2010 St Paul's Year Book

St Paul’s Collegiate School

St Paul’s Collegian, Volume 52, 2010 EDITORS

PHOTOGRAPHERS

COVER DESIGN

Marie Helene Jacquat

Editorial

Authors: Mr Defyd Williams and Miss Andrea Dela Rue

What is the purpose of the St Paul’s Collegian? Is its main purpose to create a record for history?

Newspapers and indeed issues of the Collegian provide the first rough draft of history. The first editor of The Press in 1861 was James Edward FitzGerald, who called journalists “today’s historians” and our team of talented young school journalists featured in this publication are well aware of their significant role in crafting the history of St Paul’s Collegiate School. However, it is fair to say that the St Paul’s Collegian is not merely created to be a record for future historians to ponder over – otherwise printing a few copies would suffice if this was its sole purpose.

The American school yearbooks provide a tradition worth emulating and that is the reason we introduced the thumbnail sketches of leavers in 2006. There is nothing more satisfying than seeing students pouring over pictures in The Collegian to find themselves and those memories of the year that has gone.

The format of the Collegian changed in 2006 from the small A5 white book to the A4 black book that enabled us to celebrate the school in a more colourful and dramatic way. Last year (2009) we experimented with a diary of the year format to avoid massive sections on sport, culture, and school events to celebrate our special jubilee year.

This year we will follow the same format. Including academic subjects in this year’s Collegian is an innovation, which we hope will help define our vision to our immediate school family and those who may wish to join us.

It is with great excitement that we proudly include coverage of the 25th anniversary of girls at this school. This year we welcomed our first ever intake of Year 11 girls; Alice Fisher is the first Head Girl in the history of the school and we celebrate the silver anniversary of girls at St Paul’s Collegiate School.

This is our 51st year. As we enter a new decade and with a new headmaster this issue more about looking forward than looking backwards.

This is my – Defyd Williams - fifth and final edition. It is time to pass the baton on to staff and students with new ideas to give The Collegian a much needed injection of inspiration.

Mr Defyd Williams and Miss Andrea Dela Rue

Mr Andrew Constable (Chief Photographer), Ms Deborah McRae, Photolife Limited and Ambient Light Doug Peters Photography

The Board of Trustees

Back Row: Mr J.H. Tanner, Mr R.M. Ludbrook, Dr K.B. Morris, Mr D.J. Gasquoine, Mr I.K. Bridge (Business Manager), Mr M.L. Gutry

Front Row: Mrs S.K. Wootton, Mr G.W. Thompson (Deputy Chairman), Mr P.J. Morgan QC (Chairman), Mr G.W. Lander (Headmaster), Mrs L.G. Harris

The School Staff

Senior Staff

HEADMASTER

G.W. Lander, BA (Auckland), DipSchMan (Unitec), DipTchg

DEPUTY HEADMASTER

C.J. Luman, BA (UCT), PGDipSportMgt (Massey), HPTD

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

J.A. Oehley, BSc (Wits), DipCom (Waikato), TTHD, GradCertCareerCouns

ASSISTANT HEADMASTER

J. Rowlands, BA (Otago), DipTchg (Term 4)

CHAPLAIN

Rev. C. Luccock, BA(Hons) (Simon Fraser), MDiv (VST)

GUIDANCE COUNSELLOR

G.J. Henley-Smith, BSc (Washington State), PGDipCouns (Waikato), DipTchg

DIRECTOR OF TEACHING & LEARNING

J.E. McGrath, MSc(Hons), PhD (Waikato), GradDipTchg

DIRECTOR OF APPRAISAL & PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

R.G. Bell, BEd (Waikato), DipTchg

DIRECTOR OF EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

P.C. Gilbert, DipSR (Waikato), DipTchg, TTC

BUSINESS MANAGER

I.K. Bridge, MBA (Waikato), CA, ANZIM

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT

G.A.J. Parton, JP, PGDipMgtSt (Waikato), NZCS(Bio)

Housemasters

Clark

Fitchett

G.J. Henley-Smith

A.J. Tharratt

Hall P.J. Wilson

Hamilton

Sargood

School

Williams

Harington

I.S. Campbell

G.R. Dell (Term 1&2)

C.I.Morton (Term 3&4)

A.D.R. Gibbs

H.G. Smith

K.L. Rhymer

HARINGTON BOARDING

S.J. Wells

SENIOR BOARDING HOUSEMASTER

A.J. Constable

Heads of Department

Art K.L. Saunders

Biology

Careers & Transition

Chemistry

Commerce

English

R.G. Bell

G.J. Henley-Smith

D.D. Smith

M.P. Holmes

J.J. Coley

Geography C.I. Morton

History & Social Studies

D.H. Williams

International Students M.J. Smith

Library A.J. Constable

LRU A.J. Tharratt

Mathematics G.L. Judkins

Music F.J. Cowan

Physical Education P.C. Gilbert

Physics D.W. Sole

Religious Studies Rev. C. Luccock

Science K.B. Hogg

Second Languages R.J.C. Aldridge

Technology & Graphics A.D. Harries

Teaching Staff

R.J.C. Aldridge, BA(Hons) (Victoria), DipSLT, DipArts, DipTchg, CELTA

J.S. Auld, BSc, MSocSc (Waikato), GradDipTchg

R.G. Bell, BEd (Waikato), DipTchg

H.M. Bradford, BA (Massey), DipTchg

I.S. Campbell, BA (Otago), DipTchg

P.A. Clement, AdvTradeCert, DipTchg

N.E. Clothier, BEd (Waikato), DipPerfArts

C. Coates, BFA (Auckland), DipTchg

J.J. Coley, BA (Waikato), DipEd, DipTchg

F.J. Cowan, BMus (Victoria), DipTchg, LTCL

A.J. Dela Rue, BMS(Hons), MMS(Dist) (Waikato), GradDipTchg

G.R. Dell, BA, MA(Hons) (Auckland), DipTchg (Terms 1 and 2)

R.M. Don, BA (Canterbury), DipTchg,

L.M. Elliott, BTchg (Waikato), DipEd, TTC

J.G. Fanning, BA, BCom (Otago), GradDipTchg (LTR)

C.J. Foot, BSc(Hons) (UCT)

A.D.R. Gibbs, BEd (Massey), DipTchg

P.C. Gilbert, DipSR, DipTchg, TTC

M.P. Groom, BEd (Waikato)

A.N. Grant, BMA (Hons) (Wintec)

C.M. Hardman, BTchg, BSL (Waikato)

A.S. Harries, AdvTradeCert, DipTchg

T.A. Hastie, HDE

G.J. Henley-Smith, BSc (Washington State), PGDipCouns, DipTchg

J.J. Hepburn, BSc (Waikato), GradDipTchg

K.B. Hogg, BSc (Waikato), DipTchg

M.P. Holmes, BCom (Victoria), DipTchg

G.L. Judkins, BSc(Hons) (Montana State), DipTchg

J. Lander, BA, DipTchg (Terms 1 and 2)

J.J. Lock, BSc(Hons) (Pretoria), HDE

Rev. C. Luccock, BA(Hons) (Simon Fraser), MDiv (VST)

A. McDowell, ATCL, BA, TCB, Dip Teaching, Post Graduate Dip in Arts

J.E. McGrath, MSc(Hons), PhD (Waikato), GradDipTchg

C.I. Morton, BA (Massey), DipTchg

N.W. Muirhead, HDE, FDE

K.L. Rhymer, BEng(Hons) (Loughborough), PGCE

D.D. Smith, BScTech (Waikato), DipTchg

H.G. Smith, AdvTradeCert(Carpentry), DipTchg

M.J. Smith, BA (Waikato), NZCLS, CELTA

D.W. Sole, BA (Massey), DipTchg

K.L. Saunders (nee Stephens), BDes (Victoria), DipTchg

A.J. Tharratt, BA (UNISA), MEd(Psych) (Massey), PGDipSNRT (Waikato),HDE, DipTchg

R.L. Turnball, BA(Hons), GradDipBsSt, PostGradDip Hotel Admin., DipTchg

B. van Meygaarden, BSc, MSc (Auckland), DipTchg

L.J. Varney, TradeCert

A.L. Visagie, BSc (Potchefstroom), HDE

D.H. Williams, BA (Canterbury), DipTchg

P.J. Wilson, BEd (Waikato), DipTchg

Teaching Support Staff

F. Frazer, NZCE (Science Technician)

M.S.Foulds, MLibSc (Dublin) BSc (Auckland), DipTchg

S.V. Langton, ASCON (UK)

Tihoi Staff

C. Wynn, BPRMgt, DipTchg, NZOIA (Director)

C. Smith, BPRMgt, DipTchg, NZOIA (Director)

S. Dearlove, BSR, DipORL, DipApplSc

R. Elliott, DipORL

C. Findlay, BPRMgt, DipTchg

D. Firth, BEd, DipTchg

A. Gainfort, BSR, GradDipTchg, NZOIA

R. Kersel, BPhysEd, NZOIA

B. Louie, BSR, DipORL, DipTchg

G. Walker, DipORL

K. Smith, BSR

S. Grattan, (Tutor)

Hornsby Library

A.J. Constable, MA (Macquarie), BLitt (Deakin), DipEdSt (Librarian)

C. Luman, (Assistant)

Administration Staff

W.W. Cameron, BSocSc, MMS, DipCom (Facilities)

D.M. Chapman, (Reception)

G.B. Cross, BSocSc (ICT Service Manager)

M.K.C. Easter, MSc, DipTchg (ICT Network Manager)

S.E. Gibbs, (Accounts Payable)

S.A. Koopman, (Manager, School Shop)

D.N. Lyes, CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+ (ICT Support Technician)

D.M. McRae, (Marketing Assistant)

C.E. Mason, (Academic Secretary)

P.E. Nicholls, BCompt, AIMTA (Accountant)

R.C. Porteous, (Resource Manager)

J.M. Purvis, (Headmaster’s PA)

K.M. Rice, (Accounts Receivable)

H. Barton, (Cricket coaching & grounds)

Health Clinic Staff

Dr Z. Khouri, MBChB, DipObst, DipSportsMed (School Doctor)

Mrs J.M. Williams, RN, RM (School Nurse)

Ms R. Hemsworth, DipTchg, Practical First Aid Cert (First Aider)

Support Staff

M. Bruce, (Matron, Clark House)

M. Hassall, (Matron, Harington House)

G. Jones, (Tutor, Harington House)

B. McCarthy, (Matron, Sargood House)

G. Thompson, (Matron, Williams House)

S. Broadbent, (Tutor, Williams House)

Z. Hartley, (Tutor, Sargood House)

N. Jensen, (Tutor, Clark House)

F. van der Merwe, (Tutor, Clark House)

A. Whiting, (Tutor, Harington House)

Itinerant Music Staff

Brass J. Christian

Drums A. Grady

N. Koretz

S. Trenwith

Guitar S. Koretz

D. Shaw

P. van Wering

Organ L. Cave, BMus, ARCM, LRSM, LTCL, DipTchg

Piano L. Cave, BMus, ARCM, LRSM, LTCL, DipTchg

C. Komaki, BA

Violin B. Olive

Voice I.Campbell

Facilities Management

M. Robinson, BBus (Site Manager, Spotless Services)

C. Warner, (Executive Chef, Alliance Catering)

Heads of School

Heads of School S.B. Hewatt

A.J. Fisher

Deputy Heads of School B.L. Maclachlan S.J. Henley-Smith

Heads of House

Head of Clark M.C. Eggleton

Head of Fitchett M.A. Mills

Head of Hall L.A. Toomey

Head of Hamilton J.M. Taylor

Head of Sargood J.R. Heatherley

Head of School G.M. Eyers

Head of Williams Z.T. Oliver

Head of Harington M.I. Cowley

(Day)

Head of Harington E.R. McCallum (Boarding)

Chapel Prefects

A.M. Fraser, S.T. Hogg, S.J. McCallum, T.H. Te Whare

School Prefects

K.W. Stewart; D.W. Candy; J.C.F. Currie; M.M. Hickmott; D.M. Hoskins; S.P. Kaelin; L.C. Travis

Holiday Happenings

National Secondary Schools Athletics Championship

Luke Toomey Wins North Island Golf Under 17

In late January the North Island U19 Golf Tournament was held at the notorious Hamilton Golf Club, known for its long rough, fast greens and huge bunkers. Conditions varied from extreme heat during the afternoon of days one and two, to strong winds during day three.

The 2010 field was very strong, with players travelling from Hawkes Bay, Wellington, Nelson and even Bluff. Also competing was the New Zealand Srixon Academy, for which St Paul’s, Luke Toomey was representing.

Stiff all bowling in excess of 130km/h!

MATCH RESULTS:

Match 1: SPC v Mudgereeba U18 :Lost by 4 wickets

Match 2: SPC v Tweed Heads U18 Result: Won by 1 wicket

Match 3: SPC v Brisbane Grammar

Development XI Result: Won by 4 wickets

Match 4: SPC v Matthew Flinders Anglican School Result: Won by 5 wickets

Match 5: SPC XI v CMBCF: Won by 2 runs

Match 6: SPC v Australian Gateway Academy XI Lost by 46 runs

TOUR AWARDS:

Seventeen St Paul’s athletes attended the NZSS Athletics championships at Timaru, nine days after the end of year prize giving. This annual event attracts up to 1,400 athletes and the St Paul’s team which had been training for three months, felt confident of a strong showing.

The highlights being the silver medals gained by our Senior Boys’ 4x400m and our Senior Girls’ 4x100m relay teams and the gold medal achieved by our Junior Boys’ 4x400m relay team. Jonty Rae (Year 10), won a silver medal in the Junior Boys 400m final and Oliver Smith (Year 11) earned a bronze in the Junior Boys 3000m final were the best performing individuals. However, top five finishes were also achieved by Aaron Keppler (Year 10) in the Junior Boys[ 200m, Sarah McCallum (Year 12) for the Senior Girls’ 100m who were both fourth in the respective finals, while Cameron French (Year 12), Senior Boys 110m Hurdles and Izak Eksteen (Year 12) in the Junior Boys’ 800m, both finished fifth in their finals. In all, every member of the 17 person squad achieved a top ten finish in an event, with 14 of the squad winning a medal –an outstanding effort. The boys and girls represented the School with commitment, determination and pride. Our thanks go to Mr Martin Holmes, Mr Gary HenleySmith and Mr Paul Wilson for their superb guidance, support and effort they put in to prepare our athletes over the last season.

Luke had a steady first two rounds, shooting a one-over-par 73 on both days, where he was placed 10th overall and trailed the U17 leader by two shots after the cut was made. However, with an impressive final round of two-underpar 70, Luke finished 7th overall and took out the North Island U17 title by one shot – a very encouraging start to the year.

1st XI Cricket Development Team

The team of 16 players Josh Lenssen (c), Scott Joblin, Patrick Wilkins, Sam Thomson, Thomas Te Whare, Angus Harris, Andrew McPherson, Kurt Heatherley, Martin Kerr, James Chenery, Malcolm Luman, Jonty Wood, Robert Carmichael, Scott Finlayson, Blake Agnew, Josh Malpas accompanied by coach Mr Hugh Barton and manager Mr Chris Luman and 14 parents left Auckland on 8th January.The team based themselves on the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast and played six games, winning four of their fixtures over 10 days.

The team played Mudgereeba Cricket Club U18, Tweed Heads Cricket Club U18, Brisbane Grammar School Development Squad, Matthew Flinders Anglican School, Australian Sports Gateway X1 and an invitation team under the auspices of the Cindy Mackenzie Cancer Breast Foundation. The opposition was strong and generally older than our boys, but it was a superb experience for them to face fast bowlers of genuine pace on wickets where the ball really came onto them. Such players were the young Australian quick sensation Matt Grainger, who would have been in the U19 World Cup team, but for injury and the two county players F Ali and D

Fielding Prize: Angus Harris 5 catches and brilliant ground fielding [Josh also commended on not allowing any byes past]

Batting Prize: Josh Lenssen 231 runs at an average of 46.2 [Angus Harris also deserves special mention 155 runs at 51.67]

Bowling prize: Jonty Wood 7 wickets at an average of 15.71 [Patrick Wilkins also commended for his 7 wickets at an average of 17.43]

Performance of the Tour: Josh Lenssen’s 86

Other Notable Sporting Achievements

• Jack Norwood and Owen Robinson recently qualified for the Clay Target Shooting World Championship to be held in Germany.

• Oliver Smith (Year 12) and Cameron French (Year 13) were selected for the Young Olympians training squad (June 24th – 27th). From the squad, a New Zealand junior team will then be selected to compete in Canada.

• Old Collegian, Ben Griffins (Clark 2000-2004), will represent New Zealand in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.

• Kurt Heatherley (Year 11) has been named the first New Zealander ever to get an international AFL scholarship. He has also represented NZ AFL and NZ U17 Basketball

Mr Lander

Author: Sam Hewat

So why did Mr Lander come to St Paul’s? Unlike many people in today’s society, Mr Lander wanted a challenge. He believed that his skills and experience could improve the facilities, resources, and learning units. Right from the start he saw the passion and heart that the school had. “I was impressed when I got to the selection process and realised the real enthusiasm the school has,” Mr Lander said. “I thought I could benefit St Paul’s”. And benefit he has! The school is moving forward and Mr Lander hasn’t lost an ounce of passion. “The next four years will determine where St Paul’s goes for the next 50”. I don’t think there is any chance of Mr Lander putting on the brakes and when you’ve got a handshake like his, why be scared of the future? He will, and will continue to, place St Paul’s pin on the map and will labour to make the school the best school in the country. Not only has Lander landed, he has dented the soil and hit the ground running! He will face challenges and he will be scrutinised, but one thing’s for sure, as long as that handshake continues to hold firm, then St Paul’s will be transformed into something special.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS:

• Brought up in a Yugoslavian community in Oratia – West Auckland

• Attended Kelston Boys’ High School

• Attended Auckland University

• First New Zealander to be made a trustee of the International Boys’ School Coalition of 600 schools.

• Nine years Rector at Lindisfarne College, Hawkes Bay

The Call of St Paul’s

Author: Mr Grant Lander, Headmaster

In last year’s Scholarship examinations, St Paul’s saw the positive manner in which many of their senior students were able to gain recognition for their drive and determination in the nations most demanding and challenging academic benchmark examinations. Twelve of our Year 13 students gained a subject scholarship, with Hayden Gutry (four scholarships including one outstanding), John Scott-Jones (three scholarships), and Jennifer Jin (two scholarships including one outstanding), being the best St Paul’s performers. When you consider that each of these students sat a number of three-hour Scholarship papers in addition to their five NCEA Level 3 examinations, competing against New Zealand’s brightest and best students, their achievements deserve our praise and respect. Each of the scholarship successes enjoyed by our St Paul’s students wasn’t achieved without considerable sacrifice, hard work, self-discipline and extraordinary high levels of motivation.

Access to a tertiary institution can no longer be regarded as a right, but instead should be viewed as an opportunity, which is possible if you are prepared to work for it. In recent years, Auckland University has restricted entry to its courses, by ranking the students on their “best eighty credits in their NCEA Level 3 certificate”. In 2011, Victoria University will also use these criteria to determine entry and it is highly likely that other universities will soon follow suit. Ham-strung by funding restrictions, universities can no longer accept all of the students who apply who have gained the old ‘tertiary entrance’ requirements. It is no longer so much the number of credits students receive, but the quality of the grades that is important – the number of Merits and Excellences that they are able to gain for their Achievement Standards. The same pressure is on Year 12 students. Entry into Halls of Residence is dependent on one’s NCEA Level 2/Cambridge AS results. Many of the Halls are significantly

over subscribed, with universities/ polytechnics struggling to place all the applicants in accommodation close to their tertiary institution. It is vital that our sixth form students strive for their ‘personal best’ in completing their internal and external assessments, if they want the best possible chance of gaining entry into their preferred hostel.

The number one focus of any St Paul’s Collegiate School student is their academic studies. Involvement in co-curricular activities – sport, cultural activities, leadership, and Christian dimension – is a crucial part of St Paul’s aim of developing well-rounded and grounded graduates. But these co-curricular activities must be balanced by a full commitment to class work, homework, and internal assessment. Time management, prioritising tasks, and personal organisation are crucial life skills that not only determine one’s success at school but also later in life.

Induction of the New Headmaster

Author: Mr Defyd Williams

The induction of the 10th Headmaster of St Paul’s Collegiate School was a unique occasion which united important elements of our bi-cultural nation. The mana that Mr Grant Lander and Mrs Judith Lander are held in at Lindisfarne College, Hawkes Bay, and beyond was obvious to all those that were priviledged to attend the Powhiri and the Commissioning of the Headmaster service, which followed. Board Chairman Philip Morgan QC called this “a spine-tingling experience.” The korowai presented to Mr and Mrs Lander symbolised the precious nature of the koha that tangata whenua of Lindisfarne, Hawkes Bay, were presenting to St Paul’s Collegiate School. The commissioning and covenant ceremony was performed by Reverend Craig Luccock. A blessing was provided by Bishop David Moxon, Archbishop of Aotearoa.

In my Commissioning service, I referred to the ‘Parable of Talents’ from Mathew’s Gospel Chapter 25, and the importance of each and every one of us maximizing our talents and abilities in our lives.

“… May God who has called you to this office give you strength to fulfill your calling.”

Karanga Mai - Lindisfarne manuhiri are called into the Chapel

Lindisfarne guests enter the heart of St Paul’s

St Paul’s rowers respond to the challenge with Te Rauparaha’s haka

Fellows of the School, Board and Old Collegians were honoured guests

Manuhiri mingle Thomas Te Whare gives the reading

Our Kaumatua accepts the koha Korowai highlight a person’s mana

David Moxon, the Bishop of Waikato blesses God’s calling of Grant Lander

The headmastership of Mr Grant Lander begins

Paul’s

School Prefects In Our 51st Year

HeadBoy

Samuel Hewat

Head Girl

Alice Fisher

Deputy Head Boy

Ben Maclachlan

Head of Hamilton

Nick Taylor

Head of Harington

Megan Cowley

Head of BoardingHarington

At last year’s prizegiving it was announced that Samuel Hewat (Head Boy), Alice Fisher (Head Girl), Ben Maclachlan (Deputy Head) and Stephanie Henley-Smith (Deputy Head) would lead the School Prefect’s team. Alice is the first Head Girl in the history of the school. This appointment is in acknowledgement and recognition of the growing role of girls in our school. The following is a full list of School Prefects for this academic year:

Deputy Head Girl

Stephanie Henley- Smith

Head of Clark

Michael Eggleton

Head of Fitchett

Mark Mills

Head of Hall

Luke Toomey

Emma McCallum

Head of Sargood

Jason Heatherley

Head of School

Glenn Eyers

Head of Williams

Zach Oliver

Chapel Prefects

Ashley Fraser

Sam Hogg

Sarah McCallum

Thomas Te Whare

Chapel Team Leader

Kent Stewart

Dion Candy

Jen Currie

Matt Hickmott

David Hoskins

Sam Kaelin

The prefect body

Heavenly Father bless our prefects

School applauding our servant leaders

This year 24 Year 13 students were chosen to lead the School for 2010. Mr Lander announced that others, who showed leadership skills, could be added to the original list later in the year.

Academic Excellence: 2009 New Zealand Scholarship Results

Our senior students performed creditably in the 2009 Scholarship examinations, with 12 students gaining overall 18 subject scholarships:

Hayden Gutry: Accounting (OS), Economics, Geography, History

John Scott-Jones: Chemistry, English, History

Jennifer Jin: Chemistry, Statistics (OS)

Charles Heald: Chemistry

Jonathan Pullon: Chemistry

Nissanka Weerekoon: Chemistry

James Carden: Statistics

Andrew Wong: Geography

Chris Tseng: Accounting

Timothy Ng: Physics

Lauren (Wei-Wei) Ng: Media Studies (OS)

Ben Holmes: History

Scholarships were awarded across nine subject areas, with Chemistry (5), Statistics (2), Accounting (2), Geography (2) and History (3) gaining multiple scholarships. “Scholarship with Outstanding Performance” is awarded to 0.04% of all students in the Level 3 cohort for a subject.

Both Hayden Gutry and John Scott-Jones received the “Scholarship Award” for gaining three or more scholarships, which entitles them to $2,000 per annum for three years of their tertiary study. We are extremely proud of their achievement given their extensive involvement in the co-curricular life of our School last year.

Prefects’ Commissioning Service

Alice Fisher, St Paul’s first Head Girl and Sam Hewat Head Boy

Ready to serve St Paul’s Collegiate School

Head Boy, Head Girl and Headmaster look at pictures of the ‘Famous Five’ first girls of 1985: then and 25 years later

Paul’s

School Athletics: Run On A Sunny Day

Author: Mr Martin Holmes CUPS AND TROPHIES

Sports’ At Porritt Stadium

Held on Friday, 12th February, we were blessed with a cloudy hot day; in which the rain just held off until after the prize giving ceremony. The event was effectively run and went extremely smoothly thanks to the excellent organisation of Messrs. Peter Gilbert, Gary Henley-Smith and Paul Wilson, ably supported by the School’s staff.

A feature of this year’s event was the supportive and enthusiastic manner in which the students approached the day. You only had to look at the expressions on the faces of the competitors as they approached the finishing line, to know that each was striving for their personal best.

Zone Athletics Championships

The team achieved 20 individual first placings, 12 second placings and six third placings. Even more noteworthy is the fact that three zone records were broken by our athletes. The particularly special fact about the records broken by the three athletes involved the length of time each record had stood. Blake Gordon in the junior boys 200m and Michael Eggleton in the senior boys 800m broke records that had stood for 35 years and the record that Jonty Rae claimed in the intermediate boys 400m had only been in existence for a mere 21 years!

A number of athletes, although not breaking records, were also impressive in their performance, achieving more than one win on the day–these athletes include the following:

• Junior Boys: Blake Gordon (again) 100m, Discus and 4 x 100m

• Intermediate Boys: Aaron Keppler 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m; James Mason 1500m and 3000m

• Senior Boys: Cameron French 200m, 400m and 4 x 100m; Sam Hewat 100m, Triple Jump and 4 x 100m

• Senior Girls: Emma McCallum 100m, 200m, High Jump and 4 x 100m

• Intermediate Girls: Ally French 100m, 200m 4 x 100m (senior girls)

TROPHY FOR WINNER HOUSE

St Paul’s Cup

Junior Individual Field Events Champion Jesse Ruri CL

Gregg Cup

Tauranga Cup

Thorrold Cup

Junior Individual Athletics Champion

Blake Gordon HL Hewitt Cup

Intermediate Individual Field Events Champion Lachlan Cooper SC

Intermediate Individual Athletics Champion Aaron Keppler / Oliver Smith HM / SC

Senior Individual Field Events Champion Josh Mann WL

Yarndley Cup Senior Individual Athletics Champion Cameron French HL

Sherriff Cup Girls’ Field Events Champion Alana Timms SC/HR

Pieneman Cup Girls’ Athletics Champion Sarah McCallum CL/HR

Jonathan Ward Trophy Open 4x400m Inter-House Relay Champions Sargood House

Henley-Smith Trophy Open 4x100m Inter-House Relay Champions School House

Lowry Bros Cup Overall Inter-House Relays Champions Hall House

Meiklejohn Cup Overall Inter-House Athletics Champions

HOUSE POINTS

Two other notable aspects of the team’s performance on the day were the fact that 33 athletes from a team of 37 qualified to compete at the Waikato/Bay of Plenty Athletic Championships and the team also completed a clean sweep of victories in the four relays they were entered in.

Athletes Showcase their Talents

Over the last weekend (i.e. 20th / 21st February) a test match involving a full athletics programme was held at the under 21 level between Australia and New Zealand in Auckland. Although Michael Eggleton and Cameron French were not selected as part of the New Zealand team these two seventeen year olds were invited to compete.

House

Cameron ran in the 400m hurdles and placed 5th, further enhancing his reputation of one of New Zealand’s promising athletes in this extremely demanding event. Cameron’s ability to run 56 seconds over 400m with 10 flights of hurdles set at the senior men’s height really is quite impressive. Michael in the 800m placed 4th, beating one of the two New Zealand team members in the process. He also broke the school record in this race, running 1 minute 52 seconds. This performance lifts him to third in the New Zealand rankings for the Men 19 age group and into the top eight for the Senior Men’s age group in New Zealand. Both of these athletes have a demanding programme ahead of them in the next month, so we are sure to hear more about their achievements on the track over this time

Athletics Cups

Blake ‘Flash’ Gordon dominated the sprints

Field Events champion Josh Mann and his grandma Margaret Bruce

Hall House helping Mr Aldrige

Cameron French–champion hurdler

Senior 400m–the race of the day: French 1st, Sullivan 2nd and Eggleton 3rd.

Supporting the Houses

Mr Lander congratulates Josh Mann, Senior Field Events champion

Champions All

Clark convincingly wins Girls 4x100m Relay, even staff are outclassed on the outside.

Houses hanging out together

Paul’s

History – The Tardis Travels Through Time In 2010

Author: Mr Defyd Williams

Highlights for History at St Paul’s in 2009 included: three New Zealand University Scholarships and all the Level One NCEA students passing the skills section of the external examination, showing that we have some budding historians in the making. Hayden Gutry, Ben Holmes, and John Scott-Jones won History Scholarships. Hayden added to this achievement by placing third in the AS 12 Cambridge examination, which gave the school a top provider award.

Our second pilgrimage to the Bay of Islands for the 2010 Waitangi Day celebrations was another memorable experience for historians and chapel prefects. Reverend Craig Luccock being invited into the Treaty Grounds Wharenui served as a special reminder of the vital role missionaries played in the birth of our nation. Visiting pioneer churches, Hone’s flagpole, and the battle sites of Ruapekapeka and Rangariri provided further experiential history for reflection, conceptualization and experimentation for the St Paul’s time travellers. Dr Who?

Visitors to the Tardis History Hub (Room 24) in 2010 included Gary Schofield, Old Collegian and President of Global Concern and David Moxon, Archbishop of Aotearoa, Bishop of Waikato. Gary gave our two Year 11 classes a brilliant lesson on the nature of war and peace, centered on the 1915

Gallipoli campaign. His message of hope was that nations now have a common cause – to protect Planet Earth. Archbishop David provided a font of knowledge and wisdom for the Year 13’s two internal assessments on iwi and missionaries. The blessings kept coming. Sam Hogg, using the resources and knowledge of the History department won a trip to Gallipoli on Anzac Day. His brilliant web site design featured Te Kura, a fictitious town that he based on Tihoi. The task was to show how Gallipoli has impacted on New Zealand society past, present and future. To do this he created three generations of a fictitious family called Pax-Jones. See his brilliant site at www.anzac.gravel.co.nz

The challenge for History at St Paul’s Collegiate is whether it can sustain both the NCEA and Cambridge systems. Both have pluses, minuses and interesting

elements. Combining them may be a bridge too far.

Another visitor was Andrew Barton, son of staff member Hugh Barton and great great great great grandson of Henry Williams who translated the Treaty into Te Reo Maori. Andrew told the Year 13 class about a planned Northland hikoi to discuss the Treaty.

St Paul’s won a Top Centre Certificate for Hayden Gutry’s third place in AS12 History exam.

The day dawns at Waitangi for St Paul’s.

Sam Kaelin interviewed by Kim Hill at Waitangi.

Peace and war – Gary Schofield’s themes: Year 11 classes (NCEA and GCSE)

Bishop Moxon discusses Iwi and Missionaries: Year 13 internal assessments (3.1 and 3.2).

First XI Cricket

An Important Development Year.

Author: Mr Hugh Barton

The 1st XI had a squad of 12 players at the start of the 2009-2010 season and only three players from last season, namely Josh Lenssen, Scott Joblin and Patrick Wilkins. Jono Sullivan decided to pursue his athletic career and Lachlan Cooper was injured playing rugby so unfortunately neither played any part in the 1st XI. Considering the lack of experience at this level I thought the team performed very well. St Paul’s cricket future looks very promising with a number of players at the junior level performing well. Boys at St Paul’s have a number of summer sports options consequently there are fewer boys playing cricket. The School has wonderful facilities and providing the coaching structure is of a high standard, the School should attract good young players to St Paul’s.

The 1st XI embarked successfully on a new club competition for the 2009-2010. There were six First XI teams in our group. While the standard was variable there were some very keenly fought games. Of the 15 games played the 1st XI won 13 and lost two both to St Peter’s.

Josh Lenssen’s captaincy and wicket keeping was of a very high standard. It will be some time before we see a player of his class at St Paul’s again. Michael Aitken only played half a season for the XI, but in that short time he showed real class taking 32 wickets for an average of 11.5 the second best

performance from a St Paul’s player.

FIRST XI AWARDS 2009/2010

Littlejohn/Johl Award Most Improved 1st XI player

Smithells Award

Michael Aitken

Best 1st XI fielder Josh Lenssen

Highest run aggregate batting average

Josh Lenssen

Best bowling average Michael Aitken

Vettori Bat Loyalty Sam Thomson

Contribution to cricket Outstanding Cricketer

The 1st XI played two Gillette Cup games and lost both. In November they played against Hamilton Boys’ High School, a very good side, especially in the bowling department. The other game was against Whangarei Boys’ High. St Paul’s lost the toss and was asked to field on a good fast wicket. Our XI did very well to have the visitors back in the shed for 149 thanks to some class bowling from Thomas Te Whare and a couple of top stumpings from Josh Lenssen. However the batting was a different story, after a good start at 56 for 1 and then 119 for 4, the rest was history being all out for 141 some 9 short. It was a game we should have won, I am sure the younger players will have learnt a lot from this game. The fielding of this and other games were of a particularly high standard. The Whangarei coaches were particularly impressed.

I have enjoyed my coaching of the 1st XI and a number of the colts, they are very talented. l will look forward to seeing these boys playing for the XI in the near future. To all those parents who turned up to support their sons every Saturday a big thank you. As a coach I do enjoy their involvement. Lyn Harris our official scorer thank you for your hard work, your time with the XI is much appreciated and I look forward to another interesting season. Mr Luman has been a tower of strength with selection, writing the game reports and problem solving, for that I thank you. Your time is precious so I am appreciative for all you have done.

Back Row: S.A. Finlayson, J.S. Wood

2nd Row: Mr C.J. Luman (Manager), F.L. Walker, S.M. Thomson, J.B. Chenery, M.D. Luman, Mr R.H. Barton (Coach)

Front Row: T.H. Te Whare, S.A. Joblin, J.F. Lenssen (Captain), A.E. Harris, M. Aitken

Josh Lenssen

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS AND HIGHLIGHTS DURING

2009/2010

• 1121 runs scored by Josh Lenssen – the 4th highest in the history of the school which included a century [103] against the Old Collegians

• Michael Aitken’s 32 wickets at 11.15 bowling average – the 2nd best in the history of the school

• The record 7th wicket partnership of 147 between Angus Harris and James Chenery v Matamata College

• The record 9th wicket partnership of 81 between Sam Thomson and Kurt Heatherley v Brisbane U24 Cricket Academy

• Two six+ wicket bags: Michael Aitken 7/21 v Hillcrest Freddy Walker 6/67 v St Peter’s [in the final]

• Josh Lenssen being awarded the Hamilton Junior Cricket Associations batting award for the most runs cored in Division 1A

• Josh Lenssen being awarded the Hamilton Junior Cricket Association Award for the Best Representative Batsman

• Winning the Dave Hoskin’s Trophy and having our name engraved on it

• Beating Rathkeale College

• Josh Lenssen and Scott Joblin were selected for the Hamilton Schools U17 rep team and performed very well.

• Being awarded the Austin Shield for being runners-up in Division 1.

