2022 JMC Year Book

PRINCIPAL’S FOREWORD

The overriding highlight of the 2022 year has been the fulfilment of a long-held dream of procuring a second campus for John McGlashan College. Despite a string of Covidrelated challenges, the Board of Proprietors, in consultation with the Board of Trustees, have purchased the Te Anau Downs - Fiordland National Park Lodge located 30km north of Te Anau on the highway to Milford Sound.

This three-hectare block is on the shores of Lake Te Anau nestled in the Fiordland National Park and will provide a multitude of amazing adventure-based learning opportunities. Generations of McGlashan students will benefit from independent living, the challenges of the surrounding area, the beauty of the lake and the comradeship of their peers.

Many past McGlashan students commonly speak of their school camp experiences as a highlight of their time with the College. The vision of the staff and boards is to consolidate such experiences as an additional pillar of college culture and ‘the way we do things at McGlashan’. Extensive and meaningful curriculum activities will be integrated and mapped into this fabulous and unique environment. Planning is well underway and the lodge will be accommodating McGlashan students by April 2023.

We have much to be grateful for in this heavily disrupted year. The staff have been creative, innovative and resilient in the way they have managed the learning and cocurricular activities.

In the last three years, there have been disappointments and lost opportunities for us all, but on a global scale we have been very fortunate. I hope we have carried the College through these times with a sense of calm and purpose. Every boy has taken things in their stride and forged ahead. Now unmasked, it is good to see so many smiling faces around the campus.

Enjoy this collation of the year. Behind the photographs of faces and events, there will be stories that will be told for decades. I know that we can all find some sense of pride in the achievements made and challenges met in the 104th year of the College’s history.

Once again, I commend those staff, students, parents and coaches who have made a contribution to these pages, particularly Tony Gomez, Ella Murdoch and David Schaumann who have worked tirelessly to create a thorough and everlasting record of 2022.

‘Whiria te tangata’

Weave the people together.

Neil Garry Principal

Part One: Staff, Boards, Chaplaincy and Prefects 4 - 11

Part Two: Senior Prize-giving, Premier Awards 12 - 22

Part Three: McGlashan Life 23 - 49

Part Four: McGlashan Arts and Culture 50 - 82

Part Five: Boarding House Life 83- 92

Part Six: McGlashan Groups and Clubs 93 -109

Part Seven: McGlashan Sports 110 - 156

Part Eight: Prizes and Awards 157 - 178

Part Nine: Year 13 Pen Portraits 179 - 191

Part 10: Class Photos 192 - 201

Thank You!

A sincere and heartfelt thank you to all those who have helped contribute to the 2022 Year Book. Firstly to Tony Gomez for putting together the McGlashan Life, Winter and Summer Sports sections. Your hours of time and attention to detail drawing together the articles, and for taking many of the photos for us all to enjoy in this publication, was invaluable. Many thanks also to Kelk Photography for the photos and your assistance. Thank you to Barry Kelk for the stunning cover photo. Chris Knopp - your Pen Portraits help was much very appreciated. Thanks Helen Clulee for helping organise the distribution. To our wonderful and ever-vigilant proofing team, we couldn’t have done this without you! Finally, a huge thank you to all staff, students, coaches and parents who contributed articles to showcase what a busy and fantastic year it has been!

Ella Murdoch - Communications/Operations

David Schaumann - Technical InDesign guru

Part One: McGlashan Staff, Boards, Chaplaincy and Prefects

STAFF NOTES

Back Row: Chung-Wei Wang, Ricki Allen, Duncan McLean, Craig Preston, Bryn Jones, Melissa Marks, Steven McNulty, Ronny Kotkamp, Andrew Morrison

5th Row: Lachie McLellan, Simon White, Dominic Schumacher, Craig Knights, Simon Maole, Anna Noble, Emily Hall, Ella Murdoch, Lizzie Clark, Paola Hepte

4th Row: Rose Sinclair, Mike Wesseling, Hamish Cartwright, Glen Clark, Kimberley Fridd, Andrew Nicol, Victoria Watts, Troy Shoebridge, Rob Milne

3rd Row: Brent Wolf, Jeremy Cuthbert, Stewart McDonald, Troy Jennings, Tori Fleming, Kirstyn Sandall, Anne Burton, Natasha Smillie, Andrew Leitch

2nd Row: Julie Tolson, Natasha Prior, Helen Clulee, Tony Gomez, Andrew Hore, Jan Bremner, Rachael Gardiner, Pam Garry, Keely McLeod

Front Row: Ainslie Anderson, Geoff Avis, Brendan Porter, Nigel Hunter, Neil Garry, Tom Casey, Chris Knopp, Donna Smith, David Schaumann

After the ups and downs of yet another Covid disrupted year in 2021, we all hoped for a much better 2022. We arrived back to the College, where over the holidays Tony and Duncan have continued to be busy. The mathematics classrooms in the main block had been refurbished, and the gardens and grounds, as always, were neat and tidy. McGlashan is a pretty special place to work. The facilities here are outstanding.

A number of new faces arrived on day one, and were given a warm welcome in the chapel.

Reverend Andrew Nicol has the rather large shoes of Reverend Barry Kelk to fill. Andrew and his

wife Charissa and four children returned to Ōtepoti in January after nine years of pastoral ministry in Christchurch. Andrew grew up in Christchurch and later spent some time in Australia and the UK before coming to Ōtepoti to complete post-graduate study at the University of Otago. They love being back in this beautiful region.

Lizzie Clark had been on maternity leave from Bayfield, and has a very full teaching schedule here in the languages department as teacher of Te Reo Māori. Lizzie has really enjoyed her first year here at JMC – part of the reason I am sure is due to now being able to have her lunch breaks with husband Glen.

Ronny Kotkamp has replaced Clark Boswell as a science and chemistry teacher. Ronny has very quickly settled into JMC life, and he has also picked up some PE classes.

Mike Wesseling has joined the mathematics department, arriving from King’s High School. Outside of school Mike can be found in the hills or on the rivers, hunting and fishing, or out at the Ice Hockey stadium.

Dean Horo has moved into one of the better offices for sunlight and views. He has the role of Property Asset Manager. He will be an integral part of the team now with the purchase of Te Anau Downs, which is going to benefit staff and students alike for many years to come.

Victoria Watts has ably filled the Library Assistant job. The library here is a rather special place to be. There is usually a lovely warm temperature, the books are many and varied, and are all displayed beautifully. If you ever are unsure what to read, Pam and Victoria will know the perfect book.

Art, drama and music now have the talented Reva Grills in the Arts Co-ordinator role. Reva can be found working over in the drama office. Reva gave this insight into the new position: “My role as Arts Coordinator has consisted mostly of assisting and supporting our arts kaiako here at the school, profiling their subjects, facilitating arts-related activities and events, and promoting the arts more generally. My overarching goal has been to help develop a stronger culture of the arts in the school, so that those arts-interested students are catered for, and arts-curious students are comfortable and confident to pursue opportunities at their disposal.”

Keely McLeod is looking after a small number of International Students helping with English for Speakers of Other Languages, and also tutors students in Learning Support.

Covid found its way into the school by the middle of Term One. The students had a week working from home, as a bit of a “circuit breaker”, and all staff yet again did a fantastic job of ‘Online Learning Part Two.’ We could not have carried on here teaching efficiently without the help of some fantastic relievers. Helen Jennings, Amanda Capon and Jenny Vaughan have carried on from previous years, and this year they were joined by Amanda Kotkamp and Laura Flett as long term relievers. We cannot thank you all enough! Some weeks most of you were doing full time hours. It is not an easy task finding relievers, and Ainslie and Tori spend many hours making sure all classes are covered. Thanks also to Lynley Offen who helps out in accounts and the office when needed. We know you took a very early retirement to relax up in Marlborough Sounds, but it is great we can call upon you as often as we do.

Rebecca Simpson (Catering Manager) resigned in Term One. Rebecca moved on to follow her passion of

Interior Design.

Lachie McLellan arrived as Year 7 and 8 Dean, and a Year 7 classroom teacher at the end of term two. Lachie, his wife Natasha and their children have returned to Dunedin after many years spent teaching overseas, most recently in Singapore. Prior to his arrival, Helen Jennings had been teaching the Year 7 class – thank you Helen for stepping in for the first two terms. You have certainly helped the new students settle in well here. Thank you to Drew Campbell for taking over the Deans role for the start of the year. This is not an easy task, and we know how busy you already were.

David and Angela Beazley welcomed baby Bella in September. Her two big brothers Beauden and Arlo are absolutely besotted with her.

Brent Wolf has joined a small elite group here at JMC in becoming a grandfather. No doubt he will have his new grandson out on his surf ski board as soon as he can.

There have not been the staff vs student sports battles this year, but some staff have still kept up with some high level sport. During July, Andrew Hore represented NZ’s Over-50’s Cricket team in an international Tri-series against Sri Lanka and Australia in Brisbane, which NZ won.

Melissa Marks continues to play Masters hockey and recently played in the Timaru Masters winning a bronze medal. She is representing the Southern region in the National Masters games to be held in Tauranga, February 2023, and is hoping for selection into the New Zealand Masters 50+ team. Melissa’s sons all played hockey for John McGlashan, Angus in the JMC Second XI, Cameron in the First XI 201516, and young Fergus now following in big brother’s footsteps playing for the Under-15A team.

We farewell Anna Noble, Director of International Students and Head of Languages as she takes on the Principal position at Rudolph Steiner School. Congratulations Anna, you will be missed.

Ricki Allan is moving to Sydney in the New Year. All the best across the ditch Ricki.

Emily Hall is becoming a country girl, and moving to Tapanui. I hope you have the redbands waiting for you!

(Anna, Ricki and Emily have shared their reflections of their time here at JMC.)

All staff would like to wish our students and wider school community a very Happy Christmas and New Year.

To the 2022 leavers – go well – enjoy the new challenges ahead, and please pop in when you are passing by.

Helen Clulee

COLLEGE STAFF

Senior Leadership

Neil Garry Principal

Nigel Hunter

Deputy Principal

Ainslie Anderson

Assistant Principal HOD Mathematics

Tom Casey Assistant Principal HOD Health and Physical Education, Year 12 & 13 Dean, TIC Outdoor Education

Chris Knopp

Assistant Principal

Brendan Porter Assistant Principal

Teaching Staff

Ricki Allan World Studies Year 10 Dean

Geoff Avis HOD Science

David Beazley Year 7 Homeroom Teacher

Cath Bowden Literacy Specialist

Anne Burton Mathematics

Hamish Cartwright Science

Glen Clark Art, Agriculture, Gateway

Lizzie Clark Te Reo Māori

Jeremy Cuthbert DVC & Technology

Kimberley Fridd Drama

Rachael Gardiner HoD Social Sciences, English, Careers Advisor

Emily Hall Physics

Andrew Hore Year 8 Homeroom teacher

Physical Education

Bryn Jones HOD Visual Art

Ronny Kotkamp Physical Education

Andrew Leitch TIC Junior Science

Melissa Marks Physical Education

Stewart McDonald Acting HOD Physical Education, Health

Duncan McLean Food Technology Year 11 Dean

Lachie McLellan HoD Year 7 & 8 Year 7 & 8 Dean

Keely McLeod ESOL

Steven McNulty HOD Music

Robert Milne Year 8 Homeroom Teacher

Andrew Morrison English, History

Ella Murdoch English, Specialist Classroom Teacher

Anna Noble Director of International Students, HOD Languages, German

Craig Preston Director of Agribusiness, Biology

David Schaumann HOD English

Dominic Schumacher Integrated Studies & Economics

Troy Shoebridge Digital Technology

Natasha Smillie Integrated Studies, History

Donna Smith HOD Junior English and Learning Support Year 9 Dean

Chung-Wei Wang Mathematics

Mike Wesseling Mathematics

Simon White HOD Technology

Brent Wolf TIC Commerce Support Staff

Andrew Nicol Chaplain

Administration

Jan Bremner Science Technician

Ann-Marie Chamberlain Accounts

Rachel Child Accounts

Helen Clulee Receptionist

Paula Delaney Financial Administrator

Tori Fleming Administration Gateway/STAR

Reva Grills Arts Coordinator

Craig Knights IT Administrator

Kirstyn Sandall General Manager

Rose Sinclair International Student Manager

Boarding

Drew Campbell Director of Boarding

Nick Price

Assistant ManagerBoarding

Stu Forster

Assistant ManagerBoarding (left end of Term 2)

Rosemary Stevenson Boarding Matron

Housemasters -

David Beazley

Sam Blakely

Richard Buchanan

Sam Doran (left Term 3)

Archer Elliott (left Term 2)

Kurt El-Roi

Kilifi Fangupo

Bruce Genever

Blair Mitchell

Mac Parker

Kaleb Prie

Sean Robertson

Andrew Sim

Brodie Watkins

Laura McIntosh Head Cleaner

Angela Campbell

Boarding House Cleaner

Angela Evans

Boarding House Cleaner

Julie Hamilton

Boarding House Cleaner

Debbie Haldane Laundry

Canteen

Leonie Mason

Canteen Manager

Kirby Leckie

Charlotte Mosley (Maternity leave from Term 2)

Kitchen

Davina Soper

Executive Chef

Heath James Sous Chef

Emma Duffin

Christine Hakkaart

Mikayla CookeMcDonnell

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Current Board

Kyle Murdoch (Chair)

Tumi Toro

Dave Stevens

Neil Garry (Principal)

Ainslie Anderson (Staff rep.)

Marco Hartono (Student rep.)

Rose Johnston

Debs Erskine

Geoff Burns

Ray O’Brien

Outgoing:

Tim Hannagan (Chair)

Rose Johnston

Lesley Brook

Naomi Ingram

Tracy Paterson

Joff Riley

Dave Stevens

Val Farrow

Sam Cosgrove

Zoe Gordon

Mixie Flint

Calum Jones

Carla McEwan

Jack Paris

Eva Paton

Library

Pam Garry

Library Manager

Victoria Watts

Library Assistant

Property

Dean Horo

Property Asset Manager

Tony Beck

Property Supervisor

Duncan McBeath Groundsman

Sport

Troy Jennings Director of Sport

Tony Gomez Sports Coordinator Student Support

Penny Ferguson

Learning Support

Administrator

Teacher Aides -

Paola Hapeta

Simon Maole

Natasha Prior

Julie Tolson

James Howey Counsellor

Counsellor

Daryl Shields

BOARD OF PROPRIETORS

Simon Anderson (Chair)

Neil Garry (Principal)

Adam Gain

Andrew Nicol

Barry Kelk

George Friedlander

John Anderson

John Guthrie

Joff Riley

Neal Wallace

Simon Cameron

Rose Johnston

Tracy Paterson

Stephanie Pettigrew

Tony Burton

Debs Erskine

Stephen Crawford

Paul Basham

REFLECTIONS FROM DEPARTING TEACHERS

Ricki Allan

It’s tough to say goodbye to a school that has given me so much in such a short time. Becoming a part of the McGlashan community over the past two years has been the highlight of my teaching career to this point, and it will take some beating moving forward. I am leaving McGlashan to relocate and see what life has to offer in Sydney, Australia.

This College is blessed to have some amazing staff, support staff, students and families all contributing to create what is uniquely ‘the John McGlashan experience’. Whether it be on the sporting fields, in the classrooms, or just out in the quad at morning tea and lunchtime, my time here at JMC has been thoroughly enjoyable.

I look forward to hearing of the many success stories that will continue to come out of this place over the coming years, and to seeing some of the young men that I have taught take some big strides into the adventures that lie in waiting for them when their time at McGlashan, too, comes to an end.

In the meantime, I want to say a big thank you to the colleagues, students, and wider community that have been integral for creating such an enjoyable and rewarding time here and I want to wish you all the very best. I will be keeping one eye on JMC from across the ditch.

P.S To the boys I have taught, “Champions do extra.” - don’t forget that.

Anna Noble

Leaving John McGlashan College means leaving a place where people come first, where empathy is lived and kindness practised.

It had been a dream of mine to work here since I completed my first placement during my teacher training. When the German position came with a ‘little international work’ as well, I was excited about the opportunity this provided. Little did I know the learning opportunities and challenges I, together with the entire world, would face over the coming years.

Building the International Department with a shared vision between the Board of Trustees, management and staff of the International Department, has been an exciting journey and has evolved over the years into something that John McGlashan can be proud of. The international students’ and families’ sense of belonging and level of integration became very

clear over the last three years, in which they not only remained loyal to their education and John McGlashan College, but were also held and supported by the entire community, showing how far reaching the community really is.

I have had the pleasure of teaching boys and young men whose journey in languages has had a real impact on their lives, broadened their horizons and prepared them for life beyond the New Zealand borders. Every single student who has been in a language classroom knows, that it is a special place full of life lessons, cultural and historical self-discovery and in-depth discussions about current and past events. I have been amazed by how the German students have embraced this over the years. I hope that with the reopening of the world, language students will enjoy the opportunities to travel and explore again and have the opportunity to get real life insight into a different culture through their language.

It has been a pleasure and a privilege to be part of the John McGlashan story and there are many people, many stories, countless laughs and amazing experiences I will treasure forever.

Emily Hall

Both my sons were at John McGlashan from way back in 2013 when the oldest was in Year 7. In 2017, my older son’s physics teacher had left the school part-way through the year so I accepted a temporary part-time role teaching his class and two other physics classes, thinking that it would just be until the end of the year and a permanent teacher was found. I enjoyed teaching at John McGlashan so much that I’ve been here ever since!

Some of my highlights from John McGlashan have been the karate club, getting to teach some karate classes in the Year 7 and 8 movement classes and the Year 9 ‘Fighting for Film’ workshops, taking the crossfit boys to the gym in the van with the loud singing (and questionable music taste), the Christchurch trip for the Young Physicists tournament, Engineering competitions and all the fun hands-on practicals we’ve been able to do in classes.

I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at John McGlashan College and will miss the boys, my colleagues, and friends.

Thank you for the amazing time I have enjoyed at John McGlashan College and the opportunities I have had here.

CHAPLAINCY

It has been an enormous privilege to join the school this year as Chaplain. I am most grateful for the warm welcome I have received and for the positive legacy that Rev. Barry Kelk and Pastor Roly Scott have so clearly established.

Our special Christian character undergirds the school’s identity and informs our responsibilities in helping to form young men of character. A core conviction of Christian faith is that God has acted in deep love toward humanity and desires relationship with us. This conviction guides my role as I seek to communciate in words and actions God’s positive regard for the lives of all people. A guiding theme in our Chapel services this year has therefore been the question of what it might mean to live our life well? Our vision of building foundations for life requires us to enquire about what truly matters to the boys— about the qualities and the convictions which shape a life well spent. Of course, this also compels us to look beyond ourselves and learn as people who give and serve. On a number of occasions this year the boys have assisted the community, whether, for example, stacking shelves at the foodbank, collecting for Octacan, or visiting Yvette Williams Retirement Home.

This year’s challenges have seen us run the full gamut of gatherings. I was actually welcomed and inducted six times by Rev. Kelk, Mr. Garry and Mr. Hunter as they generously introduced me to all year groups! As the year has progressed, we have

transitioned through partial online services, multiyear group meetings, larger special gatherings and then eventually in August to our first whole school Chapel in over a year. Amidst all this we suddenly began to see one another afresh as the requirements for masking significantly reduced.

Despite the restrictions—perhaps in light of all the disruption—our ANZAC and inaugural Matariki services stood out. Rev. Dr. Jordan Redding brought a sensitively delivered and inspiring message reflecting on the new Dunedin memorial for conscientious objector Archibald Baxter. Whaea Clark led us into new spaces as we experienced a powhiri and service considering the significance of Matariki. Special services and preperations around Easter and Christmas frame the year, as well as important celebrations in school life like Founder’s Remembrance and the School Leavers’ services. Throughout the year our Chapel Prefect, Martin Brook, has led us faithfully in prayer and conscientiously upheld the school’s special character.

I have loved getting to know our students, staff and families. These relationships are at the heart of the Chaplaincy. There is no question the year has held many challenges for our McGlashan family, yet I have observed our community celebrate well and, perhaps most importantly, draw on genuine substance and character.

BOARD OF PROPRIETORS

2022 has seen progress on a number of fronts for the Board of Proprietors.

The highlights are the acquisition of Te Anau Downs Lodge, a comprehensive independent review of sport at the College, and the completion of a Campus Masterplan to guide future development of the Dunedin Campus. Fiordland National Park is one of New Zealand’s treasured natural icons and is internationally recognised as part of the wider UNESCO World Heritage site, Te Wāhipounamu (Place of the Greenstone). A permanent lodge at this location will provide a second to none experience for present and future students at the College.

Board members have freely given hundreds of hours of time and expertise to acquire the Lodge, and now to prepare it for use by our students. I greatly appreciate that work.

The Board has commissioned and undertaken a comprehensive independent review of sport at the College. Sport is an important part of life at

the College and provides our students with many benefits ,n including camaraderie, fitness, the skill of practicing to improve, and the simple joy of competing. The good news is that we do many things well. The better news is that there are areas in which we can (and will) do better. Our primary goal is that all boys will have every opportunity and support to play and enjoy their chosen sports.

Work has continued to develop a Campus Masterplan for the College, to provide a long-term roadmap for future development of our Dunedin Campus. The Masterplan has now been presented to the Board. The Board will next focus on prioritising the different elements of the Masterplan and developing a financial plan to fund its implementation.

It has been a very busy year. On behalf of the Board of Proprietors I wish our students, staff and families a very happy Christmas. I hope all will enjoy a wellearned break.

Simon Anderson (BoP Chair)

Reverend Andrew Nicol

PREFECTS

HOUSE CAPTAINS

Back Row: Sam Cottier, Nicholas Friedlander, Mark Smith, Harold Gao, Stanley McClure, Michael Buttery Middle Row: Mr Neil Garry, Dr Craig Preston, Tom Fowler, Thomas Meder, Sam Porter, Charlie Breen, Mr Nigel Hunter Front Row: Martin Brook, Theo Hannagan, Jack Hazlett, Archie McRae, Jack Timu, Sheon Luxmanan, Keegan Ferguson, Xavier Edmund

Top: Jack Hazlett - Captain Balmacewan, Ben Joseph - Captain Burns, Tom Fowler - Captain Gilray, Stanely McClure - Captain Ross Bottom: Xavier Edmond (Dep.Capt. Balmacewan), Harry Wing (Dep.Capt. Balmacewan, Archie McRae (Dept. Capt. Burns), Keegan Ferguson(Dep.Capt. Burns), Charlie Breen (Dep.Capt. Gilray), Sheon Luxmanan (Dep.Capt. Gilray) Nicolas Friedlander (Dep.Capt. Ross) Thomas Meder (Dep.Capt. Ross)

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

What a privilege it is to acknowledge and celebrate the many achievements of the past year and what a year it has been! Students, staff, and our wider community have once again worked tirelessly to navigate the ongoing challenges of Covid. It is testament to the collective leadership, teamwork, flexibility, positive attitudes and plain hard work that the College not only maintained its robust teaching and learning programmes and sporting, artistic and cultural endeavours, but adapted creatively to offer exciting new opportunities in the wake of this new climate.

I particularly want to thank Neil and the staff for their incredible leadership this year, which began as another year of disruption and challenge, of social distancing and remote chapels but then quickly developed into a year of incredible opportunity and success. We welcomed Reverend Andrew Nicol as Chaplain who has nurtured our special character space through Chapel services and Christian Studies classes, and Reva Grills in the Arts Coordinator role. Reva has been active in creating opportunities to showcase the boy’s many talents. Keely McLeod has offered countless hours teaching ESOL to some of our International students and providing specialist tutoring. Lachie McLellan has assumed the role of Dean of Year 7 and 8 and has got to know the boys quickly in this special area of the school.

The purchase of the new Te Anau Downs Lodge is visionary and the national success of a huge variety of pursuits from the stunning TheatreFest and Rockquest performances, to the First XV rugby and First XI hockey glory was simply remarkable. We were so proud of everyone’s high achievements and the deserved recognition that was celebrated. The College Fête brought the entire community back together again and helped raise important funds.

To the boys, you are the reason we are all here. We believe in each and every one of you and know that you’re striving for excellence in all you choose to do. The dedication and commitment to your studies through the year, coupled with your critical thinking and thirst for learning, is championed by many to help you achieve your individual versions of excellence in a huge range of endeavours.

Thank you to all the volunteers who work behind the scenes to make things happen around our community: the Parents and Friends Association, coaches, supporters, reader/writers - all who freely give their time to support our college. A huge thanks must go to members of the Board of Trustees who stepped down this year after years of service; former board chair Tim Hannagan, and former members Val Farrow, Lesley Brook, Dr Naomi Ingram and Tracy Patterson. You’ve all left big shoes to fill at the boardroom table. Your contributions have all helped make the College a better place to learn, work, and grow.

To the Board of Trustees and Board of Proprietors members and Student Representative Marco Hartano, thank you for your collegiality, expertise and commitment to John McGashan College. All governance decisions are made with one simple and consistent measuring stick - how might our work and our decision-making help benefit the school, the students, their families, the staff, and our wider community? Our job is to help generate opportunities that students can grab with both hands and see how far they can run with them.

Wishing you all a safe and well deserved holiday.

Kyle Murdoch (BoT

Chair)

Part Two: McGlashan Prizegiving and Premier Awards

PRINCIPAL’S ADDRESS SENIOR PRIZE-GIVING

Mr Chairman, members of the board, staff, parents, grandparents, family and boys, welcome to the 2022 Senior Prize-giving.

It is a relief to be back in the Davies Sports Centre with a full complement of whanau, staff and boys. Last year’s senior prize-giving was a marathon effort; three prize givings in one day with only the boys and a few staff in attendance, followed by a compilation video circulated later. Although those ceremonies were the best fit for the circumstances, the atmosphere did not embody the strong sense of community and goodwill that is the true special character of this college and which surrounds us this evening.

Despite all the disruptions this year, we have much to be grateful for, including an excellent ERO report. The staff have been creative, innovative and resilient in managing their teaching and co-

curricular activities. In the last three years, there have been disappointments and lost opportunities for us all. However, on a global scale, we have been very fortunate. As a college, we have attempted to be clear, uncomplicated and direct regarding our management of the pandemic. At the peak of the chaos, we had over 200 boys absent and 11 staff away and I want to thank the community and those of you who conveyed support and encouragement. Never was there a negative comment. I hope we have carried the College through these times with a sense of calm and purpose. The boys have taken things in their stride and forged ahead. Now, unmasked, it is good to see so many smiling faces around the campus and the boys getting back into their other activities outside the classroom and doing so well at them.

The growth and resilience of the culture at John McGlashan College are linked to the strength and confidence of the community - this had a powerful influence in managing and navigating the year. The everyday parent contribution to governance and leadership, the Board of Trustees and Board of Proprietors, Sports Council, Parents and Friends’ Association, fundraising, reader/writers, coaching and management, support on camps and Duke of Edinburgh trips, lifts what we can offer to the next level. Your individual contributions may not seem significant, but collectively, I assure you, they make a powerful difference. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has helped us throughout the year.

The Parents and Friends’ Association pulled off an incredibly successful year amidst a fragile Covid environment. The fete was one of the first events to reunite the wider McGlashan community. People arrived in droves to support the festivities and enjoy the spring weather. The fete’s most significant and enjoyable aspect is that it brings us together as a community, something we have missed over the last few years. Thank you to Chairperson Sandy Rasmusson, past Chairperson Pen Edmond, and their teams for their industry and tremendous enthusiasm. You have made an invaluable contribution to the College.

The work of the Sports Council often falls under the radar and goes unnoticed. Under the diligent care of Chairman James Nation, this group of parents has dedicated itself to enhancing sporting opportunities for our boys. Mr Russell Cotton and Mr Lindsay Breen leave this year, and they will be missed. These two

gentlemen have been a constant powerhouse in the engine room of the Sports Council.

When I meet prospective parents, I talk about the relationship between teachers and students and the power of our community. And I do this with sincerity. Our foundations focus on bringing out the best in our students, regardless of their capabilities or experience. I am sure you recognize that the McGlashan staff work tirelessly to do their best for the boys and get the best from them. The strength and collegiality of our staff are tangible aspects of McGlashan culture, and I applaud them for their commitment and professional dedication to the boys and our teaching programmes. It goes without saying that what they offer academically is exceptional and goes well beyond their day-to-day responsibilities. The staff play the most crucial role in engaging, nurturing, developing and inspiring our students to find their personal best.

Boys, please stand and acknowledge the staff for their contribution in 2022.

The ultimate highlight of the 2022 year has been fulfilling my long-held dream of procuring a second campus for the College .... Te Anau Downs - Fiordland National Park Lodge

One of my personal highlights this past year has been the continued growth of our pastoral care and learning support practices. Our entire staff takes a relational approach to student well-being, a collective attitude which permeates school culture.

I have often spoken about the importance of a positive culture in our school and the need for transparency and open conversation. Dedicated deans and form teachers, councillors, careers advisors, the Chaplain, senior staff, learning support coordinators, teachers and support staff are dedicated to the wellbeing of the boys and are proactive in communicating their approachability and readiness to listen. This year, I have also observed a shoring-up of support from the McGlashan community. When the going gets

tough, the tough get going.

Sadly, we have to farewell two staff this evening. We congratulate both Anna Noble and Ricki Allen for their positive influence on the fabric of our school community.

Ricki Allen has been at the College for two years (not long enough) as an expert practitioner across the middle school and senior English. Mr Allen has also been the Year 10 Dean, and his rapport has allowed every boy to prosper under his care. Ricki, your contribution to the co-curricular programme has also been exceptional; Second XV rugby has continued to thrive under your care. The boys and staff will miss you.

All the very best, Ricki. We look forward to your return.

Anna Noble has been a committed and dedicated teacher and Head of Languages for nine years. In addition, Anna has established and grown a standout international department over this period. The culture developed in both domains has been exceptional. Anna’s style is connected, empathetic and student-focused, accompanied by consistent delivery and high expectations. We thank you, Anna, for your service to our boys and the positive impact you have made. Congratulations on your appointment as Principal of the Rudolf Steiner School. I notice the motto of Steiner education is compatible with your own teaching philosophy and that of John McGlashan College …

“Receive the child in reverence. Educate them with love. Let them go forth in freedom”.

We wish you well for the future, Anna.

It is also appropriate to recognize Mr Tim Hannagan, our recently retired Board Chair. Tim has had a 26year association with the College which began in 1996 with the enrolment of his eldest son Josh. Tim has made a significant and important contribution as Board Chair and Sports Council member, sports manager, reader-writer extraordinaire and parent. On behalf of the community and students, I salute you, Tim, for your relentless dedication in crafting a holistic, quality education for our students. You leave the organization well-placed for the future.

Board of Trustees members Tracy Paterson, Lesley Brook and Naomi Ingram are also retiring. Each is skilled and knowledgeable, and I thank them for their immense and valuable contribution.

The ultimate highlight of the 2022 year has been fulfilling my long-held dream of procuring a second campus for the College. The Board of Proprietors, in consultation with the Board of Trustees, has purchased the Te Anau Downs - Fiordland National Park Lodge located 30km north of Te Anau on the highway to Milford Sound.

This three-hectare block is on the shores of Lake Te Anau, nestled in the Fiordland National Park. It will provide a multitude of unique adventure-based learning opportunities. Generations of McGlashan students will benefit from independent living, the challenges of the surrounding area, the beauty of the lake and the comradeship of their peers.

Many past McGlashan students commonly describe their school camp experiences as their most memorable time at the College. The vision of the staff and boards is to consolidate such experiences as an additional pillar of college culture and ‘the way we do things at McGlashan’. Extensive and meaningful curriculum activities will be integrated into this fabulous and unique environment.

By providing an opportunity for boys to learn in and from an environment stripped of the elements of present-day society, we are giving boys the freedom to come face to face with ‘who’ he is and ‘what’ he is capable of. Through community living, we are providing the best opportunity for promoting social development within a dynamic, life-changing experience of self-discovery and independence.

Planning is well underway, and the lodge will accommodate McGlashan students by April 2023.

‘It’s impossible’, said pride.

‘It’s risky’, said experience.

‘It’s pointless’, said reason.

‘Give it a try’, whispered the heart.

Te Anau Downs is a legacy purchase, and I am sure the forebears of the College will be saluting the vision of the 2022 Boards.

Here, I must acknowledge the innovative and progressive work of the Board of Proprietors –Chairman Simon Anderson, Finance Lead Simon Cameron, Property Development and Maintenance Joff Riley, and Boarding Liaison Tracy Paterson. In consultation with a range of stakeholders within the College community, this group has formulated a Property Master Plan, which will set out a coherent scheme for the future development of the Pilkington Street campus. Its guiding ethos is ‘to build the legacy on what has gone before,’ and underpins our resolve to facilitate further development in support of the College’s purpose and direction, rather than drive wholesale change.

Boys, you are the reason we are here this evening - to acknowledge your mahi and talent, and to celebrate success. In particular, we congratulate those who have succeeded and deserve recognition for their performance. There are those, too, who have done the hard work but will not cross the stage. You may be disappointed, but this is your opportunity to show your maturity by accepting that not everything will go your way in life. Don’t be disillusioned. There is no silver bullet or magic solution to success in your endeavours. However, you should consider personal discipline a tool in your arsenal - your superpower. Roll your sleeves up and get on with it. Work harder and smarter. The magic is in discipline and self-belief. Choice, not chance, defines your destiny. Make good choices boys.

Be worthy of the legacy we have given you here and earn the respect of your community, whether that’s at home or in a flat, at work, or with your friends. Be someone whom others look up to, reflect the values of the College and represent yourself with dignity, honour and mana.

Keep safe over the holidays, and look after your mates.

Neil Garry

JACK TIMU

John McGlashan College - what a year. I think it’s fair to say that while there’s been ups and downs, it’s gone by pretty fast and I’m sure all the leavers are already beginning to recollect all the good times we’ve had. Looking back to the start of the year, I think we were all very sceptical of what the year would hold for us, but once we got into the swing of things we were tracking quite nicely with multiple sporting, music, and academic awards already. Despite Covid knocking us around here and there, Mr. Garry and the staff did a phenomenal job keeping us on track with our school work and mental health. Collectively during this time, staff, students and whanau, all had each others’ backs to ensure that we didn’t lose sight of our goals and got what we wanted out of the year. Although we have had many interruptions John McGlashan has had a history-making year in not only sports, but also our arts and drama. We would be here all night if I named every achievement, but a special mention to our hockey, rugby, and bands who all excelled extremely high in their competitions. Although it was five years ago, I still remember,

back in Year 9, walking into school knowing very few people and thinking, “What have I got myself into.” What I didn’t realise was that I was about to walk into the best five years of my life. Within a week I had made friends that are still my best mates today and hopefully will be for life. As some of you may have seen on the way in, the quote above the door says “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers” and I think this sums up Johnnies in one simple sentence. We’re definitely not the biggest school, but that is why we are so tight and we certainly punch above our weight. I am still amazed to this day at how many opportunities this school throws at you. It is all there for the taking - it is just up to you if you want to get involved. My advice to you boys coming through is to get involved with everything you can, whether it be cultural, sporting, or service. Don’t look back at your time here and think ‘I should have tried more.’ Just do it and you never know what it could bring you.

To the Year 11s, I urge you to take every opportunity you can, (even if it puts you outside your comfort zone) because once they pass they don’t normally come

HEAD PREFECT

back around. Also, make sure you keep your head in your books as these next two years won’t come easy. To you, Year 12’s, enjoy it while you still can because I tell you what, it doesn’t go slow. You guys are the next leaders and role models of this school, prefect or not. I can guarantee there is a junior looking up to each and every one of you, so set good examples but don’t forget to have fun.

I am very grateful for everything that I have achieved here at this school, but nothing would have been possible without all of the staff. So to the staff, thank you so much for what you have done for me and all the rest of us. Although some of them may be love-hate relationships, I truly appreciate the things you have taught me and I will carry them on for the rest of my life.

a lot easier. So, I owe you a huge thank you. Year 13 boys, our time is up and we now move on to the wide world. You guys have been an awesome bunch and have made more memories together than I would have ever thought, and I am excited to see what everyone ends up doing. I wish you all the best of luck.

We’re definitely not the biggest school, but that is why we are so tight and we certainly punch above our weight.

Secondly, Mr. Garry, Mr. Hunter, and Dr. Preston. When I first got this role I thought, “Oh no,” because I thought my workload would go through the roof, but you guys stood beside us the whole time and made it

To the most important, my whanau. Mum and Dad, thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to attend John McGlashan back in 2018, without you guys I wouldn’t be the person I am today, and nothing you do goes unnoticed. I will finish with the same tradition that has been going on since before I got here and leave you with a quote,“Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said ‘yes’ to something. And some of the biggest regrets happened because you said ‘no’ to something.” It has been a pleasure leading you boys this year.

Have a good holiday, cheers.

PREMIER AWARDS

DUCES

Ray Ma

Ray has been studying the IB diploma. He received excellences in all his subjects this year. Ray has taken the unusual step of taking four higher level subjects instead of the mandatory three, as he could not decide which subjects he enjoyed more. He is a dedicated student who was always wanting to achieve highly in everything that he attempted. Ray also managed to get involved in the school choir and the Big Sing competition.

Proxime Accessit

Harold Gao

Harold has been studying the IB diploma. He had outstanding grades in music, computer science, mathematics and English this year. His predicted grade is 42/45. Although busy with his own study, Harold has helped out with tutoring younger

Martin Brook

Martin has been a top scholar at the College since Year 7, gaining the top scholar of the College most years. He also has studied the IB diploma and is predicted to gain 43/45. Last year he obtained three NZQA scholarships and has had articles published in Redraft. Martin also manages to find time to play football and has won several junior chess tournaments. He is the Special Character Prefect and has contributed to Chapel services and helped organise the 40 Hour Famine and the Easter rest home donations.

students. Harold has been the deputy art prefect, has been involved in the chess club, and a futsal team.

Next year, Harold has been admitted to the prestigious Berklee College of Music with a meritbased scholarship. He will work towards a double major in composition and music education with the end goal of becoming a music teacher.

Rex King Memorial Award

Theh Best All Round Student: Academic, Sporting and Cultural.

Harrison Marshall & Theo Hannagan

Harrison’s efforts, over his time at the College have produced excellent results in a range of subjects. He has been heavily involved in football both, regionally and nationally and this year was the First XI captain. Harrison also plays Southern Premiership football – the top men’s grade - for Green Island. He is a talented footballer and has been an outstanding leader on and off the field. Harrison holds Blues in both music and football. He is a keen and talented writer, and his work has been showcased in the Pilkington Press. He has been involved in three RockQuest competitions where he wrote the music and acted as band leader. He has helped mentor other bands for the last two years.

Theo has contributed much to music and service to the College, as is recognised by other awards he received at Senior Prize-giving. Theo has also achieved highly academically over his time at the College, gaining excellence endorsements over a range of subjects. He has been involved in a range of sports: curling, hockey and club football. Theo was instrumental in establishing the darts club in 2019 and has helped mentor younger players. He has competed in the junior and youth National Darts Championships. He has scored over 25 180s this year – an impressive tally!

TS Holme Award

The student who best exemplifies the qualities promoted by the College

Jack Hazlett & Jack Timu

Jack Hazlett has been an outstanding student in all aspects of college life. He has achieved academically every year, has been involved in sport to a high level and has been involved in service through his role as deputy head boy and the College and at the Boarding House. He has coached junior hockey teams and has helped out with tutoring students.

As Head Boy, Jack has been the face of the College and he has done an outstanding job representing John McGlashan. He is an approachable student who is always prepared to go the extra mile for anyone. He is a talented athlete and willing to give his time for the College.

Ted Friedlander

Loyalty and Contribution to the College Nicholas Friedlander

Nic is a prefect and Ross deputy house leader. He is co-founder of the McGlashan Monocle and has written countless articles that have entertained and informed staff and students over the last two years. He has served on the school council for the last three years. Nic has also given back to the College through one of his passions, hockey. He has coached a junior team for the last two years and he runs an effective practice. He has also published a 65-page book on the 2022 hockey season.

Gaze Family Cup

Service to the Community and the College

Theo Hannagan & Michael Buttery

Michael has been involved in service to the school and community his whole time at the College. He is the co-founder of the McGlashan Monocle and has written several enlightening articles. Michael has helped out as a peer tutor and with the Presbyterian Support Octacan drive. He has spent countless hours refereeing for the College interchange games and he also coached the Year 7 and 8 football team. He referees for the local touch competition three nights a week and for rugby every Saturday in winter.

Theo has also contributed many hours of service to the College. He has mentored junior bands for Bandquest, been a regular entertainer at numerous chapels and assemblies, and has helped out running the house music competition. This year he has been Chairperson of both the student council and the formal committee.

The Jonoel Award

For supporting the College’s special character

Martin Brook

This year’s Jonoel award for supporting the school’s special character goes to Martin Brook. Whilst serving the school as prefect for special character he has faithfully led us in prayer, sensitively directing our focus beyond ourselves. At all times Martin has been a conscientious and committed leader, both as regards his visible roles in chapel and behind the scenes stimulating our community service and encouraging students’ faith.

