communication.

Jacob Yee Merit in Food Technology.

Ashley Stevenson Excellence in Accounting, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Furniture Design Technology and Statistics.

Year 13 BOOK PRIZES for ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

Thomas Sullivan Excellence in Chemistry and Stage 1 University Mathematics. Merit in Accounting, Agribusiness and Physics.

Adam Woodhouse Merit in Physical Education.

Luka Barson-McLean Excellence in Biology and History. Merit in Economics, English and Theory of Knowledge.

Jonathan Brook Excellence in Chemistry, Economics, English and Physics. Merit in Spanish and Theory of Knowledge.

Nathan Dockerty Excellence in Biology, English, History and Theory of Knowledge. Merit in German and Visual Art. Ned Hancox Excellence in Design and Visual Communication, Digital Technology and Physics.

Merit in Stage 1 University Mathematics.

Krishan Luxmanan Excellence in Spanish, Economics, English, Physics and Theory of Knowledge.

Meritin Chemistry.

Ali Dohan Excellence in English.

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Liam Easton Merit in Design and Visual Communication and Physics.

Millie George Excellence in Drama.

Sam Graamans Merit in Mathematics and Spanish.

Harvey Brenssell Merit in Food Technology.

Adam Harbott Excellence in Accounting.

Tamzin Burgess Merit in Agriculture.

Kaleb Hill Merit in Agribusiness, English, Physical Education, Visual Art and Mathematics

Clayton Cochrane Merit in Physical Education.

Hunter Jolly Excellence in English. Merit in History, Physical Education and Statistics.

Max Kirkwood Excellence in Visual Art and Spanish. Merit in English.

Hugo Cochrane Merit in Visual Art.

Ryan Leith Excellence in Furniture Design Technology. Merit in Design and Visual Communication, English and Physical Education.

Oscar Lobb Merit in Mathematics.

Brooke Mitchell Excellence in Visual Art. Merit in Design and Visual Communication.

Tama Anthony-Whigham Excellence in English. Merit in Digital Technology and Drama.

Leo Clark Excellence in Visual Art. Merit in Design and Visual Communication, Digital Technology, Mathematics and Physics.

Thomas Larrivee Merit in Agribusiness, Biology, English, Mathematics and Physics.

Olivia Ferris Excellence in Agribusiness.

Mary Gavin Merit in Agribusiness.

Harry Allen Merit in Visual Art.

Joseph La Hood Merit in Design and Visual Communication and English.

Angus McGregor Excellence in Mathematics.

Merit in English, Physical Education and Physics.

Juan Garcia-Quiroga Excellence in Spanish. Merit in Economics and Physics.

Year 12 ACADEMIC AWARDS

Dan Kunac Excellence in Furniture Design Technology. Merit in English, Physical Education and Mathematics.

Hayden Elliot Merit in Accounting, Economics, History, Mathematics and Physics.

Matthew Ford Merit in Physical Education.

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Phoebe Kirkwood Excellence in Agribusiness.

Darcy Nevill Merit in Biology, Chemistry, English, Mathematics and Physics.

Kotaro Nogami Merit in Mathematics, Japanese and Computer Studies.

Millie O’Neill Merit in Drama.

Madelene Ozanne Excellence in Agriculture.

Merit in Agribusiness.

Fergus Parks Merit in English and Furniture Design Technology.

Jack Pearson Excellence in Physical Education. Merit in English and History.

Jessica Penno Merit in Agribusiness.

Tom Procter Excellence in Food Technology. Merit in Accounting, English and Statistics.

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André Radel Merit in Design and Visual Communication and Visual Art. Hamish Ross Merit in English, Furniture Design Technology and Visual Art. Calvin Ruru Excellence in Visual Art. Merit in Mathematics and Physics.

Josh Sanders Excellence in Agriculture.

Merit in Furniture Design Technology.

Benjamin Schell Merit in Food Technology.

Harry Scott Excellence in Accounting.

Merit in Economics, English and Physics. Merit in Chemistry Nath Sirisaowaluk Excellence in Biology and Spanish. Merit in Mathematics and Physics.

William Smillie Merit in Agriculture and Statistics.

Joshua Stevens Merit in Physical Education.

Anton Stoddard Excellence in Food Technology.

Merit in Accounting and Mathematics.

Sam Tait Merit in English, Mathematics and Physics.

Satoshi Tomita Merit in English, Spanish and Physics.

Grayson Westgate Excellence in English and History. Merit in Biology and Chemistry.

Ben Wilden Merit in Agriculture.

Year 12 BOOK PRIZES for ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Flook Chinsaswat Excellence in Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Visual Art. Merit in Biology

and English.

Paolo Corona Excellence in English and Food Technology. Merit in Biology, Mathematics and Visual Art

Furniture Design Technology and Visual Art. Merit in Mathematics and Physics.

Vincent Shi Excellence in Biology, Mathematics and Physics.

Merit in Chemistry.

Toby Dean Excellence in Furniture Design Technology, Physical Education, Physics and L3 Calculus. Merit in Chemistry.

Oscar Sycamore Excellence in Accounting and Physical Education. Merit in Economics, History and Mathematics.

Archie Dunn Excellence in Biology, Chemistry, English, Mathematics, Physics and Spanish.

Jed Thompson-Fawcett Excellence in Biology, Chemistry, English, History, Physics and L3 Calculus.

Samuel Garry Excellence in English, History, Physics, and Spanish. Merit in Chemistry

William Tong Excellence in Biology, Chemistry, English, History and Physics. Merit in L3 Calculus.

Joseph Grace Excellence in Chemistry, Physics, and Visual Art. Merit in Design and Visual Communication and English.

Miro Williams Excellence in Chemistry, English, Physics and L3 Calculus. Merit in History and Music.

Thomas Hill Excellence in Visual Art and Physics. Merit in L3 Calculus, Chemistry and English.

Freddy Wright Excellence in Mathematics, Physics and Visual Art. Merit in Biology, Chemistry and English.

Ryan Johnston Excellence in Accounting, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Mathematics and Physical Education. Merit in English.

Aaron Jones Excellence in Accounting, English and Physics. Merit in L3 Calculus, Economics and History.

Daniel Lund Excellence in Chemistry, Design and Visual Communication, English, Furniture Design Technology and Physics. Merit in L3 Calculus.

Caleb Oakley Excellence in Economics, English, History, Mathematics, Spanish and Computer Studies.

Mason Prentice Excellence in Accounting, Economics, English and Physics. Merit in L3 Calculus and History.

Hudson Ross Excellence in Design and Visual Communication,

Year 11 ACADEMIC AWARDS

in English and Mathematics.

Charlie Bolton Merit in English, History and Mathematics.

Charlie Breen Merit in English, Physical Education and Visual Art. Zack Cleaver-Donovan Merit in Furniture Design Technology and Physical Education.

Hunter Cockerill Merit in Agriculture.

Matheson Colquhoun Merit in Physical Education.

Sam Cottier Merit in Agriculture, Furniture Design Technology and Physical Education.

Jack Cotton Excellence in Agriculture.

Merit in Food Technology, Physical Education and VisualArt. Feilim Dougherty Merit in English, Food Technology and Spanish.

Tom Duffy Excellence in Physical Education. Merit in English, History and Mathematics.

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Keegan Ferguson Excellence in Agriculture and History. Merit in Food Technology.

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Tom Fowler Excellence in Agriculture and Furniture Design Technology.

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Fynn Allison Excellence in Agriculture, Furniture Design Technology.

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Will Andrews Excellence in Furniture Design Technology.

Ian Audas Merit in Economics, English, History, Mathematics and Spanish.

Oliver Bamford Excellence in Visual Art. Merit

Kevin Geng Merit in Mathematics and Science.

Alban Gosse Excellence in French. Merit in English, History Science and Spanish.

Oscar Grey Merit in Economics, English, History, Mathematics, Science and Physical Education.

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Ezra Holmes Excellence in Furniture Design Technology and Physical Education. Merit in Mathematics and Science.

Enzo Hood Merit in Design & Visual Communication, Science and Spanish.

Greg Jones Merit in Science Ben Joseph Merit in Economics, English and History.

Nate Lachmann Excellence in Visual Art. Merit in German and Physical Education.

Kenny Liu Merit in Mathematics.

Mitchell Lobb Merit in Food Technology and Physical Education.

William Loe Excellence in Food Technology.

Beau Lundy Merit in English and History.

Lochie Mackay Merit in Agriculture.

Harrison Marshall Excellence in English and History. Merit in German.

Oliver Matthews Excellence in Food Technology.

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Nicholas McArley Merit in English and History.

Ryan McCaughan Merit in Food Technology and Physical Education.

Stanley McClure Excellence in Agriculture and Furniture Design Technology.

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Jackson McEwan Merit in Science

Nathan McKnight Merit in Agriculture and Physical Education.

James Stephen Merit in Physical Education.

Thomas Meder Merit in English, History and Physical Education.

Ethan Stirling Merit in Physical Education.

Max Stowell Excellence in Furniture Design Technology. Merit in English, History, Science and Physical Education.

Mitchell Morton Merit in Furniture Design Technology.

Mitchell Thorn Merit in Economics and Science.

Ben O’Meara Merit in Physical Education.

Jack Timu Excellence in Furniture Design Technology and Physical Education. Merit in Mathematics.

Archie McRae Merit in Agriculture.

Harry Ollerenshaw Merit in Furniture Design Technology and Physical Education.

Toby Wafer Merit in History and Spanish.

James Palmer Merit in German, History, Music, Science and L2 Mathematics.

Sam Williams Merit in Mathematics.

Anton Parker Excellence in Furniture Design Technology and Visual Art. Merit in Science.

Samuel Porter Excellence in Science. Merit in Economics, English, History, Mathematics, Science and Spanish.

William Pringle Excellence in Furniture Design Technology. Merit in Physical Education.

Jamie Rhodes Merit in Spanish.

Matthew Sime Merit in History and Mathematics.

Ollie Sinclair Merit in History and Physical Education.

Mark Smith Excellence in Agriculture.

Merit in Furniture Design Technology and Science.

Liam Wilson Excellence in Physical Education. Merit in Economics, English and History.

Harry Wing Excellence in Physical Education. Merit in Design & Visual Communication, Economics, English, Science and Mathematics.

Nate Wisnesky Merit in English, History and Mathematics.

Gary Yao Excellence in Spanish.

Year 11 BOOK PRIZES for ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Timothy Bradfield Excellence in Economics, English and Spanish. Merit in Science and Visual Art. Martin Brook Excellence in Digital Technology, English, German, History, Science and L2 Mathematics.

Zachary Smith Excellence in Economics.

Merit in English, History, Mathematics and Spanish.

Samuel Stedman Merit in English and Physical Education and Science.

Michael Buttery Excellence in Economics, English, History, Science and Spanish. Merit in Science and L2 Mathematics.

Zachary Duff Excellence in English, History and Science. Merit in Spanish, Visual Art and L2 Mathematics.

Xavier Edmond Excellence in Economics, History, Science, Spanish and L2 Mathematics. Merit in English.

Nicholas Friedlander Excellence in Economics, English, History, Spanish and L2 Mathematics. Merit in Science Max Gaffaney Excellence in English, Science and History.

Merit in Design & Visual Communication and Visual Art. Harold Gao Excellence in Digital Technology, English, German and Science. Merit in Music and L2 Mathematics.

Sam Gradwell Excellence in English, Furniture Design Technology and Science. Merit in Design & Visual Communication, Mathematics and Visual Art. Solomon Harcombe Excellence in Economics and English. Merit in L2 Mathematics and Physical Education.

Jack Hazlett Excellence in English, History, Mathematics, Science and Physical Education. Merit in Economics.

Sheon Luxmanan Excellence in English, History, Science and Spanish. Merit in Mathematics and Science.

Ray Ma Excellence in Digital Technology, Economics, English, Science and L2 Mathematics.

Merit in German.

Angus McMillan Excellence in History ans Science. Merit in English, German, Music.

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Jack Murphy Excellence in English, History, Science and Spanish. Merit in Visual Art and L2 Mathematics.

Masato Nishimura Excellence in Mathematics and Physical Education. Merit in Digital Technology, Science and Economics.

Lukas Pietsch Excellence in Economics, German and Science. Merit in Digital Technology, English and Mathematics.

SPORTS AWARDS

Cross Country

Athletics

Senior Cross Country Champion R M Greenslade Esquire Challenge Cup Josh Hou

Senior Athletics Champion Charles White Esquire Challenge Cup Josh Hou Mile Championship Cup Presented by Noel McGregor in 1928 Josh Hou

Fencing

3000m Wallace Cup Josh Hou

Michael Rietveld Excellence in Economics, English, Science and Visual Art. Merit in Design & Visual Communication, Science and L2 Mathematics.

Intermediate Athletics Champion College Association Cup Matheson Colquhoun

Sam Sinclair Excellence in English. Merit in L2 Mathematics, History, Music, Science and Spanish.

Singles Trophy Matthew Godfrey

Finlay Tomkins Excellence in Drama, English, History, Spanish and L2 Mathematics.

John Zhao Excellence in English, German, Science and L2 Mathematics. Merit in History and Music.

Sam Sinclair Excellence in English. Merit in L2 Mathematics, History, Music, Science and Spanish.

Finlay Tomkins Excellence in Drama, English, History, Spanish and L2 Mathematics. Merit in Science.

Intermediate Cross Country Champion H A A Stevely Esquire Cup Matheson Colquhoun

Badminton

Most Promising Fencer Louis Jennings Cup Edward Temple

Football Most Improved 1st XI Player R A Smith Cup Mason Prentice Contribution to First XI Alistair Wright Cup Jack Pearson

Basketball

First XI Footballer of the Year Joseph La Hood

Most Outstanding Player W P Leslie Trophy Sam Hope Contribution and Commitment to Basketball Sem-Cheyne Cup Will Andrews

Loyalty, service and sportsmanship in 1st XI A S M Smith Cup Gabe Ross

Award for Outstanding Attitude as a Novice or Cox Leydon Family Cup Xavier Edmond

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John Zhao Excellence in English, German, Science and L2 Mathematics. Merit in History and Music.

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Junior Art Awards

Prepared Reading Chairperson of the Board Awards

Year 7 & 8 College Award for Excellence Oliver Hamilton

Year 7 & 8 Leo Han Wei-Hun Loh

Year 9 & 10 College Award for Excellence George Hancox

W K Keay Award for the Best All-round Years 7 & 8 Sportsman.

Year 9 William Stevens

Junior Drama Award

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Creative Writing Dr F R Riley Award

The Best All-round Year 9 and 10 Sportsman presented by the Young Family.

Jack Hazlett

Most Promising Drama Student Joshua Chagnon Music

Year 7 & 8 Oliver Hamilton Finn Anderson

Junior Music Award Contribution to College Music Qwenton McKenzie

Year 9 Samuel Schell

Most Outstanding Sports Team U15 Rowing Champions The Gilchrist Family Shield

Sir John White Speech Award

Jack Pearson and Mark Smith

Year 7 & 8 Wei-Hun Loh

The Year 9 Boarding House Award

Year 9 Hamish McIntrye

Zavier Paterson.

The Junior Jonoel Award for supporting the college’s special character Rylan Urquhart The J P Cook Prize for Maths and Science in Year 8 Oliver Hamilton Academic Excellence in Year 7.

Zack Gallagher The Teddy Blomfield Memorial Award for Academic Excellence in Year 8.

Wei-Hun Loh Academic Excellence in Year 9 was donated to the College by the Tilyard family.

Marek Rickerby Tom McGregor Memorial Award for Academic Excellence in Year 10.

Martin Brook

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Year 10 Sheon Luxmanan Library J N Lemon Prize Service to the Library Rylan Urquhart

Bruce James Award Excellence in Junior Music Performance Rylan Urquhart

Chess Contribution to College Chess Guthrie Cup Martin Brook Pipe Band Angus McKnight Memorial Cup Most Improved Piper Caleb Ung

Charlie Bolton Distinction in English, and Mathematics.