BATTING, BOWLING AND CATCHES OF THE 1ST X1

BATTING AVERAGES FOR 2009–2010

First XI Cricket CONT.

Player Profiles Of St Paul’s Collegiate 1st XI

Author: Mr Hugh Barton

Josh Lenssen (Captain): has had an incomparable year as captain and wicket keeper. He set a high standard in all facets of the game, and was a role model for younger members of the side. His 1121 runs, 19 stumpings, 28 catches were commendable. He only scored one hundred. With nine scores over 50 of, including 5 over 70 it was unfortunate he was unable to convert more into hundreds.

Patrick Wilkins (Vice Captain): Patrick’s batting was disappointing after last year’s efforts however his bowling was at times of a high standard. Australian opposition were impressed with his controlled spin. His fielding was always first class with 11 catches to his credit.

Scott Joblin: His batting looked good at times but he often got himself out unnecessarily. His bowling was of a high standard mostly as he mastered flight and spin. He took 46 wickets for 13.6 a very good average. His fielding was of the highest order.

Michael Aitken: An unusually accurate bowler as his figures tell: 32 wickets for an average of 11.5 and 2.53 runs per over, plus 25% of all overs bowled were maidens. It was a pity Michael only played for the 1st XI for one term.

Angus Harris: He can be satisfied with his first year, especially the 528 runs he hit at number 7 and his 8 for an average

of 28.32 with a strike rate of 91.9. His match saving 70 against Matamata with James Chenery put on 147 for the seventh wicket record. Angus fielded with a lot of determination and skill

Thomas Te Whare: Our quickest bowler had a good season. His best effort was against Whangarei with figures of 4 for 17. He spent a lot of time perfecting his action and his fielding improved as the season progressed.

James Chenery: He made a good start for a Year 11 player. The game against Matamata and his seventh wicket record partnership with Angus Harris was class and an indicator of potential for next season. His left arm orthodox showed promise and he should capture wickets in term 4.

Josh Fawcett: He arrived at the beginning of Term One. Josh struggled early on but showed some real form as the season progressed. I am sure he will be amongst the runs next season. He is a competent fielder.

Sam Thomson: He struggled with his batting towards the end of the season, but to his credit worked hard on improving his technique. Sam had some successes in Australia, especially against a smart Under 24 side from Brisbane, with Kurt Heatherley the pair made 81 for the 9th wicket, of which Sam contributed 48.

Scott Finlayson: A Year 10 player and the youngest in the team. He developed well. Scott has a big future I am sure this talented player will play an important role with both bat and ball.

Malcolm Luman: One of the medium pace bowlers. He developed good pace during the season and with better technique he will become quicker. He gained a lot from the experience of playing at this level. His fielding has improved and he has safe hands. Jonty Wood: A big heart, nothing is a problem. At times he bowled his inswingers with good control. With some hard work during the winter I am sure his technique will improve.

Freddie Walker: He only played four games, but had a wonderful introduction to this level of cricket. He captured 13 wickets at an average of 16.1 and took 6 wickets after playing only four games. Freddie has good control and turn. I am sure he will take many more wickets with his left arm orthodox.

2nd XI Cricket

Author: Dr Jason McGrath

A strong St Paul’s Collegiate team was entered into the Waikato Secondary Schools

2nd XI cricket competition.

On paper, the strength of the team appeared to be in its talented batting order however, the bowlers were the ones who dominated the opposition in the early part of the season. Jason Coventry and Kurt Heatherley caused problems for opposition opening batsmen with their pace at the start of the innings. But it was the spinners who benefited most on the grass as team after team struggled to combat the accurately bowled turning ball of the likes of Freddie Walker, Matt Stevens and Martin Kerr. Each of these bowlers picked up wickets regularly, with Martin Kerr producing some fine performances (6/19 v Kelston and 4/22 v Hamilton Boys’) with his ‘autumn leaf’ type delivery.

Chasing totals not much in excess of 100 most weekends, St Paul’s tended to make harder work of it than was necessary. However, when given the opportunity to bat first, the team would typically compile scores in the vicinity of 200. Martin Kerr

proved to be the standout performer with the bat, scoring two centuries en route to winning the award for most runs scored in the competition. He was ably supported by Robert Carmichael and Freddie Walker who both scored half centuries during the season. The batting highlight of the year came in a game against a Hamilton Boys’ High School when Kerr and Carmichael put on a record opening partnership of 248. Having completed round-robin play in first place with a solitary loss, St Paul’s hosted the final against the top Hamilton Boys’ High School team in the division. Unfortunately, the team struggled for the first time all season when batting first and was able to compile just 81 runs. This was never likely to be enough and proved to be so as HBHS cruised to an eight-wicket victory. The result was particularly disappointing as St Paul’s had won the corresponding fixture during the round-robin.

The team is to be congratulated for the commitment shown to both the games and to practices. A number of players in the larger squad got very limited or no Saturday playing time, but still trained as hard as the regular players. It is testament to the ability of the players in the side that a number of them were called upon to play in the first team throughout the summer. I acknowledge the fine captaincy of Andrew McPherson and the way he gained the respect of the boys. I also thank the many parents who would support their sons every weekend and were willing to help with scoring and umpiring. I look forward to seeing many members of this team enjoy success in the first team next season.

Back Row: Alistair Carmichael, Reece Franklin, Kurt Heatherley, Ross Noble, Asher Kosoof

2nd Row: Freddie Walker, Simrin Rai, Martin Kerr, Matt Stevens, Mr J. McGrath (Coach)

Row: Robert Carmichael, Naudeesh Singh-Thandi, Andrew McPherson (Captain), Jason Coventry, Dion Matthews

CATCHES

BOWLING AVERAGES 2009–2010

ALSO BOWLED

Colts Black Cricket 2010 Season

Authors: Mr Geoff Dell and Mr Andrew Tharratt

The 2010 season saw St Paul’s entering two Colt sides into the local competition. This was a bold move as we felt that there was a good chance of us doing well, as a number of players from the previous Year 9 side – which came second in the Year 9 competition–were available and we had a number of very talented new Year 9 players. However, the Colts Black team battled against the bigger and stronger schools in the competition. Perhaps the most memorable games were the ones in which individual players achieved to their potential.

The following stood out:

• Bradley Morton for scoring 28 and 42 runs.

• Tom Harsant captain, playing wicketkeeper and also for scoring 38 and 40 runs.

• Jayden Randall for taking 6 wickets in a game.

• Dan Goodwin for his consistent effort in bowling and batting.

• Peter Winkleman for his encouragement and support of the players.

• Generally the fielding was outstanding and mention must be made of the effort and skills of John Penyas and Shneil Singh in the field.

Thanks too to the parents and supports, especially to Steve Bowden who was always willing to take his turn umpiring.

Clay Shooting

Author : Mr Ian Campbell

Nine students travelled to Pukekohe to compete in the first interschool shoot of the season. 126 shooters assembled from Northland, Auckland, Waikato and the BOP.

The fist event of the morning was the Single Rise and Liam Buchanan and James Pritchard got off to a flying start with both scoring the possible 20/20. Logan Dunsmuir scored 19 and both Declan Howlett and Dion Candy scored 18 giving a combined team team score of 95/100.

The second event was Points and we were disappointed with our team score of 262/300 placing us 5th overall. Once again Liam Buchanan shot well scoring, 57/60 and he was well supported by Dion Candy who also scored 57.

The third event was Single Barrel and both Liam and Dion were our top scorers with 9/10.

The afternoon events were the shoot-offs. Liam Buchanan was placed 3rd and James Pritchard 6th in the finals of the Single Rise. We had tied on 95 points with Whangarei Boy’s High School in the teams Single Rise so this also required a shoot off for 1st place. We lead off, dropping two targets to give us a score of 18/20. We then had to anxiously wait watching Whangarei Boy’s. They dropped 2 targets very quickly and then a third giving us the trophy by 1 point.

Hauraki Plains

In the Single Rise event Liam Buchanan and Declan Howlett both scored the possible 20/20 and James Pritchard scored a commendable 19/20.

In the Teams Points event, our No1 team shot very consistently with Logan Dunsmuir leading the way with a score of 59/60. The final score of 282/300 placed us 2nd overall, another excellent result for such a young and inexperienced team. In the Single Barrel event, Declan Howlett capped an excellent day once again scoring a possible 15/15.

Declan’s overall score for the day over the three events was 92/95 which placed him 6th top individual shooter for the competition.

Back Row: Mr K. Fawcett (Coach), G. Wilkins, J. Hunt, Mr C. Hardman (Coach)

2nd Row: J. Kosoof, B. Agnew, D. Fernando, L. Jackson

Front Row: C. Fawcett, J. Robb, J. Malpas, J. Walpole-Smith, R. Hutchison

Back Row: S. Sarai, L. A. Bowers, P. Srisi-An, A. Singh, A. L. M. Wilson

2nd Row: G. Dell (Coach), B. P. Bowden, A. D. Fullerton, M. B. Shewan, B. W. Morton, A. J. Tharratt (Coach)

Front Row: B. C. Donaldson, T. W. Harsant, L. B. Fisher, P. S. R. Winkelmann, W. J. McLaughlin, J. P. Randle, J. Penyas

Back Row: Angus Verry, Andrew Bennenbroek, Anthony Simpson, Mr I. Campbell (Teacher)

Front Row: James Pritchard, Liam Buchanan, Dion Candy, Logan Dunsmuir, Declan Howlett

SPC Touch Rugby

Author: Mr David Sole

The local touch Association did not start the competition until we were well into Term1. This combined with clashes with school based arrangements meant it was going to be a short season for the St Paul’s teams. In the end the Senior Boys and Junior Boys got 2 games each and the Senior girls only got one game.

All three teams approached their matches with enthusiasm, a determination to do their best and most importantly the desire to simply enjoy the game. As representatives of the school they were always well turned out in the correct gear and played all their games in a very sporting spirit.

We would like to express our thanks to Mr Jared McLaughlin, a professional coach who came to many of our training sessions and assisted with his expert coaching and tactical advice.

Special thanks also to Mr Phil Clement, Mr Stewart Auld and Mr Craig Morton for their willing assistance with managing and coaching the three teams.

2nd

R.S. Franklin, C.R. Connell, J.T. Brown, J.C. Rouse, J.R. Taylor, M.F.R. Jensen

E.R.B. Reynolds, R.E.W. Forde, T.J. Dobbe (Captain), J. Moss, R.C.C. Mackenzie

Waterpolo

Author: Mr Andrew Constable

The 2010 Senior Water Polo season was one of lost opportunity. The team was a composite of boys and girls, seniors and juniors, a significant number of whom had water polo experience. Despite this our results were disappointing, with more losses than wins and a final placing that did not accurately reflect the team’s abilities.

Most of our games produced close results, and several that we lost could have been won: We created opportunities aplenty only to let ourselves down with wayward shooting or poor defence. Lack of fitness was also a telling factor for a number of players. However, despite this, the team enjoyed the competition and the players got along well with each other. It was also pleasing to see several individuals hone their skills as the season progressed.

Thanks are extended to Old Collegian Owen Robinson, who coached the team, and congratulations to Tom Swarbrick, who was selected for the Waikato Under 16 team.

Senior Water Polo: Sam Armstrong; Liam Buchanan; Megan Cowley; Grayson Croasedale; Reece Franklin; Julia Frick;

Robyn Henderson; Ryan Hobbs; James Hogg; Vladimir Ilic; Mitch Jensen; Polly Larkman; Lashara Lim; Mitchell O’Connell; Andrew Roberts; Tom Swarbrick.

Back Row: G. Needham, H. Larkman, S. Hunter, Mr C. Morton (Coach)

Front Row: D. Coull, J. Wood, A. Brogden

Back Row: Tyrell Martin, Shneil Singh, Edward Johnstone

2nd Row: Jayden Randle, William Broderick, Ryk Hermsen, Benjamin Savage, Mr Sole (Coach)

Front Row: Corban Morison, David Reeves, William Fraser, Thomas Gordon, Jack McDonald

Back Row: K. J. Slater, M. Gilmartin-Kara

2nd Row: L. Rajan, J. Elliott, C. Sayer, M. Posa, Mr C. Morton (Coach)

Front Row: L. Needham, S. Singh, A. Dyer, P. Miln, S. Harbottle-Villasol

Back Row: L.D. Buchanan, A.G. Roberts, C.P. Lingman

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Front Row:

Summer Sports Exchanges In February

Kelston Boys Exchange

1st XI Cricket: St Paul’s 1st XI won the toss and batted first. Josh Lenssen (52) and Scott Joblin (19) got off to a rapid start reaching 79 runs before our first wicket fell in the 12th over. We then lost two quick wickets. Josh Fawcett (63) played his best innings for the 1st XI, batting 30 plus overs supported by Scott Finlayson (18) as they put on 64 for the third wicket. James Chenery (42) scored his highest 1st XI total, ably supported by Angus Harris (18) giving us a competitive total of 238 for 5 in 50 overs.

Kelston started off disastrously, losing a wicket in the first over and never fully recovering as they stumbled to 82 for 7 and were eventually all bowled out in the 35th over for 117 runs to see St Paul’s win by 121 runs. Scott Joblin 4/18 and Malcolm Luman 2/24 were our most successful bowlers. Josh Fawcett was the player of the day for St Paul’s.

2nd XI Cricket: Kelston won the toss and elected to bat.They put on an 81 run opening stand on a benign pitch. Although there was no early breakthrough, the St Paul’s bowling was tight and the fielding was solid, thus keeping the run-rate at around four per over.

The introduction of spin put pressure on the Kelston batsmen with Patrick Wilkins bowling a tight spell and Freddy Walker looking threatening.The introduction of spinner Martin Kerr saw Kelston collapse to 131 all out. Walker finished with three wickets and Kerr had the fine figures of six wickets for 19 runs. St Paul’s found the Kelston bowling attack far more challenging than local competition. St Paul’s limped to 71 for 7 when a partnership between Matt Tingey and Andrew Collie saw them to within 20 runs of the target.Tingey was dismissed and Collie was given out off a dubious caught-and-bowled. Navdeesh SinghThandi and Jason Coventry took St Paul’s to the last over, needing one run with one wicket in hand. A needless run-out off the second ball of the over saw the match end in a tie.

Colts: St Paul’s Colts Gold played Kelston on Wednesday, 24th February.They lost the toss and were forced to bowl in very hot conditions.Tight bowling saw them restrict Kelston to 135 all out off 38 overs.The

pick of the bowlers were James Hunt, Josh Walpole-Smith and Peter Winkelmann who all took two wickets. After losing a couple of early wickets, Chris Fawcett and Liam Jackson scored runs quickly. After 10 overs the Colts were scoring over six runs per over.They reached the target in 22 overs to win the game by five wickets. Josh Malpas top scored with a brilliant 40, followed by Liam Jackson on 35 and Chris Fawcett on 21. A very well deserved win. Man of the Match: Josh Malpas.

Lindisfarne Exchange

This fixture has been in existence for the past 34 years.

Ist XI Cricket: We left St Paul’s for the long bus trip to Hastings at 7.30am on Sunday, 14th February. We won the toss and put Lindisfarne into bat. Our bowlers restricted their batsmen to under three runs an over and had them reeling at 158 for 9 thanks to superb fielding. Unfortunately the last wicket put on 77 runs and Lindisfarne finished on 235 all out. Thomas Te Whare made a welcome return with excellent figures of 4/47 in 16 overs; supported by Michael Aitken 2/34 and Scott Joblin 2/56.

Our batting effort was disastrous as we lost six wickets for 35 runs before Angus Harris 59 and Scott Finlayson 17 rescued the team and put on 50 runs for the 7th wicket. We limped through to 108 for 9 declared, leaving us 127 behind their total. Lindisfarne’s second innings started well as they raced to 96/1 before our bowlers pulled them back – Scott Joblin 5/51 and Malcolm Luman 2/38 claiming eight of their wickets for 60 runs before they declared at 156/8–setting us a target of 283 runs in 60 overs.

Josh Lenssen 70 (12 x fours) and Scott Joblin (23) took up the challenge with aggression and fought fire with fire, playing a number of outstanding shots to race to 83 in 11 overs before the first wicket fell. Unfortunately, apart from Scott Finlayson (26) and Patrick Wilkins (21), the rest of our batsmen did not show the same resilience and we were bowled out for 171 in the 43rd over, losing the fixture by 112 runs. Despite the end result our 1st XI players should all take a huge amount of positives out of this game as we dominated many of the sessions.

Players of the day: Josh Lenssen and Scott Joblin.

Colts: The Colts Gold Cricket side also travelled to Lindisfarne. Their billets treated them with great hospitality. St Paul’s won the toss and decided to bowl. After 20 overs they had Lindisfarne at 79 for 3. However, as rain set in it became harder to bowl. Lindisfarne posted 235 for 5 off 45 overs. Batting was tough on a soggy pitch. We made 89 all out after 27 overs. Blake Agnew top scored with 18. A dry day would’ve seen a more even contest.

Tennis: The Senior A and Junior A tennis teams played well, but failed to get the crucial points and this saw Lindisfarne win the majority of matches. Joseph Chen and Christopher Whitely both lost their singles in three sets. As a doubles pairing they battled well in three sets 7-6, 6-7, 7-6. In the seniors, the pairing of Logan Cowie and Harry Colonne, along with Chris Fletcher’s singles were good matches. However, St Paul’s lost both in three sets. Roydon Nutsford and Nick Taylor won their doubles 6-7, 6-4, 6-2. Nick also won his singles 6-3, 6-2.

“… Despite the end result our 1st XI players should all take a huge amount of positives out of this game as we dominated many of the sessions . . .”

Rathkeale College Exchange

1st XI Cricket: Our inaugural 1st XI fixture against Rathkeale College (Masterton) was played on Saturday, 20th February at the St Paul’s Oval. Rathkeale won the toss and elected to bat on what appeared to be a benign pitch, but started off slowly against the accurate bowling of Michael Aitken and Scott Joblin and were soon in trouble losing three early wickets before they consolidated at 74/4. Jonty Wood 3/24 bowled good line and length and Michael Aitken returned for a second spell to take his first five wicket bag for the 1st XI, including two superb catches off his own bowling, to see Rathkeale bowled out for 104 in 32 overs. The bowlers were supported by superb fielding. Scott Joblin [43] and Josh Lenssen started of well scoring 40 runs after 7 overs before the first wicket fell. The introduction of Rathkeale’s leg spinner, created uncertainty as we struggled to play him confidently and lost six wickets for 25 runs before Angus Harris and Michael Aitken steadied the ship and took us through to victory in the 29th over by 3 wickets. Michael Aitken was player of the day with his superb bowling.

Tennis

Junior Boys’ Tennis: Division 1

Author: Mrs T Hastie

This team consisted of Hamish Burt, Oliver Tomic, William Reeves and Tim Fletcher. The senior role was taken up by Hamish in the number one spot. Games were played with energy and commitment, with all the boys representing the school well. Being in division 1, the boys came up against strong opposition, and the experience proved a steep learning curve for the team. Unfortunately, the season ended poorly, as a “no show” and bad weather caused the last two rounds to be cancelled.

Netball Development Team

Author: Helen Bradford

COACH JACKIE LOCK

The development team had a great season. We started off in the 3rd division after the grading games and had a few tough games against St Peters and Dio. Being almost the same team as last year and moving up two divisions was quite tough. Still, the girls worked hard and we stayed in the 3rd division for the final league matches. The team played better as the girls got to know one another and the game plan. The end result- we came 4th in division three. A great improvement as they ended 2nd in the 5th division last year.

We farewell our Year 13 players of two years Jess Morton (Captain), Lucy Moss, Jo Brogden, Chaman Singh and Kelly Robertson. We thank them for their support and enthusiasm. Thanks also to our many regular parents who supported us every week.

Harrietanne Embling

Harrietanne dances at the Margaret Fairhead School of Dance in Hamilton and the Auckland Academy of Dance in Auckland. She was accepted into the New Zealand School of Dance as a Junior Associate for the third year. She travels to Wellington for weekends of training at the school and is involved in workshops with the Royal NZ Ballet. This year her achievements included a nomination into the National Mazda Foundation Young Performer Awards for 15-19 year olds. This is New Zealand’s national ballet competition. She scored a 91% and 87% in her two dances. She has sat several exams and passed Contemporary Level 5 and Jazz Intermediate with 100%, Royal Academy of Dance Grade 8 with 98% and Advanced 1 with 91%. She was awarded scholarships for both Contemporary and Jazz. She competed in the RAD 14+ Scholarship in Wellington. At Winter school in Wellington she was nominated for a scholarship. She has entered competitions around the country and has enjoyed success at many. Harrietanne travels to Auckland each week for extra training and will travel to Sydney in the summer holidays to attend an International Summer School at The McDonald College.

Back Row: Hamish Burt, William Reeves, Timothy Fletcher

Front Row: Oliver Tomic

Back Row: Melissa Latto, Joanna Brogden, Kelly Robertson

2nd Row: Mrs Helen Bradford (Manager), Jaimee Hugo, Annie Boshier, Mrs Jackie Lock (Coach)

Front Row: Harrietanne Embling, Lucy Moss, Jessica Morton, Chaman Singh,Tara Kells

I Did Not Cry Sir

I did not cry sir, when you passed away, No I did not cry sir, on that same day, It was only when time made me realise You brought great joy in all our lives, You taught us all to be so strong, Maybe you knew all along, That you’d soon leave us, such a mystery, So we now carve our own paths in history.

But now you’ve left me things aren’t the same With great shock you taught us, life is no game. It took a while but things did change, And now I guess, it’s not all that strange But I wish to show my respect, Oh I just wish they could resurrect, Yes bring you back, with your warm smile, So I’d be happier all the while.

I was told to talk, to realize the pain, But it tears up my heart oh again and again, We didn’t want sympathy me and my mates, We didn’t want that crying and all it creates. And so I guess what I’m trying to say, Is things aren’t the same, even today, We all miss you Sir, you know it’s true, But you’ve changed our lives, and so, thank you

By Tommy Moss, Year 11 Williams House, 2010

Triathlon

Waikato BOP Triathlon Teams Championships

Author: Andrew Milne

On Thursday, 11th March, six St Paul’s students travelled to Lake Karapiro for the secondary schools Waikato / Bay of Plenty Schools Teams Triathlon Championships. It was a fine crisp morning and the St Paul’s crew were cheerful and energetic as always. First up was the U19 event in which our team consisted of Evan Wilson, Thomas Moser and Andrew Milne. Evan had 750m to swim. He had a strong start but was unable to hold on to his training partner from Boys’ High who instantly put the heat on. Thomas Moser with the 20k bike ride started second but was instantly handicapped when he was stung by a bee coming out of transition. This didn’t stop him providing a class performance as he attempted to chase down his training partner, but in the wind was unable to catch onto the advancing Boys’ High rider which meant it was down to our 3rd competitor Andrew Milne in the 4.8 km run. Boys’ High had a slow transition when their runner was unprepared for the quick start. Andrew, a minute behind the leading runner, ran a strong hard race closing the gap significantly but with Boys’ High out in front had to settle for second. A good solid performance the team should be pleased with in their preparation for nationals.

In the U16 event, we had Nick HolcroftMcGuire for the swim, Oliver Smith on the bike and James Mason doing the run. In one of the biggest fields at the championships, Nick finished mid-field. Fortunately, Oliver was in good form on the day, and overtook several riders on the bike leg, bringing the team up to 4th position at the changeover to the run. James paced his run well and in the third lap of the 4 lap course, was just able to overtake the 3rd runner. He held on to 3rd position comfortably, thereby ensuring, to the great delight of his fellow team-mates, that the team placed third.

NZ National Triathlon Championships

Author: Thomas Moser

On 25th March, the senior team of Evan Wilson, Thomas Moser, and Andrew Milne competed in the 2010 Triathlon Nationals at Lake Karapiro. The weather was challenging and constantly changing but provided for some exceptionally fast racing. The competition was intensified as all three St Paul’s competitors would have to race their regional training partners and rivals.

We started with Evan in the 750m swim where the pace was on and the field strung out. Evan put in a superb effort to come out of the water second in a break of three swimmers consisting of HBHS, Taupo and St Paul’s. The cycle leg started extremely fast and saw Taupo-nui-a-Tia dropped, but Westlake moved up into the top three. However, the gap back to 4th was now around four minutes and we were assured of all but securing a podium position. It now came down to the run to decide who would get which medals. Andrew had an exceptional run, halving the gap to HBHS with each lap and burning off Westlake. Unfortunately Andrew ran out of road to chase down the HBHS runner but provided an entertaining last lap, finishing a close five seconds behind to claim the silver for the team. The Team can be very happy with their efforts as this is the best finish the school has had in this national championship event, beating last year’s place of third.

In the individuals’ event, where the standard of competition was very high, Hayden Gill and Cameron Downey competed in the Under 14 event, and Oliver Smith competed in the Under 16 event. The distances for each leg were the same as at the Waikato Championships. Hayden finished 41st in a time of 51 minutes 7 seconds and Cameron finished in 44th position in a time of 60 minutes. Oliver achieved a very creditable 13th placing in a time of 53 minutes 13 seconds.

Waikato Triathlon Championships

Author: James Chancellor

On Thursday, 25th February at Lake Karapiro the Waikato Schools Triathlon Championships were held. A St Paul’s team consisting of Hayden Gill, Cameron Downey, Oliver Smith and James Chancellor all competed individually in their respective age groups.

The Under 14 course consisted of a 350m swim, followed by a 12 km bike and finally a 3.2 km run, which both Hayden and Cameron completed in torrential rain; Hayden finishing 8th with a time of 51 minutes 26 seconds and Cameron finishing 10th with a time of 54 minutes and 32 seconds.

In the Under 16 race, Ollie Smith remained strong throughout the field, finishing 3rd in a very fast paced race with a time of 55 minutes 52 seconds enduring a 500m swim, 16 km bike and a 4 km run.

In the Under 19 age group, with a 750m swim, 20 km bike and 4.8 km run, James Chancellor finished 1st Waikato representative.

Andrew Milne U19 Teams Champs

Thomas Moser Waikato Teams U19 Triathlon Champs 2010

James Chancellor Waikato Triathlon Champs 2010

Brad Wilson U19 Teams Champs

James Mason U14 Teams Champs

Rowing Improves Between North Island Championships And Maadi Regatta

Author:

North Island Secondary Schools’ Rowing Championship

Our rowing team of 44 rowers competed in the North Island Secondary Schools’ Championships over the weekend of 12th – 14th March 2010. There were ten St Paul’s crews, who reached ‘A’ finals, meaning that these crews placed in the top eight schools in the North Island.

Notable results came from:

• The boys Under 17 four placing 5th (out of 17 crews) in a close fought race.

• The Under 15 Quad placing 2nd in their ‘B’ final.

• The two Under 18 Pairs both finished in the top eight (out of 13 crews) in the North Island.

• The Under 15 Boys’ eight had an exciting race, narrowly missing out on a medal by coming 4th (out of 14 crews), finishing only five seconds behind the winning crew.

• The Under 17 Quad also narrowly missed out on a medal finishing also in 4th place (out of 17 crews).

• The Boys’ Under 18 Four went into the finals on Sunday with confidence, having won their heat, but unfortunately finishing in a disappointing 6th place (out of 22 crews).

• The Boys’ Under 16 eight placed 7th (out of 13 crews) in their final.

• The Girls under 18 Quad rowed a personal best and finished a very fine 5th (out of 32 crews) in their final.

The final race of the day was the Boys Under 18 eight. This very fired up crew raced a tough and exciting race to finish a very close 4th (out of 12 crews) behind Westlake Boys’ College, Hamilton Boys’ High School and Auckland Grammar: a very good result for a crew that hasn’t regularly trained together.

The St Paul’s training programme is designed to make the crews peak for Maadi, so all the rowers were looking forward to going down to Twizel and bringing home some medals from that regatta.

Maadi Rowing Cup Rowing Regatta Contested At Lake Ruataniwha

After a wearying trip down to the South Island, the Otematata Lakes Backpackers became our home for ten days. Saturday and Sunday mainly consisted of training in perfect conditions, waiting for the racing to start on Monday. As it turned out the weather over the week was not kind to the rowers as from Monday high winds played havoc with all races. Through these difficult conditions St Paul’s rowers kept their heads and had a fantastic week’s rowing, with 40 out of the 42 rowers finishing up with at least one, two or three finals.

This amazing week’s racing for all crews produced 12 finals overall, 7 ‘B’ finals and 5 ‘A’ finals, which is a brilliant effort from a club of our size.

On finals day fortunately we enjoyed perfect weather! This made all racing on level terms and the Under 17 four of: Hamish Mahon, Lucien Nabbs, Grayson Croasdale, Izak Eksteen coxed by Zac Laurich kicked off the day. Third in the heats, meant this four had to go to the repechage where they needed to place in the top two to proceed to the ‘A’ final.

The Under 15 quads raced well all week, the heavy weight crew of James Atherton, Kieran Dale, Cameron Rowland, Callum Windley coxed by Jesper Mansson had a photo finish to place a close third in their ‘B’ final. While the lighter crew of Jack Kelly, Lucas Martin, Matthew Husband-Dravitzki, Cameron Bartley coxed by William Heald had a stunner race to finish a well deserved 5th place in the ‘A’ final. The Boys’ Under 15 Eight went into a fast heat and placed third in the heat, the boys had to have another improved race in the repechage where they strategically finished 5th place to allow them an inside lane in the ‘A’ Final. This crew of Callum Windley, Alex Hargreaves, James Atherton, Cameron Rowland, Tom Schicker, Connor Roycroft, Lucas Martin, Jack Kelly coxed by James Pickford was devastated as they finished one second behind third place in the ‘A’ final–a very exciting race that they can be hugely proud of.

“… All our crews were successful in terms of making so many finals.”

Mr Chris Foot

Back Row: L. Wyllie-Miln, J. Patchell, A. Elliott, J. Velzian

Front Row: J. MacPherson, C. Davison, J. Mansson (Cox), W. Cooper, T. MacDonald

Back Row: J. Atherton, T. Schicker, A. Hargreaves, C. Roycroft

Front Row: J. Kelly, L. Martin, J. Pickford (Cox), C. Rowland, C. Windley

Back Row: M. Stuart-Jones, L. Rodwell, Z. Oliver (NZU19s), H. Mahon

Front Row: I. Eksteen, G. Croasdale, J. Pickford (Cox), L. Nabbs, A. Mason (NZU19s)

The Under 15 Four of Cameron Bartley, Kieran Dale, Matthew Husband-Dravitzki, William Guest coxed by Angus Black were unlucky to miss the ‘A’ final but did well in the ‘B’ final. They had a nice row to cross the line in third place.

Another competitive event was the boys Under 16 eights. In this event St Paul’s had two crews. The older crew consisting of Jordan Patchell, Joseph Velzian, Luke Wyllie-Miln, Theo MacDonell, William Cooper, Cameron Davison, Aaron Elliott, Jonty Macpherson coxed by Jesper Mansson narrowly missed out on making the ‘A’ final. In the final itself the this crew absolutely blitzed the field, with a time that would have placed them in 6th position in the ‘A’ final.

The younger Under 15 crew who raced up a year, (the only change being David Rooney) raced successfully to make the ‘B’ final. This crew did well considering the deteriorating conditions to place in the top 16 crews in New Zealand for this event.

The girls had a successful regatta, with the Girls’ Under 18 Quad scull of Lucy Travis, Rebecca Atkinson, Theresa Steiner, Alexandra Wilson, coxed by Zak Laurich, making the ‘B’ final and placing third which is a very good effort as the quality of the South Island competition for girls is much stronger. This placed them 11th in the country overall. Another notable effort was Lucy Travis making a semi- final in the Under 18 Single Sculls.

One of the highlights for the week was the Boys’ Under 16 Four, which were one of the two crews to medal at the regatta.

The crew of Hamish Mahon, Izak Eksteen, Luke Wyllie-Miln, Joseph Velzian coxed by Jesper Mansson had a commanding heat and semi final performance leading into the ‘A’ final where they had an impressive race to gain a silver medal.

Coming up against the top two crews in the North Island, the Boys Under 18 Four took to the water and had a competitive race. The crew of Alex Mason, Zach Oliver, Luc Rodwell, Max Stuart-Jones with cox Zak Laurich raced the repechage and blew the field away to win easily. Put in lane one, which is only 10m or so away from the crowd and with the crowd behind us, they sat in second place for most of the race and then finished in the bronze medal position for the Springbok Shield. The Boys’ Under 18 Fours is the second most prestigious rowing event in the country, and gave St Paul’s their second medal of the week. This achievement was the pinnacle of many of the Under 18’s rowing careers and what they have trained for over five years.

The prestigious Maadi Cup is always the last race on finals day. The crew of Izak Eksteen, Grayson Croasdale, Lucien Nabbs, Max Stuart-Jones, Luc Rodwell, Zach Oliver, Alex Mason, Hamish Mahon and cox James Pickford had raced an outstanding heat to finish in second place which put them straight through to the ‘A’ final–a great result. All eyes were on the course as the eight’s came flying down in what were quite choppy conditions. They had a good race to finish 6th in a very quick and competitive race–a

ROWING AWARDS:

Les Varney Trophy: Most Improved Novice rower – Alex Wilson

Coxswains Cup: Best Coxswain – Zac Laurich

Veterans Trophy: Best support from a rowing member – Zac Laurich & Callum Windley

St. Paul’s Shield: Most improved rower-all age groups – Luke Wyllie-Miln

School Oar: Most successful Team of the Year (-U18 4+) – Alex Mason, Zach Oliver, Luc Rodwell, Max Stuart-Jones, Zac Larich(cox)

The “ERG” Trophy: Alex Mason Highest erg score in a season – 6 mins .16.1 secs (5 year school record)

Womens ERG Trophy: Lucy Travis Highest score for women in a season – 7 mins .55.6 secs

1x Trophy: Best Sculler in all grades – Lucy Travis

Seath Cup: Best rower in all grades – Alex Mason and Zach Oliver

Presidents Cup (CF): For outstanding leadership – Luc Rodwell

Caps: New awards – Max Stuart-Jones, Hamish Mahon, Zac Laurich, James Pickford, Lucien Nabbs, Grayson Croasdale, Izak Eksteen

good end to a very successful Maadi Cup Regatta for the Club.

The icing on the cake, for this successful week was that Max Stuart-Jones earned a trial for the Under 18 North Island Crew and Zach Oliver, Alex Mason and Luc Rodwell earned New Zealand Junior trials.

Training begins early on the erg machines

Girls U18 Quad:Theresa Steiner, Rebecca Atkinson, Lucy Travis, and Alexandra Wilson, coxed by Zak Laurich

Our Maadi Cup Eight, 6th in New Zealand

The Girls’ Four racing

Michael Rooney and Aaron Cleland racing in pairs Four finished exhausted

Springbok Shield, U18 bronze medalists: Max Stuart-Jones Luc Rodwell, cox Zak Laurich, Zach Oliver, Alex Mason, with coaches

Paul’s

Athletics

Author: Mr Martin Holmes

North Island Secondary Schools’ Track And Field Championships

St Paul’s athletes continued their outstanding season with another quality performance at the North Island Secondary School Track and Field Championships held in Wellington. St Paul’s had its largest representation in recent years of 15 athletes in the team.

There were a huge number of highlights for the team over the weekend, ranging from individual to relay performances, but Blake Gordon’s record breaking performance in winning the Junior Boys 200m in 23.01 seconds would have to standout as the best effort. He also added a victory in the 100m and a second placing in the discus.