Principal’s Award to

the Head Prefect

Jack Timu

The Lead and Inspire Award recognises the responsibilities and contributions the Head Prefect makes each year. Jack had a difficult start to his leadership role, as with no full assemblies for most of the first half of the year it was hard for him to gain momentum in his role. He has been an outstanding leader of the College and an excellent role model for all students. He has had a high profile across a number of sports: rugby and touch both at local and international level. Even with all the demands of the head boy role and a challenging year, he has maintained his academic studies.

The Three Brothers’ Cup

Highest Performing Athlete

Thomas Meder

First XI hockey captain and defensive midfielder Thomas led his team to the best ever Rankin cup finish and gained his 100th cap for the team this year. Thomas also plays for the Taieri Premier Mens’ team, and was MVP and Captain of the Otago Under-18 team which finished 4th at Nationals. Thomas was awarded the Kane Russell Trophy for the most outstanding High School Player in Otago in 2022. To cap this off Thomas was named in the New Zealand Under-18 Hockey squad to attend training camps in 2021 and 2022.

The Lloyd Cup

Best All-Round Athlete

Charlie Breen

Charlie takes the title of Best All-Round Athlete ahead of a group of multi-talented individuals. As a member of the Senior A Touch team, Charlie has represented Otago Under-18 in Touch. He is in the First XI Cricket team and also in the First XI Hockey team. Charlie was an integral member of the First XV rugby team and was selected for the Highlanders Schools team.

The Gilchrist Family Shield

Most Outstanding Sports Team

First XV Rugby

A season of many firsts for this talented team. The first time Southland Boys’ and Otago Boys’ were beaten in away games. The team also went through the Highlanders Schools’ competition unbeaten with a great win in the final under the stadium roof over Southland Boys’. They headed off to Nelson as underdogs, and won the South Island Secondary School title which meant that they qualified for the first time ever to attend the Top Four tournament in Palmerston North. They put up a credible showing against eventual winners and perennial powerhouse Hamilton Boys’ in the first game and almost beat Westlake Boys’ High School. Many boys gained Highlanders selections to cap off a memorable year for the team.

The Ford Family Award Boarding House Award

Stanley McClure

Stanley is one of the head boarders in the Boarding House. He is an outstanding leader that many students look up to for guidance and support. Stanley has led the Year 13 boys well this year and is a fine role model for all the boarders. He is a mature and reliable student; he is someone who will always give his best and has a positive attitude in whatever he is doing. He is always willing to help out around the boarding house either by leading activities or helping to make changes or suggestions that will benefit everyone. Stanley is an

all-rounder who has excelled in a number of sporting achievements over his time at John McGlashan College, with some outstanding results in Athletics, Touch and Rugby this year, and being selected for the Metro Under 18 rugby team and the Highlanders team. He has backed this up with a solid academic performance gaining an excellence endorsement last year and achieved some great results this year. Stanley is a true leader in the Boarding house, someone that the juniors look up to and aspire to be.

Walter Godsall Trophy Rural Student of the Year

Archie McRae

Hailing from Alpha Burn Station, Glendhu Bay, Central Otago, Archie has distinguished himself as one of our finest rural students, and excelled in all areas of college life. Besides his numerous sporting accomplishments, Archie has served as deputy head boy this year and exerted a substantial and positive influence in the boarding house over the past few years, all the while maintaining a solid academic record throughout his college stay. Absolutely down-to-earth, displaying unwavering integrity, and a can-do-attitude has endeared this wonderful young man to both staff and students. We congratulate Archie on earning the Walter Godsall Rural Student of the Year.

Neal Wallace Literary Award

Premier Award for Interest and Excellence in Literature

Martin Brooks

Martin is engaged and passionate about literature, achieving at the highest levels in Both NCEA and IB, including succeeding in tackling the additional challenge of Scholarship English in Year 12. Moreover, Martin is an accomplished writer. His poetry and short fiction has featured in school publications on numerous occasions. He has also had a short story published in the Redraft journal, putting him in the company of the very best young writers in the country.

Seven Brothers

Most significant contribution to the Arts

Theo Hannagan

Theo has been heavily involved with the visual and performing arts, excelling in the subjects of Music and Photography. He was the recipient of a Visual Arts Blue and Music Blue in 2021 and another Music Blue more recently.

Theo as the drummer of Suéchef, was selected as a national top-20 semi-finalist in the 2022 Rockquest. The group were given the opportunity to record three of their original songs.

Theo has also been involved with mentoring junior groups in Bandquest and with the organization for a number of Arts events around the school.

Cochrane/Aldridge Trophy

Premier Award for School Music

Harold Gao

Harold has been a prolific member of the McGlashan Music community,. He has achieved 7s in each of his portfolios for higher level IB Music this year and recently received a Blues award for his involvement with music in the College.

He has played as the pianist in the JMC Big Band at the Dunedin Youth Jazz Festival, and has entered his original orchestral compositions into the annual Audrey Reid Competition. He has regularly performed at events both in and out of school. This year, he has also completed his grade 8 exams in piano performance, and has just been accepted into the prestigious Berklee College of Music..

The

Roslyn Physiotherapy Health Sciences Award

Thomas Meder

Next year, Thomas is studying nursing at Otago Polytechnic. He then hopes to become a ski and helicopter medic. His diverse skill set and excellent interpersonal skills, in combination with his maturity and leadership. will be great assets in pursuing this career.

Part Three: McGlashan Life

CLUTHA GOLD TRAIL

In week 3 the challenge of 110km and 764m of vertical climb was tackled by 85 keen cyclists, 4 seniors, 13 parents and 7 staff for the Year 9 Cycle Camp.

A rejigged version of the ‘Rail Trail’ camp was undertaken this year which saw the route change from Clyde-Middlemarch to Clyde-Lawerence. Following the Roxburgh Gorge and Clutha Gold Trails over three days the Year 9s students took on this challenge of endurance, mindset, team work and leadership.

The four classes were split into two groups. One camp away for Monday to Wednesday (9CBD and 9DOS) and the second from Wednesday to Friday (9DSM and 9DOS). Along with the physical challenge this experience gives students the opportunity to mix with their new classmates and get to know their teachers better as well.

The first day (for both camps) took the cyclists over the 12km Clyde River Track which served as the perfect warm up for the challenges to come. A quick lunch break and it was on to the big challenge of the day: the Roxburgh Gorge.

After a bit of a rest on the boat the next challenge was the climb up towards the dam, with another 12km of riding and several metres of uphill switchbacks. This was a huge challenge for the students who showed a high level of perseverance and grit to make it to the top. The feeling of elation (and equal parts exhaustion) was a worthwhile reward for their efforts.

The last part of day provided a wind whistling down hill blast towards camp. While you would have thought the students would be out of energy by this point, this was not to be and the evening was filled by several ‘friendly’ games of cricket. It was great to have students, staff, parents and senior leaders getting in on the action and the boys are to be congratulated for the very inclusive way in which this was played.

Day two was a gradual downhill ride from Roxburgh, through Millers Flat and on to Beaumont. Along the way the students were able to visit The Lonely Graves and Horseshoe Ben Swing Bridge.

Although this day had less climb to contend with, the heat definitely made its presence felt. For the boys’ effort, they were rewarded with a swim at the end of the long 42km of ride. We found a great spot not far from our Beaumont camping site and enjoyed a refreshing dip in the mighty Clutha River.

We were very lucky to have a fabulous group of parents along on both camps. We could not undertake these experiences without their assistance and support so we are all very grateful for their contribution.

Each camp also had the support of two senior students (Sam Porter. Matheson Colquhoun, Thomas Meder and Mitchell Lobb) who served as leaders, mentors and role models to the boys of ‘how we do things’ at McGlashan. The contribution these young men made was substantial and we are very grateful

for the time and energy they gave to the camp. All in all it was a terrific few days. The students took this opportunity and all the challenges it presented in their stride. We hope they can take some of the skills and attributes they have shown on camp such as, determination, perseverance, grit, support of others and leadership, and apply these in other areas of their lives too.

A massive thank you to all the staff that attended,

particularly Mr Casey who invested a great deal of time behind the scenes to ensure the boys had a fantastic trip.

When asked what advice they would give the 2023 students, the boys provided the following advice: Practice before the camp and wear bike pants and a gel seat! Ride the whole thing even if it is really hard and tough. It’s all in your head. If you don’t think you can do it, you won’t. If you think you can, you will.

MAADI CUP

Maadi under Covid conditions was always going to be tough. The week started out stressful with both coaches being taken out due to illness, leaving Mark Smith and Fynn Alison, the two senior rowers, to step up. Throughout the week we made it through the progression getting us closer and closer to the end goals and allowing us to hopefully walk away with some silverware for our efforts from the season, making all those early mornings worth it.

Finals Friday started off well with the head coach back in the boat park and the Under-16 quad placing 5th in the A final. Moving on to lunchtime the Under-18 quad of Mark, Fynn, Matt and Ollie pulled off a blinder earning bronze in their final. An amazing achievement that lifted everyone’s spirits and gave our camp a real buzz.

The Saturday brought the fog and then another good day with more good results and fun had on the bank. Matt and Ollie won Silver in the Under-16 Double

and Fynn and Mark where 3rd in the Under-18 Double. Angus Loe rowed an amazing race in the Under-16 single staying in touch with the top three with only a few 100m’s to go finishing a very commendable 6th. In total John McGlashan rowed away with two bronze medals, one silver and finishing 16th best sculling school out of 95. It was a good achievement for them and a nice reward for their efforts all season.

Mark Smith was invited to trial for the NZ Under-19 squad and Matt O’Meara for the Under-16 South Island squad. Thank you to all the dedicated parents who helped over the season and our committed coaches Dylan Davis and Lauren Gibb for all the long early hours that you have invested into our rowing boys.

We appreciate the support funding from the JMC Sports Council and JMC Parents and Friends’ Association.

Coach Dylan Davis

SOUTHLAND BOYS’

SPORTS EXCHANGE

McGlashan has dominated the annual Sports and Cultural Exchange with Southland Boys High School, running out 8-3 winners overall.

A packed schedule meant some early departures from school, with some very weary eyes greeting teachers and coaches as the first couple of buses departed at 6am. It is fair to say plenty of boys used the bus trip to catch up on some extra hours of sleep!

CHESS

In their first competitive assignment of the year, McGlashan’s champion chess team showed no signs of rust, even if Gary Yao overslept and missed the bus trip. Grandmaster Martin Brook was unstoppable in his four matches, as was John Mengel. Perhaps weary from having less time to prepare, Gary was not at his high standards, though was still strong, as was the youthful Ryan Zhou as McGlashan triumphed 133.

DEBATING

A new look McGlashan debating lineup made the trek down to the southernmost province of New Zealand, and hopes were certainly high. The Senior side was skippered by Harold Gao, with John Zhao and Zac Brooking in support but, unfortunately, they fell short in the debate. It was an interesting motion for the boys to negate against, “This house believes juries should be abolished.” They might perhaps feel with lawyers for judges they were at an unfair advantage, but it was a good experience nonetheless.

The junior side had more luck in their debate on whether all New Zealand schools should be co-ed. The team of Maxwell Reid, William Ashton and Reid Penwarden were arguing against this, and formed a well-structured argument to win the debate! The future is looking bright in the debating circles.

BASKETBALL

The Southland Boys’ gym was treated to a pair of belting basketball clashes, but once again it was the home side that was left disappointed.

The Junior A’s game was a high-quality affair, with both sides competing hard under the hoop. Maita Madambi was a menace all day in the transition, whilst Mac Forde was able to land some crucial shots to see them home in a cliff-hanger 61-60.

The Senior A’s game was much the same, with the experience of senior players in Beau Lundy and Will Andrews crucial to an eventual win. The game was much tighter than McGlashan might have liked, but within the arm wrestle, Zavier Paterson and Caleb Forde were absolute standouts.

FOOTBALL

A bumper triple-header was played out in the football, and McGlashan was highly successful in winning all three matches.

Up first, the Year 7&8 A Team and the Junior (9&10) A Team took to the pitch concurrently, both thrashing their opposites. It was an end to end game for the youngest side competing in the exchange, which suited star striker Max Nation down to the ground as he grabbed five goals for himself as a part of an 8-3 rout.

It was a similar walk in the park for the Junior A side, with an all-round team effort leading them to a 7-1 win.

For the First XI, the tale read similarly, as they waltzed around the pitch with real authority. Their counterparts resorted to hoof-ball and last-ditch challenges, but were powerless in the end as a Mitchell Thorn brace guided his side to a 5-1 win.

GOLF

The earliest start of the day was the golf, at a bright and early 9:30am, meaning the McGlashan team didn’t have a lot of time to get their swing in order, especially with several key members absent. However, William Loe was in fine form, as were Jonty Riley and young Caleb Ung and the team prevailed 3-1 in the matchplay format.

HOCKEY

The domination in circular ball sports was evident on the hockey turf, as both McGlashan sides delivered crushing victories.

In a role reversal, the First XI was up first for the stick and ball sport, and they dominated from start to finish, despite having a vastly inexperienced side. Millar McElrea stood up with a first-half hat-trick to set the tone, before Will Hancox, Tom Meder and Jack Cotton rounded out the scoring in a 7-0 win.

The U15A side was much the same, putting on a fine showing. They dominated from start to finish against a slightly older Southland side. Bede O’Connell was the star at right-half, as several of the forwards got their names on the scoresheet in a 7-1 win.

RUGBY

It was another triple-header with the rugby, though unfortunately, the Factory were not as successful on the footy paddock.

Kicking off at relatively similar times were the Second XV and Under-16 sides, both of whom

couldn’t quite find their best form. On the main field the Under-16s kicked off slightly later, starting the game really well, but they just couldn’t convert it into points. They battled on, but in the end, they fell to a disappointing defeat.

The Second XV match was a real arm wrestle, with both sides having to deal with a stiff cross-breeze. The men in red battled hard throughout, with good performances across the park, but they couldn’t find the points to match it. Their only try came from a scintillating Millar McElrea break to set up Will Pringle for an absolute classic.

The final event of the exchange was the welldocumented First XV match - a great result for McGlashan, running out 23-17 winners.

TRAPSHOOTING

The trapshooters have continued their fine form, handing out a pasting to their Southland counterparts despite it being duck-shooting season when you would expect them to be on form. The experienced team was too good across the whole competition, cruising home to victory.

Overall a fantastic effort from McGlashan, running out 8-3 winners overall. All of the boys were well behaved which was good to see, and everyone gives great thanks to the organising party including Mr Jennings.

Nicholas Friedlander

FORMAL

On a crisp, late September evening the annual John Mcglashan College Senior Formal was held at the Otago Museum. Despite being a little delayed compared to previous years due to various uncertainties, the event still proved to be thoroughly enjoyable for everyone.

On arrival, the Head Prefect, deputies and the Formal Committee greeted guests, complemented by photography courtesy of Kelk Photography. The Roaring Twenties provided a source of inspiration for the theme with Gravity events taking care of lighting, sound and props to help bring the concept to life. Rylan Urquhart and Dr Preston enhanced the buzzing atmosphere with their outstanding performances of ‘Afterglow’, ‘50 Ways to Leave Your Lover’ and ‘Isn’t She Lovely’ (to name a few). After a dinner catered by the renowned Precinct on Vogel St, guests either opted to use the photo booth, take advantage of Kelk’s skilled photographers or simply engage in some meaningful conversation. This, followed by a decadent dessert also catered by Precinct.

As the evening drew to a close, guests migrated to the Hutton Theatre where the notable Oxo Cubans played live, followed by a brief thoughtful speech from Nathan McKnight.

The night would not have been possible without the hospitable and attentive staff of the Otago Museum, Precinct and Gravity Events. Thank you - and thanks also to the Year 11 students who volunteered to sort and look after people’s belongings.

An extended thanks to all those who attended. Over three hundred students, partners and staff joined us at the Museum - a highly successful turn-out to say the least.

For the Year 13s departing at the end of 2022, it was a great final opportunity to celebrate our accomplishments as a collective and share highlights of our time together.

(on behalf of the 2022 Formal Committee)

Tim Bradfield

HAKA COMPETITION

BURNS TRIUMPH!

After delivering a superb-looking haka to the naked eye, you’d have been forgiven for thinking Ross would waltz to victory in the 2022 House Haka, but it was Mighty Burns doing the victory dance at the end of the day.

Balmacewan kicked off proceedings, putting in a solid if not spectacular effort, lacking some real passion due to a lack of senior students. Their pace probably crept a little towards the fast side as well, though Zavier Patterson led them well overall.

Ross went second, and all biases aside, their haka was powerful. They began in a pair of circles, dropping to a knee in prayer as senior students Jack Timu, Phoenix Abbott, Stanley McClure, and James Paterson sprung up into action. To the untrained eye, it looked very good, but it is alleged their transition into lines was too quick, seeing them docked points. The bulk of the haka that followed was flawless though, with Jack Timu making his impact felt after racing back from a physio appointment. Those in attendance certainly had the feeling the men in blue would be the men to beat.

Gilray was third, and you would be lying if you said their haka didn’t contain passion. A fair criticism in the final washup was that all the houses overdid the pukana, and this could not be more true of the men in white, though again the passion was there to see. Their passion had a bit of a knock-on effect that would become quite crucial, as several members of Ross struggled to contain laughter after Tom Fowler nearly fell over. The rest of the haka led by George Hancox was strong, but too much passion was always

going to cost them on the judges’ scorecards.

Defending champions Burns rounded off proceedings, and as always under the watchful eye of Mr. Beazley, they were very impressive. Their formation looked good, but a stutter in the pace caused an issue with the timing, as well as a few giggles amongst the back rows which had many in the surround thinking the men in yellow’s reign as Haka champions was coming to an end. They recovered to finish strongly, but the general acceptance was that it was going to be victory for Ross, though again they were seen laughing during Burns’s struggles.

After a very long time spent deliberating, judges Mrs Clark, Mr Price, and an independent judge from the Otago Corrections Facility handed the results over to the master of ceremonies, Mr Hunter.

A bombshell announcement of points deductions immediately had Ross sweating, and deep down several members knew what was coming. The overdoing of the pukana hit Gilray the hardest, as they finished last. It was then announced there was a tie for third/second, with a points deduction seeing Ross knocked down to level with Balmacewen, as Burns prevailed by one point!

Absurd rumours circulated claiming Ross was ahead by a mile pre-deduction. However, they broke with protocol and Burns’s Haka was outstanding, so the mighty men in yellow were deserving winners, yet again.

Nicolas Friedlander

(With constructive edits from Mr Schaumann)

WELLINGTON ARTS

Very early on Tuesday morning, Ms Gardiner, Mr Jones and a dozen Year 12 and 13 students embarked on this year’s Visual Art trip to Wellington. Our scheduled 6.20 am flight turned into an eventual 11 am departure due to ice on the runway, unfortunately, this led to approximately half of the planned activities having to be cancelled.

Old boy Will Duffy met us at Massey University’s College of Creative Arts where he is currently completing his second year of a four-year honours degree in Industrial Design. He led a tour of two halls of residence and a tour of the various design areas on the Massey campus.

Senior staff at Massey met the students in the afternoon and began a series of portfolio interviews, and six out of the eight students gained preferential entry into the course which is a highly competitive course to gain entry into.

The weather in Wellington showed no signs of improvement as we battled our way down Tory Street in the late afternoon to finish our day with a visit to Te Papa. At 5.30 pm it was time to head back to the airport and escort our weary troupe back to Dunedin.

FLETCHER’S WORLD

Fletcher’s World 2022 is going great guns on Otago Access Radio.

This year Fletcher popped down to the Otago Access Radio studios to record a new intro segment for his show. It was great to have a fresh wee update for this year’s show. While he was there, he was also presented with a couple of Tintin t-shirts, from an international fan of his, all the way from Malaysia.

Fletcher has a Tintin tribute segment on his show each week and he is clearly having an impact on his national and international audience.

We’ve been writing and recording his shows at school for the past term and a bit, due to Covid disruptions and renovations in the Dunedin Community House where Otago Access Radio is located. It was great to get back down to OAR so we could catch up with the team of Arina, Jeff, Lesley, and Geoff, as well as meeting Spencer, their new Digital and Audio Content Coordinator.

Listen fortnightly on Wednesdays at 4 pm, or catch Fletcher’s World as a podcast.

AGRIBUSINESS TRIP

With a brand new region to explore and innovative businesses on the menu, the Year 13 Agribusiness class set out to explore one of New Zealand’s most under-rated areas.

Geraldine, a little jewel in Canterbury’s crown, served as our base for the week, with side-trips to Methven, Timaru and Peel Forest. With an emphasis on connecting with innovative agribusinesses, we kicked off by visiting John McCaw’s seed processing operation in Methven. Any commercial seed one can think of is grown, harvested and processed by the company and then exported around the world. Around four tons are processed through the cleaning and packing factory each year. A feature of the business is that the highly specialised machinery has largely been built by John and his co-workers, who have learned engineering skills on the job over the years. With a policy of buying only second-hand machinery and then converting it to specialised needs has resulted in some of the most innovative contraptions we have had the privilege of seeing over the years visiting agribusinesses.

An agri-tourism business was next, The Peel Forest Outdoor Education Centre, based on formerly agricultural land and surrounded by farmland and Geraldine High School. Besides thinking about how this business can future-proof itself with reduced tourism and restricted travel within New Zealand, the girls and boys (and teachers!) also spent a few hours on the high ropes course. It was certainly one of the highlights of the week as the students challenged themselves to overcome a fear of extreme heights and how to use teamwork to accomplish otherwise impossible tasks whilst suspended in the upper forest canopy.

The following day, we were hosted by Barkers of Geraldine, one of New Zealand’s iconic and most successful businesses. The founder’s son, Michael Barker treated us to a tour of the business, complete with the full history from startup to the present day and a thorough tasting of many of the 700 products

they now produce. The story of innovation and particularly the rationale of each product’s launch and the marketing behind it, was both informative and fascinating. We had lunch together at their new facility. The combination of lunch and all that tasting necessitated a decent walk in the Peel Forest!

The Peel Forest walk served up a ‘splendery’ of tōtara, mataī and kahikatea trees, with one of the white pines measuring an impressive 45.3m in height and 8.4m in circumference, with an accompanying age of over 1000 years!!

Our week concluded with a fascinating visit to Silver Fern Farms processing plant in Paeroa. We were able to see the process from a lamb entering the facility to the vacuum packed leg emerging from the packaging machinery. Due to food security regulations, we were not able to take any photos or videos but the students did agree it was one of the most interesting businesses they had visited ever. Of particular interest was the fact that whilst the plant was highly automated, almost every machine was also staffed by a real person.

Our sincere thanks are offered to McCaw Seeds, Barkers of Geraldine and the senior staff of Silver Fern Farms who did us the huge favour of allowing 34 visitors into a normally ‘sealed’ environment. Greg McSkimming, their Agribusiness Strategic Solutions Manager, and a parent of the McGlashan community, deserves special mention for his kindness in affording us this opportunity. Silver Fern Farms continues to give generously to our Agribusiness programme year in and year out for which we are extremely grateful. Our thanks also goes to Mrs Lauren Piebenga, head of the senior school at Columba College for joining us on the trip and blessing us with her delightful personality and kindness, and to Mr Brent Wolf, our very own Peter Pan and head of accounting at McGlashan for his contribution on the trip and displaying both his tasting enthusiasm at Barkers and his skills on the high ropes.

Dr Craig Preston

We did it! Finally! After a two year hiatus, and hundreds of hours of planning, the annual John McGlashan College Fête was an event to behold!

The Year 7 classes created the most outstanding array of cakes in their annual cake decorating competition. These cakes were then sold - more often than not to the families of the decorator themselves. All form classes hosted their own stalls with games from yesteryear like Splat the Rat, Coin Flipping, Guess the Jelly Beans, and a Fête highlight - Dunk the Clown. Mr. Hunter, attending his first McGlashan Fête, was fully decked out in his best work suit, “Once a DP, always a DP,” he stated in reference to his suit before the first ball was thrown on the target and his first drenching ensued. Mr. McLellan didn’t get the memo about how cold the water was, and therefore did not bring suitable headwear. So, the shock on his face was priceless when he received his first dunking. There was a rumour that a teacher wore a wetsuit under their costume in direct violation of the code of Dunk the Clown. Investigations are ongoing.

Fearlessly led by Barry Reid, the Fête Convenor and Parents and Friends’ Secretary, the Fête was a huge success. Despite the intention of the Fête to be a

slightly smaller affair when compared with pre-Covid Fêtes, all of the stalls from previous events were back and looking just as wonderful and selling equally high quality wares.

Sandra Rasmussen, the Parents and Friends’ Chairperson and the rest of the PFA Committee, were really pleased to be able to put on an event that brings in hundreds of people from all over the community together again. There was such a fun, family friendly, festival-like atmosphere that was enjoyed by all.

The Parents and Friends’ Association were very pleased to confirm that it was a very successful fundraiser which will enable it to support the boys and the school. Any funds raised are put straight back into the school to enhance the environment and experiences of current students. The Parents and Friends’ would like to thank everyone for their support with sponsorship, donations and time. It is with this continued support of our McGlashan community that we are able to hold successful events such as the Fête.

We look forward to next year’s Fête on 9 September, 2023. Save the date!

Brendan Porter

CHAPEL

SWIMMING SPORTS

It was great to be back at Moana Pool after a two year absence. The race for the Elvidge Cup was on after Gilray dominated the Swimming Sports

The Swimming sports was dominated by Gilray who won all but one of the Senior and Junior Championship races. Matt O’Meara swapped the rowing boat for the pool to win all but one of the Senior races, with a great tussle between Lachlan Russel and Louie Rouvi in the Junior races. Burns Hugo Beeby dominated the Primary races. The diving board had the crowd captivated with some very interesting entries into the pool.

House Results (Raw Score)

First Gilray (938)

Second Ross (617) Third Burns (584) Fourth Balmacewen (460)

Primary

First Hugo Beeby (Burns) Second Ruan Hamman (Ross), Third Toby O’Neill (Ross)

Junior

First Lachlan Russell

Second Louie Rouvi

Third Josh Clearwater- Blunt (All Gilray)

Senior

First Matt O’Meara (Gilary) Second Ewan Beadell (Gilray) Third Taine Dyson (Balmacewen)

Troy Jennings

Year 8 Camp - Deep Cove

Day 1 -

As we began to arrive at school we could sense the excitement pulsating through the air. The smiles on our faces, accompanied by the constant chatter of what adventures we might be expecting to see, and do while at Deep Cove.

Bag check complete, the JMC vans began to be loaded to that brim with the weight of our luggage and the copious amounts of home baking that would no doubt be consumed over the next few days. As the vans pull out of the grounds, we wave to the last parents who are still waiting around to catch one last glimpse of their son before they drive off into the distance.

As we pull up to the dock at Manapouri, our eyes light up like a thousand suns as we witness the magnificent surroundings that stand before us. From the snow-capped mountains that seem to touch the sky, to the lake that’s as cold as ice, and that acts like a mirror as it reflects the mountains above, turning the world on its head.

After the ferry cruise across Lake Manapouri, and the windy bus trip through specially handmade roads, we arrived at our accommodation and were allocated our rooms. Once settled, Billy the camp manager went over the safety expectations for when we were on camp, and explained the importance of following these so that we could keep ourselves and the environment safe.

Next up, we packed our day bags and set off for a short walk that led us to an amazing waterfall that seemed to just magically appear from the side of the hill. The walk wasn’t without its hiccups as some found crossing the following river rather difficult, which ended up with a few people getting wet socks (and bums).

When we returned from our walk we filled our stomachs with delicious kai and then finished off the day by going on a glow worm hunt, where we found that the darkness around us was lit up like the night sky by thousands of luminous spheres.

Day 2 -

The next morning we all woke with the rising sun. There a few weary heads caused by the lack of sleep from all the hustling and bustling of the moving of sleeping bags throughout the night. Like zombies we walked to the breakfast hall, and fuelled our bodies for what would be another busy day ahead.

To our excitement the first activity of the day was fishing! Parents and teachers had been given a crash course on how to drive the camp dinghies, so they would be our captains for the journey.

With all safety checks complete, and the fishing gear loaded onto the boats, we suited up in lifejackets, which made us look like chubby Minions ready for action. The roar of the motors kicking into life echoed through the deep gully, and we slowly made our way to the “secret” fishing spot. Once we arrived at our spot, it was action time. Lines dropped “PLOP!”, “PLOP!” “PLOP!” and then the waiting game began, our eyes glued firmly on the lines as we watched for any sign of the fish nibbling at the food below.

Once the fishing was complete and we had caught and released a few good-sized fish we returned to shore and headed towards our next task…

Day 3 -

The third day was full of surprises, like walking through the rugged terrain towards the Helena Falls track, where we would witness another spectacular waterfall pulsating down the side of the rugged cliff face into the ice cold river below. Wild life was never far away with kakapo and kea being our close companions as they picked up any loose crumbs that may have fallen to our feet as we stopped for snacks.

Another highlight of this day was the cruise along the Sounds via ferry so that we could see what this great landscape had to offer. We were not disappointed as we moved slowly along the surface of the water, like a swan gratefully drifting through water.

During that evening we created desserts out of sponge, cream, lollies and chocolate! The only thing was that we needed to create a replica of the landscape that we had seen over the past few days. It was really interesting to see the different designs that each group had. AND DESSERT WAS DELICIOUS!

Day 4 -

With this being our final day of camp we were given the task of cleaning up our living quarters that we had called home for the past three nights. This was no easy feat, because as you may know boys aren’t the cleanest of humans, but we were up for the challenge and soon enough we had the place spotless, and all checked off by the camp staff.

Bags packed, we began the journey home and headed back over the range towards the ferry that would take us back to the transport that awaited us back at Manapouri.

As we arrived back at John McGlashan the week had created a whole lot of tired students, but most of all we would take way a lifetime of memories.

HOUSE SINGING

BURNS TRIUMPH ONCE AGAIN

This year’s House Singing and Bands competition was met with many obstacles thanks to Covid, but amazingly, the boys managed with very little preparation time and absolutely smashed it!

This year’s competition was stiff. We combined the scores of each houses’ singing performance and band performance to decide our winner.

In fourth place we had Gilray, whose house sang Dave Dobbyn’s ‘Slice of Heaven’. Their band performed Weezer’s ‘Say It Ain’t So’, which set the band category standard very high, all the bands did incredible work. In third place we had Ross with ‘Have You Ever Seen the Rain’ by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Their band performed George Harrison’s ‘My Sweet Lord’, which was the judges favourite song choice of

the competition. Between our top two houses, the scores were very tight. Balmacewen did an awesome edition of Neil Diamond’s ‘Sweet Caroline’, they got extra points for the choreography they added to their performance. Their band performed a classic, Oasis’s ‘Wonderwall’. However, it was Burns’ who managed to tip the scale ever so slightly with John Denver’s ‘Take Me Home Country Roads’ led by Year12 Qwenton McKenzie in a suit and tie! Their band did an epic cover of ‘Under the Bridge’ by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. When our winner was announced by our judge, JMC Arts alumni, Samuel Leaper, Burns went crazy!

The atmosphere at these house competitions are always euphoric, and this year’s House Singing and Band competition was no exception!

TECHNOLOGY

AGRICULTURE TRIP

It was a crisp, clear morning following a week of heavy rain and after a quick scrub of our gumboots the Year 12 Agricultural and Environmental Science class headed to Clydevale to visit Annabel and Stephen Crawford’s A2 organic dairy farm.

With over 800 cows indoors keeping warm and dry in specially designed wintering sheds the class learnt about being organic, looking after soil and water, genetics, calf raising, farm economics and animal nutrition. Located between the Pomahaka and Clutha Rivers, the farm is a model of great practices and what passion, knowledge and commitment can achieve. The students left with valuable insight into just how much goes into running a sustainable dairy farm. Annabel and Stephen were hugely informative, generous (thanks for the scones!) and engaging and we hope to return in the future with more native trees to help their growing riparian areas and helping to leave our positive mark on our countryside.

Thank you very much for hosting us, Annabel and Stephen.

Glen Clark

SCIENCE FAIR

Can bananas be turned into plastic? Can you charge a phone with your bike? Can you fake a positive RAT test? Ryan Zhou, Lachie Mackenzie and Andrew Grounds asked these questions, respectively and more besides, during the 2022 Science Fair.

At the beginning of the term, Year 9 students presented their projects at school and 12 Year 9 students and one senior student were selected to progress to the Otago Science Fair. At the prize giving our 13 students won an impressive 27 prizes, including a Premier Prize won by Harry Martin for his research on Crab Zonation.

Congratulations to all of the Otago Science Fair selectees: Michael Buttery, Toby Hazlett, Ryan Zhou, Ben Koh, Jonny Hunter, Andrew Grounds, Jonty Ellis, Thomas Hinton, Harry Martin, Lachlan Russell, Lachie Mackenzie, Charles Copland and Edward Jennings.

Andrew Leitch

FISHING CHALLENGE

TIMARU BOYS’ EXCHANGE

Term Two undoubtedly dragged on in this a crazy Covid-world (that gets crazier by the day) but the Timaru Boys’ exchange provided a nice pot of gold at the end of a very grey rainbow.

Without going too in-depth into most of the sports, rugby and basketball enjoyed great successes, with just one defeat across six games from the two sports. The basketballers were particularly impressive. Away from the College, the footballers came undone, with injuries and illness contributing to a disappointing trio of defeats. The hockey sides were unfortunate not to come away with at least one win, with a couple of draws in normal time. The Under15As contested a penalty shootout, going down to hand Timaru a point to take the exchange score to 5-5. In the other event away from the College, the trap-shooters engaged in a ding-dong battle, but fell at the final hurdle, as Timaru won by five shots - a close result!

Following the basketball, badminton took centre stage in the Davies Sports Centre, and clearly, the McGlashan’s momentum lingered, as McGlashan eased to victory in the shuttlecock sport. That had the exchange locked back up at 6-6, meaning the cultural activities decided the exchange. So how did the teams get on?

To chess first, where our men unsurprisingly walloped their opposition, continuing the College’s storied history in the sport repopularised by The

Queen’s Gambit. Year 13 Special Character Prefect Martin Brook led the way alongside Gary Yao, who was on fine form, showing why he is one of the top chess players at the College. The team was rounded out by Harold Gao and Ryan Zhou, who both contributed to a 14-2 win!

With McGlashan on the brink, debating was going to be key, and it was an absolute humdinger. Arguing against the motion based around banning household internet access was never going to be easy in the 21st century, but their argument was well put together, laying the platform for victory.

Zac Brooking’s youthfulness was helpful, though the worldly John Zhao’s broad knowledge would have meshed in well with skipper Harold Gao, who destroyed the Timaru side in the final proper speech of the day, all but nailing McGlashan’s name to the metaphorical trophy!

An 8-6 win represents what was a hard-fought battle across a range of sports and activities, so everyone involved, be that supporting or playing can be very proud of themselves. These events can not happen without some great organisers though, so a special mention to Mr. Jennings who worked tirelessly to ensure the event could go ahead.

Nicolas Friedlander

SOUTHLAND BOYS’ RUGBY

An inspired performance from the First XV saw them pick up a historic 23-17 win over Southland Boys’.

Having lost key players Josh Whaanga (hamstring) and Mitch Morton (illness) on the eve of the game, many feared that it would be a tough day at the office for McGlashan. Those fears were not exactly dampened early on either, as Southland Boys’ dotted down inside the opening five minutes after a slick backline move.

McGlashan responded with a penalty goal before another Southland try, to leave the First XV 12-3 down midway through the first half - however that was where the game switched. Skipper Jack Timu charged a kick down before scooping it up to fly 35m under the bar. Tom Fowler was then able to barge over on the stroke of halftime, giving McGlashan a slender 15-12 lead, despite having played the opening 35 into a stiff Invercargill breeze.

The second period remained an attritional affair, which suited McGlashan down to the ground. Strong carrying in tight from Zac Cleaver-Donovan and Phoenix Abbott helped earn a penalty, which Max Hore was able to pin right into the corner. Fresh onto the park, Keegan Ferguson was on the money with his throw for Abbott, heading to the back of a rolling

maul. With a little gap on the blindside, the big Miltonborn hooker burrowed for the corner and got the ball down to extend the advantage to eight.

It was about minimising mistakes from there from McGlashan, as they defended well for long stretches including a tense period on their own goal-line before Max Hore was able to stroke over another three points with ten minutes remaining. Southland Boys’ kept things interesting with a try in the right corner with minutes remaining, but good patient defence eventually forced a knock-on, setting the platform for Max Hore to boot the ball into touch to secure the victory for McGlashan.

The victory was fully deserved on the back of great performances across the park, though Zac CleaverDonovan would have to be the MVP for his tireless work with and without the ball. Special mentions also go to Henry Scott and Jack Timu who were both very accurate in everything they did.

The win is believed to be McGlashan’s first-ever against Southland Boys’ in Invercargill, as well as the first time McGlashan has defeated them two years in a row.

Nicholas Friedlander

SPORTS DINNER

Year 7 - Camp Columba

Day One

Driving to camp was the most exciting thing I’ve done when it comes to bus rides. Talking with all my friends, waiting in anticipation, thinking about what Camp Columba would be like. After the twohour long bus ride, we arrived at camp. We walked with our bags from the bus to the basketball court. I knew that I would be spending some free time here. After a briefing and the setup of our bunks, we went outside for our first activity. My activity group was lucky enough to have ziplining as our first activity for the week. Our group was paired up with an instructor named Megan and we rushed over to the tower; ready to start. Off we went; 1 by 1. We were zooming down the steel wire toward the forest and the parents that were stopping us in our tracks. After our first ride on the line, Megan introduced Jamal Jackson to the group. He was a small teddy bear, and on our Zipline ride, we were able to throw him down into a blue barrel to earn a prize. At 3:30 Tuesday afternoon, we had our second activity. Abseiling was my favourite activity at camp because of the rush of adrenaline that you got descending down a steep rock face. I got one of the fastest times scaling the rock face and thoroughly enjoyed my time at the abseiling. I stayed overtime for a few more runs afterward because it was so fun. After a lovely meal of lasagne for tea, we wrote a recap in our folders. Later, we and the girls had a bonfire and a giant game of spotlight. We all went to bed, and couldn’t wait for the next day.

Day Two

The morning of day two was different. Mr. Beazely woke us up at 6.00am, ready for our morning run. 5 minutes after he woke us up, he gave out the password. Unluckily, half the Year 7 group missed out. We were off. A couple of km in the morning was great. The day couldn’t get any worse. It only got better. After a quick breakfast, we were into day two of our activities. This time, my group went off to the raft building first, and we could not wait. There were loads of equipment waiting to be used. My group used logs and inflatable tubes as our design. We placed the tubes underneath the logs as a buoyancy device. We then tied all of it together and abracadabra! A raft was built. Now, did it float? That was the big question. A race broke out between us and the rival group - it was neck and neck toward the buoy. Until their raft fell apart. The pieces of their raft spread out across the water and they took a dive. We won the building contest, but

they won the race. The next activity was 3D archery. Our group grabbed our bows while the adults carried the arrows down to the forest. The competition had started. All boys raced each other to see who got the most shots directly on the heart. Instant kill. But the targets weren’t real, just cardboard. The competition carried on, right to the end. Until there were just two remaining people left. Harry Stafford and me. It was a battle to the end but I came out on top. That earned me a treat at the dinner shoutouts. Dinner was lovely but the weather outside was rainy so we all stayed inside for the evening. We went to bed late but we didn’t care.

We then tied all of it together and abracadabra! A raft was built. Now, did it float? That was the big question.

Day Three

This morning Mr. Beazly was nice and let us sleep in an extra 20 minutes until 6:20. For many boys, including me, this was very rewarding. I couldn’t find my shoes so I made the decision to find out the code, but running in scuffs was not the smartest decision I later found out. After putting on some socks I headed up for some breakfast. While inside eating, it began to rain. But we continued to push through. My first activity was low ropes. It was very slippery because it was wet. We tried to stay balanced even though it was slippery. I ended up falling on my bum after I didn’t get my footing right. We came back to some nice hot milo and a biscuit. Our next activity was kayaking. It was very windy and cold but we still had fun. We started off by playing kayak tag before playing a game where the two people on the edges had to swap kayaks by climbing across everyone else’s kayaks. I then tried to sink Rosco’s kayak but he is very skilled and I was the only one getting wet. We then zoomed down the kayak slide and made some pretty big splashes, but we then chose to finish up and head for some hot showers.

Day Four

‘It is the last day at camp!’ I thought. Our days at camp were nearly over and as fun as camp was, we were all wanting to go home and see our family. My group’s last activity was flying kiwi, where you got hooked up to a harness and launched into the air via a pulley system. There were three options for what we

wanted to do for our turn. Supersonic (which is where you get spun around very, very fast and you get dizzy), Hoop Shot (which is where you have a ball and you try to shoot the ball into the hoop, and just the normal launch. I chose the Supersonic, which turned out to be a bad decision. I didn’t feel well after that but still had a good time at Flying Kiwi. After that activity, we had a lovely morning tea of treats and fruit and went on to packing up our clothes and bags, making the camp look just as nice as we arrived, and having a leaving ceremony with the instructors. Johnnies boys performed the school haka to the instructors and hopped onto the bus, ready to go home. Overall, Camp Columba created life-long memories for all of us and we can’t wait for camp next year.

Ruan Hamman Archie McDonald

CROSS COUNTRY

Conditions for our boys were perfect for running through Ross Creek.

On Tuesday morning our boys competed in the School Cross Country around the school grounds, and Ross Creek.

After a large amount of illness in the past few weeks running numbers were down for the day.