Charlie Breen Distinction in Social Studies, and Physical Education.

Zack Cleaver-Donovan Contribution in Christian Studies.

Sam Cottier Distinction in Physical Education, and Film.

Caleb Dixon Distinction in Physical Education.

Greatest Contribution to Community Service Manins Shield Award Michael Buttery

Billy Dougherty Distinction in Physical Education, and Art.

7MRO Oliver Colling 7DBE Skylar Peters 8ADU William Parks 8AHO Callum Macdiarmid 9AVE Rylan Urquhart 9DSM Qwenton McKenzie 9MBE Oliver Bary 9RRA Alexander Seaton 10AKA Theo Hannagan 10DCA Tom Fowler 10JCU Harrison Marshall 10SMC Archie McRae 10TSH Michael Buttery

Year 9 and 10 Reading Champions Ethan Leitch Callum Binns Alban Gosse

Ian Audas Distinction in Spanish, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Most Improved Academic Student in Year 10 Timothy Bradfield

Parents and Friends’ Association awards for good citizenship.

Library Reading Prizes Junior Reading Champions Lochlan Ing-Aram Finn Anderson Samuel Ussher Johnny Leitch

Will Andrews Distinction in Physical Education, Art, and General Diligence.

Year 10 ACADEMIC AWARDS

Keegan Ferguson Distinction in English, Mathematics, and General Diligence.

Tom Fowler Distinction in Mathematics.

Harold Gao Distinction in Music.

Kevin Geng Distinction in Mathematics, and Digital Technology.

Oscar Grey Distinction in Social Studies, and Physical Education.

George Hancox Distinction in Social Studies, and Physical Education.

Ezra Holmes Distinction in Furniture Design Technology.

Donald Ross Challenge Cup Champion Piper Qwenton McKenzie

Connor Aldrich Distinction in Mathematics, Physical Education, and Design & Visual Communication.

Gregory Jones Distinction in Mathematics, Furniture Design Technology, and General Diligence.

ESOL Prize Joey Kang

Fynn Allison General Diligence

Ben Joseph Distinction in Social Studies, and Physical Education.

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Nate Lachmann Distinction in Art, Film, German, and General Diligence.

William Little Distinction in Science, Film, and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Lochie Mackay Distinction in Physical Education.

Harrison Marshall Distinction in English, Social Studies, Film, and General Diligence.

Oliver Matthews Distinction in Furniture Design Technology.

Nicholas McArley Contribution in Christian Studies.

Stanley McClure Distinction in Mathematics, Physical Education, Design & Visual Communication, and Contribution in Christian Studies.

James Palmer Distinction in Social Studies, German, and Merit in Level 1 Mathematics.

James Paterson Distinction in Physical Education, and Design & Visual Communication.

Samuel Porter Distinction in Mathematics, and General Diligence.

Michael Rietveld Distinction in Social Studies, and Design & Visual Communication.

Matthew Sime Distinction in Art. Ollie Sinclair Merit in Level 1 Mathematics.

Mark Smith Distinction in Physical Education, Furniture Design Technology, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Zachary Smith Distinction in Mathematics.

Samuel Stedman Distinction in Physical Education.

General Diligence.

James Stephen Distinction in Furniture Design Technology, and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Max Stowell General Diligence Joshua Thom Distinction in English, and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Jack Timu Distinction in Physical Education, Furniture Design Technology, and General Diligence.

Nicholas Tucker Distinction in Digital Technology, and Design & Visual Communication Josh Whaanga Distinction in Physical Education.

Sam Williams Distinction in Mathematics.

Liam Wilson Distinction in English.

Harry Wing Distinction in Mathematics, Physical Education, and Art. Nate Wisnesky General Diligence

Year 10 BOOK PRIZES for ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Oliver Bamford Distinction in English, Mathematics, Science, Art, Film, and Design & Visual Communication.

Timothy Bradfield Distinction in English, Science, Social Studies, Art, Film, and General Diligence.

Martin Brook Distinction in English, Science, Social Studies, Digital Technology, Design & Visual Communication, Spanish, German, Excellence in Level 1 Mathematics, and

Michael Buttery Distinction in English, Science, Social Studies, Spanish, Te Reo Maori, and Merit in Level 1 Mathematics.

Zachary Duff Distinction in English, Science, Social Studies, Art, Te Reo Maori, Excellence in Level 1 Mathematics, and General Diligence.

Tom Duffy Distinction in Mathematics, Physical Education, Art, Furniture Design Technology, and Te Reo Maori.

Jack Hazlett Distinction in English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and Physical Education.

Sheon Luxmanan Distinction in English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Film, Design & Visual Communication, Spanish, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Ray Ma Distinction in English, Science, Social Studies, Spanish, and Excellence in Level 1 Mathematics.

Xavier Edmond Distinction in English, Science, Social Studies, Physical Education, Film, Design & Visual Communication, Spanish, Excellence in Level 1 Mathematics, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Angus McMillan Distinction in Science, Social Studies, Film, Design & Visual Communication, German, Merit in Level 1 Mathematics, and General Diligence.

Nicholas Friedlander Distinction in English, Social Studies, Spanish, Te Reo Maori, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Jack Murphy Distinction in English, Science, Social Studies, Film, Spanish, and Merit in Level 1 Mathematics.

Max Gaffaney Distinction in English, Social Studies, Physical Education, Merit in Level 1 Mathematics, and General Diligence.

Alban Gosse Distinction in English, Physical Education, Film, and Spanish.

Sam Gradwell Distinction in English, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Physical Education, and Design & Visual Communication.

Theo Hannagan Distinction in English, Social Studies, Music, Film, German, and General Diligence.

Solomon Harcombe Distinction in English, Science, Social Studies, Te Reo Maori, and Merit in Level 1 Mathematics.

Anton Parker Distinction in Science, Design & Visual Communication, Merit in Level 1 Mathematics, and General Diligence.

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Xavier Bachop Distinction in Physical Education.

George Barker Distinction in Furniture Design Technology, and General Diligence.

Luca Bevin Distinction in Integrated Studies, and General Diligence.

George Brenssell Distinction in Furniture Design Technology, Design & Visual Communication, and Art 3D. Daniel Burnett Distinction in Physical Education.

Adam Byars Distinction in Drama, and Design & Visual Communication.

Nick Casey Distinction in Integrated Studies, Physical Education, and Furniture Design Technology.

Jonah Coleman Distinction in Design & Visual Communication, and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Quinn Coutts Distinction in Physical Education.

Edward Diaz-Farron Distinction in Drama.

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Caleb Forde Distinction in Physical Education, Furniture Design Technology, and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Preston Foster Distinction in Mathematics, Drama, and General Diligence.

Mason Gain Distinction in Physical Education, and Art 2D. Jacob Hall Distinction in Physical Education, Furniture Design Technology, Design & Visual Communication, and General Diligence.

Max Hore Distinction in Physical Education, and Design & Visual Communication.

Sam Johnston Distinction in Te Reo Maori.

Josh Jones Distinction in Physical Education, and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Max Jones Distinction in Art 2D, and Furniture Design Technology.

Kahu Keenan Distinction in Drama.

Joseph Knopp Distinction in Art 2D, and Furniture Design Technology.

Alpha Komin General Diligence.

Jack Lewis Distinction in Physical Education.

Kyle Meason Distinction in Physical Education.

Baxter Meder Distinction in Physical Education.

Harrison Meltzer Distinction in Design & Visual Communication, Art 3D, and Mathematics.

Harry Morshuis Distinction in Physical Education, Furniture Design Technology, Design & Visual Communication, and General Diligence.

Zavier Paterson Distinction in Drama, and Te Reo Maori.

Mac Perkins Distinction in Physical Education.

Xavier Radel Contribution in Christian Studies.

Louis Roche Distinction in Integrated Studies, and Art 2D. Liam Ruru Distinction in Mathematics.

Harry Stevens Distinction in Mathematics, Design & Visual Communication, and Spanish.

William Stevens Distinction in Science, Drama, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Nicholas Todd Distinction in Physical Education.

Joel Masters Distinction in Art 3D.

Bailey Williams Distinction in Science, Furniture Design Technology, and Design & Visual Communication.

Isaac McConachie Distinction in Physical Education, and Design & Visual Communication.

Oakland Young Distinction in Furniture Design Technology, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Hamish McIntyre Distinction in Integrated Studies, and Spanish.

Qwenton McKenzie Distinction in Te Reo Maori, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Year 9 BOOK PRIZES for ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Oliver Bary Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Design & Visual Communication, Spanish, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Callum Binns Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, and Science.

Zac Brooking Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Drama, Digital Technology, Spanish, and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Luke Brown Distinction in Integrated Studies, Science, and General Diligence.

Joshua Chagnon Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Drama, Furniture Design Technology, Design & Visual Communication, Spanish, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Evers Donnelly-Davey Distinction in Science, Art 2D, Design & Visual Communication, Spanish, and Art 3D. Tom Dyer Distinction in Science, Mathematics, Physical Education, Art 2D, Drama, Spanish, and General Diligence.

Eli Gepte Distinction in Mathematics, Science, Physical Education, and Drama.

Jack Howley Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Drama, Spanish, Art 3D, and Contribution in Christian Studies.

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William Hubbard Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Physical Education, Drama, Digital Technology, Te Reo Maori, and Spanish.

Amani James Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Physical Education, Art 2D, Furniture Design Technology, Design & Visual Communication, Te Reo Maori, Art 3D, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Ethan Leitch Distinction in Integrated Studies, Science, Art 2D, Drama, Digital Technology, and General Diligence.

William Macpherson Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Digital Technology, and German.

John Mengel Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Physical Education, and German.

Jed Nevill Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Spanish, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Thomas Rasmussen Distinction in Mathematics, Science, German, Art 3D, and General Diligence.

Max Simpson Distinction in Mathematics, Science, Spanish, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Rylan Urquhart Distinction in Integrated Studies, Digital Technology, German, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Luke von Melville Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Art 2D, Drama, Digital Technology, Design & Visual Communication, Spanish, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

David Wang Distinction in Mathematics, Science, Digital Technology, Spanish, and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Year 8 ACADEMIC AWARDS

Distinction in Social English, and Science.

Santino Hood Distinction in Science, Drama, and Te Reo Maori.

Jeni Zhao Distinction in Drama.

Daniel Joint Distinction in Science, Physical Education, and Te Reo Maori.

Leo Jones Distinction in Mathematics.

Joey Kang Distinction in Mathematics.

Will Kara Distinction in Physical Education.

Aidan Lee Distinction in Mathematics.

Roger Luo Distinction in Visual Art. Callum Macdiarmid Distinction in Social English, and Science.

Harvey O’Neill Distinction in Physical Education, Te Reo Maori, and General Diligence.

Luke Andrews General Diligence.

Harrison Bowmar Distinction in Mathematics.

Jacob Cooper Distinction in Drama.

Oscar Davenport Distinction in Physical Education, Te Reo Maori, and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Marek Rickerby Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Art 2D, Digital Technology, Design & Visual Communication, Spanish, Art 3D, and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Joseph Devereux-Kilpatrick Distinction in Physical Education, and Drama.

Henry Scott Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, and Physical Education.

Joshua George Distinction in Visual Art, and Te Reo Maori.

Alexander Seaton Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Drama, Digital Technology, German, and General Diligence.

Education, and Contribution in Christian Studies.

William Parks Distinction in Mathematics, Technology, and General Diligence.

Alex Piebenga Distinction in Physical Education, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Luke Pullar Distinction in Physical Education.

Oscar Ross Distinction in Science, Drama, Visual Art, Technology, and Te Reo Maori.

Izaac Foster Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Nicholas George Distinction in Social English, and Te Reo Maori.

Leo Han Distinction in Drama.

Aidan Seyb Distinction in Technology.

Jacob Struthers Distinction in Technology.

Reif Stuart General Diligence.

Year 8 BOOK PRIZES for ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Finn Anderson Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Technology, Te Reo Maori, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Ewan Beadell Distinction in Social English, Science, Physical Education, Technology, Te Reo Maori, and General Diligence.

Connor Boereboom Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Physical Education, and Te Reo Maori.

Oliver Hamilton Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Drama, Visual Art, and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Wei-Hun Loh Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Drama, Visual Art, Technology, Te Reo Maori, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Jonty Riley Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Physical Education, Drama, and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Lucas Townend Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Physical Education, and Drama.

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Louis Brown Distinction in Mathematics, and Physical Education.

Angus Burns Distinction in Te Reo Maori.

Ben Casey Distinction in Physical Education, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Oliver Colling Distinction in Drama, Technology, and General Diligence.

Tom Jefferies Distinction in Drama, and Technology.

William Moyle Distinction in Drama, and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Leon Kaan Distinction in Visual Art.

Benjamin Sinclair Distinction in Mathematics, and Science.

Ben Knopp Distinction in Science, and Visual Art.

Jayden Toro Distinction in Drama.

Jacob Levy Distinction in Physical Education, Technology, Te Reo Maori, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Caleb Ung Distinction in Physical Education, and Technology.

Mitchell Urquhart Distinction in Physical Education.

Maita Madambi Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Year 7 BOOK PRIZES for ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

Patrick McKenzie Distinction in Social English, Technology, and Te Reo Maori.

Max Braithwaite Distinction in Social English, Science, Visual Art, and General Diligence.

Serge Meeuws Distinction in Physical Education, Drama, Te Reo Maori, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Glenn Ericsson Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Te Reo Maori, and General Diligence.

Fergus Millar Distinction in Drama.

Samuel Eason Distinction in Visual Art, and General Diligence.

Brodie Miller Distinction in Mathematics, Drama, and Te Reo Maori.

Matthew Jarvie Distinction in Physical Education, and Te Reo Maori.

Luke Miller Distinction in Visual Art.

Zack Gallagher Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, and Te Reo Maori.

Ruairi Gillon Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, and Physical Education.

SPORTS AWARDS

Annan Goldsmith Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Physical Education, and Drama.

Ryan Hamilton Distinction in Mathematics, Science, Drama, and Technology.

Lochlan Ing-Aram Distinction in Social English, Physical Education, Te Reo Maori, Contribution in Christian Studies and General Diligence.

Jacob Lawrence Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Visual Art, and Te Reo Maori.

Sam Lawson Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, and Science.

Jonny Leitch Distinction in Social English, Science, Drama, Visual Art, Technology, Contribution in Christian Studies, and General Diligence.

Daniel O’Brien Distinction in Social English, Science, Physical Education, Drama, Te Reo Maori, and General Diligence.

Skylar Peters Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Drama, and General Diligence.

Eddie Scott Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, and Te Reo Maori.