There were other individual performance not far behind Blake’s effort which included Cameron French’s exciting victory in the 300m hurdles, an event where his victory by five hundredths of a second enabled him to defend his title. Jonty Rae was equally impressive in winning the Intermediate Boys 400m title in 51.01 seconds and Bennet Rogers, in the same race, ran a personal best of 52.83 seconds to place third – an outstanding time for a Year 10 student.

Sarah McCallum was one of the busiest athletes of the meeting and was rewarded with a second placing in the Senior Girls 200m and a third placing in the 100m.

Sarah was invaluable to the Waikato/Bay of Plenty team and this was never more evident than with her contribution to both the 4 x 100m and 4 x 400m relay’s where her efforts helped both teams to victory. In fact her last leg of the 4 x 400m relay was quite outstanding as she reacted in emphatic fashion to the pressure from an Auckland athlete over the final 200m. Such was Sarah’s effort on this last leg, she ended up running the fastest split for the team in 58.4 seconds.

Michael Eggleton also faced his biggest test of the season in the Senior Boys 800m where he was up against the top ranked athlete over this distance in the North Island. Michael ran himself into the ground in a very good tactical approach aimed at breaking his rival over the first 600m. The plan almost paid off with Michael only being caught in the last

thirty metres, meaning Michael finished a very creditable second.

In the Senior Boys Triple Jump, Sam Hewat once again demonstrated how much jumping talent he has by placing second, in quite tricky conditions.

The reputation the School has in sprinting was further emphasised by Jono Sullivan’s performance in the Senior Boy’s 400m where he again demonstrated, in one of the toughest events on the track, his athletic prowess by placing second.

A number of our athletes were also competing at this level for the first time and they also acquitted themselves very well. Danyon Fernando in the Junior Boys 300m placed 7th and Daniel Ruri in the Junior Boys Javelin placed 5th with a new personal best. James Mason also ran a new personal best in placing 6th in the Intermediate Boys 1500m. Ally French who finished 8th in the 200m on Sunday was part of the Intermediate Girls 4 x100m team that won their event and Aaron was also part of the Intermediate Boys team that placed third. In the Senior Boys 4 x 100m Cameron and Sam both contributed to that team’s victory by running strongly on the second and third leg respectively

The school provided all four runners for the Waikato/Bay of Plenty in the Open Boys 4 x 400m relay with Jonty, Michael, Jono and Cameron making up the team. Jonty had the responsibility of running the first leg and he did not let the team down, a fast leg that saw the team change in first place. Michael, Jono and Cam then proceeded to build on this lead which saw them easily beat the combined teams of the other regions.

Athletics NZ Track And Field Championships

The Athletics New Zealand Track and Field Championships were held in Christchurch. This is a major national event for athletes registered with clubs.This year it provided an opportunity for four of the School’s athletes to again perform on the national stage and it also signalled the end of a long season.

Selection is on a representative basis which means the athletes from St Paul’s were competing for Waikato/Bay of Plenty. Cameron French and Michael Eggleton competed in the Men’s 19 and Sam Hewat and Jonty Rae in the Men’s 16 and under age groups. Once again our four top athletes enjoyed success by placing in the top three over the weekend. Cameron French set a new personal best of 53 seconds in the 400m hurdles, enough to earn him silver. He, along with Sam, were also members of the Waikato/Bay of Plenty 4 x 100m relay team that placed third. Michael Eggleton backed up his silver medal from the North Island Secondary School Championships the previous weekend with another strong performance over 800m to claim second place. Jonty Rae continued to make his presence known on the national stage as he also earned himself a silver medal in a personal best time of 50.3 seconds in the 400m.

“… St Paul’s athletes continued their outstanding season with another quality performance . . .”

Back Row: S. Masterson, D. Fernando, S. Henley-Smith, B. Muirhead, M. Hickmott, J. Mason, V. Christie, S. Krystman

3rd Row: A. Crow, T. Rae, D. Anderson, P. Grierson, H. May, C. Winiata-Dunster, J. Tye, J. Barber, G. Henley-Smith (Coach)

2nd Row: P. Wilson (Coach), D. Ruri, B. Rogers, J. Roach, A. Keppler, N. Payne, B. Gordon, J. Rae, O. Smith, M. Holmes (Coach)

Front Row: E. McCallum, A. French, A. Milne, J. Sullivan, M. Eggleton, C. French, S. Hewat, S. McCallum, S. Henley-Smith

Waikato Club Championships

At the Waikato Club Athletic Championships six St Paul’s students competed for their clubs and won 20 medals.

Sam Hewat won a gold medal in the under16 100m in a personal best time of 11.60s, silver in the under 16 200m in a personal best time of 23.50s and first in the under16 triple jump and m19 4x400 relay and silver medal in the under16 4x100m relay.

Cameron French won a gold medal in under19 100m and 200m doing personal best times of 11.30s and 22.90s respectively, gold in under19 110m hurdles and under 19 400m hurdles, gold medals in both the under19 4x100m and 4x400m relay. Cameron’s time of 55.00 seconds in his 400m hurdles moves him up to third place in the under19 age group rankings nationally.

Jono Sullivan won a gold medal in the under19 400m, in a personal best time of 50.60 and a silver medal in under 19 200m, as well as a gold medal in the under19 4x100m.

Michael Eggleton won a gold medal in the under19 4x400m relay, a gold medal in the senior men’s 800m and a silver medal in the under19 400m. Michael, racing in the senior men’s race for the 800m ran a personal best time of 1.52.60s, which lowered his school record and also moves him up the national rankings to top 6th in the country for open men and third in the under20 age group. He was presented with the Les Erwin Memorial Shield for the Waikato Open 800m men’s champion. Past winners of the memorial shield have included Olympic medalist Peter Snell and John Davies.

Jonty Rae won a silver medal in the under16 400m, in a personal best time of 50.80 seconds, breaking the school record for the intermediate age group for 400m by over a second. This time places Jonty in the top five for 400m rankings in this age group in the country. Jonty also picked up a bronze medal in the under 16 boys’ 4x100m relay.

Ally French won a silver medal in the under16 girls’ 100m in a time of 12.80s, and a bronze medal in the under16 girls’ 200m, where she also did a personal best time of 26.50s.™

Bay of Plenty / Waikato Athletics Championships

This month a team of 29 athletes from St Paul’s competed in the BOP/Waikato Secondary Schools’ Athletic Championships with outstanding success. Records were broken and a total of 11 individual titles won. There were also nine second and five third place finishes for individuals. In the 4 x 100m relays, the School was equally impressive with victories in the senior and intermediate boys and second place finishes in the junior boys and senior girls.

• Blake Gordon: 1st 100m, 200m, Discus, 4 x 100m Junior Boys

• Michael Eggleton: 1st 800m and 1500m Senior Boys

• Aaron Keppler: 1st 100m, 200m, 4 x 100m Intermediate Boys

• Cameron French: 1st Open Boys 300m Hurdles, 1st 4 x100m relay and 2nd 200m Senior Boys

• Jono Sullivan: 1st 400m, 3rd High Jump, 1st 4 x 100m Senior Boys

• Ally French: 1st 100m, 2nd 200m Intermediate Girls and 2nd 4 x 100m Senior Girls

• Jonty Rae: 1st 400m, 4 x100m Intermediate Boys

• Sarah McCallum: 2nd 100m, 200m, 4 x100m Senior Girls

• Ollie Smith: 2nd 3000m Intermediate Boys

• Bennet Rogers: 2nd 400m, 1st 4 x 100m Intermediate Boys

• Andrew Milne: 2nd 1500m Senior Boys

• Daniel Ruri: 2nd Javelin Junior Boys

• Sam Hewat: 3rd Triple Jump, 1st 4 x100m Senior Boys

• James Mason: 3rd 1500m Intermediate Boys

• Danyon Fernando: 2nd 300m, 2nd 4 x100m Junior Boys

• Josh Tye: 3rd Javelin Intermediate Boys

• John Roach: 3rd Javelin Senior Boys

• Steph Henley-Smith: 2nd 4 x100m Senior Girls

• Emma McCallum: 2nd 4 x100m Senior Girls

• Hadleigh May: 1st 4 x100m Senior Boys

• Jesse Ruri: 1st 4 x 100m Intermediate Boys

• Creighton Winiata- Dunster: 2nd 4 x100m Junior Boys

• Todd Barry: 2nd 4 x100m Junior Boys

International Athletics Competition:

Recently, a test match involving a full athletics programme was held at the under21 level between Australia and New Zealand in Auckland. Although Michael Eggleton and Cameron French were not selected as part of the New Zealand team, these two 17 year olds were invited to compete.

Cameron ran in the 400m hurdles and was placed 5th, further enhancing his reputation as one of New Zealand’s promising athletes in this extremely demanding event. Cameron’s ability to run 56 seconds over 400m, with 10 flights of hurdles set at the senior men’s height, was impressive.

Michael, in the 800m, placed 4th, beating one of the two New Zealand team members in the process. He also broke the school record in this race, running one minute 52 seconds. This performance lifts him to third in the New Zealand rankings in the Men’s 19 age group and into the top eight for the Senior Men’s age group in New Zealand.

John Walker Trophy

Records fell and John Walker’s shoes found a new owner and home at the Waikato Bay of Plenty Secondary School Athletic Championships. By winning the 1500m race Michael Eggleton was awarded the John Walker Trophy, the shoes worn by John Walker when the world record for the mile in Goteborg, Sweden was broken in 1975. Michael says he “ran with gaining the trophy as his goal” and after a time for him to enjoy, they will be displayed at school. Michael also broke the 800m Senior Boys’ record running 1.53.58mins, a record which has been held since 1980. Michael Eggleton won the Les Erwin Memorial Shield and John Walker’s world record spikes to join some famous names in New Zealand middle distance running history

Swimming Sports

Author: Mr Roger Bell

School Swimming Sports

On a grey, overcast day, with cold conditions in the pool, this year’s School Swimming Championships were held. It proved a great day, with enthusiastic and vocal support from each of the Houses.

Not all students are strong swimmers and many are not as comfortable in the pool as on the track. However on the day, a real feature of the races was the positive, committed and energetic manner through which the student’s strived to maximise both their House points and their own individual performances.

The organisation of an event of this magnitude requires a huge amount of preparation and effort. Each of the Houses ran standards events during lunchtimes to determine their finalists. The event ran smoothly and efficiently thanks to the coordination of Mr Peter Gilbert, Mr Mike Easter, the Housemasters, and indeed all the staff.

Thanks to the parents and friends of the School for supporting students in their races. Three records were broken and we congratulate all those who gained top five rankings in their respective age groupings.

Inter-School Waikato Secondary Schools’ Swimming Championships

We fielded a squad of six girls and eleven boys at the Waikato Secondary Schools’ Swimming Championships. The squad performed most creditably at this event with everyone gaining swimming colours by finishing 1st, 2nd or third in their respective events. The girls finished the day in 8th place out of 24 schools and the boys finished third out of 29 schools. The squad is also to be congratulated for its team work and support of each other throughout the day; the parents present were most impressed.

The following are the names of our elite swimmers:

Megan Cowley, Ashleigh Browne, Charlotte Atherton, Julia Frick, Robyn Henderson, Rosanna Paine, Keegan Ellis, Evan Wilson, Joel Stevenson, Mikey Hodge, Jared Wilson, Sam Armstrong, Tom Swarbrick, Nick McGuire-

SCHOOL SWIMMING RESULTS

Jenkins Cup Junior Individual Medley

Ganley Cup Junior Champion (under 14)

Kieran Dale

Kieran Dale

Fitchett Cup Intermediate Champion (under 16) Nick McGuire-Holcroft

Coach’s Award Cup Senior Boys’ 1500m Senior Girls’ 1500m

Ronaldson Trophy Senior Girls’ Champion

Smart Cup Senior Champion (Open)

Evan Wilson

Melissa Latto

Megan Cowley

Evan Wilson

Mikey Hodge

Twenty Relay Cup Composite Relay Champions Williams House

Johnson Relay Cup House gaining most points in all relays (except Composite)

Ewen Cup Inter-House Champions

Sandford Cup Champion of Champions

Henley-Smith Trophy Open 4x100m Inter-House Relay Champions

Lowry Bros Cup Overall Inter-House Relays Champions

Williams House

Hall House

Evan Wilson

School House

Hall House

Meiklejohn Cup Overall Inter-House Athletics Champions Hall House

SCHOOL SWIMMING RECORDS

Evan Wilson Senior 50m Butterfly

Previously held by A Pullon, 2009, 27.94

Ashleigh Brown Girls’ 50m Backstroke

Previously held by R Pullon, 2006, 34.93

Sargood Girls’ 4 x 50m Freestyle

Previously held by Clark, 2005, 2m22.10

Holcroft, Simroop Singh-Thandi, Mark Swarbrick and Sean Vartiainen. Stand out performances on the day included;

Evan Wilson: 1st 100 Free, 2nd 200 Free, 2nd 50m Fly, 2nd 6 x 25m relay, 2nd 4 x 25m medley relay, 2nd 4 x 25m freestyle relay

Ashleigh Browne: 1st 50m Back, 2nd 100m Back, 3rd 4 x 25m medley relay, 3rd 4 x 25m free-style relay

Rosanna Paine: 2nd 25m Free, 2nd 25m Breast, 2nd 25m Back

Time of: 27.85

Time of: 34.73

Time of: 2m21.71

Megan Cowley: 3rd 50m Breast, 3rd 100m Breast, 3rd 4 x 25m medley relay, 3rd 4x 25m freestyle relay

Joel Stevenson: 3rd 50m Back, 2nd 4 x 25m medley relay, 2nd 4 x 24m freestyle relay Mikey Hodge: 3rd 100m Back, 2nd 4x 25m medley relay

Tom Swarbrick: 3rd 50m Free, 3rd 4 x 25m freestyle relay, 2nd 6 x 25m freestyle relay

Nick McGuire-Holcroft: 3rd 100m Back, 3rd 4 x 25m freestyle relay, 2nd 6 x 25m freestyle relay

Back Row: Evan Wilson, Jared Wilson, Samuel Armstrong, Thomas Swarbrick, Michael Hodge 2nd Row: Sean Vartiainen, Rosanna Paine, Julia Frick, Simroop Singh-Thandi, Robyn Henderson, Mr R. Bell (Coach/Manager)

Front Row: Joel Stevenson, Charlotte Atherton, Mark Swarbrick, Megan Cowley, Nicholas McGuire-Holcroft, Ashleigh Browne, Keegan Ellis

Perfect timers: Miss Stevens and Mr Williams

Hall’s Luke Toomey and Megan Cowley hold the House Swimming Cup

Sam Hogg

Mrs Cowley presents daughter Megan with the Senior Girls Swimming Cup

Fitchett House: White Power chant wins Spirit Cup yet again

Fun House Relay for those not in championship races – 25 x 25m Relay

All set in the backstroke

Mr Smith braced for St Patrick’s Day

Paul’s

Former Head Boy Wins $400,000 American Scholarship

Author: Mr John Oehley

The other two recipients for 2010 are Angela Zhou and Alex Zhu, both studying at Auckland University. Normally only one of these prestigious scholarships is awarded annually within New Zealand.

All three of this year’s recipients were totally surprised upon learning that they had won the prestigious scholarship. “I didn’t really believe it, to be honest,” said John. “I thought it was a bit ridiculous. I dropped out of law the next day, which was a little bit scary seeing as I had no written confirmation, just a phone call.”

John plans to take an undergraduate degree at Duke University majoring in English,

with a minor in History. He would like to work in a multinational non-government organisation or join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade as a diplomat.

Founded by billionaire Americans, Julian and Josie Robertson in 2000,the Scholarship pays for international students to study at Duke University in Durham or the University of North Carolina. The scholarship also covers board and a living allowance.

The Robertson’s spend part of each year in New Zealand and have invested heavily in the country, building a library in Kerikeri and donating $115 million worth of art to

the Auckland Art Gallery. They have also developed a golfing resort in Northland and the Cape Kidnappers complex in Hawkes Bay.

The Robertson Scholars Programme is based on the values of heart, mind and action. All winners of these Scholarships have in common the embodiment of these values which are at the core of the selection process. This says a lot about John Scott-Jones as a person and we are extremely proud of his superb achievement.

Amazing Equestrian Result

Author David Rogers

With high expectations, St Paul’s entered their first equestrian team into the Waingaro one-day event (i.e. the Waikato Inter-Secondary Schools’ Horse trial event) on Sunday, 7th March.

The team consisted of David Rogers, Rian and Jackson Bovill, Sam Robinson and Courtney Booth. The day started off with a great confidence booster, when we went to do the first stage of the day, and probably the most dreaded part, the dressage. The team pulled through to do exceptionally well with Courtney getting third place and David being placed first.

The next event for the team was the show-jumping, which also went very well, with the whole team coming through with no rails knocked and all under the given time limit, which kept St Paul’s on top of the leader board. With a few points ahead of St Peter’s, the team approached the cross country section with confidence.

After a long day of waiting the team finally went out to take on the cross country, which they came though with exceptionally fast times and without a fault.

It was a very successful day for the team’s first outing, with the team winning the event overall and for the first time, defeating St Peter’s School, who with their Equestrian Academy has won the competition five of the past six years. All riders obtained their own overall placings with David winning the Over 16 training division, Rian Bovill winning the Under 16 training division, Jackson Bovill placing second in the pre-training and Sam Robinson placed second in the Under 16 training division.

Last year’s Head Prefect and Chapel Prefect John ScottJones, is one of three winners of the prestigious Robertson Scholarship, a programme founded by billionaire Americans Julian and Josie Robertson.

“… It was a very successful day for the team’s first outing, with the team winning the event overall . . .”

John Scott-Jones talks to assembly

Jackson Bovill, David Rogers, Rian Bovill and Courtney Booth

Surfing APE Tramp

Author: Mr Craig Hardman

On the 3rd of March the two Year 12 APE classes caught a bus down to Tihoi to complete a three day tramp.

The students do all the preparation for the tramp from their meal plans to analysing the risks that they may encounter. All the Year 12 boys in particular find this tramp really enjoyable as it brings back fond memories of Tihoi. Boys would share experiences of their tramps and Solo’s. From a teaching perspective, you get to see the student’s both boys and girls take responsibility in a totally different environment. They gain knowledge of how to move through the bush with just a compass, using landmarks while walking off trail. They try to cook fantastic cuisine over a camp fire and see how hard it is. One example of determination is one boy Jared, taking a pack liner with 30 liters full of water from the base of the Pa, 500 meters up hill to where their camp site was. The tramp was a great experience for both teachers and students alike. I look forward to next years adventure.

Winter Badminton Report For The Collegian

Boys’ Badminton: Division 2

Two teams were entered in this division. This was largely due to the willingness of Lily Kang and Linda Lin to play in the boys’ division, which is permissible under competition rules.

Team 2: Connor Roycroft, Conor Robson, Lily Kang, Linda Lin and Jim Law. This team had a few wins, but did not progress into the later rounds of the competition.

Team 1: Andrew Bennenbroek, James Lin, Panasann Pattanakulchai, and Daniel Kenna. This team was stronger, largely due to the experience and skill of Andrew Bennenbroek, ably supported by some younger, talented players. Mid –season, Connor Roycroft stepped up to fill in for Panasann, who left for Tihoi. Unbeaten, this team played a semi-final against HBHS. Boys’ High only had three players on the day; giving St Paul’s a somewhat fortunate pass into the finals. Conor Robson filled in for an absent Daniel in the semi-final and final matches. The final against Hillcrest was a one sided affair, with St Paul’s going down 7 games to 1. Nevertheless, mention must be made of Andrew’s superb win against their number one player. He is the player of the season.

Girls’ Badminton: Division 3

The girls’ team was entered in the novice division and improved considerably as the season progressed. Six girls signed up for this team: Josie Riley, Sarah Ingham, Ebony Tapara, Chanelle Harrison, Emma Ferguson and Ashleigh Browne. Each week a different combination of girls played and although we didn’t win any matches, the girls were often very competitive and did win some games.

The surf team enjoyed a social season with several afternoon trips to both Raglan’s Ngarunui Beach and the left-hand break at Manu Bay. Differing levels of skill and talent were demonstrated, with senior students often acting as mentors towards the younger team members. We look forward to many more surfs as the summer season approaches.

Left to Right: Lance Wolfe,Tom Schicker, Joshua Randell, Ludwig Hope

Back Row: Ms R. Don (Coach), Ebony Tapara, James Lin, Connor Roycroft, Emma Ferguson, Mrs T. Hastie (Coach)

Front Row: Lily Kang, Chanelle Harrison, Sarah Ingham, Josie Riley, Linda Lin Absent: Daniel Kenna, Andrew Bennenbroek, Conor Robson, Jim Law

Macbeth

Author: Mr Nick Clothier

Why Macbeth? Well there’s a question! In my opinion, Macbeth is a brilliant starting point for a tradition of excellent Shakespeare productions at St Paul’s because of the themes involved and because it is one of Shakespeare’s shorter plays. The play suited the academic requirements of NCEA allowing the year 13 students an opportunity to participate in a significant production and the year 12s to investigate a theatre form (Elizabethan Theatre).

We did take a bit of a risk performing Macbeth as there is apparently some sort of curse attached to it but we seem to have come out of it moderately unscathed. Lucky really, considering how many of the cast were carrying around sharp bits of metal.

We assembled an awesome cast from our brooding and belligerent Macbeth (Sam Kaelin) to history’s busiest messenger (Taylor Deakin) and started a short but intense rehearsal period.

I was struck by the ability of the cast to assimilate the words of Elizabethan England and to give them a meaning appropriate to our contemporary era. From the featured characters to the less wordy parts, the students involved managed to give the script a truth that gave the audience a roller-coaster ride of emotion and entertainment.

Jen Currie’s dark and manipulative Lady Macbeth and her husband provided a centre-point for all the other characters to revolve around and set a standard of focus and determination that was brilliantly mature. I was pleased to have a few junior students involved as this provides us with experienced Shakespearean actors for future shows.

One of the most important things that I wanted to achieve in this show was to give the audience a play similar to that experienced by Shakespeare’s audiences four hundred years past. It is for this reason that I am so grateful to Mr Heta Smith and his lads from the construction class for the thrust stage they assembled. This allowed the action to extend into the audience and to involve them in the play. The set looked wonderful thanks to Mrs Christine Coates and provided a simple but effective palate upon which the play could be created.

Defyd Williams and Beth Noble kept things sane backstage which I’m sure would have been a bit of an effort at times and thanks to the chaps in the lighting box for allowing everything to be seen. This show was put on with not much time to spare and it is testament to the cast that they provided their audience with such a compelling night of challenge and entertainment. I was totally inspired by them to continue putting on the works of Shakespeare at St Paul’s. Next time though, I think we’ll go with a comedy.

King Duncan (Sam Hewat), Malcolm (Matt Hickmott) Donalbain (David Rooney), Lennox (James Lin) and messenger (Tayla Deakin) listen to the porter’s message (Jordan Davies)

Macbeth (centre) plots with murderers Jonathan Eyers (left) and Dylan Groom (right)

A brooding Macbeth (Sam Kael in)

The bloody deed is done

This term all the senior Drama students were involved in a production of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

The bloody deed is done

Lady Macbeth (Jen Currie) tells her husband Macbeth (Sam Kaelin) that he is “…too full of the milk of human kindness.”

Young Macduff (Jasper Hankins) and Lady Macduff (Caitlin Reid) fear their future

Three witches: double bubble toil and trouble, (Cat McRae, Harriet-Anne Embling and Leah Buckley)

Macduff (Alex Penrose) right, and his men, celebrate victory over Macbeth

The ‘Scottish Play’ begins

Murder most foulMacbeth (Sam Kaelin) and messenger (Taylor Deakin)

Thanks Mr Clothier

Well done Mr Clothier, cast and support crew. The Headmaster brings the curtain down on Term One

APRIL

DAWN AT GALLIPOLI 33

CHOIR: TOUR OF O’AHU

HAWAI’I 34

CHAPEL TEAM 35

PHYSICS AND ELECTRONICS 35

Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives… you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours… You the mothers who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears. Your sons are now living in our bosom and are in peace. Having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

Mustafa Kemal Atataturk (Turkish leader at Gallipoli and ‘father’ of Modern Turkey)

Dawn at Gallipoli

Author: Sam Hogg

I think the Air New Zealand slogan “being there is everything” is very fitting – it’s not until you actually go to the places that these sort of events happen that you realise the magnitude of the events themselves. ANZAC day means a lot to a lot of people, not just Australians and New Zealanders, and I saw this first hand with my trip to Turkey.

After transferring to the city of Çanakkale we caught the ferry over to the Gallipoli peninsular itself, and aided by Dr Tim McGibbon from the Ministry of Culture and Heritage, we were given a tour of the battlefields, and harsh landscapes that set the Gallipoli campaign apart.

There is no way of imagining what it would’ve been like, landing on Anzac Cove on the 1915. The terrain in the area is so rough, and hilly, that once landed the Anzac’s were definitely at the mercy of the Turks.

Right next to Anzac Cove was the Ari Burnu cemetery, a place where many Australians, as well as a few New

Zealanders were buried. It was really interesting to note the ages of those remembered at the cemetery – some of them were as young as me, a sobering thought when you look at the surrounding landscape. We continued our walk, and from the top of the ridge we had awesome views of the coastline, a strategic luxury that the Turks would’ve enjoyed during the battle, as they could see for miles.

The first set of services was on the 24th of April, and unbeknown to us we were about to get the full VIP treatment. Our motorcade, including dignitaries from Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, Britain, India, Germany and France, was no less than 30 vehicles long. Each VIP bus was flanked by four police cars and a federal police truck, with police blocking off all side roads from our path.

ANZAC Day seemed to come around all too quickly, and it was an all too sad start to the day that we found out about the Iroquois disaster back home. The entire New Zealand contingent was reminded

once again that in serving the country, many people make the ultimate sacrifice. Later that day we were told who was involved in the helicopter crash, two of them: Flight Lieutenant Hayden Madsen and Flying Officer Daniel Gregory were our tour guides at Ohakea just the week before. The Dawn Service was very moving –and it was amazing to see how many people had braved the night at the Anzac Commemorative Site – no less than ten thousand people packed the stands and grassy banks surrounding the area, which made for an awesome atmosphere. During the service itself, however, you could’ve heard a pin drop – the silence was eerie, a sign of the respect all those involved showed towards the fallen. Undoubtedly the most emotional service of the day was to be the New Zealand service at Chunuk Bair. The loss of the members of 3 Squadron definitely gave the service a sombre tone, and just being there made me so proud to be a New Zealander. The way in which the members of the Air Force held themselves together was amazing, and they are such a professional group of people.

Several memories will stay with me for a lifetime. Those are the camaraderie of everyone on board our flights to and from Gallipoli, especially during the very special mid-air service for the Iroquois tragedy on the way home; the veterans who shared brilliant yet brutal stories of their times in Vietnam, Korea and Europe, and finally the group of students that were part of this trip was amazing – we had some awesome times and no doubt we will be friends for a long time to come.

Along with veterans, VIP’s, media, members of the Army, Navy and Air force, and 24 other students, I was selected, to be part of the official New Zealand contingent to travel to Gallipoli for ANZAC day this year.

Sam Hogg with fellow school and veteran representatives

Choir: Tour of O’ahu Hawai’i

Author: Mr Francis Cowan

During the April holidays 31 students and 10 parents accompanied by Mr Francis Cowan and Mrs Adrianne McDowell spent 10 full days in Hawai’i.

Performances

Performances on tour included a “Flash Sing”. We dressed in No.1 uniform and sang outside the Westin Moana Surfrider Hotel, The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, and outside the Cheesecake Factory Restaurant. We attracted positive attention and started our week on a positive note!

Our first formal engagement was at Iolani School, an Episcopalian private school of 2800 students. The choir presented a 30 minute programme to the advanced choir in their Chorus Room. The Iolani students lead by John Alexander first sang us an original song in the Hawaiian language.

We then presented an outdoor performance at the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center. Our students began to understand the significance of being in an international context after the mall announcement described us being from New Zealand.

We sang in the regular lunchtime series at St. Andrew’s Anglican Cathedral. Although a small audience, the response was excellent and the choir mingled after the concert. Our singing showed development in confidence and presentation.

On one of our days off we toured Pearl Harbor. The students singing of ‘Come Ye Servants’ by Christopher Tye on the U.S.S Arizona Memorial was for many a highlight. We gathered in the Shrine next to the marble wall which lists the dead of the Arizona from 7 Dec 1941 and sang brilliantly. Many on the Memorial were moved to tears.

We were privileged to sing at the Vigil Mass at St Augustine’s by the Sea; the famous Catholic church in Waikiki. The congregation was delighted by the choir’s contribution.

Our final service was the Choral Eucharist at St Andrew’s Cathedral. The magnificent gothic cathedral provided a wonderful setting for the final performance of the tour. We were set a space to sing from the back while the Cathedral Choir took the choir stalls.

I wish to acknowledge the team of parents who assisted before and on tour and particularly thank Adrianne McDowell for the huge job she took on managing our tour.

Chapel Team

Author: Reverend Craig Luccock

The chapel team plays a very important role here at School. They are the group of people behind the scenes making sure every chapel service and Headmasters assembly runs smoothly. It is a challenging job and, in many ways, thankless because nobody really notices them until something goes wrong - technology has a bad habit of letting one down at the most inopportune moments. However, they are there every afternoon, faithfully going about their duties, ensuring the smooth running of events in our chapel.

The chapel team consists of students ranging from Year 9 to Year13 who are ably led by Kent Stewart and Andrew Mills. Their skills and dedication has made my job much easier regarding the technical side of chapel services. They are a creative and quickthinking group who help ensure that my ideas for chapel services come to fruition as well as troubleshoot when problems arise. The chapel team this year has been an excellent group to work with. They are positive, upbeat and always enjoy a good laugh, and I look forward to working with many of them again next year.

Physics and Electronics

Author: Mr David Sole

Overall the academic outcomes in physics for 2009 were similar to past years but it would be fair to say that the top end results were a little disappointing. The experiment of running a separate scholarship class did not seem to produce the four or five scholarships expected. Although several students probably came close only Tim Ng got there, a result which was thoroughly well deserved.

As in past years our 2009 electronics students produced excellent results with the vast majority of students getting achieved in every unit standard that was assessed. Most of the students not only gained all the credits on offer but earned two industry qualifications: The National certificate in Electrotechnology and The Electrotechnology Industry Training Organisation Certificate of Attainment. It is pleasing that year 13 electronics has been reintroduced in 2010 as many year12 students have been keen to follow up their level 2 learning with level 3 electronics. Unfortunately because of small numbers the class has had to be a combined year 12/13 group which makes teaching a practical subject like electronics extremely challenging.

They’ve seen the light !

“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking”

Back Row: Jonathan Eyers, David Thomas, Samuel Armstrong, Alex Hargreaves

2nd Row: Karin-Jane Slater, David Hoskins, Samuel Tharratt, James Lin, Rev C. Luccock

Front Row: Reece Patterson, Samuel Hogg, Kent Stewart, Thomas Swarbrick, Andrew Mills

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WEIGHTS 37

DUKE OF EDINBURGH SILVER AWARD 38

ARTS WEEK – A WONDERFUL ARRAY OF TALENT 38

Autumn Morning

It was the first day of Autumn and I was amazed There were tree tops glistening in a vibrant glaze.

As I stood at my window admiring this view I saw a leaf with a slight orange hue.

The crisp autumn air was perfumed to my delight With the fruitful fragrance of orange, citrus and spice.

I thought to myself ‘what a beautiful day!’ As the summer breeze made my curtains sway

So I rushed to get dressed in a sweater and jeans And went for a walk to enjoy this Autumn scene.

Children were laughing as they played in leaves with delight, I stopped and smiled at such a precious sight.

Ben Savage, Year 9

CERTIFICATES AND CUPS AWARDED AT ASSEMBLY ON FRIDAY, 14TH MAY:

Cross Country

Author: Mr Martin Holmes

The weather at this annual event was more challenging than usual, as the heavy showers midway through the afternoon left many wet and cold before they ran and exhausted afterwards. Even though the weather was poor, the standard of participation, enthusiasm and ultimately competition remained high.

In the girls event, Teagan Voykovich (Year 11) demonstrated why she was one of the top junior runners in New Zealand last year by leading from start to finish. Unfortunately, for defending champion Petra Miln (Year 13) the pace and strength of Teagan was too much, resulting in her finishing second, with Bex Atkinson (Year 13) third.

It was hard to pick a likely winner, pre-race, for the junior boys’ age group but in a good race Jacob Robb from Hall House put in a well judged effort to beat Daniel Goodwin and Tom Smith.

Weights

Author: Mr John Oehley

The 2010 Weights Club was very active with over 30 regular members training two to three times per week. Great levels of fitness were achieved; much iron pumped and a large amount of muscle generated (for the boys). There was lots of fun and banter and the girls added a civilised dimension to macho muscular males. It was great to see this wonderful facility fully utilised on most afternoons and my appreciation goes to those staff who assisted with supervision in the weights room over the year. A big vote of thanks goes to the Parents’ Association for their massive financial input in making this a top class training venue.

The intermediate boys’ race saw a tight tussle between Jonty Rae and James Mason over the first lap of the two lap course. However in the second lap, the training James has been doing in preparation for his first season of cross country running, began to tell as he slowly pulled away from Jonty. James continued to build on this lead on the hills, resulting in him earning a thoroughly deserved first placing. Jonty maintained his gutsy effort to place second, with Jonty MacPherson third. The senior boy’s race provided a good opportunity to gauge how the group training for the six man team selected for the National Secondary School Cross Country Championships was progressing. The schools top prospect Michael Eggleton continued his fine summer form

with a controlled performance that saw him leading for most of the race and eventually cross the finish line first. Not far behind him were three other team members going to Nationals with Andrew Milne in second, Glenn Eyers third and Nathan Darling fourth. This combined with the imminent return from injury of Ollie Smith and James Mason’s effort in the intermediate boys’ race, shows the team is heading in the right direction.

Back Row: Ben Schroder; Andrew McPherson; Riley Malins; Joe Powell; Jeremy Markman; William van der Vyver, Thomas Hollman

Middle Row: Matthew Hickmott; Jake Barber; Grayson Croasedale; James Pickford; Mikey Hodge.

Front Row: Amy Zhang; Nina Phillips; Julia Frick; Mr Oehley (Coach/Mentor/ Personal Trainer) Holly Adamson; Shreena Patel; Jane Kim.

Absent: Hilton Gibbons; Tyler Staunton; David Hoskins; Jeff Nam; Zane Carlyon; James Chancellor; Taylor Saywell.

Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award

Author: Mr Grant Lander

Congratulations to James Chancellor and Kent Stewart, both Year 13, who through a coordinated programme of service and achievement have earned the Silver Award for The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.

The Silver Award is normally completed over two years and involves 60 hours of service over 18 months, a three-day outdoor education expedition, involvement in leisure pursuits for six months and sport for at least twelve months.

Given that most of our Year 10 students gain their Bronze Award as a result of their commitments at Tihoi and the holistic nature of the educational opportunities at St Paul’s, I expect more of our students to take up the opportunity to gain both Silver and Gold Awards. Duke of Edinburgh is an internationally recognised programme. Mr Chris Wynn, Director of the Tihoi Venture School, has offered to help both boys and girls wanting to coordinate their outdoor expedition from Tihoi. Many prospective employers in the Commonwealth place a high value on the motivational, organisational and life skills gained from involvement in the Duke of Edinburgh scheme – as anyone who has completed their OE in Britain will attest to.

If you require any further information about the Duke of Edinburgh scheme please contact our coordinator at St Paul’s, Mr Phil Clements.