In the Year 7 and 8 3km race Year 7 Jonty Thomson entered the school grounds with a slight lead over Year 8 Hamish Casey, and after a great tussle Hamish eventually overtook and held on to cross first.

Novice Sam Hancox dominated the 4km Novice and Junior Race, with Daniel O’Brien winning the Juniors.

Intermediate racer Angus Loe showed off his rowing fitness with a great win in the 5km Intermediate and Senior race, with senior Harry Wing taking out the title in his division.

Congratulations to all place getters and those boys who challenged themselves during the running of the Cross Country.

Well done to Balmacewen House who took out the Cross Country House award. After the Cross Country the leadesrhip board was very close with two points separating First to fourth place.

Year 7

First Jonty Thomson

Second Harry Barker

Third Hugo Beeby

Year 8

First Hamish Casey

Second Hugo Jury

Third Hamish Eason

Novice

First Sam Hancox

Second William Harrex

Third William Laws

Junior

First Daniel O’Brien

Second Annan Goldsmith

Third Liam Ross

Intermediate

First Angus Loe

Second Ewan Beadell

Third Daniel Joint

Senior

First Harry Wing

Second Matheson Colquhoun

Third William Loe

House Competition

First Balmacewen

Second Gilray

Third Burns

Fourth Ross

Troy Jennings

YEAR 10 CAMP

Part Four: McGlashan Arts and Culture

Cricket - HowZat!

Jonty Thomson, Year 7

Bowl, bowler, batter, bat, bails, box, bouncer (chin music.)

Hook, hard ball, helmet, how’s that one!?!?

Century, cow corner, cover drive.

Slip, swing, short, sweep, spin, stumps.

Umpire, ultra edge.

LBW, legside, lunge.

Downtown, DRS, daisy cutter. Pull, pace, pads, partnership.

I’ll ace my pace with a bouncer to the batter.

Caught by a slip, I’ll have time to skinny dip!

The bowler bowled the ball to the batter’s box.

It’s a daisy cutter, his fingers are butter.

Like a bullet from a gun, he yells, “How’s that one!?!?”

He was stumped by the keeper, now he’s a weeper.

I dive for the ball but it hits the wall.

111 Nelson, now that’s not fun!

It’s hit the lad’s pads, he’ll be feeling quite mad.

That’s a cheap sweep, it’s been caught like it was bought.

He’s the king of swing, the ball bounces like a spring while he stands there looking bling.

It’s been smacked down cow corner, now the bowler’s a mourner.

The Smallest Puddle

Jamie Copland

There’s a leak in a pipe, And it’s just dripping and dropping, Drip, Drop, Drip.

And under that pipe is that drip dripping

There is a small puddle

That nobody looks at, and nobody seems to care What happens to it.

And it’s just there in the corner.

Will the sun come up

And dry it all up

So it can be gone?

And soon the pipe gets fixed

And the puddle dries up

Evaporated into the air

So free of the earth

And, for once, happy.

Inferno

Adam Ludgate, Year 8

My body was covered in burns and cuts. Crimson red stained my skin and dripped onto my knees. The aftermath of the explosion left ears ringing and glass shattered everywhere. Bodies littered the ground. The flames licked away at the wooden interior, leaving the structural metal bars exposed. My head is swimming, trying to remember how I got here, lying on the ground after the building I work at was attacked.

The sound of sirens fills my ears as the authorities come to investigate. I’m on my feet now, grabbing my arm and trying to stop the profuse bleeding, feeling faint from blood loss.

“Sir, are you ok?” one of the officers says, “What happened?”

“I, I don’t know, “ I say through tears as the pain in my arm increases. On my knees now, I feel weak, my breath raspy and hard to control. Blackness encloses me.

Blindingly bright lights fill my vision; the shouts of medical workers and the pain from my right arm gone. I try to look over my shoulder to see where I am but the nurse keeps my head still.

“Is it that serious?” I say, oblivious to what’s happening.

“Your arm has three large chunks of debris in it. We can’t guarantee that you’ll keep it.” her calm voice soothing my overwhelming concern. Beads of sweat form on my forehead. I feel hot now.

I feel helpless right now, unable to change anything, unable to affect anything.

I focus on the blur of events. What happened, why did this happen, and whose fault was it?

Was it an accident, or terrorism?

My mind flooded with memories, trying to piece together what happened and how I got here, in the hospital with a chance of losing my right arm.

“Don’t be such a pessimist Ben. It will be fine.”

“Ok, I’ll be back for lunch, the new building and office looks like it should be okay, I guess.”

I walked to work that day, the sun was shining and the sound of seagulls filled my ears. The wind was fresh but pleasant, gently swaying the trees and making them rustle. I walked up to the building and see myself in the gargantuan windows, my hair messy and brown. My eyes glowed blue like usual. I had a blood-red jumper on and deep blue jeans.

The memory cuts after that. I’m now in a different room, bright white, as pure as snow.

I feel the bandage on my shoulder and upper arm. And I breathe a sigh of relief until I look at the mass that’s gone. The lower half of my arm is thin and wiry; it feels normal like it’s always been there. It has a dull metallic glow and is coloured a dark grey. My hand is gone too, the same colour. I try moving it like usual and it obeys.

My mind focuses on finding who or what caused the explosion that cost me my arm and my job, a thing that ruined my life.

The Giant Drone Invasion

Hamish Eason, Year 8

The light was beaming brightly. Puffy clouds were moving in the gentle breeze and the leaves rustled. Laughs and chatters beamed across the field greatly until we heard the death rattle of a helicopter coming from a far distance which kept getting closer. The trees were swaying. The dust clouds were forming and then I immediately knew what was happening. I urgently screamed to my friends, ‘Run run run!’ I ran as fast as a cheetah back home and went under into my old dusty bunker which hadn’t been used in years. It was locked with a big bulky metal pole that would not be bent if barged into.

As I was waiting and listening for every move, I heard the helicopter wind down and there was silence until I heard light footsteps and voices overhead and the soldiers saying ‘CLEAR!’ as they peeked around corners, looking for any remaining 52

villagers that were soon to be dead.

Our villagers knew that if they heard something like a helicopter, run straight into their bunkers. They knew what was happening. It had happened once before and many people lost their lives because of the soldiers. No one knew why they came but they did. Most of the houses in the village had bunkers but not all. Some people would just hide with others cramped until all the enemies were gone. It was a while until I heard some more faint voices and footsteps of the soldiers. One of the men walked down and said, “There’s another one.” I think they were talking about the bunkers. They knew that we were in these bunkers. I didn’t want to make a noise. I was holding my breath instead of breathing in the mercury air. For at least two minutes, I held my breath until I heard them say, ‘We are wasting our time boys let’s go.’

A few minutes later the death rattle of the helicopter wound backed up and took off. I heard them do a flyover and was waiting for silence as they left but instead there was a Boom! Boom! Boom! They had dropped bombs. The bombs were just about as big as a car. I slowly and carefully crouched and walked out of my bunker and looked out the window of my house. There was destruction, smoke, fire, and people scavenging, throwing things, and digging around looking for any survivors. Most of the village was ruined. People cried out to try to find their friends and family. There were quite a few that made it but a lot had been killed; it was a total tragedy.

I was a boy who had no family. I only had friends. My mum and dad both died when I was young. Still, in the village, if there are babies that are left with no parents or family then the kind villagers would raise them until they could live on their own. I got to that stage a few years ago when I was about 9, then I was set free to live by myself in the village.

When we found all survivors of the bombing that had just ruined half of the village, I counted up. There were about 30 people who had survived and there were usually about 50 in the village. People were crying everywhere because of the deaths of the 20 people. I only knew a few who had died and the rest were acquaintences. Walking through the destroyed village, there was rubble, trash, and wood everywhere.

The next day after that was a day to remember the friends and family who had passed and also a building day. There were not enough places for all the people to stay so we had to start collecting wood and other materials. In one day we got three houses built that could fit about five people each and there were also some houses that weren’t destroyed so the next day we built five more and that was enough for the time and there could always be more built.

That One Time…

Matthew Arlidge

I had done it and I finally got it! My body filled with happiness and satisfaction as I held it high above my head, praising it.

3:27 pm Location: Auckland, Silvia Park…

There I was. I felt as sneaky as ever, plotting my master plan right next to her. I had a big grin on my face, as I sat as quiet as a mouse but as mischievous as a supervillain. I sat there waiting for my big brother’s glasses to be changed. I was in a Specsavers store waiting for the perfect time to do it. All I needed was the one tiny coin inside my pocket and a fast run down the mall. Suddenly she stood up and started to walk into a small room in the corner of the store. The mission had started.

You may be asking yourself what is this kid going to do? What is he after? I was after my favourite thing in the whole entire world! As I sprinted out of the Specsavers store and quickly ran down to the end of the mall, I finally saw it! Sweat dripped down the side of my head, My heart thumped like an elephant was inside me. Then I stopped. I examined it. My eyes felt tingly with happiness. I carefully selected the perfect one, picked it up and brought it to the cashier. Two blocks of relief dropped off my shoulders. I dropped my money down and bolted out of the store; I was a bullet chasing its enemy. A predator searching for its prey. This was perfect. I almost cried. I had done it! I had finally obtained it. My body filled with happiness and satisfaction as I held the chocolate bar high above my head, praising it. My favourite chocolate bar of all, the God of Gods, the legend itself, the ALMIGHTY CRUNCHIE! Even thinking about the delicious piece of art makes my mouth drool. The next half of the mission was to get back to base with the package. Surely it would be easy enough.

It wasn’t.

As I slowly crept back to base, the chocolate bar safely secured in my pocket, I knew I could do it. There was only one secret weapon that would let my mum find out about this mission. My brothers… My eyes were like

snipers, making sure my mother wasn’t near. I was now the prey. I kept low, crouching with a grin on my face. I snuck my head down and pulled my hood over my face. The journey back to the main store felt like hours, days, even weeks.

Suddenly, a large figure stepped in front of me. I looked up and towering over me was my predator. The one that could ruin my master plan: MUM. How did she find out? How did she know? She put her hand out and I knew I had to hand over my beloved chocolate bar to her. Tears rolled like a river down my eyes. “All this for nothing,” I thought. She grabbed me by the hand and dragged me back to the store. On the way, she slammed the chocolate bar into the stinky, filthy rubbish bin. It was all over…

I got back to the store and slumped down on the chair, my head down, eyes closed. “All this for nothing?” I thought again. The only way she could have found out would be because of my brothers. I gave them a stare full of tears and slowly turned my eyes down to the floor once again. How? I put my hands on my head.

How could they have betrayed me?

Not So Silent Ball

George Bary, Year 9

The blaring bell rang and students gathered in the classroom. Each student found their seats and sat down. However, they were still quite boisterous. Ms Smillie called the roll and each student loudly called “Here!” when the teacher asked their name.

“Four people remained. The intensity of the round got tighter. Jonny grasped me in his tight hands until he hurled me towards Harry.”

Suddenly, Jonny Hunter shouted, “Silent ball!” This made every single student slide off their seats and leap up onto the top of their chairs. I was hastily snatched from the shelf and spun in the air, making me feel rather sick. I was then chucked all the way across the room where I landed safely in Andrew’s hands. Andrew chucked me as hard as he could to return the throw but he missed and I went careening straight into the TV! The TV screen didn’t work so well after that. Mack snatched me off the floor and I went flying yet again across the room.

By this time, I was feeling quite fed up with the situation and I wanted to leave. Two long hands grasped me into their hold and I was thrown again.

The game carried on and on until there were five people left. There were group points at stake and people were doing anything they could to win, even cheating. Jonny, George, Charlie, Harry and Sam were all competing for the prize. Harry did a trippy shot that was going to go to Charlie, however, I spun way off course and I ended up in Sam’s hands. Sam barely caught me as he nearly fell off his chair, sending him face-first into the floor. Sam lobbed a solid shot that sent me soaring across the room. It bounced off Charlie’s weak grip and I dropped to the ground.

Four people remained. The intensity of the round got tighter. Jonny grasped me in his tight hands until he hurled me towards Harry. The shot closely missed Harry. After much debate, Jonny was out. Sam and Harry were intensely throwing me back and forth while George stood patiently waiting for me to come his way. The tight duel lasted for many minutes until Harry spun me off course into George’s hands. George firmly caught me, however, I nearly missed his entire grip altogether. George slowly lobbed me towards Harry and Harry sent me flying straight at Sam. Sam was caught off guard and he dropped me to the floor.

It was now an intense 1v1 and both the contenders didn’t want to give up. I was brutally thrown back and forth until George hurled a shot, making me hit Harry and bounce to the floor. George had won and his group was awarded group points.

After such an intense game I thought I could have some rest on the cool shelf in the classroom but Jonny didn’t think so. Jonny pulled out a cricket bat and I was snatched off the shelf to play cricket. Here we go again...

MESSAGE OF AROHA

Our John McGlashan College Arts Hub formally launched the public community Messages of Aroha project on Thursday evening at the Fringe Headquarters.

Love and kindness were on the minds of everyone who attended the launch of M.O.A. Karakia, waiata, speeches and musical items warmed the hearts of those in attendance, including staff and students of John McGlashan College, parents, members of the Board of Trustees and Parents’ and Friends’ Association, Fringe HQ staff, and even Mayor Aaron Hawkins, who is a fierce advocate and supporter of the arts in Ōtepoti.

Year 13 students Tim Bradfield and Theo Hannagan curated the White Box performance space at the Fringe HQ earlier in the day, so that when everyone came together at 5.30pm, they could enjoy the fruits of their labour and view the exhibition from the view of George Street, or through physical copies inside the warm confines of the Fringe.

Our Head Prefect, Jack Timu, led proceedings with a beautiful karakia to bring everyone together (after some lovely entertainment from Year 12 student Rylan Urquhart), before staff and students sang our College waiata, Purea Nei. Arts Prefects, Theo Hannagan and Harold Gao, gave stirring speeches, outlining the wider impacts the pandemic has had

on arts communities worldwide, as well as how it’s impacted them as arts students. Their moving words resonated with us all. Year 10 students, Dan O’Brien and Lochlan Ing-Aram, performed their beautiful original musical piece, Totara, before Mr Porter had some quick remarks from the Senior Leadership

“Theo Hannagan and Harold Gao, gave stirring speeches, outlining the wider impacts the pandemic has had on arts communities”

Team and Jack Timu finished off proceedings with a closing karakia. We rounded things off with some kai and drinks, kindly donated by Julie Moyle of Moyle’s Fresh Choice Green Island.

Messages of Aroha had some great traction online, with a fantastic video and article in the STAR newspaper. M.O.A was also be featured in Ara Toi’s publication.

DRAMA PLAYWRITING

Year 11-13 Drama learned the mechanics of writing a play with prolific New Zealand playwright, Nathan Joe.

In the last week of Term 3, Years 11-13 Drama were lucky enough to have a playwriting workshop with prolific NZ playwright, Nathan Joe as part of the New Zealand Young Writer’s Festival 2022. Nathan’s award-winning work, ‘Scenes from a Yellow Peril’, is described as “a meta-analysis of Asian identity, carved into razor-sharp scenes that cut to the cultural quick”. Memory is a significant feature and influence for many writers and their works, but this is almost exclusively the case for Nathan.

“This process was very interesting, a myriad of things came to mind for students ...”

The workshop began with a series of “free-writing” exercises to try and get students into the mode of just expressing themselves and putting words down on page. Some students found this difficult initially, others not. Nathan talked everyone through the importance of non-judgement of the self when trying

to crack the flow of writing.

Next, we went through a brainstorming process of what exactly makes up a play? What are the features and parts that come to mind? This process was very interesting; a myriad of things came to mind for students, which were expressed in a multitude of ways. Nathan did an amazing job of empowering students ideas/thoughts, no matter what they were. Nathan continued to be very big on breaking psychological constraints that prevent freedom of expression, whether verbally or on paper.

Lastly, Nathan spent a large portion of the workshop talking about the significance of using one’s memory bank when telling stories, particularly for theatre. Writing a play requires creating content that other humans can embody and express on stage as actors. Memories come with feelings and an actor’s primary job is to attempt to feel as fully the meaning of the words/story of the playwright. This portion of the Nathan’s korero was the most helpful to students in the room, especially those who just finished their playwriting internal. Nathan empowered students to recognise that the best stories to tell are the ones we have the firmest grip on, and those are often often come from own personal, unique memories and experiences.

THEATREFEST

Senior drama students clinched two more TheatreFest awards, this time at Lower South Island Regionals

Finlay Tomkins and Mitchell Lobb’s performance of a pivotal scene in Nick Dear’s play, Frankenstein has continued to wow audience goers, this time in Arrowtown.

TheatreFest National Presiden Bryan Aitken said that, ‘TheatreFest is an important theatrical event on the Theatre New Zealand calendar. For some 80 years, it has created a forum for new actors, directors, playwrights to ply their skills alongside more established practitioners, enjoying professional feedback and upskilling in a supportive and dynamic atmosphere.’

The adjudicator provides mākohakoha, the giving of their talents, experience and insights, into the works entered in the festival at every level, as they pass through the system.

It was a huge weekend, but an amazing opportunity to showcase the wonderful mahi and talents of rangatahi in our performing arts.

Adjudicator Hilary Norris commented in her adjudicator’s report that:

• The scene requires a huge physical and vocal performance from the Creature and a feeling of duality as Frankenstein truly confronts what he has created.

• Finlay and Mitchell’s scene had superior depth of characterisation and understanding of the internal lives of the characters.

• The makeup artistry on display for the Creature was outstanding.

• The costuming was also thoroughly thought through and showed in a really nuanced way the vast differences in the characters.

• This play had a great sense of theatre and was a brave choice.

After this wonderful feedback we look forward to competing in Theatrefest again next year.

Our Drama Department, consisting of actors Finlay Tomkins and Mitchell Lobb, as well as crew members Dana Wister, Brie Monk, Ms Grills and Ms Fridd, headed to Arrowtown for the Lower Southland Island Regionals. Adult, University of Otago and secondary school theatre pieces featured across the two performance days from groups from as far as Christchurch, Dunedin, and Queenstown. We were absolutely delighted to come away with two more awards, one for Excellence in Acting (Finlay Tomkins) and an Excellence in Overall Design (Dana Wister, for the creature make-up effects).

TEACHER’S PERSPECTIVE

You would have been living under a rock these past few years to not see how Covid has affected our performing arts. As a teacher and creative it’s been heartbreaking and frustrating to see my students lose out on opportunities to see performances in the community and have friends and whānau view their creative mahi. For my friends who are professional actors, directors, and theatre makers, their livelihoods have been on tenterhook. Jobs have been postponed or worse cancelled and their ability to work and make art has been in limbo. The arts are in a dire place right now and the past few years have been extremely tough. This was where our beautiful community project Messages of Aroha came out of this year, this real need to feed back some love and support to our community creatives and let them know that we know they are hurting, because we feel it too.

The arts are created for the audience. By its nature, performing arts are meant to be displayed and enjoyed by people sitting in an audience. Roland J. Kushner described the link between performing artists and audiences as “the edge of the stage [ being a ] place of mystery and magic, where performers and audiences meet to exchange meaning and satisfaction”. During the last few years, our students’ opportunities to experience those feelings of “mystery and magic ‘’ have been severely disrupted. There have been many examples of this since Covid began, but here are a couple of examples:

• Last year, I had drama students from Columba have their major school production of High School Musical postponed, the night before opening night, after months and months of preparation and rehearsals and even tech week.

• The majority of touring shows we’d usually have access to to take our senior students to have all been either postponed or cancelled.

• Weeks into our preparation of Macbeth for our entry into the SGCNZ Sheilah Winn Festival of Shakespeare this year, we swiftly had to pull out due to several members having Covid.

• Trying to teach mime to junior students wearing masks. Teaching the elements of “facial expression” is rather limited when you have something covering your face!

Thankfully, things are slowly starting to look up as we open up more and shows and festivals are coming back. Opportunities for students to perform and be seen are starting to happen again, but this won’t make a difference unless audiences turn up to

view their work. As a drama and film educator who teaches across Year 7 to 13 I have been fortunate to witness some amazing mahi inside and outside of class across the year. There have been wonderful moments of students connecting deeply with their characters, stepping outside their comfort zones and taking risks, and receiving applause and respect from their peers and for beautiful moments of creative artistry. This gives me hope.

I was lucky enough to grow up in a home filled with literature, music and arts. My father was a journalist and editor and both my parents were huge lovers and consumers of the arts and literature. We were surrounded by books, music, language and culture. We were taken to see musicals, shows and concerts and my mother spent hours upon

“The edge of the stage [ is a ] place of mystery and magic, where performers and audiences meet to exchange meaning and satisfaction”

hours driving me to musical and choir rehearsals, festivals and competitions (on top of her “Mum-Taxi” responsibilities for all the sports things we were involved with too). Now as an adult my own home is filled with these things… and due to my significant other being an English teacher and published poet, we are mostly surrounded by poetry books and our own children have become lovers of the written word and the arts. The best thing parents can do for their children is to surround their tamariki with literature and culture. Read books, plays, articles, go see shows and consume art. Make human connections and have beautiful experiences. In 1900, Jessie E. Southwick (American elocutionist, teacher, author and poet), said “In the history of the world, the drama and dramatic art have been most potent factors in the education of mankind. From the miracle play on to Richard Wagner’s musical epics and Shakespeare’s mirror of a thousand lives, and even to the modern drama with all its powers and trivialities, the people’s heart has throbbed responsive to the mimic tragedy and laughter, — aye, and mystic symbolism of the soul’s transition through this world of cares and sorrows, joys and conquests and defeats; and sometimes, too, of purest happiness and peace serene.”

Go experience some of this magic and mystery for yourself.

Ms Kimberley Fridd

THE YEAR IN MUSIC

2022 has seen the first glimpses of normality for the performing arts since the beginning of the pandemic, with many of our musical groups and performers finally returning to the stage and sharing their talents again. While we started the year with complications arising from mask restrictions during rehearsals, the relaxation of these measures meant that many of our major performance events were able to go ahead again as normal. The boys have made the most of these opportunities, and we have had a number of successes throughout the year.

One of our most notable successes has come from our senior students in Súechef (Nic George, Theo Hannagan, Angus McMillan and James Palmer), who reached the National Top-20 and were invited to record 3 of their original songs at Orange Studios in Christchurch. The recording from this session is available for you to view on the JMC Music Department YouTube channel. Well done for your success boys, and we all look forward to hearing what you do next musically beyond school.

In the junior school, we have seen a lot of growth in the number of rock groups, with 4 bands entering Bandquest this year. One of our groups, Captivated (Leo Hill, Jamie Bradfield, Christopher Body and

Toby O’Neill) took out 3rd Place in the event for the second year in a row. Another of the bands, Stage Restricted (Artie Sweetman, Ruan Hamman and Finlay Auchinvole) took out the Best Original Song award. Keep up the awesome work boys.

While Covid hit our choir members hard and prevented them from entering the Big Sing event this year, our jazz band was able to enter the Dunedin Youth Jazz Festival again with the support of their director Ross Kane. Rylan Urquhart took out the Best Guitarist award for the region. Numbers have continued to grow in this group, and we have gained a number of new players from all years levels this year in both the rhythm and horn sections.

At the end of last year, the music department was lucky to receive an incredibly generous amount of financial support from the Parents and Friends’ Association, allowing us to set up four ‘Silent Band Stations’ within the main classroom and give students more opportunities to develop their performance skills during class-time and breaks.

We are looking forward to seeing the great music that is made with these in the coming years.

Mr Steven McNulty

PIPE BAND

This year has not been too different from others in terms of the pipe band. Covid has yet again been the reason for the cancellation of Bagpipe National championships.

While this was a bit discouraging for the band, as Nationals is the biggest event that we hope to compete in, it does not mean that we became static. We have, and will continue to prepare for next year’s Nationals. Yes, we have had a loss in competition, but luckily, we have had an increase in students interested in learning the bagpipes. This is due to a small display that the band put on to encourage students to start.

As always, we could do with a few more pipers (and even drummers) so if there are any questions, or you would like to put your name down to play the pipes, contact Mr Hunter.

Qwenton McKenzie

JAZZ BAND CHOIR

2022 was a year of growth for the John McGlashan choir “McGlashan Maestros” despite a quiet start to the year - which included rehearsing outdoors when possible, which is no easy feat as singing voices just disappear up into the air!

A large turnover of students changed the vocal array as we farewelled several senior voices and welcomed a junior-dominant choir. This posed a challenge in changing repertoire preparations, but I also think it has been a fantastic opportunity to help nurture a love of singing and build up skills in music reading and harmonies.

The choir has covered a range of repertoire this year, from a capella pieces “Siyahamba” (a South African hymn) and “Cantate Domino” (one of three Taizé pieces), to the piano-accompanied “Rise Up O Men of God”, and “The Other Side” (from the hit movie musical “The Greatest Showman”). A stellar performance at the JMC Fête in Term 3 was a fantastic opportunity to showcase some of these pieces, and the choir will also be performing at the Junior Prizegiving.

I look forward to continuing with the McGlashan Maestros in 2023.

Amelia Mah

“McGlashan Maestros” Choir Director,

A complicated year 2022 was, and so was organising the John McGlashan Big Band! However, we ended up pulling through and competing in the Dunedin Youth Jazz Festival which was a fairly good success! Our performance repertoire included ‘I Want It That Way’, ‘Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,’ and ‘Buckjump’. The crowd favourite was definitely ‘Buckjump’. Our guitarist, Rylan Urquhart, was awarded ‘Best Guitarist’ of the festival, which was awesome.

People making the arts possible, even in the face of Covid, are the very people that many times we hardly ever notice their hard work and effort.

On behalf of the John McGlashan Big Band, we’d like to thank Mr Kane and Mr McNulty for organising and preparing us, the students, for this challenging year!

David Song

Māori Performing Arts Te Ao Māori

Inspired by the research of Dr. Karyn Paringatai (Te Tumu: School of Māori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies and winner of Prime Minister’s Supreme Award at the 2014 Tertiary Teaching Excellence Awards), the students of Year 9 Māori Performing Arts spent a significant part of their rotation learning about traditional ways of learning and pedagogies for Māori within a performing arts sphere.

A central part of this was “learning in the dark”. In order to try out this form of learning, students donned eye-masks and blocked out all light. As a result the students had to rely on their taringa to learn. With nothing but their hearing, the boys quickly learnt that they had to pay close attention and learn how to tune out unwanted background noise. But once adjusted, they were quick to take up the challenge of learning multiple styles of rhythms and beats.

While it felt odd at first, many of the boys remarked that it was a really good way to learn because they were not distracted by things they could see around them. It helped them to focus. They discovered they learned the rhythms more quickly than without their masks and found it easier to retain the information. Within the space of one lesson they had their first haka down! They also noted that it was a good task for team skills as if one person spoke out of turn the whole task would go sideways!

The class then compared this way of learning to learning a haka with words on the board. Most remarked that it was much harder and they felt less confident with knowing the words, especially once actions were introduced. Learning new disciplines from an emic view point is a central part of the Māori

Performing Arts course and all the rotations did a great job at tackling something so new to them. Ka rawe e tama mā, kia kaha tonu!

Special thanks go to Dr. Karyn Paringatai for her willingness to let us explore her ideas and research. Ngā mihi ki a koe, Karyn!

HE TĀOKA, HE KOHA, HE KURU POUNAMU

On Friday 28th October the Mana Pounamu, Young Achievers Award ceremony was held for the first time in over three years. Unable to be held due to the pandemic it was an amazing feeling to see everyone gathered together after so many years. Hundreds of people attended the event and John McGlashan College was well represented with about 30 boys in attendance from Year 7-13.

The late Alva Kapa initiated the Mana Pounamu Young Achievers’ Awards in 2001. Mana Pounamu is a Kāi Tahu initiative supported by Kā Papatipu Rūnaka ki Arāiteuru, Otago Polytechnic, the University of Otago, Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, the Ministry of Education and the Otago Daily Times. It is perhaps the most coveted Māori award and draws in schools from around all of Otago.

But this award is about more than just a scholarship or leadership. As per the title- it is about mana. It is about recognising, affirming and raising the mana of our rangatahi. It celebrates their māoritanga and reminds them of how important and special that māoritanga is.

This year John McGlashan had two recipients. Max Porter (Year 11) was the recipient of the Teina award. He excels in all areas of school life. A strong academic, talented sportsman and keen musician, Max still finds time to help and support his community and school whenever he can. Most recently, Max has been involved in building the new Red-Woods Mountain Biking Track, giving up his after school and weekend time to create something that will be used and appreciated by many. Max has also taken up the challenge this year of learning his reo. He has picked up the language at Year 11 level and is showing us all what hard work and dedication is as he makes excellent strides towards his NCEA Level One Te Reo.

In doing so, Max is on his journey to know his iwi, his reo and his whakapapa.

The Tuakana Award was won by Ben Joseph (Year 13). Ben has an amazing list of sporting accomplishments, his most recent being a part of the First XV Rugby team who did incredibly well getting to the Top Four of the National Secondary First XV Championships.

We have been privileged to watch Ben grow in his role as a leader of te ao Māori in our school. These last few years in particular, Ben has been the key leader of teaching the school haka to junior students and has led full school haka at events such as our Matariki service and school exchanges. His efforts have seen him take the role of Māori Prefect for 2022. He has been a key figure in lifting mana Māori within the school and our community. Ben graduates Year 13 at the end of this year with the intent to study Law at the University of Otago.

Congratulations to our recipients and thank you to all the students and staff who attended to tautoko the mana of our boys and school. It was a truly inspirational night to be immersed in kaupapa Māori and see all the amazing talent from around the rohe. Next year, the Mana Pounamu awards will be held during Matariki. We look forward to receiving all the whānau nominations of our rangatahi Māori.

For any whānau wishing to become more involved in kauapapa Māori at the school, we warmly invite you to become a part of the Māori and Pasifika Steering committee. You do not need to have any knowledge of reo or tikanga - just a wish to support the Māoritanga and mana of your child and the school.

Whaea Lizzie Clark

Ko tōku nui, tōku wehi, tōku whakatiketike, tōku reo.

My language is my greatness, my inspiration, that which I hold precious.

Te reo Māori at John McGlashan College has seen a very busy year. With multiple junior classes and the introduction of senior reo, we have seen the profile of te reo and te ao Māori grow rapidly this year.

Students have had a very positive year with many experiences outside of the classroom. Under the organisation of David Beazley, the Year 7, 8 and 10 classes all went to Puketeraki Marae. There they experienced a formal pōwhiri, guided tours of the area and many activities such as mau rākau and raranga. All of this mahi was supported and embedded in local histories and stories. We learned of tikanga, of taniwha, of great battles, of ancestors and whakapapa. It was an incredible day and we are very thankful to the amazing manaaki we were shown from mana whenua.

Remember - Language is the cloak cast by our thoughts that create pathways into the world.

The Year 10 class has had a particularly exciting year. With lots of in-class fun such as our Kai unit or end of year skits, the first big out-of-class adventure was the John McGlashan Matariki celebration. For this, the boys learned several haka to perform alongside the kapa haka and senior boys for welcoming in the new year. We had a very special Chapel service and the boys did an excellent job at stepping up and honouring the mana of the event.

Next on the list for the Year 10s was a trip to the Otago Museum with the whole Year 10 languages programme. Here the boys experienced an amazing planetarium show where they discovered the path of the Matariki star cluster as well as a wealth of information about other cosmos! As well as the planetarium the boys also participated in an “escape room” type challenge that involved them finding clues and learning about many of the ancient cultures that are represented in the museum. Of course - we can’t forget the amazing lunch that Frau Noble organisedngā mihi nui ki a koe!

But the biggest item on our list this year was Mana Pounamu. Together with kapa haka, Year 9 Māori Performing Arts and several senior students, the Year 10 class attended the Mana Pounamu awards. Here they were treated to an evening of celebrating

achievements, of inspirational speeches, of te reo and tikanga and of course - hāngi! The boys performed brilliantly alongside Columba College to support our recipients. Kua Poho Kererū katoa mātou!

Now with the year coming to a close we have our eyes firmly on even more exciting adventures to come - The Ngā Manu Kōrero competition being one of them.

Tuhia ki tō rae - Ko te reo te kakahu o te hinengaro, te huarahi ki te Ao Turoa

Remember - Language is the cloak cast by our thoughts that create pathways into the world.

Trip to Puketeraki Marae

This year, all of the Year 7 and 8 classes and one of the Year 10 Te Reo Māori class were able to visit Puketeraki Marae at Karitane. The trip was to expand the boys’ understanding of Māori culture and support with classroom learning.

Students and staff participated in and were welcomed with a traditional powhiri. They experienced the protocols and tikanga of the Wharenui and learnt about the different places on the Marae. The boys experienced a guided tour around the Huriawa Pa site (Te Pa a Te Wera). They heard detailed stories and histories from local tangata whenua about the site and the entrance way into the Waikouaiti river. They heard stories and history of the Waitaha, then Ngāti Māmoe; later Ngāi Tahu.

The boys then were able to take part in Mau rakau (Taiaha based training) learning the different commands and team work. The students were guided through the traditional weaving of Harakeke and all the tikanga surrounding it. We played traditional Māori games involving teamwork, balance, accuracy, speed and skill. We investigated the carvings and art work in and around the Wharenui. We listened to the stories and histories of the Puketeraki Marae.

The trip was a great success and I look forward to continued visits to our local marae and hearing more about our local place.

David Beazley

She Wanders Between Celestial Bodies

Ryan Zhou, Year 9

She wanders between celestial bodies.

Slowly, gracefully, filled with grief.

Some nights they say you can see her drift through the sky, and some nights they say you can see her lonely tears illuminating the sky.

“They’re brighter than the stars, some of them.” Father told me. A question came to my head.

“How long has she been doing this for?” I asked Father, curious about this story.

Father thought for a while, which surprised me. Father was a man with many answers. He could satisfy my childish curiosity easily.

After a while, he said, “I don’t know, but my father, your grandfather, has told me that the story has passed through our town for centuries.”

“Well, wouldn’t she be bored?”

“What do you mean? Wandering through space, finding mystical, arcane celestial bodies, while being immortal? You get to enjoy all of God’s wonders.”

“But she’s lonely!”

“Hmm? I guess she is. But maybe the stars provide her company.”

I didn’t believe my father.

I decided to stop questioning him. I rested my head on the ground again, staring back up while adjusting my pillow. We both stared back at the stars. It was peaceful and tranquil. Until another question popped up into my head.

“Do those stars ever disappear?”

My father didn’t spend a second and replied with: “Yes, nothing in this universe lasts forever. That’s just how it works.” He then stared at him with a cheeky smile. “That’s why you should also do your chores and homework!”

No, no, not a chance in a million.

I wonder if that woman will be exploring the universe forever.

***

The universe is a big place. I would personally know.

I’ve seen all types of planets, big and small, violent and peaceful. Stars have died and exploded in front of my eyes.

It was a wonderful sight, seeing God’s miracles in action. So why did I feel so… empty?

I felt so small, so insignificant looking at celestial objects as massive as they were. It made me feel… Useless.

Well, no time to keep on contemplating life.

My next stop is here.

A small planet, coloured like a blue marble, with green splattered across from a child. White spirals circled random parts of it.

Something about this place seems… different. It feels lively. It feels as if it has a purpose.

I was about to drift off, until I saw something. My eyes opened up wide, as I saw a sparkle, and the faint shape of a lady with an umbrella slowly drifting across the sky.

My legs started moving towards the sparkle. I was hypnotised; my mind was racing.

When I got there, my knees buckled slightly, and I recollected my breath for a second.

In front of me was a lady with an umbrella.

“Hello,” I said, “Do you drift through the universe?”

She presented a confused face, a face filled with a shock, as if she had never seen a human before.

“Um, yes.”

I looked up, with my curious eyes, and asked her,“Do you ever feel lonely?”

The House in the Grove of Lost Souls.

Jonny Leitch, Year 10

There sits a house, deep in the forest, far beyond any measurement of man. Many explorers have ventured out in search of this house and never returned. It is said that only the lost, the dead, and condemned souls can see this shack, and they can only enter upon the judiciary evaluation of the celestial spirits that guard the house. This holy residence is surrounded by miles and miles of trees, as far as the eye can see. Shrubs and small plants litter the moss-covered forest floor. Small rodents scurry through the undergrowth in search of nuts and seeds, while deer graze in the small clearings in the surrounding areas. Looking upward, flocks of the most colourful birds flap overhead, as the cry of an eagle pierces the crisp sweet morning air. Looking to the horizon, a tall house looms in the distance, only visible thanks to a shroud of sunlight. Upon getting closer, it is clear that the building has been there for quite some time, as the wooden framing had started to collapse, windows are broken, and the peeling white paint had long since peeled to give way for grey, weathered timber. Years of neglect had resulted in the roof rusting to a maroon-brown colour, while a thick, deep green moss had spread its way over the entire house.

The deer suddenly raised their thorny heads, and the birds abruptly stopped their songs. The hairs on each rodent’s head turned on end. The whole forest had gone silent, not a breath was taken. The forest was on alert. Then, a shadow moved swiftly through the trees. Although the animals couldn’t see the wandering soul, they could definitely sense it. The shadow moved just above the ground, but not touching it. Once it reached the

steps at the base of the house, it materialised into a dark, seemingly cloudy yet opaque thing. There are no words in any language that could describe this being, other than simply; a Thing.

As the Thing moved up the steps, more and more items materialised around it.

On the first step, dark, silky cloth wrapped around the Thing. It was dressed in a cloak, a robe, even. On the second step, the robe moulded a hood that masked the Thing’s identity. By the time it reached the top of the stairs, the Celestial had morphed into a shadow creature, dressed in a pitch-black robe, complete with a lantern in hand. The lantern was lit, but it gave off no light. In fact, it emitted darkness, a darkness that swallowed up all light around it, masking everything; the animals, the trees, everything. The only areas it did not conceal were the shadow creature and the house. These were marked with a ghostly white outline.

The moment the shadow creature got to the threshold of the door, it knocked on the brass door knocker, three times. Bang…Bang…BANG! On the third knock, the heavy oak door swung open, and from deep within the house came a great whooshing noise. It came loud and fast, almost as if a jet plane was flying low over the trees. With the noise, came wind. The force of which was so powerful; it sucked the shadow creature into the house, along with the dark. It happened so swiftly that it was over in a matter of seconds, and the door slammed shut, with a heavy BOOM, that echoed throughout the entire forest, uprooting trees, and sending birds squawking into the sky. The only thing that remained was the lantern, which fell from its place in the air, and broke its fragile glass exterior as it hit the deck of the house.

The second the lantern broke, it was as if a plug had been pulled from the air, similar to popping ears in changes of pressure, because the sound from each animal, plant, or element, returned to the grove in an instant as if nothing had happened.

It is said that after that paranormal event, life returned to the forest, and ever so slowly, the house of lost souls disappeared from the land of the living, only to return when the next soul is ready to depart to the great unknown.

The Officer

Stephen La, Year 10

A figure sprinted through the dark forest. Gunshots still rang in his ears as he ran for his life. A family followed him through this ordeal. Like ducklings following a blind gander. The man looked back to check if the soldiers were still after them. He turned his head back around and it all went dark.

His eyes opened and he quickly shut them again. The loud shouts of the German soldiers drew closer; he didn’t dare move. He heard the struggles of the family that he had risked so much for. He had failed them. What had happened? He must’ve hit his head on a branch. Blood trickled down his forehead, the warm, red thick liquid oozing into his ear.

What was he to do? Run? No, he would be shot instantly. Maybe he could fight back? No, he was too weak to stand let alone fight. Maybe if he just stayed there he might not be spotted. He lifted his head just enough to see the German soldiers taking the family back the way they had come. It seemed no one had even realised he was there, almost invisible on the forest floor.

The officer felt consciousness slowly slipping away from his soul. The last thing he thought was that he must save that family that he had failed. Flashbacks pounded in his already bloodied head.

The officer had never been a patriotic man. However, family troubles were the reason he left home at 14, lied his way into the army and after a series of amusing events, found himself in an officer’s uniform with a couple of medals pinned to it. It took him years to achieve the promotions but he felt accomplished - that he had a use in life. What better than serving your country? However, minds are easily swayed and changed or even manipulated; his was no different. Life changes. His mind was definitely changing when his own regiment barbarised the village. Definitely changing when the village was set ablaze, echoing screams of the tortured throughout the woods. The deal breaker came when he was given another promotion and transferred. Nice place. There were eerie woods casting a nice cool shade over the land. Truly a paradise for hikers. Shame the thorn in this natural beauty came in the form of a massive camp. A place reeking of death and cruelty. A place where the once beautiful woods were cleared to make space for a train carrying thousands each day. A place of crimes against humanity. Auschwitz.

He had graciously accepted his promotion with little thought. When his eyes glanced over the job of the

camp warden, he had few enquiries. Another one of the Third Reich’s war camps for its many POWs. It was only when he was placed onto a train, raced across Europe and arrived at the camp, that he realised the reality of it. He witnessed thousands of people disembarking, but many more slumped on the ground, never to breathe again. Carriages filled to the brim, whoever had survived the journey won’t have survived long from the infection from corpses. Every day, he had reluctantly sent hundreds if not thousands to their deaths. Every day, he watched his men inhumanely treat the prisoners. Each day, he would stroll around the camp and have to look away whenever an execution or punishment was dished out. Each day, rinse and repeat. Finally, that voice in his head told him to do what was required. He began smuggling people out of the camps.