Athletics

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Year 7 & 8 Athletics Champion J H Fulton Cup Finn Apii

Year 7 & 8 Best Junior Badminton player Roger Luo

Most Outstanding Contribution to Year 7 & 8 Cricket Jack Tourelle

Year 7 & 8 Cross Country College Assocation Cup Daniel O’Brien

Junior Athletic Challenge Cup Arthur M Sidey Cup Stanley McClure

Basketball

Best Batsman in Year 7 & 8 Roly Scott Cup Will Kara

Novice Cross Country Chamption Gibson Family Cup Isaac McConachie

Novice Athletics Champion T C Ross Cup Isaac McConachie Champion of Champions PJE Robertson Cup Isaac McConachie

Most Promising Junior Player Brendan Sparrow cup Will Andrews Ben Joseph

Best Bowler in Year 7 & 8 Roly Scott Cup Joseph Devereux-Kilpatrick

Most Promising Year 7 & 8 Player Barkman Trophy Jonty Riley

Most Promising Junior Cricketer College Association Award Henry Scott Mason Gain

Junior Cross Country Champion College Cup Matheson Colquhoun

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Football

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Best Junior Football Player Schmidt Trophy Quinn Coutts

Shojin Award for Karate Edward Diaz-Farron

Most Improved Trapshooter Hunter Cockerill

Best Touch Player JMC Junior Touch Cup Josh Whaanga

Mountain Biking

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Most Improved Player Baxter Cup George Barker

Golf Year 7 & 8 Stroke-play Champion Harvey O’Neill Junior Match-play Champion Watson Barkman Junior Cup Samuel Porter Junior Stroke-play Champion Parents and Friends Cup Baxter Meder

Hockey Most Valuable Primary Player Presented by John Cottle Reuben Allison Max Braithwaite Most Improved Primary Player Sam Lawson Most Improved Year 9 & 10 Player Bayne Cup Billy Dougherty

Year 7 & 8 Swimming Champion W P Edmonds Esq Cup Ewan Beadell

Tim Mackersey Trophy Harry Morshuis

Rowing Award for Outstanding Attitude as a Novice or Cox Leydon Family Cup Zack Cleaver-Donovan

Rugby

Most Promising Year 9 Volleyball Player Amani James

Tennis

Most Valuable Year 10 Volleyball Player Matheson Colquhoun

Junior Single Tennis Champion Presented by L H Patton Esq Max Gaffaney

Most Promising Under 14 Rugby Player Robertson Trophy Billy Dougherty

A E Harraway Lawn Tennis Challenge Bowl For Top Ranked Tennis Player Max Gaffaney

Most Improved U15 Rugby Player Nick Noone Trophy Connor Aldrich

Volleyball

Junior Swimming Champion O C A Cup 1929 Sam Cottier

Year 7 & 8 Singles Tennis Champion Presented by R G Mathias Lucas Townend

Most Promising Junior Rower Kirkwood/Chittock Cup Mark Smith

College Award for Fairest Player Charlie Breen

Waterpolo Most Improved Year 7 & 8 Waterpolo Player Turner Family Cup Jacob Struthers Most Promising Year 9 & 10 Waterpolo Player Turner Family Cup Jackson McEwan

Contribution to Junior Tennis Don Brooks Award Jed Nevill

Sailing Top Sailor in the Junior School Robert Murray Memorial Cup Oliver Bary

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Cultural Groups & Clubs While some found lockdown challenging, I found it a breeze. I liked getting up 8:55, 5 minutes before school and finishing all my school work by 11am. Then I could relax until lunch and head out on the farm to give dad a hand. After we finished our jobs on the farm, we headed home to Mum’s wonderful home baking or cooking. After a mean feed, Dad and I would head out for a hunt for a fallow buck.

It made my lockdown experience the best time I had in a long time.

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GATEWAY 2020 Tools, Trials, Tests and Triumphs

The Gateway programme has a place in the College academic pathways that enables our students to learn about the role of trades in the community. We have students focusing on carpentry and building, diesel mechanics, and plumbing. Next year, we are looking at adding farming as a pathway too.

We have received excellent support from trainers within the mechanical and building and construction industry training organisations (ITOs). These trainers meet on site to talk with the students, offer support and ensure that the students are meeting their obligations within the programme.

To complement the specific industry booklets that the students worked through, we introduced learning and assessments on the topics of Teams and Leadership. The goal was to develop the student’s sense of their role they should play when they work within a team. But also to understand what typical leadership styles they may encounter in the workforce.

Learning about health and safety and first aid were significant parts of the learning this year too. The students had trips down to Site Safe in town and other schools for longer courses. The learning from these courses was one thing, but the additional NCEA credits certainly put smiles on the student’s faces.

It is obvious, to most, that you should not use a saw to hammer in a nail. So, understanding the

importance of using the right tool for the right job in the right way was stressed to the students.

The students appreciated the other training opportunities like driving a fork-lift, barista coffee making, chainsaw skills, that were provided to gain extra NCEA credits in recognition of this learning.

The best part of the year came during the work

“The best part of the year came during the work experience placements for the students” experience placements for the students - time on the tools and learning from those in the know was invaluable to our students. Thank you to Brent Lucas Building, Caldwell and Highstead Building, John Oskam Building and JJ Massey for giving our students these work experience opportunities.

A big thank you is required for Tori Fleming who organised the placements during the year and the numerous courses that the students were able to attend.

CHESS Chess this year has been impacted by Covid, like many things, but some events have still been able to run. Notably, the Otago regional school teams competition was held on the 1st of August. In this, the John McGlashan A team got 3rd (beaten only by Otago Boys and Logan Park), which would have qualified them for the South Island Championships had it not been cancelled. Meanwhile, the B team still did quite well, considering that they were one player short.

The only other competitive event we participated in was the Timaru exchange. This was a clear win to John McGlashan by 13 games to 3.

Chess Club has been running whilst school has been on, on each Tuesday and Thursday lunchtime, with around 4-10 boys turning up to play a couple of games. Ms Harris took over management of the club after Mrs Veitch left. As no year 7 or 8 players have expressed interest in chess, we have been unable to enter a team into the Intermediate competition, which is something that we would like to change in the next few years.

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DEBATING This year has been a big one for debating at the college with numerous achievements despite Covid throwing a spanner in the works.

The largest achievement this year was the A squads third place finish in the Dunedin schools’ competition, narrowly missing out on a chance to compete in the final after a close debate with King’s High School.

The B squad also had a great year finishing strong having learned a lot that they will be able to use next year.

Two teams also attended the Otago Regionals at the start of the year, both finishing well. Ben Monaghan was selected for the Otago Development team.

Although the A teams placing was impressive the greatest highlight of this year was the Teachers vs Students Debate which attracted a record crowd.

The battle took place in the library with a panel of old boys returning to judge. Many interesting ideas were shared on the moot of whether 17-year-olds should be sent into the wilderness for a year before returning to civilisation. The highlight of this being whether or not Jonathan Brook would be eaten by a Kiwi. It was

this and other groundbreaking arguments from the students that won the debate something that will undoubtedly weigh on Mr Schaumann’s mind for the rest of his life.

“the students won the debate something that will undoubtedly weigh on Mr Schaumann’s mind for the rest of his life” As a consequence of the Year 13s leaving, there is a large pool of fresh talent looking to make a move into the A-team next year. With this in mind, hopefully next years’ team can make it into the finals again.

There is no doubt debating has a bright future at the college and I look forward to seeing what the future brings.

Ned Hancox

JAZZ BAND

Covid has impacted music and live performance not gaining an overall placing in the festival, Alex more than most areas of life, but that hasn’t stopped Hopgood and Joe Mu both gained individual awards the John McGlashan College Jazz Band from creating for their performances.. great music and sharing their talents with the The band will perform at the senior prize-giving community wherever possible this year. Ross Kane ceremony this year, sending our students off from a has continued to direct and lead the group to a very crazy year with Mark James’ ‘Hooked on a Feeling’ high standard, with them being the largest youth jazz and James Lord Pierpont’s ‘Jingle Bells’. The John ensemble amongst Dunedin secondary schools.

McGlashan College Jazz Band and the rest of the This year, the group consisted of William Tong, Xavier Music Department look forward to some normality Edmond, William Loe, Edward Diaz-Farron, David being restored next year and sharing our music with Song, Joshua Grieve, and Sebastian Ferro in the Horn you more frequently.

Section, with newcomers Emilio Ghosh-Novero and Steven McNulty Miro Williams joining the Rhythm Section alongside Harold Gao, Joe Mu and Alex Hopgood. Unfortunately the end of 2020 sees long-time members Joe and Alex leave the group as they move onto tertiary education.

Their contributions to the group and music within the school have been highly valued.

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THEATRE SPORTS

Each year you read a report in the McGlashan the ability to engage with the performers and even Magazine from energetic students who partake in give offers is an exciting opportunity to connect improv sessions on a weekly basis, but do you really with theatre onstage. “The opportunity for drama know what it is to play Theatresports? Also, is it really students to play and create improvisationally has a sport? Important questions to be asked! been widely documented by drama theorists and The International Theatresports Institute describes practitioners as a vital opportunity for students to Theatresports™ as being “teams of improvisers who harmonise and understand the world around them. compete against each other for points awarded by a Young people accomplish this by taking on different panel of judges. Teams issue challenges to each other roles to explore unknown situations, to expand and judges are looking for how well the improvisers their intellectual capacity for creative and critical perform in terms of narrative, technique, and thought, insight, rumination, playing, being, viewing, entertainment. Judges can also dole out penalties, as empathizing, and encountering an abundance of well as honking a horn at their discretion and throw a improvised roles and situations. Improvisation opens team off stage for being boring”. The Oxford Dictionary an effective and powerful medium for young people defines sport as “an activity involving physical exertion to create an independent and personal narrative and skill in which an individual or a team competes and exposition” (Young, 1998). The most important against another or others for entertainment”, elements of participating in a form like Theatresports therefore Theatresports is most definitely a sport, as is that “Improvisation is an interactive, communal, it contains both the physical and competitive aspects creative process that forces young people to live ‘in of sport. the moment’, to take risks, make choices, and to Developed by director Keith Johnstone in Calgary, exercise their creative sensibilities of both ‘self’ and Canada, in 1977, the concept of Theatresports ‘other’. (Young, 1998). Theatresports is a theatre originated in Johnstone’s observations of techniques form grounded in 21st Century Learning (developing used in professional wrestling to generate heat, creative, cooperative, collaborative, and critical or audience reaction. As an audience member, thinking skills) - something which students need now 115

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more than ever! If you are keen to come and hone these skills and make new friends, we are always on the lookout for new college members, especially at a junior level.

“...the ability to engage with the performers and even give offers is an exciting opportunity to connect with theatre onstage.”

This year has been particularly hard on the performing arts, with the events surrounding Covid-19. Arts opportunities have been decimated and our students have found all their Theatresports and drama events have been cancelled. After such a successful year last year, winning the South Island Schools Theatresports Trophy at The Court Theatre in Christchurch (taking the cup out of the Christchurch area for the first time in over 30 years), it was quite a disappointing year development-wise. However, our time at college within our ‘McGlashan bubble’ has also created many new opportunities for the team in terms of being able to focus on improving and honing skills. We are hopeful in 2021 that the performing arts will rise again, stronger than ever before. We look forward to building our skills and getting back into competition with schools in and around Dunedin and beyond. If you are keen to join us, come and chat with Tama Anthony-Whigham (our Captain), or myself. We hope to see some fresh new faces into the fold next year!

“Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre.” -- Viola Spolin, Improvisation for the Theatre, 1963 Kimberley Fridd, TiC Drama & Film Department, Theatresports Coordinator.

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PREFECTS’ REPORT

As with everything else in 2020, Covid-19 was responsible for disrupting the Prefect calendar. After beginning the year with bright ambitions and a couple of successful funding applications, we were forced to place everything on hold for most of Term Two. However, before this, in February we attended a Prefect’s retreat as a group, in which we developed our collaborative and communication skills. Over two days we came together as a group and identified roles and

students began to organise themselves, which we saw as evidence of success.

At the time of writing, we are currently working out how to spend the funding grants mentioned previously, and we plan to purchase sports equipment to further encourage these outdoor lunchtime activities.

Another key event of the year was the Formal, brilliantly organised by Billy Ellwood that happened just after we came out of Lockdown in July.

We also participated in a number of sporting “Over two days we came together events against the Prefects from other schools, such netball against St. Hilda’s (a victory), basketball as a group and identified roles and as against Columba (also a victory), and dodgeball targets for the year, which we set against Otago Boys (which we’ll call a draw), among others. about implementing” To wrap up the year we are helping out with junior socials and sorting out some outdoor sports targets for the year, which we set about implementing equipment as part of our contribution to the College. immediately. We decided to focus on getting students outside and active during lunchtimes, and we began Krishan Luxmanan and Ben Monaghan with facilitating a number of football and basketball games at lunch on Fridays. Eventually, the younger 117

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We’ve been blessed with some amazing tutors on the drumming and the piping sides and they really pushed us to the level we are now.

In February the band competed in the Octagonal Day Competition, it was our first “real” competition as a band and I think you could guess that we were nervous. We went home that day with a shield for “Most Improved Band” which might not have been the most “prestigious” award but for our goals this year I think that we could not have done better.

In March the band travelled to Invercargill for the National Pipe Band Competition. We went, not to try

and win (would’ve been nice though) but to try and take that step to make the McGlashan band the band that it used to be. Going to Nationals was especially good for the band because most of the bands from Nationals consisted of adults, and competing with them was no mean feat.

The band consists of pipers and drummers from schools all around Dunedin but we have a few McGlashan boys learning on chanters and they’ll be on pipes before we know it.

We are yet to decide if we are travelling to the Pipe Band Nationals next year but either way we will be smashing out the tunes for any competitions we will be attending. This year has really been a highlight for the band because I think that we settled into a rhythm that will only just get better.

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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS The 2020 International Year Group started with 15 new students hailing from Japan, Hong Kong, China, Korea and Thailand, joining our already culturally diverse community of 23 students.

There was a real buzz amongst the students this year as we started the programme with Orientation which focussed more on getting to know the new students and letting some of our veteran Internationals take the lead with coordinating games and activities, which resulted in a relaxed and fun environment.

Joe Mu started the year as International Prefect and really stepped up, taking his role as ‘Team Leader’ & role model for future international leaders very seriously. He did a fantastic job, even with the disruption of Covid-19 putting an end to several projects.

“We were so impressed and grateful to the John McGlashan College families who opened their homes and hearts to our boarding house internationals” Towards the end of Term One we were all faced with the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic which saw the cancellation of our much anticipated Ichikawa School visit and the reality of going into lockdown.

Three of our International Students decided to go home to be with their families and could never have predicted they would be denied entry back into New Zealand for the remainder of the year and into 2021.

Cyrus Leung (Year 13), Bill Wang (Year 11) and Jeni Zhao (Year 9), we commend you on your commitment and dedication in continuing your studies with John McGlashan College online, this cannot have been easy. A special mention to Cyrus who, in Year 13, is on the homestretch towards finishing his IB qualification.

We wish you all the best and we look forward to welcoming Jeni and Bill back as soon as possible.

This was an extremely difficult period for all our students, especially being so far away from loved ones during such an unsettling time. We were so impressed and grateful to the John McGlashan College families who opened their homes and hearts to our boarding house internationals, who had to relocate at short notice. This, along with the amazing support and care 119

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A very heartfelt thank you to all of you.

A few more weeks at school and then it was the mid term holidays. To give the Internationals something

to look forward to after a tough term we took them Paintballing!

In Term Three, we said goodbye to Richard Mountain, the ESOL teacher, who started a new position at an international school in Thailand and we welcomed Shannon Small who impressively slotted into his new position and swiftly acquainted himself with his students. Term Three also saw the cancellation of our highly anticipated International Ski Trip and Food Day. It was amazing to see the students smiling and staying positive in what were very trying times without the usual fun activities to keep things upbeat and add a lot of value to their time here in Dunedin.

As the end of the year approaches we are farewelling Year 13 students Roy Feng, Cyrus Leung and Joe Mu who will continue on with tertiary education. David Park (Year 9) will head back to Korea to join his family after a long separation. We are also saying goodbye to Alpha Komin (Year 10), who initially was only enrolled for half a year, then another year, and finally extended his studies for a further two terms - we are working on him for a further extension or at least regular visits in the future.

We would also like to acknowledge other students we farewelled this year Jim Cai, David Gan, Ackery Hu, Calvin Min and Yanhao Li. We wish them all the best in their future.

Colleen O’Connor International Student Manager

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STUDENT COUNCIL 2020 has been one of the most notably disappointing years for the Student Council. This year we had planned on teaming up with the 2019 Student Council, led by Harry Tourelle, to be able to afford a more significant art piece. This and many other ideas were unfortunately interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown.

Our first fundraiser began with the BBQ on Athletics Day, this was very successful. Without the help of Pip, Mr McLean or the boys we wouldn’t have been able to produce an enjoyable event.

This year only the Year 7 & 8 social was able to go ahead because of Covid restrictions. This provided the boys an opportunity to meet the girls from our sister schools, Columba College and St Hilda’s Collegiate.