Arts Week – A Wonderful Array of Talent

Author: Miss Kelly Stephens

After a year of anticipation Arts Week 2010 finally arrived. A week where the students of St Paul’s could get a taste for both the artistic activities and talents our school has to offer.

Theatre Sports

Monday’s theatre sports showed the school our students acting abilities and their ability to think both sensibly and comically on the spot, and overall entertained the School and helped them discover the lighter side to drama.

School Review and Variety Show

After an absence of 10 years this show offered the many talents of students to be showcased to the School with the likes of musical performances and dance acts. We were also treated to acts by members of staff who overcame nerves and were able to perform on stage, singing the latest pop hits or lip-syncing to the likes of Joe Cocker. The highlight of the evening was the review, when we saw students perform skits, with the likes of Mr Groom, Rev and even Mr Lander being taken off. Now

Arts Week Friday

This is the peak of the week where the students are indulged in a full day of arts to complete artistic activities and compete for the much desired Marty Wong trophy, this year won by Hamilton House. The first time body paint was a huge success as the houses effectively conveyed the themes on a truly unique body canvas. House film was set at a standard higher then we’ve ever seen as each house had to effectively portray the use of specific props, genres and themes into a five minute film. The sculpture competition used the materials of cardboard and plastic bags to depict the theme ‘opposites attract’. Lip sync showed our shamelessness in competing for our houses as each team preformed a full length song in front of the entire school, yet proved their quality of dancing as we all watched on in awe. Newly introduced into Arts Week, the debating competition was a testimony to the oratory skills at St Paul’s while the ‘physical challenge’ showed our determination for our houses as we sprinted, crawled and raced through mud and water in the freezing cold weather.

Fashion Show

Friday night was the time to celebrate fashion as the Harington fashion show expressed the School’s love for design. Alice Fisher said “the Harington fashion show was a well organised event. It really showed the girls enthusiasm for their houses, and I thank them all for their 100% effort.”

Overall the week was a huge successful. A mention must be made to those behind it, the teachers, the students and in particular Miss Stephens, for ensuring the entire week ran like clockwork.

THE WINNING HOUSE FOR EACH EVENT WAS:

Theatre sport School

Chalk Art Hamilton

Sculpture Clark

Physical Challenge Hall

Short Film Hamilton

Photography Fitchett

Debating Williams

Lip-Sync Hamilton

Fashion Show Hamilton

Clark House winners of the Sculpture Competition

Clark House Unity

Admiring Theatre Sports Set

House Painting Hall House Sculpture

Harington Fashion Parade

Sam Hewat’s a star

Stunning Sargood

Hamilton House version of High School Musical

School House lipsync

Mark Mills dances up a moonwalk

Art is serious business

Hamilton hamming it up

The juniors pull their weight

Paul’s

JUNE Creative Writing Extract

That day was the first time I felt my whole life burn to shreds. I could hear the screams and cries burning in my throat. Yet no sound escaped my mouth, no words, no shriek, not even a gasp. I was motionless.

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Seconds turned into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into weeks and weeks into months. Two months have passed. Still today I hear her bellowing laugh every time I do something stupid. Her disapproving finger when that stupidity turned into irresponsibility. Her excited and proud stance every time I achieved. I look back now and only wish I still had her. To tell me everything’s ok. For comfort. For help. For support. To cry to. To listen to. To laugh with. I’m struggling without her.

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It’s easy to put on a happy face. People here don’t know me well enough to read through the cracks. But deep down inside the pain fills me. I can’t escape it. Everytime I see my family it only makes me miss her more. Every now and then my heart skids to a halt. Our hearts had beat as one. Now they no longer beat at all.

Tayla Panattiere-Welch

Cross Country

Waikato/Bay of Plenty Cross Country Championships

Author: Mr Martin Holmes

Our junior boys got off to a brilliant start at the WBOP Cross Country held on the grounds of Waikato University. Daniel Goodwin finished 8th, closely followed by Danyon Fernando 11th and Stefan Krystman 12th. This gave us a third place in the teams’ event. Our intermediate girls were a bit off the pace, but Teagan Voykovich finished third, a good result for her considering recent injuries. The intermediate boys led by Ollie Smith 2nd, James Mason 4th and Jonty MacPherson 24th were a creditable third.

In the senior boys’ event results were: Michael Eggleton 9th, Nathan Darling 13th, Andrew Milne 14th and Sam Hewat 35th, allowing the senior boys to finish second in the provincial championships.

All of St Paul’s runners performed impressively in this regional event and our older competition gained valuable confidence in the lead up to the national event in Wellington.

National Secondary Schools’ Cross Country Championships – Waikanae

Author: Mr Defyd Williams

Although the senior boys’ team fell a little short of their goal to win a medal, they achieved two very creditable seventh places in the three man and six man events. Our two intermediate boys performed best–Ollie Smith placed 17th and James Mason placed 47th. Both boys will contest next year’s nationals in Ashburton. A team that can get three in the top fifty has a good chance of medaling. Michael Eggleton by his own standards was a disappointing 79th. He was closely followed by Nathan Darling in 83rd, which really helped our six man teams’ performance. Andrew Milne’s 103rd was a good performance in a field of 245. Glenn Eyers suffered injury and failed to finish. Our seventh runner Jonty MacPherson placed 188th still ahead of 57 runners. The 7th place in the six man event was three places better than last year’s 10th place. We finished ahead of some notable cross country teams including St Kentigerns, Wellington College and Christchurch Boys.

Our lone senior girl runner Teagan Voykovich faced a huge challenge coming off injury and limited aerobic preparation. She was 17th in the first lap but faded to 61st, however this was still in the top quarter of the field.

Road Relay

Author: Mr Martin Holmes

A very good standard of running was evident, with the standout performances coming from Ollie Smith (School), James Mason (Hall), Michael Eggleton (Clark), and Teagan Voykovich (Clark). Ollie and James were the only intermediate runners to go under five minutes, and Michael and Teagan both broke records on the senior course. Teagan’s time of 6 minutes 10 seconds was faster than the majority of the boys who ran the senior course.

The students really got behind this demanding event. Runners showed real commitment and courage as they pushed themselves to gain the best possible advantage for their peers.

THE OVERALL RESULTS FOR THE HOUSE RELAY COMPETITION AFTER COMBINING THE ‘A’, ‘B’ AND GIRLS TEAM PERFORMANCES WERE AS FOLLOWS:

Jonno and Ryke sweating for Sargood in the Road Relay

James Hogg a member of Clark’s winning Road relay team

All out exhaustion at the end of the Road Relay

Ludwig rests after his lap hoping for a Sargood win

Chemistry

Waikato University Analytical Challenge

Author: Mr Duncan Smith

Parents Association

Author: Mr Tim Elliot

Of special note are three long standing members; Penny Taylor (current Vice Chairman), Philippa Hickmott and Sue Aitken. These three members have assisted with many hospitality events throughout their time at St Paul’s. Their loyalty and dedication to the Committee will be sorely missed.

The Parents Association has, of course been busy throughout 2010 providing hospitality at many school events. These include:

• At half time during the tremendously successful 2010 school production of Sweeney Todd.

• Sausage sizzles at House Rugby, House Football & Hockey and during the NZ Schools Regional Rugby Tournament.

• Hosting the Year 12 & 13 Parents’ Dinner held in the Long Room on the night of the School Ball.

• Plus other fabulous events that contributed to this year’s overall success. The Parents Association has now completed the window coverings in the Long Room and provided a facility for hanging artwork in there. We have also continued to provide financial support via grants to activities throughout the

school; the School Choir trip to Hawaii, a special grant to the rowing fraternity for their Twizel National Tournament and to many other sporting codes. We have also continued to help out the Houses in a project of their choice.

Our Chairman, Tim Elliott, along with promotion – ‘A Taste of the Hawkes Bay’.

On Wednesday 16 th June the St Paul’s team of Sam Hogg, Kent Stewart, James Chancellor and Hugh McKay travelled to the Waikato University where they competed in the annual Analytical Chemistry Competition. James and Sam undertook a series of titrations and numerous calculations in the volumetric section in order to determine the percentage composition of lead in a toxic sample. While Kent and Hugh, also trying to determine the percentage of lead, undertook a gravimetric approach. With 24 schools representing Auckland, Waikato and the Bay of Plenty the competition was tough. St Paul’s managed to achieve third place, a fantastic result given the complexity of the challenges.

fantastic contributor to our balance sheet, helping our committee provide assistance

‘Plates

out and ready for you to purchase. This is the first St Paul’s Recipe book available in ten years! We had a fantastic response

family favourite recipes and advertising support. Thank you to everyone who contributed their favourite recipes and supporting St Paul’s Collegiate School.

As we draw closer to the end of the 2010 school year we would like to thank our St Paul’s parents who will be leaving the school this year for their fantastic support and contribution.

Parents Association president Mr Tim Elliot hands over the keys of the new minibus to the Headmaster Mr Grant Lander

Northfield Mount Hermon Visit

Once again, St Paul’s had the pleasure of hosting nine students from Northfield Mt Hermon School near Boston Massachusetts for three days during their trip around New Zealand. This year the group was supervised by Mark and Lisa Yates who were also on their first trip to New Zealand.

The highlight of this annual trip has always been the visit to our school and homestay with Kiwi families.

Squash

Waikato Secondary Schools Championships

Author: Mr Robert Aldridge

St Paul’s was represented by 2 teams in Division 2 of the Waikato Champs which were held on 10th June at the Hamilton Squash Club.

Playing for St Paul’s A were Blake Gordon, Riley Thompson, and James Atherton: St Paul’s B consisted of Tom Tietjen, Mat Burke and Rian Bovill. To win a match, at least two players had to win their games; to win an individual game, players had to win at least 3 sets out of 5.

In the first round, St Paul’s “A” defeated Cambridge High School, each player won in straight sets. St Paul’s “B” lost to Hillcrest “B”. Tom Tietjen served strongly and played consistently to win his match in straight sets.

In the 2nd round, the St Paul’s “A” team comfortably defeated Hillcrest “B” and again each player won in straight sets. St Paul’s “B” defeated Cambridge High School. Rian and Mat both rose to the challenge and eventually overcame difficult opponents.

In the 3rd round, Riley and Blake moved up a gear and led the team to a 2 – 1 win over a strong Matamata side; and as a result, St Paul’s “A” qualified for the final to be played against Te Awamutu.

In the final, first up James had a convincing win in straight sets. In the second game, Riley fought hard but eventually went down. With the games tied at one each, the pressure was now on Blake to win his game and secure victory for the team. Unfortunately, Blake lost the first two sets of his match although by narrow margins in each case. However, he then staged a remarkable comeback and won the next two sets so that the match had to go to a fifth and final set. With both players now showing signs of exhaustion, Blake narrowly lost the final set 15 -10. However, the team exceeded all expectations in finishing runners-up.

All of the St Paul’s players are to be commended for playing with great determination and tenacity throughout the tournament.

The New Zealand Community Trust Chamber Music

Contest is one of the most significant event in the national musical calendar and has come a long way as it celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. The aim of the contest is to encourage young musicians, regardless of standard or experience to perform chamber music together and strive towards excellence. This year a total of 2000 students from 15 regional contests were involved in this prestigious competition. Amy Zhang (piano) and her chamber group Troika (other two members played the violin and the cello) played Piano Trio No 3 in F minor Opus 65 (I. Allegro ma non troppo) by Dvořák which won the Waikato Regional contest. They were also chosen as one of the 12 groups to compete in the national finals which were held in Wellington.

Back Row: Mr R. Aldridge (Manager), B. Wilson, T. Tietjen, M. Burke, Mr B. Lloyd (Coach)

Front Row: J. Bovill, R. Bovill, R. Thompson, C. Gawith, D. Wallbank

Our visitors from Northfield Mount Hermon

Amy Zhang

SETON PRIZE for MOST OUTSTANDING STUDENT: Toby Way

MURRAY HARINGTON

CUP FOR MOST IMPROVED STUDENT:

Callum Brown

DIRECTORS AWARDS:

Daniel Chegwidden, Rory

Forde, Devon Kyle, William Lockwood-Geck, Jared McCarthy, Sean Rooney

FURMINGER AWARD: (student who has shown respect to staff and other students)

Nick Don

COMMUNITY SERVICE AND ENVIRONMENT AWARD:

Jaden Rouse

CROSS COUNTRY AWARD: Ezra Berridge

Tihoi Venture School / Intake One

Authors: Mr Chris Wynn and Ms Cyn Smith

Student Led Tramp assessed the expedition component of the Duke of Edinburgh Hillary Award. The students worked in groups of 10–12 and planned a three day trip in the Pureora Forest Park. Groups purchased the food for the trip in Taupo, planned the route and led all aspects of the trip including some challenging navigation in the forest.

For the first time ever, all students gained their Duke of Edinburgh Bronze award. This was a reflection of the calibre of boys in this intake. Other parts of the award were completed at Tihoi with boys doing their service in the centre or at the local primary school - skills were cooking on the coal range stoves. This intake, the boys had the opportunity to complete a half or third marathon – 21km or 14km. This run was held on the tracks known as the W2K track (Whakaipo Bay to Kinloch). This is a fantastic walking, running and mountain biking track that has recently opened. Ezra Berridge is to be congratulated on completing the 21km distance in a time of 1hr 48mins. This was an outstanding time over a very hilly half marathon course.

SHOOTING AWARD: Euan Reynolds

EXPEDITION AWARDS: (for all-round excellence on expedition)

KAYAK - Toby Way

ROCK CLIMBING - Sean Collinson-Smith

TRAMP - Ezra Berridge and Ryan Littleworth

ALPINE - Vincent Reilly

MOST VALUED HOUSE

MEMBERS:

HART - Heath Blyth

JOCKS - William LockwoodGeck

POLLYS - Callum Brown

PURPLE - Taylor Hayes

MOLLYS - Dilawar Singh

MORTIMER - Toby Way

GILLS - Joshua Lemon

KINGHAM CUP: (House winning the most house sport)

HART HOUSE: Conor Aldridge, Heath Blyde, Sean CollinsonSmith, Logan Jakes, Ayush Lakhera, Matthew May, Euan Reynolds and Jason Young

LUDER TROPHEY: (Overall winning house)

MORTIMER HOUSE: Hugo Fanning, Conner Fullerton, Bill Li, Caleb Lingman, Ryan Littleworth, Sam Robinson, Louis Suk, and Toby Way

The boys completed their Tihoi journey with a graduation lunch at Tihoi on Saturday June 19th. The last month of the intake experienced the cooling of weather and the traditional end of intake events – including student led tramps, 44 hour solo and expeditions.

Expeditions

ROCK CLIMBING

When the bad weather ceased we were able to depart to Wharepapa South School and head over to Castle Rock to climb on some real rock faces which we had been longing for. The climbs varied drastically between length and grade but all holds had a sharp edge and were easy to grip. Unfortunately we couldn’t get into lead climbing right away and had to settle for top roping as it was much quicker and allowed us to get in more climbs. The next day we came back to that same crag, Castle Rock, well prepared for a hearty days worth of climbing. Most boys kicked it off by getting straight into their first outdoor lead climb. The sun kept fading in and out of sight and hiding behind temporary drizzles of rain, it was still a wicked day of climbing.

WHITE WATER KAYAKING

We woke up to sunshine and were glad to be heading to Ohope Beach. When we arrived we were shocked to see no surf what so ever. However everyone was still keen to go out and have a go. Once out the surf started to pick up and in no time everybody was carving the waves. There were flips and always someone on the beach empting his boat of water. We woke up to another beautiful day and did not have to travel far to the Rangataiki as it flows out of Lake Aniwhenua where we camped. On the river there were some cool rapids like humpty dumpty and the rapid with the play wave. It was so much fun we did it twice.

TRAMP ONE

Day four was very hectic as we got up at 6:00am and packed up our flys and got ready to break camp and move onto another hut. We had porridge for breakfast again which was great as it was an extremely cold morning. We packed all our gear back into our packs and began the long hard tramp along the Waiau River then made our way up to the top of the Blue Slip which took forever but was worth it for the view. We tramped for what seemed like an age but finally broke through the dense bush of the Ureweras and popped out next to the TeWaiotukapiti hut. We quickly collected fire wood and set up our flys before darkness fell. For dinner that

night we had Spaghetti Bolognaise but we didn’t have mince so we had our favourite meat salami - we were overjoyed. We then talked on the mountain radio then all ran and huddled into our sleeping bags for a very cold night.

TRAMP TWO

The journey began with the whole group being flown into the Upper Te Hoe Hut in the Urewera National Park. It was a mesmerizing experience for the students and instructors alike. Once the group was together again the gathering of firewood began, as all the cooking was to be done in camp ovens over an open fire. That night hamburgers were on the menu, but without tomato sauce! The bacon and eggs made up for the lack of the Kiwi classic. A group decision was made to read a few chapters of Barry Crump’s ‘A Good Keen Man’ every night. The students were allowed to sleep in the hut that night, which they were all very grateful for.

The next morning the pack up was swift, as the group aimed to leave at nine o’clock. Nick Don was the first to be taken hunting. He and Kelly went up the track first and headed into a small gut in an attempt to set the group up with some venison for dinner. As the group caught up to them it was evident that they were unsuccessful. This day of tramping was the longest of the three, however the reward was great. Central Te Hoe Hut boasted 15 beds, indoor running water and a spacious living area. The fireplace was used to cook dinner as it was a wet night. After the nightly session of ‘A Good Keen Man’ the whole group was more than happy to go to bed.

ALPINE

We drove to the base of the mountain where strong winds blasted ice and snow into everyone’s faces, we were all glad to get into the shelter. We learnt about the

transceivers and got our plan for climbing the mountain. Cam and Callum were persistent in telling us that it was ok not to reach the hut. We picked up from that that it was going to be hard. It was! Walking up the mountain is an understatement. We waded up the mountain with 50-60km winds blasting us. We were relieved to reach the hut in the extremely fast time of one hour fifty. In the hut we got out of our snow covered gear, we had a drying room and heaters, luxury! After hot Milo’s and lunch we allowed to do anything we wanted so being boys we decided that the best option was to go out into the freezing cold and throw snow at each other. It was amazing. The white-out was so bad we could only see ten metres in front of us so the snow fight got pretty brutal. After a half hour we gave up and went inside where Cam was making an amazing curry with home-made Naan bread.

We made our way down the mountain in typically perfect weather. We had to use crampons the whole day, which was awesome. At one point we had to go down a basically vertical wall of snow by punching foot steps and hand holes into the ice and snow. At the bottom of the mountain we had to dig out the car before driving to a much needed relax in the hot pools.

The expeditions were the highlight of the Tihoi experience for most boys – the bout of bad weather resulted in contingency plans being followed but all trips met the aims of further developing skills in a chosen pursuit, having fun and being part of an extended outdoor adventure.

“… At one point we had to go down a basically vertical wall of snow by punching foot steps and hand holes into the ice and snow. . .”

JULY

Extract from Sweeney Todd

Come into my Parlor said the spider to the fly

Come into my barbers shop said Todd unto Toby

SCHOLARS’ ASSEMBLY 47

SWEENEY TODD 48

FAREWELL GEOFF DELL: LOOK BEYOND THE HORIZON 49

RYAN LEWIS 50

25TH GIRLS JUBILEE 50

PROJECT SAMOA 54

For a roughness I do detect about the throat I fear Me thinks it would look better when cut from ear to ear

Sweeney Todd is my name cutting throats is my game

Upon the secret pedal my foot I do depress Flung back into the dark abyss unto eternal rest For my mistress Lovett meat for her pies does need A busy shop a boiling pot and customers to feed

Sweeney Todd is my name cutting throats is my game

Scholars’ Assembly

Author: Mr John Oehley

In order to be awarded a St Paul’s Scholarship and be named on the School Honours Board, a student must:

1. Achieve three or more Scholarships (Approximately top 200 in NZ) in the external NCEA Scholarship examination and/or

2. Achieve one or more Outstanding Scholarships (Approximately top 10 in NZ)

Our guest speaker at this function was Dr Kevin Morris, Board Member and current Director of Teaching and Learning at the Auckland University Business School. He spoke to the school about the power of hard work and commitment in all walks of life.

The recipients of the 2009 awards were presented their cheques by Dr Morris on behalf of the St Paul’s community.

THOSE HONOURED WERE:

Wei Wei Ng

A School Prefect, Deputy Head of Harington House, leader of Stage Challenge, as well as a wide variety of cultural activities.

• Achieved Outstanding Scholarship in Media Studies – top ten in NZ

• Studying BA LLB (law) at Victoria University

• Victoria Excellence Scholarship $4,500

• NZ Chinese Association Scholarship $750

• NZQA Scholarship $500

• St Paul’s Scholarship $750

Congratulations to Mr Dell and Mr Williams for their input into Wei Wei’s scholarship

Jennifer Jin

A School Prefect who represented New Zealand at Table Tennis and in addition is an outstanding musician.

• Achieved an Outstanding Scholarship in Statistics (top 30 in NZ) plus a Scholarship in Chemistry

• Studying Medicine at Otago University

• Winner of the Leaders of Tomorrow Scholarship $5,000

• NZQA Scholarships of $1,000

• St Paul’s Scholarship of $750

Congratulations to Mr Judkins and Mr Smith on their input into Jennifer’s scholarships

John Scott-Jones

Head of School for 2009, involved in major charity drives including a period in Nepal doing volunteer work in an orphanage courtesy of winning the Ward Family Scholarship.

• Achieved Scholarships in English, History and Chemistry

• Won the Robertson Scholarship to study in the USA–worth between $300,000 & $400,000 over four years

• Won $6,000 of NZQA Scholarships

• Won the Victoria University Excellence Scholarship worth $4,500

• Won St Paul’s Scholarship of $750

Has been studying at Victoria but will move to Duke University and the University of North Carolina USA in the next few weeks where he will study Political Science, English and History

Congratulations to Mr Coley, Mr Williams, Dr McGrath and Mr Smith on their input into John’s achievements.

Hayden Gutry

Head of Hall House, 1st XV rugby, involved in the school’s Hillary Challenge team.

• Our top Scholarship student achieving Outstanding Scholarship (top 4 in NZ) in Accounting, Scholarship in History (he was 3rd in NZ in Cambridge History) plus Scholarships in Economics and Geography

• Studying Law and Commerce at Auckland University

• Awarded a Victoria Excellence Scholarship worth $4,500

• NZQA Scholarship of $6,000

• St Paul’s Scholarship of $750

Congratulations to Mr Holmes, Mr Williams and Mr Morton for their input into Hayden’s success.

A feature of these students was that they were all integrally involved in the extracurricular life of the School. This illustrated that our top students can still achieve highly despite committing many hours to the wider life of being associated with St Paul’s Collegiate School.

The success of these students can be attributed to their committed and supportive parents, their hard working teachers and of course the huge input they put in themselves to achieve at this level. A further factor in their success was the support given to them by the staff of the Scholarship mentoring group – Mr Oehley, Dr McGrath, Mr Williams and Mr Coley in particular.

Warm congratulations to all involved in the success of these young people. We look forward to further success as they venture into the world of tertiary studies.

“… He spoke to the school about the power of hard work and commitment in all walks of life. . .”

This is the occasion at which we recognise the academic high achievers of our 2009 Year 13 group.

Jennifer Jin, John Scott-Jones, Dr Kevin Morris, Hayden Gutry and Wei Wei Ng

Sweeney Todd

Author: Mr Nick Jensen

This year, St Paul’s actors took part in the ambitious musical production of the ‘school edition’ of Christopher Bon’s play, ‘Sweeney Todd’.

A successful West End musical, which recently was performed in the Maidment Theatre in Auckland, this at times gory thriller, was a challenging choice for the annual musical, given the complexity of text and score.

However, the musical direction of Mr Francis Cowan; stage direction of Mrs Liz Buick; choreography and assistant direction of Mrs Roimata Templeton; and set design of Mr Simon Boyer-Wilson, and the talent of the young St Paul’s thespians combined to produce what can only be described as a powerful, polished and professional performance.

Mr Cowan’s passion, enthusiasm and energy proved central to the success of the production. While the standard of acting and singing were superb and the cast rose to the challenges of this very demanding show. There were many powerful performances, often in the face of challenging musical material. David Hoskins (Sweeney Todd), Sam Kaelin (Judge Turpin), Caitlin Reid (Mrs Lovett), Alex Penrose (The Beadle), Matt Hickmott (Pirelli), Jonathan Eyers (Anthony Hope), Cameron Downey (Tobias Ragg), Jen Currie (Beggar Woman), Charlotte Atherton (Johanna), Tim Prestage (Fogg) were all extremely creditable and confident in the roles they played. There were ably supported by a huge cast of 34 other singers and actors. The size of the cast gave many in the School the opportunity of taking part in what was an ambitious and entertaining production. This production proved a resounding success and members of the cast, technical support and backstage crews should be justifiably proud of their achievement. Feedback from the audiences has been extremely enthusiastic and effusive in their praise. No one who was in the audience could help but come away from the performance anything but impressed, by the amazing musical and acting talents of our students.

David Hoskins takes lead as Sweeney Todd

An outstanding cast

Jen Currie as Beggar Woman

Matt Hickmott as Pirelli

Charlotte Atherton (Johanna) and Jonathan Eyers (Anthony Hope)

Caitlin Reid as Mrs Lovett with David Hoskins (Sweeney Todd)

Farewell Geoff Dell: Look Beyond The Horizon

Author: Mr Defyd Williams

Geoff and Jill Dell arrived at St Paul’s Collegiate in 2007. Geoff took up the position of Housemaster at Sargood House and taught Classics, Media Studies and English. Sargood had seen a succession of House Masters in recent years including Steve Te Whaiti, Cor Bezuidenhout and Graeme Yule. A famous educationalist was once asked why he taught and answered that he taught to change the world. All of us believe that some of the charges in our care may make an impact on Planet Earth. We sometimes forget how important a housemaster’s partner is in the success of a House and some schools advertise for House parents. Geoff and Jill Dell came into Sargood House wanting to make a difference.

Assistant Housemaster Andrew Constable made Geoff well aware that he was coming into a potentially volatile situation and the problems of instability needed solutions. Geoff and Jill, both teachers, had a diverse range of experience of boarding schools from Dover College in England, to the former St Stephens Maori boys’ college to Argyll House

at Hamilton Boys’ High School. Jill, a primary teacher at Frankton School had played a part in the successful implementation of the Virtues Programme there and Geoff as a change agent believed that the same could be implemented in Sargood House.

Geoff made a strong start at Sargood House. He immediately tapped into the spirit of Sargood, which at best is Steadfast (as expressed in its motto) and at worst staunchly uncooperative. In recent years rugby talent has abounded at Sargood and Geoff worked hard to channel this rough tough spirit in a positive way. Geoff painted his beard red to show his support for the House during House Rugby. Sargood are usually top rung in rugby, but bottom in House Music.

Geoff, Jill and others including House tutor Duncan Smith and his wife did a lot to lift Sargood from laughing stock in House Music to a very polished performance from Do you hear the people sing? from Les Misereables.

Geoff’s greatest virtues are generosity and empathy. Students, colleagues, and residents’ parents recognise that Geoff Dell is a kind man. Sometimes Geoff may have listened to too many experts on what was needed to turn Sargood House around. Unfortunately Geoff’s reign at Sargood coincided with the growth of a counter-culture that would have challenged any housemaster.

Geoff is a skilful classroom teacher, who uses his Masters degree in English and French to bring out the best in his students. The students like Geoff and they like the word games that he gets them to play. His love of language has had a strong influence on students and this was illustrated in the Outstanding Scholarship in Media awarded to Wei-Wei Ng in 2009. Geoff leaves Sargood House with a legacy. He initiated the Sargood

House Haka, which enables the House to channel its wairua. Geoff also encouraged the boys to channel this strong spirit into looking out for each other and caring for each other. Those of us who live on site will miss Geoff and Jill Dell. They added vitality, vibrancy and humour to the school family. Geoff’s batting for the Planks cricket team, where he was known a Chalky, and bowling his famous Chinaman, were sights to be admired. Chalky could also be relied on to smash some runs against the prefects in their fixtures against the staff. Geoff’s sporting talents were transferred to young players in cricket, hockey and rugby. He coached and managed elite teams at Hamilton Boys’ High.

Geoff and Jill Dell are superb hosts at House Dinners even when conflicts and criticisms were never far below the surface. Hebrews 13.2 sums up their role as hosts. “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”

Geoff and Jill have generously given their home at Waihi Beach to staff and boys, including prefect training days for Sargood House.

The time is right for Geoff and Jill to take up teaching positions in Qatar. They will remain great friends and a favourite quote of Geoff’s describes our relationship past, present and future.

The boys perform the House Haka–an initiative and legacy of Mr Dell

Sargood residents presented Geoff Dell with a Leavers’ Jersey

“… Look beyond the horizon the world is growing ever small. . .”

25th Girls Jubilee Speech

Author: Andrea Dela Rue (nee Jenkins) – First enrolled girl, Old Collegian, Current Staff Member

Ryan Lewis

In August 2009, at age 14, Ryan was the youngest NZ BMX rider to be recruited to the New Zealand High Performance BMX Squad through BikeNZ. Ryan has just had his “carding” with BikeNZ and the NZ Academy of Sport renewed, and is a target junior athlete with potential for the 2016 Olympics !.

In July 2009 he travelled with the BMX High Performance squad, as a guest, to the World Championships in Adelaide. Ryan qualified through to the semi finals before being brought down by an Australian rider.

Ryan then qualified as a member of the four man BMX Senior Test Team in October 2009, competing in the trans-Tasman annual Test Team challenge at the North Island Championships in Cambridge.

This year Ryan was selected to train at the Chula Vista Olympic village in the USA with the NZ High Performance Squad, however, had to withdraw as the American BMX authorities policy dictated he was too young. He was immediately selected for the New Zealand team competing at the 2010 BMX World Championships, Pietermaritzburg , South Africa . The BMX High Performance squad included Olympians Marc Willers and Sarah Walker.

Successfully raced through 3 qualifying rounds–2nd, 2nd, 3rd, to get to quarter finals before an unfortunate crash meant the end of his 2010 South Africa World Championship campaign.

Ryan iss passionate about his sport and has been fortunate enough to make some awesome, and hopefully lifelong friends in this family sport.

More than that, the one most likely to let them down was the one public school girl… me. If anyone was to not know the ‘ways of the private’ school it would be me. I was later made the first girl prefect at St Paul’s so I guess I proved them wrong… And that, really, became our main reason for living in our first year… to prove THEM wrong, to be successful. So we pretty much got on with the job.

We couldn’t play sport because there just wasn’t enough of us. We girls did make up a badminton team for a while… but that was pretty tragic. So we looked to the unique skills that we each had and looked to apply them.

While the staff watch on, it’s fair to say we didn’t get much help, until it looked like the ideas were going to come off… with notable exceptions of course.

I decided to coach a sport. If I couldn’t play I could coach. St Paul’s didn’t have a volley ball team so, up went the notice and the boys came. Most of the 1st IV were my friends and they came, along with a huge bunch of juniors… and volley ball was born. When the first practices were over a staff member turned up and gave me my own keys to the gym, the forms for the interschool competition, and better still, two glowing new sets of uniforms.

Ruth and Roimata decided they would bring their dancing talents to St Paul’s. I imagine the adults that were our ‘critics’ were rubbing their hands together with glee, if ever there was a complete car crash waiting to happen it would be getting boys in a stanchly male school to dance. Once again we were underestimated and Ruth and Roimata bought all their powers of persuasion to bear. Where do you find senior boys in a macho school who will dress in tight white singlets and black stretch pants and dance in front of their mates… you find them ALL in Sargood House. Once again, the same teacher came and gave his support. He gave Alpha opportunities to dance in and outside of the school.

We were very lucky to have Mr Gilbert here at school to give us these opportunities. Even now as a teacher, I see Mr Gilbert get excited every time students do something new and interesting. We were very lucky to have him and you are too.

Another person that is important to all of us is our Housemaster, Mr Hill. I know that you all have wonderful housemasters here but I still think we had the best. Mr Hill protected us from all those that might have hurt us. He watched over us, looked after us and was one of the most important role models we had here at St Paul’s. If there has ever been a person that lived his integrity it was Mr Hill. He has helped shape who all of us are today and I am grateful to have had him as my Housemaster.

Another person I’d like to tell you about is our Headmaster. Mr Lander is probably the closest Headmaster to ours, Mr Lawrence. Mr Lawrence, Just like Mr Lander, made it quite difficult to get into the school… and a lot easier to get out. That made those of us that were left feel special, lucky to still be here.

You see, our parents didn’t just want us to be here at St Paul’s, they wanted us to be able to say we came from St Paul’s.

Whether you like or not, coming from St Paul’s opens doors. It will get your application read, it may get you the interview, and if you’re really lucky it might open the door that leads right back here to this school, like it did for me.

I now teach here as an English teacher, in a wonderful department, with colleagues and teachers that are professionals… and my friends. I am very proud to be part of St Paul’s and to be part of making this school special for you, so one day you can say that you came from St Paul’s too.

When we all first came to St Paul’s we knew we were an experiment. It was made crystal clear to us that if we misbehaved we would put in jeopardy the future of girls at St Paul’s forever.

Meg Wilson and Susan Skeggs

Natalie,Charlotte Fitzgerald , Jo Gibbs nee Sherriff and Daniel Gibbs

Amy Whetu and Roden Whetu

Hannah Myers and current Teacher Roger Bell catchup on the last few years

Mr Grant Lander

Mr Cowan and Roimata ‘rev it up’

Those were the days

Harington House Haka

Andrea Hesmondhalgh nee Wards a nd Dr Kay Etheredge

Old Collegians with their babies

Recognising and Celebrating Girls at St Paul’s Collegiate School

Author: Peter Gilbert

I have been chosen and I feel privileged to review the highlights of girls over the last 25 years. I actually predate the arrival of the first intake.

In 1985, five very brave young ladies arrived as the foundation female members of St Paul’s Collegiate. I say brave because they came into an environment that was at times openly hostile and resistant to the notion of sharing classrooms with girls. Meetings of Old Boys and parents had even been held to stop the entry of girls to what they saw as an exclusive boys’ only club.

However it didn’t take long for these intrepid starters and the girls that followed in the next five years to prove that they deserved a respected position in the school. Boys had long hair, phys ed teachers wore stubbys, boys were staunch. But Roimata, Ruth, Andrea, Janet and Mary were not fazed. In fact Ruth and Roimata convinced a number of these staunch seniors that they should add dance skills to their repertoire and formed a dance troupe called Alpha Omega which performed in front of a number of schools and was invited to perform at the International Dance Federation Conference. There were two rugby players, a soccer 1st XI member and the top senior athlete. The scene was set for integration. The first Housemaster of the Girls’ House, Mr Malcolm Hill, will remember a famous photo taken in 1986 where the compliment of Girls’ House, as it was called for six years, are sitting as a First XV would with the meanest of faces. They really did start to round off the rough edges of the males of the time, showing them that spitting and swearing were not cool.

From 1985 we have seen girls excel in all areas of endeavour and I’m going to name a few who exemplify the contribution they have made to St Paul’s and the success they have enjoyed. Hundreds of others were just as wonderful. Following on from our foundation girls in the next five years from 1990 there were girls like Marnie Fornusek who was the National Women’s White Water Kayak Champion, Sarah Bryant the National Debating Champion and a member of the Enterprise Team that won the National title with a product called ShatterPadz. Suzie Beehan arrived and I asked her why she would want to come to a school where girls were in effect in a fish bowl. Her response was that she wanted to be at a school where academic success was celebrated unlike being seen as a geek or a nerd at her previous school. By the end of her second year Suzie became the first female Dux of St Paul’s Collegiate.