It started with two boys whom the officer managed to pass off as his nephews. The two boys made a run for it in the cover of darkness. They were never heard from again. All anyone could do was pray for the best. Over the course of a few weeks, the officer had smuggled five families out in a train and dug holes to allow escape routes - giving freedom to a dozen prisoners. He dedicated all his time to helping the prisoners get free, all while right under the other warden’s nose. He started hating his job, hating his country, hating the very people in high command sending innocents to the camps every single damn day.

Those thoughts swirled in his head as the officer crawled away, taking refuge in lush covering. The thought that another family was about to be wiped off the earth made him shiver. Bitter tears fell from the water sprouts that were his eyes. The canopy of trees made it a perfect area to just lay down there and die. Get himself away from this wretched place. No. He decided. “No, not yet. More people need freedom,” he muttered deliriously. He got up, brushed himself and started lumbering back in the direction of a towering guardpost.

Two weeks later, the rain poured down, drenching the barren earth. Under the dirt lay the bodies of probably hundreds, forgotten in time, never to be retrieved. A man suddenly slumped onto the floor. Another life taken by an empire with the sole goal of finishing a race. No one moved or reacted, as if that was an everyday occurrence. Soldiers were rounding up the prisoners again, forcing them into a line, making them march to the showers. All he could do was watch. Only watch from his office, fully knowing the fate of those marching. The failure in the forest, still fresh in his mind. Now the knowledge that he couldn’t save those people as well. Failure was a common thing in the officer’s life - everyone was destined to fail at one point - but the recapture and most likely demise of that entire family… ‘Knock, knock,’ the door flew open as two soldiers marched in. Their eyes glinted with malicious intent. Hands firmly hovered over the pistol holstered at the waist. “We’ve just received a list containing details of all the traitors to the glorious Reich. The Führer advises you to have a look,” one of the soldiers said as the other unsheathed his firearm.

His was the last name on the list.

That Morning

James

My curtains were slightly open, casting a thin strip of light on the opposite wall. I would like to imagine the light woke me up, but truthfully I had watched it slowly creep along my floor to where it is now. I sat up to check my phone. 7 am. Without really trying to fall asleep, I laid my head back on the pillow, pretending I didn’t have to get up.

The air in my room was cold. All my windows were closed but after years of rusting in the ocean air, that didn’t mean much. Despite the briskness, I didn’t hurry over to put on my clothes. Between just waking up and dreading the day to come, energy was scarce.

My clothes were in a heap in the corner. They were due to be cleaned up but, until it became impossible to find anything, they would stay there. Near the bottom of the pile, I found a white shirt. It had a small red stain but tucked in you probably couldn’t see it. As always, after a brief look around the room, I couldn’t find the tie I knew I had tried to put somewhere obvious the night before. Instead, my eye caught the pile of unfinished homework sitting on the desk next to me. I told myself I’d finish it tomorrow, knowing I would say the same again then. I finished getting dressed, spending more time struggling with my cuffs than I did for the whole rest of the outfit, and made my way downstairs.

It was warmer downstairs. The fire was burning and the windows weren’t quite as unkempt. My parents were in the kitchen preparing their breakfasts, I wasn’t hungry, instead, I tried to duck away from the kitchen before they could offer me food.

Lawson, Year 10

“Morning, Patrick,” my mum cried.

“Morning,” I mumble back, now more tired than before.

“I made you breakfast,” my dad added.

“Coming,” I said, dragging myself into the kitchen,

“You better eat quickly,” my dad said, gesturing to a bowl of cereal on the table, “Grandma is waiting outside.” I glanced at the clock. 7:30. One hour until the funeral.

Red Arrow

Oliver Hamilton, Year 11

At every leaping step, the laced mesh of the boardwalk nipped at his bare heels. Fingers of light, pushing past the green fans of the palm trees, left a lingering comfort upon his skin. Waiting, a fly hovered above the path... then it darted out of sight. The forest whispered of its frantic, competitive lives. Fleetingly, insects buzzed. Starving saplings grasped for light. The boy was enveloped in this layered embrace of systemic chaos: so thick it hid him away from the world of smoke and concrete.

Unable to fend for itself, the boardwalk was slowly being eaten. Tree roots broke through planks that were slowly buried under wet leaves. Blindly churning the wood to dust, a weaving mat of millipedes and beetles lay hidden on its underside. Soon, the boardwalk was indistinguishable from the forest floor and his feet met rotten wood and wet leaves rather than metal wire. He passed a sign that once said ‘Roger’s Hole 20m’, reclining under a grey veil of mould and lichen.

He climbed up the dark rock. He could smell the water. A fresh, but somehow still slightly musty smell. Far below, stained from the filter of fallen leaves, the water had the colour of dark tea. The boy carefully lowered himself onto the rock.

Behind the thin solace of his eyelids, ignorant to the discomforting stony ridges pushing against his cheek, he began to take deep, timeless breaths. With each rise of his chest, he discovered another part of the forest. Swept away on a river of scents, he breathed. He pushed through the most potent current - a crashing, earthy odour of soil and insects acrid - so he could enjoy exploring the quieter flows. Colourful aromas, pooling in eddies, gently pulled him away. Silent ripples flowed over him. Bitter leaves, meaty fungi, and the sticky white flesh of ripening lychee hiding behind their bumpy red skin.

Flying through the trees, a screaming Myna broke his slumber.

His eyelashes peeled open, shattering the white light of the midday sun. Tiny flies, disturbed by the sudden twitch of his eyelids, whirled away.

The boy got to his feet and walked to the edge. He peered down at the water - the dark, tea-stained water. It called to him, promising him relief from the heavy, humid air. Small thin bugs skated across the water on their dainty ballerina legs, dancing as they hunted down a drowning beetle floundering on the surface.

He often felt like that beetle. Helpless. But not right now. A crowd of reeds pressed against the shore, chattering to one another excitedly in the caressing breeze. “Do it!” they chittered.

Limbs flailing, he jumped.

His feet punched the water.

Field medicine

Josh McMillan , Year 11

A drag from a cigarette swiftly transformed into a rattling cough from deep in the medic’s lungs.

A cold shiver ran up his spine as he wallowed in the indignity of it all, the muck, the blood. The thin cotton of his overcoat clung to his skin, pulled tighter by belts and buckles of tanned leather, frayed at the edges. His boots, rotting and riddled with holes, were not the only things the group of four had stolen from

the Boche that day. A dank, musty dugout, liberated from its occupants provided them with cover and even a rare opportunity to rest amongst the mists of gas and the hail of shells that hammered the entire front. In this place of madness and murder, of youth against youth, they sat in squalor, clinging onto memories of lives they would never again experience.

He struggled with the leather of his helmet strap, hands too numb to feel. Deep wrinkles cut grimy valleys through his youthless face as he grimaced at the stench of entrails and the begging, desperate eyes of the young soldier, staring up at him and right through him.

Blood soaked through the tattered sleeves of his uniform, up to the elbow as, yet again, he plunged his fist into the lad’s gut. The faded red cross on his chest was given a new coat of colour.

Small rocks rained from the corners of the ceiling as the shelling inched closer.

A tangled knot of steel was pulled from the boy’s abdomen, cradling a shredded mess of stomach and intestine.

Sharp gasps of air escaped the boy’s mouth, his screams muffled by the sock stuffed between his teeth, the young lad, not yet resigned to his fate, in too much pain to speak.

His face, white as snow, in sharp contrast to the vivid red speckling his chest.

‘Boom!’

A high pitched whine filled the ears of the medic, disoriented and floored by the blast.

A scream escaped the boy’s mouth as dust poured from the ceiling into his gaping torso. Fissures webbed out from the point of impact on the ceiling. Debris tumbled and fell through air, thick with smoke. A shower of rubble formed from clouds of suspended dust.

“Out, now!” barked the medic to no reply from his comrades as he fumbled his way toward the dim light of the exit blinded by the curtains of pebbles and stones cascading from above.

“Please, please don’t leave me in this hell!”

The boy sobbed, meeting the medic’s gaze.

He gave the boy a sorry glance and then dived for the doorway, his loosened helmet strap caught by the desperate boy on the table

“Let me go!” coughed the medic, dragging the boy off the table in an effort to free himself.

“I can’t die,” whispered the boy feebly “not like th…”

‘Crash!’

A plume of dust and debris clouded the air, thick with the snapping of gunfire and booming of shells. Four men gone and already forgotten.

The Foundation of Sangria

Alex Seaton, Year 12

They lived their days in paradise. Palm trees dotted over the great rolling landscape, and shopping centres lay nearby their comfortable, two storey, whitepicket-fenced homes. During the nights, some would walk peacefully along Crimson Boulevard, arm in arm, looking out upon the ocean shimmering in the fading light of the day. Often, an old fisherman would be there, sitting calmly in his little yellow boat as the waves rocked it backwards and forwards. The people would wave, and he would give a subtle nod of the head and a smile in return.

George would often marvel at the way the warm Sangrian breeze would gently rustle the leaves on the dark oak trees, and how the sun never seemed to disappear, even in the darkest hours of the night. No speck of dirt would ever dare to be seen on any one of the many shiny double-glazed windows in his neighbourhood, and cracks in the road were a rarity.

The streets and stores of Sangria were inviting, with extensive markets on the weekends. In September, the popular Chartreuse Festival took place. Many musicians would perform, playing their instruments gracefully as the busy Sangrians weaved through the crowds, contemplating a new handbag or a bowl of cherries gathered from a farm not far out of the city. George loved this place. He had been to the festival every year since he was brought to Sangria many years ago. He remembered the first time he saw the brilliant velvet

costumes, and the fireworks display. He remembered the candy stall that collapsed nearby a very apologetic juggler, and the expressions on the faces of the onlookers. He remembered the clown crafting balloon animals, and the excitable looks of children with painted faces.

Arriving at his new home, he unloaded a stash of sweets onto his bed, admiring it for a while, and sat down quietly in the corner of the room. Everything about his new life was so overwhelming that sometimes, he could do nothing but simply stare mindlessly into the distance. Not contemplating anything. Not even thinking at all. His new family would often find him like this for hours at a time.

Perhaps it was a mistake, they would think. Maybe he can never truly become a Sangrian.

He wondered that himself. But if he wasn’t a Sangrian, he didn’t really know who he was. He couldn’t even try to remember who he was, either. The Purgator IV would wipe away the memories of his former life within seconds if one were ever to even reach his subconscious. He often pulled at the Purgator in frustration, but he knew that if he removed it, he would be banished from Sangria forever, and forced back to wherever he came from.

But he didn’t know where he came from. He didn’t know who his real parents were, or why they had abandoned him in the Merlot corn fields those many years ago. He wouldn’t dare try to remember out of fear of his memories being lost forever.

He could still remember the night in the corn fields, though. Around six years ago, among a trampled area of land and crop, he lay there, helplessly. He remembered the fear he felt of this new world, but there was also a desperate desire within him to be found. He couldn’t stand up to walk; his legs were too weak to support his weight. Exhausted and frustrated, George grabbed a handful of soil and corn, and threw it across the field, screaming with the remainder of his energy. His head hit the damp ground with a thud, and he allowed the brilliant red sunset to drag him deep down into the darkness.

He awoke several hours later, blinded by a flashlight. An old man stooped over him, prodding at his ribs with a wooden cane. He appeared to be looking for any signs of life. George was too tired to react. The prodding continued, and the man said something to him aggressively in a foreign tongue. Again, George didn’t react. The man grew increasingly agitated, and this time, struck him hard with the cane, shattering several of his ribs instantly. George lurched violently in pain, and once again, disappeared back into the darkness.

Everything else after that was fuzzy. He remembered waking up in several hideously white rooms, with unfamiliar faces staring over him, each displaying different expressions he could not recollect. Each would fade in and out of his memory, weaving seamlessly between each other, as if it were only one face displaying all the expressions. One day, another strange face appeared next to him, and began talking calmly in the same foreign tongue he had heard before. This time, he could understand what the woman was saying. But he couldn’t remember what she said.

“He didn’t know why he had found himself in the corn fields, or why the old man had beaten his starving body as hard as he did.”

The woman gave him a home he could live in. It felt special to him then; to have a home and a family, and not be stuck fading in and out of consciousness by the will of the hospital staff. But still, he felt empty. He didn’t feel close to his new family in any way. There was still so much distance between them.

George remembered the first time he went into the city, holding onto the woman’s hand desperately. Many people noticed him, and suddenly had to cross the street to go about some other urgent errand. Others simply raised their heads and walked by, muttering “lousy servant” malevolently under their breath. George didn’t know what they meant by that. He could understand their language after having undergone LRS (Linguistic Restructural Surgery), but he didn’t understand why everyone felt so bitter around him. He began to trail behind the woman, afraid. She squeezed his hand tighter in reassurance.

There was so much George didn’t understand about Sangria. He didn’t know much about himself, either. He didn’t know why he had found himself in the corn fields, or why the old man had beaten his starving body as hard as he did. As George grew older, the pain of not knowing where he came from grew greater and greater. He was afraid he would be punished if he asked, or that his memory would be wiped completely, leaving him feeling empty again, lying back in the Merlot corn fields, desperate to be found. But it drove him mad. The memories of his previous life were now completely gone, and the Purgator IV had now been made redundant, but George still felt a strong connection to his previous life.

He sought to follow that connection.

On a late Sunday afternoon in August, George stared out his bedroom window, watching as his parents drove off to the market to buy the groceries for the week ahead. Once they were well out of sight, he grabbed his bike from the workshop, and rode towards the setting sun. He didn’t really know where he was going - it was more instinctual. He was worried that he was going in the wrong direction, but his fears were fortunately eased when he saw a sign pointing towards the Merlot village. He turned off into Mahogany Avenue, and

continued cycling for several minutes, but nothing around him felt familiar at all. The day was now fading, and the blood-red sunset illuminated the houses all around him. He was growing wearier now, and he knew he had to take a break. He pulled up on the side of a dirt road, and sat down for a while, feeling hopeless. What was the point, anyway? If he ever even managed to find the field, nothing could possibly tell him anything about his previous life. The warm, summer breeze was ever the more present, and as he began to lie down, he was reminded of the same breeze the night he spent in the corn fields almost seven years ago.

George could once again feel himself floating away into the darkness. But he knew he had to keep going. Shakily, he stood up, and leaned on his bike, allowing it to hold his weight. After a while, he looked up, and realised he had arrived where he had come so far to be.

The crops in the field were now dead, but George still knew exactly where he was going. Carefully climbing over the barbed wire fence of the farm, he trudged through the field, allowing his body to become controlled by the voice in his head telling him where to go. Eventually, he reached the spot, and knelt down, looking for any kind of signs that would suggest how he had arrived there. The ground beneath him was disturbed, as if it had once been dug up. He looked around him for some kind of spade, but he couldn’t find one. Carefully, he began to dust off the loose bits of soil around the dug-up area. Small shards of bone were drawn up as he did this, which he examined and put to one side. George was terrified as to what else he might find, but he knew he had to keep digging. Suddenly, as he brushed off the last of the loose soil, the newly formed hole began to expand downwards, rumbling violently and blowing up dust and dirt all around him. He thrust himself backwards, afraid of falling in.

The rumbling stopped, but it was replaced by distant screaming. Eventually, he built up enough courage to look down into the hole.

Now he knew where he had come from.

The Foundation.

“The Pit punished The Servants mercilessly, the burning heat it emitted slicing playfully at them.”

The Foundation tortured. It destroyed dreams and ruined lives. Stacked one on top of the other, and sorted into neat and tidy rows, were The Servants, waiting, their screams stifled by the cars and trains of the busy world above them. Below them was The Pit. It burned them, eventually it would take them, destroying what little life they had experienced, yet it offered them no light to see their final days disappear before their eyes. Its vast form appeared to extend forever. Nobody could escape from it. Sangria would be destroyed if they tried.

The Pit punished The Servants mercilessly, the burning heat it emitted slicing playfully at them. It took them when all who were below had already burned to a crisp. Above them, other servants waited long for their daily helping of burnt, diseased flesh, which were passed up through the conveyor-belt like system of bodies. The days were long and hot, and air was a luxury. The only thing that could ease their pain was the knowledge that they, too, would soon reach the bottom of The Pit, and begin their next duty as sustenance for The Foundation. Others were dug up earlier, and harvested from the ground to be skinned and used as an article of clothing, or the wallpaper of a home to be built on Crimson Boulevard.

Sangrians associated little guilt with this. After all, it was inevitable that The Pit would burn right through The Foundation, and would bring Sangria to its knees. Those in The Foundation were lucky for the food they now had access to, anyway. No matter how awful they thought their lives were, the alternative was much worse.

George looked on as he watched his family suffer. They tried to yell something up to him, but their tongue was now foreign to him. He knew there was nothing he could do. They would die, and eventually, so would he. He stood up, and began to walk away. But the ground beneath him began to rumble again. There was no going back now. Soon, more and more Sangrians would learn of the truth about The Foundation. The Foundation had to be destroyed.

And so did Sangria.

In the final moments of their lives, the people who walked peacefully down the bloodstained Crimson Boulevard, mowed their lawns every fortnight, and proudly displayed their white picket fences of bone to the world, finally saw The Foundation of Sangria.

All The Good Times - Chapter One

Harrison Marshall, Year 13

Rusted chairs and ashtrays welcomed visitors with open arms. And touch-starved rooms patiently slept in their quaint dresses. A sign that barely stood anymore read in faint white chipped paint, ‘Misty’s Place.’ A stretch of nine doors, each with faded numbers, lay behind a mostly glass reception sporting free coffee stickers and a DVD rental sign. If this place had been lifted up and shot into a midwest state where nothing but lizards and dust move, it would fit right in. But that wasn’t where is was. On one side, a thick slab of coast stands naked while bipolar seas shape its belly and salt its air. On the other side, endless meadows house local livestock and the occasional bungalow - sheep and cows mostly - grazing season after season.

Inside sat a receptionist. She sat straight, as though her spine had been removed and replaced with a long ruler. Her eyes gazed down at a soft-covered journal, which was hidden behind a taller extension of her desk, where visitors paid. The lady was skinny with a long grey plait that ran down to the middle of her back like a second backbone. Misty’s Place had shown all the evidence of an area that had once seen many good times. A place where many people had been, and where many things had happened. But now it appeared to run dry - petered out. Forgotten.

Outside the reception, a cream 1995 Land Cruiser ute growled - its dull lights revealing a soft drizzle and the sea mist, as the day came to a close. By the passenger door stood a woman. She had loose denim jeans, almost flared at the cuff, which rested on black Adidas sneakers. Above, she wore a wide fuzzy fleece similar in colour to her car. She hid her young face behind a corduroy black cap.

She finished unloading two big suitcases out of the open back, which she then wrapped with a black cover to keep the damp air out. With the light quickly escaping the now dull sky, she threw a backpack around her left shoulder, took the key out of the ignition, shut the door, and headed to the reception - now a dimly lit glowing box of reflections.

As she opened the door a small bell chimed, and she removed her cap revealing hay-blonde hair that fell just above her shoulders. The air was cool, even cooler than outside. The smell of magazines and cheap pine candles scented the room. The woman behind the desk kept her head down, her attention remaining on the paper in front. Before saying a word, the visitor noticed the lady’s face. She looked older, but not the natural older that comes with ageing, more the accelerated older that suggested chain-smoking or a lifetime of stress? Her face drooped ever so slightly, as though her skin contained iron sand while a magnet hung from her chin. Canyons and arroyos diverged throughout her weathered cheeks and forehead and her oak eyes glanced up at the incoming visitor. The young girl spoke.

“Hey, you wouldn’t have a room spare I could stay in for just tonight?

After she spoke, in the swift pause of silence before the receptionist replied, she realised what a silly question that was. Of course there was a spare room. The place was completely dead. The receptionist opened her mouth as the start of a word formed, then closed it again quickly.

“Let me just have a check for you.”

She smiled scarcely, lips together. A beam of harsh white light lit her face and octagon glasses relocated from her head to her eye line. “We have Room 9 free, right down the end. It has the nicest view - you can see all the way down the coastline.”

She angled her head down and gazed her eyes up away from her spectacles. The visitor paused for a second.

“Yeah… Yeah okay, that sounds great”

“What is your name hun?”

“Julia.”

She smiled. Her zipped-up fleece acted like a thick turtle neck, and she tucked her chin into it to feel the fuzzy warmth. She left her two suitcases behind her and with her backpack still hung around her shoulder, she stepped forward to the counter.

As she moved, she noticed the decor around the room. The wall’s skin, an eggshell colour, crawled with small imperfections; cuts, scrapes and spots of darker shades. A box radio sat in the corner, facing a small circle coffee table with two cushion chairs around it. A large framed photograph hung on the wall behind the receptionist. It was a portrait of a man. Black and white. And not modern. Much older. What looked like a name penned in black ink in the bottom corner remained unreadable from behind the counter.

The Eftpos machine lit up. With the touch of a card the payment was completed.

Julia slipped her card back into her fleece pocket.

“So what brings you to Seacliff hun?”

“I’m on a gap year.” she replied enthusiastically, despite her exhaustion.

“Oh very nice.”

The receptionist paused. Her face blunt. Her eyes grew small behind her spectacles. Silence quickly filled the room. Then she said, “How old are you?

“I’m 19.” Julia replied quickly

“You have circles under your eyes.”

“Excuse me?” Julia asked as she thought she heard wrong.

“You have dark circles, under your eyes.”

The receptionist’s tone was soft but unsettling.

Julia let out a forced polite chuckle.

“And you are quite skinny aren’t you?”

She looked up and down like she was evaluating Julia

“Weak bones, weak genes.”

“But your face makes up for it - nothing to worry about.”

Again Julia forced a smile, trying to hide the blooming uneasiness that this conversation was feeding.

“Have you any siblings?”

“Yes, two.” Julia responded politely

“Do they all have eyes as pure as yours? They are as blue as they come. I wanted blue eyes you know. I used to cry about it all night long. My parents ought to have gotten rid of me. But sometimes things can not be chosen.” The receptionist reached back over her shoulder, stroked her thick plait, and lifted it so it ran down the left side of her chest. “Don’t worry.” she whispered, “The white noise of my seas can help clean even the most troubled of minds.”

A heavy splash of pain hit Julia’s chest and her vision became vignetted. Her ears began to ring and she felt a growing desire to burst out in tears and scream until her vocal cords broke. The ringing got loud and her vision rapidly declined. She reached into her pocket which contained her meds. But then it stopped. She was horrified. Nothing had ever been as bad as that. In her pocket, she clutched onto the plastic sheets of prescriptions she had become so familiar with - Anxiolytic for her anxiety, Vilazodone for seasonal depression and an inhaler for her panic attacks.

The receptionist opened a drawer and pulled out a silver key with the number 9 attached to it. She placed it on the counter.

“His name was Truby King if you were wondering.” She glanced back at the framed portrait.

Her eyes filled with awe.

“He was based in the town 20 minutes north of here. But Seacliff was his real home.”

Julia grabbed the key and turned her back and headed for the door. Making no stop she picked up her suitcases along the way.

The rain had picked up since she was inside and now it was one droning note. Rhythmic crashes of the sea and the cliff’s tree’s windy whispers orchestrated the night. She paced to Room 9, at the end.

* * * * *

Julia’s hair lay upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm, and her head felt as clear as the morning sea sky. The light poured down like honey through the gaps of the velvet curtains. Looking out the window, Julia noticed that the waves that raged so powerfully throughout the night were now gentle glassy swells.

She walked to the mirror. From the late night and long drive, she anticipated to see a ghost in place of her figure, but to her surprise, she looked splendid. Her skin, which usually maintained a consistent paleness, was glowing. Her eyes, still glimmering blue, looked refreshed. No sign of the immense fatigue she had felt in the mornings of her previous stops.

She opened the room 9 door and was met with the view of a lush green landscape. Beautiful gardens and trees surrounded the area, and tidy paths lead from each door and winded up into more greenery. Julia thought that with it being so dark and wet the night before, she must have missed all the foliage. She couldn’t recall much from the night before. Soft laughter and incoherent chatter travelled from the direction of the reception and a small arrow sign that pointed toward the greenery read King Gardens. There were now cars in every park, but all of the rooms still looked unused.

Julia turned and stepped back to the front of her door, but before she could enter a voice appeared behind her. It was a man. He was looking right at her when he said,“You are perfect. Everyone here is going to love you.”

Part Five: McGlashan Boarding

row: Hunter Sutherland, Toby Duncan, Flynn McKenzie, Fred Gordon, Josh Hagan, Lachie Clearwater, Lachlan Macauley, Ethan McSkimming, Lachie MacKenzie, Bede O’Connell, Toby Hazlett

Fifth row: Jack Bensemann, Sam Lawson, Logan Wither, Carter Robertson-Gray, James Liggett, Richie Cavanagh, Sam Milne, Cooper Ollerenshaw, Oscar Crowe, Archie McDiarmid, George Holland, Freddie Saunders, Sam Hancox

Fourth row: Chun Kruwongpaibool, Hayden Pringle, Jack Steele, Angus Loe, Charlie Light, Charlie Carran, Adam McNab, Brodie Ferguson, Vinny Brown, Simon Tomkins, Max Porter, Harry Ryan

Third row: Will Hancox, Cory Wright, Bailey Williams, Kahu Keenan, Rex Cui, Henry Scott, Fergus Wright, Millar McElrea, Daniel Burnett, Henri Fenn, Oakland Young, Finn Aitken

Second row: George Brennsell, Will Pringle, Tom Duffy (Clan Leader), Alban Gosse, Sam Williams (Clan Leader), Mark Smith, James Paterson, William Loe, Billy Dougherty, Adam Byars

Front row: Mr Bruce Genever, Mr Sam Blakely, Archie McRae (Deputy Head Boy), Jack Hazlett (Deputy Head Boy), Jack Timu (Head Boy), Mr Neil Garry (Principal), Stan McClure (Head Boarder Senior Hall), Mr Stu Forster (Assistant Manager Senior Hall), Sam Porter (Boarding Prefect), Mr Brodie Watkins, Mr Sam Doran

Absent: Mr Kilifi Fangupo, Mr Blair Mitchell-Kuru, Mr Richard Buchanan, Mr Archer Elliot, Mr Sean Roberton, Mr Andrew Sim, Paddy Kennedy, Jed Crawford, Otis Rohland, Harvey Hunt, Oliver King

Back

Monti Cleugh-Gibb, Geordie Macdonald, Max Perriam, Thomas Hinton, Angus McDiarmid, Charlie Falconer, Luke Wright, Mack Stevens, Charlie Barnett, Brayton Erskine, Henry Crawford, Noah Clearwater, Cooper Cleland, Charlie Donaldson, Lachie Sutherland, Sam Eason, Liam Ross, Simon Cavanagh, Jack Sandford, Matt O’Meara, Charlie Pearson, Milo Hyndman, Haydn Finlay, Jock Duncan, Archie Goodall, Olly Perriam, Riley McRae, Taine Dyson, Nic Hinton, Max Simpson, Jed Nevill, Sam Johnston, Max Hore, Zavier Paterson, Harry Stevens, Ben Barnett, Mac Perkins, Harry Wing (Boarding Prefect) , Zack Cleaver-Donovan, Louis Allan, Ben O’Meara, Charles Engelbrecht, Jonty Light, George Hancox, (Clan Leader), Mr Nick Price (Assistant Manager Junior Hall), Keegan Ferguson (Head Boarder Junior Hall), Mr Drew Campbell (Director of Boarding), Mrs Rosemary Stevenson (Matron), Charlie Breen (Boarding Prefect), Sam Cottier (Boarding Prefect), Harry Ollerenshaw (Boarding Prefect), Finlay Tomkins (Boarding Prefect), Henry Cleaver, Morris Gordon, Billy Hutton-Atkins, George Begg, Harry Lithgow, Jack Lucas, Fergus Dillon,

YEAR 9

To say the least, this year has been a rollercoaster of emotions. Since the sleepover in 2021, we have bonded and I am sure that we have already made some amazing life-long friends.

It has been a pretty weird year especially with home learning and Covid but when we look back at all, we all think that it has been really cool living with this group of boys.

When we first arrived we lasted a whole 10 minutes before finding our way out onto the corner patch for some rugby. Although we got smashed by the year 10’s that didn’t stop us from getting involved and we never gave up. Soon enough, we learnt to give the ball to Ethan McSkimming whenever we were in trouble!

The Clan competition has been very competitive. Bruce took an early lead but after a disappointing performance in clan rugby McGregor is now winning. We are all looking forward to the clan cricket to finish the year.

There have been a number of sports achievements in Year 9 this year. Many boys played hockey this season and some also played for Otago in Christchurch. Nearly every boarder played rugby, and a couple played for the Under-15A team in Wellington. The A cricket team is made up of seven boarders and many more are plying their trade in the B team. Many of us were involved in a wide range of sports like soccer, touch, basketball, rowing, participating in rogaines and Get 2 Go challenges.

We have learnt a lot about what not to do in the Boarding House. For example:

• Do not get caught out of your room after 8:45pm!

• It is not a good idea to play golf on the corner patch surrounded by houses.

• Do not get caught out of your room after 8:45pm!

• Being inside a zorb ball will not protect you when “running it straight” at a Year 13.

• Do not get caught out of your room after 8:45pm!

• Do not pop deodorant cans inside.

• And…..do not get caught out of your room after 8:45pm!

We have kept ourselves really busy during our down times in the Boarding House like playing laser tag in the gym, fishing in multiple spots across the city, getting in a few overs down in the nets, basketball in the gym, playing tennis and of course, playing ‘held’ on the field. We also do various activities every Sunday which has kept us busy and out of trouble! We all enjoyed the atmosphere created in the common room watching the All Blacks win at 3am in the morning as well as cheering on the First XV when they beat Nelson College!

We also really enjoyed heading down to the stadium to watch the First XV beat Southland Boys’.

Runs and Jobs has really been the highlight of the year though. One night after being put to bed, we decided to gather down one end of the hallway in an open doorway and proceeded to have a chat and play some cricket. After about 10 minutes, nearly every boarder had joined in, going from room to room and passing rugby balls around.

We soon got caught out and had to have an hour long fitness session with the Year 13s followed by a 6am run the next morning .

Overall, the year has been great and memorable. Considering we have been at the bottom of the food chain, we have still made the most of all the opportunities and we are all looking forward to the next four years of boarding house life.

Hunter Sutherland, Lachie Mackenzie

Charlie Falconer

YEAR 10

The year started off with excitement of seeing our mates again and the mix of the new Years 9s faces to learn. Corner patch rugby and clan sports were a great way to meet them.

Saturday morning cricket and touch were great with both competitive and social teams with many boarders participating. Golf was booming with almost everyone swinging clubs.

Unfortunately, Covid-19 hit and we had a week for a break with some online school.

All of a sudden term one was over and we were straight into term two. The autumn weather came in and the rugby and hockey season started with great success.

The weather was getting cold but hostel activities were great fun and the clan rivalry was well underway with Bruce taking out the points at the end of term two.

And once again there was lots of sickness as the flu broke out in the hostel with up to 50 people sick one day.

The Under-15 hockey team were up in Hamilton playing in the Tanner Cup against some big schools coming agonisingly close to the top eight.

After a well deserved break, we were all recharged

and ready to go into the new term of Term Three. It was still the cold Dunedin weather but there were many sporting events happening. The Under-15 rugby tournament was a success, with all the Under-15 hockey teams winning their divisions. Clan rugby was an awesome success with McGregor taking out the junior division and we were back into some corner patch rugby. The weather was getting warmer and we were getting to the end of term.

Term Four came around and the talk of exams and camp were getting louder. With the options of Stewart Island, Kepler, Clutha rafting, Ohau tramp and Central Otago mountain biking everyone was discussing which one they got. The King’s touch tournament was a great day off school with some great, fun touch but not the best results. We were also back into summer sports, golf more touch and cricket and the boys are in great spirits due to the warm Dunedin weather.

Another successful year at hostel has come to a close and our final junior year has been great.

Jack Lucas Oscar Crowe

YEAR 11

The boys have been very busy with various sporting activities and have been tied up with their first year of NCEA. The boys found it hard to get their heads around at first, but now understanding how it works, some good results are showing through. As we came towards the end of the year, the boys put their heads down and got the work done with their study.

The year kicked off with a bang, with most boys being in single rooms for the first time. Most of these boys loved having single rooms and having some alone time, but still missed the shared rooms with the chats at night which all the boys enjoyed.

We were soon into Term One and the first sporting part of the calendar kicked off with the rowing finals coming in fast. South Island Championships for club and school saw us bringing home plenty of medals, with Charlie Carran, Angus Loe, and Matt O’Meara getting some very good results. This set them up very well for the oncoming Maadi Cup, where Matt O’Meara made us proud in the mighty Mackenzie country. He brought home silverware in the Under-16 double, and a bronze in the Under-18 quad. This soon followed with Matt doing well to get into the South Island vs North Island competition, where he and his fellow crew mates won the quad and the competition. This was a very great achievement for the boy from Heriot, and the rest of the rowers.

Soon we were into the winter sports where the boys were getting into hockey and rugby. Jock Duncan, Will Hancox, and Angus Loe all made the hockey First XI, which proceeded to get 10th at the Rankin Cup during a tournament week up in Auckland. This is a great achievement for them as this is the highest Johnnies has ever placed in hockey. Angus Loe and Will Hancox also represented Otago in the Under-18 hockey team which is a huge accomplishment, and they ended up getting fourth at the Nationals.

Our Under-16 Colts also did well getting second in the Dunedin Colts competition losing a tough game to King’s at Forsyth Barr. In this team, we had several boys from the hostel who represented Johnnies rugby well and there were a few stand out players who managed to make rep teams for the amazing season they had. Of this, Will Hancox, Simon Cavanagh, Brodie Ferguson, who all made the Otago Metro Under-16 team, which did well up at the South Island tournament.

As we can see we have had a very successful year. Now, as we are closing in on exams, the boys are getting stuck into some study, and trying to cap off a great year with some great results.

Simon Cavanagh

Charlie Pearson

YEAR 12

Back for another year of sport, school and hostel life our year group enjoyed settling back into routine. Many boys were eager to get Year 12 under way but this was short lived however with another hit of Covid-19 and most of us spending a week or so at home.

There have been many sporting achievements this year for the boys. The summer started off with Henry Scott and Max Hore playing for the First XI. Other sports were played throughout the summer like social touch and tennis with Max Hore also being in the Senior A touch team. While the weather was good we made the most of the swimming opportunities around town such as many trips to Ross Creek and

Max Simpson getting his diving certificate. Winter quickly rolled around and before we knew it we were all out having a snowball fight with the housemasters and other year groups. Winter sport is always a busy and enjoyable part of the year and always comes with many sporting successes. All the senior rugby teams had great seasons with the boys spread across the firsts, seconds and thirds. The thirds were well represented with about 10 boys from our year group playing in the team. They had a cracking season but unfortunately had a tough loss in the final to an Otago Boys’ team. The seconds were also well represented with about ten boys also playing for them. They also had an amazing season and were able to defend their title for another year.

Max Hore and Henry Scott played vital roles in the First XV’s historic season and were both selected for the Highlanders Under-18 team. Taine Dyson, Henry Cleaver, Henry Scott, Max Hore and Kahu Keenan all made representative honours for rugby with the Otago Metro Under-17 team. Kahu Keenan also was a member of the Otago Under-18 rugby league team that went to Christchurch for a tournament.

Harry Stevens, Millar McElrea and Max Hore were also key components of the very successful First XI hockey team. Zavier Paterson and Finn Aitken were both members of the First basketball team who placed third in the Dunedin competition. Success was also seen across many other sports such as boxing,

athletics, volleyball, trapshooting, curling and squash. Many boys have also made good use of the weights room in the gym as it has quickly gained popularity throughout the year.

Preparing for exams is now taking precedence as the boys look to enjoy their last couple weeks of Year 12. The weather is slowly starting to improve and

excitement for summer is becoming more prominent. With most boys gaining their driving licences over the year freedom awaits after a long year of grinding towards the final exams in November.

YEAR 13 - THEN AND NOW

Jed Nevill Finn Aitken

YEAR 13

As our last year at the hostel is coming to an end, we look back at the last five years that have gone by faster than any of us could have imagined. Now instead of us going through the motions of day to day school and preparing to come back, most of us are ready for the next step. The last five years have given us enough good times to last a lifetime but everyone still has room to make more. With most of us spreading out across the country next year, we are all looking forward to making the most of all the time we have left as a year group.

Throughout 2022, our Year 13 hostel boys have had great success on the sports field with a number of boys performing very highly in their chosen fields and getting the recognition they deserve. In rugby, our First XV had a season to remember with a number of boys receiving higher honours. Jack Timu and Keegan Ferguson made the NZ Māori Under-18 team which attended a tournament where they played NZ Schools and NZ Barbarians.

Archie McRae, Charles Engelbrecht, Charlie Breen, Jack Timu, Jonty Light, Keegan Ferguson, Stan McClure and Zack Cleaver Donovan made both the Highlanders Schools team and Otago Metro Under-18 team. The mighty Second XV went undefeated throughout the season and won the Under-18 competition for the third year in a row, captained by our very own George Hancox. Our Hockey First XI also had a season to remember, dominating the Otago competition and finishing the best we ever have at the National Rankin Cup with Jack Hazlett being regonised for his efforts and making the Otago Under-18 team. Mark Smith also had an amazing year on the water, gaining bronze in the Under-18 double and quad at the Maadi cup. Skipper William Loe also led the curling team to both a South Island title and a New Zealand Secondary Schools’ title.

2022 was a year with a lot of distraction caused by sports but, despite this we also achieved highly in the classroom across our chosen subjects With mock exams done, we headed into the part of the year that matters with our final exams looming and the boys kept their heads down and studied hard. 2022 was our first year of final exams without disruption due to Covid restrictions, meaning that most of us will be done with exams earlier then what we are used to.

Five short years ago, we started as a year group with a few rugby connections and became one that knows each other better than our own families. Over the last five years we have spent a minimum of 200 out of 260 weeks together.

It hasn’t always been perfect but no matter what has happened, everyone has had each other’s back. These bonds we have built will always be there for the rest of our lives, no matter where we all end up.

Stanley McClure Keegan Ferguson

Part Six: McGlashan Clubs and Groups

GATEWAY

The Gateway Programme offers students interested in transitioning from school into the workforce, particularly the trades, an opportunity to gain industry experience and qualifications while preparing them with the attitudes and expectations for the ‘real world’.

With our underlying values of ‘reliability’, ‘responsibility’ and ‘reputation’ the students started the year off with teamwork and leadership training which helped to set the scene for their placements in Term Two which they enjoyed and gained much experience from, with some using them as their platform into apprenticeships, career opportunities and further training in those fields.

We had an outstanding group of students this year with interests in farming, plumbing, building, automotive, tourism and aquaculture.

They all made great impressions on their placements and gained valuable experience as well as completing their specific industry based qualifications.

Alongside their industry specific courses, students completed First Aid, Workplace Health and Safety and Forklift training. Some also did a shearing course and one lad gained his Skipper’s Certificate, all helping to

add up to a ‘ready to work’ CV.

A huge thank you to Tori Fleming who organises the book work and placements (not easy… so if you could take a Gateway student in the future for placement let us know!), the Industry Training Organisations (BCITO, PrimaryITO, SKILLS, MITO) that liaise and support the students and especially the businesses and individuals who take on one of our students for placements.

Special thanks for the support from Kurt Webster Building, Pirtek Hydraulics, Mike Jones Building, Simon and Kirsten Engelbrecht, Garth Mitchell and Silver Fern Farms, Shaws Plumbing, Norwoods Farm Machinery, BuildSmart, Claas Harvest Centre, Murray Eason, High Country Salmon, Aroma Mussels NZ, Moreclark Developments and Stu Young for taking on our Gateway students - it is hugely appreciated and makes a big difference in creating opportunities and pathways for them.

We are planning ahead for next year and beyond and looking to provide even more practical opportunities for these lads as a part of their experience.

Glen Clark

Prefects

As another year is concluded at the College, it is time to reflect on the year from a school prefect’s point of view. This group of boys was of very high quality and consistently made positive impacts on both the school and the community.

Not only did the boys contribute to the school environment and culture, we also supported the community. An annual event for the prefect group during Easter time is to donate care packages to retirement homes. Due to Covid, the number of people who were allowed to visit the retirement homes was reduced significantly to just two; Jack Timu and Sheon Luxmanan completed this on behalf of our school. Xavier Edmond did a great job through his organisation with the blood drive. This resulted in the majority of the group who were eligible donating blood for members of the community to benefit from. The Prefects also played netball against other schools. A narrow loss to Otago Girls’ saw the boys regroup and put on a clinic at Columba College to comfortably win. The group also participated and organised Pink Shirt Day to support anti bullying and breast cancer.

The prefects were efficacious within the College being consistent role models for the younger generations to observe. We ensured the large school

fundraisers such as the sports dinner and fete ran smoothly. The majority of the house leaders were also prefects which resulted in our prefects having the opportunity to create an enjoyable yet competitive environment at numerous house events.

With help from the Parents and Friends’ Association, the prefects were able to donate five picnic tables to help make the quad area more accommodating and convenient. A key focus for the Prefects was for us to be seen as approachable by mingling with different groups of people. We achieved this through being assigned to a Year 7 or 8 form class which we attended every Friday and also walking around the school at intervals and lunchtimes to meet more students. A highlight of this was Sheon playing cricket with the Year 9s.