The senior boys, along with Duncan McBeath, did an amazing job in setting and cleaning up the event.

Thanks to Billy Ellwood for organising the event and to Bailey Phizacklea for the D&B and TikTok songs.

“... although ideas this year haven’t come to fruition, we hope that next year we can adapt and carry on.”

Our major fundraiser, the school socks, was initially started by last year’s Student Council. These socks are made in Dunedin and are 100% merino. They are still available to be purchased at the school office and will carry on as a fundraiser through the years.

In the fourth term we decided to team up with the 2020 prefects to sell sausages in order to fundraise for a concrete table tennis table. This will be the 2020 school leavers gift and the Student Council will be donating some funds towards it.

Overall, this year wasn’t a complete disaster for the Student Council. We did manage to purchase a small Clark Esplin preparatory drawing that has a great historical significance to the school. We have carried on from previous years and although ideas this year haven’t come to fruition we hope that next year we can adapt and carry on. We will be leaving a significant sum in the account for the Student Council of 2021 to hopefully purchase a more significant piece of artwork.

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TOWN BELT KAITIAKI

The International Baccalaureate students are again The DCC contractors met at our trapping site in leading the way to eradicate possums in the town the Town Belt in September to explain the basics belt. According to the Department of Conservation, of health and safety, and what to look for in a forest possums eat buds, flowers, fruit/berries and nectar, when starting trapping. Possums have trees that they which means they compete with native birds and play in and trees that they feed on. Possums also look reptiles for food sources. The growth and life-cycle of for the easiest way to get from one to the other on the a tree or plant is significantly affected when all parts ground. Once we found the right feeding tree close to of it are eaten - which is what possums tend to do. a playing tree, we set our traps. We were amazed at They have also been known to eat bird-life such as the the successful hit rate of these traps.

Kokako and Kea. The IB students have taken on the We had a late start to our trapping season in 2020 responsibility to care for the local flora and fauna. One due to Covid-19. Ideally, we would have started in April, of our slogans within the IBDP and CAS programme however, since setting up in the middle of September, at the college is “See a need, fill a need.” We are we have caught 20 possums - not bad going for a little conducting principled action to make a difference in over one month. our community.

In 2021, the next cohort of IB students will continue This year, we have purchased our own Trapinator the work done by this year’s IB cohort. We will extend traps so that we can monitor, check, and set these on the trapping and kaitiaki of the town-belt with the a long-term basis - therefore committing long-term Year 11 Deep Learning cohort who will be trapping to the Kaitiaki (guardianship) of the town belt. rodents in the town-belt.

We have partnered with the Dunedin City Council, A huge thanks goes to Catherine Hosted at City Otago Regional Council, Predator Free 2050, City Sanctuary, the trapping contractors at the DCC and Sanctuary, and the Department of Conservation in the team at CMI Springs in Christchurch who provided this trapping initiative. These partnerships mean our the Trapinator traps. work is supporting the work of these other agencies.

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What I liked about lockdown was that we were so much further ahead in our work than a lot of other schools and everything was far more organised straight away. The hardest thing about lockdown was that the weekends tended to feel like another day of school with no real break. Teachers did an amazing job making sure we stayed ahead; on multiple occasions they answered questions late at night when we had work due.

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The Otago Secondary Schools’ Championships were held in March with 24 McGlashan competitors attending and 15 of our boys achieving top-three finishes.

Simon Cavanagh showed his versatility on both the track and field by coming first in the shot put and also the 800m, James Patterson threw his way into first place in the discus while also getting third in shot put.

Stanley McClure launched himself into first place in the triple jump, just narrowing beating Caleb Dixon, while also getting a second in the long jump. Caleb later redeemed himself by winning the high jump.

We then had an exciting 400m final won by Dom ‘the bomb’ Morrison, robbing Tom Sullivan of his first-ever Otago Secondary School win by only 0.1s.

Jed Thompson-Fawcett also placed forth. Matheson Colquhoun did very well in the middle distance races earning a first in the 1500m and the 3000m while also getting second in the 800m. Josh Hou copped a first in the 800m and 1500m with Harry (Turbo) McKenzie not too far behind in the 800 after putting in

a clinical performance against his arch-rival George Bates from King’s High School. To add to the middle distance domination from McGlashan, we had Angus Loe showing off to his fans to take out the 1500m and the 3000m. Liam Wilson put on an inspiring display in the long jump and the 200m. Then in relays, we had the defending national champions slaughtering the competition in the 4x400m with the Under-16s following in their footsteps to get a second.

Many of these boys were very disappointed to have not been able to attend South Islands due to coronavirus. However, a small group of boys will be travelling to Nationals in Tauranga in December with hopes of great results and becoming back to back national champions in the 4x400. Good luck boys!

Many thanks to Mr Jennings and Ms Burton for the organisation behind the scenes.

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The John McGlashan First XI Cricket team had a valuable season with lots of learning experiences and development. The First XI was grateful to have the addition of Adam Gain coaching the team for the 2019 season.

The 2019/20 season started with pre-season games against Kaikorai Senior/Second Grade teams.

This was a great learning experience for all the players with two intra-squad T20s being played. We had a tough start to the season on artificial wickets with losses to Kaikorai Seconds and Taieri Seconds.

The first win of the season was against University Grange Seconds with McGlashan making 188/10, the result of strong partnerships in the middle order. The McGlashan bowling cartel replied with an excellent display of bowling which resulted in University being bowled out for 88.

The First XI had some quality star performances, especially with Year 10 Henry Scott taking 9/36 off eight overs. The young off-spinner bowled incredibly against Albion and was extremely unlucky not to get the ten-wicket bag.

The start of the 2020 season for the First XI got off to a shaky start with a loss against a quality Green Island side. McGlashan provided a solid bowling display. However, runs were hard to come by. The First XI played exceptionally well, and there were significant developments in the team and all players.

However, the desired results were hard to come by.

New coaching addition, Matt Hunter, joined the team after a good stint with the Kaikorai Seniors.

Matt’s experience and valuable insight is extremely exciting to have around the team and the First XI is very grateful.

The first look at the John McGlashan First XI for 2020/2021 was extremely promising with excellent patches of play in both McCullum Cup games. The first day consisted of T20 games against King’s High School and Wakatipu High School. In both games, McGlashan just fell short. However, both games came down to the wire. The future for McGlashan cricket is extremely promising, and the First XI looks forward to competitive games ahead.

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Nicholas Friedlander Archie McRae Charles Engelbrecht Jack Cotton Max Hore Daniel Burnett Tom Duffy Krishan Luxmanan Eamon Flannery Jonty Light

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Daniel Joint Henry Bowering Simon Cavanagh Charlie Light Ben Carswell Max Porter Will Hancox Riley McRae Morris Gordon

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2020 has been an eventful year. There have been air. On top of all that, you get to spend time in the wildfires, anti-racism movements, countries teetering great outdoors, which earlier in this year was a bit of on the brink of all-out war, and to top it all off, we have a rare commodity. Naturally, those who enjoyed the seen the worst pandemic in over 100 years.

Kepler and Ohau tramps of 2019 leapt at the chance However … despite all of this, Ms Bell, Mrs Smith to do it more often when Ms Bell proposed it to us, and Mr Cartwright have found the time to create the and thus, the JMCTC was formed. Our first tramp of new John McGlashan College Tramping Club, or the year was the Millennium Track, which stretches JMCTC for short.

8km along the river out to Taieri Mouth.

It all started last year on one of the Year 10 camps, It was a huge success. The scenery was beautiful, where a group of 30-odd students and teachers and the weather was about as good as it gets in March, walked the Kepler Track. Among them, a few were so we were off to a winner. Unfortunately, due to time accomplished hikers, but for most, it was their first- constraints, we didn’t manage to make the whole ever tramp. Now you might think “walking endlessly 16km loop, but everyone had a great time regardless. up the side of a mountain doesn’t sound like my idea In the weeks and months following the Millennium of fun’” and that’s ok. Some people came away from Track, we have done day walks up Mt Cargill and the that tramp not wanting to see a hut or back-country Pineapple Track, some of us even competing in a meal ever again, but some came out utterly hooked. Rogaine (a mix of tramping and orienteering) which If you think about it, what’s not to like? There are was a new experience for all involved. Every tramp rolling hills of tussock, towering beech forests, snow- we’ve done so far has been spectacular, with amazing capped mountains, and a truck-load of clean, fresh views and great conditions, but what you have around 129

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you is only part of the picture. The more important part is who you have around you, and that is what makes the Tramping Club so great. You could be on top of the highest mountain, or overlooking the most picturesque landscape in all the world, but it could still be made better by being surrounded by your mates.

Your friends trudge with you through the lows and celebrate with you through the highs, but most of the time you just hang out together and enjoy yourselves trekking through our breathtaking backyard.

We have another tramp planned for December 2020: A four-night trip to Tuatapere to do the Humpridge Track. Widely regarded as being harder than the Great Walks, it’s sure to be a challenge. It’ll be the first multi-day tramp that the club does together, and everyone who’s taking part can’t wait. We do a bit of everything in the JMCTC, so whether it’s the stunning Millennium Track, an invigorating Rogaine, or the soul-crushing Hump Ridge Track, there’s bound to be something for you.

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Jacob Hall Thomas Rasmussen Joshua Chagnon Tom Dyer Joshua Penno

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Ethan Hudson Ruairi Gillon Eddie Scott Zack Gallagher Rian Gillon Leon Kaan

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Hayden Phillips Luke Miller Leon Kaan Hugo Maher Daniel Hudson William Moyle

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Haydn Finlay Charlie Pearson Jock Duncan Angus Loe Jack Steele Max Porter Adam McNab

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Oscar Ross Leo Han Wei-Hun Loh Santino Hood Luke Pullar Lachlan Crumpton

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Samuel Porter Baxter Meder William McLauchlan Arthur Accorsi Liam Barron Max Porter Henry Cargill Caleb Le Cong Callum White Ethan Hudson Hugo Maher Oliver Beadell Daniel Hudson

Golf, what a year!

With this year being the most unforgettable year for all sports, we saw golf become increasingly popular. For the last seven years, I have played on the McGlashan Golf team. The sport has always been underrated, and many would rather play rugby.

However, this year I have seen more people play golf from the school then I have in the last six years combined. For the overall sport, we saw numbers rise into the 100s for Dunedin club members from Johnnies. Golf is not a sport where you have to play one position; it is a game that requires countless hours of practice and time.

This year was the end of an era for William Mclauchlan and myself, Callum White, as we finish up at McGlashan.

Over the last seven years, we have been very committed to our sport, getting up at 6.30am every morning and practising. Even though William has only played for the school for the last three years, he has put more effort in than any many other sportsmen at

McGlashan.

At our first tournament of the season, we had the secondary schools’ event, with teams such as Otago Boys’, King’s High School, Taieri, Dunstan, Wakatipu all being in the event. It was a hard battle. This year, we had two teams in the event, and we had a strong chance with our A-team. The second team consisted of the upcoming young golfers who will look to take over next year. In this team, there was Caleb Le Cong, Liam Barron, Max Porter and Sam Porter, who are all looking to make the top team next year. Sam brought home the best net prize at the event, which was an outstanding achievement.

Our top team saw Arthur Acorsi, Baxter Meder, William McLauchlan and Callum White locked in a battle with Wakatipu for the title. Arthur at number four, came in with a solid score of 80. Baxter, who looks to take the number one position and new captain next year, shot a 78 at the age of 14. With both Will and I still out on the course, we realised the finish was going to be close. William made a late

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charge to post a score of a 75, meaning we were only five shots behind the in-form Wakatipu team. I also made a late charge, having a score of 3 under 68, but unfortunately found out we came one shot short of winning the Otago Secondary Schools’ Competition.

The individual standings meant Will came in forth for the gross with 75, I won the overall gross with 68. The team placed second, beating the more fancied teams of Otago Boys’ and King’s High School.

With Covid-19 causing all New Zealand events to be cancelled, we had no tournaments until the selection for the NZ Under-19 Tournament, where this year Will was selected for the first time and I held my spot for the fifth year in the team. Next year, Will and I move on to University, which will see the younger boys step up to the team.

I hope to see more boys get out and enjoy the golf course that we are privileged to have next door, and as some teachers know, it can be a distraction at times.

Always the game.

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John McGlashan rowing once again achieved After a successful Club Championships, we headed incredible results this season. Fresh-faced Thomas into what we called “the hole” - 8 weeks of training Cummack took over the Head Coach position this that was intense and had no regattas to break it up. season and led us strongly to where we needed to be. This led to some very grumpy and tired boys as efforts With the new novices joining the team, we set out for to stay motivated became very hard. what was a successful season. With the few regattas Fortunately, we got through it and were on our in 2019 showing us how we stood compared to other way to the South Island Secondary Schools’ Rowing schools, we learned very quickly what we needed to Championships. Here we once again achieved great work on. results with two golds and five silvers, which placed As 2020 came around, the training became us as the 10th best rowing school in the South Island noticeably more challenging and more frequent. and the best in Otago.

We began with a week-long training camp at Lake Although this success gave us once again a fresh Dunstan. From there, we started gaining the results burst of energy for the build into Maadi Cup, a sense we were after, which led to us being one of the most of uncertainty was present about whether it would successful rowing clubs at the South Island Club go ahead. On the 17th of March, Maadi Cup was Championships in Twizel, where we earned ourselves cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This led to a three gold medals, three silver, and three bronze. This squad of boys upset and frustrated, wondering if the success gave us all a drive to retain what we had, and seven months of 5 am wake ups were worth it or not. a need to continue the intensity of training.

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training with eight boys being selected for the Otago winter development programme.

To wrap up the winter we then went on to have Angus Kenny, Mark Smith, Cameron Leydon, Freddy Wright, and Jack Pearson selected for the Otago Inter-provincial team which raced in Twizel against other regions and won overall.

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The JMC Senior A touch team had a very successful season in the 2019-2020 season.

In December 2019, we attended our very first New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Touch Nationals (NZSS), which was a huge step up for us boys who had previously only participated at the annual South Island Tournament. Facing a new level of competition, we knew that we were going to have to leave it all out on the field every game and work harder than we had ever done before. After a tough three days of touch, we finished our campaign with a 5-2 win over Hutt International Boys’ School and ended up placing 13th.

This was a fantastic result for our team, as this was the first time coming to this tournament and having a core of boys who are in Year 11 and 12 meant that we are only going to continue to grow as a touch team.

Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the South Island Tournament in March 2020 was unable to go ahead, meaning that we had to end the season early.

The majority of the team have been given a chance

to represent Otago in the junior age groups, with 7 of our team playing in the Under-18 boys’ section for the 2020/21 season. A special mention goes to Jack Timu, who was chosen for the New Zealand Under-16 boys’ team in 2020.

Our team is now looking towards the end of the year, where we are attending the 2020 NZSS Touch Nationals. The team is excited about returning to this tournament, knowing that we are capable of a higher placing.

A huge thank you is owed to coaches Scott Turner and Ashley Hayden, manager Tony Sycamore and Sports Director Troy Jennings. Nothing that we have achieved over the last season would have been possible without the help of these four, so the time and effort that has been put into this team is much appreciated.

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In a year of disruption and uncertainty resulting from Covid-19, water polo, like all sports, had to be suspended before the season could end. Just a week out from the South Island Tournament that was going to be attended by the Firsts in Dunedin, the nation went into lockdown, and this officially marked the end of the Term One season for all teams.

The Firsts had lost more than half of last year’s team to Year 13 leavers of 2019, which meant we started 2020 with a very young and relatively inexperienced side. However, we began with a couple of impressive results, beating both the King’s and Otago Boys’ First teams in two narrow 6-5 victories that showed we would not be a pushover. Some of our younger players stood up well to their older and significantly larger opponents, and some even made it onto the scoresheet.