If the 80’s were the foundation years (the Hill years), the 90’s were the consolidation years (the Etheridge, Pope years). Girls like Gwen Nikora who made the New Zealand Junior Tennis team played in our boys’ team against King’s and Tauranga and embarrassed the best they could put up. The girls began to dominate in House Music, kick started by Megan Titchener and Jenni Bull, the Fatu sisters were our first Waikato netball representatives. By 1995 there were 45 girls in the House and this was the beginning of a dynasty of beauties that the House produced. Shontelle Thomas was Miss Waikato and Runner-up in Miss New Zealand and in 1996 Tamsyn Rose achieved the same results. In 1997 the girls were a powerful force in the choir led by Amy Watson, Natalie Swart and Helen Dagg who sang the National Anthem at the All Blacks/ Argentina match at the Waikato Stadium and girls like Jo Sheriff were into absolutely everything going. Brilliant academic Katrina Ward was the school’s second girl Dux.

1998 saw the St Paul’s Open A win the Waikato Netball Championships with the one and only team we had at that time. 1999 saw girls dominate in Lenco Cup netball, House

Music and Waikato Tennis with such girls as Donna Morrison, Kristy Parkes, Olivia Gibbons, Monique Aves, Phillipa Wildman, and Kylie Sanson to name but a few.

Those were the 80’s and 90’s and then came the noughties (the Young, Rhymer years). 2000 to 2010. In the early 2000’s girls dominated in the cultural arena like the choir, the orchestra, and Stage Challenge. The first year of the decade saw the third girl Dux being April Fu, and Erin Simpson and Aishe Stewart sang at the Sydney Olympic Games. Erin of course has her own TV show now. Rebecca Wolfe and Cherie Bunting were in the Waikato Symphony and they gained Gold Medals at the New Zealand Youth Music Festival.

Sarah Jarvis became the National Open Women’s Slalom Ski Champ, Jaime Metcalfe was the New Zealand Women’s Water ski Champion setting new records, Kylie Gunn continued the amazing success our girls have achieved in the charm, personality and beauty stakes when she was crowned the winner of Miss Universe Hamilton and singer Amy Straker went on to produce her first singing album.

2003 saw Mary Holmes in the New Zealand Secondary School Choir and Gina Fitchett, Charlotte Tye, and cyclist Carrissa Wilkes represented New Zealand. Hillary Davison was the fourth girl Dux in 2004 and Sarah Campbell was the enforcer in the House when she made the New Zealand Karate team in 2004. Kirsty Allen was magnificent in dance and music.

In the latter part of this decade we have seen outstanding sports and academics such as Kayla Greenville, Lymarah Wharerau, Rebecca Pullon, Sally Taylor, and Sophie Anne Chin

The Arts were raised to new heights with KB Kwele and Aqeela Kukaddy. Aqeela sang with Boh Runga at a concert here in the Chapel last year and was the star of the show.

Last year we were again the Waikato Netball Champions and we have current Waikato Representatives in Bex and Alana.

I have named only a few of the amazing young women who have made up Harington House over the last 25 years. They have brought to the School such activities as Wearable Arts, fashion shows, incredible Stage Challenge performances, lip synch standards far and away more presentable than before they arrived and an awesome girls’ haka.

It is only fitting that we celebrate all of these things and share the experiences of being a girl at St Paul’s Collegiate School.

I have named only a few of the amazing young women who have made up Harington House over the last 25 years

Kaiwhakautu Meisha O’Connor Old Collegian 2006–2007

Rachel Shirley and Campbell Ludbrook

Ruth Walden, Mary Graham and Josie Shroder

Amy Fox nee hayes, Lindy Smith and Anoushka Wanigasekera nee Wards

Jacqui Galbraith and Lindy Smith

Mr Steward Auld and Headmaster Mr Grant Lander

Janet Williams (original student) and her daughter Hannah

St Paul’s 7th formers perform for Old Girls

Natalie Swart, Jo Gibbs nee Sherriff and Amy Whetu nee Watson

Amy Fox nee hayes, Lindy Smith and Anoushka Wanigasekera nee Wards

Megan Titchener and Evan McCulloch

Fiona Coughlan nee Scott and Anna McCormack nee Brooker

Paul’s

Project Samoa

Author: Mr Heta Smith

This brought a successful conclusion to six months of planning and fundraising. The team consisted of 12 students from the Year 13 construction class, teacher Heta Smith project coordinator, Peter Sullivan construction manager, Marcus Wilkins senior and Logan Sullivan.

The aim of our trip was to go to Samoa to build a fale for Edmund and Sina Taufua of Lalomanu village who lost their three children, their home and their business to last year’s tsunami. Not being able to help everyone who had been affected by the tsunami, the decision was made to support one family. The family was chosen on the recommendation of a grandparent of one of our current students.

We arrived in Samoa at 12. 30am on the 13th July. Walking from the plane to the terminal the group quickly realized that the temperature, which was a cool 27 degrees at the time, was going to have a major bearing on the progress of our project. After going through customs and doing the paper work to secure our rental vans we left in convoy to Lalomanu village. Edmund and Sina who had driven the two hours to meet us at the airport, led th e way. Driving on the Samoan roads during the day is an experience; driving at night and in a left hand drive vehicle on the left side of the road is certainly a hair-raising experience. The route to Lalomanu wound its way around the coast road, but because it was night the boys where unable to take in the true beauty of Samoa. We arrived in Lalomanu at 3.30am and it didn’t take long for the boys to stow their gear and find the comforts of their accommodation. We were all billeted in beach fales twenty metres from the ocean. The sound of the ocean gently rocked us off to sleep.

DAY 1

The boys woke to a balmy 30 degrees and were blown away by the stunning beauty

of Lalomanu beach. A quick swim before breakfast allowed them to experience the delights of living on a tropical island. The ocean temperature was similar to bath water. After breakfast an official from the Quarantine Department was on hand for the opening of our container which we had shipped to Lalomanu, three weeks prior to our arrival. Once he was satisfied we were allowed to take out the materials for our fale. Starting work just before lunch, the team broke into three groups. The first group looked after the foundations, the second group started framing up the walls which we had pre-cut in New Zealand. The third group went to put up spouting on the recently constructed toilet block to catch rain water and to channel it to the water tank. The day finished with all the framing nailed up and ready to go. The piles and posts had all been dug in and concreted in place and

The Project Samoa team returned to New Zealand on the 25th July after spending the past eleven days in Samoa building a Fale as part of the tsunami relief program.

the spouting had all been done apart from a couple of jointers which had been left behind in New Zealand. A quick phone call home soon had them in the mail to us.

DAY 2

Started with another beautiful day in paradise. With the piles now firm enough for the bearers and floor joist to go on, the boys set about framing up the floor and walls. The progress that the boys made was rapid. By lunch they had started work on the roof and a group had started to put up the exterior cladding. The only hiccup to the day was that we misplaced the metal straps for tying down the floor walls and roof. A trip to the building site down the road allowed us to borrow some strapping which we replaced when we got a chance to get to town the next day.

DAY 3

With the walls and roof framed up and some of the cladding done, the boys continued to close the building in. Ply was laid on the rafters to form a lining and also to provide further weather protection to the traditional thatching that we would be using to finish the fale. The exterior walls were finished in a board and baton finish and

Peter Sullivan, our construction manager and builder extraordinaire, started to show how versatile he was by doing the plumbing for the ensuite and running the cables for the lights, power point and ceiling fan.

DAY 4

The weather continued to be kind to us with the odd shower a welcome relief to the heat. The fale was really starting to take shape. Again the boys were broken into groups with one crew working on the roof, another doing the inside lining , the third group working on the verandah and decking and the fourth group doing the plumbing and installation of the septic tank.

DAY 5

With the exterior cladding complete and the verandah roof and main roof complete, the focus for the day was to apply the finishing touches to the outside of the fale. The ranchslider door was put in. The louvre windows were next and the handrail and stairs were framed up and fixed into position. The boys then started to paint the exterior with stain. The ten litres of stain we brought over only just made it and the boys had to wipe the drum clean to paint the last few remaining bits.

DAY 6

The boys woke to another beautiful day in paradise. Sunday is a day of rest in Samoa so there would be no work done on the fale today. After breakfast we got dressed and ready for church. Wearing our black team shirts and the traditional lavalava we went up to the village church. Our presence was acknowledged by the minister and he thanked us for all the work that we had been doing at Edmund and Sina’s. The singing was outstanding with all the boys thinking that there was a choir some where in the church. It wasn’t till after the service that we were able to look around and realised that there was no choir and the beautiful singing had been coming from the congregation. After the service we were treated to a traditional Samoan feast for lunch. Food had been prepared and cooked in an umu (stone oven) while we were at church. We sat down to enjoy pork, chicken and fish but the best dish of the day would have to be palusami (Taro cooked in banana leaves with coconut cream) This dish was a huge hit with the boys. After lunch our host Edmund took us for a drive up the coast to visit a local waterfall and swimming hole. The boys had a

“… The weather continued to be kind to us with the odd shower a welcome relief to the heat. . .”

great time leaping from the ledge 6 metres above the water. They even encouraged Matt Stevens to have a go. (Matt is scared of heights) Sunday is family day and it was great to see the large numbers of local families on the beach enjoying themselves.

DAY 7

On Monday the boys woke to another beautiful day and after having the Sunday off found it a little bit tough to get going on our project. After breakfast we split into groups. Some worked on the base boards, we had a group doing the finishing on the inside, another group on the roof applying the thatching and Peter Sullivan our builder extraordinaire fitting the shower, toilet and vanity unit in the ensuite. After lunch five of the group took time out to clean a beach down the road that had not been cleaned since the tsunami. It was a heart wrenching experience removing all the personal effects, but they felt extremely satisfied once all the items had been stacked in a pile by the side of the road. A Canadian couple who were on

holiday saw what we were doing and spent three hours lending a hand. While the day started off slowly, the boys put a solid day’s work in and covered a lot of ground. By day’s end the roof crew had laid three quarters of the thatching. No mean feat considering that each length of thatching had to be stitched to the plywood roof lining and was held in place using cable ties.

DAY 8

During the night we had our first electrical storm, with lightning lighting up the night’s sky and then heavy rain and wind. It certainly put our accommodation (traditional fale to the test). In the morning we woke to another beautiful day. Peter Sullivan, our builder, got up during the night to check our fale for leaks. He wasn’t happy with the thatched roof and made the decision to take down what we had already done. The rain had seeped through the holes we had drilled for the cable ties. We had to come up with a new system for attaching the thatching. After a quick meeting we decided to seal the roof with silicon sealer, and paint and then screw the thatching down using home made metal saddles and short screws to avoid penetrating the plywood. A layer of black polythene was put down before the thatching and this would give us an extra layer of protection. After a quick trip to Apia to pick up supplies we spent the rest of the day prepping the roof. On the inside of our fale the final timber work had been completed with the installation of a wardrobe cupboard and the job of sanding all the timber work prior to painting was started.

DAY 9

Wednesday was another fine but windy day, with the temperatures already in the high twenties at 7.00 in the morning. Originally the

group had planned to go on a fishing charter but this had been cancelled due to rough seas. After breakfast we started re-applying the thatching to the roof. The new system using the home-made saddles and short screws seemed to be working well with the boys making good progress. However, another decent battery drill would have helped to speed up the process. Inside the fale sanding of all the walls and the finishing timbers were completed and the first coat of paint had been applied to the doors, skirting boards and architraves. The last job of the day was to apply the first coat of clear lacquer to the walls and floors. The fale was then locked for the night to prevent anyone from walking on it.

DAY 10

Thursday was re-scheduled for sightseeing and having missed out on the fishing trip the day before, the boys were keen to see the rest of the island and to enjoy Samoa’s premier tourist spots. On the fale a second coat of paint to the doors and lacquer to the walls and floors was completed before breakfast, giving time for everything to dry while we were away. Edmund our host had organized the day and took us to our first stop, a beautiful spot where the ocean comes into a naturally formed hole in the ground via an under water cave. The boys had the

opportunity to climb down into the hole via a wooden ladder. Our next stop was a visit to a very beautiful garden from which we could see Sapoaga waterfall across the valley. Our last stop before heading into to Apia for lunch was a visit back to Togitogiga waterfalls which we had visited on the Sunday for a swim. This time the river levels had risen substantially due to the rain we had had earlier on in the week. Nevertheless the boys still enjoyed jumping off the waterfall into the pool below and welcomed the chance to cool off from the 30+ heat. On our way into Apia we stopped to visit Robert Louis Stevenson’s Museum and Homestead. This was an interesting insight into the writer’s time in Samoa. After lunch the boys went shopping around Apia and visited the market, where they were able to purchase locally made crafts. Our last destination for the day was the Papasaea sliding rocks. At the bottom of a deep ravine, accessible by a steep set of stairs, the boys found a fast running river and a series of small waterfalls that they could slide down. After the initial first slide, boys being boys they decided to do the slides enmasse, to the joy of the other tourists. There was lots of laughter and friendly banter. Just on dusk we headed for home, Lalomanu an hour and a half’s drive away. When we arrived back to Edmund and Sina’s

we found out that the family had planned a surprise party for us. We were treated to a traditional Samoan barbecue with all the trimmings, the food was fantastic. Then after dinner they entertained us with a fe’a fe’a night (traditional Samoan songs and dances). In response, the boys performed our school haka to the delight of all the locals who were gathered there. It was a very moving experience and a joy to be made to so welcome. The dancing and singing continued on well into the evening, with most of the boys not getting to bed till the early hours.

DAY 11

Our last day in paradise, brilliant day weatherwise, although the majority of the group was feeling a little worse for wear after the late night. Breakfast helped to spark everyone up and afterwards we started to tidy up the last jobs on the fale. The doors were re-hung and all the hardware was put back on. Peter hooked up all the plumbing and got the shower toilet and vanity working. He also wired up the ceiling fan and connected all the lights. On the roof the boys finished the remainder of the thatching and then covered it with black netting to prevent the wind from lifting it. Our last job before completion was to give the fale a good clean. We also had a visit from the Minister of Agriculture Taua kitiona Seuala. He is from Lalomanu and is the Matai (chief) of the village. He was impressed with what we had done for Sina and Edmund and also with the donation of the container and tools for the village to use. He presented our group a Samoan Sevens Rugby Jersey (2010 World champions) which had been signed by all the team. After lunch we visited the local primary school to deliver books, stationery and sports’ balls. It was obvious from the smiles on the kids’ faces that they enjoyed our

visit and appreciated the balls and equipment we had brought along.

The rest of the afternoon was spent tidying up the site, packing our gear for the trip home and enjoying a last swim in an idyllic spot. There was a twinge of sadness in our group as the realisation that our trip had come to an end. That evening Sina, Edmund and the staff at Wena’s Beach Bungalows had prepared a wonderful evening meal with fresh fish, crayfish and range of other dishes. After dinner Edmund and Sina made an emotional farewell speech and presented us with a beautiful hand made Kava bowl and Tapa cloth for the school. They also gave each member of the group a small fale made from a coconut to remember our time there. In return we presented Edmund with a Project Samoa shirt and presented Sina the keys to their new fale. We thanked all the staff who had made our stay such a memorable one and each boy made his own presentation to Su’e our chef, Lusi our cook, Viali our barman and Meki our waitor. These people will be remembered fondly in the years to come.

CONCLUSION

Overall, the trip was an outstanding success, with the Project Samoa team having completed all of the tasks that we intended to do while we were away. We returned with some wonderful memories and while we went to Samoa to help the Taufua family by building a fale for them, we were richly rewarded by the friendship, hospitality and goodwill extended to us by all the people that we came in contact with. The boys and the staff are extremely proud of what they have done and believe that they have planted a seed for future charitable ventures but also the forming of a link between St Paul’s Collegiate and Lalomanu Village that will extend well beyond the tsunami relief programme. Finally, we would like to thank local businesses and the St Paul’s family for their generous donations of goods and services. Without your support we would not have been able to complete this project.

“… The boys and the staff are extremely proud of what they have done and believe they have planted a seed . . .”

AUGUST The Guy in the Glass

When you get what you want in your struggle for self, And the world makes you King for a day, Then go to the mirror and look at yourself, And see what that guy has to say.

For it isn’t your Father, or Mother, or Wife, Who judgement upon you must pass. The feller whose verdict counts most in your life Is the guy staring back from the glass.

He’s the feller to please, never mind all the rest, For he’s with you clear up to the end, And you’ve passed your most dangerous, difficult test If the guy in the glass is your friend.

“A LONG ROWED TO VICTORY” 62

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CHEERING FOR LAUREN 63

You may be like Jack Horner and “chisel” a plum, And think you’re a wonderful guy, But the man in the glass says you’re only a bum If you can’t look him straight in the eye.

You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years, And get pats on the back as you pass, But your final reward will be heartaches and tears If you’ve cheated the guy in the glass.

Dale Wimbrow 1895-1954

International Week

Author: Mrs Margie Smith

International Week was introduced to celebrate the many cultures represented at St Paul’s Collegiate.

Our International prefect, Jen Currie, explained it well to the school when she said that as well as appreciating the differences and diversity of other nationalities, we also acknowledge that it is a time for unity in our St Paul’s community.

The week got off to a good start when Mr Smith and the Year 13 construction class reported back on Project Samoa, a very successful trip where they built a fale for a local family who been affected by the tsunami in September 2009.

During the course of the week, the Lord’s Prayer was recited in French by Lizzie Wilson, in Korean by Jeff Nam and in Chinese by

Moses Zhang. Nick Baldwin represented Europe when he played the piano and a Chinese love song was sung by Moses Xhang. On Thursday we held a special assembly on diversity and Mickey Law and Henry Tai did a ten minute presentation about what it is like to live in Hong Kong. A great climax to the week was the pronunciation game, where House representatives were given slips of paper with Chinese words on and they had to correctly pronounce them.

One of the biggest impacts of International Week was felt in the dining hall where Alliance staff, under the direction of Mr Chris Warner, really set the tone by having themed lunches. We celebrated in culinary style with food from USA, Italy, Asia, Mexico and India. Not only was the food delectable, the staff also went to a lot of trouble decorating the dining hall each day to add colour and glamour to the event.

To end the week, international students, Mr and Mrs Smith, parents, homestays and guardians went for an international dinner at Kobe café, Hamilton East on Friday 6th August. It was a great evening with lovely food, lots of laughs and good company.

Overall, the week was an outstanding success where we all learnt and enjoyed aspects of other nationalities and took steps to appreciate the differences.

Canoe Polo

Author: Kent Stewart

During March for the first time in history, St Pauls Collegiate School was one of three teams from the Waikato selected to go to Canoe Polo Nationals.

The team consisted of six St Paul’s boys, all with minimal experience in the area of canoe polo. But after some hard work and training from Kent Stewart (Captain and Coach) and Riley Thompson, the team was up to scratch in its rolling and paddling skills.

St Paul’s was in the Senior Open Division 2, with Hamilton Boys’ High School, Otaki and Wellington College in our pool. On 26th of March St Pauls had its first two games against Otaki and Wellington College, both games were very close losses. St Paul’s soon got a name for themselves as “the bumble bees” after wearing black, white and yellow striped singlets over top of our life jackets.

On 27th of March, St Paul’s played two more games against Hamilton Boys’ High School. Both of these rivalry games were very close with only a couple of goals between us. Great defence was shown by Ben Knowles and Daniel Nelson throughout these matches. The score was kept tight by amazing goals from Oscar Jackson and Hugh McKay’s aggressive play. Overall the team played extremely well considering the competition was fierce and every member of the team should be commended for their effort and commitment.

Back Row: Hugh McKay, Riley Thompson, Ben Knowles

Front Row: Daniel Nelson, Kent Stewart, Oscar Jackson

House Music

Author: Mr Francis Cowan

The evening was adjudicated by Dr. Rachael Griffiths-Hughes from St Peter’s Cathedral and Waikato University Music Dept.

In the Solo section first place went to Jonathan Eyers from School House with his moving performance of ‘Halleluia’ by Jeff Buckley. Second place went to Nathan Russell from Williams for his spectacular drum solo.

The group section was won by Hall House with a stylish performance of ‘Hit the Road Jack’, a Ray Charles number. Second was awarded to School and Harington. School presented ‘Stitched Up’ by Herbie Hancock and John Mayer. Harington was represented by Sarah and Emma McCallum playing a bagpipe duet, ‘Steamtrain’ by Mary-Anne Robinson.

As always a huge effort is put into rehearsing for the House Singing Competition and this year the packed Chapel showed the increasing interest in this evening. Singing teachers and opera singers Ian Campbell and Angela Petrus judged the performances. Results were Hall in third place with ‘Africa’, Harington in second place with ‘Like a Prayer’ and School in first with ‘Man in the Mirror’.

Petra Miln

Petra has achieved in multi sport a bronze medal in the kaimai classic race. This was 3rd in under 19 in New Zealand.

Thomas Moser Peddles

Thomas Moser competed in the Waikato-Bay of Plenty Junior Men’s Cycling Track Championships over Waitangi weekend, riding away with six gold medals (One Kilo, 500 metres, Individual Pursuit, Team Pursuit, Points Race, Scratch Race) and one Silver medal (Sprint) for his efforts. He then competed in the National Track Cycling championships held in Invercargill. He entered in the U19 Men’s level, competing for Waikato-Bay of Plenty. Thomas had a very successful meet and left with a bronze medal in the 3000m team pursuit. Some of the notable accomplishments since then have been

• 3rd on time and first over the line at round Taupo solo cycle race

• Silver medal at the Waikato Bop individual time trial.

• 9th at NZ club nationals in the 25km individual time trial.

• Team member of the U19 New Zealand cycling team to travel to Canberra.

On the 29th and 30th April 2010, Thomas Moser competed in the NZ Club Road Cycling Nationals in the Hawkes Bay, against a strong field of top U19 riders. On the Thursday, the individual time trial was held. The course was 25km and he placed 9th with a new personal best for this distance, averaging just over 44km/h in windy conditions.

On Friday, the road race was held. There were 60 starters but little over half the field finished the race due to very high winds and temperatures, most pulling out with dehydration. The strong winds split up the field with speeds ranging up to 75km/h. Thomas finished the 120km race in just over three hours, placing mid-bunch, in 23rd – a good performance given the tough conditions.

With these and other recent performances, Thomas was also selected for the Bike NZ U19 development team, and is waiting to hear about opportunities for overseas representation.

The Group and Solo competition presented a varied and entertaining array of talent.

School House looks in the mirror and sees a winner

‘Hit the Road’ Hall House

‘Halleluia’ Jonathan Eyers

Netball

Author: Mrs Margaret Forsyth

St Paul’s Open A netball

2011 campaign started off with early trials in March.

The late summer heat always proves to be the first hurdle of the year and this year was no exception. Despite 2011 being the inaugural Year 11 intake for girls at St Paul’s, numbers trialling for netball were only slighlty higher than the previous year. Having said this three girls teams were fielded - one more team than we have had for many years.

An Open A squad of 12 was invited for the first time to take part in a quadrangular tournament hosted by St Kentigerns in Auckand. Scotch College from Adelaide and John Paul College from Brisbane comprised the other two participating teams. This tournament offered the girls not only an opportunity to grab some early pre season competition but to experience another style of netball and to forge new friendships with our Australian counterparts. St Paul’s girls really made the most of their netball opportunities and thoroughly enjoyed the hospitality of St Kentigerns. The domestic season proved to be a building season for the team. With only three players back from the successful 2009

team - Rebecca Atkinson and Alana Timms (cocaptains) and Liz Lawrence, competing in a higher grade at Upper North Island Secondary Schools competiton, six year 11 girls (Teagan Voykovich, Theresa Steiner, Nicole Banks, Melisa Gilmarten Kara and Sarah Cranswick) and one year 12 girl playing netball for the first time (Maija MacCalman) the team had a long road to travel.

But travel it they did! Some of the season highlights:

2nd

Front

Absent:

Alana Timms being named in the Lois Muir Challenge team (a development team to the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic team) and Hamilton City U17A; Rebecca Atkinson being named in Hamilton City U17B and Waikato Regional Talent ID Group (the gateway to national youth development programmes for Netball NZ); Our placing at UNISS A grade of 24th out of the 32 teams competing - with the added highlights of finishing 3 places above Waikato Diocesan School at UNISS and only losing to Cambridge High School in our pool match by 3 goals in the last moments of the game. Cambridge went on to finish 10th.

A special event for the team was the

fundraising dinner and auction with guest speaker Silver Ferns superstar Laura Langman. This was held just before we set off to UNISS and the funds raised certainly contributed to the smooth running of our week away. This was a very successful night where all parents contributed by selling tickets, donating prizes and food for the meal and their creative talents in decorating and organisation. Special thanks to all parents who helped out in a number of ways to make this night an enjoyable success.

Dale Atkinson - Assistant Coach Delwyn Spedding - Manager

St Paul’s Senior A Team

Author: Mrs Helen Bradford

At the start of the netball season, eight girls committed themselves to represent the school as the Senior A netball team for 2010. They were new to the school and have never played together. After the grading rounds, the team was entered in the D-grade of the competition. Emma Gardiner, an ex-student of the school, volunteered to coach the team and with the expertise that she brought to the game, the girls became more confident and more skilled. They ended as one of the top four teams in that grade. Most Saturdays they had to play in the rain but they did not complain and always gave one hundred percent. Unfortunately the other teams also improved and St Paul's had to be satisfied with the fourth place.

Back Row: Mili Posa, Sarah Ingham, Emily Neish, Emma Gardiner (Coach)

Front Row: Jessica Elliott, Ariana Mariu, Savanna Singh-Hundal, Sofia HarbottleVillasol, Annelies Watson-Holmes

Back Row: Maija MacCalman, Liz Lawrence

Row: Melissa Gilmartin-Kara, Nicole Banks, Teagan Voykovich, Sarah Cranswick, Frans Van der Merwe

Row: Ally French, Anjena Singh, Rebecca Atkinson, Alana Timms, Theresa Steiner

Margaret Forsyth (Coach), Dale Atkinson (Coach), Delwyn Spedding (Manager)

“A long rowed to victory”

The highlight being the U18 boys 4+ gaining a bronze medal in the prestigious Springbok Shield, making this medal ever so sweeter as this is the first time the club has gained a medal in a U18 Maadi premier event since 2003. Although the club has had countless 4th places and some good 3rds (NZ Club Eights in 2009), a medal in a Maadi premier event has been a long time coming, but this bronze medal can be seen as a sure indication the club is well into its rebuilding phase. The members of the Springbok four for 2009-10 were, Alex Mason, Zach Oliver, Luc Rodwell, Maxwell Stuart-Jones and cox Zac Laurich. The St Paul’s Collegiate rowing club overall had a very successful season culminating at the Maadi Cup held in Twizel at the end of March. The club’s other medal at Maadi was won by the U16 boys four consisting of Hamish Mahon, Izak Eksteen, Luke Wyllie-Miln, Joe Velzian and coxed by Jesper Mansson. Having won their heat, they rowed an impressive race and came away with a silver medal, a fantastic result. The U15 8+ rowed a great race narrowly missing out (by the proverbial bow-ball) on 3rd place, the U15 quad of Kelly, Martin, Husband-Dravitski, Bartley, coxed by Heald, surpassed all expectations and placed a very fine 5th in their A final.

Maadi was the pinnacle of all the hard training and racing throughout the season, but it was a long road getting to the final regatta. It was compiled of numerous rowing camps at Mangakino, where crews were pushed to their physical and mental limits, along with a number of regattas.

Across all age groups and crew levels there were very commendable results, whether it be individuals achieving personal bests on the erg, or making it into a final at one of the many regattas held throughout the season. Everyone of the rowers has achieved something they can be personally very proud of.

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE SEASON:

• All but two of the Maadi tour made a final. 40 out of the 42 rowers finishing up with at least one, two or three finals.

• This amazing week’s racing for all crews produced 12 finals overall, 7 B finals and 5 A finals, which is a brilliant effort from a club of our size.

• Every club member achieved a personal best on the ergs.

• Our reduction in water time (very few morning rows), improved our fitness across the board and didn’t appear to have an adverse affect on our skills

• The technical skills of particularly the U15s will stand us in very good stead for the future. (Huge credit to Ewan Atherton and Tina)

• Bronze, particularly but also the Silver medals at Maadi

• The subsequent Junior trial for, Maxwell Stuart-Jones and Hamish Mahon (u18s), Luc Rodwell, Zach Oliver and Alex Mason

• The incredible 6th place in the World for Zach Oliver and Alex Mason in the coxed Four.

• The pleasure of hearing that Old Collegian and 2008/09 cox Ivan Pavich being selected for the NZ Eight as the coxswain.

THE CLUB’S CERTIFICATE AND TROPHY WINNERS FOR 2009/2010 SEASON WERE:

Novice Cox Most improved William Heald

Novice Cox Best Fransois Eksteen

Cox Most Improved James Pickford

Novice Best rower James Atherton

Novice Best 2k Erg Matt HusbandDravitski

U15 Most improved Keiren Dale

U15 Most determined Cameron Bartley

U15 Best rower Alex Hargreaves/ Cameron Rowland

U15 Best 2k Erg Matt HusbandDravitski

U16 Most improved Luke Wyllie-Miln

U16 Most determined Aaron Cleland

U16 Best rower Hamish Mahon

U16 Best 2k Erg Hamish Mahon

U17 Best 2k Max Stuart-Jones

The 2009-2010 rowing season is one that can go down in the history books of the club and the school.

Author: Mr Chris Foot – Speech from the rowing dinner.

Boys U 18 Four- Winner of Bronze Medal in Springbok Shield BU18 4+. Maadi 2010

Zach Oliver and Alex Mason at very recent World Junior Championships in Racice, Czech Republic

Back Row: Maxwell Stuart-Jones, Zach Oliver, Alex Mason, Luke Rodwell

Front Row: Zac Laurich (Cox)

Haka

Author: Charlotte Atherton

This year is our first year with a school Haka, so not everyone knew the words or the actions but we all showed a promising start. Therefore, nest year when Archbishop David Moxon and his son TeAro Moxon return to St Paul’s to judge the house Haka, we will present the challenge of a perfected school Haka.

TeAro told us he was looking for three things, “fire in our words, ferocity in our actions and an overall power.” Stating that “a Haka is not successful from the performance of the stronger members, but from the weakest. So I was looking at the third formers” and Sargood can thank their third formers for they were the winners of the first St Paul’s School Haka competition.

Mr Lander’s vision also consisted of the whole school to Haka the year 13s and the year 13s to reply. With the School only taking on the School Haka this year, the year 13s knew the 1st XV Haka best. Meaning both Haka’s performed today were written by TeAro Moxon.

Overall the School was victorious, in setting a challenge for the year 13s.

Cheering for Lauren

Lauren Jakes, one of our Year 12 students, recently competed in the 2010 ICU World Cup – Coed Elite division where TeamNZ won a bronze medal (reclaiming it from 2009’s inaugural competition). She also competed in the 2010 USASF World Cheerleading Championships – Nations Cup where Team NZ finished 4th. In the same Championships, in the Open International Coed, Team NZ finished 8th. They were up against “the big guns” of cheerleading in this section, but performed commendably.

“This being my second year attending the prestigious competition, I had experienced the atmosphere and opportunity of a lifetime the previous year but still you cant stop enjoying every minute of it.”

Mr Lander had a vision of a St Paul’s Haka, one that will unite us as a community and give us a sense of pride in being a member of St Paul’s Collegiate.

“This is one experience in which could never get old, and one that will be never forgotten.”

The agitation of five year olds back stage at the theatre reaches a new level. For many this will be their first time dancing on stage, but nerves are extinguished and the excitement is overwhelming.

The dressing room is packed tightly with excited girls and anxious mothers. Tiny turquoise tutus try to protect themselves as they are thrown close to walls, the costume lady cringes as she thinks of the time put into them. Squeals of laughter flood through the theatre and echo into the auditorium as the guests arrive.

The lead dancers are crammed into the tiny dressing room backstage at the theatre. Filled with costumes, makeup and Christmas cards. Marilyn Monroe lights shine strongly by the mirrors and produce unreasonable heat waves. The tension in the air heightens as the girls fret over tiny details that appear to be catastrophic. The pin drop silence seems to echo the jumbled thoughts of the waiting girls.

The soloist dancer stands side stage and listens to the audience flow in. Waiting. Hoping. Praying for all to go well. To be at the top, every performance must go well.

Harrietanne Embling

Snow Skiing

Author: Mrs Johanna Fanning

This year, the St Paul’s Ski Team was faced with extreme adverse conditions and lack of snow. Keen and eager to “hit the slopes” was Andrew Milne, Fiora Stewart, Remy Campbell, Louis Campbell and Jamie McCallum with Mrs Fanning, along with the freestyle team consisting of Euan Reynolds, Simon Reynolds and Jamie Mc Callum. With over 560 individual competitors and 100 schools taking part, competition this year was going to be difficult.

The first day of competition saw many of us eagerly waiting in the bottom café while RAL decided whether or not to set up the race course at the top of the mountain. Poor visibility and high winds made the set up of the course difficult, but eventually the racing began and the senior boys were called out to the start line. Andrew Milne completed the course in very quick time and was shining in second place. Unfortunately, the conditions continued to worsen and concerns were made for the safety of all competitors. The racing was cancelled shortly before lunchtime, as the St Paul’s team sat and pondered over hot chocolates in the café.

Day Two saw the set up of the two giant slalom courses. Once again, the weather was not looking good and high winds continued to make things difficult for racing. After several coffees and hot chocolates in the café, organisers decided to go ahead with the junior boys giant slalom. Louis Cronin showed them what St Paul’s is made of and achieved the outstanding result of 4th overall in the junior boys G.S, just a fraction of a second behind Auckland Grammar and Palmerston North Boys’ High . The afternoon saw the weather conditions improve slightly. The Slopestyle course was set up and “the freestylers’, as they are known, were ushered to the top of the mountain. St Pauls’ achieved some great results this section, considering the conditions with the wind so strong that the chairlift was shut down, leaving the competitors to walk up! Euan Reynolds finished in 4th place in the junior boys section , pulling out all stops and pulling off a backflip and several other tricky manoevres. Simon Reynolds was placed 9th in the senior boys slopestyle with Jamie McCallum in

16th. St Paul’s finished 12th overall in this section, which is a fantastic result considering the experience of some of the other competitors.

The senior girls section ended up being cancelled which was Fiora Stewart’s only event. Everyone was disappointed but realistic as the mountain conditions had deteriorated to the point of being dangerous. So, it was back in the St Paul’s van and down to Ohakune for some well deserved retail therapy! Unfortunately, because we were unable to get through the minimum of three competitions for each school we were unable to get an overall true relative team result.

The 2010 North Island Secondary Schools’ Skiing Championships were once again held at Turoa Ski Area on Mt Ruapehu.

“… St Pauls’ achieved some great results this section, considering the conditions with the wind. . .”

Paul’s

Golf Report 2010

Author: Mr Garth Littlejohn

Golf in the first half of 2010 was organised by Mr Dell and once he had left School, by Mr Littlejohn.

The “casual” golfers including Matt Seton, Reece Franklin, Nick Anda, Ollie Oxley, Tom Tietjen, Simon Yates, Hayden Middlemiss and Joy Kiwi, had two sessions a week at Pro Drive driving range working on developing their driving and iron play. At the time of writing, Doug Langley from Waikato Golf had been in touch to investigate taking these budding golfers out onto some “real” golf courses after school in Term Four. It is hoped that these experiences will inspire these players to join clubs over the summer and continue on in the game.