Overall, this year has been highly successful for the 2022 Prefects. We achieved our main goals of being approachable and also create a more positive environment within the school and further into the community. Every person amongst the team was enthusiastic and constructive which resulted in the group making productive changes to the school culture to ensure every student and staff members’ school experience is more enjoyable.

DEBATING

Senior Debating

When you hear the word debating, what do you think? Do you picture two old men shouting over each other in a room that uses lines from a 200-year old document as its wallpaper, like Biden and Trump at a CNN town hall event? Do you imagine family members raising their voices at the dinner table, arguing over whether JK Rowling has been cancelled or not, ruining the taste of your barbeque with the acrid smell of politics? Do you think of a formal structured mode of argument that requires rhetorical triplets of examples as effective interlocutory techniques?

“When you hear the word debating .... do you imagine family members raising their voices at the dinner table, arguing over whether JK Rowling has been cancelled ...”

For me and all my fellows with apprenticeships in argument under Mr Schaumann and Ms Smillie, debating is strangely more civil; it is a sport, with no stakes higher than simple self improvement. Debating has you exercise thinking on your feet - you score points not by moving faster than your opponent, but by thinking faster. Instead of sidestepping tackles, you sidestep questions - and in place of poking holes in the opponents formation, you poke holes in their arguments. All of this builds skills in rhetoric, presentation, and logic, which are hugely important

aspects in many career paths - disregarding the obvious ones such as law or politics, good argumentative skill can help you get that promotion you wanted, or demonstrate to another person exactly why they are in the wrong.

Argument is at the core of what we do in a civil society. Whether it’s about who should play for the All Blacks, what the level of taxation should be, or how we should face the challenges of climate change. Debating is at the heart of what we do to be constructive members of a community.

Senior debating has been one of the most enjoyable experiences of my time at school, not only because I like to prove that I’m right, but because it is fun; being it coming up with witty one-liners or simply trying to spin an idea you find dystopian in a positive light.

While debating is civil, it is certainly not apolitical and half the time you find yourself arguing for positions that you completely disagree with - and while doing so may prove difficult, it also gives you a far greater understanding of those views. Taking on an argument from a position you wouldn’t normally adopt builds empathy, complexity, and temperance.

Sometimes I have changed my mind during the course of a debate, be that due to the other team’s good arguments or the raw force of my own - each time adding another degree of nuance to the opinions I already hold.

So, sign up. Whether you want to get a pay rise, a better job, or just make a better case for why Aaron Smith is the best half-back of all time, debating will help you be a better form of you.

Zac Brooking

The Intellectual Powerhouses of the McGlashan One Debating Team: Harold Gao, Zac Brooking, John Zhao

Junior Debating

Arguing against strangers did not seem like the most appealing extra curricular activity. However, I was completely wrong, and arguing against strangers is actually a pretty fun activity.

Debating is “a process that involves formal discourse on a particular topic”. Many of those topics were fun and interesting, however extremely relevant

“...debating opens up opportunities, such as Law, Politics, Business, etc. (If you want to take over the world, this would be a great activity to do).”

to current world problems. They involved the economy, the environment, the political landscape, and ethics.

Furthermore, debating opens up opportunities, such as Law, Politics, Business, etc.

(If you want to take over the world, this would be a great activity to do).

As with most activities, debating was heavily disrupted by the Covid pandemic. This resulted in us having to scream our points and our arguments through a screen. It was a bit strange, but hopefully

we will be able to go back to face-to-face debating next year.

Altogether, I found debating to be a fun but rewarding experience, while also benefiting us in skills such as critical thinking, articulation and communication skills, and more.

With excellent teaching from Ms Smillie and Mr Schaumann, we’ve honed our skills and learnt the gist of how debating works, and how to debate. If anyone is interested in fighting strangers in a verbal manner, I highly recommend debating.

Ryan Zhou

Over the course of the second term, I learned all of the terms used in debating from our teachers Ms Smillie and Mr Schaumann. They taught us all of the tactics on how a person should effectively debate. I was surprised to see that these tactics actually helped me in more than just debating. They also helped in many persuasive pieces that if I hadn’t gone to debating wouldn’t be serving their purpose.

Maxwell Reid

Pūrongo Whare Pukapuka

Library

A new year in the library, plenty of new faces, and a few familiar ones.

The school year started with many new faces, but with masking still in place until Term 3, it was definitely a challenge to recognise the newbies until their personalities shone through. In February, we welcomed Mrs Victoria Watts to the library staff. Victoria and her family recently moved from Arrowtown, where they already knew many McGlashan families. Victoria has a calm, warm manner and has connected with the boys easily and naturally. Since arriving, she has cultivated her creative talents by putting together some fabulous displays and is enjoying our lively group of librarians who entertain us with their endless stream of jokes and observations.

Head Librarian for 2022 has been Rylan Urquhart, who has been a student librarian and role model since arriving at the college in 2017. With his quiet strength and unassuming manner, Rylan set the tone for our large team of junior trainees. Senior Librarians Kaleb Durant, Zac Brooking and Jacob Cushen have created an inclusive, friendly atmosphere for the many new boys who signed up at the beginning of the year. Thursday’s training sessions have been focused and fun, attracting many more to join the team as the year progressed. Thirty-four boys have completed their badgework and are now fully qualified Librarians, a

new McGlashan record! We celebrated our big team effort at the end of Term 3 with a pizza lunch.

Eye-catching displays throughout the year have included Matariki, Genre Expo, Year 10 Cardboard Sculptures, Conservation week, Te Reo Māori Language Week, Aotearoa New Zealand Stories, the Annual JMC Fishing Challenge, Senior Art and Photography portfolios, and ‘Camps & Tramps’. Our Expo in Term One highlighted various genresHumour, Horror, Rainbow Fiction, Mystery and Crime, Action, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels and Fantasy. Many students are new to the library at this time of year, so the display made it easier for them to find a good book.

One of our most comprehensive foyer displays was centred around Adam Dockerty’s extensive coin collection. Thanks Adam, it was very generous of you to trust us with your precious treasure.

In June, we hosted Mrs Trish Shand, daughter of Distinguished Old Collegian Sir Charles White. Previous Library Assistant Ruth North had assembled a detailed collection of Sir Charles’ memorabilia from the archives, which is still displayed in the Anderson Room. The family had been due to visit the College in 2020, but sadly, their visit was postponed due to Covid. Trish was blown away by the trouble we had taken to honour her beloved father.

Another welcome face around the library this year has been Mrs Penny Ferguson, coordinator of many tutors and volunteer reader/writers who provide learning support for the college. We have seen increasing use of the library as a quiet space for students who require this valuable service.

On a more technical note, we have automated the overdues system to improve library efficiency. I am sure this has flooded more than a few inboxes, but it has significantly improved circulation and reduced the time we spend recalling lost books. The library continues to provide a comprehensive array of upto-date online services through its web app. We are happy to say that the use of the Wheelers ePlatform has doubled as more boys use audiobooks and ebooks to improve their literacy and exposure to ‘story’.

Contrary to popular belief, the library winds up rather than down towards the end of the year. We have the sheer excitement of stocktaking, preparation for SHRIMP packs (our Summer Reading Programme) and the eagerly anticipated library Christmas party. At least we are blessed to have thirty-six eager librarians to help us!

Pam Garry Library Manager

CHESS

This year, there was an uptake in Intermediate chess players coming along to Chess Club on Tuesday and Thursday lunchtimes. Despite some limited success at inter-school tournaments and exchanges, it is good to have some keen new players for the future, especially since many of our senior players are leaving at the end of the year. The senior A team consisted of Martin Brook, Ryan Zhou, Gary Yao and Harold Gao, who placed 6th in the Otago Schools’ Competition, held in Oamaru in July. Martin and Ryan regularly lent their expertise to coach the Juniors at lunchtimes which was greatly appreciated. Martin also strategized his way to success by placing second in the Otago Chess Championships, and was a well deserved winner of the Contribution to Chess trophy at Prize-giving. A fantastic result!

The Intermediate ‘A’ team consisted of a super keen bunch of strategic thinkers and problem solvers; Gus Carr, Blake Chalmers, Adam Dockerty and Toby Spalding, who came a commendable ninth place in their first ever Otago Schools’ Competition and showed great competitive spirit against strong Columba and Balmacewen teams in the winter exchange. This team has been really committed to their chess training on a Tuesday and Thursday lunchtime and learnt a lot from the tough competition. They’ll be even bigger weapons on the board in years to come! A massive well done to all the boys in their first big competitions and a big thank you to the parents who supported the boys this year.

Martin Brook Ella Murdoch

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Harold Gao (Prefect)

During my time at Johnnies, I learned that the biggest strength to have to confront the future are our values and character. Discipline, respect, and politeness are all values that John McGlashan instils in students to make them a better person. I came to Johnnies in Year 9 from Hong Kong, and it was a big change; both the culture shock and the huge breathing area for independence. I learned to no longer rely on my parents (except for some allowance money, that is always appreciated) and persevered as best I could against challenges brought towards me. The first two years of settling in had its difficulties, but the bonds and friendships created around the school sure seemed to brighten the day. I joined a CrossFit gym, which was my slight claim to fame (either that or being called Goose), as I would go nearly everyday and came 10th in France for my age group for the CrossFit Open.

Soon after this, the first Covid lockdown would take place. This created a lot of issues for me surrounding visits with my family, and as Covid went on so did the time not seeing them. After 2 and a half nearly 3 years, I finally got to see the family. During my last two years at Johnnies, I made the choice of doing IB, the International Baccalaureate, which in my opinion as much as it has a high reputation doing either NCEA or IB both gets you into uni. I look forward to the future and what it holds for me.

My stay at John McGlashan College was indeed an interesting journey. I joined the college as a Year 9, five years ago, and somehow, I feel as if time went by both slowly and fast. My subconscious rhythm has been oscillating back and forth like a broken Newton’s cradle. Through Year 9 and Year 10, I drilled valuable virtues into my morality and religiously followed

“The pandemic years were really when the piranhas came out. Three years ago I narrowly escaped the closing of the Chinese borders by just a few weeks.”

them. I could recall the otherworldly experiences that alienated me, but also paradoxically pulled me closer to the harsh reality. When I signed up for Pipe Band drumming lessons in Year 10, I was quite excited. A tall, intimidating figure led the pipe band and I was initially quite scared. Later I found out that he was actually a friendly man who always wore dark clothes, and who loved his profession and ideals. I was quite disappointed to find out that he assigned another teacher to teach me drums since he was busy. The new teacher is a red-haired man wearing grey clothes,

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logical, professional, and knows what he’s doing. That teacher is excellent, and to this day I still know the basic techniques of Scottish drumming. The band leader closed the door, keeping me in with the new teacher and I didn’t think much of it. The next day, my drum teacher informed me about the band leader’s unexpected death. I learned two things: not to grip the drumsticks too tightly, and value one’s experience with others.

The pandemic years were really when the piranhas came out. Three years ago I narrowly escaped the closing of the Chinese borders by just a few weeks. Usually, I am the sort of person who is always slow on current events. I scrolled through Instagram and was confused by this virus everyone is talking about, all the memes, and news articles. A few days later, on an abominably hot day, the solar arrays sliced through the sky like a million knives and penetrated even the coolest premises. I suffered in the school jersey I so idiotically wore. I sat in Mrs. Burton’s maths classroom opposite to the door next to the windows, and the room was lit up by the sun, the yellow-brown wooden wall, that reminded me of the mise en scene of an ancient Egyptian palace. How on earth did it feel like afternoon when it was morning? That’s when she announced something about the virus, and the class laughed even at the thought that a teacher would even mention its name as if it is a forbidden curse. Turns out the curse was strong enough to bring New Zealand into three-plus years of tragedy.

And now I am finishing IB. How? No one knows, I just kind of followed the patterns I guess you could possibly potentially perhaps say or something like that. My chair with my black monitor in front of me became a jail for me for many months, and now I am about to break out. For the past two years, I put those values into practice. Now I could recall, after coming back from China three years earlier, despite me recognising my home street in New Zealand as my de facto humble abode, an alienating curiosity rose above all else. The dream-like state I was in as I strolled through the street, without the noises of the cars, consuming fresh, clean oxygen, and the flowers I saw were certainly otherworldly. And now I kind of want to smell the polluted air of Beijing again, the sound of drunk people shouting in Chinese when I am trying to sleep, and cars honking. The two worlds that divided my experiences seemed to be from two romantic novels written in the 1800s.

And now I leave John McGlashan for a world seemingly gone insane, knowing how to perform the Fourier Transform, knowing the causes of the Cold War, knowing how to say funny words in German, and knowing how to think better than I could before, I guess.

Such sluggish representation of my experience is nothing but an intimate recall of the past. The past doesn’t even exist outside of my head anyway, so I

suppose with this blurb, I have nailed it, and drilled it into the yearbook, full of stories, perspectives from others, too.

Ray Ma

Five years. That’s the length of my stay at the College, and what an experience it has been! Together, we have journeyed through many challenges as well as victories, with Covid being the premier hardship to overcome. It is certainly a most unique experience indeed.

For those who come after - may you use your time wisely to gain ample knowledge from our college.

Through the many lockdowns and event cancellations, we were able to come out at the end unscathed. This was a challenging time for everyone, but I’d like to express gratitude to our teachers and College staff, who have supported us with the utmost rigour and vigour possible. As Covid slowly becomes nothing but a part of history, I’m confident that we will emerge not only undefeated, but stronger and better.

As I leave College grounds for the last time, I leave nothing but the best wishes for those who come after - May you use your time wisely to gain ample knowledge from our College. As per tradition, I’ll end this with a quote: “Time is like the water in a sponge: if you squeeze, you can always get some.”

Being an International student at John McGlashan College taught me a lot. It made me laugh when I faced unexpected challenges. I heard that the border is now closed under the pandemic situation, and if I ever go back home, I won’t be able to finish my education in New Zealand. Therefore I laughed and said to myself, “It probably be better next year.” It has been like that about three times. It also reminded me to spend the time I have wisely, as the opportunity to be here in such a situation is impossible for others. It is overall challenging being in a place where you need help understanding everything. There were also some staff changes which taught me to reach out for help when needed. With the help of the staff and friends I turned a missed opportunity of going back home into an opportunity to discover myself at John McGlashan College.

Kevin Geng

I have gone through a lot of different experiences at McGlashan. There has been lots of fun and happiness I’ve gained from my time here, but the thing I want to talk about today the most is the hardest period I’ve gone through here. The hardest time I’ve been at McGlashan is during Covid and online learning. As Covid struck society, our school transferred to online learning for a period because of government restrictions. Online learning is hard as you could not get in touch with your teachers face to face and also the class time was reduced in the online learning timetable, so you wouldn’t see your teacher as much. Both this and difficulty in communication created significant difficulties for my study. But our teachers have tried their best to support us in online learning and be in touch with us all the time, we have successfully overcome the challenges that Covid has brought us and have had a good time online learning.

Kenny Liu

Quicker than words can tell, I have already studied in this school as an international student for five years since I was in Year 9. It was a pleasure for me to be part of the McGlashan family. It is still fresh in my memory of when I lived in the Boarding House in Years 9 and 10. It’s a wonderful opportunity for me to get familiar with the New Zealand culture especially when I lived in a completely different culture before. It shocked me when I saw how huge the school is, which is completely different from Hong Kong’s. I also met a lot of new friends too, they don’t care about me having a strong accent or poor grammar so I can have more confidence when I speak English which helps me improve my English speaking skills a lot. The teachers in the school are very helpful as well, they understand how international students will have difficulties learning in their second or third

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language and spend more time explaining to them. Overall it was a fantastic experience for me to study at McGlashan and I have very much appreciated the staff who helped me get through these years.

John Zhao

Maturity can only be attained through continuous exposure to new ideas; thus it is apparent that I have become a more well-rounded individual after my time at Johnnie’s. It is with great certainty that whichever life I would choose from this point, I will always feel a sense of nostalgia towards John McGlashan College and Dunedin. It has truly become my second home, in which I developed my sense of identity. The

environment of one’s conscious years is of great importance to one’s development as a person, and John McGlashan College, with its great selection of extracurricular activities, has been crucial to the development of my multifaceted interest in the cultivation of various habits that is the basis of the human condition. With the opportunities that I have been given, I have decided to cast away my original identity as a student whose sole focus was to acquire the highest marks possible in the IB; instead, I have chosen to rise above competitiveness and focus on the contemplation and subsequent actualisation of my ideals. Instead of an automaton that exists idly in this world, it is now a man with ideals and purpose with which he will live his life that I have decided to embark on the next journey as. Ultimately experiences are the building block of consciousness, in which an acute awareness of one’s consciousness serves as the chief motivator of one’s action.

The Icebreaker Trip (previously known as the International Ski Trip)

John McGlashan College is a multicultural community that consists of many international students from around the world, such as China, Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong and England. To ensure the students feel welcomed in the community, the school often hosts several international events throughout the year for the students to get to know each other and their cultures. The annual ski trip is one significant international event that bonds everyone together. The international students’ ski trip was impacted by the Covid pandemic for the past

two years. This year, we were really lucky to finally experience the intact journey and were also having the privilege to invite our local kiwi friends.

On the cold cloudy 12th of August, finally the long anticipated ski trip day came. We started our journey right after school finished and headed off to Queenstown. We stopped at Alexandra for dinner then headed straight to the Lakeland Park Camp for the night. The camp was equipped with excellent facilities for socialising purposes, including table tennis and pool tables. We were reluctant to sleep with the amount of fun we had though, and this impacted our ability to wake up early at 6am on the next day. Our teachers had kindly made breakfast for us before we headed up to Coronet Peak for the day.

We arrived at Coronet Peak in the early morning. It was a rather warm, sunny day. Despite some of us being more skillful in skiing, we decided to try snowboarding for the first time. We were lucky to have some snowboard instructors showing us the ropes. Since we were still rookies at snowboarding, we kept falling over on the soft patchy snow ground.

It was really fun to do this as a group and helping each other, in which we had a great bonding time with each other. By the end of the day, we weren’t getting enough of it and stayed until dusk.

After heading back to the camp, our lovely teachers prepared delicious beef burgers for our dinner. We did more socialising and headed off to bed. Since it was the last night of the trip, we treasured our time talking to each other and did not get much sleep for the night. The following day was similar, however, we finished our time at Coronet Peak at around 1pm for the day. Then, we headed back to Dunedin to finish off the wonderful trip.

To conclude, we need to thank all the teachers, Ms Noble, Mrs Sinclair, and Mr Leitch, who went on the ski trip, in which they prepared delicious meals and looked after us throughout our journey. Ms Noble and Mr Sinclair have done a wonderful job to create great opportunities and safe environments for all international students in the John McGlashan community. Thankyou!

Han

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STUDENT COUNCIL

Our desire for normality after the past two years was unfortunately interrupted by the new mask restrictions due to Covid, flu and other sickness. The year started out with meetings (where possible) in which student representatives discussed their classmates’ suggestions and possible future event ideas. However, we unfortunately missed out on many key fundraising opportunities throughout the year. Barbecuing at athletics was a no-go, and a new wave of transmission squandered any hopes of the much anticipated junior socials going ahead. Despite being unable to proceed with many traditional Student Council initiatives, fundraising through nonuniform days was still a success. Although the Fete predominantly was the main cause, we were still able to raise funds on two other occasions. The proceeds of these went to Relay For Life, and Kingslea School in Dunedin.

interval and lunch. A special thanks to the Parents and Friends’ Association who generously provided an equal contribution to make this possible.

A new joint Student Council was formed, consisting of all of the schools throughout the city and made possible by the Red Cross. This allowed the organisation of fundraising events and a platform to voice concerns to the wider community. This year was mainly focused on planning for the future, so we hope to see our new chairperson acting on these in 2023.

“... we were still able to raise funds on two other occasions. The proceeds of these went to Relay For Life, and Kingslea School in Dunedin. ‘

Although this year our art collection did not grow, the greater funds will allow next year’s council to potentially purchase work by renowned New Zealand artist Gordon Walters, which would be a highly significant and meaningful addition to the school’s art collection.

New locally made wooden picnic tables were installed under the veranda in the quad by Property Supervisor Duncan McBeeth and Groundsman Tony Beck, giving students a new place to meet during

Chairperson - Theo Hannagan Secretary - Timothy Bradfield Treasurer - James Palmer

TRAMPING CLUB

While classes might wrap up for the year in early December, this is the time for JMC Trampers to fill their packs and strap on their boots. For us, Junior Prize-giving signals the start of our annual multiday event. In 2021 this took us to Borland Lodge, where we undertook three very different challenges across the five days that we were away. Travelling approximately 45km and climbing a measly 1586m, we found misty mountains, massive holes in the tussock fields and a lake that wasn’t as green as the brochure has described. We held our inaugural JMCTC Masterchef which was contentiously taken out by Jock McMillan and Luke Pullar. A surprisingly impressive effort by all and now a fixed event on the JMCTC Calendar – obviously some good work in the kitchen with Mr McLean!

The 2022 JMCTC Calendar started with a much anticipated tramp and that wasn’t going to be in Fiordland. Mt Somers, on the edge of the Canterbury Plains was Mr Cartwright’s destination of choice. However, like so many things in the first part of the year, the trip was decimated by positive Covid results, and we couldn’t proceed. We rescheduled for later in April but the weather gods were not on our side and once again we had to cancel to avoid a forecasted weather bomb and snow dump. We were unable to make further plans for this event, as the winter months fast approached.

As term three commenced and restrictions lifted, the Tramping Cub found ourselves with many new opportunities. The first was a Snowgaine that took place at the SnowFarm in Cardrona Valley. Think adventure racing, but in the snow. Some skied, some snowshoed and some climbed under the van to remove the muddy chains. It was an excellent event to be part of and we have this clearly marked on the calendar for 2023.

This was followed by a trip to Mrs Clulee’s favourite place as we competed in a 4 hour rogaine on Bog Roy Station. One of the allures of rogaining is that we are often taken into parts of the countryside that are not

usually accessible to the public. While there were a lot of metres climbed at this event, it was all worth it for the stunning outlook across Lake Benmore. This was also a very successful event, with placings for all teams.

Two more rogaines followed quickly at the Ida Valley and Cromwell. These two events provided the opportunity for a few new members to the club to try their luck with a compass. However, it is often just the time spent in great company and the fresh air that is the real prize.

In November, we had several teams of keen rogainers enter the National Championships for the first time. These were held in Te Anau against the backdrop of the Takitimus. For most, this was a 6 hour event. Our next challenge for the rogaine crew will be undertaking a 12 hour race in early 2023.

For the first time the Tramping Club made an appearance in the Senior Prizegiving with our own new award for 2022. The JMCTC Spirit award goes to the student that best represents the ethos and values of being in the outdoors as an active McGlashan student. The first recipient of this award was Angus McMillan. Angus has been a keen and frequent participant in all areas of tramping club. Helpful, engaged, keen to work with the younger students and even steps up to write a magazine article or two!

The final event for the year will see the club visit the schools new Te Anau Downs Lodge as the first official McGlashan group to experience this legacy. We will climb, slide, paddle and eat our way into the holidays! This is will a somewhat sad event, as we will farewell the Year 13 boys that are responsible for the this club. From an excited group of Year 10 campers on the Kepler Track to a fully-fledged four year old club we thank these boys for their enthusiasm and persistence to get this group off the ground. You are always welcome to join us on the trail.

Mrs Smith and Mr Cartwright

Part Seven: McGlashan Sport

SUMMER SPORTS 2022

CRICKET

It has been a challenging year for the JMC First XI. At the beginning of the year, we often couldn’t field a team due to Covid. And if everyone was healthy, the rain was almost guaranteed to have a say. Not to mention the loss of some of Johnny’s cricket stalwarts who made up most of the team. However, despite these disruptions, we still managed to play some good cricket, and under the guidance of coach Shawn Hicks, our young squad improved markedly throughout the season. We welcomed a young cohort to the side, replacing those that left the year before. This set a platform for the senior men on the side to step up and set an example. Older boys like Henry Scott and Mason Gain did that, taking the most wickets and scoring the most runs, respectively. Henry was also thrust into a leadership position. He was named captain of the side this year, a remarkable achievement being only a Year 12.

There were many highlights throughout the year, but some that spring to mind are Jonty Riley’s, 86 against Taieri College and Liam Barrons five- wicket Haul against Uni Grange. Sheon Luxmanan’s final over

in the Johnnies colours was also one to remember. And while, unfortunately, it did not come representing the school, an extraordinary mention must go out to Mason Gain, who scored a double century in a representative game earlier this year.

A number of the boys also received higher honours for their efforts this year, with many lads making their various age group sides. Notably, Henry Scott was awarded selection into the Otago Under-19 team.

With a near-unchanged lineup next year, the First XI will be a team to watch. Especially with former Blackcap Mark Craig undertaking the coaching role, big things are to be expected.

Lastly, a huge thank you must be given to Adam Gain, who managed the team impeccably this year. I don’t know what we would’ve done without the hydration or great chat he provided week in and week out.

Solomon Harcombe

Back Row Mr Adam Gain Oscar Davenport Charlie Breen Jonty Riley Simon Cavanagh Max Hore

Front Row Will Kara Sheon Luxmanan Mason Gain Henry Scott Liam Barron Joseph Devereux-Kilpatrick

Back Row Cooper Cleland Ben Casey Noah Clearwater

Thomas Macbeth Luke Miller

Middle Row Carter Robertson-Gray Charlie Donalson

Charlie Barnett Lachie Sutherland

James Liggett

Front Row Jack Lucas Archie McDiarmid Logan Wither

Maita Madambi Jack Bensemann

Back Row Leo Jones Morris Gordon Charlie Pearson

Jacob Cushen Jock Duncan

Front Row Tom Cunningham Jack Tourelle

Nathan McKnight Rylan Urquhart

Harrison Melzer

Tom

Amos

Front Row Sam Hancox Richie Cavanagh Oscar Crowe

George Holland Sam Lawson

Back Row Luka Riley Ethan McSkimming

Lachlan Davies Fred Gordon

Angus McDiarmid

Front Row Toby Duncan Harry McDonald Jonny Hunter

Lachie Mackenzie Zac Cunningham

William Cameron

Back Row Mr John Miller Connor Howes Liam Ross

Anderson

Miller Mr Rob Lawson

Back Row Hunter Sutherland Harry Martin

Max Perriam Lachlan Macaulay

Joshua Hagan James Kinney

Front Row Otis Quelch Flynn Mackenzie Matthew Hall

Bede O’Connell Mack Stevens

Matthew Hanna

Back Row Jacob Hill Toby Ellis Artie Sweetman

Sam Anderson Angus Sawyer Artie Turner

Front Row Shaan Lal Ruan Hamman Ben Garner

Willem Turnbull Sam Jones Harry Barker

Back Row Xavier Edmond William Laws Max Braithwaite

Front Row Daniel O’Brien Maita Madambi Fergus Millar Lochlan Ing-Aram

Matthew Hall Luke Wilson Will Macaulay Toby Hazlett

Noah McCoubrey Joshua Grieve Mitchell Lobb ( Coach) Brodie Miller Dan Grieve

Leo Han Finn Anderson Roger Luo Wei-Hun Loh

Amos Miller Zack Gallagher Ruairi Gillon Annan Goldsmith

Hugo Maher Liam Rasmussen Nicholas Williams

FENCING

Mr Hamish Cartwright

Front Row Ryan Zhou Adam Dockerty Lachlan Russell

JMC fencing has progressed well this year with some changes in leadership. We are grateful to William Stevens and Adam Rhodes for their service to the group. Adam has ably stepped up to the role of squad captain after many years of personal training and competition entries. Adam has famously revived the notorious torture card warm up activity. This activity sees students taking a card at random from the deck. Based on their card they are instructed to complete sets of between 2 to 10 Russian twists, threading the needle and other exercises. The group has a strong field of junior fencers who are becoming eligible for their age group competitions. They have been focussing on multi-step fencing actions and are aiming to become more unpredictable in their style. Fencing is like a mind game of chess, dependent upon outguessing your opponent’s next

move. This combines with the physical strength, reflex and agility to pull out all the stops on piste. Fencing is a sport for everyone, proudly supported by the local Claymore Fencing Club. They have excellent coaches and five week beginners course. Have a look with your family at this rewarding and adrenaline pumping sport.

Back Row Jamie Copland Ben Homer

Archer McDonald

Front Row Finlay Auchinvole Fynn Turner Fergus Laws Peter Choi

Back Row Leo Woodham Liam Pettigrew Charlie Cockerill Front Row Henry Jin Thomas Kaiser Ben Hollard

Back Row Adam Rhodes Harrison Bowmar

Mr Hamish Cartwright

The Senior A Touch team has had many of its competitions cancelled this year and they now look forward to the NZ Secondary Schools Touch Nationals in Rotorua in mid December .

For many of the boys, this will be their last time in McGlashan colours so we wish them well in the future.

Many of the team have been selected for Otago teams , with a special mention to both Alex Piebenga (Under16s and MVP) and Jack Timu (Under-18s) who have been selected for New Zealand teams over the past year.

A huge thank you is owed to coach Scott Turner, who has been assisted by Oscar Sycamore and Clayton Cochrane.

Back Row Harry Ollerenshaw Phoenix Abbott Josh Whaanga Stanley McClure Middle Row Charlie Breen Sam Cottier Jack Timu Max Hore Sam Williams Front Row Ben Casey Cooper Ollerenshaw Zac Cunningham Otis Quelch Kyle Meason Alex Piebenga

Back Row Annan Goldsmith Cooper Ollerenshaw Serge Meeuws Thomas Macbeth Brayton Erskine

Front Row Samuel Eason Hayden Phillips Felix Gimenez George Holland Stephen La Sam Hancox

Back Row Flynn Mackenzie Joshua Hagan William Cameron Lachlan Davies Alex Walker Ethan McSkimming Lachie Clearwater

Middle Row Luka Riley Henry Cargill Otis Quelch Edward Jennings Zac Cunningham Hubter Sutherland Jed Crawford Luke Wright

Front Row Fletcher Tilyard Harry McDonald Jonny Hunter Bede O’Connell Mack Stevens Toby Hazlett Raiden Ho

Back Row Sam Anderson Charlie Murdoch Toby O’Neill James Homer Joey Annison Front Row Angus Sawyer Hugo Jury Bayden Clearwater Hamish Eason Hamish Casey Sean Gillon

Back Row Ben Homer Archer McDonald Ruan Hamman

Front Row Jonty Thomson Jack Rongen Jack McKenzie August Rees

Back Row Toby Ellis Ezra Harris Angus Hollows Front Row Felix Brooking Hugo Beeby Sam Jones

VOLLEYBALL

Senior A Volleyball - Mainland Championships

Christchurch 2022

With all the Covid disruption, this was an excellent opportunity for the team to get on the court and play a tournament. The team finished a very creditable second in Division 2, a significant step up from last year.

The tournament had a few ‘late changes,’ which meant we played a triple header on the first morning! The boys played from 8.30am - 2pm and gained two wins and one loss (unsurprisingly, in our last game vs Cashmere). The highlight of the tournament was a superbly consistent team performance against Shirley,

which earned a 3-1 victory. This was on the back of losing captain and chief motivator Michael Buttery to Covid isolation. A very composed setting game by Hamish McIntyre, damaging spiking by Amani James and an excellent receive of serve showed what the team is capable of. Two more victories on the last day over Rolleston and Papanui gave us second place. With most of the boys returning next year, we are in an excellent place to push higher now.

Hit high and hard,

Mr Tom Casey

Back Row Mr Tom Casey Thomas Rasmussen Nic Hinton Hamish McIntyre

Front Row Amani James Tate Cameron Michael Buttery Isaac McConachie John Mengel Absent Sam Sinclair Liam Ruru

Back Row Luke Andrews Reif Stuart Front Row Joe Dyer Liam Griffiths Oliver McIver

Back Row Harry Willis Jacob Cooper Oscar Ross Front Row Wei-Hun Loh Simon Tomkins Leo Han

Cody Gradwell Fergus Millar Hayden Phillips Felix Gimenez Hugo Maher Liam Rasmussen Daniel Hudson

Back Row Mr Troy Jennngs Harper Milne Thomas Macbeth Brodie Miller Daniel O’Brien

Front Row Archie Moir Edward Jennings Lochlan Ing-Aram Jonny Hunter

Back Row Mr Tom Casey Aram Talahma Ben Casey Yoko Fujii

Front Row William Cameron Caleb Ung Angus Burns Ryley Matheson

Back Row William Ross Alban Boaden-Trotter

Max Nation Toby Hebden

Front Row Shaan Lal Hugo Jury Jacob Hill

Hamish Casey

Tobias Palmer Toby Spalding Dino Walton Jack Rongen

Ezra Holmes Lachie Clearwater Paton Holmes

Back Row Stanley McClure Harry Ollerenshaw

Jonty Riley Max Simpson

Front Row James Kinney Sam Cottier Charlie Light

Jonty Light Harry McDonald

ROWING

Back Row Charlie Curran Oliver Hamilton Reuben Allison Matthew O’Meara Mark Smith Nate Wisnesky

Front Row Angus Loe Aidan Seyb Noah Hamilton Glenn Ericsson Vinny Brown Will Andrews

Back Row Oliver Hamilton Reuben Allison Matthew O’Meara Mark Smith

Front Row Charlie Carran Will Andrews Angus Loe Aidan Seyb

The 2021/22 Rowing Season was nothing short of a challenging but successful season for the John McGlashan Rowing Crews.

We had 15 boys registered - 14 Rowers and 1 Coxswain. We attended 7 Regattas. Aoraki, Otago Club Champs, Canterbury Club Champs, South Island Club Champs, National Club Champs, South Island Secondary School Champs and Maadi. During the season, we had several camps. Some of these were held at Henley, staying in the Hall, and we held a week-long camp in Alexandra in January. Pre Maadi, our Maadi boys, had an isolated stay in South D to avoid the dreaded Covid. Below is a summary of the Regattas we attended.

Aoraki 1000’s - this was a good chance for novice rowers to see what a regatta looks like and to get a taste of racing. The crews were mixed up to give a better experience while the novice rowers were still finding their feet. The results of this event were mixed. Otago Champs pre-Christmas. Seventeen boats entered. This regatta was a good build-up for the season, and we had several placings.

Canterbury Champs followed our main camp, which was held at Alexandra. 11 boats made A finals. It was a tremendous effort after a big week.

South Island Club Champs was held at the end of January. Seventeen boats entered. The weather affected this regatta which meant that some finals could not be raced; however, there were some excellent results all around. We gained 1 Silver and 3 Bronze medals.

Rocket Foods NZ Rowing Champs. 6 rowers and one coxswain competed at this event which was to be held at Lake Karapiro but, due to Covid, was moved to Lake Ruataniwha. This was to our benefit as we could take more boys to this than we usually would. We also felt it was vital that they attended this event due to the Covid outbreak and the uncertainty of the South Island Secondary Schools and Maadi Cup regattas going ahead. 4 out of 11 events entered made A finals resulting in— First place for an Otago made-up Under-18 Quad. The crews did exceptionally well in an NZ Club Rowing Event, racing against older and more experienced rowers. This was an excellent build-up to Maadi for these crews.

South Island Secondary School’s Regatta. We had 11 out of 14 boats making A finals resulting in —1 Gold, 4 Silver and 2 Bronze Medals. These were outstanding results and a good lead into the Maadi Cup. The team gave it their all, not knowing if Maadi would go ahead due to the Covid outbreak.

Maadi Cup 2022. 5 out of 10 boats entered made A finals resulting in One Silver and Two Bronze Medals. A great way to finish off the season. We are all incredibly proud of the way the boys rowed at Maadi and how they represented the College and Club. The McGlashan team won three silver and two bronze medals, ranking 16th out of the 95 sculling schools in attendance, 26 out of 95 overall.

We were delighted that three of our boys had the opportunity to reach higher honours, with Mark Smith being invited to trial for the NZ Under-19 squad and Matt O’Meara and Oli Hamilton for the North/South Island Under-18 squad. Matt O’Meara made the North/South Island Under-18 Team. Matt raced in the Boys Under-18 Coxed Quad Sculls, the Boys Under-18 Double Sculls and the Boys Under-18 Coxed Quad Sculls, placing first in each of those races.

The end of the season was celebrated at the Otago Rowing Club with an official boat naming of two new boats, a Quad and a Double. It was revealed that the Quad was named Neil Garry and the Double Tony Gomez, representing their effective service, input and support to John McGlashan College and Rowing. It was a special occasion with the boys performing a Haka following the naming, then an afternoon tea and presentations to coaches and boys completing their last season.

At the Otago Rowing Association Awards, Fynn Allison was awarded the Male School Rower of the Year Award.

Special thanks must go to Dylan Davis (Coach) and Lauren Gibb (Assistant Coach), Tony Gomez (Staff in charge of Rowing), Miranda Smith (exiting Treasurer), Kelly Allison (Chairperson) and the many parents who helped along the way. Special mention to Kerryn and Ross Carran for their efforts in looking after the boys for a significant amount of time over the season. We are excited about the future of John McGlashan Rowing. They are a great bunch of boys with an enthusiastic and supportive parent group.

The JMC, Crew, Committee and families were most grateful to the PFA and Sports Council for the grants received to give the boys the best opportunities and be the best they could be.

Dylan Davis

WATERPOLO

Back Row Mr Brent Wolf Jacob Struthers Seth Clearwater-Blunt Alban Boaden-Trotter Toby O’Neill Leo Woodham Flynn McGuigan

Middle Row Jamie Copland Cooper Robertson Ruan Hamman Dino Walton Hugo Beeby

Back Row Mr Brent Wolf Thomas Hinton Seth Clearwater-Blunt

Front Row Glenn Ericsson Taylor Baker Josh Clearwater-Blunt

Back Row Jacob Struthers Seth Clearwater-Blunt Alban Boaden-Trotter Toby O’Neill Leo Woodham Flynn McGuigan

Front Row Jamie Copland Cooper Robertson Ruan Hamman Dino Walton Hugo Beeby

Like many sports, over the past two years, water polo has been impacted by Covid. As a result, no teams travelled to the South Island junior or senior tournaments. Despite this, teams have managed to play in the local schools’ competition. In Term One, the juniors played in Division Two while our Senior A team played in Division One.

The senior team is in a rebuilding phase, having lost a number of the old guard but has some good Year 11 players. As mentioned, in Term One we played in division one. This was a real challenge for the boys as we were low on squad numbers. This meant we could compete for ¾’s of the game but would run out of steam in the final quarter. This being said, the boys never gave up. Flynn McGuigan, Jacob Struthers and Harrison Stout showed they could foot it with the best King’s and Otago Boys’ had, even though they were in Year 11. Harry Wing also showed significant improvement and a real doggedness, as did Sam Porter until his untimely accident that put him out for all of the first term. I must also mention Ewan Beadell’s fine contribution to the team in gaining many balls from the swim-off, and Josh ClearwaterBlunt, although only a year nine student, played well above his age.

Unfortunately, our junior team from term one has folded due to dwindling numbers. Still, Josh

Clearwater-Blunt, Taylor Baker and Ryan Zhou have all stepped up to the senior squad in Term Four and, to date, are acquitting themselves well as we compete in the senior division two grade.

Our Year 7 and 8 team has also performed well in Term One and to date in Term Four. It is pleasing to see that Cooper Robertson and Seth Clearwater-Blunt joined Otago water polo over the winter. They have just returned from the 12 and under “Tournament of Olympic hopefuls” in Auckland, where they gained a gold medal in division C. Congratulations, boys. It is also good to see these players joined by Hugo Beeby, Ruan Hamman, Toby ONeil, Alban Boden-Trotter and Leo Woodham. The team has gotten off to a great start in Term Four, winning all games.

I would also like to thank Katie Barns for all the work she has put into water polo at school. Also, I must thank Flynn and Jacob for stepping up and coaching our Year 7 and 8 teams. It is pleasing to see boys putting something back into their sport. You are excellent role models. My last thank you, as always, is to the parents who support their sons in so many ways, financially, emotionally and physically. Seeing you each week poolside makes it worthwhile.

Mr Brent Wolf

Back Row Joshua Grieve David Song Max Porter

Flynn McGuigan Haydn Finlay Harvey O’Neill

Harry Ryan

Front Row Dan Grieve Alban Boaden-Trotter

Daniel O’Brien Freddie Saunders James Homer Jamie Bradfield Hugo Jury

Back Row Henri Fenn Solomon Harcombe

James Stephen

Front Row Ollie Sinclair Alban Gosse

Marshall Macready Masato Nishimura

Ewan Beadell Lachlan Russell

Tommy Wilson Alban Boaden-Trotter Christopher Body Nio Maclean

Back Row Harvey O’Neill Jonty Riley

Joseph Devereux-Kilpatrick

Solomon Harcombe Mason Gain

Front Row Liam Barron Samuel Porter Connor Howes Max Porter Thomas Meder Baxter Meder

GOLF

valuable insight into the course layout was gained in preparation for this significant tournament next year.

Golf at the College this year has slowly gained more momentum after the last couple of lean years on course and in competition. A large number of registered golfers are either at the stage of hitting balls and playing socially, learning the game, or playing regularly week in and week out. And with the high participation rates of sports at the College and only a certain amount of time to play them, it is not surprising that golf, unfortunately, is often the secondary sport for many students.