These results boosted our confidence for the South Island Tournament that we expected to attend, but as King’s and Otago Boys’ are the only other teams in the First Division, these victories did not stand for long; we then lost to both teams in close but decisive games that proved the value of their experience. Before we could retaliate again, however, Covid-19 struck, and that was the end of water polo for a while.

At the time of writing, the Term Four season is about to begin again, and both the A and the B teams are confident that we can find success. With several Year 7s, 8s, and 9s in the senior teams, we will have a number of highly experienced and seasoned veterans in a few years.

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The volleyball season is full of highlights but one of the main ones is having fun with your mates on a Friday night and getting out there and trying your best. The team finished in the top three of the local competition. Another highlight is the tournaments which are really fun because you get to see teams from all around New Zealand and this challenges all of us because volleyball is a big team sport.

Hamish McIntyre One of the main highlights for McGlashan volleyball is the South Island Secondary Schools’ Tournament.

This was a great opportunity that helped the team to improve their game while also improving their skills.

A few juniors went up to play in the team which was a great opportunity for them also.

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Thomas Meder Sam Gradwell Toby Dean Harley Herbert Jack Cotton Mr S McDonald Jack Hazlett Max Hore Harry McKenzie Liam Casey Charlie Breen Levi James Mr J Annison Mr R Cotton Joshua Stevens Billy Ellwood Will Duffy Lachie Crowle Scott Perkins Mr James Nation

The 2020 season for the First XI Hockey team was full of great successes, challenges and growth for the team. Losing a large chunk of our team due to Year 13’s leaving, our team was a younger side. However, I soon found out this was no flaw. A slightly shaky start to the Dunedin comp soon transformed to confident wins over Otago Boys’, and close games against the No1 ranked in the country, King’s High School.

The younger boys, along with the rest of the team, continually stepped up. We fought our way to the final, after some hard-fought and must-win games.

Coming off a massive win in the Dunedin Comp final against King’s last year, we knew that the game would be challenging, King’s would bring it, and expectations were through the roof. The boys had full ‘belief and hunger’ but unfortunately were outmatched on the night, losing 3-1.

Covid-19 ruined our chance at giving the Rankin Cup Tournament a crack. Instead, we attended a South Island tournament with 12 teams. There was no mucking around, and before we knew it, our two

games had been played on the first day, narrowly losing both of them. Tournament games are never easy, especially when put in a pool of death. We went on to win the next match against Cashmere but lost the following to Timaru Boy’s putting us in a lower position than we would have liked. Our mood stayed positive, and we promised to finish the tournament strong.

We played Nelson Boys in our forth, beating them convincingly, boosting the team’s morale significantly.

Our last game was against Southland Boys’ who didn’t stand a chance against our built-up anger and hype, and we ended up winning 4-1.

I want to thank the boys for a good season and wish them good luck for next year. This will be the last ever John McGlashan season for five of us: Billy Ellwood, Scott Perkins, Harry McKenzie, Harley Herbert and Will Duffy. Thanks to the coaches and managers and supporters that kept us going throughout the season.

Will Duffy

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The ‘Mighty Seconds’ seem to get stronger and hockey, who has built hockey in the school to such stronger every year, and it was evident from the very a high standard, culture and depth that teams like beginning 2020 was going to be one of the best Second the Seconds are of such a quality that they can XIs ever, given the quality and depth in the team. perform and beat first XIs and compete in national Wanting to build on the previous years second place tournaments. Thank you! in the local tournament and only one loss for the We hope next year to continue to improve even season in the local Second Division competition we more, particularly on tournament, and defend our achieved just that, not losing any games and winning local title. the 12 team competition in a very close and hardGlen Clark, Manager. fought final against the highly polished and welldrilled JMC Under-15 team in an intense shootout.

Some honourable mentions: firstly Caleb Le Cong, who has captained the team for three years, was a strong leader, top goal scorer and powerhouse of the team. Tom Proctor, who co-captained and played with fantastic dedication and solid defence, Angus Kenny, another long time Second XI player, who was the enthusiasm of the team and Nick Friedlander in goal who did an outstanding job keeping our goal relatively untouched by opposition shots.

The biggest credit, however, must go to the fantastic coach Mr Michael Swanson who gave up much of his time and wisdom to sculpting the team into a professional, dedicated and highly skilled group. We are VERY grateful.

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The 2020 Under-15 team was looking good heading was lifted once again, and we set out about winning into our first game against the Taieri College XI. It was this tournament instead of Tanner. a challenging game, but JMC came out with the win We had a tough first game against Cromwell 2-1. We continued on training for our second game College, and for many players in our team, it was a where we came up against the JMC Second XI. This was new experience for them playing tournament hockey a tough match, but the boys played well, unfortunately and came as quite a shock. Unfortunately, we went going down 3-2’, our goals coming from Baxter Meder down to Cromwell 4-1 with some impressive drag and Liam Barron. A couple of weeks went by with flicks from them that sealed the game. another two wins against South Otago XI 3-1 and then Our second game was also tough, but the boys a win against Tokomairiro 2-1, goals coming from Nick picked themselves up, and we came away with a very Casey and Max Porter. Our sixth game came around close win 3-2 against St Peters, and maybe that was quickly with a match against Bayfield High School. It all it took for the team to bring themselves to the level was a good game, but the Under-15 team came out of hockey required. on top with a 6-0 win. Baxter Meder scored the first of Our third game was against Riccarton where many hat tricks for the season and other goals going we came away with an 8-0 win, the second biggest to Nick Casey and Adam McNab. score from any game in the tournament and some Next up was the Timaru Boys Exchange. much-needed points for McGlashan. We finished the Unfortunately, due to Covid-19 restrictions, the tournament up in sixth but it was a great effort from Under-15 team could not go to their usual tournament the boys. in Hamilton. The boys were all gutted, as one of our It was now coming to the end of the season, and main goals right from the start was to win Tanner we had semi finals against Taieri College First XI. Cup. However, all hope was not lost when we got We won that 3-1, putting us into the final against the news that we had been accepted to play in the the JMC Second XI. The boys were all fizzed up championship tournament in the same week as we heading into the game, and it was a tight match with were supposed to be at Tanner Cup. So the team spirit the boys dominating right throughout the game but 148

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the Seconds came back with a late goal making it 1-1 as full time came around. Then it was time for shootouts. First up was the Seconds who scored their first shootout and Finn Aitken scored, then another one went in the back of the net. Nick Casey was next up with an unfortunate shot hitting the crossbar. And so the Seconds won, just.

I would like to say a huge thank you to Jolene Casey, Lukas Dickison, Lou Schell and Grant Porter our tournament helper. Thank you for all your help. over the year. It was a great season with a great team.

It was a strange time for the John McGlashan Blue result didn’t matter as much as the feeling of just hockey team, what with being delayed by Covid-19, loving the game. We only won a few games in the and with a mix of experienced and new players coming whole season, but by our last game, everyone seemed together to form a team. It took several games before to know how everyone else liked to play and the score we started to learn how each of us played hockey and lines were closer. We were more focused, and we how we could play together as a unit. wanted the ball more than we had at the start of the Over the course of the winter, I found myself season. growing my hockey skills as the season progressed. I Honestly, I thought this season was great. I enjoyed started the season not feeling very confident, but over the games, even if we lost more than we won. I realized multiple weekends during lockdown with my dad, we that any group of people, given time, can gel with each worked on improving some of my skills and I grew to other to the benefit of everyone else. At the end of the be a more reliable defender. Alongside our Tuesday season, I was left with anticipation of what next year games, we had practice on Sundays where we learned has in store for us. Hopefully, some of us can continue other skills from game strategies and set-pieces to playing hockey together through the summer season. one-on-one drills. Our team would have definitely Finally, I want to thank our two coaches, Dave and benefited more from having a better turn-out to the Fraser, who complemented each other well using practices. Towards the end of the season, we did have their different experiences to work with us to be better most players there, and we played better for it during players and to enjoy the sport more. It was a pleasure the Tuesday game. being part of the team this year, and I hope you both As each player became more confident, and we decide to coach a team next year as well. started to work together better, I felt that the team began to enjoy playing with each other more, and the 149

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Lachlan Crumpton Jack Steele Thomas Meder Joshua Stevens Jack Sandford Gus McSkimming Lachie Crowle Ewan Beadell Oliver Hamilton Angus Loe Oscar Ross Samuel Ussher Angus McGregor

This year JMC Hockey Grey faced Covid-19, and although we couldn’t make a Year 9 X1 a-side hockey team, we are all grateful that we could still have a season in a six-a-side competition.

The Grey team had a great season as we won every game until the finals where we had a challenging, but the close battle against Bayfield and came away second.

We thank the coaches and Mr McDonald for making this season possible. We are also grateful for all of the parents who came and supported us throughout the season.

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George Hancox Josh Thom Sam Sinclair Jack Miller Greg Jones Matthew Ford Enzo Hood Darcy Nevill Aaron Jones George Conner Toby Dean Tom Duffy Ryan McCaughan

when by far the best performance of the season was shown. The team ran like a well-oiled machine as the backs shut out every attacking opportunity their adversaries had, the midfielders took control of the field with great spatial awareness and put through passes to the forwards. Lastly, the forwards found space everywhere, including in the back of the OB’s goal. After an intense final the Thirds came away as champions of their division in the excellent 4-0 win.

All the boys in the team thank Alex for his dedication and hard work coaching the team during the season, as well as the managers of the team itself and McGlashan hockey for making the season possible.

The JMC Reds, who would much rather call themselves the thirds, had a strong season winning all but two games. The side was excellently coached

by Alex Stuart, and this was clear to see with the team’s results and amazing improvements seen in every player throughout the duration of the season.

During the season, the boys in the team would go on to score by far the most goals in their division and only concede two goals, scoring upward of 60.

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The JMC 3 team had a good season with some solid performances on the field, and a great deal of fun had by all. We practised with the JMC 4 team every week, and a key match was when we played each other near the end of the season. Unfortunately, after a close competition, we narrowly lost this battle. Thanks to Toby Dean, Sam Gradwell and Mr McDonald for coaching and managing the team. We are all looking forward to next year’s competition.

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Mr S McDonald Charles Copland Timothy Stevens Oliver Beadell Ollie Rongen Archie Moir Max Nation Finn McDonald

This season was a particularly fantastic one for the JMC 4 Year 7 hockey team. We came in at third place.

We all enjoyed our time playing together as we moved up the results table.

During our time, we had a lot of exciting matches.

But I’m sure our most exciting game was the game against the JMC 3 team. Since JMC teams 3 and 4 practised together, we had times when we were trying to use the same techniques. It was a close game, and our parent supporters raised the suspense with the ‘ooooohhing’ and ‘aaaaahhhing’ that came from the sidelines. My most memorable moment was when Leon from the JMC 3 team lay across the goal to defend it, and Finn gently flicked the ball over him and scored a goal.

Of course, we couldn’t have had such a fantastic season without our fabulous coach: Mr McDonald, who happily gave us his time, advice and skills. And of course, a thank you to the supportive parents driving us to games and practices. Also to our two Year 6 players Max and Finn; we look forward to you joining us at Johnnies next year.

We all improved our skills this season with our committed team turning up to practices each Sunday afternoon. We put this training into our games to come out (mostly) on top.

Oliver Beadell

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Jacob Lawrence Louis Brown Max Braithwaite Fergus Millar Archie McDiarmid Cody Gradwell Daniel O’Brien Sam Lawson

The 2020 intermediate hockey season was a bit of a different one! Six a-side instead of 11 a-side on a half-pitch took some getting used to, having played 11 a-side last year.

However, we enjoyed it just as much, perhaps maybe more. The new format meant that each player got more ball time, skills increased due to the flexibility needed to change between different positions, and we changed from being eight good individual players to being a cohesive unit.

Our season went incredibly well, and JMC finished at the top of the league again, with a 100 goal difference over the second-placed team. The boys worked hard for this success.

The coaching from Melissa Marks was spectacular, and we are grateful to Otago Hockey for opening their facilities as soon as possible after lockdown, allowing us to play. Roll on 2021!

Dan O’Brien

Ben Casey Jayden Toro Luke Miller Archie McDiarmid Caleb Ung Samuel Eason Lochlan Ing-Aram

JMC 2 team were chuffed, as halfway through the season we were put up into the A-grade competition, ending the season with playing off for third and forth, losing to South Otago First XI. JMC 2 worked well as a team and played competitively this year.

The most memorable game was playing against South Otago and winning four goals to three. At that stage, they were higher than us on the leader board.

A memorable moment for Archie was deflecting four goals in a row in one game.

We want to thank Ann Ing-Aram for coaching on game day, being a helpful parent to the team and for supplying us with snacks which was very much appreciated. Thanks to Mr Casey for organizing our games and for coaching us on game day. To Ms Marks, a big thank you for being at all of our practices to help us improve our playing skills.

Last but not least, thank you to all of our parents for supporting us this season.

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Many of the sporting articles will be starting with, “It was an unusual year due to the Covid-19 pandemic,” and it was certainly true for basketball.

With continuing good numbers of competitive players and pre-season plans in place, lockdown struck in March and training was reduced to backyard practice, watching a variety of online coaching material.

It was not until May 13 that we were together again as a basketball group as the country reached Level Two. Eager players (and coaches) got the first runs of the delayed season in at the Edgar Centre while we waited for word on how the season would look in a world emerging from isolation.

Competition play was allowed again after we reached Level One on June 8 and Basketball Otago ran the first grading rounds on June 19, a date that would usually be halfway through the season. Following the holiday break, the season started proper and ran a full ten weeks to the end of September.

Credit and thanks to the Basketball Otago and Edgar Centre staff for organising and running a ‘not-quite-

normal’ competition this year through trying times of limited gathering numbers and no spectators. To complete a full season’s programme across all levels of high school basketball was a fantastic achievement.

At the national level, it wasn’t possible to stage a number of tournaments, with the Junior and Senior South Island Secondary School tournaments the first casualties. These are usually highlights of the basketball calendar, and it was a real shame for the boys to miss the opportunity this year.

This year we had senior and junior training squads and fielded four teams in the competitive grades.

We were unlucky not to have two senior teams in the Premier grade and having two junior teams in the Junior Premier grade was great for the development of our Year 9s. The club continues to build depth in the competition, and it’s pleasing to note that we’re one of the stronger schools in town.

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The Senior Blue team competed in the Premier grade and eased through the grading rounds before a tough run of games into a Nationals qualifying game that was lost.

The season improved from there, with an interschool win against Timaru Boys’ and a fourth placed finish overall.

With no official South Island tournament, we attended a well-supported South Island invitational tournament in Christchurch, recording three wins from six games to make the quarter-finals.

A great end to the season for the team and good experience for the young team that travelled.

Team awards this year were closely fought in all categories, with Sam Hope recognised as team MVP for consistent contributions at both ends of the court.

Most Improved went to Cam Forde, who added an outside shot to his scoring arsenal, and the Unsung Hero award to Mason Calvert who gave a 100% every practice, always provided good support and value coming off the bench.

Karl Andrews Coach

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The Senior Red team were very competitive in the grading rounds and lost a couple of close games to narrowly miss out on a spot in the Premier grade. In the A-Grade competition, they lost only one game to South Otago and reversed this result in the final game of the season to take the title as winners of the grade!

An excellent result for a team that trained hard all season and were well-coached by Cam Jackson.

MVP was awarded to Sam Graamans who was a consistent performer both at training and in games, dominated the paint at both ends of the court and powered the team home with 14 points in the last quarter of the final match. The Most Improved award went to Flynn Cooper-Forster who started the year transitioning from a social mindset but became a leader on the court and routinely scored from turning steals into baskets and running lanes brilliantly.

The Unsung Hero award went to Caleb Moody, who was the leading voice behind everything the team did on the court and always was there to help other players develop and boost team morale. A genuine excellent team man.