St Paul’s had a strong group of “elite” golfers this year including Luke Toomey a member of the NZ U19 golf team and also Waikato Senior Mens team, and Andrew Kingham a local Division 1 pennants player and also in the Waikato U19 team. Other players to represent the School included low handicapper Martin Kerr (3), Luc Rodwell (10), Scott Joblin (15) and Laurie Meban (15).

The first match of the season was against Tauranga Boys College, played at Matamata Golf Club where the team of Toomey 69, Kingham 77, Rodwell 85 and Joblin 84, proved far too good to beat Tauranga Boys by 21 shots.

Due to other Tournament Week commitments our team changed slightly to include Andrew Kingham, Marty Kerr, Luc Rodwell and Laurie Meban, for the Lunden Links Putter Waikato Competition played with seven other schools. The competition ran over three days and was played on a different course each day. Day One at Morrinsville was extremely wet making for tough scoring conditions. Kingham and Kerr handled the conditions the best to post scores in the 70’s, while Meban and Rodwell both shot close to their handicaps. Day Two on the stunning Putaruru course bought beautiful weather and good scoring conditions meaning all the boys posted reasonable scores, only a couple of shots above their handicaps, with Kingham and Kerr again in the 70’s. The last round was at the Narrows and the heavens opened and the boys faced tough conditions once again. Kingham continued his consistent form throughout the three days, with Kerr and Rodwell playing solidly and Meban having a tough day. The team finished in 6th place in the net competition and a very creditable 2nd place in the gross competition which is the truest reflection of the relative abilities of the St Paul’s boys compared to their peers in the other Waikato schools.

A big thanks to all the boys who represented St Paul’s this year, who in the truest spirit of golf, being one of the last remaining sports where the players manage their own behaviour and etiquette, conducted themselves impeccably around the greens.

Cycling

Author: Mr Ben Van Meygaarden

Cycling has seen many new faces this year. With riders fresh to the sport it would be a time for establishing technique and setting the foundations for future performance.

A tight group of juniors worked well in the summer season and quickly picked up confidence and ability in riding in groups and drafting. Rides of 20km were quickly over and a competitive spirit developed amongst Cameron, Hayden and Tyler to be the first back.

In the winter season a new group of intermediates came in with a good spirit looking to take on a new sport in rowing’s off season. Just weeks in the Waikato/Bay of Plenty road race would provide a good indication of where they were starting from.

Paterangi provided fog and almost freezing temperatures right through to the 10am start time. Jack, Alex and Cameron road well in difficult conditions and showed good spirit in the competition against riders with years of experience.

In the senior competition Thomas led the way through the race with a small group of top national riders. The winter proved surprisingly mild on training days and getting ready on time proved more difficult than some of the 40 km rides.

The National Secondary Schools competition in September gave another opportunity for Thomas to show his ability with a 5th place finish against the other top riders from around the country.

The summer finish culminates the cycling year with racing occurring weekly at Horsham Downs as the promise of finer weather gets riders back outside again.

Alex Cameron

SISS and National Secondary School Shooting Competition

Author: Mr Ian Campbell

During the term break the shooting team travelled to Christchurch to compete in this three day event. Although the weather was fine and sunny a strong Nor-westerly wind was forecast and this was to inevitably have a major impact on a number of performances and scores.

We started the first day in a very positive way with Liam Buchanan, Declan Howlett and Sean Collinson-Smith all shooting the possible 20/20 in the Single Rise. This put them in the shoot off for medals later on in the day. The Points Event followed at mid-day, but by this time the wind had increased appreciably and with the targets flying erratically, accurate shooting proved to be difficult. We knew a score in the 280’s would put us in the medals but our final score of 271/300 was disappointing and reflected these conditions. In the end only two teams were able to shoot above 280 points and in the log jam of teams that shot in the 270’s we were finally placed 10th. The final event was the Single Barrel and although Declan Howlett and Logan Dunsmuir both shot a respectable 9/10 no one was able to progress on to the shoot offs in this event.

In the shoot offs for the Single Rise title all three of our shooters were eliminated early and so ended a disappointing day. That night we experienced a number of earthquake aftershocks the biggest was

in excess of 4. With all this shaking going on we were hopeful this would be a good omen for the following day. The next day proved to be just as difficult as the first. The Single Rise event once again went well with Declan Howlett and Logan Dunsmuir shooting the possible 20/20 and Liam Buchan, Dion Candy, James Pritchard, Kyle Glessing and Andrew Bennenbroek all shooting a very respectable 19/20.

Unfortunately by the time our Points event started we had to shoot in a howling gale. This gave all the teams that had finished this event earlier in the day a considerable advantage over us. But considering these conditions all of our shooters performed really well but we knew that our final total score of 269 was again too low to be competitive and we were placed 14th.

The Single Barrel event saw Andrew Bennenbroek shot the possible 10/10 and progress through to the shoot offs in the event.

The highlight of the day was to see Declan Howlett handle these conditions very well

later in the afternoon to gain 9th place in the individual Single Rise shootoff. Skeet was held on day 3 and we only had two competitors participate in this event. Both Liam Buchanan and James Pritchard were unsuccessful in their attempt to reach the finals in of competition.

Although we were a little disappointed with our individual results from this tournament our combined scores of 271 and 269 over the two days gave us a national ranking of 8th equal. Considering the age and experience of our team we can be well pleased with this overall result.

“… With all this shaking going on we were hopeful this would be a good omen for the following day . .”

Logan Dunsmuir, Liam Buchanan and Declan Howlett Declan and James straight shooters

James Pritchard on target

Basketball

Hamilton Secondary Schools competition

St Pauls Collegiate has had three teams playing in the Hamilton Secondary Schools competition this year; Premier Boys, Senior Social and a Year 9 and 10 team playing in the junior A grade.

The premier boys team was very fortunate to be coached by Steve Agnew, a highly experienced coach and former assistant coach of the Waikato Pistons. Staff member Jeremy Coley was the assistant coach. The team had a number of talented players who have represented the region in age group teams. The team’s main goal this year was to qualify for the National Champs in September.

After a couple of early losses the team went on a ten game winning run, beating St John’s College, Hamilton Boys High School and Melville in the process. This was the first time that St Paul’s had beaten St John’s and HBHS.

Unfortunately with the departure of shooting guard Blake Agnew to Tihoi, the team struggled to score consistently from outside the key and lost games to Melville and St John’s.

V St Johns

St Paul’s were without Kurt Heatherley as he was in Australia. Despite the loss of Kurt the boys were determined to push St Johns. They put pressure on St John’s offence with a well structured zone defence and Jason and Ryan rebounded strongly. Keegan playing his best game of the season controlled the offence. They trailed by 6 at half time and managed to keep this close until the last two minutes of the 3rd quarter when St John’s scored 14 unanswered points. SPC were unable to close this gap and eventually lost 70 – 50. This was still a gutsy performance. Ryan top scored with 14 while Jason scored 11.

V Melville

In the play off for third and fourth St Paul’s played Melville who had earlier beaten us by 30 points.

The team was determined to finish on a high note.

The team played one of their best games of the year running a tight and effective defence and creating many opportunities on attack.

Kurt who had just arrived back from Melbourne had a great first half scoring 26 points including three from beyond the arc. Keegan again controlled the ball well and Aaron shot accurately from long range hitting four 3 pointers.

Ryan Jason and Kurt dominated the defensive board.

St Paul’s led by 9 at half time and although Melville fought back to be only 4 behind at3/4 time that was as close as they got, St Paul’s eventually winning by 8; 82 – 74.

This was a great way to finish the season.

Back Row: Liam Jackson, Jenn Swatthanakoon, Paul Phuphet, Dr McGrath (Coach)

Front Row: Tom Dobbe, Sukhjit Sarai, Matt May

Back Row: P. Wilson (Manager), R. Sullivan, J. Fawcett, J. Heatherley, K. Heatherley, J. Coley (Assistant Coach)

Front Row: J. Hogg, K. Fly, A. Keppler (Captain), N. Payne, J. Tye

Absent: S. Agnew (Coach), B. Agnew

Juniors seek control of the ball

Regional Tournament 2010

The national qualifying tournament (zone 2) was held in Manakau.

The St Paul’s team consisted of Aaron Keppler, Josh Tye, Josh Fawcett, James Hogg, Ryan Sullivan, Keegan Fly, Nikora Payne, Jason and Kurt Heatherley.

The team had 5 qualifying games and needed to finish 1st or 2nd in their pool to reach the top 8 and have a chance of qualifying for the national champs.

TUESDAY

V Cambridge

SPC started slowly but as the game progressed so did their dominance. We led by 14 at half time and in the third quarter scored 21 unanswered points. The final score was 70 – 45

Kurt top scored with 28 followed by Aaron with 14

V HBHS

After having beaten HBHS in the local competition we knew that they would be up for this game.

In the first quarter we could not stop their 3 point shooter who hit 6 in a row. They also limited our opportunities by strong full court press defence which caused a number of turnovers.

At the end of the first quarter we trailed by 25!

This proved to be the winning of the game and although SPC came back to win the 2nd and 4th quarters we lost by 17 – 70 to 87

Kurt top scored with 18 followed by Aaron and Jason with 13 each.

Representative Honours

Kurt Heatherley and Aaron Keppler played for the Waikato U17 team that placed third in their national tournament. Aaron went on to be selected for the NZ U17 team while Kurt was chosen for the NZ U16 side.

Ryan Sullivan played for the Waikato U19 team and Keegan made the Waikato U19 B team.

WEDNESDAY

V Mt Maunganui

SPC played well from the start and never really let the Mount in to the game at any stage. Strong defence and effective shooting especially from Kurt who hit 5 three pointers allowed SPC to win by 14 – 86 to 72

Kurt top scored with 34 followed by Aaron with 17 and Ryan with 15.

V St Peters

SPC perhaps took this game too lightly as we had easily beaten them earlier in the year. We began well enough leading at quarter time: 21 – 13. Poor shot selection and missed free throws (which was a real problem throughout the tournament) and soft defence allowed St peters to be only behind by 4 going into the final quarter. They raised their game taking the lead and we panicked. And could not catch losing by 4.

Kurt top scored with 31 followed by Aaron with 14.

THURSDAY

V Howick

This was a must win game if we had any chance of qualifying for the top 8. St Paul’s raised their game playing to their strengths – inside the key shooting and tough defence. SPC only led by 3 at ¾ time but pulled away in the final quarter to win by 12.

Kurt top scored with 30 followed by Aaron with 17 and Jason with 15.

Unfortunately St Peters won in overtime against the Mount which put us out of contention for top 8 playoffs.

V Pakuranga

Another excellent shooting display from Kurt 32) saw SPC defeat Pakuranga by 15 points: 78–63.

Jason scored 16. This meant that we were in the playoff for 9th to 12th.

FRIDAY

V Alfriston

This was an end to end game with SPC running an effective transition game allowing many fast breaks.

All the bench players got plenty of game time. SPC ran out easy winners: 99 – 64

Aaron top scored with 40 points, Kurt with 16.

V St Kents

Again those players who had not had much court time during the week got to play most of the game.

With the pressure off SPC enjoyed themselves. There was great applause when James Hogg hit a 3-pointer.

The final score was 77 – 59 to St Kents which meant that SPC finished 10th out of 23 Aaron top scored with 16 including four 3s. Although we did not qualify for Nationals the foundation has been laid for the team to do so next year if they put in the hard work over the summer.

Thanks must go to Steve Agnew for the time and effort he has put into coaching the team this year.

The senior social team coached by Stewart Auld played on Thursday evenings at the Fraser High gym. They did not win many games but enjoyed their basketball.

The junior team coached by Jason McGrath played in the junior B division on Tuesdays also at Fraser. Despite the disruption of losing 10 players to Tihoi and only six returning this team had a great season winning most of their games and winning the competition overall.

Josh Tye and Kurt Heatherley ready for next phase

Essence of the East

Author: Matt Hickmott

This year’s school ball has been said to be one of the best in St Paul’s history. For the second year in a row the ball would be held in the schools sports centre, many people questioned having the ball on a basketball court but with the help of my ball committee, Mrs. Smith and the Parents Association we were able to turn it into a lively colorful Indian palace.

The “senior social highlight of the year” was embellished with colourful drapery, Indian statues, tents and fairy lights and to top it off the meal for the night was a plate full of steamed rice, butter chicken and Naan. Even the teachers started to party till late with the students on the dance floor in front of the excitable band and DJ.

The night started to come to an end so that was the time for the most waited awards.

Glenn Eyers and Katie Hodge were too cute together and received best couple, an Indian inspired suit and an overall beautiful look saw Lance Wolfe and Shreena Patel winning best dressed. Prince and Princess were given to the best overall package throughout the 6th formers, Maija McCalman winning it for her beauty and Jim for his spunk.The most important winners were at the end with 7th formers Zach Oliver picking up his Beau of the Ball sash and Katie Rattray receiving her Belle of the Ball sash for her amazing look and grace. Overall the night was a great success and I would like to thank people for their help because without them it wouldn’t have been possible. My ball committee of Polly Larkman, Lucy Travis, Ash Fraser, Bex Atkinson, Alana Timms, Caitlin Reid and Alice Fisher. Mrs. Smith who did a large amount of organising and kept it all together. Lastly the Parents Association who were bartenders, desert makers and decoration assemblers. Thanks guys for all the help.

Belle of the Ball Katie Rattray

Beau of the Ball Zach Oliver

Best dressed female Shreena Patel

Best dressed male Lance Wolfe

Best couple Glen Eyers & Katie Hodge

Princess of the Ball Maija MacCalman

Prince of the Ball Jeff Nam

Winners on the night

Prince and Princess of the Ball: Maija MacCalman and Jeff Nam

Glen Eyers and Katie Hodge – ‘Best Couple’

Shreena Patel and Lance Wolfe – ‘Best Dressed’

Beau and Belle of the Ball: Zach Oliver and Katie Rattray

Kent Stewart, David Hoskins, Sam Kaelin, Alex Penrose

Fiora Stewart and Sam Hewat Oliver Smith and Ali McMichael

Tom Swarbrick and Charlotte Atherton Catherine Chegwidden and Rhia Singh

Josh Lenssen and Partner

Joel Stevenson and Mark Mills and Partners

Lucy Moss and Dion Candy Zane Carlyon and Partner

Andrew Milne and Shreena Patel

Stephanie Henley-Smith, Jess Morton, Lucy Travis, Megan Cowley, Alice Fisher, Lucinda Needham, Katie Rattray

Melissa Oosterwijk and Cat McRae

Sam Kaelin and Jen Currie

Tayla Thomas and Isak Eksteen

Henry Tai, Moses Zhang, Sam Hung, Ze Wang, Partner, Partner, Edward Tseng

Paul’s

Jason Heatherley, Zach Oliver, Geoff Beaumont, Luke Toomey, Nic Taylor, Luc Rodwell, Andrew Kingham Partner, Partner, Partner, Alice Fisher, Rebecca Atkinson, Partner, Partner, Partner Michael Loft and Siobhan Vusoniwailala

Kelly Robertson, Joanna Brogden, Dylan Groom, Chaman Singh

Annie Boshier, Ali French, Siobhan Vusoniwailala, Marie-Helene Jacquet Kobi Harris and Ashley Fraser

Alana Timms, Sam Hewatt, Caitlin Reid Ashlee Dyer and Petra Milne

Paul’s

Eion Miles, Stephanie Henley-Smith, Jess Morton, Grayson Croasdale

Pre Ball Function

Geoff Beaumont and Rebecca Atkinson

Kelly Robertson and Daniel Ford

Melissa Latto and Nick Anderson

Jason Heatherley and Alice Fisher

Annie Boshier and Grayson Croasdale

Year 12 Boys

Biology Fieldtrip

Author: Mr Roger Bell

Ngarunui Beach, Raglan

The chance to investigate the living world away from the classroom and the laboratory is a learning opportunity not often encountered by many of today’s senior students. With a curriculum increasingly focused upon New Zealand plant and animal species in local ecosystems and with more students having a limited knowledge of these species and situations, it is vital to have such a trip.

The focus of the day is to gather both quantitative and qualitative data for a deeper understanding for two of the Level 2 Biology achievement standards. Data gathered on the day is then processed back at school in the week following the field trip so that students can then present their field trip report. This report writing process also enables the expected standards for biological diagrams, graphs, paragraph structure and the use of scientific names to be established early on in the year. Since handling both living and dead organisms is a part of the practical work in the course, the day also encourages students to handle rocky shore species to help reduce any prior misconceptions that students may have about living things. Often their fears about handling such creatures as crabs, fish and sea anenomes are based, not on their own experiences, but upon what television or others have told them. This means that further laboratory work during the year involving the handling of both living and dead organisms can proceed without fear.

The day is certainly a busy one with six tasks to be completed covering both bush and rocky shore communities. Working in small groups enabled most tasks to be shared out followed by times to pool results. With data recorded and measuring equipment accounted for it was soon time to head back to the bus and into Raglan for an ice-cream before heading back to school. All-in-all, a very successful day.

Chemquest

Author: Mikey Hodge

We were all amped for the free pizza and fizzy drink and the chance to win at least $50. The teams came into the competition with a legacy to follow, as St Paul’s had won the trophy six times in the last 12 years. The competition looked tough, but we all had confidence to battle it out, and the conditions were fine with a slight breeze, which were perfect conditions for the St Paul’s side.

The three teams competing were; ‘TEAM’ consisting of Chang Zhai, Evan Wilson and Andrew Mcpherson, ‘Corrosive Carnage’ consisting of Lucien Nabbs, James Kennedy and Michael Hodge, and the other team was called ‘the other one’, which featured Melissa Oosterwijk, James Hogg and Tom Swarbrick.

The first round was based on the periodic table. This round included questions such as finding associating elements with geographical places, comic books and precious stones. Round two was based on the senses. This included tasks, such as identifying smells which included aniseed and butter left in the sun smell that could be smelt without even opening the container. Then came the music round. This included tracks being played, of which we were required to answer questions based on the artist. Questions included “What is the name of a common experiment observation, that sounds like the name of this artist? The song was by evanescence.

The final round meant that all the teams were 10 questions from rolling in the cash. This was the most nerve-racking round, as all of the St Paul’s teams’ efforts had secured top five placings so far. The final round was called ‘Demon Demos’. Explosions to shatter eardrums, colourful explosions and explosions making rockets were the core of this exciting part.

The ‘Other One’ team gained a credible 6th place out of 69 teams, whilst ‘Corrosive Carnage’ gained a silver medal and $90 and ‘TEAM’ gained a Gold medal and $150. The day was very enjoyable especially considering St Paul’s was able to repeat its gold/silver medal sweep from last year.

During October nine keen Year 12 chemists and Mr Smith embarked on a journey to the University of Waikato to participate in the annual Chemquest competition.

Biology Fieldtrip, Ngarunui Beach, Raglan

Volleyball

Senior Beach Volleyball Team

Sean Johnson and Chris Fletcher

St Paul’s 1st beach volleyball team found great success this season. It was the first time that St Paul’s had a beach volleyball team in the Waikato competition. We competed in the open men’s division and come out of it with a creditable 4th overall. Highlights were the 3rd placing in the Waikato secondary schools tournament played at the beginning of term 1 with a win over Hillcrest High, both team members played for the Waikato U-17. At the end of the season both Sean and Chris were invited to represent Hamilton City!! Building on the great success in 2010 we hope to achieve higher honours in 2011.

Senior A Volleyball Team

James Kennedy, Kegan Fly, Ryan Sullivan, Chris Fletcher, Ryan Hobbs, Andrew Bennenbroek, Kent Stewart, Sean Johnson.

St Paul’s Senior A volleyball played on Friday nights in the Waikato Secondary School indoor volleyball Senior Boys B-Division. This was the first competitive team since ’05 and the boys managed to claim a spot in the Final against Hamilton Boys High losing 3 sets to 2, with the final set going to a tie-break. Outstanding performances this year came from Corbin O’Neill and Ryan Sullivan. The boys comfortably won all games throughout the season against other oppositions. With a great reboot to the Volleyball spirit in St Paul’s we hope to build on this and come back for another great season in 2011.

Senior Black Team

Fiora Stewart, Sarah Cranswick, Clare Reeves, Oliver HamlinRowling, S Penson, Harry Larkman, Absent: Joy Kiwi, Nathan Russell The senior Black team played in division C of the open social grade at the Te Rapa Sports Drome. For a number of players this was their first time playing volleyball. Having said this, over the course of the season their skills and commitment to the game improved tremendously with all players achieving over head serves. Joy, Sarah and Nathan were the consistent achievers in the team and they were ably assisted by Clare, Fiora and Harry. Team work resulted in some close games and four wins. The team Finished a creditable 3rd in their division.

Senior Mixed Team

Sophie Nola, Riva Colcord, Cyrano Embling, Cecile Elsing, Emily Neish, Alexandra McMichael, Anjena Singh, Annelies WatsonHolmes.

The senior Mixed team played in division D at the Te Rapa Sports Drome on Monday evenings. They developed a greater team spirit and played with real enthusiasm and commitment. Most of the teams they player against had had more experienced players. Outstanding effort by Anjena and Alexandra kept the team competitive and the all around team work kept the games close. The team finished 6th in their division.

Left to right: Sean Johnson, Christopher Fletcher, Mr K. Hogg (Coach)

Back Row: J. Kennedy, K. Fly, R. Sullivan, C. Fletcher, Mr K. Hogg (Coach)

Front Row: R. Hobbs, A. Bennenbroek, C. O’Neill, K. Stewart, S. Johnson

Back Row: F. Stewart, S. Cranswick, C. Reeves, Mr K. Hogg (Coach)

Front Row: O. Hamlin-Rowling, S. Penson, H. Larkman

Absent: J. Kiwi, N. Russell, Mrs J. Lock (Manager)

Back Row: S. Nola, R. Colcord, C. Embling, Mr K. Hogg (Coach)

Front Row: C. Elsing, E. Neish, A. McMichael, A. Singh, A. Watson-Holmes

Absent: O. Oxley, Mrs J. Lock (Coach/Manager)

The Sargood Band: Lance Wolfe, John Roach, Kent Stewart and Ben MacLachlan

Hall House ‘Hit the Road Jack’

Olivia Jackson

Harriet-Anne Embling Mat Stevens

Pipers: Emma and Sarah McCallum

Carl Brandt

Choir

Sam Kaelin

Celebration of Music

Author: Mr Peter Gilbert

Our Celebration of Music was staged in front of a large audience. Caitlin Reid and Sam Hewat started the show off with a beautiful rendition of John Legend’s ‘Ordinary people’ which was followed by a flawless Bach Prelude on the pipe organ from Jonathan Eyers.

The Chapel Choir conducted by Mr Cowan sang two numbers, “If Ye Love Me” and “Contate Domino” and then two very contrasting performances followed. Livi Jackson danced to Hip Hop mix and Nathan Russell belted out his own composition on drums.

The Sargood band led by Ben MacLachlan, played the Jack Johnson song “Flake” and then Sam Kaelin was a soloist singing “The Magic Flute”. The Ray Charles number, “Hit the Road Jack” was brilliantly performed by the Hall House Band and the winners of House Music, School House again presented a stunning performance of the Michael Jackson hit “Man in the Mirror”.

Matt Stevens was a soloist with “You Raise Me Up” and the first half of the programme finished with a polished performance on the Zither from Nina Lee which everyone was talking about over a wine during the interval.

The second half began with the choir singing a medly from Monty Python’s “Spamalot”, followed by eth Noble’s fine rendition of “The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze” from “The Mikado”. In stark contrast Harriet-Anne Embling, a junior associate in the Royal New Zealand Ballet, then performed a stunning and simply graceful, classical ballet dance.

Soloist Ben MacLachlan sang a polished rendition of “3 am” and James Lin was stylish in his playing “Prelude No. 2” by George Gershwin. Ashlee Dyer’s performance of “Angels” was one of the highlights and the McCallum twins, Sarah and Emma played a rousing duet on bagpipes.

Jonathan Eyers continued to show his incredible musical talent and versatility by singing one of the most sensational renditions of Leonard Cowan’s “Halleluia” heard by anyone in the audience. The choir came together again with the Beatles’ “Money Can’t Buy Me Love” and the rounded off a wonderful programme with the Grand Finale. Mr Cowan had crafted a medley from “Chess” which they sang beautifully.

Producer Mr Peter Gilbert was impressed by the stage crew led by Liz Lawrence and Alana Timms who effected sharp set changes. He also wishes to thank sincerely the compere for the evening, Dr McGrath, the St Paul’s Association for their assistance during the interval and most importantly Mr Francis Cowan, the Director of Music.

Mr Francis Cowan

David Hoskins and Jen Currie

Taylor Deakin

Jonathan Eyers

Nathan Russell

Nina Lee on Zither

Caitlin Reid

Year 12 Leadership Camp

Author: Ms Glenys Parton

After a period of absence, leadership training and support for senior students is once again a priority at St Paul’s. Springboarding off the outstanding virtues programme, run at Tihoi by Directors Chris Wynn and Cyn Smith, a formal Year 12 Leadership Programme, aimed at developing skills in next year’s potential school leaders has been developed. The programme, based at St Paul’s Tihoi Venture School, took advantage of the extensive variety of facilities the campus has to offer.

Sixty two students gave up three days of their September holidays to attend. The Programme was facilitated and co-led by Rick Dobbie from the organisation Ash Consulting in Australia. Mr Dobbie holds Graduate Diplomas in Management Studies and Conflict Management and specialises in Team Leadership. He was supported by programme Co-leader Ms Cyn Smith (Director of Tihoi), Mr Grant Lander (Headmaster), Mr Chris Luman (Deputy Headmaster) along with St Paul’s and Tihoi staff. The programme delivered a balance of theory and practical activities to support the theory, and was underpinned by the Tihoi Virtues Programme that is championed by Ms Smith.

STUDENTS SAID OF THE PROGRAMME:

Loved the “Snakepit” as learnt how easy a good thing can turn to custard.

The sessions allowed us to figure out our strengths and weaknesses. Learnt about the people around me who are part of my peer group.

Insight into group dynamics. Great to return to Tihoi.

Gave me an opportunity to work with people in my year group that I do not normally meet with. Got us outside our comfort zone at times.

WHAT SOME OF THE

OCTOBER

WARD FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP 81

MOUNTAIN BIKE CLUB 81

1ST X1 BOYS HOCKEY 82

COLTS U16 RUGBY 85

HEDGEHOGS RUGBY

XV 85

UNDER 14A RUGBY 86

LUKE TOOMEY 2010

ACHIEVEMENTS 87

SCOTT SLEIGH 87

1ST XV RUGBY 88

2ND XV RUGBY 90

CHESS – ST PAUL’S TEAM OF THE YEAR 91

As darkness falls the air grows cool. The trunks and branches cast long stripy shadows across the cooling road. The lurking clouds reclaim the sky, smothering the sunset.

The sudden wind has a late winter chilling edge, bringing heavy pelting rain, slaps the windows and whips the flowers and new leaves. Rain and petals fly across the road, filling the gutters. The street has emptied of people, colour and spring. It is dark, wet, cold and miserable. Wisps of smoke are whipped from chimneys, as warming fires are lit to push back the cold.

On the road, a lone car scythes through the driving deluge. The beams of the headlights splinter the sleeting rain. The wipers slap and swish at the curtain of water. Tyres launch a wave which slams onto the path.

The storm has built to a crescendo. Thunder rolls and crashes overhead, shaking houses and rattling windows. Sudden flashes of lightning tear apart the sky as the rain falls in a heavy torrent, before slowly abating over the night.

Alistair Carmichael

Ward Family Scholarship

I hope to one day work in a medical field and this generous scholarship gave me the opportunity to travel to Rarotonga. I had the privilege of travelling with Mr Andrew MacDiarmid, an orthopedic surgeon from Tauranga who has been working in the Rarotongan hospital for many years. Mr MacDiarmid visits Rarotonga for a couple of weeks at a time, seeing patients in the clinic as well as operating on those in need. During this time Andy, as he is fondly known, has made many friends through his years of service and has much mana amongst the locals.

I was fortunate enough to sit in the clinic, follow the local physician around the wards and watch some of the operations in the surgical theatre. As well, I did some of my own research on the major epidemics that affect the Cook Islands: Dengue Fever and Ciguatera. This report is of my work on Ciguatera poisoning. I looked at case records of patients admitted to the hospital with fish poisoning and interviewed Islanders who had first hand experienced of this disease and gathered their views on its impact in general.

WHAT IS CIGUATERA?

Ciguatera or fish poisoning is a food borne illness in humans caused by eating reef marine species whose flesh is contaminated with the ciguatoxin. The ciguatoxin is produced by single celled organisms called dinoflagellates such as Gambierdiscus toxicus which are epiphytic to the macroalgae that grows on dead coral. The toxin accumulates in lower level organisms resulting in an increase of the toxin in the flesh of the reef fish with each step in the food chain. Therefore the large carnivorous fish such as parrot fish have a high concentration of the toxin in their flesh; this is called ‘biomagnification’.

The ciguatoxin producing organism is found most commonly in tropical waters of the Pacific and Caribbean, including the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. However, it most heavily affects the Cook Islands. Fortunately it is not apparent in New Zealand, as the toxin host organism lives on dead coral.

Mountain Bike Club

Author: Mr Andrew Harries

The mountain bike club started the year with 13 keen riders. We had a range of skill levels from first timers through to students that have been mountain biking for the past three years. Most of our weekly rides were at the local mountain bike track at Pukete. Each ride was an average of 18km in length. At the track we practiced and learned new skills that we put into action as we raced around a small section of track against the clock. All boys were able to beat their time as the term went on.

– Author: James Chancellor

Neurological and gastrointestinal symptoms are the most common and these include such things as pins and needles in the extremities, tingling in the lips, temperature dysaesthesia, itchiness, weakness, dizziness, vomiting, aching muscles, cold and shivering, fainting, as well as headache, low blood pressure and weak pulse. Symptoms can be retriggered by eating foods such as nuts, alcohol, chicken, eggs and fish which isn’t contaminated. However symptomatic effect is usually over after about six months. Some Cook Islanders believe they can identify the contaminated fish or make them safe to eat, with some unusual methods employed. These include:

• Catching only fish from schools, not individuals.

• Feeding part of the suspected fish to a dog, cat or enemy and if they fall ill do not eat the fish.

• If flies don’t land on it, it means it’s contaminated.

• Rubbing fish on gums and if they go numb it is contaminated.

Sadly Ciguatera has resulted in the emigration of many Cook Islanders overseas to New Zealand and Australia.

Because a lot of Islanders grow their own fruit and vegetables such as taro, yam, banana, kumara, which they then sell at the market for a few extra dollars as well as feeding their family, they cannot afford to buy fish and therefore depend on catching it from the reef. Without fish, their staple food, they have been forced to migrate out of the Cooks resulting in the decline of the Island population, impacting the Islands both economically, socially and culturally.

The locals told me they are disappointed they can no longer enjoy the tasty reef fish and their children are missing part of their culture, no longer learning how to fish from the reef.

The opportunity to travel to Rarotonga and to study the effects of Ciguatera first hand has given me a great insight into medicine and surgery and the impact of illness on people’s lives in developing countries. I was especially impressed by the dedicated service Mr MacDiarmid has gifted to the people of the Islands over many years.

I sincerely thank the Ward family for making this opportunity possible for me. I hope to one day revisit the Cooks as a doctor myself and continue Andy’s legacy to the generous and hospitable Pacific neighbours.

We also went for an adventure down to Rotorua for a day to ride some of the trails there, gentle up hills and some great flowing down hills. We returned back to the van with tied legs and smiles on our faces. Thanks go to Alex O’leary and Scott Sleigh for their leadership and sharing of their skills.

In term 4 we put two senior boys’ teams into the National Secondary Schools Mountain Bike Relay Race. We competed against 54 teams with some schools training all year round.The

team of James Hogg, James Mason and Andrew Roberts completed 12 laps just two behind the leading team gaining 23rd place. Hayden Wind, Carl Brandt, David Glover and Jaymz MacKenzie-Hooper came home in 46th place. James Hogg completed the fastest lap time. All the boys’ tried their best for the full three hour race and can be proud of their placings.

1st X1 Boys Hockey

The Boy’s 1st XI hockey team had a very full and a very successful 2010 season overall. This was due in large part to the hard work put in by players and coach but also due to the wonderful support of caregivers and others who have toiled in the background and/or enthusiastically cheered for us on from the sideline.

Tauranga Quadrangular Tournament.

St Paul’s 1st XI traveled to Tauranga on the weekend to take part in the John Leslie Quadrangular. The first game was against Kings College, who last year were second in the country and will go very close to taking out Rankin Cup this year. The game started with franatic pace and we found ourselves defending for the first 5 minutes of the game. It was a real wake up and it wasn’t until we had let in a soft goal from a rebound did we start to play some good hockey. Kings were up 2-0 at the break after they converted a penalty corner. With a few adjustments at half time we started the half well with a stroke which was converted by Matt Snodgrass. Unfortunately another penalty corner and a soft turnover gave Kings a 4-1 win.

With three hours between the Kings and Tauranga Boys game, there wasn’t a lot of time for recovery. This does however simulate what you could expect at tournament. Nick Taylor scored the most unusual goal I have ever seen since coaching the XI. After pressing a player in the circle he stuck his stick out as the defender tried to make a pass and deflected the ball into the net. Unfortunately a poor umpiring decision gave Tauranga their first goal when the first shot at goal was lifted into the net. The second half saw us wear a yellow card after more inconsistency. Tauranga scored a soft goal to take the final score to 2-1.

Wanting to improve our scoreline and of course play good hockey, we took on Lindisfarne who we will meet at India Shield. We started really well putting huge pressure on the Lindisfarne circle. Snodgrass found himself free in the circle after some slick passing to score the first goal. Young Luke David created some great build up which was finished by Glenn and Nick Taylor got a nice tap in after another great build up. Unfortunately a very soft turnover allowed Lindisfarne a breakaway from which they scored. While there was good hockey in the second half we only managed to score one goal to Glenn who rifled the ball into the net. Final score 4-1 win to St Paul’s. A successful weekend in terms of harder hockey, however lots of work needed in certain areas.

Waikato Secondary Schools Boys A Grade Competition

On Wednesday the 8th of Sept the St Pauls 1st X1 played Hamilton Boys High School 1st X1 in the final of the Waikato Secondary Schools competition. SPC had won two of the previous encounters and they had won one. Also HBHS had just returned from the top national tournament as the 5th ranked team in the country. There was no doubt that this was going to be another very tough match. As expected the intensity of the game was huge. After a nervous start by both sides, the first half became a fairly even “arm wrestle”. SPC penetrated the opposition circle several times while HBHS got one good scoring opportunity which was superbly defended by Josh Lenssen in goal. The second half mostly followed the same pattern, with SPC probably having the edge in terms of circle penetrations and scoring opportunities. Unfortunately full time arrived without any result so the rules of the competition required a “shoot out” consisting of five alternating strokes for each team. It is always disappointing that the outcome of a game comes down to this as it is such a nerve wracking lottery and frequently does not reflect a team’s performance in the actual match. Unfortunately SPC lost this contest 2 – 3 giving HBHS the win. While it was disappointing to lose this way the SPC team can very proud of the way it played and we thank all those who supported us at this match and throughout the season.

St Pauls Quadrangular Tournament.

Our first game was against Macleans College who put us under a lot of pressure in the first 10 minutes and scored the first goal. SPC started to make it more of a contest in the rest of the half but there was still not enough passion. At this level, where skills are pretty even, desire and going hard on the ball is often what makes the difference. Macleans on the other hard were attacking vigorously at every opportunity and had to be warned by the referee for some rather agricultural tackling. Fortunately before the break Jason Coventry was able to square the score from a PC.