We had 16 players play in the Otago Inter-provincial, held in tricky wet conditions in March, at the Taieri Lakes course. Our top team finished 4th and 2nd team 5th in this provincial competition. We had eight promising Year 9 students participating and gaining valuable experience, making for a bright future. Players to look out for within our ranks are the very consistent Harvey O’Neill and Connor Howes, low handicapper Baxter Meder and the accomplished cricket fraternity of Liam Barron, Mason Gain, Jonty Riley and Joseph Devereaux Kilpatrick.

During the October holidays, some of our quality up-and-coming golfers and a few of our top golfers competed in the ‘JMC Challenge Tour’, a tour of golf courses through central Otago. A group of fourteen golfers and four parents participated, and the tour was a great success.

The lovely Hawea golf club was where the first two rounds were played. Followed by the picturesque Wanaka course. After staying the first night in Hawea, we travelled to Kelvin Heights in Queenstown and remained at the Lakland Park camp. The next day we played the challenging but spectacular Queenstown golf course (probably the golfing highlight for most). The final round was played at the Cromwell course, where 2023 inter-provincial will be held, so some

The tour’s highlights were the players’ camaraderie, some outstanding golf, everyone improving and catching up with Kyle Clark (JMC Old Boy) in Wanaka for elite coaching. Thanks again to all who made the golf tour a success; special thanks to Wal and Jo O’Neil for all the organising and preparation, and Brent Davies and Kerry MacDonald for their fantastic assistance on tour. The players and I thank you once again.

Our golf goals for the future include looking to hold at least one golf tour each year. We are also looking to extend the Inter-school calendar and play at times when other sports are not involved, so our top golfers are often engaged in some other College first teams and can’t play the golf matches. We will continue to assist golfers with coaching and training opportunities; we need a serious commitment from players to give golf their best shot in return. We are also working with the JMC Old Boys to hold the next Old Boys golf day next March 3rd. Keep playing lots of golf as the weather gets better. Always the game.

Mr Andrew Hore

Back Row: Harvey O’Neill Jonty Riley Mason Gain Solomon Harcombe

Front Row Samuel Porter Connor Howes Liam Barron Baxter Meder

Caleb Ung Jonty Riley Harvey O’Neill

Back Row Connor Howes Jack O’Connar ??? William Cameron Jonty Ellis Geordie MacDonald

Middle Row Lachlan Davies Jonty Riley Max Porter Samuel Porter Andrew Hore

Front Row Joseph Devereux-Kilpatrick Liam Barron Baxter Meder Mason Gain Harvey O’Neill Absent Ruan Hamman Zachary Hore

CHESS

Front

Ryan Zhou

Adam Dockerty Seth Clearwater-Blunt Gus Carr Toby Spalding

DARTS

Back Row Martin Brook Harold Gao Gary Yao

Row

Back Row Angus McMillan Connor Aldrich

Front Row Josh Thom Theo Hannagan William Loe Absent Oliver Bamford Charlie Bolton

WINTER SPORTS 2022

HOCKEY

Mr Stewart McDonald

Front Row Baxter Meder Liam Barron Nick Casey Sam Gradwell Thomas Meder Jack Cotton Millar McElrea Max Hore

McGlashan hockey continued to strengthen this year with over 130 boys playing in nine teams across the intermediate and secondary grades. Our depth of players and high level of skill was demonstrated clearly by winning all four divisions of the Dunedin secondary competition and producing some excellent results at tournaments, most notably our 10th place at the national Rankin Cup and 4th place at the national Second XI tournament, the Galletly Cup. It is pleasing to see that we are gaining some consistency in our performance against highly ranked schools from around the country. McGlashan players also made up large proportions of the Otago Under-18 and Under-15 representative teams. Much thanks must be given to our volunteers involved with coaching, managing and supporting our teams. Their willingness to share their time and expertise is invaluable to the success of McGlashan hockey and to the overall enjoyment of boys playing the sport. Special mention must also be made of Jack Cotton, Sam Gradwell and Thomas Meder for their selection for the Junior Blacksticks Under-18 training camp. Their dedication to their own personal training and commitment to McGlashan hockey over the past seven years has been commendable. We wish them

all the best for their future endeavours on and off the hockey pitch as they move on from the college. It is hoped that younger McGlashan hockey players will be inspired to follow their example and aim to play at the highest level.

Director of hockey Stewart McDonald

FIRST XI HOCKEY

The First XI had the most successful season in the history of the college in 2022. With just four new faces, we were well settled and were primed to kick on. After putting in a decent showing at the pre-season ANZAC Tournament in Timaru, we proceeded to dominate everyone, on every occasion for the next term and a half, storming to the Otago Division One Secondary School title, annihilating Otago Boys’ in the final 7-2 in front of a great crowd. The most memorable result though, was a 15-1 shellacking of King’s, the defending national champions.

Along the way, we also contested a few inter-schools, with a notable 3-1 victory against Christ’s in sub-zero temperatures and the driving rain. The season was always going to be defined by the Rankin Cup though, with aims to go far. A first-up win against St Bede’s

Back Row Adam McNab Max Braithwaite Nicholas Friedlander Harry Stevens Jack Hazlett Will Hancox

Middle Row Mr Russell Cotton Angus Loe Jock Duncan Samuel Schell Charlie Breen Joshua Penno

settled the nerves, before a win and defeat followed as they booked their place in the actual Rankin Cup, the last 16 for the very first time. Unfortunately, things didn’t go our way, brutally knocked out on a sudden death penalty shootout, but the boys rebounded well to end up a very respectable 10th. 26 games, 23 wins and a whopping 132 goals scored is quite the season. Individually, Jack Cotton, Sam Gradwell and Thomas Meder (for the second year running) were invited to the National U18 Training Camp, whilst Tom also picked up his 100th cap in his

final game for the College! A big shout-out must go to our coaching and management team as well, who made it all possible. Jakob Annison has unfortunately moved to Wellington so his time with the team has come to an end and Russell Cotton has finished up after many years of dedicated service. However, James Nation and Craig Turner will be back for another bite at the cherry next year!

THE SECOND XI took on a daunting new task in 2022, competing in Division One alongside the First XI following back-to-back Division Two titles. Under new coach Grant Porter they were in safe hands, but plenty of hard work was going to be required, but that they did. A famous comeback 2-2 draw against Otago Boys’ First XI only three weeks after losing to them showed what they were capable of, and from there they kicked on. A couple of wins over King’s as well as several other tight tussles with Otago Boys’ had them well placed for the Galletly Cup, and there they achieved very well.

Wins over Tauranga Boys’, Christ’s College had them on the brink of semi-final qualification, as they really surprised themselves. A win over New Plymouth Boys’ took them into the final four, where they would compete well, winding up a very respectable fourth. They were well supported throughout by Grant, as well as assistant Will Heffernan and a string of parents who helped out at the tournament.

Back Row Adam McNab Luke Pullar Nic Hinton Fynn Allison Harry Wing Joshua Penno Front Row Simon Cavanagh Billy Hutton-Atkins Max Porter Ezra Holmes Sam Porter William Loe

Row Mr Dave Stevens Oliver Hamilton

Haydn Finlay William Stevens

Nicholas Friedlander Harvey O’Neill

Front Row Elliott Englehutt Jack Steele Luca Bevin

Sam Sinclair Harry Ryan Finn Anderson

THE THIRD XI were the true battlers of the school all season, often not getting the luck as they finished bottom of the table. However, one team dropped out of the grade so they were not exactly the wooden spooners! Sam Sinclair was the heartbeat of the side and was well supported by the rest of the team, who showed plenty of ticker throughout. Their season ended after losing in a shootout against Taieri College, but they can be more than proud of their efforts. A big thank you to Dave Stevens and Karl Thom for stepping up and helping out throughout the year!

Sutherland

Noah Clearwater Ben Eckhoff Sam Gradwell

Front Row Luke Miller Edmund Ferro Logan Wither

Hayden Phillips Annan Goldsmith

JMC BLUE were the dominant side in Division Four, coasting to a well deserved title. At times the side turned out with less than eleven players, but a well-put-together structure ensured they remained unbeaten, only drawing once as they notched over 100 goals. The final was all about control, as Lachie Sutherland netted two first-half goals to all but secure the trophy. Thanks to Head Coach Nicholas Friedlander and his Assistant Sam Gradwell!

Rakai Wetere Charles Copland

Timothy Stevens Max Perriam

Hunter Sutherland Mr Dave Stevens

Front Row Issac Morrison Archie Moir Mac Sheppard

Lachie Mackenzie Andrew Grounds

Thomas Hinton

JMC GOLD had a roller-coaster of a season, locked in a three-way battle for 2nd spot in Division Four. After a slow start, they beat both South Otago and Otago Boys twice, missing out on the final by the barest of margins. Their round twelve match was thoroughly entertaining, as they came back from three goals down, scoring just seconds after the fulltime whistle with a goal which would have levelled the game. All the boys developed well though, and should all be encouraged to play again next season. Thanks to coach Dave Stevens!

Samuel

Back

Back Row Nicholas Friedlander Lachie

Back Row Lachie Mackenzie Geordie MacDonald

Back Row Harry Stevens Liam Pettigrew

Christopher Body Mana McCombe

Schell

Front Row Sam Jones Gus Carr Ben Homer

Ollie Rongen

Front Row Sam Hancox Oscar Crowe Fergus Millar Bede O’Connell Sam Lawson

UNDER-15 A

Overall it was a good season for the U15As. Things didn’t quite go their way at Tanner Cup, but they were competitive throughout the tournament showing why some of their opposition suggested they deserved to finish much higher than they did in the end. This mid year result at the tournament gave them real momentum to finish the season, as they recovered from a slow start caused by a string of players being unavailable. They eventually pushed on to win the Division Two title, something only previously achieved once prior to this year. Coach Sam Doran was pleased with the individual and collective development of all the players, and it shows the future of hockey at the college is in good hands! Thanks must go to Sam, Ms Marks for her excellent management and also to Bonnie Gradwell and Mike Harrex for helping out at the tournament.

UNDER-15B

After a season-long tussle with the Bayfield High School st XI, the U15Bs got the last word, winning the Division Three final 3-2 after a late Harry Lithgow strike. The season was a good one overall, with many young players showing real promise, as they won

Samuel

Otis Quelch Jack Cotton

Front Row Angus McDiarmid Toby Duncan

Jack Bensemann Toby Hazlett Fergus Dillon

Archie McDiarmid

most of their matches throughout the year. Many of these players will be pushing for the A side next year! Thanks to coaches Jack Cotton and Tom Meder.

Back Row Cooper Ollerenshaw Max Braithwaite Lachlan Macaulay Cody Gradwell Daniel O’Brien

Middle Row Miss Melissa Marks Amos Miller Connor Howes Oliver King Will Hancox Charlie Falconer

Back Row Liam Ross Charlie Donaldson Harry Lithgow Jack O’Connor ?????

Middle Row Thomas Meder Joshua Hagan

Eason Jakob Eaton James Liggett

Charlie Cockerill Max Nation

Willem Turnbull Samuel Porter

Mr Stewart McDonald

Front Row: Dino Walton Finn McDonald Ethan Barnett

Jacob Hill Hamish Casey Jack Rongen

YEAR 7 AND 8 HOCKEY

This year there were two McGlashan Year 7&8 hockey teams. The Kea and Pukeko. Both teams played in the Kwik Sticks six a side competition on Friday nights and recorded some positive results over the course of the season. It was pleasing to see the development of our junior players as they continued to improve their skills, game sense and team work. A huge thank you must go to our senior coaches, Sam

Porter, Nick Casey, Sam Schell and Harry Stevens for giving their time and sharing their hockey knowledge and experience with the younger players. We look forward to seeing the members of these two teams progressing with their hockey as they enjoy the sport and work towards playing to the best of their ability. The future of McGlashan hockey looks bright.

Back Row: Nick Casey Isaac Boereboom

Back Row Hamish Casey Dino Walton Blake Chalmers Front Row Jack Rongen Max Nation Ethan Barnett

Ryan Zhou Harold Gao Martin Brook Gus Carr

Back Row William Loe Matheson Colquhoun Harry Wing Angus Loe Front Row Edmund Ferro William Harrex Archer McDonald Harry Barker

BADMINTON

Our Badminton boys had a fun season, despite our number of illnesses. The individual teams helped each other out to have complete teams. The competition went smoothly, and the boys enjoyed their games. A large thank you to Mr Jennings and Mr Gomez for supporting us and an enormous thank you to David Song, coaching our junior team. Wishing everyone a great break, and see you all next year.

“From those to whom much has been given, much will be expected”. We, the students of John McGlashan Secondary badminton team, are given much and thus, much is expected from us. We have been given a fantastic opportunity to represent the school we have gained in experience, sportsmanship and courage. We are expected to bring great honour to our school; winning is not the only way. We have achieved this by displaying our actual behaviours on the courts and against our opponents.

As the Captain, the boys have shown great discipline,

and I am very honoured to compete with these fine young men.

This year the Junior Badminton team had a great time playing every Tuesday at Badminton Hall. We had a last-minute change of players as one of our original members pulled out, but from there, we managed to get some good games in, and we learnt a lot along the way. There was some sickness and injury, with Ollie fracturing his arm, so he was out of action for a few weeks. David Song was our coach again this year. He was committed and taught everyone a lot. Thanks to David for being a great coach and for umpiring. Also, thanks to Mr Wang for organising the team and helping to set up the nets at our lunchtime practices. Overall it was an incredible season.

Back Row Adrian Prasath Ryan Hamilton Skylar Peters Aram Talahma

Front Row David Song Kaleb Durant Eli Gepte Samuel Hore

Finn McDonald Tommy Wilson Alban Boaden-Trotter Oliver Wang David Song

David Song

Tommy Wilson

FOOTBALL

FIRST XI FOOTBALL

2022 was a significant step forward for the team. We started by reshaping the squad, as we had lost nearly half the team due to the Year 13s having finished school.

This was an excellent opportunity to bring some new players in after the team remained similar for several years. During the school season, we battled through the early games, having lost considerable amounts of players to Covid as well as a few long-term injuries. However, as a team, we proved that if we showed up game after game and put in 110%, the result could go our way, no matter who the team was. With this attitude, many games ended up as draws or close losses to teams who thought they would have an easy win. And even though this team was a relatively new squad, the energy and team spirit was strong from the start and only grew with each game. This year, tournament week was a highlight for many of the boys. We not only played some of the best football any of us had seen at the College, but it also gave the younger lads an excellent opportunity to step

up and soak up some of the First XI game experience. And just as the Year 13 boys did before us, setting an example for the mindset and expectations leading into the games was essential to pass on to the younger players coming through.

Of course, this season would have never run without the incredible commitment of coach Mr Porter and manager Mrs Anderson, who organised the entire season. And so, the team having played some of the best football Mr Porter and I have seen at the College, I feel as though I can leave knowing that the younger boys will carry the attributes of the John McGlashan First XI through the rest of their time at the College.

Mr Porter also tells me that next year the squad will be competing in a higher-grade tournament, so I look forward to hearing about all the outstanding accomplishments these boys achieve in the next few years.

Harrison Marshall

Back Row Xavier Edmond Nic Hinton Samuel Ussher George Barker Lucas Townend

Middle Row Mr Brendan Porter Quinn Coutts Charlie Bolton Jacob Hall Mitchell Thorn

Front Row George Holland Harry Willis Harrison Marshall Ian Audas Fergus Millar

Front

Front

Back Row Harry Willis Hamish McIntyre Mitchell Lobb

Back Row Daniel O’Brien Max Braithwaite William Laws Brodie Miller

Back Row Finlay Tomkins Felix Gimenez

Front Row

Back Row Xavier Edmond Matthew Arlidge

Shaan Lal Thomas Kaiser Toby O’Neill

Ben Homer Michael Buttery

Front Row Harry Barker Ethan Barnett Max Nation Asher Le Cong Roam Penwarden

RUGBY

3rd Row Liam Barron Keegan Ferguson Charlie Breen Max Hore Tom Fowler Jonty Light Henry Scott

James Rennie (Fitness Trainer)

2nd Row Tori Fleming (Admin Manager) Rob Fowler (Manager) James Paterson Felix Mauger Zack Cleaver-Donovan Stanley McClure Sam Cottier Russell Lundy (Coach) Becca Furnell (Physio)

Front Row Charles Engelbrecht Phoenix Abbott Josh Whaanga Jack Timu (Captain) Archie McRae Mitchell Morton

Ben Joseph

Absent Billy Dougherty Stu Forster )Coach)

John McGlashan Rugby Season 2022

2022 was another successful rugby season at John McGlashan College, something that has been building over the past few years.

This year we saw a record number of boys playing with 191 boys playing throughout the season. We had 8 teams playing which is the most we have had, and we made five grade finals and a semi-final. Of those finals the Under-14s, Second XV and First XV all managed to win their perspective finals and then the First XV went on to win the South Island final and a maiden top four birth. However, our biggest success is probably the enjoyment, memories and friendships that have been made throughout this season.

A big thank you needs to go to all of the coaches, managers and parent helpers as none of these teams would have been able to function without you. Thank you for the time and energy that you have all put into the boys.

A big thank you also has to go to all of our sponsors

as well. These companies have been loyal supporters of our rugby programme and development, without their help we wouldn’t be able to offer the coaching and gear that the boys use and with their sponsorship it also reduces the running costs for all of the teams: Landrover – Armstrong Prestige Dunedin

Placemakers Dunedin

Ferguson Trucking

Fernvale Genetics

Roslyn Physiotherapy

Aotea Electric

Connor Jones Builders

Rural Livestock

Shares

Otago Sports Depot

Pure Services

Director of Rugby Mr Drew Campbell

FIRST XV started the 2022 season with great expectation, hype, excitement and a huge amount of hard work having been done during the pre-season.

Back Row Sam Williams Jack Hazlett Connor Aldrich Ben O’Meara Samuel Stedman Kahu Keenan

At the start of the year we set a few goals. ‘Create History’ was the theme.

We wanted to beat Southland Boys’ in Invercargill; beat Otago Boys’, home and away; and beat King’s, home and away.

Achieving those goals put us in a position to play the Highlanders Regional final, and the rest as they say, is history.

The season started out with a bang against Southland Boys in Invercargill and for all the boys a first win at Southland Boys. This win only served to increase the chatter around the town and as a group we decided to embrace that expectation rather than hide from it, as we may have in the past.

Writing this a few weeks after the last game, the results of the individual matches are already starting to fade from memory, but what will never be forgotten is the way this group came together and the wave of support we experienced from the wider school community. Old Boys who came out to support us, both on the side-lines and financially for the Nelson trip, and as the Top Four experience loomed the interest we received from the Rugby community around the country was phenomenal.

To go through the Highlanders region First XV competition, and subsequently the South Island Final unbeaten, probably exceeded even our own wildest expectations.

If I’m brutally honest, I was ever so slightly disappointed with our performance at the Top Four in Palmerston North. We struggled to cope with the out and out pace of the very strong and physical Hamilton Boys’ team and, for the first time all year,

we just didn’t get the bounce of the ball our way. By the time we played Westlake on the Sunday it was a bit of a case of last man standing. I honestly believe given another opportunity against these teams we could compete and perhaps pick up a win or two. It was certainly a learning experience for us all, players and coaches alike.

Those final two games do nothing to diminish the achievements of this awesome bunch of young men. It was an absolute privilege to be associated with them. No end of year report is complete without a few thank yous to the people who helped make this team a joy to coach

To the Parents: what a crew! You are, without doubt, the best School rugby supporters in the country bar none. Always really positive, always encouraging. To travel the miles you do and turn up every week in the numbers you do is just awesome - it was great to outnumber and out-yell Hamilton supporters in Palmy!

Managing a First XV, or any team for that matter, is a big job and Rob Fowler did an awesome job this year (just as in the previous four) with these boys across the age groups. Good to still see oranges at ½ time and jet planes for me. You have spoiled these boys for five years now – they are all in for a harsh reality next year that’s for sure! The fundraising you were able to do in such a short space of time to make the Nelson trip achievable was amazing. Thanks Rob.

Tori: you do a huge amount behind the scenes every week. You also played a huge part in getting the Nelson trip organised, with such a short turn around. Thanks very much, we all appreciate everything you

have done over these last few years.

To Becca and James: thanks for keeping the team on the field and dealing with the continual injuries and niggles that a season brings. Dealing with school shut downs and illness at the start of the season were a real issue but we all appreciate the help you both gave in navigating our way through that. Great experience for you both and I’m sure you’ll take that forward to teams in the future.

Drew: Director of Rugby is a tricky role I know, with parents and players and coaches pulling you in all directions. I’d just like to acknowledge your support, it was very much appreciated.

Stu Forster - The Bear: Stu is self proclaimed and proud to be old school and I know it took a few of us a bit to get used to his old school approach. His knowledge and his understanding of the game is huge. His input, especially leading into those big games, was really valuable. His feedback to the boys, that those big games are won or lost on Monday and Tuesday, was on the money and his input ensured that our prep and focus was right.

Jamie Joseph: what can I say? Unbelievable experience having Jamie involved pre-season and towards the end. I often said to the boys, ‘I hope you

realise just how lucky you are.’ Jamie said he was just a Dad wanting to help out! He was at pains to make sure I was happy with him being involved and was never pushy, but man, when He’s at training there is never any doubt who is in charge. I really enjoyed the Sunday or early Monday catchups to set the week and “discuss” the game plan. Fair to say there was never too much debate but the opportunity was always there to challenge if I wanted to.... don’t think I ever did….. He seems to have a pretty good grasp of things. So thanks Jamie - the team and I really appreciated and really enjoyed it.

To the Boys: I’m immensely proud of what you have done. You have worked pretty bloody hard at times this year and you have created history. You have created a legacy for the Rugby programme at McGlashan to aspire to in the future.

Most Improved: Stanley McClure

Best Attitude: Jack Hazlett

MVP: Phoenix Abbott

Harry Ollerenshaw

Middle Row Mr Justin Macready Samuel Stedman Ethan Stirling Taine Dyson Amani James Quinn Coutts Henri Fenn Marshall Macready Tatsuichi Narita Mr Ricki Allan

Front Row Kahu Keenan Ezra Holmes Ben Barnett George Brenssell George Hancox Tom Duffy Angus Cuthill William Pringle Finn Aitken

Second XV

Under 18 Winners – 3 years undefeated in the grade

The John McGlashan Second XV managed to complete a third consecutive year without suffering defeat and again claimed the Otago Under-18 competition win. Whilst that was an impressive feat, of greater

importance was the development of the players and the way that this new team were able to bond and become a tight-knit and formidable group. With a major influx of players from last year’s Under-16 team, and the new coaching staff of Blair Mitchell-Kuru and Ricki Allan, supported by team manager Justin Macready, this was a much different

Back Row Millar McElrea Elliot Nicol Mason Gain Henry Cleaver Louis Allen Ben O’Meara Max Simpson Liam Ruru

JMC First XV Coach 2022

Russell Lundy

group than in previous years.

Several new players made their mark on the season, including Mason Gain who stepped up to take the important role of first-five, previously held by the now First XV gun player Max Hore. Mason was a key leader around the park and showcased some impressive skills along the way. His efforts were backed up by those of Zavier Patterson who was rewarded for his impressive performances by a number of appearances in the First XV. Will Pringle was awarded the Best Back, and rightly so, given his ridiculous footwork and line breaking ability that provided flashbacks of a young Ben Smith in an All Blacks jersey.

The forward pack exhibited the expected true John McGlashan character traits of determination, hardwork, resilience and grit. Kahu Keenan and Henry Cleaver set the tone on this front, and were jointly awarded the Most Valuable Player and Best Forward awards for a season of huge hits and hard carries that became a weekly feature in our hotly contested games. Ezra Holmes stepped up from last year’s Third XV squad and was the Most Improved Player, scoring impressive tries and wreaking havoc down the sideline regularly.

The season wrapped up with a Finn Aitken special in the dying minutes of the final against Kings High School. Finn got the ball out wide, spotted a gap in behind the oppositions defensive line, and subsequently chipped the ball over the top and burst through to regather the ball before scoring directly under the posts and being met by a number of his teammates flying into

an exuberant team embrace! It was a perfect way to wrap up an unbelievably rewarding and enjoyable season for all involved.

Unfortunately, some of our veteran players played their final game for McGlashan in that triumphant final. Year 13 Leavers - Louis Allen, Tom Duffy, George Hancox, Ezra Holmes, Marshall Macready, Harry Ollerenshaw, Ben O’Meara, William Pringle, Ethan Stirling, and Sam Stedman - will all be heading off into their next adventures and we wish them nothing but the best going forward! All of these young men have made a significant contribution to this team, and to McGlashan rugby more generally. Go well lads. Finally, I wanted to say a big thank you to the parents and support crew that came along to watch the boys throughout the season - they grew on the back of the support and played some good footy knowing that they had such a community behind them. Special thanks must go to Barb Cuthill who not only took stunning photos of each and every game, but also provided the boys (and more importantly, the coaches) with plenty of lollies to keep the energy levels up. It’s been great to see such a supportive group of whanau and friends backing the boys on their journey.

Most Improved: Ezra Holmes Best Attitude: Louis Allen MVP: Kahu Keenan

THIRD XV

– Under 16 Plate Finalists

Most Improved: Ryan McCaughan

Best Attitude: Harry Stevens

MVP: Mac Perkins

Back Row Olly Perriam Finn Anderson James Stephen Jacob Cushen Sam Johnston Haydn Finlay

Middle Row Fergus Wright Daniel Burnett Jed Nevill Morris Gordon Harry Stevens

Front Row Mac Perkins Rex Cui Paton Holmes Harry Ryan Jack Tourelle Cory Wright

Back Row Matthew O’Meara Will Kara Jonty Riley Reuben Allison Jaxon Thomson Jock Duncan Riley McRae

Middle Row Jacob Struthers Henry Bowering Archie Goodall Nicholas George Adam McNab Harrison Stout

Front Row Charlie Carran Hayden Pringle Will Hancox Simon Cavanagh Angus Loe Oscar Davenport Billy Hutton-Atkins

JOHN MCGLASHAN COLTS

The 2022 rugby season for the John McGlashan Colts was very successful. Culminating in a finals appearance on the hallowed Forsyth Barr Stadium. The season began with some significant victories. However, we were then well beaten by a very good King’s Under-15 Panthers team. This was a great time of the season to get beaten and for us to reset. We continued unbeaten the remainder of the season, eventually beating Wakatipu in the semi-final to set up a showdown with Kings again. With excitement levels through the roof, we gave our absolute 100% and were down narrowly at halftime. In the second half, Kings pulled away and deserved to win. This match summed up our season, with a commitment to one another, never say die attitude and bodies on the line for 70 minutes. We had seven boys make the Metro U16 squad which shows the calibre of the team. I want to thank Rob Stout for his time management. Hamish, Thomas and Corey Kara for helping out with coaching.

I look forward to watching the lads’ progress in the coming years.

Ash Barron

UNDER-16 - Under 16 Cup Finalists

Most Improved: Henry Bowering

Best Attitude: Jaxon Thomson

MVP: Simon Cavanagh

THE UNDER-14 BLUES

The team had a very unsettled start to the year as injuries and sicknesses meant it was challenging to have training and field a team.

Once the grade split and the boys got numbers on the field, things started to click, with a win over Taieri under lights kicking off the season.

With some great wins in pool play, we qualified for the Plate Semi-Final and had a great win over Mount Aspiring to set up the final against Dunstan, who had beaten us comprehensively in pool play.

The boys headed up to Dunstan on a Wednesday afternoon, confident they could return with the cup. After sitting in a van for a few hours, the first half didn’t go so well for the boys, although we had scored some good tries. In a game of two halves, we came storming back and got within a try with a few minutes to go. Once the ball reached Ethan McSkimming, he once again raced away to score the match-winning try, one of many he scored on the day. We had to defend for the last couple of minutes, and it was a great feeling to hear the final whistle with us winning 53 -48.

MVP: Ethan McSkimming

Most Improved: Sam Kohlhase

Best Attitude :Hunter Sutherland

Thanks to coaches Wayne Hagen, Troy Jennings, and Millar McElrea.

Back Row Hunter Sutherland Edward Jennings Samuel Kohlhase Jack O’Connor ????? Alex Walker Ethan McSkimming Monti Cleugh-Gibb Geordie Macdonald

Middle Row Mr Troy Jennings Millar McElrea Charlie Falconer Flynn Mackenzie Logan Struthers Max Perriam

Fred Gordon Yoko Fujii Paddy Kennedy Mr Wayne Hagan

Front Row Benji Dempster Angus McDiarmid Fergus Dillon Lachie Clearwater Joshua Hagan Lachie Mackenzie Jack Burton Raiden Ho

Under-15 Blue – Under-15 Cup Semi Finalists

Most Improved: Joseph Devereux-Kilpatrick

Best Attitude: Angus Burns

MVP: Liam Ross

Under-15 Red

Most Improved: Tom Macbeth

Best Attitude: Jack Lucas

MVP: Sam Eason

Back Row Mac Forde Thomas Macbeth Ruairi Gillon Taylor Baker Henry Crawford George Begg Lucas Mason

Middle Row James Liggett Jakob Eaton Brayton Erskine Charlie Donaldson Samuel Eason Felix Gimenez

Front Row Archie McDiarmid Matthew Jarvie Jack Bensemann Richie Cavanagh George Holland Jack Lucas Logan Wither

Back Row Theodore Nicol Flynn McGuigan Jayden Toro Noah Clearwater Joseph Devereux-Kilpatrick Milo Hyndman Jacob Levy Leo Jones

Middle Row Cooper Ollerenshaw Lachie Sutherland Vinny Brown Harry Lithgow Cooper Cleland Angus Burns Charlie Barnett Liam Ross

Front Row Sam Milne Henry Stephen Oscar Crowe Sam Hancox Serge Meeuws Nico Burton Carter Robertson-Gray Jack Steele

Ethan

Jacob Levy Lachlan Macaulay Leo Jones

Middle Row Lachie Sutherland Brayton Erskine Sam Milne Cooper Ollerenshaw Charlie Barnett Henry Stephen Cooper Cleland Harry Lithgow Vinny Brown

Front Row Nico Burton Liam Ross Samuel Eason Oscar Crowe Serge Meeuws Carter Robertson-Gray Angus Burns Jonty Ellis

Under 14 Red

Most Improved: James Kinney

Best Attitude: Jed Crawford

MVP: Zac Cunningham

Back Row

McSkimming Jayden Toro Theodore Nicol Milo Hyndman Noah Clearwater Flynn McGuigan

Back Row Jonty Ellis James Kinney Oliver King Lachie Clearwater Logan Divers William Cameron William Light Middle Row Mr Nigel Hunter Jed Crawford Luka Riley Otis Rohland Otis Quelch Luke Wright Harry McDonald

Front Row Toby Duncan Bede O’Connell Mac Sheppard Zac Cunningham Toby Hazlett Jonny Hunter Mack Stevens

Back Row Oliver Levy Sam Anderson Alban Boaden-Trotter

Ezra Harris

Jed Holland Charlie Murdoch

Middle Row Sam Jones Asher Le Cong Archer McDonald Ruan Hamman Jack McKenzie Joey Annison

Hamish Casey Mr Lachie McLellan

Front Row Sean Gillon Toby Ellis Bayden Clearwater Hugo Jury Hamish Eason Artie Turner

CURLING

Curling at John McGlashan has had a very successful year. Curling is a great niche sport growing in popularity if you are looking for a new sport with unique opportunities. John McGlashan had two teams this year and had a great season in the secondary school’s Dunedin competition. Team Theo Hannagan placed second in Division 2, and team William Loe placed 2nd in Division 1. Team William Loe also had further success winning the South Island Secondary Schools and the National Secondary Schools, going undefeated in both tournaments. Jed Nevill received the ‘The Spirit of Curling’ sportsmanship award at both tournaments, voted on by the other competitors. William Loe, Jack Steele, Angus McMillan, Angus Loe and Jed Nevill all participated in the Under 21 National Championships, with Jack Steele and Angus McMillan being members of the team that received silver. Jed Nevill

Back Row Jed Nevill William Loe

Front Row Jack Steele Angus Loe Harry Ryan

Jack Steele Jed Nevill William Loe Harry Ryan

Back Row Oliver Bamford Angus McMillan

Front Row James Palmer Theo Hannagan Samuel Porter

ROGAINE

Annan Goldsmith Joshua Grieve Daniel O’Brien Lochlan Ing-Aram

William Harrex William Laws William Light Jed Crawford Mr Brendan Porter

Back Row Oliver Bamford Luke Pullar Jack Sandford Enzo Hood Angus McMillan Millar McElrea

Middle Row Mrs Donna Smith Santino Hood William Harrex William Laws Harry Willis Simon Tomkins Mr Hamish Cartwright

Front Row Jock McMillan Luke Wright Toby Duncan Bede O’Connell William Light Rakai Wetere

BASKETBALL

The 2022 season started for the SENIOR BLUE team with a hard fought away win over Southland Boys’ as the annual inter-school game returned to the calendar. A run of wins followed this to start the local competition before the five-game streak was snapped. A highlight of the season was a close win over King’s in the first round of the Top Four section of the competition, before they reversed the result with a three point win in the semi-final. The team went on to beat Waitaki Boys and finish third with a record of 9-4 for the season.

The cancellation of the St Andrews inter-school due to Covid, highlighted the need for greater exposure and experience of playing Christchurch schools. The team started the South Island qualifying tournament slowly against St Bedes, who went on to qualify for the National tournament. Three close, competitive pool games followed where the team improved and adjusted to a different style of play but couldn’t get on the right side of the ledger. A couple of good wins in the cross over section of the tournament provided positives for the Year 13 players to finish on and ‘a good spine’ of younger players to build on next year. Huge thanks for the season to Liam Aston for the many hours he put in as Head Coach and for the assistance provided by Karl Andrews and Farrell Cameron. The basketball programme would be nothing without the support of the committee and especially the work of Rachael Forde and Sarah Andrews.

Our team MVP this year was Beau Lundy, who led the team in scoring and played every minute at both ends of the court at 100%.

Most Improved this year was Isaac McConachie, who made a very welcome return to competitive basketball and was a rebounding dynamo. Our Best Defensive player was Matheson Colquhoun who was always a vocal presence and lead the team in steals and tips, while often called on to close down taller players. And the team’s Sixth Man award went to Zavier Paterson who provided a spark and speed every time he took the floor.

The Senior Blue team loses Beau, Matheson, Solomon Harcombe and Will Andrews and we wish them all the best in their future basketball endeavours. The 2023 team has a great nucleus of returning players and juniors coming through and huge thanks for their development also have to go to coaches Kate Jerram and Greg Dawson.

The young men at John McGlashan continue to be a great bunch to coach and I’ve enjoyed the character, attitude and company of every player I’ve been fortunate to help develop in this cohort and over the years.

Coach Karl Andrews

Back Row Isaac McConachie Solomon Harcombe Caleb Forde Joseph Devereux-Kilpatrick Tate Cameron Front Row Finn Aitken Beau Lundy Will Andrews Matheson Colquhoun Zavier Paterson Alex Piebenga

The 2022 season for the RED TEAM was a mixed bag. We started the season very well, not dropping any games and playing some attractive basketball, going unbeaten throughout Term One. This was done despite Covid, other illnesses and injuries plaguing the team. We started Term Three well again, going unbeaten until the last game of the regular season, where we lost a close one.

In the playoff, we played well but couldn’t finish our plays and found ourselves down double digits leading in the 4th quarter. We picked up our defensive intensity and managed to claw the game back to within two. Unfortunately, we could close the game out and lost in a close one.

Unfortunately, history was repeated in the 3rd and 4th playoffs, where missed open looks came back to hurt us, again losing in a close one. We played in the South Island Cup to finish the year, and due to other sporting commitments and injuries, we could only field six players on day one. Despite this, the boys gave their all against Christ’s B team and Kings 2nd. The return of the rest of the team helped with bodies, but those who had been involved in other sports were carrying injuries, exhausted, or both. This, combined with massive minutes played by the rest of the team on day 1, meant we couldn’t compete as well as we had hoped. Despite being well beaten, the boys dug deep and never gave up and played some excellent basketball in patches.

A big thanks and farewell to Sam, Enzo and Nate as Year 13s who gave their all to Johnnies basketball.

MVP: Dan Burnett

Most Improved: Jonty Riley

6th Man: Nick George

JMC KAHURANGI

What a season! At the start of the season, we had a few experienced players, but all had something they could improve on.

We worked hard on building confidence, supporting each other and on defensive intensity and consistent scoring.

We finished 4th at South Island Championships in Nelson, with two members out most of the tournament with illness and then losing 3 of the starting 5 to rugby for the final game. Everyone showed heart to succeed as we did.

Stand-out consistent scorers were Mac Forde and Jayden Toro, followed closely by Angus Burns, who was also our 3 pt King. Our Wild Card, Jacob Levy, performed and improved considerably thru the season and peaked at the tournament showing mad drive and intensity. The Gillon twins Rian and Ruairi provided solid performances throughout the season and were much-needed anchors. Ryley Matheson, Miata Madambi, Tom MacBeth and Ben Casey all had great seasons with consistent scoring and significant improvements. Ben had the shot of the season. Every one of the guys had something unique to offer to the team.

I am very proud of them all and hope they learned something and enjoyed the season as much as I did.

Coach Kate Jerram

MVPs :Jayden Toro and Mac Forde

Best Defence: Angus Burns

Most Improved: Jacob Toro

Sixth Man: Ruairi Gillon

Back Row

Nate Wisnesky Enzo Hood Jonty Riley

Sam Sinclair

Front Row

Nicholas George Daniel Burnett Mac Forde Luca Bevin

Back Row

Thomas Macbeth Jayden Toro Ben Casey

Ruairi Gillon Jacob Levy

Front Row Maita Madambi Ryley Matheson

Angus Burns Mac Forde Rian Gillon

The JUNIOR KOURA was our development team in the A Grade competition. Although the results didn’t go their way every player benefitted from being involved in the competitive league and has a good foundation to build on. As a largely Year 9 team, they fought hard in every game with a number of agonisingly close losses.

Team MVP went to top points scorer and steal leader, Jonny Hunter. Blocks, rebounds and clamps earned Jonty Ellis the Best Defensive award, while Jermaine Wheeler was our Most Improved player for his committed contribution and play at both ends of the court. Yoko Fuji provided enthusiasm and outside shooting off the bench to earn the Sixth Man award. Special mention to Mitchell Urquhart and Jermaine who provided good Year 10 leadership to the younger boys and thanks to Will Andrews and Matheson Colquhoun for their help in coaching the team.

Coach Karl Andrews

Back Row Otis Rohland Samuel Kohlhase Jonty Ellis

Yoko Fujii

Front Row Archie Moir Jonny Hunter Dan Grieve

Jemaine Wheeler Mitchell Urquhart

Back Row Jonty Ellis Harry Stafford Sam Jones

Angus Hollows Ruan Hamman

Front Row Simba Tang Jack McKenzie Ben Garner Toby Ellis Tobias Palmer

Back Row Charlie Cockerill Thomas Kaiser Leo Woodham Front Row Joey Annison Hamish Eason Bayden Clearwater Jacob Hill

Back Row Fergus Gent Finlay Auchinvole Willem Turnbull Jonty Thomson

Front Row Peter Garden Peter Choi Monty Bevin Jack Rongen August Rees

Back Row Cody Gradwell Eddie Scott Patrick McKenzie Front Row Edmund Ferro Lochlan Ing-Aram Amos Miller Stephen La

Back Row Alban Boaden-Trotter Jed Holland Charlie Murdoch Ruairi Gillon

Front Row Sam Anderson Angus Sawyer Sean Gillon Hugo Jury Hamish Casey

Back Row Haydn Finlay Harvey O’Neill Front Row Max Porter Harry Ryan Angus Loe

Front

Liam Barron Riley McRae Matthew O’Meara Billy Hutton-Atkins

Lachie Mackenzie Guy Byfield

Back Row Oliver Colling William Moyle Front Row Ethan Hudson Annan Goldsmith Hayden Phillips

Wei-Hun Loh Luke Pullar Finn Anderson Jack Steele

Back Row Will Hancox Hayden Pringle

Simon Cavanagh Vinny Brown Adam McNab

Row

Back Row Harvey Hunt William Cameron Monti Cleugh-Gibb William Light Front Row Liam Rasmussen Benji Dempster

Back Row Xavier Edmond Connor Aldrich Front Row Zachary Duff William Loe Michael Buttery

Back Row Harry Willis Luke Pullar Simon Tomkins Front Row Wei-Hun Loh Jacob Cooper James Cameron

Back Row Brayton Erskine Sam Milne

Noah Clearwater Charlie Donaldson

Henry Crawford

FrontRow

George Begg Logan Wither Cooper

Ollerenshaw Jack Bensemann

James Liggett

Henry Bowering Will Kara Jaxon Thomson

Archie ????