Cam Jackson Coach

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Scoring Title – Sam Hope Best Defensive Player – Sam Hope Sixth Man – Tevita Schaaf Most Valuable Player – Sam Graamans Coach of the Year – Cam Jackson Team of the Year – Senior Red

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Under-17 – Anton Stoddard, Cam Forde, Sam Hope, Ben Joseph, Beau Lundy, Hayden Elliot, Oscar Sycamore, Sam Graamans, Solomon Harcombe, Tevita Schaaf, Will Andrews Under-15 – Caleb Forde, Alex Piebenga, Malachi Sem-Cheyne Under-13 – Joseph Devereux-Kilpatrick, Tate Cameron

With a testing 2020 coming to an end, we bid farewell to a strong group of Year 13s who will be missed, and we wish them well in their new endeavours and hopefully on to success in club basketball.

For those returning next year, the challenge is to continue to build on our progress. The juniors are well placed to challenge for the top spot in town, and the seniors need to step up to compete at the next level against all teams locally and nationally.

Huge thanks to the committee for all their efforts this year to meet the challenges of the season, roll out new uniforms and hoodies and all the organisation that goes in behind the scenes. We bid a sad farewell to Treasurer Liz and Chair Lyndon Hope who have been a massive part of the development and growth of the basketball club over many years.

Liz has been a fantastic team manager, giving up so much time to support the team each week, organise tournament travel arrangements and provide excellent care for us while we’re away.

Thank you both for your time and commitment to McGlashan basketball.

And finally, to all the players that worked hard all season and committed to improving and growing their skills in the game. All our teams play the game with the right spirit and sportsmanship and continue to be a credit to the school. On behalf of all the coaching team, it’s been a pleasure to be involved with your development and share the highs and lows of a most unusual basketball season.

Karl Andrews - Coach

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Lachie Curson Isaac McConachie Caleb Forde Mason Gain Taine Dyson Malachi Sem-Cheyne Henry Scott Zavier Paterson Finn Aitken Alpha Komin

The Junior Kea started the preseason qualifying as a combined Year 9/10 team and then split into just a Year 10 team in the new term. This meant we were a little rusty and had to re-develop connections and learn new moves, but from there, the team continued to improve and learn new skills and ideas.

The season ended with us in the final, but after a challenging game, we ended up second overall. The boys should be proud.

MVP honours went to Caleb Forde who finished with an average of 16.3 points. Caleb was our most consistent scorer throughout the season. Most Improved was awarded to Mason Gain in recognition of his improved 3 point shooting (averaged 11.3 points), hard work on defence, leading from the point guard and responding to coaching tips which were successful when put into practice.

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The Unsung Hero award went to Zavier Paterson with an average of 11.1 points, who worked hard in every aspect of the game and who ran like the wind for the fast break layups and getting back on defence, and he hit some sweet three-pointers.

A big thanks to all the other players who all deserve honours as well for working hard and consistently all season. Notable mention to Isaac McConachie who started the season strong with a high score of 30 against King’s (average of 12.9 points) and Finn Aitkin whose defence off the bench was outstanding.

It was a privilege to work with these guys, and I can see a strong future for all of them. Just keep playing, “make the eass” and be disciplined!

Kate Jerram - Coach

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The Junior Kaka team was the sole Year 9 team in the Junior Premier Grade this year, so we were always up against older, bigger opposition. The boys always played hard and came away with some narrow losses. We were also on the end of a few heavy defeats, but the boys never gave up, always gave 100% and learned a great deal. The highlight of the season was undoubtedly beating the OBHS White twice by 15 and 9 points respectively in two hotly contested games.

We ended up 6th overall, which was a very good result given our age, so there are some promising signs for next year.

Most Valued Player went to Alex Piebenga who was top scorer with an average of 11.2 per game and was always aggressive on both ends of the court.

Most Improved and Best Defensive player went to Nic George, who used his physicality well, despite

getting into some foul trouble at the beginning of the season. He learned what he had to do to avoid that later in the season and improved significantly. He also added 7.7 points per game.

Our Unsung Hero Award went to Joe DK. He held the team together, imposed his physicality on the game, got us vital rebounds at both ends of the court and was able to lift the team in doing so.

Will Kara was awarded the Sixth Man. He came into the team late and gave us some scoring and defence off the bench, adding some much-needed size to the team.

Farrell Cameron - Coach

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Henry Bowering Joshua George Lucas Townend Roger Luo Olly Perriam Harrison Stout Emilio Ghosh-Novero Nico Burton

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Back Row: Jonty Light, Phoenix Abbott, Stanley McClure, Tom Larrivee, Caleb Moody, Riley Meason, Caleb Dixon, Keegan Ferguson 3rd Row: Clayton Cochrane, Eamon Flannery, Tom Fowler, Ben Joseph, Zack Cleaver-Donovan, Ben Dyson, James Paterson 2nd Row: Victoria Fleming (Assistant Manager), Kaleb Hill, Tom Colbourne, Josh Whaanga, Mitchell Morton,

Dominic Morrison, Elias O’Kane, Amelia Wardell (Medic) Front Row: Nick Anderson (Head Coach), Liam Ferguson, Harrison Morton, Andrew McKenzie ( Vice Captain),

Jack Colbourne (Captain), Caine Taylor, Sam Knight, Henry Power, Jeffrey Morrison (Team Manager) Inset: Felix Mauger, Jack Timu Absent: Hamish Lowery, Hayden Nelson (Fitness Coach), Cory Brown (Assistant Coach)

John McGlashan College First XV Rugby 2020 Played 12 Won 7 Lost 5 Points for 389 Points against 273 Tries scored 59 Winner Ritchie’s Cup and 5th overall in Otago Premier Secondary Schools’ Rugby Competition

we were ahead at half time, but unfortunately, injuries to some of our key players saw King’s blast away in the second half to a 31 – 7 win. Then off to Wanaka for an overnight and some bonding at Lakeland Park. We came home with another narrow defeat to Mt Aspiring College 40 – 33 in a try-fest match. Our results after Everyone was so pleased we had a rugby season five games meant we dropped into the middle four in such an unusual year! With only 13 returning from competition. last year’s team, this year’s squad was young and The next few games saw the team win convincingly full of exciting talent. Our opening game was against against all of their competition.

Southland Boys’ High School, and we rated our We beat Waitaki Boys’ High 55 – 0; Wakatipu High chances of a first-ever win over them. It was a great School 37 – 7; Otago Co-Ed Combined 88 – 7; South game but we were beaten 17 -15.

Otago High 40 – 5 and Otago Boys’ High Second XV 36 Next up was Dunstan and I believe the boys are still – 0. We secured enough points to have a home final on the bus after a gut-wrenching one-point loss. The against St Kevin’s College and won 18 – 12. Taking the following week, the lads played out of their skins to Ritchie’s Cup was a great way to finish the season. only go down 21 -29 to Otago Boy’s High First XV who With the disruptive season, we only had the one eventually won the Otago Premier Competition. interschool this year, and it was a blinder against We then gave King’s High a run for their money, and Timaru Boys’ High with us winning 24 – 23.

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Players to gain representative honours this year Received his white cap this season after 4 in the First were Harrison Morton, Liam Ferguson and Josh XV and played a total of 54 games, a tremendous Whaanga all making the Highlander Under-18 team achievement. Scored 68 points in 2020. which defeated Canterbury.

Dominic Morrison Year 13 – wing and made the Player Profiles: most of all his opportunities – lead the Johnnies Liam Ferguson Year 13 – prop who refused to back anthem in the changing sheds after the big games. down in the confrontation and burst and bullied his Played a total of 37 games for the First XV over three way up the paddock on many occasions. Played a total seasons and scored eight tries in 2020 (equal top try of 24 games for the First XV over two seasons and scorer). scored five tries in 2020.

Sam Knight Year 13 – inside centre and easily Eamon Flannery Year 12 – converted hooker to prop recognised on the paddock with his white headband and took no prisoners on the paddock. Ten games and and flowing locks (Honeybadger!) A strong defender two tries. and produced some great offloads. Played a total of Keegan Ferguson Year 11 – converted No.8 to 37 games for the First XV over three seasons and hooker – dynamic ball carrier and deceptive speed. scored three tries in 2020.

Twelve games and five tries.

Josh Whaanga Year 11 – outside centre and James Paterson Year 11 – another converted No.8 consistent line breaker, 2nd season in the First XV to prop – powerful ball carrier and collision tackler. with a big future. Kicked the clincher against Timaru Give him a sniff of the white line and there was no Boys. Has now played 28 games for the First XV and holding him back. Ten games and five tries. scored 62 points in 2020 (equal top try scorer).

Mitchell Morton Year 11 – promising lock with a Ben Dyson Year12 – wing with plenty of pace and a significant workload who did all the hard yards. Twelve great swerve, scoring four tries in one game. Played games and two tries. ten games and six tries.

Harrison Morton – Year 13 – the best mullet in the Jack Timu Year 11 – fullback very safe under the competition and second highest tackle count – big high ball, great distributer and another gutsy tackler. future with uncompromising attitude and exceptional Another player to look out for. Played 11 games and skills. Played a total of 25 games for the First XV over one try. two seasons and one try in 2020.

Elias O’Kane Year 12 – utility back with a great Tom Larrivee Year 12 – flanker and a real grafter step that eluded many players and a powerful tackle in the forward pack with a big tackle count and breaker. Now has played 23 games for the First XV continually laid his body on the line. Played 11 games. over two seasons and scored two tries in 2020.

Tom Colbourne Year 12 – flanker and another player Kaleb Hill Year 12 – utility back and Mr Consistent with no consideration for pain to his body with highest and can play most positions in the backline. Has now tackle count at well over 100 for the season. Has now played 27 games for the First XV. played 28 games for the First XV. Stanley McClure Year 11 – skilful wing with bulk Jack Colbourne Year 13 (Captain) – talented utility and pace. Played seven games. forward with speed, strength, intuition and a great Clayton Cochrane Year 12 – utility back that is an character. Played 30 games for the First XV over three electrifying ball runner who can also play in most seasons. Three tries in 2020. positions in the backline. Has now played eight games Caine Taylor Year 13 – loose forward and a powerful after debuting last season. One try in 2020. ball carrier who enjoyed the big collisions. Played 30 Other players that played three or fewer games off games for the First XV and four tries in 2020. the bench for the First XV this season included; Riley Tom Fowler Year 11 – hooker and grew enormously Meason, Caleb Dixon, Felix Mauger, Phoenix Abbott, over the season hitting the mark in the lineouts and Ben Joseph, Hamish Lowery and Caleb Moody. getting stuck in amongst the tight five. Played ten Big thanks must go the management team of Nic games.

Anderson (Head Coach), Cory Brown (Coach), Adam Jonty Light Year 11 – prop and grew in stature Whaanga (Coach), Hayden Nelson (Trainer), Amelia through the season. Played six games.

Wardell (Physio), Marty Schaff (Mentor), Tori Fleming Zack Cleaver-Donavon Year 11 – strapping lock and (Manager) and many others that contributed to the will only get bigger, and never shied away from hard season along with parents, family and friends that work. Played ten games. supported the team throughout the 2020 season.

Henry Power Year 13 – halfback and may have been We also want to thank immensely our primary one of the smallest on the field but had the biggest sponsors of the First XV - Placemakers, Aotea Electric, heart. Fantastic delivery of the ball and a gutsy tackler. Otago Sports Depot, Pure Services, Fernvale Genetics Played a total of 28 games for the First XV over two and Roslyn Physiotherapy. seasons and two tries in 2020, Andrew McKenzie Year 13 (Vice Captain) – first Jeffrey Morrison - Manager five-eight, Mr Reliable and the rock of the backline.

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Ryan Johnston Jack Miller Alban Gosse Oscar Sycamore Max Walker Samuel Stedman Jack Murray Luka Barson-McLean Felix Mauger Joshua Jukes Caleb Dixon Josh Sanders Hugo Cochrane Ryan Leith Charles Engelbrecht Phoenix Abbott Caleb Moody Ben Joseph Tom Crawford Aaron Jones

Last year I said there is always next year, and what fantastic team and season it was!

It was a late start because of the Covid-19 outbreak where we had a mid-June kick-off, last season we would have played half a dozen games by this point but still, we were lucky to get started.

We started with a trial and had about 60 turn up - and did we have some talent! We thought we were picking the first’s team, so had to make some pretty big decisions of who to leave out. Well, a team was selected and practices started. Some boys were moved to new positions and some great game plans were put in place. The key was defence, and this team had bucketloads of it. They all covered each other on defence, and that is why not many points were scored against them all season.

We started this season against West Otago, had a great win and beat them again at Heriot in the next round. Boys from the previous year were proud of that effort too.

We had a tough battle with Timaru Boys’ in a school exchange and won 21-17.

King’s and Otago Boys’ had good teams again this season. Then there was the JMC thirds. We played them twice, coaches (Don Murray & Drew Campbell) had sweated all week before these games as they had plenty of talent, but don’t fret because with Moody, Kerr, Crawf, Jurray, Herb, Hazza, Max, Ham, Jukesy,

Luka and rest of this fit, determined team, we never lost a game. Our captain and vice-captain gave their all, and the rest brought into it. This team wasn’t a big team by size but was determined to do well, and they did.

We played King’s Seconds in the final. They were a team that liked it upfront big and strong and our team was up for it - relentless, focused and committed. We even had a player that broke his thumb in the first half, but refused to come off.

It was a whole lot of fun, and we enjoyed the ride.

Special thanks to Conrad, Aaron and Jamie for all their time and input.

Mark Herbert

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Manawa Dewes Jack Hazlett Charlie Breen Harry Wing Sam Cottier Louis Allen William Smillie Archie Thomson Masato Nishimura Matthew Ford Max Kirkwood Thomas Sullivan Jacob Yee Leo Clark Lucas Stalker Marshall Macready Will Duffy Jamie Rhodes Connor Aldrich Ashley Stevenson Robert Millar Jack Robertson William Shallard George Hancox Levi James

The boys played in the Under-18 competition, playing all teams twice. The best away performance was a close loss against West Otago. We won both games against the Thirds from Otago Boys’ and King’s. We managed to make the semifinals and played the other McGlashan team who were unbeaten all season. Like the other two times we played them we were competitive but failed to take our scoring opportunities, with the scoreline blowing out towards the end. Thanks to coaches Richard Buchanan and Blair Mitchell-Kuru for their efforts throughout the season, and David Ford for his managerial skills.

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Tom Duffy William Pringle Zachary Duff Ben Barnett Angus Cuthill Sebastian Ferro George Brenssell Kahu Keenan Sam Williams Quinn Coutts James Stephen Taine Dyson Max Simpson Zavier Paterson Ryan McCaughan Duncan McEwan Henry Scott Mason Gain Ben O’Meara Billy Dougherty Max Hore Jackson McEwan Amani James Isaac McConachie

After a delayed kick-off due to Covid-19, the Junior Colts started with a close defeat against the Waitaki Boys’ Second XV - a tough battle with significant contact as they were some large boys. This game reflected well on the whole season as we didn’t come up against many small opponents. We finished the season with two good victories: one a good win against Timaru Boys’ in the interschool and the other a hard-fought comeback where we got up by two points against Kavanagh High First XV. A big thanks to Sam Darling and Duncan McEwan for coaching us this season and to all those who came out to support and help out with transport and the half time jetplanes.

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The Under 14 grade started with a Red and a Blue team who played a couple of great even games against each other. Unfortunately, due to the nature of the competition the teams then had to split into an A and a B team. A huge thank you to Kyle Burnett who stepped in to help out the B team, who had a couple of excellent wins in a competition that had some big teams. The A team had a great win over Timaru Boys’ in the exchange, and apart from a close loss to Otago Boys’, beat all the other teams in their grade. Thank you to coaches Corey Kara, Ant Bowering, Ferg, and manager Robert Stout for their hard work with all the boys throughout the season.