In the second half SPC was able to gain a significant edge in possession and territory but were unable to convert the much greater number of opportunities they were getting. Macleans scored next and hung on to a 2-1 lead for most of the half. An excellent buildup in the final few minutes by our midfielders lead to a nice tap in by Tim Prestage. Final score a 2-all draw.

The next game, against Wanganui Collegiate, was a much better performance by SPC with much greater intensity shown in all areas of the game. Although Wanganui played at a furious pace and had a well organised man to man defence our players did not allow this to distract them from their game plan. Excellent passing and

patient build-ups allowed SPC to gradually dominate the game. At the end of the first half we were one goal up from a PC where Roydon Nutsford scored a nice tap in. The second half continued in the same manner with Nick Taylor putting away a well timed deflection. Final score a 2-0 win to SPC. Although we were delighted to have the win it was somewhat diminished by the fact that Jason Coventry suffered a shoulder injury which was to put him out for the rest of the Tournament.

The final game was against Hamilton Boys High School and as expected this was an extremely intense match. Both of HBHS’s previous games in the quadrangular had been comprehensive victories so they were considered to be the team most likely to go through undefeated.

In the first half SPC spent a significant amount of time defending desperately but were able to soak up the pressure and eventually started to build up attacks on the opposition circle. During one such assault we were awarded a PC from which Glenn Eyers slotted an excellent goal.

The second half was an even contest with both sides having many opportunities to put more points on the score board. However our midfielders and forwards showed greater teamwork and flair and late in the second half Roydon Nutsford struck the ball with another of his superbly timed back stick shots and produced the only goal of the half. Final score: a very satisfying 2-0 win to SPC despite having two yellow cards as a result of some dubious refereeing decisions. Going through unbeaten made SPC the overall winners of the quadrangular. All players are to be commended for digging deep and showing the sort of grit and determination which delights a coach and makes their supporters very proud.

PLAYERS GAINING REPRESENTATIVE HONOURS

U18 Waikato U15 Waikato

Glenn Eyers Matt Tingey

Roydon Nutsford Alex Wilson

Matthew Snodgrass

Wesley Vick

“… All players are to be commended for digging deep and showing the sort of grit and determination which delights a coach . . .”

1st X1 Boys Hockey CONTINUED

India Shield Hockey Tournament

This is a 16 team tournament, with initial competition divided into four pools of four teams. Once pool placings are decided, the pools are paired for crossover play. A team hoping to make the final must be placed 1st or 2nd in their pool then win every post-pool game. Our primary goal was to at least make top 4 and gain automatic entry into Rankin Cup (the top tournament) next year.

POOL PLAY

Versus Waimea College ( won 6 – 1 )

Once SPC had settled into this first match they gradually asserted greater dominance as the game went on. Roydon Nutsford set up two field goals which were put away by John Roach and Matt Snodgrass. Cyrano Embling scored the next two goals, one from a superb cross by Glenn Eyerss and the other from his own brilliant solo run from half way. Two further goals followed in the second half. The first was scored by Nick Taylor when he deflected a shot by Matt Snodgrass and the second was from an excellent solo dribble and shot by Tim Prestage. Waimea found their way into the circle a few times but patient defence by the backs and excellent goal-keeping by Josh Lenssen kept them out until they were awarded a dubious PC from which they scored.

Versus Timaru Boys’ High School (won 3–1)

SPC was put on the back foot right from the start but our defence absorbed the pressure

and eventually started to dominate.The first goal was slotted from a PC with a direct hit by Glenn Eyers.The next goal was scored by Nick Taylor and the third goal came after some slick dribbling into the circle by Glenn who then smashed the ball into the net. Just before half time Timaru were awarded a PC from which they scored.The second half was a real arm wrestle with both sides having opportunities but no further points scored.

Versus Rangitoto College ( won 2 – 1 )

In the early part of the game SPC struggled to find top gear but finally scored after 25 minutes with a brilliant Matt Snodgrass dribble and shot. From that point on and into the second half SPC dominated the game so it was a little against the run of play that Rangitoto got a rather soft field goal. Our second goal came from a superbly executed PC involving four touches of the ball in the circle before Matt Snodgrass put it into the net.

As a result of these three wins SPC was placed a clear 1st in their pool.

CROSSOVER MATCHS

Versus Hutt International Boys’ School (lost 2 – 1 )

Hutt’s earlier unremarkable results belied a well drilled and highly structured team.They put us under a lot of pressure for much of the first 30 minutes as we struggled to get out of our own half. When we did get onto attack, opportunities were lost due to easy turnovers. By half time we were 2 goals down.The second half went significantly better but we were now playing catch up. A goal eventually

came when Roydon Nutsford cracked a back stick shot into the net.The last 5 minutes were a titanic struggle with Hutt trying to keep us out and SPC desperately wanting to score from the many opportunities which were finally coming our way. Unfortunately time ran out, dashing all hopes of making the top four and leaving players and coach hugely disappointed. It is interesting to note that Hutt later went on to play the final.

Versus MaCleans College ( won 4 – 0 )

SPC won this match comfortably despite our regular goal keeper being out for the rest of the tournament with an ankle injury, one of our defenders having a badly bashed arm and two other players suffering the effects of a stomach bug.The scorers were Glenn Eyers (2 goals, one from a PC and one field goal) and Roydon Nutsford (2 field goals). Having missed any chance of the top 4 we were now very keen to win the next game which would make us 5th and give us an outside chance of reaching the Rankin Cup in 2011 if one of the top four withdrew.

Versus Rangitoto College ( lost 5 – 1 )

We had met Rangitoto earlier in pool play and had defeated them fairly convincingly.This time, unfortunately, they turned the tables on us and rattled in a number of soft goals. SPC had been very unlucky with the run of the ball and some umpiring decisions and only really started to fire near the end. Unfortunately it was too little too late and Nick Taylor scored our only goal. The final result for SPC was an overall placing of 6th for the tournament, one place better than the previous year.

Back Row: Nick Taylor, Roydon Nutsford, John Roach, Timothy Prestage

2nd Row: Mr Craig Hardman, Luke David, Matthew Snodgrass, Liam O’Donoghue, Matthew Tingey, Mr Dave Sole

Front Row: Brook Daly, Cyrano Embling, Nathan Wright, Joshua Lenssen, Glenn Eyers, Michael Aitken, Jason Coventry

Colts U16 Rugby

Author: Mr Peter Gilbert

The Colts began the season well with a 43–8 win over Huntly College but this was followed by a loss to the eventual winners of the competition, HBHS U15s and to Tokoroa. From then on they had wins over HBHS U16s, Cambridge, Fraser, and Te Kuiti which put them into the semi-finals. Unfortunately they lost to Tokoroa in a tight match but came through to defeat Fraser High School to be placed 3rd in the competition. The team was superbly led by inspirational captain, Jonty Wood. During Tournament Week the 16s played in a Quad against 3 of the strongest schools in the Nth Island. In the first match against HBHS they almost caused a huge upset by narrowly losing in the final minutes. Very competitive matches in the following 2 days saw them go down by small margins to Palmerston Nth Boys High School and Sacred Heart from Auckland.

The MVPs for 2010 were in the forwards: #1 Josh Tye # 2 Andrew Fullerton and in the backs: #1 Jonty Wood #2= Harry Larkman, Jonty Rae and Aaron Crow. The forwards comprised a very strong and committed group of young men, all destined to go further in the game: Caleb Lesueuer, Scott Slegh, Andrew Fullerton, Callum Brown, Arie Brogden, Dylan Coull, Joe Velzian, Aaron Ellott, Marty Brown, Joe Curran, Shaun Littleworth, Jordan Patchell, Aaron Cleland, Jonty MacPherson, Logan Dunsmuir, Tommy Moss, Jaden Verryt, Aran Geerts.

The backs comprised a talented and speedy contingent: Jonty Wood (Capt), Malcolm Luman, William Cooper, Aaron Crow, Scott Finlayson, Jonty Rae, Harry Larkman, Conner Fullerton, Martin Kerr, Michel Gutry, Mitch Cleland, Luke Wylie-Miln, Daniel Shewan,

Back Row: Jaden Rouse, Finnbar Claridge, Jack McDonald, William Broderick, Benjamin Donaldson

2nd Row: Mr Ivan Posa (Coach), Thomas Harsant, Hayden Gill, Oliver Clausen, Callum Connell, Danyon Fernando, Gerard Needham, Mr Grant Lander (Coach)

Front Row: Hamish Te Whare, Samuel Crawford, David Reeves, Zac Lorich, Liam Jackson, Mark Adlam, Zachary Posa

Absent: Jayden Randle, Jamieson Madgwick, Corban Morison, Angus Black, Peter Winkelmann, Callum Bowick, Ethan Holme

Hedgehogs Rugby XV

Author: Mr Ivan Poser

The season started with the weight limit for this grade being revised to Under 55kg and six of the internal squad of 24 players never having played Rugby before.

Our season was divided into two distinct parts based around the impact of the Tihoi Year 10 intakes. We started with encouraging wins over Morrinsville College and a narrow 7-14 loss to St Peters in the pre-season tournament.

We then were hammered by Hamilton Boys’ High School ‘A’ side in the first official match before growing with confidence and cohesion as the season progressed. At the end of term two we lost seven experienced players to Tihoi Intake #2; inspirational Captain Corban Morison, gritty forwards Jamie Madgwick, Alex Fullerton, Gus Black, Peter Winkelmann, along with elusive backs Josh Walpole-Smith and Ethan Holmes.

In Term Three despite picking up just the one new Year 10 player livewire, hooker Jaden Rouse, the side managed an unbeaten record in the second half of the season, defeating Morrinsville College in the Plate final.

In each of their fixtures (i.e. other than their match against Boys’ High) they proved extremely competitive. Recycling by the forwards of quick ball from rucks and the pace and elusive running of their backs were real strengths. Stand out player in the backs was Danyon Fernando, this ‘pocket rocket’ possessed explosive speed and was difficult for his opponents to catch, let alone tackle. Liam Jackson at first five ably dictated play, while Tom Harsant and Callum Bowick provided a very tough defensive platform in the centres. Jayden Randle jinking runs or Ben Donaldson’s consistent service gave us huge options at halfback, while Gerard Needham, Mark Adlam, Hamish Te Whare and David Reeves played effectively on the wings. In the forwards Sam Crawford, big improver Finnbar Claridge and William Broderick weren’t ever bettered as a front row. Callum Connell, the experienced Zac Laurich and Oliver Clausen provided the grunt as locks, while Zach Posa, Hayden Gill and Jack McDonald proved very quick and effective at broken play.

Back Row: D. Shewan, W. Cooper, T. Moss, C. Fullerton

3rd Row: M. Kerr, J. Tye, M. Brown, J. Verryt, D. Coull, S. Littleworth, M. Gutry

2nd Row: C. Brown, A. Fullerton, A. Brogden, J. Curran, J. Rae, S. Slegh, Mr P. Gilbert (Coach)

Front Row: J. MacPherson, M. Luman, L. Dunsmuir, J. Wood (Captain), A. Elliott (Vice Captain), H. Larkman, A. Geerts

Absent: A. Crowe, A. Cleland, M. Cleland, Mr W. Heteraka (Assistant Coach)

Players who stood out over the season were Danyon Fernando for pure pace and elusiveness and Corban Morison for his inspirational leadership, tackling and speed to the breakdowns.

Thanks go to our dedicated band of parent supporters who attended all our games and to our coaches Mr Posa, Mr Lander, Mr McManus and later in the season to Mr Fawcett for his key input into the side.

Under 14A Rugby

Author: Mr Defyd Williams

St Paul’s Win Under 14A Final

For the first time in 10 years St Paul’s Collegiate School won the Under 14A Waikato Rugby Championship final.

Under 14A Rugby Road to the Waikato Schools’ Final

VERSUS

St Johns 41-0 win

Hamilton Boys’ High School B 23-10 win

Te Awamutu High School 17- 21 loss

Morrinsville 29-0 win

Hamilton Boys High (Red) 36-7 win

Tokoroa 27- 5 win

Putaruru 56 – 0 win

Fraser High School 85- 5 win

Matamata 38-8 win

Semi Final: Matamata 50-7 win

Final: Hamilton Boys’ High B 19-6 win

St Paul’s will be the first name on the inaugural Steve Gordon Shield, one of a new set of awards for secondary school rugby named after legendary Waikato players. The team responded well to the thrill and honour of playing on the hallowed St Paul’s 1st XV field. Finals football is always fiercely contested and we met a Hamilton Boys’ High team determined not to give us an inch. We started well and played patterned rugby to wear the opposition down and put the flying Tom Smith in the clear to score a brilliant try. Soon after Israel Vano-Storer dotted the ball down over the line, but the referee behind play, unsighted on the wrong side of the ruck, decided to give Hamilton Boys’ a scrum rather than award the try. Hamilton Boys’ High came back into the game with a penalty. Going to the break 5-3 hardly expressed our domination of the game. HBHS drop-kicked a goal to lead 6-5. This lead remained for most of the second half. Hamilton remained resolute. It seemed all over with 10 minutes to go, so as we did in the semi-finals, we put on five reserves. The fresh legs enlivened the team. Caleb Lingman and Todd Barry scored two very good team tries, which originated from strong self-belief and determination to win. Tyrell Martin, whose kicking has improved due to Friday practice with Mr Graham Campbell, kicked two superb conversions. The final result was a satisfying 19-6 and our superiority was shown in the three tries to none win.

This has been a great season. Our goal was to improve in every game after we decided we were playing for a shield rather than lollies! There is no letter ‘I’ in the word team and all our 32 players have contributed to a tremendous final result.

A Season Of Two Halves

This year we were fortunate to have many year 10 players who made the January cut -off date, however due to the Tihoi changeover we were unable to field our best team until the semis and finals. We thank the Tihoi staff and parents for allowing this to happen. We had a talented backline and Kit Fawcett, a parent and ex All Black was keen to get involved. His spin it from everywhere approach didn’t always match the two coaches philosophy, but our backs dominated teams in term two in the way that our forwards, back from Tihoi would dominate teams in term three.

Josh Malpas was strong at fullback and centre and will improve by working on the accuracy of his kicking game. Having two of the country’s fastest Under14 wingers in Blake Gordon and Tom Smith meant we would play a wide expansive game. Smith’s ability to step and change pace may see him more at fullback in the future. Creighton Winiata-Dunster was a big crashing centre and a great asset to the team, but his bustling style and big tackles will probably see him in the number six blindside flanker role – a la Jerry Collins. Todd Barry developed into a fine second five eight calling cuts and making breaks. His unforgettable try in the final showed superb reading of the game when he ranged out wide. Tyrell Martin was our regular first five and one of two goal kickers. Arjun Singh had good games as a number 10. Joel Taylor like Tyrell improved as a goal kicker under Mr Campbell’s tutelage. He played different roles in the back three. Schneil Singh was another who played well in the three quarter line and full back, especially as a solid and reliable tackler. Kippa Fawcett was a good passing and running half back, who improved in bossing the forwards. James Finch the other half back played a vital role, especially when he came on ten minutes from the end in the final when we were down 6-5. His energy enlivened the team.

Our forwards in the second term secured us some good wins, but a big loss to Tauranga Boys was the wake-up call we needed after some big wins. Kieran Dale our term two skipper is a skillful number eight or lock, who thinks deeply about the game of rugby football. He was a top lineout man and developed some superb skills at the point of contact. Mitch Cleland as prop gave us good go forward

Back Row: Riley Chick, Ryan Littleworth, Tyrell Martin, William Fraser

3rd Row: Taylor Hayes, Edward Johnstone, Campbell Ware, Brendon Carrick, William Reeves, Tyler Gyde

2nd Row: Mr Craig Morton (Coach), Luke Bowers, Taylor Rae, Shneil Singh, Adam Ballantyne, Sam Bowley, Arjun Singh, Mr Defyd Williams (Coach)

Front Row: Joel Taylor, Tom Smith, Creighton Winiata-Dunster, Logan Jakes, Caleb Lingman, Israel Vano-Storer, Christopher Fawcett

ball. Ryk Hermsen could have played Hedgehogs, but his guts and determination far outweighed much bigger opposition. Hamish Burt was a lock who took it up the middle. Adam Ballantyne is a rangy lock with a huge future. None who saw it will forget his 70 m solo try against Putaruru, where he changed direction several times, outsprinted backs and finished with a fend. William Reeves developed enormously as a loosie over the season and gave us vital fresh legs in the final. Luke Bowers was another we could put off the bench to enliven a tiring team in the final. We relied heavily on Year 9 forwards in the first half of the season and Taylor Rae was another who stepped up as prop. Campbell Ware also played well. Brendon Carrick, Tyler Gyde, Tom Gordon, Ryan Littleworth, and William Fraser were other players who stepped up to the mark and added a lot to the team spirit. Another top Year 9 player was Ed Johnstone, whose hard-nosed attitude as hooker was admirable and working on his throwing will see him go a long way. Riley Chick was another Year 9 front rower who gave his best. Some of our best backs went to Tihoi along with our captain Kieran Dale, but the forwards who came back gave our game another dimension. We also swopped our parent volunteers. Mr Gavin Jakes volunteered to be our trainer and we appreciated his and Mr Fawcett’s support. It is important at this level, probably every level of rugby that players are able to focus on one or two voices and the two teacher coaches insisted on this throughout the season with clearly defined roles to avoid confusion. Caleb Lingman, a powerful and skillful number eight gave the team a huge boost. Logan Jakes played the number 7 role of some famous Waikato players and took over the captaincy. Taylor Hayes gave our front row a solid look and turned into a vital player, who we needed for the final despite illness and injury. What can you say about Israel Vano-Storer. He is everything you want of a front rower: solid scrummager, powerful around the paddock and unstoppable near the line. Sam Bowley, a young man who has played very little rugby was a real revelation as a lock with huge potential.

Our rep triallists were: Israel Vano-Storer, Adam Ballantyne, Sam Bowley, Logan Jakes, Caleb Lingman, Creighton Winiata-Dunster, Tom Smith, Blake Gordon, Chris Fawcett.

The following won Waikato plus Under14 section: Caleb Lingman (Captain), Israel Vano-Storer, Adam Ballantyne and Creighton

Luke Toomey 2010 Achievements

• St Pauls Collegiate Prefect.

• St Pauls Collegiate Head of House.

• St Pauls Collegiate Head of Sport.

• Waikato Men’s Senior Interprovincial Team

• Waikato Academy for Young Achievers – 3rd Year Graduate.

• Waikato U19 Northern Interprovincial Team

• Team Captain

• Finished 2nd to North Harbour by one point

• First ever player in No.1 position to be unbeaten.

Scott Sleigh

Traditionally Scott has always done BMX but in May he entered the Secondary Schools Champs held at Ardmore. Scott had never done any serious motox prior to this so we entered him into the 250cc novice field which had nearly 40 riders.

Scott finished 2nd! As a contestant of the meeting Scott was racing for St Pauls.

Tihoi boys who contributed to Under 14 Waikato Rugby title: Mitch Cleland, Hamish Burt, Ryk Hermsen, Josh Malpus, Todd Barry, James Finch, Blake Gordon, Kieran Dale. Mr Williams (back)

1st XV Rugby

Author: Mr Andrew Tharratt

The rugby season started off with a training camp early in January at Tirua. The emphasis was on pre-season fitness and speed, many of the players had been doing their own training sessions and weight training during the holidays. A number of players from the 2nds and U16 team were invited to join the training camp. It was an opportunity for the new coaching team of Chris Ellis, Andrew Gibbs, Chris Lumen and Andrew Tharratt to get to know the players and look at individual’s strengths and combinations.

The Highlights of the Season were the following matches:

MATAMATA COLLEGE TWENTY MINUTE GAME TOURNAMENT.

On Sunday 18th April the 1st XV travelled to Matamata to take part in the Matamata College Twenty Minute Game Tournament. The first game was against Hamilton Boys High 3rds. St Paul’s started off well, eventually winning the game 27-5. The second game was against Matamata College. St Paul’s dominated the game and the final score was 46 -0.

The Semi-Final was against Morrinsville College, St Paul’s won comfortably 34-0.

Tries were scored by:

St Paul’s were in the finals against the previous year’s winners Pukekohe High School. We were at a considerable disadvantage going into the game, as we did not have an opportunity to have a rest between the semi-final game and final game, whereas Pukekohe had had a good rest between their semi-final and the final. Pukekohe were very confident and for the first 8 minutes of the half had us under pressure on our own try-line on a number of occasions. Our defence was solid and Hadleigh May managed to score just before halftime. We knew that the fittest

Back Row: P. Hunt (Physio-Therapist), L.C. Hope, K.K. Harris, B.W. O’Mallan, J.S. Wood, K.T. Munden, M.R. Stevens (Student Manager)

3rd Row: C.J. Luman (Assistant Coach), L.J. Wolfe, J.M. Roach, C.T.R. Nepe, J.G. Wilson, H.T. Mahon, A.J. Tharratt (Manager)

2nd Row: A.D.R. Gibbs (Assistant Coach), L.R. Cooper, S.C.N. Marr, K.J. Heatherley, J.R. Heatherley, J.E. Bellingham, D.J. Hale, C. Ellis (Coach)

Front Row: J. Randell, H.D. May, J. Sullivan, J.W. Mason (Captain), K.B. Ellis, G.L. Beaumont, B.L. Maclachlan

team would eventually come out on top. Pukekohe continued to attack but lacked the ability to break through our defence. We ended up winning the game 10-0.

St Paul’s vs Tauranga College at the Waikato Stadium

During the holidays on Friday 9th April the 1st XV travelled to the Waikato Rugby Stadium to play against Tauranga Boys College. It was going to be a good test to see how we would measure up against one of the Super Eight teams. Tauranga Boys College was the only school to beat Hamilton Boys High School in 2009.

From the kick-off St Paul’s dominated possession and territory. There was good communication between the backs and the forwards. Our line-outs and scrums were solid. The forwards took the ball to the opposition and often broke the advantage line, giving the backs many options and opportunities to score. The loose trio of Randell, O’Rourke and Beaumount were dominant in defence and attack. The tight five- ably led by Johnny Mason exerted tremendous pressure in the scrums. Keegan Ellis the link between the forwards and the backs provided good ball to Jono Sullivan who directed play. Tries were scored by Wilson, Marr and Harris. Koby Harris added two conversions and penalty to his total. The end result was a convincing 22 – 5 win to St Paul’s.

1ST XV VS WANGANUI

We played against Wanganui Collegiate for the Coleman’s Cup. This would be the third time we were playing for this cup since 1995. We won in 2008 and in 2009 and we were hoping to win it for the third time. We made an excellent start to the game scoring two tries within the opening ten minutes. Wanganui came back and scored a very good try from a well-constructed backline movement. The only other try they scored was an intercept try under the poles. The halftime score was 31 to 14 in St Paul’s. St Paul’s dominated the scrums and line-outs and in the end the final score was 63 -14, thus retaining the Coleman Cup

EPSOM

We had the opportunity to play against the touring Epson College who were ranked in the top ten English Schools and had two U18 England players in their team. We made a good start and score three tries in the first twenty minutes. In the second half Epson scored from a well-constructed backline move. Our set pieces were good and out backline showed a lot of flair.The final score was 61-7.

FINALS ST PAULS VS ST PETER’S

St Paul’s Collegiate are the inaugural Ian Foster Shield winners after they beat St Peter’s School to take out the Waikato secondary schools 1st XV rugby competition on Saturday.

Going into the final, hosts St Peter’s had won every game of the season, but they were outplayed at the weekend by a determined St Paul’s outfit, who secured a 21-10 victory.

St Paul’s dominated territory and possession with their big pack of forwards, using the rolling maul and pick and go effectively, and their first points came early from lock Jarred Bellingham, who crossed the tryline after a concerted period of pressure.

Fullback Kobi Harris converted to make it 7-0.

Soon after St Paul’s were hot on attack again and after several drives from the forwards, with captain and tighthead prop Jonny Mason and loose-head prop Brandon O’Mallan prominent, first five-eighth Jono Sullivan darted through to score close to the posts, with Harris adding the extras to make it 14-0.

Near the end of the first half St Paul’s drove down the short side for blindside flanker Stuart Marr to go through untouched and score in the corner. Harris converted from the touchline for a 21-0 halftime lead.

An early second-half penalty goal from fullback Jarrod Mongston got St Peter’s on the board, but St Paul’s continued to dominate possession and territory.

Lock Jason Heatherley had a superb duel with St Peter’s blind-side flanker Meli Lacanivalu and he managed to place the St Peter’s lineout under enormous pressure. In the final stages of the match Ensor picked up a superb intercept and ran 50 metres to score a consolation try, which was converted.

As well as claiming the Ian Foster Shield, St Paul’s also finish the season with the Tricolor Trophy and the best defensive record in the competition.

INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS:

Brandon O’Mallan Guam Men’s team

Josh Randall Cook Island U19

REPRESENTATIVE PLAYERS:

U19 WAIKATO

JOHNNYMASON;BRANDONO’MALLAN

U18 Waikato

Jason Heatherley; Jono Sullivan

U17 Waikato

Stuart Marr; Jarrod Bellingham; Hadley May; Keegan Ellis; Kobi Harris; Codey Nepe; Geoff Beaumont

U16 Waikato

Lachlan Cooper; Jonty Wood

TRADITIONAL GAMES:

St Paul’s Collegiate 63 vs Whanganui Collegiate 14

St Paul’s Collegiate 51 vs Matamata 0

SUPER 8/TOP 4 FIXTURES

St Paul’s Collegiate 12 vs HBHS 48

St Paul’s Collegiate 22 vs Tauranga Boys 5

St Paul’s Collegiate 14 vs Feilding High 18

WINNERS OF:

Ian Foster Shield – Waikato Schools

Division One Trophy

St Paul’s Collegiate 21 vs St Peter’s College 10

Tricolor Trophy:

St Paul’s Collegiate 21 vs St Peter’s College 10

Coleman Trophy: St Paul’s Collegiate 63 vs Whanganui Collegiate 14

Wilson Trophy:

St Paul’s Collegiate 51 vs Matamata 0

Matamata Twenty Minute Tournamanet

St Paul’s Collegiate 27 vs Hamilton Boys

High 3rds 5

St Paul’s Collegiate 46 vs Matamata College 0

Semi-Final St Paul’s Collegiate 34 vs Morrinsville College 0

Final St Paul’s Collegiate 10 vs Pukukoe 0

2010 PRIZE WINNERS

Most tries – J Mason

Most points – K Harros

Rouse Award–Jason Heatherley [Chiefs trials and WU18]

Fiji Award–no 7s but 10s–Keegan Ellis GSBaillie–Hadleigh May [NZU17 trials, Harlequins U18]

Most improved–Stuart Marr–started as a wing ended up on the flank No 6 very effective and made Harlequins U18 as a lock/loose forward

First XV Cup – Sportsmanship – J Sullivan Ballymore Cup–Geoff Beaumont [Harlequins]

Player of the year–Johnny Mason [Capt,WU19 75 games for 1stXV–two championships]

Scheres Trophy–Ben MacLachlan [Harlequins Trials U18 trials]

Most Valuable Player

1. J Mason

2. G Beaumont

3. S Marr

In closing, thank you to all the parents and supporters; and special thanks to our sponsor’s Canterbury New Zealand and Gibb Speedwall. A special thanks to Matt Stevens the Student Manager for all of his help and assistance for the last two years. Huge thanks to Peter Hunt our Physiotherapist who spent many hours taping and looking after the injured players. Thank you for your support and advice, and expertise in this area Finally I would l wish the Coaching Staff for 2011 all of the best on behalf of Chris Ellis, Andrew Gibbs and Andrew Tharratt who all will be taking up other challenges in 2011.

2nd XV Rugby report

Author: Mr Gary Henley-Smith

The 2nd XV had a good season. There were many highlights and few disappointments.

Over the year there were a number of issues that the team had to work through. However, this proved to be vital for the future development of our players. The score does not always reflect the closeness of the games in particular the losses against Putaruru and Hillcrest towards the end of the season. The team played mid week games (Tauranga BHS, HBHS 4th XV and Te Kuiti ) which seemed to take its toll on our Saturday games. We were winning but in the second fell apart due to injuries and a lack of intensity In our final game against St. Peters’ 2nd XV the team combined extremely well to demolish its opposition in extremely muddy conditions.

The following issues the team and management faced during the season: Squad of 28 players and a total of 32 players used in the season.

Movement of players between the 1st XV added to the complications (John Roach, Lachlan Cooper, Grayden Scheres, Mitch Jensen, Josh Mann, Kurt Heatherley)

RESULTS

St. Pauls vs Hillcrest 1st XV Won 16–15

St. Pauls vs St. Peters 2nd XV Won 27–22

St. Pauls vs Te Kuiti 1st XV Loss17–19

St. Pauls vs HBHS 4th XV Won 7–0

St. Pauls vs Putaruru 1st XV Loss 22–7

St. Pauls vs Hillcrest 1st XV Loss 29–12

St. Pauls vs St. Peters 2nd XV Won 32–5

Developing a team culture and spirit was difficult to achieve until late in the season

Consistency of team selection was a problem. Each week the team was different.

Back Row: J. Dyke, J. Chenery, B. Hamilton, K.T. Munden

3rd Row: G. Scheves, S.Thomson, L. Meban, J. Fawcett, O. Miles

2nd Row: F. van der Merwe (Coach), M. Shewan, C. French, A. Bayly, M. Jensen, I. Eksteen, S.Tipping, G. Henley-Smith (Coach)

Front Row: J.S. McGregor, P.M. Sauni, J. Mann, K. Hope (Captain), A. Penrose, M. Loft, M. Stuart-Jones

Absent: T.Te Whare, Z. Clark, P. McGougam

Some players did not know from week to week if they were required (Laurie Meban, Patrik Sauni, Michael Shewan)

Some team plays were difficult to achieve due to the number of changes in the game as well as weekly changes

Injuries to number of key players (Ludwig Hope, Cameron French, Max Stuart –Jones) weaken the team.

Returning from injury both the 1st and 2nd XV ( Lachlan Cooper, Hilton Gibbons, Karl Munden) had problems slotting in.

The team developed throughout the season and performed well considering the problems faced. We had some very positive outcomes and opportunities for our boys: A number of players had the opportunity to play in different positions (Josh Mann, Izak Eksteen, Grayden Scheres ,James Dykes, Patrick Sauni, Sam Tipping, Ion Miles, Michael Loft)

Playing and beating a number of 1st and 2nd XVs ( Hillcrest XV, Te Kuiti, St. Peters 2nd XV, HBHS 4th XV and St. Johns 2nd XV.

We provided a solid foundation to be contenders for the next years’ 1st XV James Chenery, Mitch Jensen, Allistair Bayly, Sam Tipping, Josh Fawcett, Michael Loft, Josh Mann, Izak Esksteen, Grayden Scheres, Max Stuart – Jones, James Dykes. Many Individual and team skills developed Year 13 student helped provide leadership and on field game sense (Ludwig Hope and Zane Carlyon, Thomas Te Whare)

A special thank you to our parents for their continued support each week and Frans Van der Merve for guidance and specialised expertise in forward play and team fitness.

2nd XV v Matamata

Ludwig Hope sprints for 2nd XV

2nd XV v Hamilton Boys’ High

Chess –

St Paul’s Team of the Year

Author: Mr Gary Judkins

What an interesting year 2010 has been in chess.

In the world scene Vishy Anand of India is still the world champion. This year the New Zealand champion is Anthony Kerr from Wellington and once again a Grandmaster played in a NZCF tournament held here at the school. Chess is a game that requires problem solving. It improves a student’s visual memory, attention span, spatial reasoning skills, capacity to predict and anticipate consequences and ability to use criteria to drive decision-making and evaluate alternatives. Studies have shown that not only Mathematics scores but also English scores increase when students play chess. Mr Judkins presented his fourth national mathematics conference a workshop called “Why use chess in the classroom?” in the September holidays and again at the Auckland Mathematics and Calculus day in November.

NZ Chess Federation annual Latvian Rapid Tournament

The NZ Chess Federation annual Latvian Rapid Tournament (one hour matches) was held Sunday the 21 March in Auckland. One hundred and three adults and students played six games in one of four division grades: A, B, C or D. Grandmaster Gawain Jones from England won the A division. Mr. Judkins had five Y9 students playing their first official tournament playing in the D-Grade tournament. Their results out of six games were: Zachary Watson 1 point, Alex Jackson 2 points, Leo Xiong 3 points. Joseph Chen and Matthew Shewan won 4 games each and placed third equal in the D-Grade. Two students who were on last years national team also played and did very well in the B-Grade tournament. Chang Zhai won 3 out of 6 games and had winning chances in two other games. James Kennedy

had a standout performance winning 5 games and drawing one placing him first in this very difficult B division, which earned him a significant monetary prize.

A Grand Master Tutorial

On May 1 after school seven of our top players had a coaching session for an hour and a half with English Grand Master Gawain Jones. He is a world authority on a chess opening called the Sicilian grand prix attack.

North Island Rapid Tournament

The North Island Rapid chess tournament was held on 2 May at the school with some of the top players in NZ participating including Gawain Jones who is a Grand Master from England. Eleven boys from St. Paul’s competed in this prestigious tournament. Everyone played six games with a time control of an hour maximum per game. There were two tournaments: Under 14 and Under 1400 National Rating players were: Matthew Shewan, Joseph Chen, Leo Xiong, Zac Watson, Alex Jackson and Ngaru Joyce-Te Wake. Joseph and Leo won 4 out of 6 games placing second equal with Matthew have a fantastic tournament winning all his games for first place. In the open tournament Mark Davis, James Lin, Edward Tseng, James Kennedy and Chang Zhai competed. Chang Zhai won his first two games, so out of six games he had to play five players who were rated in the top ten overall. His last game was up against a past NZ champion. He went on to win one more game with an amazing performance rating of 2002, winning second equal in the Under 1450 rating grade. James Kennedy lost his first two games but then won the next four which placed him first in the Under 1450 rating grade. His last game was against a past winner of this tournament. Mr. Judkins was very pleased with the quality of play from all his students.

Annual Chess Simul Open Day

The annual chess simul held on Open Day was held on March 6 against one of the country’s highest rated players. This was the eleventh year that Alexi Kulasho has played students in this event. Twenty two students played Alexei at one time. There were eleven Southwell players and from our school:

Year 9 were Ben Andrews, Finnbar Claridge, Ngaru Joyce-TeWake, Alex Jackson, Zachary Watson and Leo Xiong

Year 10 were Mark Davis and Bill Li

Year 12 were James Kennedy, James Lin and Chang Zhai

Mr. Judkins has a standing offer of $100 to the first player to beat Alexi and a few students came close to claiming this prize. According to Alexei the three National Team members from last years team, Chang Zhai, James Kennedy and Bill Li need to be mentioned as three of the most talented we have.

Alexi Kulasho playing 22 students at once

Tauranga Boy’s High Exchange

The Tauranga chess exchange was held 23 June at our school. Six players from each team were ranked with board one the top player. Our players were: Board one – Edward Tseng, Board two – James Lin, Board three – Matthew Shewan, Board four – Joseph Chen, Board five – Leo Xiong and Board six – Alex Jackson. Three games were played with a 15/15 minute time control. In the first round equally ranked players from both schools played each other. St. Paul’s dominated the first game winning five and losing only one. In the second round Board one was against Board two, Board three against Board four and Board 5 against Board 6. We won that round four and a half points out of six. In the last round the equally ranked players meet again with the colours reversed. In this round both schools won three games each. Overall we scored twelve and a half points out of possible eighteen points.