Front Row Olly Perriam Harrison Stout Nico Burton

Joshua George Oscar Davenport

Daniel Joint

Back Row Mac Perkins Samuel Schell Daniel Burnett Front Row Kahu Keenan Kyle Meason Taine Dyson Fergus Wright

Back Row Charlie Carran Lucas Townend

Back Row Harrison Meltzer Jack Howley Jacob Cushen

Front Row Max Jones Sam Price Kaleb Durant Rylan Urquhart

Back Row Samuel La Hood Ollie Rongen

Joshua Hagan James Kinney

Front Row Angus McDiarmid Matthew Hanna

Jack Burton Fletcher Tilyard

Harry McDonald

Back Row Jed Crawford Fred Gordon Otis Rohland Front Row Thomas Hinton Mack Stevens Luke Wright Toby Hazlett

Back Row Henry Cargill Lachlan Macaulay

William Harrex

Front Row Hugo Maher Nicholas Bolton Matthew Hall

Daniel Hudson

Absent Zachary Hore

Back Row Mr Greg Dawson Edward Jennings

Tom Anderson Lachlan Davies Luke Wilson

Luke Miller

Front Row Otis Quelch Luka Riley Henry Stephen

Zac Cunningham Matthew Jarvie

Felix Gimenez

Fergus Millar Joshua Grieve Daniel O’Brien Lochlan Ing-Aram

Back Row Ruan Hamman Archie McDonald

Max Nation Toby O’Neill Jonty Thomson

Front Row Finlay Auchinvole Roam Penwarden Tobias Palmer Harry Barker Hamish Casey

TRAPSHOOTING

Trapshooting this year has involved many highs and lows. To kick the year off, we went up against Southland Boy’s in an inter-school. We spent the next few weekends going around local Otago/Southland clubs shooting in inter-collegiate school shoots. The next big event of the year was the Bodkin weekend away, a three-day event in Central Otago, starting in Moa Creek, then Wanaka and Alexandra to finish. This was a fun weekend to remember for some of the boys; a chance to focus hard and shoot well, as the weekend involved sweepstakes for shooting 20/20. Many of the boys had the opportunity to bring some cash home. On the first day of The Bodkin, Harry Morshuis came out firing, shot outstandingly, and didn’t miss a target all day. This put him into a shoot-off with two other older fellas which he won, taking out the overall winner for the day. This put him up for a prize, and he chose a coffee machine to please his parents!

The rest of the weekend followed the same suit, and the other boys shot well, most of them ending up participating in shoot-offs and taking some cash home.

After this great weekend away, we returned to Wanaka and Alexandra for another weekend shooting. This was another excellent display for shooting from the boys but nothing quite good enough for placings. The Nationals were held in Christchurch this year on the last weekend of Term Three. We travelled up and competed at the Christchurch Clay Target Club and were fortunate enough to get some fine days of weather for shooting. This led to a solid effort from everyone and particularly outstanding performances from George Brensell and Greg Jones. George shot off with a points score, placing second in the South Islands. Greg made a shoot-off for a single rise and put a solid effort in but didn’t come out with a placing.

Another success for a couple of the boys in the team was Harry and Mark shooting against us all for the house trapshooting cup and winning. They were stoked with themselves. Congratulations boys. As a team, we have a few big thankyous to say. These go to Scott Kunac from Hunting and Fishing Dunedin for sponsoring us and looking after us throughout the season, Lloyd Morshuis for putting us up and allowing us to stay in his Wanaka house and travelling around supporting and transporting us all over the lower South Island, Jason Cockerill for transporting and cooking for us all when we are away during the cold winter months. A massive thanks to Nev Sharp for giving his own valuable time to coach us once a week and work with us to help us improve and keep on improving, and Tony Gomez for putting emails and organisation together for us to make sure entries get done on time and last of all thank you to all the parents that made it all possible. Good luck to the boys carrying on for future years, and all the best for the boys leaving.

Back Row Mark Smith Morris Gordon Jock Duncan Harry Morshuis Hunter Cockerill

Front Row Greg Jones Adam McNab Oakland Young George Brenssell Cory Wright

Back Row Tom Zhang Geordie Macdonald Paddy Kennedy

Front Row Luke Wright Toby Duncan Fergus Dillon Ruan Hamman

Hunter Cockerill

Part Eight: McGlashan School Awards

200 CLUB

FOUR OR MORE SUBJECT ENDORSEMENTS AT EXCELLENCE

100 CLUB

FOUR OR MORE SUBJECT ENDORSEMENTS AT EXCELLENCE

Back Row: Alex Seaton, Jed Nevill, Luke Brown, John Mengel, Marco Hartono, Nicolas Hinton, Jack Howley, Front Row: Joshua Chagnon, Tom Dyer, Marek Rickerby

Zachary Duff, Martin Brook, Ray Ma, Samuel Porter, Jack Murphy, Lukas Pietsch

LEVEL TWO SCHOLARS TIES

LEVEL ONE SCHOLARS TIES

Sam Johnston, Millar McElrea, Callum Binns, Hamish McIntyre

Michael Rietveld, Samuel Gradwell, Solomon Harcombe, Jack Hazlett, Theo Hannagan, Harold Gao

LEVEL 2 EXCELLENCE ENDORSED

LEVEL 1 EXCELLENCE ENDORSED

Eli Gepte, Ethan Leitch, Thomas Rasmussen, Mac Perkins, William Macpherson, Henry Scott, Hunter McGregor, Sebastian Ferro, James Arlidge

Ian Audas, Angus McMillan, Stanley McClure

Absent: Sam Porter, Finlay Tompkins, Michael Buttery, Xavier Edmond, Nicholas Friedlander, Kevin Geng, Sheon Luxmanan, Samuel Sinclair, Gary Yao

BLUES RECIPIENTS

Qwenton McKenzie Pipe Band*

Nick George Music

Mason Gain Cricket *

Angus Loe Rowing

Charlie Carran Rowing

Sheon Luxmanan Public Speaking*

Angus McMillan Music

Henry Scott Cricket *

Mattew O’Meara Rowing

Marco Hartono Tennis *

Harold Gao Music*

James Palmer Music*

Fynn Allison Rowing *

Aidan Seyb Rowing*

Charlie Breen Touch

Theo Hannagan Music *

Liam Barron Cricket

Oliver Hamilton Rowing

Mark Smith Rowing *

Stanley McClure Touch*

BLUES RECIPIENTS

Jack Timu Touch *

Caleb Forde Basketball

Jack Steele Curling

George Barker Football

Jack Cotton Hockey *

Josh Whaanga Touch *

Beau Lundy Basketball *

Theo Hannagan Darts

Baxter Meder Golf

Nicolas Friedlander Hockey

Michael Buttery Touch Referee *

William Loe Curling

Harrison Marshall Football *

Liam Barron Hockey

Sam Gradwell Hockey *

Amani James Volleyball

Jed Nevill Curling

Mitchell Thorn Football

Nick Casey Hockey

Jack Hazlett Hockey

BLUES RECIPIENTS

Baxter Meder Hockey

Ian Audas Ice Hockey *

Phoenix Abbott Rugby

Keegan Ferguson Rugby

Jonty Light Rugby

Thomas Meder Hockey *

Max Simpson Ice Hockey

Charlie Breen Rugby

Tom Fowler Rugby

Archie McRae Rugby

Sam Schell Hockey

Morgan Blair Ice Hockey *

Z. Cleaver-Donovan Rugby

Max Hore Rugby

Stanley McClure Rugby

Harry Stevens Hockey

Jack Lewis Ice Hockey

Charles Engelbrecht Rugby

Ben Joseph Rugby

Mitchell Morton Rugby *

BLUES RECIPIENTS

* Denotes Endorsement

James Paterson Rugby

Michael Buttery Rugby Referee

Henry Scott Rugby

George Brensell Trap Shooting

Jack Timu Rugby

Josh Whaanga Rugby *

SENIOR PRIZE-GIVING 2022

SPECIAL PRIZES

Senior Agriculture

Norwood New Holland Prize

Academic Excellence in Agricultural Sciences

Fynn Allison

Senior Art

Artzone Award for Senior Art

Timothy Bradfield

Senior Biology

Sir Charles and Lady Alice Ferguson Trophy

Marco Hartono

Senior Chemistry Prize

Zachary Duff

Senior Physics Prize

Martin Brook

Digital Technology

Senior Digitech Award

Labes Brothers Cup

Ray Ma

Senior Mathematics

A A Paulin Prize

Martin Brook

Senior English

A E Hartill Prize

Ray Ma

Senior ESOL

Tatsuichi Narita

Senior Commerce Prize

Forsyth Barr CETA medal for commerce

Jack Hazlett

Thomson Family Cup

Senior History Prize

Martin Brook

Senior Languages Prize Commitment to German

Reidstra Cup

Harold Gao

Senior Award for Workshop Technology

Ezra Holmes

Senior Award for Food Technology

William Loe

Senior Award for Design and Visual Communication

Sam Gradwell

Studies in Physical Education

Senior Award

Jack Hazlett

Harry Wing

Creative Writing Year 11

Oliver Hamilton

Creative Writing Year 12 & 13

Dr F R Riley Award

Harrison Marshall

Speech Year 11

Wei-Hun Loh

Speech Year 12 & 13

Sir John White Award

Sheon Luxmanan

Chess

Contribution to College Chess

Guthrie Cup

Martin Brook

Pipe Band

Donald Ross Challenge Cup - Champion Piper

Qwenton McKenzie

Debating

Top College Speaker

Reid Trophy

Harold Gao

J S Thomson Cup for Debating

Most Promising Speaker

Zac Brooking

Drama

Contribution to school

Drama

Harrison Cup

Finlay Tomkins

The College Award for Service to the Performing Arts

Theo Hannagan

Music

Alistair Wright Prize Contribution to Senior School Music

James Palmer

Library

Head Librarian for 2022

Rylan Urquhart

J N Lemon Prize for contribution and service

Zac Brooking

Jacob Cushen

Kaleb Durant

The JMCTC Spirit of the Outdoors Award

Angus McMillanh

Year 13

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Connor Aldrich Merit in Physical Education.

Louis Allen Merit in Photography.

Fynn Allison

Excellence in Agriculture and Photography. Merit in Furniture Design Technology.

Ian Audas Merit in Bio Ethics, Economics and English.

Oliver Bamford Excellence in Photography. Merit

in Design and Visual Communication and History.

Charlie Breen Merit in Visual Art.

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

Sam Cottier Merit in Agribusiness and Furniture Design Technology.

Jack Cotton Merit in Photography and Agriculture.

Tom Duffy Merit in Photography.

Keegan Ferguson Merit in Agribusiness and Photography.

Tom Fowler Merit in Agribusiness.

Nicholas Friedlander Merit in Economics, English, History, Spanish and Mathematics.

Kevin Geng

Excellence in English B. Merit in Computer Science, Economics and Mathematics.

Sam Gradwell

Excellence in Design and Visual Communication and Furniture Design Technology. Merit in Visual Art.

Oscar Grey Excellence in English. Merit in Economics.

Theo Hannagan

Excellence in History and Photography. Merit in Bio Ethics and English.

Solomon Harcombe Merit in Agribusiness and English.

Ezra Holmes

Merit in Furniture Design Technology and Physical Education.

Enzo Hood Merit in Design and Visual Communication.

Ben Joseph Merit in English, History and Physical Education.

Kenny Liu Merit in English B.

William Loe Merit in Food Technology.

Yuri Manickam Merit in Theory of Knowledge.

Harrison Marshall Excellence in English. Merit in History.

Nicholas McArley Merit in English.

Stanley McClure Excellence in Furniture Design Technology. Merit in Agriculture.

Nathan McKnight Excellence in Photography.

Angus McMillan Merit in History, Physics and Statistics.

Archie McRae Merit in Furniture Design Technology.

Masato Nishimura Merit in Photography.

Harry Ollerenshaw Merit in Agriculture and Physical Education.

James Palmer

Merit in English and History.

Samuel Porter Excellence in Agribusiness. Merit in English and Physics.

William Pringle Merit in Photography.

Michael Rietveld

Merit in Design and Visual Communication, English, Physics and Statistics.

Nontasit Saiseesod Excellence in Photography.

Matthew Sime Merit in History.

Ollie Sinclair Merit in Physics.

Sam Sinclair Merit in English, History, Spanish and Theory of Knowledge.

Mark Smith Merit in Agriculture and Furniture Design Technology.

James Stephen Merit in Agribusiness.

Max Stowell

Excellence in Furniture Design Technology. Merit in Food Technology and History.

Josh Thom Merit in Design and Visual Communication and Photography.

Jack Timu Merit in Design and Visual Communication, Furniture Design Technology, Photography and Physical Education.

Josh Whaanga Merit in Visual Art.

Liam Wilson Merit in History.

Harry Wing Excellence in Agribusiness, Physical Education. Merit in Economics.

Year 13 BOOK PRIZES for ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

Timothy Bradfield Excellence in Bio Ethics, Economics, English and Photography.

Martin Brook Excellence in English, German, History, Mathematics, Psychology and Physics. Merit in Theory of Knowledge.

Zachary Duff Excellence in Chemistry and Mathematics. Merit in English, History, Physics, Spanish and Theory of Knowledge.

Xavier Edmond Excellence in Economics, History, Spanish and Mathematics. Merit in English and Theory of Knowledge.

Harold Gao Excellence in Computer Science, English, History, Mathematics and Music. Merit in German and Theory of Knowledge.

Jack Hazlett Excellence in Agribusiness, Economics and Physical Education.

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

Ray Ma Excellence in Computer Science, Economics, English, German, Mathematics, Physics and Theory of Knowledge.

Jack Murphy Excellence in Mathematics and Physics. Merit in Chemistry, English, History, Spanish and Theory of Knowledge.

Lukas Pietsch Excellence in Economics, German, Physics and Mathematics. Merit in Computer Science and English.

Finlay Tomkins Excellence in Drama, English and History. Merit in Bio Ethics.

John Zhao Excellence in English, Mathematics and Theory of Knowledge. Merit in Chemistry, German, History and Physics

Year 12 ACADEMIC AWARDS

Finn Aitken Merit in Agribusiness and Photography.

Guy Aroonprasertkul Excellence in Mathematics. Merit in Biology, Chemistry and English.

Xavier Bachop Merit in Food Technology.

George Barker Excellence in History. Merit in Economics.

Oliver Bary Excellence in Biology and Mathematics. Merit in Chemistry.

Luca Bevin Excellence in History and Physical Education. Merit in English.

Callum Binns Excellence in English. Merit in German.

George Brenssell Merit in Food Technology.

Zac Brooking Merit in Biology and History.

Luke Brown Excellence in Physical Education. Merit in Accounting and Economics.

Daniel Burnett Merit in Photography.

Adam Byars Excellence in Photography. Merit in Agriculture and Food Technology.

Nick Casey Excellence in Furniture Design Technology. Merit in Agriculture and Physical Education.

Jonah Coleman Merit in Food Technology.

Quinn Coutts Excellence in Photography, Furniture Design Technology and Transitional English.

Evers Donnelly-Davey Excellence in Visual Art. Merit in Design and Visual Communication.

Taine Dyson Excellence in Furniture Design Technology and Photography.

Elliott Englehutt Merit in History.

Sebastian Ferro Merit in Physical Education.

Caleb Forde Merit in Agriculture, English and History.

Mason Gain Excellence in Photography.

Eli Gepte Excellence in English and Visual Art. Merit in Drama.

Jacob Hall Merit in Design and Visual Communication.

Max Hore Excellence in Physical Education. Merit in Design and Visual Communication.

Samuel Hore Merit in Visual Art.

Jack Howley Merit in English.

William Hubbard Excellence in English.

Amani James Excellence in Furniture Design Technology and Photography. Amani is also a recipient of the Otago Polytechnic Pacific Island Recognition Award for 2022.

Josh Jones Merit in Transitional English.

Max Jones Merit in Visual Art.

Kahu Keenan Excellence in Food Technology.

Joseph Knopp Excellence in Photography and Visual Art.

Jack Lewis Merit in History.

Isaac McConachie Merit in Physical Education.

Hunter McGregor Excellence in Economics and Mathematics. Merit in English.

Hamish McIntyre Excellence in History. Merit in Accounting, Economics and English.

Qwenton McKenzie Excellence in Food Technology.

Kyle Meason Excellence in Furniture Design Technology.

Harrison Meltzer Merit in L3 Statistics and Furniture Design Technology.

Harry Morshuis Merit in Design and Visual Communication and Furniture Design Technology.

Jed Nevill Excellence in Agribusiness. Merit in English and History.

Elliot Nicol Merit in Agribusiness, Chemistry, Mathematics and Photography.

Zavier Paterson Merit in Te Reo Māori and Physical Education.

Joshua Penno Merit in Agriculture.

Mac Perkins Excellence in Agriculture.

Marek Rickerby Merit in Biology, English, Physics and Visual Art.

Liam Ruru Excellence in Physical Education. Merit in Mathematics.

Samuel Schell Merit in Food Technology, Photography and Physical Education.

Henry Scott Excellence in Physical Education.

Max Simpson Excellence in Physical Education. Merit in Agribusiness and English.

Harry Stevens Merit in Design and Visual Communication, Furniture Design Technology and Physical Education.

William Stevens Merit in English.

Rylan Urquhart Excellence in Drama. Merit in English, German and Music.

Bailey Williams Excellence in Furniture Design Technology and Photography. Merit in Design and Visual Communication.

Fergus Wright Excellence in Photography.

Oakland Young Excellence in Furniture Design Technology and Photography.

Technology and Visual Art. Merit in English, Mathematics and Music.

William Macpherson Excellence in Accounting, Physics and L3 Calculus. Merit in Biology and Chemistry.

Millar McElrea Excellence in Agribusiness and Biology. Merit in Chemistry, English and Mathematics.

Nico Burton Merit in Agriculture and Furniture Design Technology.

James Cameron Excellence in Physical Education. Merit in History and Mathematics.

Joseph DevereuxKilpatrick Excellence in Furniture Design Technology. Merit in Physical Education.

Year 12 BOOK PRIZES for ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

Joshua Chagnon Excellence in Chemistry, Economics, English, Mathematics and Physics.

Tom Dyer Excellence in Chemistry, Economics, English, Mathematics and Physics.

Marco Hartono Excellence in Biology, Economics and Mathematics. Merit in Chemistry and English.

Nic Hinton Excellence in Accounting, Mathematics and Physical Education. Merit in Agribusiness, English and Photography.

Sam Johnston Excellence in Accounting, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Mathematics and Physical Education.

Ethan Leitch Excellence in Digital

John Mengel Excellence in Accounting, Chemistry, Physical Education and Physics. Merit in L3 Calculus and English.

Thomas Rasmussen Excellence in Accounting, Chemistry and Physics. Merit in L3 Calculus, Digital Technology and English.

Alexander Seaton Excellence in Digital Technology, English, History and Photography.

Year 11 ACADEMIC AWARDS

Reuben Allison Merit in Physical Education.

Luke Andrews Merit in English, History and Mathematics.

Liam Barron Merit in English, German and History.

Henry Bowering Merit in Food Technology.

Vinny Brown Merit in Physical Education.

Jock Duncan Merit in Agriculture, English, Furniture Design Technology and Visual Art.

Joe Dyer Merit in English.

Brodie Ferguson Merit in English, Furniture Design Technology and Physical Education.

Haydn Finlay Excellence in Agriculture and Furniture Design Technology. Merit in Physical Education.

Joshua George Merit in English, Food Technology and Visual Art.

Archie Goodall Merit in Design & Visual Communication, Furniture Design Technology and Visual Art.

Leo Han Merit in Economics, English and Visual Art.

Will Hancox Merit in English and Visual Art.

Jarn Hollows

Merit in English, Physical Education and Visual Art.

Santino Hood Merit in Design & Visual Communication.

Billy Hutton-Atkins Merit in Food Technology.

Milo Hyndman Excellence in Furniture Design Technology. Merit in Agriculture, English and Visual Art.

Daniel Joint Merit in Physical Education.

Leo Jones Merit in English and Physical Education.

Will Kara Merit in Design & Visual Communication.

Chun Kruwongpaibool Merit in Design & Visual Communication.

Charlie Light Excellence in Physical Education.

Angus Loe Excellence in Physical Education. Merit in Mathematics.

Roger Luo Merit in L2 Mathematics.

Flynn McGuigan Excellence in Furniture Design Technology and Physical Education. Merit in Agriculture and English.

Adam McNab Excellence in Agriculture. Merit in English, Furniture

Design Technology and Visual Art.

Gus McSkimming Merit in Food Technology, Furniture Design Technology and Physical Education.

Matthew O’Meara Merit in Agriculture, Furniture Design Technology and Physical Education.

Harvey O’Neill Excellence in Physical Education. Merit in English.

William Parks Excellence in Visual Art. Merit in English, History and Science.

Alex Piebenga Excellence in Physical Education. Merit in Furniture Design Technology.

Max Porter Excellence in Agriculture. Merit in English, Te Reo Māori, Mathematics and Science.

Hayden Pringle Merit in Physical Education.

Luke Pullar Merit in Economics, English and Visual Art.

Oscar Ross

Excellence in Visual Art. Merit in English.

Harry Ryan Merit in Physical Education.

Jack Sandford Excellence in English. Merit in Science.

Aidan Seyb

Excellence in Food Technology and Furniture Design Technology. Merit in Agriculture.

David Song Excellence in Furniture Design Technology and Visual Art. Merit in English.

Jack Steele Merit in Agriculture, Food Technology and Furniture Design Technology.

Jaxon Thomson Merit in Food Technology.

Simon Tomkins Merit in Mathematics.

Harrison Tonkin Merit in Digital Technology, Economics and Science.

Jack Tourelle Excellence in Visual Art. Merit in Design & Visual Communication, Economics and English.

Lucas Townend Excellence in English and Physical Education. Merit in Economics.

Samuel Ussher Excellence in English. Merit in Digital Technology, History and Mathematics.

Ben Wild Merit in Physical Education.

Year 11 BOOK PRIZES for ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

Finn Anderson Excellence in L2

Mathematics, Economics, English, History and Science. Merit in Visual Art.

Will Bary Excellence in L2 Mathematics, Economics, Science and Visual Art. Merit in English and History.

Ewan Beadell Excellence in Furniture Design Technology and Science. Merit in L2 Mathematics and Economics.

Jacob Cooper Excellence in Furniture Design Technology and Physical Education. Merit in L2 Mathematics, Economics and English.

Oliver Hamilton Excellence in L2 Mathematics, Economics, English, Physical Education, Science and Visual Art.

Wei-Hun Loh

Excellence in Economics, English and Furniture Design Technology. Merit in L2 Mathematics.

Jock McMillan Excellence in Agriculture, English and Visual Art. Merit in L2 Mathematics, Design & Visual Communication and Science.

Charlie Pearson Excellence in Economics, English, Physical Education and Science.

Jonty Riley Excellence in English, Design & Visual Communication. Merit in Economics, Mathematics, Science and Visual Art.

SPORTS AWARDS

Badminton

Singles Trophy

David Song

Basketball

Most Outstanding Player

W P Leslie Trophy

Beau Lundy

Contribution and Commitment to Basketball

Sem-Cheyne Cup

Matheson Colquhoun

Most Improved Player Ross Family Cup

Isaac McConachie

Cricket

Best Bowling Record

J M Fraser Esquire Award

Henry Scott

Mason Gain

Best Batting Record

J M Fraser Esquire Award

Mason Gain

Loyalty, Service and Sportsmanship in 1st XI

A S M Smith Cup

Solomon Harcombe

Cross Country

Senior Cross Country Champion

R M Greenslade

Esquire Challenge Cup

Harry Wing

Intermediate Cross Country Champion

H A A Stevely Esquire Cup

Angus Loe

Football

Most Improved 1st XI Player

R A Smith Cup

Samuel Ussher

Contribution to First XI

Alistair Wright Cup

George Barker

Quinn Coutts

First XI Footballer of the Year

Harrison Marshall

Golf

Senior Match-play award

DJ Horn Esq Cup

Baxter Meder

Pilling Cup

Best Gross

Baxter Meder

Hockey

Service To School Hockey

Collins Trophy

Nicholas Friedlander

Most Improved Player

Harrex Cup

Baxter Meder

Most Valuable Player

Blenheim Trophy

Thomas Meder

Mountain Biking

Tim Mackersy Trophy

Harry Morshuis

Rowing

Rower of the Year

Saville Family Cup

Matthew O’Meara

Award for Outstanding Attitude as a Novice or Cox

Leydon Family Cup

Henry Bowering

Will Andrews

Rugby

Most Improved Player

Ralph Edmund Wilson

Memorial Cup

Stanley McClure

Most Valuable Player in First XV

Affleck Trophy

Phoenix Abbott

Services to the First XV

Cameron Family Trophy

Josh Whaanga

Most promising player

Hamish Russell Trophy

Simon Cavanagh

Shooting

Trapshooting The OCA Cup

Harry Morshuis

Swimming

Senior Swimming Champion

Mr and Mrs H D Skinner Cup

Matthew O’Meara

Champion of Champions

Matthew O’Meara

Tennis

Top Ranked Tennis Player

Lawn Tennis Challenge Bowl

presented by A E Harraway

Marco Hartono

Touch

Best and Fairest Touch Player

Jack Timu

Volleyball

Most Outstanding Player

Otago Stationery Trophy

Nic Hinton

Most Promising Senior Player

Tate Cameron

Waterpolo

Most valuable player

Flynn McGuigan

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Junior Prize-giving 2021

Please note the date above: due to the timing of publication, Junior Prize-giving results are always published the following year.

PREMIER AWARDS

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

Max Nation

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

Liam Barron

The Year 9 Boarding House Award

Cooper Ollerenshaw

The Junior Jonoel Award for supporting the College’s special character

Charlie Light

The J P Cook Prize for Maths and Science in Year 8

Ryan Zhou

Academic Excellence in Year 7.

Christopher Body

The Teddy Blomfield Memorial award for academic excellence in Year 8.

Ryan Zhou

Academic Excellence in Year 9 was donated to the College by the Tilyard family.

William Ashton

Tom McGregor Memorial Award for Academic Excellence in Year 10.

Oliver Hamilton

SPECIAL PRIZES

Prepared Reading

Chairperson of the Board Awards

Year 7 & 8

Jacob Hill

Samuel La Hood

Creative Writing Dr F

R Riley Award

Year 7 & 8

Ryan Zhou

Year 9

Daniel O’Brien

Year 10

Oliver Hamilton

Sir John White Speech Award

Year 7 & 8

Jacob Hill

Year 9

Angus Burns

Year 10

Wei-Hun Loh

Debating

Gerald McDouall Memorial Cup for Debating

Harper Milne

Library

Junior Librarians Prize

For service to the library – diligence, reliability and initiative

Finn McDonald

Alex Riach

Tommy Wilson

Library Reading Prizes

Year 7 and 8 Reading Champions

Christopher Body

Lachlan Russell

Ryan Zhou

Tommy Wilson

Oliver Beadell

Year 9 and 10 Reading Champions

Stephen La

Oscar Crowe

Samuel Ussher

Jack Sandford

Pipe Band

Angus Knight Memorial Cup

Most Improved Piper

Jock McMillan

Donald Ross Challenge Cup

Champion Piper

Caleb Ung

Junior Art Awards

Year 7 & 8 College Award for Excellence Fergus Macdiarmid

Year 9 & 10 College Award for Excellence

Oliver Hamilton

Junior Drama Award

Most promising

Drama student

Fletcher Tilyard

Junior Music Award Contribution to College Music

Leo Hill

Bruce James Award Excellence in Junior Music Performance

David Song

Most Improved Academic Student in Year 10

Presented by the Power Family for the student who has made

the most significant academic improvement

Max Porter

Liam Barron

Parents and Friends’ Association awards for good citizenship.

7MRO Toby Hebden

7DBE Leo Woodham

8RMIn Nicholas Williams

8AHO William Cameron

9RAL Richie Cavanagh

9DSM Jacob Lawrence

9DOS Tom Anderson

9CBD Felix Gimenez

10DMC Luke Andrews

10SMN Adam Rhodes

10NSM Daniel Joint

10TSH Jack Sandford

Year 10 ACADEMIC AWARDS

Luke Andrews Distinction in Mathematics, English, Food Technology, Contribution in Christian Studies and General Diligence.

Henry Bowering Distinction in Digital Technology.

Vinny Brown Distinction in German.

Cody Byck Distinction in Film. James Cameron Distinction in Mathematics, World Studies, Film, Contribution in Christian Studies and General Diligence.

Charlie Carran Distinction in World Studies.

Simon Cavanagh

Distinction in Physical Education.

Jacob Cooper Distinction in German.

Joseph DevereuxKilpatrick Distinction in Mathematics and German.

Jock Duncan Distinction in Rural Studies, Contribution in Christian Studies and General Diligence.

Joe Dyer Distinction in Food Technology.

Haydn Finlay Distinction in Film.

Esteban GarciaQuiroga Distinction in English and Spanish.

Joshua George Distinction in Physical Education.

Nicholas George Distinction in Food Technology and Music.

Archie Goodall Distinction in Mathematics, Physical Education and Art.

Leo Han General Diligence.

Will Hancox Distinction in Mathematics and Art.

Charlie Jia Merit in Level 1 Mathematics.

Daniel Joint Distinction in English and Physical Education.

Leo Jones Distinction in Science.

Chun Kruwongpaibool Distinction in Mathematics.

Charlie Light Distinction in Physical Education, Food Technology and Furniture Design Technology.

Angus Loe Distinction in Mathematics, Physical Education, Food Technology and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Roger Luo Merit in Level 1 Mathematics.

Callum Macdiarmid Distinction in English, World Studies and Digital Technology.

Flynn McGuigan Distinction in Rural Studies.

Adam McNab Distinction in Mathematics, World Studies and General Diligence.

Riley McRae Distinction in Mathematics and Physical Education.

Gus McSkimming Distinction in Art.

Matthew O’Meara Distinction in Physical Education.

Harvey O’Neill Distinction in World Studies, Film, Furniture Design Technology and General Diligence.

Charlie Pearson Distinction in World Studies, Physical Education and Spanish.

Max Peden Distinction in Science, World Studies and Digital Technology.

Alex Piebenga Distinction in Physical Education.

Luke Pullar Distinction in English and Art.

Adam Rhodes Distinction in Science.

Oscar Ross Distinction in English and Design & Visual Communication.

Chai Saiseesod Distinction in Mathematics, Science, Art and General Diligence.

Aidan Seyb Contribution in Christian Studies.

David Song Distinction in German, Music and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Jack Steele Distinction in English, World Studies, Rural Studies and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Simon Tomkins Distinction in Mathematics and Film.

Harrison Tonkin Distinction in Science and Film.

Jack Tourelle Distinction in Physical Education, Art and Design & Visual Communication.

Lucas Townend Distinction in English and Physical Education.

Samuel Ussher Distinction in English, Science and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Harry Willis Distinction in Film.

Year 10 BOOK PRIZES for ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

Finn Anderson Merit in Level 1 Mathematics, English, Science, World Studies, Digital Technology and Furniture Design Technology.

Liam Barron Distinction in Mathematics, World Studies, Physical Education, Art and German.

Will Bary Merit in Level 1

Mathematics, English, Science, World Studies and Spanish.

Ewan Beadell

Distinction in English, World Studies, Physical Education, Food Technology, Furniture Design Technology and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Brodie Ferguson

Distinction in English, Science, World Studies, Design & Visual Communication and Furniture Design Technology.

Emilio GhoshNovero Distinction in English, World Studies, Physical Education, Film, Music, Spanish and General Diligence.

Oliver Hamilton Merit in Level 1 Mathematics, English, Science, World Studies, Physical Education, Design & Visual Communication, Rural Studies, Spanish and General Diligence.

Wei-Hun Loh

Distinction in English, Science, World Studies, Art, Design & Visual Communication, Food Technology, Furniture Design Technology, Spanish and General Diligence.

Jock McMillan Merit in Level 1

Mathematics, English, Science, World Studies and German.

William Parks Distinction in English, World Studies, Film and German.

Max Porter

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

Jonty Riley

Distinction in English, Mathematics, Science, World Studies, Art, Spanish and General Diligence.

Jack Sandford Distinction in English, Science, Art, Design & Visual Communication, Music and Spanish.

Year 9 ACADEMIC AWARDS

Tom Anderson Distinction in Mathematics, Art 2D, Design & Visual Communication and Digital Technology.

Charlie Barnett Distinction in Physical Education, Food Technology and Furniture Design Technology.

Max Braithwaite Distinction in Science, Physical Education, Art 2D and Digital Technology.

Noah Clearwater Distinction in Mathematics, Science and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Cooper Cleland Distinction in Furniture Design Technology and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Oliver Colling Distinction in Furniture Design Technology.

Henry Crawford Distinction in Integrated Studies.

Oscar Crowe

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

Samuel Eason Distinction in Physical Education, Art 3D and Food Technology.

Ben Eckhoff

Distinction in Science, Digital Technology, German, Contribution in Christian Studies and General Diligence.

Brayton Erskine

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

Edmund Ferro Distinction in Art 3D and Design & Visual Communication.

Mac Forde Distinction in Integrated Studies.

Felix Gimenez Distinction in Spanish.

Joshua Grieve Distinction in Spanish and Mathematics.

Noah Hamilton Distinction in Art 2D.

Sam Hancox

Distinction in Physical Education, Art 2D, Design & Visual Communication, Food Technology, Furniture Design Technology, Contribution in Christian Studies and General Diligence.

George Holland

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

Lochlan Ing-Aram Distinction in Science, Physical Education, Drama, Music and Spanish.

Matthew Jarvie Distinction in Physical Education.

Jonny Leitch Distinction in Integrated Studies, Design & Visual Communication, Digital Technology and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Jacob Levy Distinction in Physical Education and Contribution in Christian Studies.

James Liggett Distinction in Science and Physical Education.

Harry Lithgow Contribution in Christian Studies.

Archie McDiarmid Contribution in Christian Studies.

Patrick McKenzie Distinction in Integrated Studies, Contribution in Christian Studies and General Diligence.

Serge Meeuws Distinction in Physical Education, Art 2D and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Fergus Millar Distinction in Physical Education.

Amos Miller Distinction in Mathematics, Science and German.

Harper Milne Distinction in Integrated Studies, Drama, Music and Contribution in Christian Studies.

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

Cooper Ollerenshaw Distinction in Integrated Studies, Art 2D and General Diligence.

Reid Penwarden Distinction in Science, Digital Technology, Drama, German, Music and General Diligence.

Hayden Phillips Distinction in Art 3D.

Toby Poplawski Distinction in Physical Education.

Carter Robertson-Gray Distinction in Integrated Studies and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Benjamin Sinclair Distinction in Design & Visual Communication.

Henry Stephen Contribution in Christian Studies.

Lachie Sutherland

Distinction in Design & Visual Communication.

Jayden Toro

Distinction in Physical Education and Furniture Design Technology.

Mitchell Urquhart

Distinction in Physical Education.

Year 9 BOOK PRIZES for ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

William Ashton

Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Digital Technology, Drama, Food Technology and German.

Angus Burns

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

Ben Casey

Distinction in Integrated Studies, Drama, Spanish and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Glenn Ericsson

Distinction in Mathematics, Science, Physical Education, Drama, Food Technology and Spanish.

Zack Gallagher

Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Physical Education, Art 3D, Digital Technology, Spanish and General Diligence.

Ruairi Gillon

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

Annan Goldsmith

Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Physical Education, Design & Visual Communication and Digital Technology.

Ryan Hamilton

Distinction in Mathematics, Science, German, Music and General Diligence.

Ben Knopp

Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Art 2D, Design & Visual Communication, Digital Technology, Furniture Design Technology, Spanish, Contribution in Christian Studies and General Diligence,

Stephen La

Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Food Technology, Furniture Design Technology, German and General Diligence.

Jacob Lawrence

Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Physical Education, Art 2D, Design & Visual Communication and General Diligence.

Sam Lawson

Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Physical Education and Art 3D.

Brodie Miller

Distinction in Mathematics, Science, Drama and German.

Daniel O’Brien

Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Digital Technology, Drama, Furniture Design Technology, German, Music and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Skylar Peters

Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Physical Education, Art 3D, Design & Visual Communication, Digital Technology, Music, Spanish and General Diligence

Liam Ross Distinction in Integrated Studies, Physical Education, Art 3D, Music and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Freddie Saunders Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Eddie Scott

Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Art 3D, Design & Visual Communication, Drama, Food Technology, Music and General Diligence.

Aram Talahma Distinction in Science, Design & Visual Communication, German, Music, Spanish, Mathematics, Contribution in Christian Studies and General Diligence.

Caleb Ung

Distinction in Integrated Studies, Mathematics, Science, Furniture Design Technology, Spanish and General Diligence.

Year 8 ACADEMIC AWARDS

Oliver Beadell

Distinction in Technology and Te Reo Māori.

Samuel Binns

Distinction in Mathematics and Robotics.

Harrison Bird Distinction in Drama and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Nicholas Bolton Distinction in Mathematics.

Jack Burton Distinction in Physical Education, Visual Art, Contribution in Christian Studies and General Diligence.

Guy Byfield

Contribution in Christian Studies.

Charles Copland Distinction in Robotics.

Jonty Ellis

Distinction in Physical Education.

Yoko Fujii

Distinction in Physical Education and Technology.

Dan Grieve

Distinction in Science and Robotics.

Matthew Hall

Distinction in Drama, Music and Technology.

Matthew Hanna Contribution in Christian Studies.

Daniel Hudson Distinction in Robotics and Drama.

Jonny Hunter

Distinction in Physical Education, Food Technology, Te Reo Māori and Visual Art.

Simon Knopp Distinction in Social English and Robotics.

Samuel Kohlhase Distinction in Mathematics and Visual Art.

Joshua Kyle Distinction in Drama and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Hugo Maher Distinction in Drama.

Noah McCoubrey Distinction in Physical Education, Visual Art, Contribution in Christian Studies and General Diligence.

Jaxon Moeahu

Distinction in Physical Education.

Archie Moir

Distinction in Physical Education.

Issac Morrison

Distinction in Drama and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Liam Rasmussen

Distinction in Science, Robotics and Food Technology.

Ollie Rongen Contribution in Christian Studies.

Fletcher Tilyard Contribution in Christian Studies.

Alex Walker Distinction in Physical Education.

Nicholas Williams

Distinction in Drama and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Luke Wilson

Distinction in Social English and Drama.

Year 8 BOOK PRIZES for ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

George Bary Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Music, Technology, Visual Art, Contribution in Christian Studies and General Diligence.

William Cameron Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Physical Education, Robotics, Music, Te Reo Māori and General Diligence.

Edward Jennings Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Physical Education, Te Reo Māori, Visual Art and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Johnny Kaan

Distinction in Mathematics, Science, Robotics and Te Reo Māori.

James Kinney Distinction in Social English, Robotics, Food Technology, Technology and Te Reo Māori.

Samuel La Hood Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Physical Education, Drama and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Fergus Macdiarmid Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Drama, Music, Te Reo Māori, Visual Art and General Diligence.

Harry McDonald Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Robotics, Te Reo Māori and General Diligence.

Lachlan Russell Distinction in Social English, Science, Music, Technology, Te Reo Māori and General Diligence.

Timothy Stevens Distinction in Social English, Music, Technology and Te Reo Māori.

Ryan Zhou Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Robotics, Drama, Food Technology, Music, Te Reo Māori, Contribution in Christian Studies and General Diligence

Year 7 ACADEMIC AWARDS

Sam Anderson Distinction in Mathematics, Physical Education, Coding, Te Reo Māori and Visual Art.

Dylan Arlidge Distinction in Science.

Matthew Arlidge Distinction in Mathematics, Physical Education, Coding, Drama and Te Reo Māori.

Constant Au Distinction in Mathematics, Music, Technology and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Ethan Barnett Distinction in Physical Education, Technology and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Alban BoadenTrotter Distinction in Mathematics and Science.

Jamie Bradfield Distinction in Science, Drama, Food Technology, Music and Technology.

Hamish Casey Distinction in Physical Education, Drama and Food Technology.

Charlie Cockerill

Distinction in Science, Food Technology, Technology, Visual Art and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Hamish Eason Distinction in Physical Education, Technology and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Sean Gillon Distinction in Physical Education.

James Homer Distinction in Physical Education and Visual Art.

Hugo Jury Distinction in Physical Education and Food Technology.

Asher Le Cong Distinction in Coding, Te Reo Māori and Visual Art.

Oliver Levy Distinction in Food Technology, Technology, Visual Art, Contribution in Christian Studies and General Diligence.

Finn McDonald Distinction in Technology and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Charlie Murdoch Contribution in Christian Studies.

Max Nation Distinction in Physical Education, Drama, Visual Art and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Toby O’Neill Distinction in Music and Technology.

Liam Pettigrew Distinction in Visual Art and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Alex Riach Distinction in Physical Education and Music.

Angus Sawyer Distinction in Physical Education.

Tommy Wilson Distinction in Science, Coding, Technology and General Diligence.

Year 7 BOOK PRIZES for ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

Christopher Body Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Coding, Music,

Te Reo Māori and GeneralDiligence.

Liam Hamilton Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Coding in Te Reo Māori.

Cohen Harris Distinction in Social English, Coding, Music and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Toby Hebden Distinction in Social English, Science, Coding and General Diligence.

Jacob Hill Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Drama, Contribution in Christian Studies and General Diligence.

Leo Hill Distinction in Social English, Science, Drama, Music and Te Reo Māori.

Samuel Huang Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Science, Coding, Drama, Technology, Contribution in Christian Studies and General Diligence

SPORTS AWARDS

Ollie Kemmett

Distinction in Social English, Coding, Drama, Food Technology and Te Reo Māori.

Adam Ludgate Distinction in Mathematics, Science, Coding, Drama, Music, Technology, Te Reo Māori and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Roam Penwarden Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Drama, Food Technology, Technology, Te Reo Māori and General Diligence.