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Charlie Carran Finn Anderson Sam Johnston Tom Cunningham Preston Foster Paton Holmes Nico Burton Daniel Burnett Luke Bezett Bailey Williams Mac Perkins Jack Tourelle Jarn Hollows Luke Brown Adam Byars Harry Stevens Malachi Sem-Cheyne Samuel Schell Fergus Wright Matthew O’Meara

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Archie McDiarmid Annan Goldsmith Glyn Hughes Lucas Mason Hayden Pringle Jack Steele Henry Stephen Angus Burns Angus Loe Olly Perriam Serge Meeuws Ruairi Gillon Adam McNab Flynn McGuigan Jock Duncan Charlie Pearson Vinny Brown Haydn Finlay Billy Hutton-Atkins Jayden Toro

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The Under-13 rugby team played in the local Under 13 competition this year. The boys were lucky enough to have Kees Meeuws coach them and had a lot of fun at both trainings and games throughout the season.

The boys were always competitive and had some great wins throughout the season, only just missing out on the semi-finals. Thanks to Geoff Burns for his managerial skills, Kees for coaching, and Rodney Brown for helping out with coaching, and all the supporters throughout the year. The boys had a great time this year, with the end of year Battle Combat Day a real highlight.

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Billy Hutton-Atkins Ben Schell Archie Thomson Mark Smith Darcy Nevill

Jack Steele William Loe Angus Loe

2020 was a great year for John McGlashan curling. the end of the round-robin, having only played with With several ups and downs at the start of the season three players after losing Ben Schell to injury. The B regarding Covid-19, our teams managed to get a team had a great final game in their round-robin that full round-robin season in the Dunedin Experienced came down to a grilling last shot. A time-out had to draw. This season saw our younger team give our be called before this shot to ensure the right decision senior squad a run for their money, beating them 4-3 had been made, but unfortunately, the game was lost, and saw a repeat of this score at the South Island and the B team placed fifth at the end of the roundtournament held in Dunedin. At the South Islands, a robin, narrowly missing out on the semi-final. The team of William Loe (S), Jack Steele, Angus Loe and A team’s semi-final against Long Bay College from Jed Nevill take out the second place with our senior Auckland came down to a final shot by the opposition team of Darcy Nevill (S), Nathan McKnight, Archie skip, Sam Roe, who executed what I would describe Thomson and Ben Schell placing third. As the season as the perfect shot to win the game and progress to progressed, the teams sought to improve their skill the final. This left the A team in the bronze medal and began to do weekly practices aside from their play-off against Maniototo B team, and the A team weekly games and saw a significant improvement in took a convincing 7-1 win for a place on the podium. the skill and knowledge of our younger players. Come Overall, the 2020 season has been an outstanding finals week, our senior team had a narrow loss to year for McGlashan curling, and we’d like to give a Otago Girls’ High in the final, placing second overall special thanks to Mr Leitch for running around after and our junior team had a solid win to wrap up a great us and putting up with our mischief on Wednesday season. nights, and another big thank you to Bailey Dowling Come the National Championship our teams were who provided some excellent coaching for the teams well prepared and played like champions with both during the season. With such a brilliant year behind the A and B team having their fair share of nail- us, all we can say now is good luck and good curling biting games. The A team finished second overall at for next season.

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Despite Covid-19 and a delayed start to the season, our Badminton teams have enjoyed this season and had a lot of fun. Team 1 came sixth in Group A, Team 2 came fourth, Team 3 came sixth, and Team 4 came seventh in Group B. Our teams have shown good sportsmanship and played well together. Everyone has made progress and improved in their game.

Many thanks to Mr Jennings and Mr Gomez for their support and we all look forward to the next season.

I want to thank Harvey Brenssell, David Song and Flook Chinsaswat for their support and their contribution to Badminton.

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Noah Hamilton Oscar Ross Wei-Hun Loh Santino Hood Skylar Peters Ryan Hamilton Jonah Coleman Leo Han Zack Gallagher William Hubbard Allen Liu Charlie Jia Thomas Rasmussen Kaleb Durant Louis Roche

“Badminton this season was interesting, each team had their ups and downs, but we all pulled through and played to the end of the season. Each of us has improved and will continue to improve. We want to thank our teacher for organising the teams and all the teams from all the schools that participated. Thanks to all players.”

David Song Our Junior Team came third in the competition this year.

“In our team this year, we had to recruit three new players: Zack, Ryan and Noah. We played quite well through the season and lost only a few games, against both Balmacewen and Tahuna’s A team. We developed useful skills and had a fun time.”

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Neville Sharp (Coach) Jock Duncan Harry Morshuis George Conner Hunter Cockerill Greg Jones Adam McNab Oakland Young Darcy Nevill Jack Robertson Dan Kunac Mark Smith William Shallard

As with most sports of the 2020 year, trapshooting was no different, with Covid-19 playing havoc with our season. Once we finally had the chance to get going, we headed to Balfour for the first competition shoot. Then we shot Alexandra, Wanaka and Waimate to round out the school shooting season. We also managed to get in an inter-school with Timaru Boys’, with them taking a narrow win.

It’s been great seeing the progress of the team throughout this year, with many medals being won from many of the boys throughout the year. The year came to a great end with the Nationals in Christchurch where the boys shot very well against some very tough competition.

It’s been great to see the progress of the younger shooters and also to have the older boys lead the way. To the boys leaving the team this year, Jack and William, thanks for your years of contributing to the trapshooting team and we wish you both well.

We are looking forward to another great year in 2021.

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The First XI this year was in a rebuilding phase, with disrupted season. eight players not returning to the squad this year. This Tournament meant our team was very youthful, with three juniors With Covid-19 rearing its head again late winter, it featuring, and only one Year 13. Our season involved was uncertain whether our yearly tournament would matches against OBHS, King’s, Kavanagh, Waitaki go ahead. What we were met with was an Otago/ and Timaru Boys’ in an interchange.

Southland tournament, rather than the Linwood Cup Despite our young, inexperienced team, our season that the First XI usually attended. Although our team got off to a good start, with a 2-1 win against the King’s was very young, we were hopeful of our chances, but Second XI. From here, the results were a mixture, with still unsure of the competition from other regions. the team experiencing a mix of wins against Waitaki We began our tournament with a strong win against and Kavanagh and a couple of defeats to both King’s Bayfield 6-0 and followed this up with another win and OBHS Firsts. against Verdon to finish top of our group. Another With these results, we managed to obtain a playoff victory against Dunstan in the quarter-final left the place, facing OBHS in the semi. However, it was not team pleased with our placing, but still hunting the to be, with losses coming against both OBHS teams trophy. The final day started with a penalty shootout in the semi and 3rd/4th playoff. This season was a for us, with the First XI prevailing 4-2. This meant chance for the boys to get used to playing alongside we met Kavanagh in the final, who we had previously one another, with all our team but one returning next drawn with during the season. Once again, after season. Our progress is shown by our tournament 70 minutes plus extra time, the teams were still result, it highlights how far our team has come in the undivided, ending on a final score of 1-1. This meant 175

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another penalty shootout, and once again, the First XI managed to obtain the win 9-8. Looking back at our season pre-tournament, although the competition was not as quality as it would’ve been at the Linwood Cup, this result was surprising to many of the lads.

We would like to give a huge thank you to Ben Lund, who gave up many Mondays and Wednesdays to train with coach and us, and to Russell Lund who also helped out and attended the tournament. Without this help, the tournament, especially the results, wouldn’t have turned out as well.

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Mr Fraser Hallet Joshua Penno Joshua George Jacob Hall Jacob Cooper Nic Hinton John Mengel Harrison Meltzer Hamish McIntyre Jack Lewis Nicholas George James Cameron Emilio Ghosh-Novero

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Lachlan Crumpton Harry Willis Joshua Chagnon Tom Dyer Joe Dyer Oliver Hamilton David Park Angus Loe Cody Byck Mr L Thomsen James Arlidge Max Peden Samuel Ussher Charlie Pearson Jack Howley

This year saw a shortened season with a four-team round-robin followed by a semi-final and final. The team played increasingly well in the early stages of the season, but lost a number of matches narrowly, in particular against Logan Park First and King’s Second.

the other players in the team, in particular, the increasingly confident defenders and Samuel Ussher’s development into an excellent goalkeeper within a few weeks of putting on the gloves for the first time.

In the semi-final, we met Logan Park again, this time on our home pitch. After a level first half, we conceded two goals early in the second half, but the team did not give up and managed to reach extra time after goals by Charlie Pearson and Joshua Chagnon.

Joshua’s third goal on the day in extra time secured the 5 - 4 victory and the ticket to the final against King’s.

The day of the final was stormy, and playing at Tonga Park in these conditions was a struggle. We played against the wind in the first half. After Oliver Hamilton scored a penalty early on, we conceded two goals in the first half. After half-time, things got much easier. Tom Dyer’s move into attack resulted in him scoring two goals within minutes and Joshua’s final goal of the season completed the 4 - 2 score.

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Pen Portraits Class of 2020

My memories of lockdown find me in a simultaneous state of both relaxation and bewilderment. The relaxation stemming from the enjoyable reduction in work load to be completed within the comfort of my own home, however isolated in my own room. My own movements restricted, told by the government to stay inside; a new feeling indeed. As a McGlashan student, I prospered on the opportunity to self manage my work. I created realistic plans and allocated time slots for this, and to my surprise, I was actually able to stick to them. The one main thing that was lost over online classes was the lack of that brotherhood feeling McGlashan provides. This however could have been systematically improved through a better utilisation of breakout rooms. All in all, lockdown was a time for me to take control of my own learning, just as I am now with exams just over the horizon.”

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Name: Danny Adams Claim to Fame: Only white Polynesian and The Barbs manager Favourite Quote: Let’s all tackle Danny Theme Song: Pokaraekareana by Prince Tui Teka Proposed Career: Designer Probable Career: Graffiti fugitive Cherished Memory: Mrs Togneri’s English class

Name: Luka Barson-McLean Claim to Fame: Playing Rugby League Favourite Quote: “You been eating my pastels boy?” (Mr Jones) Theme Song: “Never Fight a Man with a Perm” The Idles Proposed Career: United Nations Investigator Probable Career: Reggie the Rabbit for the Rabbitohs Cherished Memory: Winning U16’s Rugby tournament in Christchurch

Name: Simon Basel Claim to Fame: Very quick come up at the college Favourite Quote: My heart says yes but my wallet says no Theme Song: Africa by Toto Proposed Career: The next Elon Musk Probable Career: Dr. Preston’s personal waiter Cherished Memory: IB Biology

Name: Patrick Bezett Claim to Fame: Mr Wang’s 2nd favourite student Favourite Quote: “https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ” Theme Song: stal Proposed Career: Imposter Probable Career: Crewmate Cherished Memory: Math 2020 with Mr Wang

Name: Oliver Bolton Claim to Fame: Being a simp / being lanky Favourite Quote: “You’re in Tiger Country” - Mr. Murdoch Theme Song: Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen Proposed Career: Stay at home dad & part time Trolly Boy at Pak’nSave Probable Career: Full time Trolley Boy at Pak’nSave Cherished Memory: Dropping out of the IB, Bio with Leitchy, foursquare with the lads.

Name: Lourenço Botafogo Claim to Fame: Being Mexican Favourite Quote: “Live, Laugh, Love” Theme Song: Waka Waka - Shakira, 2010 FIFA World Cup Proposed Career: Lawyer Probable Career: Deported Cherished Memory: German films with Liam & jumping off a bridge at Year 10 camp

Name: Zac Bowmar Claim to Fame: Got through five years of English without learning what a noun is Favourite Quote: “Vote Zac For Head boy” Theme Song: Feel it Still - Portugal. The Man Proposed Career: Dead-end job in I.T Probable Career: Committing Benefit Fraud Cherished Memory: Lockdown

Name: Jonathan Brook Claim to Fame: Being good at science while supposedly being an anti-vaxer and a climate change denier Favourite Quote: In a right-angled triangle, the square of the HYPOTENUSE is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides Theme Song: The Periodic Table Song Proposed Career: Quantum Physicist Probable Career: Unwatched Kerbal Space Program streamer Cherished Memory: Tangents in Physics

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Name: Mason Calvert Claim to Fame: Being late to pretty much everything.

Favourite Quote: “Youth is wasted on the young.”

Theme Song: Pink + White - Frank Ocean Proposed Career: Music Producer Probable Career: Engineer Cherished Memory: That one time I was late to school.

Name: Jack Colbourne Claim to Fame: The new kid Favourite Quote: upto x Theme Song: Devotion (ft. Cameron Hayes) Proposed Career: Engineer Probable Career: Gutter guys assistant Cherished Memory: World Schools’ Rugby Tour

Name: Flynn Cooper-Forster Claim to Fame: Being on time every single day Favourite Quote: “You can always retake a class but you can never re-live a party” Theme Song: Pursuit Of Happiness Kid Cudi Proposed Career: Millionaire Probable Career: Billionaire Cherished Memory: My Year 7 teacher

Name: William Cotton Claim to Fame: Having four classes at Columba Favourite Quote: Wait on!

Theme Song: Good Times Bad Times Led Zeppelin Proposed Career: Businessman Probable Career: Delivery driver Cherished Memory: Argentina Hockey Tour

Name: Tom Crawford Claim to Fame: Having a complex tan Favourite Quote: The 7 P’s: proper prior preparation prevents p*ss poor performance Theme Song: Money for Nothing-Dire Straits Proposed Career: Fonterra CEO Probable Career: Robert’s house maid Cherished Memory: Seconds footy

Name: Chris Denton Claim to Fame: Playing badminton, being ethnically confused Favourite Quote: “I lost” Theme Song: Aussie Freaks - A$AP Ferg Proposed Career: Multi-Quintillionaire Probable Career: Dr P’s skylight cover Cherished Memory: IB ToK arguments that would never have a winner.

Name: Nathan Dockerty Claim to Fame: The first human to ever photosynthesise Favourite Quote: “I’m not vegan, just vegetarian.”

Theme Song: The Wisp Sings - Winter Aid Proposed Career: Psychologist, writer and/or philosopher.

Probable Career: Unemployed, but “I’ve got a novel in the works.”

Cherished Memory: ToK 2019, German trip, IB Bio.

Name: Aidan Dougherty Claim to Fame: Being Filipino Favourite Quote: “I lost” - IB Biology’s punching bag Theme Song: Tame Impala - New Person, Same Old Mistakes Proposed Career: NBA Commissioner Probable Career: Member of the Chinese Communist Party Cherished Memory: The boys’ company

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Name: Will Duffy Claim to Fame: McGlashan’s best ever cricket fielder Favourite Quote: “You can catch flies using honey, but you can catch more honeys bein fly” Theme Song: Rain by Dragon Proposed Career: Industrial Designer Probable Career: Food Enthusiast Cherished Memory: McGlashan Hockey, Year 10 camp

Name: Billy Ellwood Claim to Fame: The Goal In The 2019 Hockey Final Favourite Quote: Gators Go Good Theme Song: Snappy The Crocodile Snappy Proposed Career: Industrial Designer Probable Career: Living In My Van Cherished Memory: Argentina Hockey Tour, Copland Hunting Misson

Name: Eli Familton Claim to Fame: saucing Year 8s at basketball Favourite Quote: Facts Theme Song: Addison Rae - the kid laroi Proposed Career: Bondi lifeguard Probable Career: Lifeguard that nods head at people to go down slide Cherished Memory: JMC rebonds

Name: Roy Feng Claim to Fame: Probably creative media production Favourite Quote: “If you focus on what you left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead.”

Theme Song: Hakuna Matata Proposed Career: Paramedic Probable Career: Cinematographer Cherished Memory: Throwing my classmate into a rescue helicopter during the camp.

Name: Liam Ferguson Claim to Fame: Keeping the H2O up in the weekend Favourite Quote: “I don’t care” Theme Song: Fergalicious by Fergie Proposed Career: Pe Teacher Probable Career: Owning a Transport Business Cherished Memory: First XV South Africa Trip

Name: Cam Forde Claim to Fame: Only Mana award recipient from Ron Bull himself Favourite Quote: “I love the snow” Tiger Woods Theme Song: Bad Things - Casper Rose Proposed Career: NBA Hall of Famer Probable Career: 5x PGA tour winner Cherished Memory: Rev Kelk’s chapel services

Name: Liam George Claim to Fame: Untucked shirt Favourite Quote: She’ll be right Theme Song: Bleach- Brockhampton Proposed Career: Uni dropout Probable Career: Uni dropout Cherished Memory: Drama with the boys

Name: Tom Gold Claim to Fame: Minecraft Spleef Favourite Quote: When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day Theme Song: Bad Boys - Inner Circle Proposed Career: Professional Swimmer Probable Career: stay at home dad Cherished Memory: Year 13 P.E Dodgeball

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Name: Thomas Greenaway Claim to Fame: CC edits Favourite Quote: Mean bro, ceebs, kook Theme Song: I Need You by M83 Proposed Career: Filmer Probable Career: Filmer Cherished Memory: Year 10 Camp

Name: Charlie Grey Claim to Fame: 2/12 Favourite Quote: “Beware of jealousy my lord, for it is the green eyed monster” Theme Song: Pull up - Lil Mosey Proposed Career: Ping pong champ Probable Career: Stock trader Cherished Memory: Swimming sports

Name: Ben Guilford Claim to Fame: Nissan Leaf Favourite Quote: “I am not a fan of books” - Kanye West Theme Song: Spikes - Death Grips Proposed Career: Service Station Attendant Probable Career: Unemployed Cherished Memory: Year 11 Science

Name: Julian Hamilton Claim to Fame: Scholarship recipient Favourite Quote: Cash doesn’t effect the bank account’.

Theme Song: Watermelon Man Herbie Hancock.

Proposed Career: Entrepreneur.

Probable Career: Unsuccessful Investor.

Cherished Memory: Daily Chicken Wraps.

Name: Ned Hancox Claim to Fame: Looking like Ashley Favourite Quote: “Im not Ashley” Theme Song: Runnin Wild - Airbourne Proposed Career: Engineer Probable Career: Sales rep Cherished Memory: Outclassing Mr Schaumann at teachers vs students debate

Name: Harley Herbert Claim to Fame: Being in the school’s best footy team Favourite Quote: Cheeky Vape was it?Mr Schaumann Theme Song: Are You Ready Proposed Career: Civil Engineer Probable Career: Concreter Cherished Memory: Argentina Hockey Tour

Name: Sam Hope Claim to Fame: Dunking Favourite Quote: Good luck to Ya Theme Song: Bliss-The Dudes Proposed Career: Pro Golfer Probable Career: Accountant Cherished Memory: Basketball with the boys

Name: Alex Hopgood Claim to Fame: Least famous person leaving this year Favourite Quote: “Are you gaslighting me?”

Theme Song: All Too Well- Taylor Swift Proposed Career: Marrying rich Probable Career: Dying poor Cherished Memory: Forgot them all :(

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Name: Josh Hou Claim to Fame: Running round in a circle and quoting Drake for the last word Favourite Quote: I don’t need a girlfriend I’m in love with the grind Theme Song: Faneto - Chief Keef Proposed Career: Professional Runner Probable Career: Pharmacist Cherished Memory: Learning about ducks in chemistry

Name: Aidan Hung Claim to Fame: Ran the 800m on athletics day while wearing a horse mask Favourite Quote: “Ow I hit my hand!” Mr Kim Theme Song: Am I Wrong - Nico & Vinz Proposed Career: International diplomat Probable Career: International tech support Cherished Memory: Year 13 McGlashan after-party

Name: Mitchell Joint Claim to Fame: Having a blinder Favourite Quote: “We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf.”- George Orwell Theme Song: Du Hast - Rammstein Proposed Career: Helicopter Pilot Probable Career: Armed Baggage Handler Cherished Memory: Flying aircraft before I could drive a car

Name: Joshua Jukes Claim to Fame: Overthinking things Favourite Quote: What did Crawf say?

Theme Song: I wanna fly Proposed Career: Engineer Probable Career: New World Butcher Cherished Memory: The boarding house

Name: Angus Kenny Claim to Fame: Winning Second XI hockey final Favourite Quote: Three men never sailed two boats with one sail Theme Song: Don’t stop the party Pitbull Proposed Career: Elite rower Probable Career: Milking cows Cherished Memory: Getting my forklift licence

Name: George Kerr Claim to Fame: Road Cones Favourite Quote: Go Caine!

Theme Song: Juicy- 2005 Remaster Proposed Career: Stock Agent Probable Career: Tractor Driver Cherished Memory: Second XV Final

Name: Sam Knight Favourite Quote: What’s in it?

Theme Song: Watermelon Man Herbie Hancock Proposed Career: Cleaning public toilets Cherished Memory: Losing to Mount Aspiring College First XV

Name: Caleb Le Cong Claim to Fame: Captain of the Second XI hockey for 3 years Favourite Quote: She’ll be right Theme Song: Airbourne - Live It Up Proposed Career: Builder Probable Career: Tahr culler Cherished Memory: Copland hunting mish, Mr White’s yarn

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Name: Cyrus Leung Claim to Fame: Longest commute Favourite Quote: You’re on mute Theme Song: Going the Distance - Cake Proposed Career: Talking head Probable Career: Screen saver Cherished Memory: When I was actually at McGlashan in person

Name: Cameron Leydon Claim to Fame: Being the gay kid Favourite Quote: “Of course I dress well, I didn’t spend all that time in the closet for nothing” Theme Song: Boom Boom Boom Boom - Vengaboys Proposed Career: Flight Attendant Probable Career: Working in the Lolly Shop in Arrowtown Cherished Memory: Vietnam Trip 2020

Name: Hamish Lowery Claim to Fame: Being Reon’s cousin Favourite Quote: Don’t be sorry just dont do it again Theme Song: Juicy Proposed Career: builder Probable Career: deliver easy on moped at 30 dundas Cherished Memory: catching air at prossy

Name: Jack Lundy Claim to Fame: Being the kid who loves classics Favourite Quote: Behold a man Diogenes Theme Song: The flight of the Bumblebees Proposed Career: Classics Lecturer Probable Career: Struggling academic Cherished Memory: Classics

Name: Krishan Luxmanan Claim to Fame: Saying “School please stand” like a gentleman Favourite Quote: If I don’t know what I’m bowling, the batsman won’t either Theme Song: My Name Is Billa - S. P. Bala Proposed Career: CEO of McDonald’s Probable Career: Stunt double for William Cotton Cherished Memory: Waffle Double Down with Maple Mayo

Name: Jackson McBreen Claim to Fame: Not shaving Favourite Quote: Right, next race Theme Song: Bassline Secret (Skantia Remix) Proposed Career: Project manager Probable Career: Penguin Breeder Cherished Memory: Prospect Park

Name: Zachary McConnon Claim to Fame: Drama Class Favourite Quote: “I’m a doctor, not a *insert profession here*” Theme Song: “”Forever Young” Rod Stewart Proposed Career: Comedian/Actor Probable Career: Camera Man Cherished Memory: Watching movies in Drama

Name: Thomas McIver Claim to Fame: Being a tad controversial Favourite Quote: “Don’t be a man of success, be a man of value; success and greatness will follow.” Quoted by me Theme Song: Foo Fighters - Best Of You Proposed Career: Cyber Security intelligence at the GCSB Probable Career: Police Cherished Memory: The stupid conversations with the bois

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Name: Andrew McKenzie Claim to Fame: Damian Mckenzie’s cousin Favourite Quote: My shout Theme Song: When it rains it pours like combs Probable Career: Builder Cherished Memory: Dom Morrison under the high ball

Name: Harry McKenzie Claim to Fame: Showing respect around the college Favourite Quote: My kids loved it Theme Song: It’s a long way to the top -AC/DC Proposed Career: Cage fighter Probable Career: Callum White’s Caddie Cherished Memory: Hostel Foodespecially chicken on rice

Name: William McLauchlan Claim to Fame: Being at the golf course 24/7 Favourite Quote: No matter how good you can get, you can always get better - Tiger woods Theme Song: Does your mother know - ABBA Proposed Career: Professional golfer Probable Career: Professional golfer Cherished Memory: Golf

Name: Riley Meason Claim to Fame: Being named in the first XV but playing 3rd XV footy Favourite Quote: Life’s too short, so grip it and rip it Theme Song: Runnin’ wild, by Airbourne Proposed Career: Police Probable Career: Palmy’s most wanted Fugitive Cherished Memory: Gabe spilling his drink on his formal date’s dress

Name: Robert Millar Claim to Fame: Buying the most hotdogs at Maori Hill Takeaways Favourite Quote: People say nothing is impossible but I do nothing everyday Theme Song: Olivia - One Direction Proposed Career: Firewood merchant Probable Career: Stay at home dad Cherished Memory: Hostel Food

Name: Fin Milne Claim to Fame: Having the most friends that are girls Favourite Quote: The Spider-Man Theme Song: Adventure Time - theme song Proposed Career: NBL bench warmer Probable Career: Lawyer Cherished Memory: JMC Rebonds

Name: Ben Monaghan Claim to Fame: Being almost Dutch Favourite Quote: “Due tomorrow, do tomorrow” Theme Song: Snake Oil - Foals Proposed Career: Nuclear Physicist Probable Career: Amateur Pétanque Champion Cherished Memory: German Camp, ToK, Winning the Teacher v. Student Debate

Name: Caleb Moody Claim to Fame: Burnt cheeks Favourite Quote: After you Theme Song: Feeling Whitney- Post Malone Proposed Career: Accountant Probable Career: Johnnies First XV coach Cherished Memory: Midnight Maccas Runs

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Name: Dominic Morrison Claim to Fame: Daily chicken wrap Favourite Quote: Mean bro Theme Song: Circles - Adam F (Polar & Bryson Bootleg) Proposed Career: Financial Advisor Probable Career: PE Teacher Cherished Memory: Spending time with the boys in the Hostel Gaming Lounge

Name: Will Morshuis Claim to Fame: 8th in Otago at pétanque Favourite Quote: May you please refrain from speaking Theme Song: Bright- Terrestrial Techz Proposed Career: Writing something funny in the yearbook Probable Career: Getting it censored by the school Cherished Memory: The weekends

Name: Joe Mu Claim to Fame: Guitarist for the Black Orangutan Favourite Quote: In a right-angled triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides Theme Song: Third Eye - Tool Proposed Career: Electronics Engineer Probable Career: Semi-unemployed full-time busker Cherished Memory: JMC RomComs, unofficially known as JMC futsal 1st V

Name: Jack Murray Claim to Fame: ISUZU Bighorn Favourite Quote: You know it’s a bad day when you get out of bed and miss the floor.

Theme Song: HUMBLE.-Kendrick Lamar Proposed Career: Engineer Probable Career: Surveyor Cherished Memory: 2nd XV Rugby

Name: Alex Parks Claim to Fame: Being incredibly well versed in the ‘useless’ practice of vexillology Favourite Quote: “Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try” - John F. Kennedy Theme Song: The Rain Song- Led Zeppelin Proposed Career: Historian Probable Career: Chaser on The Chase Cherished Memory: Maths in Mr Murdoch’s class

Name: Scott Perkins Claim to Fame: Healthy until year 12 Favourite Quote: Rich Theme Song: You and I (Bru-C, Simula) Proposed Career: Relying on winning lotto Probable Career: Builder Cherished Memory: The good times in the hostel

Name: Bailey Phizacklea Claim to Fame: Going to Prossy most lunch times Favourite Quote: “That’s not very nice” Theme Song: Ex Machina - Metrik Proposed Career: DJ Minifit Probable Career: Delivery Driver Cherished Memory: All of Mr Wang’s life lessons

Name: Henry Power Favourite Quote: Tools down Theme Song: Dreams- Fleetwood Mac Proposed Career: CEO of Apple Probable Career: Swede stall Cherished Memory: Hostel touch on the corner patch

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Name: Gabe Ross Claim to Fame: Doing a lot of fishing Favourite Quote: Holy Froth, Big ceebs Theme Song: Hunting, Fishing and Loving every day Proposed Career: CC edits Probable Career: Chicken Joe Cherished Memory: Lunch time stingers, Copland mish, getting pinged

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Name: Tevita Schaaf Claim to Fame: Marty Schaaf Favourite Quote: “Next year’s my year” Theme Song: Roxanne - Arizona Zervas Proposed Career: Lawyer Probable Career: Freezing works Cherished Memory: 9am Zooms

Name: Connor Seyb Claim to Fame: Failing Level One Favourite Quote: All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved. - Sun Tzu Theme Song: Aneurysm - Nirvana Proposed Career: Mechanic Probable Career: Mechanic Cherished Memory: Having a lightshade fall on my head

Name: William Shallard Claim to Fame: Geometrical Favourite Quote: Yeah right Theme Song: Envy ‘Casper Rose’ Proposed Career: Future entrepreneur Probable Career: Prime Minister Cherished Memory: U15 rugby

Name: Lucas Stalker Claim to Fame: Term 2 Year 9 Favourite Quote: It’s hard to be a single mom. Especially when you don’t have kids, and you’re a teenage boy.

Theme Song: “Oompa Loompa” - The Oompa Loompas Proposed Career: Johnnies hostel cleaner Probable Career: Johnnies hostel chef Cherished Memory: Fishing with the boys

Name: Ashley Stevenson Claim to Fame: Partner in Wolfie’s Couriers Favourite Quote: Work smarter not harder Theme Song: Everything’s Gonna Be Alright - The Babysitters Circus Proposed Career: Rural Banker Probable Career: Watching the grass grow Cherished Memory: Third XV footy

Name: Tom Sullivan Claim to Fame: Knowing where the milk is Favourite Quote: Why are you doing nothing? - Wolfie Theme Song: I’m One - The Who Proposed Career: Engineer Probable Career: Under 9’s Long Jump Coach Cherished Memory: Athletics Day 2020

Name: Caine Taylor Claim to Fame: Lux Favourite Quote: “Go Caine” Theme Song: 2 Phones - Kevin Gates Proposed Career: Fergs office assistant Probable Career: John McGlashan Principal Cherished Memory: TC entertainment centre

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Name: Edward Temple Claim to Fame: Climbing walls.

Favourite Quote: “...”

Theme Song: What Went Down’ - Foals.

Proposed Career: Retired billionaire at 30 years old.

Probable Career: Deep-fryer operator.

Cherished Memory: The Year 13 common room antics on the rare days it was unlocked.

Name: Max Walker Claim to Fame: Driving a Gold Corolla Favourite Quote: Minter Theme Song: Afterglow - Wilkinson Proposed Career: Prime Minister Probable Career: Real Estate Agent Cherished Memory: Year 12 Ski Camp

Name: Macauley Ward Claim to Fame: Mr James’ Rubbish Prefect Favourite Quote: “Stop gas-lighting” Theme Song: Everlong - Foo Fighters Proposed Career: ED Nurse Probable Career: A chef on kitchen nightmares Cherished Memory: IB Bio class with Dr. Preston

Name: Callum White Claim to Fame: O.G. golfer Favourite Quote: canteen job ?

Theme Song: Not Afraid Eminem Proposed Career: Caddie for William McLauchlan Probable Career: Stacking shelves 9-5 Cherished Memory: Year 10 camp

Name: Adam Woodhouse Claim to Fame: Passing level 2 Drama exam Favourite Quote: G’day Maaate Theme Song: Shots & Squats -Vigiland Proposed Career: CrossFit Athlete Probable Career: Personal Trainer Cherished Memory: Doing McGlashan Challenge

Name: Jacob Yee Claim to Fame: Winning the 2020 fatmans-race on athletics day Favourite Quote: “What’s the code?”

Theme Song: Forever Young - Alphaville Proposed Career: New Zealand Police Air Support Unit Probable Career: A ‘police officer’ that goes around schools talking about cyber safety Cherished Memory: Touch with the boys on a Tuesday afternoon at the oval

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