Kura Stevens Distinction in Social English, Drama, Te Reo Māori and Contribution in Christian Studies.

Leo Woodham Distinction in Social English, Mathematics, Te Reo Māori, Visual Art and General Diligence.

Athletics

Year 7 & 8 Athletics Champion

J H Fulton Cup

Alex Walker

Novice Athletics Champion

T C Ross Cup

Henry Bowering

Champion of Champions

PJE Robertson Cup Alex Walker

Badminton

Year 7 & 8 Best Junior

Badminton player

Hugo Maher

Badminton Singles Trophy

David Song Basketball

Most Promising Junior Player

Brendan Sparrow Cup

Joseph DevereuxKilpatrick

Jaxon Thomson

Most Promising Year 7 & 8 Player

Edward Jennings

Archie Moir

Cricket

Best Batsman in Year 7 & 8

Roly Scott Cup

Harry McDonald

Best Bowler in Year 7 & 8

Roly Scott Cup

Harry McDonald

Most Promising Junior Cricketer College Association Award

Liam Barron

Cross Country

Year 7 & 8 Cross Country College Assocation Cup

Jaxon Moeahu

Novice Cross Country Chamption

Gibson Family Cup

Sam Hancox

Junior Cross Country Champion College Cup

Angus Loe

Football

Best Junior Football Player

Schmidt Trophy

George Holland

Most Improved Player Baxter Cup

Samuel Ussher r

Golf

Year 7 & 8

Stroke-play Champion

Zachary Hore

Junior Match-play Champion

Watson Barkman

Junior Cup

Harvey O’Neill

Junior Stroke-play Champion

Parents and Friends Cup

Joseph DevereuxKilpatrick

Hockey

Most Valuable

Primary Player

Presented by John Cottle

Max Nation

Most Improved Primary Player

Finn McDonald

Most Improved Year 9 & 10 Player Bayne Cup

Luke Pullar

Most Valuable Year 9 and 10 Hockey Player

Liam Barron

Angus Loe

Rowing

Award for Outstanding Attitude as a Novice or Cox

Leydon Family Cup

Adam Rhodes

Most Promising Junior Rower

Kirkwood/Chittock Cup

Matthew O’Meara

Rugby

Most Promising

Under 14 Rugby Player

Robertson Trophy

Jack Tourelle

Most Improved U15

Rugby Player

Nick Noone Trophy

Jacob Struthers

Tennis

Year 7 & 8 Singles Tennis Champion

Presented by R G Mathias

Alban Boaden-Trotter

Junior Single Tennis Champion

Presented by L H Patton

Esq

Max Porter

Touch

Best Touch Player

JMC Junior Touch Cup

Alex Piebenga

College Award for Fairest Player

Cooper Ollerenshaw

Volleyball

Most Promising Year 9

Volleyball Player

Angus Burns

Most Valuable Year 10

Volleyball Player

Tate Cameron

Waterpolo

Most Improved Year 7 & 8 Waterpolo Player

Turner Family Cup

Joshua Kyle

Most Promising Year 9 & 10 Waterpolo Player

Turner Family Cup

Flynn McGuigan

Leydon Family Cup

Adam Rhodes

Most Promising

Junior Rower

Kirkwood/Chittock Cup

Matthew O’Meara

Rugby

Most Promising Under 14 Rugby Player

Robertson Trophy

Jack Tourelle

Most Improved U15

Rugby Player

Nick Noone Trophy

Jacob Struthers

Tennis

Year 7 & 8 Singles Tennis Champion

Presented by R G Mathias

Alban Boaden-Trotter

Junior Single Tennis Champion

Presented by L H Patton

Esq

Max Porter

Touch

Best Touch Player

JMC Junior Touch Cup

Alex Piebenga

College Award for Fairest Player

Cooper Ollerenshaw

Volleyball

Most Promising Year 9

Volleyball Player

Angus Burns

Most Valuable Year 10

Volleyball Player

Tate Cameron

Waterpolo

Most Improved Year 7 & 8 Waterpolo Player

Turner Family Cup

Joshua Kyle

Most Promising Year 9 & 10 Waterpolo Player

Turner Family Cup

Flynn McGuigan

JUNIOR SPEAKING COMPETITION

WINNERS

Year 7-8 Prepared Reading

First: Ruan Hamman

Second: Jacob Hill and Hugo Beeby

Third: Peter Choi

Year

7-8 Prepared Speech

First Adam Ludgate

Second = Ruan Hamman and Hugo Beeby

Third: Henry Jin

Year 9 Prepared Reading

First: Fletcher Tilyard

Second = Harry McDonald and Oliver Beadell

Highly Commended: Edward Jennings

Year 9 Prepared Speech

First: Ryan Zhou

Second: Arthur Tahluma

Third: Samuel La Hood

Year 10 Prepared Speech

First: Angus Burns

Second: Ben Casey

Third = Serge Meeuws and Daniel O’Brien

Part Nine: McGlashan Year 13 Pen Portraits

Name: Phoenix Abbott

Claim to Fame: Keeping the boarders looking sharp for years

Favourite Quote:

“Did you do that mullet” - Mrs Steve

Proposed Career: Stock agent

Probable Career: Barber

Cherished Memory: 1st XV footy

Name: Louis Allen

Claim to Fame: Drew’s favourite boarder

Favourite Quote: “People say nothing is impossible but I do nothing everyday”

Probable Career: TAB punter

Name: Will Andrews

Claim to Fame:

Basketball shots in the morning

Favourite Quote:

Being bad at something is the first step to being sorta good at something

Proposed Career: Building

Probable Career: Comic book writer

Name: Oliver Bamford

Claim to Fame: 2nd in DH at the Otago

Southland MTB champs

Favourite Quote: “Carpe Meridiem”

Proposed Career: Plumber

Probable Career: All Black

Cherished Memory: Visiting the canteen

Name: Connor Aldrich

Claim to Fame: Always sleepy

Favourite Quote:

“Out for Lunch” - Concussed Connor

Proposed Career: Geologist

Probable Career:

Working at concussion clinic

Cherished Memory: Top 4 rugby comp

Name: Fynn Allison

Claim to Fame: Most capped seconds hockey player ever

Favourite Quote:

As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream disappears.” – Jim Dietz

Proposed Career: Policeman

Probable Career: Farmer

Cherished Memory: Donny Campbell’s tech classes

Name: Ian Audas

Claim to Fame: Being Canadian

Favourite Quote:

Drive for show, putt for dough.

Proposed Career: Retirement

Probable Career: Prop for Tongan

National Rugby Team

Cherished Memory: Tournament week 2019

Name: Morgan Blair

Claim to Fame: Ice Hockey

Proposed Career: Pro Hockey Player

Probable Career: Sparky

Cherished Memory: Whare Flat

Name: Charlie Bolton

Claim to Fame:

Spending all of my money at the canteen

Favourite Quote:

Life is like a sandwich, no matter which way you flip it the bread comes first

Proposed Career: CEO

Probable Career: A moth

Cherished Memory: Year 10 camp

Name: Charlie Breen

Claim to Fame:

Playing cricket alongside Henry Scott

Favourite Quote: Tokyo?

Proposed Career: Playing sport

Probable Career: Surveyer

Cherished Memory: Rugby 2022

Name: Michael Buttery

Claim to Fame: Successfully untangling the prefect rope circle.

Favourite Quote: 50/50 questions can’t be that hard to get right? Right?

Proposed Career: Rugby Referee

Probable Career: Sports Psychologist

Cherished Memory:

Beating Mr Clark in a 100m sprint

Name: Hunter Cockerill

Claim to Fame: I’ll do it tomorrow sir

Favourite Quote: Should we go to the canteen

Proposed Career: Farm owner

Probable Career: Rocklands lifer

Name: Tim Bradfield

Claim to Fame: Me

Favourite Quote: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” - Steve Jobs

Proposed Career: Designer

Probable Career: Influencer

Cherished Memory: Wellington Arts Trip

Name: Martin Brook

Claim to Fame: Being a nerd

Favourite Quote: “Anyway...”

Proposed Career: Global dictator

Probable Career: Teacher with a PhD

Cherished Memory:

Trying to break physics

Name: Zackary Cleaver-Donovan

Claim to Fame: Having the best hairline

Favourite Quote: If you try you risk failure. If you don’t, you guarantee it.

Proposed Career: In the film Industry

Probable Career: Diesel Mechanic

Name: Matheson Colquhoun

Claim to Fame: Master at half court shots

Favourite Quote: If somebody ever asks you to do something, do it really badly so you never have to do it again

Proposed Career: NBA Sports Analyst

Probable Career: New Balance CEO

Cherished Memory: Receiving my New Zealand uniform for World Champs

Name: Sam Cottier

Claim to Fame:

Jack Timu knowing my name

Favourite Quote:

Proposed Career: Professional presser

Probable Career: Meat works

Cherished Memory:

Morning meetings with cheese

Name: Billy Dougherty

Claim to Fame: If you know, you know

Proposed Career: Own a station

Probable Career: Gate opener

Name: Zac Duff

Claim to Fame: Public Illness

Proposed Career:

Chemist/Forensics Scientist

Probable Career: Petrol Station

Employee

Cherished Memory: Formal 2021

Name: Xavier Edmond

Claim to Fame: Short Arm

Favourite Quote: “She’ll be right”

Proposed Career: Lawyer

Probable Career: Squaddie

Cherished Memory: The Dogs

Name: Jack Cotton

Claim to Fame:

Dad getting me into the First XI Hockey

Favourite Quote: “Do the impossible and you’ll never doubt yourself ever again.”

Proposed Career: Hockey player

Probable Career: Maniototo cricket player

Cherished Memory: JMC First XI Hockey final 2022

Name: Feilim Dougherty

Claim to Fame: My goggles in Year 7

Favourite Quote: oh yo

Proposed Career: pharmicist

Cherished Memory: Mrs Veitch’s math class

Name: Tom Duffy

Favourite Quote: They told me to follow my dreams, so I went back to bed

Proposed Career: Astronaut

Probable Career: Truck driver

Cherished Memory: Taking C-Ruck on a slight detour and getting bogged

Name: Charles Engelbrecht

Favourite Quote: is it any good?

Proposed Career: UFC

Probable Career: Gorse sprayer

Cherished Memory: First XV Rugby 2022

Name: Keegan Ferguson

Claim to Fame: Waiting

Favourite Quote: It’s easier to ask for forgiveness then it is to ask for permission

Proposed Career: Business Owner

Probable Career: JD’s Babysitter

Name: Nicholas Friedlander

Claim to Fame: Ted Friedlander

Favourite Quote: “If my Grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike” - Gino D’Acampo

Proposed Career: Sports Agent

Probable Career: Sports Commentator

Cherished Memory: 2022 Rankin Cup

Name: Alban Gosse

Claim to Fame:

CrossFit/Rides to Queenie

Favourite Quote: You live and you learn

Proposed Career:

Working behind the scenes on film sets

Probable Career: Military

Cherished Memory:

Finishing my final IB exam

Name: Sam Gradwell

Claim to Fame: Never finishing a tech project on time

Favourite Quote: Celtics NBA Champs 2023

Proposed Career: Architect

Probable Career: Non-committal

Hockey Coach

Cherished Memory: All the hockey I’ve played for JMC

Name: Tom Fowler

Claim to Fame:

Being on the front cover of the ODT

Favourite Quote: Get off my truck

Proposed Career: Lotto Winner

Probable Career: Ditch Digger

Cherished Memory: Everyday Life at the College /Rugby

Name: Harold Gao

Claim to Fame: The best at facial contortions and maniacal laughter

Favourite Quote: OH VISCIOUS MOON! TODAY SHALL JUDGEMENT BESTOW UPON US!

Proposed Career:

United Nation Secretary General

Probable Career: Music teacher

Cherished Memory: Jazz band

Name: Kevin Geng

Proposed career: Industrial Engineer

Probably career: Electrical Engineer claim to fame: Completing the IB diploma programme

cherished memory: IBDP Overnight camp

Name: Oscar Grey

Claim to Fame: 1st XI football member

Favourite Quote: Tucked my collar, I’m done trippin

Proposed Career: Investment banker

Probable Career: Tradie

Cherished Memory: Swimming sports

Name: George Hancox

Claim to Fame: Still having all my teeth

Proposed Career: Dwarf wrangler

Probable Career: Milton Hilton

Name: Solomon Harcombe

Claim to Fame: Single figure

handicapper

Favourite Quote: Holes?

Proposed Career: Conor McGregor

Probable Career: Engineer

Cherished Memory: Changing room 2

Name: Ezra Holmes

Claim to Fame:

Breaking both my wrists at once.

Favourite Quote: Don’t be sorry, be better.

Proposed Career: Dairy farmer

Probable Career: Property valuer

Cherished Memory: 2021 3rds rugby

Name: Greg Jones

Claim to Fame: Failing year thirteen

Favourite Quote:

Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius - Jeremy Clarkson

Proposed Career: Mechanic

Probable Career:

Professional meme creator

Cherished Memory: Leaving

Name: Theo Hannagan

Claim to Fame: Darts

Favourite Quote: “This lad has more checkouts than Tescos“ - Sid Waddell

Proposed Career:

Professional Darts Player

Probable Career: Lawyer

Cherished Memory: JMC Darts Club in its Year 10 peak.

Name: Jack Hazlett

Claim to Fame:

Becoming the most accomplished tee boy for the greatest JMC rugby team ever.

Favourite Quote: “Where’s the first tee off?, Whats the course record?”

Proposed Career: Sports agent

Probable Career:

Heriot Rugby water assistant

Cherished Memory: Rankin Cup

Name: Enzo Hood

Claim to Fame: Being that guy

Favourite Quote:

Are you serious right neow

Proposed Career: Sparky

Probable Career: Dominos delivery driver

Name: Ben Joseph

Claim to Fame:

Most improved player First XV

Proposed Career:

U17 Māori Rugby coach

Probable Career: Deliver easy

Cherished Memory: South Island rugby final

Name: Jonty Light

Claim to Fame:

Holding on to the truck real good

Favourite Quote:

Do fish swim? - Macker135

Proposed Career: The Hills life member

Probable Career: Ultra marathon runner

Cherished Memory:

Chucking a seed round up north.

Name: Mitchell Lobb

Claim to Fame: The Year 9 singing account which went horribly wrong

Favourite Quote:

But thems the breaks - Boris Johnson

Proposed Career: Teacher

Probable Career: KFC Manager

Cherished Memory: Theatrefest 2022

Name: Beau Lundy

Claim to

Fame: Russ Lundy

Favourite Quote: The Lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun

Proposed Career: Beauden Barrett

Probable Career: Unemployed

Name: Ray Ma

Claim to Fame:

“But how do we know that?”

Favourite Quote:

“I am not throwing away my shot!”Hamilton: An American Musical

Proposed Career:

Supreme Leader of Earth

Probable Career:

Run-of-the-mill Programmer

Cherished Memory: Finally being freed from the grasp of the IB

Name: Kenny Liu

Proposed career: Banking Executive in Hong Kong

Probably career: Banking clerk in Hong Kong

claim to fame: Not using a laptop in class for the whole year in Year 9

Cherished memory: IBDP Overnight camp

Name: William Loe

Claim to Fame:

Winning curling nationals

Favourite Quote:

There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.

Proposed Career: Stock agent

Probable Career: Farming

Cherished Memory: Year 10 camp

Name: Sheon Luxmanan

Claim to Fame: Being Krishan’s brother

Favourite Quote: If at first you dont succeed, skydiving probably isnt for you.’ - Steven Wright

Proposed Career: Lawyer

Probable Career: Cricket umpire

Cherished Memory: Long ball competitions

Name: Marshall Macready

Claim to Fame: Being the borders accomodation on Saturday night

Probable Career:

Placemakers forklift operator

Cherished Memory: Going to queenie/rotary

Name: Yuri Manickam

Claim to Fame: IB math HL

Favourite Quote: “Slay”

Proposed Career: VFX artist

Probable Career: Lab rat

Name: Felix Mauger

Claim to Fame:

Having more studies than classes

Proposed Career: Play for Moana

Pasifika

Probable Career:

Take over Ferguson trucking

Cherished Memory: Becoming the best 1st XV team in the South Island

Name: Ryan McCaughan

Claim to Fame:

Being a part of the 3rd XV who won 6 games straight in an U16 grade

Favourite Quote: “I would be in the Highlanders right now If I didn’t tear my achilles in year 12”

Proposed Career: Management

Probable Career: Bowl Line worker

Cherished Memory: 3rds footy memes

Name: Jackson McEwan

Claim to Fame:

One guy with a bad mohawk in Year 9

Favourite Quote: I’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty

Proposed Career: No idea

Probable Career: Curing cancer

Cherished Memory:

Meeting the full squad in Year 9

Name: Harrison Marshall

Claim to Fame: Getting sick all the time

Favourite Quote: “Morning Gentlemen” - Andrew Karlsberg

Proposed Career: Bob Dylan

Probable Career: Byron Bay surf bum

Cherished Memory: Yr 10 Stewart Island Camp, 1st XI tournament week, guitar lessons with Brad

Name: Nicholas McArley

Claim to Fame:

Changing hairstyles every 2nd month

Favourite Quote: “Lingyangsies!!!!”

Proposed Career: University Lecturer

Probable Career: Window cleaner

Cherished Memory: Willis room study periods

Name: Stan McClure

Claim to Fame: Barking up over the beezy

Favourite Quote:

Catch the ball, then do the dance!

Probable Career:

Making sure the couch doesn’t fly away

Cherished Memory:

Bumping off the second best hooker in our team (Keegan Ferguson)

Name: Nathan McKnight

Claim to Fame: Being the tank

Favourite Quote: “Bloody Beautiful”

Proposed Career:

Running the Ranch in the Maniototo

Probable Career:

Professional tractor operator/builder

Cherished Memory:

Captaining the second XI

Name: Angus McMillan

Claim to Fame:

Lead Guitarist in the critically acclaimed year 7 band, “The Damp Teatowels”

Favourite Quote:

No woman, no cry - Bob Marley

Proposed Career: Mechanical Engineer

Probable Career:

UFC Heavyweight Champ

Cherished Memory: Year 10 camp

Name: Thomas Meder

Claim to Fame: Hockey enthusiast

Favourite Quote: You only get one life.

Live it Nirmal Purja

Proposed Career: Field Hockey Player

Probable Career:

Commodore Motel Cleaner

Cherished Memory: 2-1 over King’s 2019

Name: Jack Murphy

Claim to Fame: KD’s Best friend

Favourite Quote: Safe

Proposed Career: Rich and Unemployed

Probable Career: Unemployed

Cherished Memory: Year 8 Camp

Name: Ben O’Meara

Claim to Fame:

Back to back 2nds XV titles

Favourite Quote: Hang on one more

Proposed Career: Farmer

Probable Career: Mechanic

Cherished Memory: Night time drives

Name: Archie McRae

Claim to Fame:

First deputy head boy not to go to Uni

Favourite Quote: The best view comes after the hardest climb

Proposed Career: Helicopter pilot

Probable Career: Farmer

Cherished Memory: 1st XV season

Name: Mitch Morton

Claim to Fame: Bumping off Mr Allen

Favourite Quote: “Time gets you money, but money can’t get you time”

Proposed Career: Magic Mike

Cherished Memory: My mate Ricki Allen

Name: Masato Nishimura

Claim to Fame: 3rd XV

Favourite Quote: Ceebs

Proposed Career: Be rich

Probable Career: Own a sport team

Name: Harry Ollerenshaw

Claim to Fame: Buying the last ever fizzy drink at the canteen

Favourite Quote:

Work smarter not harder

Proposed Career: Arboriculture

Probable Career: Olly Logging

Cherished Memory: Touch Nationals 2020

Name: James Palmer

Claim to Fame:

Interesting hairstyle choices

Favourite Quote:

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible” - Frank Zappa

Proposed Career:

Archaeologist somewhere overseas

Probable Career:

Archaeologist somewhere in Dunedin

Cherished Memory: Spending time in the music room

Name: Lukas Pietsch

Claim to Fame:

Sharing the same name as a fruit

Favourite Quote: 13 years, gave me 13 reasons

Proposed Career:

Something environmentally beneficial

Probable Career: Professional human

Cherished Memory:

Friendly banter in Mr Shoebridge’s class

Name: Will Pringle

Claim to Fame: Being mistaken for Drake

Favourite Quote:

What if we all slip ya a 20?

Proposed Career:

Concrete Mixer Assistant

Probable Career: Russian Street

Fighter

Name: Nontasit Saiseesod

Claim to Fame:

Best Asian in accounting at Columba

Favourite Quote: Are you tired? because you been running though my head all day.

Proposed Career: Dental tehnician

Probable Career: Marketing manager

Cherished Memory:

Getting to cook exotic food for other students on an International day

Name: James Paterson

Claim to Fame: Cricket trial year 9

Favourite Quote:

“I’ve been through three labour governments and each one’s nearly killed me.”

Theme Song: Tourner Dans Le Vide

Proposed Career: Farmer

Probable Career: Māori All Black Cherished Memory: Hostel dinners

Name: Sam Porter

Claim to Fame: Sam Gradwell’s hockey mentor, taught him how to drag flick

Proposed Career: Engineer

Probable Career: WWE wrestler AKA

Sam ‘The Bone Crusher’ Porter

Cherished Memory: Bet Jack Hazlett in tennis once

Name: Michael Rietveld

Claim to Fame: Being Fijian Indian - the only tan guy in the friend group. Constant beef with Sam Gradwell in DVC.

Favourite Quote: Are you kidding me’

Proposed Career: Engineer

Probable Career: CEO of Fiji Water

Cherished Memory: Year 10 Ohau Camp with Don Campbell

Name: Matthew Sime

Claim to Fame: Most sick days

Favourite Quote: ‘Look Pim, I know it’s our job to help this guy and everything, but I think this guy’s a lost cause. He’s obviously made up his mind, why don’t we just cut our losses and get out of here.’ - Smiling Friends

Proposed Career: Civil Engineer

Probable Career: Suzuki Swift dealer

Cherished Memory: The formals

Name: Sam Sinclair

Claim to Fame: Being in Neil’s beach

Favourite Quote: Can you believe that?

Can you believe we don’t have a jacuzzi?

Proposed Career: Famous Musician

Probable Career: Kanye West Historian

Cherished Memory: Gary Yao’s speech at the language assembly in 2021

Name: Zachary Smith

Claim to Fame: 10-12%

Favourite Quote: “

A snail works hard to move forward but a dog runs past it in a single bound

Proposed Career: Lawyer

Probable Career: King of Dunedin

Cherished Memory: the prefabs

Name: Samuel Stedman

Claim to Fame:

Held a pizza eating record for a week

Favourite Quote: “The temporary satisfaction of quitting is outweighed by the eternal suffering of being a nobody.”

Proposed Career: Entrepreneur

Probable Career: Film Star

Cherished Memory: Seconds Final

Name: Ethan Stirling

Claim to Fame:

Being coached by Ricki Allan.

Favourite Quote: “2’s don’t lose”

Proposed Career: Nike Brand Manager

Probable Career: Brand Manager

Cherished Memory: 2nd XV rugby

Name: Ollie Sinclair

Claim to Fame:

An international parents worst nightmare

Favourite Quote: Exspec big fingsXXXMarshmacion & slim jim 2017

Proposed Career: The greatest thing McGlashan has ever seen

Probable Career: Proposed career

Cherished Memory:

The three Nics of year 7

Name: Mark Smith

Claim to Fame:

Passing Yr 13 by the end of term 2

Favourite Quote:

They are still making days

Proposed Career:

Owner of a High Country station

Probable Career:

Owner of a lifestyle block

Cherished Memory:

Class with Don Campbell

Name: Jimmy Stephen

Claim to Fame: 20 games for 3rd XV

Favourite Quote: Changing room 2

Proposed Career:

Ferguson Trucking Driver

Cherished Memory: Hunting Competition

Name: Max Stowell

Claim to Fame:

Not being able to count to ten on my fingers (I can only count to seven)

Favourite Quote: Turn right to go left ~ Doc Hudson

Proposed Career:

Professional race car driver

Probable Career: Car salesmen

Cherished Memory:

Food tech with the boys and Mr Mclean

Name: Josh Thom

Claim to Fame: Working in the Canteen

Favourite Quote: “Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.” The Art of War - Sun Tzu

Proposed Career:

Regional Manager of Tansley’s

Electrical

Probable Career:

Coffee boy for Aotea Electric

Cherished Memory: 3:15pm

Name: Jack Timu

Claim to Fame: Making Top Four

Favourite Quote: That’ll do

Proposed Career: Kina Diver

Probable Career: New World

Cherished Memory: South Island Final

Name: Toby Wafer

Claim to Fame: My wit

Favourite Quote:

Po-tay-toes. boil ‘em, mash ‘em, stick ‘em in a stew.’ - Samwise Gamgee

Proposed Career: Classicist and

Historian

Probable Career: Warehouse assistant

Cherished Memory:

Rakiura Stewart Island - Year 10 Camp

Name: Liam Wilson

Claim to Fame: Having no fame to claim

Favourite Quote: “If life gives you lemons, make lemonade”

Proposed Career: Athlete

Probable Career: Stay at home Dad

Cherished Memory: Using the common room - when it was open.

Name: Mitchell Thorn

Claim to Fame: Wearing the number 10 jersey for the First XI

Favourite Quote: Hey buddy

Proposed Career: Yr13 accounting teacher

Probable Career: Shearer

Cherished Memory: Ski camp

Name: Finlay Tomkins

Claim to Fame: Successfully swindling an extension for every one my history internals

Favourite Quote: “Theatre kids always turn into Uber Drivers”

Proposed Career: Famous Actor

Probable Career: Uber Driver

Cherished Memory: Being the ‘Wait, you’re a Boarder?’ guy.

Name: Sam Williams

Claim to Fame: Having biggest nose

Proposed Career:

Sewage cleaner assistant

Probable Career: Farmer

Cherished Memory: Corner patch footy

Name: Harry Wing

Claim to Fame: Demoing the supper box

Favourite Quote: Beds are lowkey slept on

Proposed Career: Forklift Driver

Probable Career: Bread Maker

Cherished Memory: Chapel every week

Name: Nate Wisnesky

Claim to Fame:

Being a Novice Rower in Year 13

Favourite Quote: “Everybody want to know what I would do if I didn’t win... I guess we’ll never know.”

Proposed Career:

Starting Center for the Los Angeles Lakers

Probable Career:

General Manager of the L.A. Lakers

Cherished Memory: Year 10 Camp at Stewart Island

Name: John Zhao

Claim to Fame: Simultaneously embodying Asuka and Shinji

Favourite Quote: “But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don’t really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man.”

Proposed Career: Mad scientist

Probable Career: Professional Shinji

Cherished Memory:

Discussing philosophy with my friends

Name: Gary Yao

Claim to fame: Playing a Concert piano piece in Assembly and no-one knowing that I played it wrong.

Proposed career: Doctor

Probably career: Musician

Cherished memory: Playing in the Gilray Band in Year 12

Part Ten: McGlashan Class Photos

7DBe

Back row: Simba Tang, Jack McKenzie, David Haas, Ezra Harris, Archer McDonald, Daniel Chirnside, Jonty Thomson

Middle row: Theo Sneddon, Gus Carr, Adam Dockerty, Seth Clearwater-Blunt, Matthew Lawson, Fergus Gent, Blake Chalmers, Charlie Kaan, Mr David Beazley

Front row: Oliver Wang, Cooper Robertson, Tobias Palmer, Lucas Wharepapa, August Rees, Hugo Beeby, Lyell Owen

Absent: Harry Stafford

7HJe

Back Row: Fergus Laws, Dino Walton, Angus Hollows, Willem Turnbull, Ben Garner, Artie Sweetman, Finlay Auchinvole, Sam Jones

Middle Row: Ruan Hamman, Jamie Copland, Ben Homer, Alexander Zarrabi, Peter Garden, Toby Spalding, Felix Brooking, Mrs Helen Jennings

Front Row: Harry Barker, Monty Bevin, Toby Ellis, Fynn Turner, Artie Turner, Peter Choi, Jack Rongen, Finn Fraser

Absent: Henry Johnson

8AHo

Back row: Liam Pettigrew, Mana McCombe, Thomas Kaiser, Alban Boaden-Trotter, Charlie Murdoch, Toby Hebden, Adam Ludgate, Kura Stevens

Middle row: Mr Andrew Hore, Joey Annison, Tommy Wilson, Shaan Lal, Max Nation, Ollie Kemmett, Oliver Levy, Sean Gillon, Liam Hamilton, Henry Jin

Front row: Cam McMillan, Hamish Casey, Jacob Hill, Alex Riach, Samuel Huang, Hamish Eason, Jed Holland, Finn McDonald

8RMi

Back Row: William Ross, Nio Maclean, Jamie Bradfield, James Homer, Cohen Harris, Leo Hill, Matthew Arlidge, Leo Woodham, Charlie Cockerill

Middle Row: Mr Robert Milne, Dylan Arlidge, Christopher Body, Sam Anderson, Toby O’Neill, Brayden Arlidge, Isaac Boereboom, Asher Le Cong

Front Row: Benjamin Hollard, Hugo Jury, Angus Sawyer, Bayden Clearwater, Ethan Barnett, Constant Au, Ryder Clark, Roam Penwarden, Nate Clark

9CBd

Back Row: Theo Parry, Hunter Sutherland, Harvey Hunt, Lachlan Macaulay, Monti Cleugh-Gibb, Joshua Hagan, Samuel Kohlhase, Yoko Fujii

Middle Row: Ms Julie Tolson, William Light, Henry Cargill, Timothy Stevens, Charles Copland, Lachlan Russell, Harrison Bird, Angus McDiarmid, Ms Cath Bowden

Front Row: Archie Moir, Aathur Talahma, Lachlan Mackenzie, Hugo Maher, Benji Dempster, Fletcher Tilyard, Theo Hollands, Keegan Ferguson (Prefect)

9DoS

Back Row: Ollie Rongen, Jaden Tonkin, Oliver King, William Laws, Alex Walker, J ohnny Kaan, Lachie Clearwater, Will Harrex

Middle Row: Logan Struthers, Flynn Mackenzie, Max Perriam, Edward Jennings, Zac Cunningham, Tom Zhang, Mr Dom Schumacher

Front Row: Fergus Dillon, Matthew Hanna, Jack Burton, Mac Sheppard, Simon Knopp, Ryan Zhou, Luka Riley, Oliver Beadell

Absent: Tee Kiatwattanakorn

9DSm

Back Row: Otis Quelch, Zachary Hore, Lachlan Davies, Luke Wilson, Ethan McSkimming, Rakai Wetere, Joshua Clearwater-Blunt, Paddy Kennedy

Middle Row: Sheon Luxmanan (Prefect), Maxwell Reid, Jonty Ellis, William Cameron, Fred Gordon, Harry Martin, Liam Rasmussen, Mrs Donna Smith, Ms Natasha Prior

Front Row: Will Macaulay, Issac Morrison, Nicholas Williams, Bede O’Connell, Luke Wright, Toby Hazlett, Jed Crawford, Samuel La Hood

Absent Louie Rouvi

9NSm

Back Row: Harry McDonald, James Kinney, Otis Rohland, Logan Divers, Guy Byfield, Samuel Binns, Charlie Falconer

Middle Row: Xavier Edmond (Prefect), Toby Duncan, Benjamin Koh, Nicholas Bolton, Andrew Grounds, Charles Reid, Adrian Prasath, Noah McCoubrey, Thomas Hinton, Miss Natasha Smillie

Front Row: Raiden Ho, Daniel Hudson, George Bary, Mack Stevens, Jonny Hunter, Matthew Hall, Daniel Grieve

Absent: Geordie Macdonald,

10GAv

Back Row: Joshua Grieve, Ryan Hamilton, Brodie Miller, Noah Clearwater, Ruairi Gillon, Daniel O’Brien, Tom Anderson

Middle Row: Ben Knopp, Caleb Ung, Eddie Scott, Theodore Nicol, James Lawson, Glenn Ericsson, Skylar Peters, Aram Talahma, Mr Geoff Avis

Front Row: Oscar Crowe, Jack Lucas, Sam Lawson, Freddie Saunders, Amos Miller, William Ashton, Stephen La, Zack Gallagher, Annan Goldsmith

10RKo

Back Row: Patrick McKenzie, Cooper Ollerenshaw, Taylor Baker, Jack Divers, Henry Crawford, Harper Milne, Angus Burns

Middle Row: Mr Ronny Kotkamp, Noah Hamilton, Sam Milne, Mac Forde, Ben Eckhoff, Liam Ross, Cody Gradwell, Fergus Millar, Mr Simon Maole

Front Row: Jonny Leitch, Reid Penwarden, Luke Dawson, Lochlan Ing-Aram, Matthew Jarvie, Carter Robertson-Gray, Richie Cavanagh

10SMn

Back Row: Luke Miller, Thomas Macbeth, Ben Casey, Oliver Colling, Harry Lithgow, George Begg, Lachie Sutherland

Middle Row: Samuel Eason, Ethan Hudson, William Moyle, Jacob Levy, Glyn Hughes, Leon Kaan, Mr Steven McNulty

Front Row: Mitchell Urquhart, Hayden Phillips, Logan Wither, Jack Bensemann, Rian Gillon, Sam Hancox, Connor Howes

Absent: Lucas Mason

10TSh

Back Row: Maita Madambi, Corbin Simpson, Cooper Cleland, Jayden Toro, Serge Meeuws, Max Braithwaite, Benjamin Sinclair

Middle Row: Toby Poplawski, Charlie Barnett, Brayton Erskine, Charlie Donaldson, Edmund Ferro, Henry Stephen, Mr Troy Shoebridge

Front Row: George Holland, Jakob Eaton, Felix Gimenez, Ryley Matheson, Jemaine Wheeler, Archie McDiarmid, James Liggett

11AAn

Back Row: Matt O’Meara, Jaxon Thomson, Joseph Devereux-Kilpatrick, Adam Rhodes, Samuel Ussher, Flynn McGuigan

3rd Row: Olly Perriam, Harrison Stout, Joe Dyer, Joshua George, Riley McRae, Billy Hutton-Atkins, Charlie Carran

2nd Row: Mrs Ainslie Anderson, Jacob Struthers, Milo Hyndman, Ben Wild, Henry Bowering, Liam Barron

Front Row: Gus McSkimming, Hayden Pringle, Will Hancox, Oliver McIver, Angus Loe, James Cameron, Aidan Seyb

11ABu

Back Row: Leo Han, Brodie Ferguson, Luke Puller, Harrison Tonkin, Jack Sandford, Charlie Jia, Will Bary

Middle Row: Roger Luo, Jacob Cooper, Charlie Pearson, Lucas Townend, Oliver Hamilton, Ewan Beadell, Ms Anne Burton

Front Row: William Parks, Wei-Hun Loh, Jock McMillan, David Song, Finn Anderson, Oscar Ross, Allen Liu

Absent: Kevin Zhu

11CWa

Back Row: Lachlan Crumpton, Adam McNab, Archie Goodall, Will Kara, Jonty Riley, Harrison Bowmar, Leo Jones

Middle Row: Mr Chung-Wei Wang Reif Stuart, Luke Andrews, Morris Gordon, Jarn Hollows, Jock Duncan, Liam Griffiths, Daniel Joint

Front Row: Simon Tomkins, Harry Willis, Santino Hood, Jack Steele, Cory Wright, Jack Tourelle, Chun Kruwongpaibool

Absent: Tatsuichi Narita

11MWe

Back row: Mr Mike Wesseling, Nicholas George, Alex Piebenga, Simon Cavanagh, Reuben Allison, Tate Cameron, Haydn Finlay, Vinny Brown, Harvey O’Neill

Front row: Harry Ryan, Paton Holmes, Nico Burton, Oscar Davenport, Cody Byck, Max Porter, Charlie Light

12AMo

Back row: Isaac McConachie, John Mengel, Nic Hinton, William Macpherson, Henri Fenn

Middle row: Sam Johnston, Liam Ruru, Lee Masters, Max Simpson, Luke Brown, Mr Andrew Morrison

Front row: Eli Gepte, Ethan Leitch, Marek Rickerby, Xavier Radel, Sebastian Ferro, Qwenton McKenzie, Elliott Englehutt

12GCL

Back Row: Lachie Curson-Moir, Hunter MacGregor, Jack Howley, Caleb Forde, William Stevens, Zac Brooking, Thomas Rasmussen

Front Row: Tom Dyer, Angus Cuthill, Joshua Chagnon, Josh Penno, George Brenssell, Adam Byers, Oliver Bary

Absent: Mr Glen Clark, James Arlidge, Marco Hartono

Back Row: Sam Price, Callum Binns, Harrison Meltzer, Max Jones, Elliot Nicol

Middle Row: Zavier Paterson, Millar McElrea, Samuel Schell, William Hubbard, Henry Scott, Mr Hamish Cartwright

Front Row: Finn Aitken, Joseph Knopp, Guy Aroonprasertkul, Kaleb Durant, Josh Jones, Jonah Coleman, Mac Perkins

Absent: Jack Lewis

Back Row: Fergus Wright, Jacob Hall, Marco Hartono, Hamish McIntyre, George Barker, Max Hore

Middle Row: James Arlidge, Mason Gain, Harry Morshuis, Baxter Meder, Mr Jeremy Cuthbert

Front Row: Sam Hore, Bailey Williams, Evers Donnelly-Davey, Ben Barnett, Luca Bevin, Harry Stevens

Absent: Malachi Sem-Cheyne

12SWh

Back Row: Jed Nevill, Amani James, Taine Dyson, Alexander Seaton

Middle Row: Daniel Burnett, Jacob Cushen, Xavier Bachop, Henry Cleaver, Kyle Meason

Front Row: Preston Foster, Rylan Urquhart, Oakland Young, Tom Cunningham, Rex Cui, Kahu Keenan

Absent: Quinn Coutts, Nick Casey Mr Simon White

13BJo

Back row: William Loe, Sam Gradwell, Caleb Dixon, Nathan McKnight, Charlie Breen, Toby Wafer

Middle row: Oliver Bamford, Ben O’Meara, Josh Whaanga, Jack Cotton, Tim Bradfield

Front row: Billy Dougherty, Keegan Ferguson, Theo Hannagan, Lochie Mackay, Nontasit Saiseesod, Hiromitsu Hanato

Absent: Feilim Dougherty

Absent: Mr Bryn Jones

13BPo

Back Row: Harold Gao, Gary Yao, Lukas Pietsch, Sheon Luxmanan, Michael Buttery

Middle Row: Mr Brendan Porter, Sam Sinclair, Alban Gosse, Xavier Edmond, John Zhao, Ray Ma, Kevin Geng

Front Row: Yuri Manickam, Martin Brook, Jack Murphy, Zachary Duff, Zachary Smith, Kenny Liu, Nicholas Friedlander

13BWo

Back Row: Felix Mauger, Stanley McClure, Louis Allen, Enzo Hood, Archie McRae

Middle Row: Hunter Cockerill, Sam Williams, James Stephen, Charles Engelbrecht, Harry Wing, Mitchell Thorn

Front Row: Tom Duffy, George Hancox, Will Andrews, Greg Jones, Nate Wisnesky, Jackson McEwan, Angus McMillan

Absent: Morgan Blair, Mr Brent Wolf

13DSc

Back Row: Nicholas McArley, Mark Smith, Fynn Allison, Max Stowell, Charlie Bolton, Matthew Sime

Middle Row: Oscar Grey, Samuel Porter, Beau Lundy, Solomon Harcombe, Michael Rietveld, James Paterson, Ethan Stirling

Front Row: Finlay Tomkins, James Palmer, Josh Thom, Ian Audas, Harrison Marshall, Tom Fowler

Absent: Marshall Macready, Mr David Schaumann

13SMc

Back Row: Harry Ollerenshaw, Zack Cleaver-Donovan, Connor Aldrich, Mitchell Morton, Phoenix Abbott, Mitchell Lobb, Sam Cottier

Middle Row: Samuel Stedman, Ezra Holmes, Matheson Colquhoun, Ben Joseph, Jack Timu, Jack Hazlett

Front Row: Jonty Light, Liam Wilson, Ryan McCaughan, William Pringle, Thomas Meder, Masato Nishimura, Ollie Sinclair

Absent: Mr Stewart McDonald

The Last Word

Johnnies Boys for 26 Years, Spanning Four Decades

After 26 years of John McGlashan schooling, spanning four decades and five boys, it now finally comes to an end and with the privilege of being given the final word in the 2022 Year Book. This brings on a true mix of emotions.

It is not that hard to remember back to 1996, when we nervously applied for a place at McGlashan and gained acceptance for 1997 and what was to become a steady right of passage and pathway from our oldest to youngest sons.

We have seen two principals, multiple deputy and assistant principals and many, many staff providing choices across curriculum, culture, arts and sport, allowing our boys to individualise their own pathways. Current principal, Neil Garry, provided a common thread across all of those years.

It has been great to see, and be part of the growth of, the wonderful College campus and facilities as they naturally progressed and grew whilst retaining their history and identity. Likewise, it has been a privilege to see what the College has planned strategically for the coming decade and beyond. This will be exciting and special for coming generations.

Thank you, John McGlashan College for the part you have played and the opportunities you have provided that have encouraged and allowed our five boys to grow into the fine young men they are today.

Tim Hannagan