Waikato Regional Interschool Tournament

The Waikato regional interschool chess tournament was held at Southwell School on 1 August with 28 teams of four competing. The winners in the primary, intermediate and high school qualified for the national interschool tournament. There were seven rounds in the High School Division with time control of 30 minutes per game. Playing for St. Paul’s B team was board 1 –James Lin, board 2 – Matthew Shewan, board 3 – Joseph Chen and board 4 – Leo Xiong. They scored 15 out of a possible 28 which placed them fifth overall. The A team consisted of board 1 – Chang Zhai, board 2 – James Kennedy, board 3 – Bill Li and board 4 –Edward Tseng. They only lost one game and drew another to score 26.5 out of a possible 28. Hamilton Boys A team and Hillcrest A team were second equal with 18 points. Our A team will play in the national tournament the 25 th and 26 th of September in Christchurch.

NZCF Waikato Open Tournament

The annual NZCF Waikato Open chess tournament was played on the 14th and 15th of August at St. Paul’s Collegiate. This was a six round Swiss with a time control of all moves in 90 minutes plus and increment of 30 seconds per move from move one. There was a FIDE rated Open division where some of the top players in the country competed including two that have been selected to play in the chess Olympiad in Russia this year. It was won by an English International master who scored five out of six. Mr. Judkins and four St. Paul’s students played in the Under 1700 section. Sheng Cao and Leo Xiong gained valuable tournament experience. Matthew Shewan also played very well winning three games which was enough to win a grade prize. Chang Zhai was only able to play four games but scored three and a half points winning the most promising NZ junior player trophy which he also won in last year’s tournament. Mr. Judkins won four and a half games and placed first equal which was his best result in a tournament this year.

Back Row: Leo Xiong, James Lin, Matthew Shewan, Joseph Chen, Gary Judkins (Coach)

Front Row: Bill Li, Edward Tseng, Chang Zhai, James Kennedy, Sheng Cao

Bill Li, Chang Zhai, James Kennedy, Edward Tseng and Mr Judkins

Silver Medal in National Secondary School Team’s Championship

The national inter schools chess championship was held in Christchurch Boys High School on September 24th and 25th with twelve high school teams of four competing. The favourites were Auckland Grammar who easily won last year and Palmerston North Boys who placed second last year. Each team played seven rounds with a time control of an hour per game. Five games were played on Saturday and two on Sunday. A win was worth two points, a draw worth one point and a loss zero points so a maximum of eight points were possible per round. St. Paul’s team consisted of Chang Zhai on board one, James Kennedy on board two, Bill Li on board three and on board four was Edward Tseng. This was a very experienced team will all but Edward competing in last year’s finals where we placed fourth.

The first round we played the large Auckland school Westlake Boys High School but we managed to win three games only losing a close game on board three.

Round two we played Logan Park High School who won the Otago regional competition. The results were a win on boards one and three, a draw on board two and a loss on board four.

Round three we played last years winners Auckland Grammar School whose board one Andy Chen is one of NZCF top players. The games were close but we only managed to win one game on board two.

Round four we played Palmerston North Boys High School who placed second last year. This was a critical game for us and all games could have gone either way but we won two games on board one and four. The fifth and last round of the day was against the Canterbury regional winner

Christchurch Boys High School. Here we had a good result winning three games only losing on board four in a very close game. After the first day of competition the results were: Auckland Grammar 34, Palmerston North Boys 24, St Paul’s Collegiate 23, Westlake Boys 23, Christchurch Boys 22 and Macleans College 22, Logan Park 21, Ashburton College 20, New Plymouth Boys 19, Onslow College 16, Kaitaia College 12 and Opotiki College 4.

The first round we played Onslow College the Wellington regional winner and for the first time Chang, James, Bill and Edward all won their games giving us a critical eight points. Palmerston North played Logan Park and were outplayed winning only one and drawing another. New Plymouth Boys had an easy round with last place Opotiki College where they won all four games. Westlake Boys played Macleans College and they both won two games.

The second and final round we played New Plymouth Boys where their board one Alan Ansell beat a Grandmaster in a tournament in Australia earlier this year. We only won one game on board three although we should have won another game but anything can happen in a tense game. Now we had to wait for the other schools to finish their games. This last round was difficult for all schools except Auckland Grammar who won all four games. Palmerston North won three games against Christchurch Boys and Westlake Boys won three games against Onslow College.

Auckland Grammar once again won first place with an outstanding score of 49 out of 56 points. Because of the last round results, what was most unlikely to happen did with four teams finishing second equal on 33 points. Now we had a tense wait for the Swiss Perfect paring software to compute a tie break score. This is what is used in NZCF to decide the final results and who gets the medals and it goes by who schools played in their seven rounds. Since we had to play all the top rated schools with no easy rounds we were placed second winning the silver medal. Westlake Boys won the bronze medal in third and Palmerston North placed fourth with New Plymouth Boys placing fifth. Chang, James, Bill and Edward played every game to the best of their ability against seven teams from schools much larger than

ours. Mr Judkins is very proud of his team and congratulate them on winning second place and the silver medal.

The Waikato School Pupil’s chess tournament was held Sunday the 17th of October at St. Paul’s. This was an individual tournament with 42 students playing in the primary, intermediate and secondary divisions. Chang Zhai, James Kennedy, Bill Li, Edward Tseng, Sheng Cao, Matthew Shewan and Leo Xiong competed. The high school played seven games with a time control of a maximum of an hour per game. Bill Li won the high school division, James Kennedy placed third and Chang Zhai fourth.

The highlight of the year was at the school Awards Dinner on the 21st of October when the “Team of the Year” was awarded to the chess team.

“… The highlight of the year was at the school Awards Dinner . .”

Grand Master Gawain Jones

North Island Rapid

New Plymouth Boys

NOVEMBER & DECEMBER In Honour of the 29 Pike River Miners

Twenty-nine men lost before their time, Trapped inside the Pike River mine. In order to save, brave men did their best, So dedicated and deprived of rest. But our hope and all effort proved not enough, And coming to terms with their deaths is tough. You’ve left the West Coast a state of despair, A brutal reminder that life is not fair. You’ve brought our small but proud nation together, To help us through this untimely weather. For all these brave men that died in the blast In all of us your memory will last.

Peace, Love, Justice and Mercy

Author: Rev Craig Luccock

The Christian dimension of St Paul’s Collegiate is an integral part of the special character of the school and this is upheld through the Chaplaincy and Religious Studies curriculum. As an Anglican affiliated school we attempt to teach, uphold and encourage the Christian values of peace, love, justice, compassion and mercy in all aspects of our school life. This year I have had the privilege of working with four outstanding students who were my chapel prefects in 2010. Thomas Te Whare, Sam Hogg, Ashley Fraser, and Sarah McCallum who have all done a brilliant job of embodying the St Paul’s motto of ‘State in Fide’—standing firm in the faith. In their role as chapel prefects, they take an active role in the weekly chapel services by proclaiming the readings and leading the school in prayer. They have also shown excellent preaching skills as each of them have prepared and delivered two sermons over the course of the year. Most importantly, they have shown, character and integrity in their daily life and work at the school.

Members of St Paul’s often note that the chapel is the heart of the school and the house system is the backbone. These two vital components of school life come together during Sunday evening chapel services when each house prepares a chapel service on a Sunday evening. Over the past year all eight houses have planned and led services on themes such as sportsmanship, courage, humility, and persistence. In those services, I

heard sermons that would rival those spoken in any church.

Each year St Paul’s has several special services on the school calendar including Founders Day (where we were joined by Archbishop David Moxon), Garden of Remembrance, Mother’s Day, and Easter all of which are a key component in the annual rhythm of St Paul’s community life. At these services, it is common for parents, former staff, and special guests to attend. This is a testament to the strong profile of St Paul’s in the wider community. I believe that it is at these times when we truly see St Paul’s at its best. This year was also highlighted by a joint confirmation service with St Peter’s School Cambridge. It was a superb service in which two students and one staff member were confirmed into the Anglican Church – a first for St Paul’s in nearly five years.

During the second half of the year, the Year 9s are required to plan and present a chapel service in front of the entire school. This annual ‘Rite of Passage’ is a chance for the Year 9s to show leadership, creativity and initiative to the wider school community. Once again these boys have exceeded expectation while presenting insightful and thought-provoking services.

It is my hope to build on new initiatives, such as house charities, over the next few years in as we continue to strengthen the Christian dimension of the school.

Year 9 Student Education Exchange to Australia

Author: Daniel Johnson

This year brought an exciting new connection between our school and Christ Church Grammar School (CCGS) in Perth, Western Australia. Midway through Term 3 Mr Lander announced the opportunity of a student exchange for two Year 9 boys to study in Perth for the fourth term. In return, two Australian Year 10 boys will enjoy the Tihoi experience in Term 1, 2011.The aim of this exchange was to offer the St Paul’s boys the chance to experience education from an Australian perspective, while being fully immersed in the everyday life of the school. Following a detailed selection process, Cameron Downey and I (Daniel Johnson) were selected to take part in this amazing opportunity of a lifetime. What an exciting adventure this would prove to be. In late September we travelled the eight hour flight to the opposite side of Australia, and as we stepped in the airport to meet our host family, the expectations of a new school and being a boarder were building up inside us. Something else on the rise was the heat, with 30oC degrees on the day we arrived.

After a fun-filled four days of relaxing with our host family and discovering some of Perth’s attractions the daunting task of heading to a new school was creeping up. Finally, when the day arrived all my nerves seemed to drop as the excitement was overpowering. Our new home for the next eight weeks was the Christ Church Grammar School boarding house, more specifically, Walters’ house.This was the first time boarding for us both and we were really looking forward to the experience. We shared our new home with 110 other boarders from around Western Australia and many new friendships were formed.This turned out to be a main highlight of our exchange.

Like St Paul’s, Christ Church Grammar School is an Anglican day and boarding school. However CCGS is boys only with a role of over 1500 students from Year 0 to 12. It’s a really beautiful school situated in the affluent suburb of Claremont overlooking the Swan River. In fact, the view from the Chapel is breath-taking.

From the start Cameron and I were just two of the boys. All the staff were really supportive but

we got no special treatment and quickly settled into all the various aspect of the CCGS life, playing tennis for the school, attending all Year 9 classes and even sitting the Australian end of year exams.The only difference was that we were proudly wearing our St Paul’s uniform. While the amount of technology available to the students at CCGS was staggering, I really missed things like the St Paul’s house system, which, after travelling to CCGS, I have grown to appreciate even more.

In the end, I feel so privileged to have experienced this amazing opportunity, and I strongly recommend this exchange to any boy with a fun, outgoing attitude.To me this has been a life changing experience and it gave me such a great confidence boost to be part of this incredible exchange.

Both of us with the Headmaster

Tihoi Venture School 2010 Directors Report

Authors: Chris Wynn and Cyn Smith, Directors

2010 has been another successful year for Tihoi Venture School with students enjoying many opportunities to discover this unique part of New Zealand and also an adventurous spirit, which we hope they have been inspired to continue with.

Along with the new intakes of students we also welcomed new staff. Kelly Smith joined us in July to start her role as an instructor for the year. Kelly had already done some contract instructing for us and saw the opportunity of working full time at Tihoi as a great way to further gain skills in the outdoors and working with students.

Sam Dearlove completed a LTR position in December. He sets off with partner Ajah for a trip around the South Island for the first half of 2011. Sam’s energy and commitment to the students will be missed, as will his enthusiasm in all facets of Tihoi life.

Some worthy mentions from the staff room this year have been Cam Walker completing a goal, with past Tihoi staff member Mark Jones, of climbing all four Major North Island peaks in winter in under 24 hours. Cam completed this feat in 23 hours and one minute. Cam is also congratulated for passing three national outdoor awards in Bush, Kayak and Alpine. Director Chris Wynn gained his commercial helicopter pilots licence this year. When not working at Tihoi he enjoys flying hunters and fisherman into remote areas in the Central North Island. Many parents and students enjoyed a scenic flight on the second intake Open Day. Congratulations to Sam Dearlove and Ajah Gainfort who announced their engagement this year.

It would not be another year without more children being born. Congratulations to Damian and Sheryl who announced their second child who is due in May 2011 and Callum and Kate who announced their second child due the same month.

The centre has continued to develop with help of the students and parents during both school jobs and community days. Native trees have replaced exotic trees around the centre and large areas of scrub have continued to be cleared and developed into lawn. Buildings have been painted and now all match and students

have shown a real caring attitude toward the way equipment is looked after. We have had amazing support by the Parents of both intakes this year. They have supported our vision of constructing an outdoor entertainment area and pizza oven on site, which was completed in June. The students from both intakes have enjoyed the challenges of pizza making. The centre is starting to look great because of this. We would like to extend our thanks for the on going support with these initiatives.

Other developments have included work starting on the new Director’s residence. The ‘old’ Directors House was relocated to the northern end of the centre where the current staff houses are located and will eventually become another staff house. The septic plant has been relocated and upgraded.

From the kitchen Gee and his team of Sandra and Anne have again successfully fed the boys and staff for another year. Gee works incredibly hard to improve the quality of food being presented to the boys and we thank all the kitchen staff for a great year. All Outdoor Programmes have provided challenges in different forms for the students. The excitement of two and a half days away from the centre is always something the students look forward to. The Sailing Programme has been successfully moved to a new venue at Lake Rotorua due to the on going battle with changing weather pattens and strong winds on Lake Taupo. The boys all went sailing with this activity being a highlight for many students. Expeditions were once again a highlight for the students. The focus of the second intake expedition trips was wilderness journeys. Trips included–tramping and fishing in the Urewera National Park flying in and out of the bush by helicopter; White water kayaking the Ngaruroro River–involving a fly-in four night wilderness trip to the headwaters; Canadian canoeing down the Whanganui River; and for the first time a sea kayaking adventure to the Marlborough Sounds. The visits to our local Marae at Whanganui Bay have again given the boys an appreciation of our cultural heritage within the area. All students this year presented their pepeha to the tangata whenua and took part in the laying and consuming of a hangi. The intake two students completed their Whanganui Bay day by doing the students first presentation of the new St. Paul’s haka

As the students getting ready for their Tihoi experience read this, it is a good time to remind you that the number one message from all the students returning from Tihoi is to get involved from day one. Do not hold back. Tihoi is a place full of opportunity and adventure and it is up to you while you are here to make the most of that.

“ ... the number one message from all the students returning from Tihoi is to get involved from day one. Do not hold back. Tihoi is a place full of opportunity and adventure and it is up to you while you are here to make the most of that. “

Tihoi Venture School / Intake Two

Authors: Mr Chris Wynn and Ms Cyn Smith

The Tihoi Intake 10/2 completed their Tihoi Journey on Saturday November 27th and are to be congratulated on all have achieved during their time at Tihoi. Each boy faced many challenges and worked to achieve goals physically, mentally, socially and spiritually.

Intake 10/2 can be congratulated for the high number of boys who worked hard to gain their Duke of Edinburgh Hillary Bronze Award. 64 students in the intake gained their Award due to hard work and self responsibility.

The Outdoor Programme ran smoothly with every boy accepting the challenges of new activities and learning to support others as they have faced fears, developed skills and gained self confidence. The Outdoor Programme is often some of the fondest and vivid memories for the students and we encourage the boys to get involved at school or in a club for outdoor activities they have enjoyed and gained skills in.

Parent Tramps were enjoyed by all. It was great to have such a big turn out. The boys were delighted in taking parents tramping and we encourage parents to take on another adventure as a family as your son has the skills to do this.

The social development of every student has been significant during the eighteen weeks. Physically the boys have all grown and many have lost substantial amounts of weight. Increased fitness levels have given the boys the ability to cope with the physical demands of the programme. Improved fitness has also seen self confidence and self efficacy develop. Make the most of being so fit—it is easier to maintain that gain.

Intake 10/02 boys have worked together as a team, they have had to; in their house groups to ensure everyone is fed and basic hygiene is maintained; in the outdoors as the tent groups change weekly and the boys accept their group and get on with the outdoor activity. The boys have gotten to know each other very well throughout their time here. The bonds formed are substantial and will empower this group as

they return to St Paul’s. Staff encourage you to create opportunities for your son to continue to develop his independence—perhaps cooking a meal fortnightly for the family and taking responsibility for aspects of family life.

TRAMP

Friday 19th November:

We had modified our original plans due to the amount of people in the valley and landed just south of the Parahaki flats with Steve “Pop” Wynn. The Helicopter ride was amazing and enjoyed by all. After we had helicoptered in we found a campsite and set up camp alongside the Waiau River. Following the completion of the camp setup, we were given a quick tutorial in fishing by Pop and sent out to make some catches. One of us, Tom Weake, succeeded with our first and last catch of the day as both hunger and night were approaching. We broke for a dinner of burgers.

Saturday 20th November:

Our second day in the bush consisted of a day of fishing around the camp. One trout was caught in the morning and cooked for lunch while another was caught and released. In the afternoon Chris “Mr Wynn” Wynn was dropped in, having dropped off the kayakers.

Sunday 21st November:

The weather worsened on Sunday as four students: Jordan Davies, Mark Davis, Vaughan Christie and Ryk Hermson went with Mr Wynn and Pop down to the Central Waiau Hut where a family of eleven was staying. As they went back the river rose to a flood with deeper crossings and stronger current. This resulted in a few of the members of the group going swimming without warning. After lunch Pop went hunting and shot a yearling stag,

a spiker with a reasonable amount of meat on him.

Monday 22nd November:

The weather had cleared by morning to a degree so the group went on a day trip up the river, fishing along the way. Two fish were caught, one by Mr Wynn, which was eaten, and one by Ryk, which was released. Tragically, as the group continued up the river by gorge walking, Mr Wynn slipped on a rock and sprained his ankle. This meant that we all had to return to camp. Our injured party felt very sorry for himself as his ankle swelled up.

Tuesday 23rd November:

Due to our injured party we stayed at camp, fishing and doing a number of improvement projects including the building of a table and crutches for Mr Wynn. The nearby pools had been mostly fished out by then and no fish were caught.

Wednesday 24th November:

Our last day began with an early start so that we could pack up and clean up the campsite. The helicopter shuttled us out before we finally returned to Tihoi. Tramp expedition was a wonderful excursion into the outdoors and we learnt many advances to our bushcraft skills.

WHITE WATER KAYAK EXPEDITION

For a select 19 students, the 18th of November was more than just another day; it was the day on which they were to depart on an adventure of epic proportions to the vast un-kayaked Ngaruroro River in the heart of the Kaweka ranges. This group of privileged individuals were to be choppered in approximately 60 kilometres up river to paddle five arduous days of grade 2-3 rapids. Because of high demand for this exciting expedition, the students were put into two separate groups; the ‘Alpha Cabbages’, and the ‘Bravo Lemons’ with one group starting 10 kilometres further up the river, catching up to the other group on the third day (legends!).

The first group, Alpha Cabbages, began their adventure at Boyd’s hut, upstream from the other group, Bravo Lemons. The Alpha Cabbages group consisted of eight boys who were travelling with three tutors, Ajah Gainfort, Rich Kersel and Sam Dearlove. The first day was something of a mission, as the river was very shallow

MOST VALUED HOUSE MEMBERS

HART – Blake Agnew

JOCKS – Scott Findlayson

POLLYS – Lucas Martin

PURPLE – Callum Windley

MOLLYS – William Guest

MORTZ – Marcus King

VILLA – Ryan Lewis

GILLS – Mitchell O’Connell

MOST OUTSTANDING STUDENT:

Lucas Martin

MOST OUTSTANDING STUDENT NOMINATIONS:

James Atherton, Sean HenleySmith, Paul Newton-Jackson, Callum Windley

MURRAY HARINGTON

CUP FOR MOST IMPROVED STUDENT:

Richard Hutchison

and rocky, and most of the afternoon was spent shuffling kayaks along the rocks. Many people found this extremely frustratingpatience was an important virtue on that day(!). Fortunately the next day brought around a deeper river and an exciting grade 3 gorge section which all of the boys found enjoyable and challenging. A few people struggled with the different style of kayaking, and there were many wet boys at the end of every day. A highlight of the trip was chasing the many eels in the deep pools of the river, some of which were over two meters long. All the boys had a great time, and developed their skills greatly. The eleven students known as the ‘Bravo Lemons’ landed at Toa Toa flat after a thrilling helicopter ride which was a first for many of them. The ‘Bravo Lemons’ were accompanied by four professional and skilled staff members; Damian ‘Damo’ Firth, Vashti ‘Vash’ Duncan, Anthony ‘Yants’ Wood, and Doug Sowerby. Their journey on the river began at the head of the gorge, a fairly difficult section which was made more challenging by the fact that most of

DIRECTORS AWARDS: Kieran Dale, Jordan Davies, Fransois Eksteen, William Guest,

FURMINGER AWARD (Student who has shown respect to staff and other students): Tom Schicker

COMMUNITY SERVICE AND ENVIRONMENT

AWARD: Callum Windley

CROSS COUNTRY AWARD: Daniel Goodwin

SHOOTING AWARD: Sean Kelliher

EXPEDITION AWARDS

(for all round excellence on expedition):

KAYAK – Lucas

MOST IMPROVED STUDENT NOMINATION:

Mark Davis, Matthew

Husband-Dravitzki, Keegan

Frost-Jones

Martin and Callum

Windley

CANADIAN CANOE – James

Atherton

the students had not kayaked for at least a month.

This resulted in a lot of capsizing and wet exits which kept the staff very busy. Luckily, the five days of facing difficult and technical rapids paid off and everyone learned new things and honed their skills, coming out of White Water expedition more confident and competent in their kayaks.

All in all, good weather, an amazing river, delicious food and fantastic people resulted in an extremely fun White Water expedition in a virtually untouched part of New Zealand that very few people are lucky enough to experience. Everyone had an exhilarating five days that they will hopefully remember for the rest of their lives. All the boys would like to thank the awesome staff for their motivation, organization, and dedication throughout the trip.

SEA KAYAK

From the 19th to the 24th of November, sixteen Tihoi boys departed on a trip of a lifetime to Sea Kayak around the

TRAMP—Tyler Gurnell

SEA KAYAK— Aaron Cleland

KINGHAM CUP: House winning the most house sport – Molly’s House: Todd Barry, Aaron Crow, William Guest, James Hunt, Richard Hutchison, Jesse Ruri, Pat Srisa-an, Ben Scott and Mark Swarbrick

LUDER TROPHEY: Overall winning house –Mortimer House: Daniel Goodwin, Blake Gordon, William Heald, Joel Kosoof, Marcus King, Mauricio Lopez, Paul Newton-Jackson, Nick Redpath and Guy Wilkins.

Marlborough Sounds. Although the weather prevented perfect bliss throughout the trip, however the boys all still had a fantastic trip kayaking with some of Mother Nature’s most exotic wildlife.

Our first night camping was in the Ratamire bay. The boys wasted no time getting on the water to have a fish. We caught around 20 fish that night. The next day we headed for Blumine Island. The weather was overcast and began to drizzle a bit. We reached the island late in the day, Callum gave us time to explore the old gun emplacements. We then were able to sleep in one of them. Blumine Island is a pest free island for the native wonders of New Zealand, such as Weka, Kiwi giant snails and giant centipedes. Usually only DOC workers are allowed there but Tihoi was given special permission.

The third day was by far the longest. The weather was overcast and it had rained heavily the night before. We were to paddle 22 kilometres through mostly rough open water. The 16 boys however toppled the waves trying to stop them in shorter

time then first thought giving them a well earned rest. The campsite for the night was Komutoto Bay, exactly opposite to the bay where they would paddle to tomorrow. The fourth and final day on the water was also the first that the sun decided to show its happy face, much to the pleasure of the tutors and boys alike. The boys were able to relax for a few hours which was mainly used to fish the waters of the bay. Some boys decided it was warm enough for a swim, but as the weather changed into its typical form the boys changed the plan. During our short paddle that day, the first shark was sighted as we crossed the choppy channel to our final destination. The news was announced once we hit shore.

Overall the sea kayak expedition was one of the highlights of the boy’s time at Tihoi.

CANOE

Expeditions the culmination of the Tihoi experience and twenty boys decided to do a five day canoe expedition down the Wanganui River that tested our skills in every area Tihoi has taught us.

For the duration of the trip we didn’t use fuel cookers, instead we cooked on the open fire. This tested and improved our fire building and cooking abilities and we learned how to cook a full roast on a drift wood fire.

We learned how to live off the land and collect our own meat; we learned fast otherwise we would have to have vegetarian meals. The meat came in the form of goats and eels, goats are a pest in the Wanganui region and we got very efficient at spotting them and staying quiet as to not scare it away while Cam lined up his shot. We used remnants of the goat to bait the eeling lines we brought along, some boys took a more direct approach and tried baiting up the water then gaffing them (stabbing them with a sharpened stick) we got a few eels but we had to throw all but one back as they were too small. The boats also taught us to work together as a team as the powerhouse at the front had to have trust in the driver at the back to navigate all obstacles.

Weather had a big part in our expeditions as downpour made it hard to start a fire to cook our food, also the deep gorges in which the river flows funnels the wind and the wind is always going upstream but we always went with the current so the paddling was never too difficult.

The tutors played a big part in the trip and let us do a lot of experiential learning but also teaching us a lot about the rivers rich cultural history. We also submerged two of the instructors in mud.

We learned many things about Wanganui’s history and outdoor skills over the trip, we were sad when we saw the bus to pick us up as it was almost the end of ours and Sam Grattan Tihoi experience. Thanks to the tutors Cam Walker, Kelly Smith and Sam Grattan for a great expedition.

“The Outdoor Programme ran smoothly with every boy accepting the challenges of new activities and learning to support others as they have faced fears, developed skills and gained self confidence. ”

Visitors to St Pauls

The Black Sticks women’s team worked on skills with St Paul’s hockey players

The school had a number of visitors, including some famous and not so famous Old Collegians. They serve as a reminder that dreams can come true once they are broken down into achievable goals.

Sargood performed a haka at Mr Geoff Blackett’s funeral service. Mr Blackett was a foundation student

“This will drive your mum mad” - Celia Lashlie spoke at a breakfast for boys and dads then at a function for mums

Opera singers Elaine Wogan (soprano) and Ian Campbell (baritone) helped the choir in its fund-raising concert for Hawaii

Old Collegian Daniel Vettori spoke to the assembly and presented Josh Fawcett with his 1st XI Cricket cap

Old Collegian Gary Schofield spoke to the assembly about his role with Global Concern and made a donation to the renovation of the Old Collegians block

John Scott-Jones, Head Boy in 2009, won a $400,000 Robertson Scholarship to study at Duke University, North Carolina for the next four years

Former Head Boy (2008) Guy Schwikkard presented his New Zealand University rugby jersey to Mr Lander

1st XI Football

Author: Mike Groom, Coach

Written by Mr Groom and sung and musically arranged by the inimitable Sam Hewit, the song has gone on to inspire innumerable unbelievable football performances by the SPC 1st XI and also fill with joy the hearts of all those who have heard it.

‘Bounce’ activated the team to extraordinary heights during the season. Preparation for games was always preceded with the sounds of the ‘Bounce’. Futsal practices took place in the ‘Temple of Bounce’, where the players further absorbed the uplifting sounds into their souls.

With the beat of the Bounce born in their feet, the team produced some unforgettable performances. Nobody will ever forget the 3-2 victory over HBHS in the knock-out cup, when Michael Built returned to share the Bounce with his beloved SPC brothers. The report Sam wrote (see end of report) about that game encapsulates all the drama and euphoria of one of the highlights of the season. Then there was the 6-0 defeat of HBHS 2nd XI when Sam, the music man, scored 6 goals! Michael had phoned from England to wish the brothers all the best for their last game of the season; his pone call came to Sam

while all the boys were warming up to the beat of the bounce in ‘The Temple’. Sam took the call, and that incredible demonstration of SPC brotherhood from so far away inspired the team to their comprehensive best. All the more amazing was that the brothers were all talking about Michael’s trip with the Northhampton 1st team to the Carling Cup game against Liverpool when the phone range. “Bounce….Yeah!”

But in 2010, all roads led to the National Tournament in Napier and this amazing band of brothers buoyed by the Bounce, stepped up to finish 17th in the country. This placing made them the highest ranked team from the local area, above both Boys’ High and St Peter’s. Sam summarised the weeks heroics in superb literary style.

RESULTS

The 1st XI football team travelled to Napier for the 2010 national Secondary Schools Premier Boys Tournament. Bad weather and muggy fields meant that the tournaments organisation was put to the test and the boy’s first game was played in Antarctic condition. The first game was against Westlake boys and we drew 1-1. A great result against one of Auckland’s top soccer schools. The next game was against Francis Douglas Memorial College and the boys pulled through for a narrow 5-4 win. With the weather still poor, the boys took on Otago Boys’ High School and fatigue took its toll as we went down 3-1. Advancing to the next round was a huge achievement for the boys and something that should not be undermined. The boys then faced a big and strong Nelson College and some lack in concentration lead to a 4-1 defeat. Bouncing back, the boys played Kings College in a battle to make the top 20, the boys held for a last minute 1-0 win, a fantastic result against a tem that is ranked highly in both the Auckland region, and nationally. This took the boys through to the battle for 17th place, the occasion proved both monumental and historic. In the very last game of St Paul’s for many of the boys, we came up against our rivals Hamilton Boys’ High School. The boys prepared themselves for what would be a battle to the death. The game ended 0-0 at full time and went straight to a penalty soot out. With brilliant goalkeeping and strong confident finishing, the boys defeated HBHS 5-4, and gained a top 20 finish in the tournament. The boys also finished ahead of St peters to be deemed as the best team in the Waikato. With such a young team, containing many first time players, the boys were extremely proud of their results and beating teams such as Kings and HBHS, is a testament to the teams potential. Special thanks to Coach Mike Groom for such an amazing season and an unforgettable five years.

The foundation for the 1st XI’s fantastic season was laid down at the Karioi Recording Studio in Raglan in February. From the womb of this studio was born what has become known as the ‘Force from the Source’ – the brilliant soccer song titled ‘Bounce’.

1st XI Football CONT.

and beating teams such as Kings and HBHS, is a testament to the teams potential. Special thanks to coach Mike Groom for such an amazing season and an unforgettable five years.

Following this report are the two most important things from the 2010 season. One is the lyrics from the song ‘Bounce’ – the team lived and breathed these words. Second, is a list of the players who became the ‘Bounce’. There is a rhyming couplet for each of them as their quality is captured in the rhythm and rhyme.

As the coach I have found my time with this special group of boys unforgettable. We all believed in each other and the power of the ‘Bounce’ – the force from the source. That belief, commitment and unity was unshakeable and brought results that will forever live in the hearts of all those who experienced them.

BOUNCE

Bounce, you gotta move it to the rhythm Bounce, see the colours of the prism Bounce, that’s how we find the joga belo Bounce, see the green and blue and yellow Bounce, we are the music and the motion Bounce, got the ginga it’s the potion Bounce, it’s the time to get excited Bounce, got the joy and it’s ignited. Explode the Bounce into your feet

Dance round the world to the ‘Dinho beat Fute Fute Fute Fute Fute Bol Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce

You gotta feel the beat Bounce, you gotta do it like the ‘Dinho Bounce, ‘cause he’s the best there’s ever been yo Bounce, play the music and we’re swingin’ Bounce, see the ball and hear it singin!

The Bounce Brothers

Scott Joblin

Scotty’s got a left foot like a rocket

He hit it so hard, Alex couldn’t stop it!

Dylan Groom

Dylan’s on the right, so bright and breezy

He made THAT penalty look so easy!

Chris Fletcher

Chris stepped up, just like in ‘Step-up 3’

‘Gainst Napier Boys’ playing magically!

Michael Rooney

Midfield maestro at the ‘tourne, was ski

He bounced it about like Barca’s Xavi!

Daniel Ford

D Ford’s like a pillar from the Pantheon

Just the kinda guy, that we rely on!

Jacob Robb

At tourney Jacob was such a vital part, Playing every minute with passion and heart!

Sam Hewat

Sammy is the leader of the Bounce brigade Tourney he scored 7, in the 6 he played!

Nathan Alloway

Nathan’s season was about passion and fire

He just kept steppin’ up “Higher and higher”.

Murray McKenzie

Murray’s got the rhythm like an ocian swell He comes from ‘Whanga and you sure can tell.

Ayush Lakera

‘Gainst Boys’ High at tourney on came the swoosh He’s one for our future, the one and only Ayush

Peter Grierson

At tourney by the van and there stood Pete True Kiwi! Goin’ to the game in his bare feet.

Stefan Krystman

Stefan’s got the x-factor, technique and touch That’s why West Brom’ want him so much!

Sam Johnson

When asked at tourney to fizz for our need His reply was instant, Sean said “Indeed”

Angus Harris

Angus stepped up big in the Napier sun ‘Gainst HBHS, he saved and scored and we won!

Daniel Goodwin

At tourney in defense he was such a King Pin We beat HBHS, Dan was huge in that good win!

Team: N Alloway, C Wakefield, D Groom, D Ford, M McKenzie

J Penyas, S Johnson, L Hope, S Krystman, Mr M Groam

S Joblin, M Rooney, A Harris S Hewat, P Grierson

Absent: L Phillips, M Built, J Robb, D Rooney

Manager: Mrs L Harris

Captain Sam’s Report

On Thursday the 24th June, the St Paul’s Collegiate soccer brotherhood came up against a team ranked 2nd in New Zealand. Fielding five New Zealand under 19 players, Hamilton Boys High were clear favourites to win the game and the consequential progression into the Knockout Cup. But something happened on that Thursday. Something that seemed to defy logic and trump statistics. Something ignited in the Football brothers that allowed them to play a style of Football that Coach Groom has never seen before. Something even more powerful than the Ginga! With the recent hype of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, supporters were out in numbers as they packed the outskirts of the Canvas. Loud horns and husky voices filled the air as the two teams took to the field. Coach Groom had one thing to say and one thing only. “WE”. As a team, will beat these guys. St Paul’s started off well and continued attacks on goal saw New Zealand U17 Goalkeeper Alex Carr pull off saves no less glorious than that of a wild gazelle. St Paul’s continued to hound and within the first 15 minutes of the game Sam Hewat pocketed a sneaky deflection that saw St Paul’s up by one.We continued to keep the intensity up until the last ten minutes before half time where a lapse in concentration saw Boys’ High pocket a cheeky goal off the left post. Disappointed, but passionate, the boys didn’t give up and went into the break with the scores tied 1-1. No one knows really what Groom gave the boys at half time, but it certainly wasn’t water! As the boys came flying out in the second half, making grated cheese of the Boys’ High defence and continuing to keep these so called “Superstar Strikers” at bay.

It was not long into the second half that a darting run down the wing by Sam Hewat yielded a penalty in the box. The crowd went into an uproar and none other than the famous Michael Built, stepped up to take the shot. Calm and collected the North Hampton player sunk the penalty in the bottom right to send the St Paul’s world into pandemonium. From here the boys never looked back as a beautiful piece of Michael Built brilliance, saw a scintillating ball played through to third form débutant John Penyas, who easily slotted the ball past the keeper to gain the title of being the first third former to ever score against Boys’ High. Some more class by Sam Hewat saw another penalty in the box; however an overdose of the Ginga got to Michael Built as he was struck by its power and consequently placed the ball right into the keeper’s hands.

Unfazed, the boys continued to press, resulting in Boys’ High’s destruction. Two red cards in 10 minutes meant the Boys’ High team were crumbling and St Paul’s could see the end! Not even a late goal from a slightly lucky Boys’ High free kick stopped the St Paul’s steamroller as they charged forward with only minutes to play. With everyone back on defence, St Paul’s put everything they had into the last two minutes of the game and the full time whistle came like a flood of doves descending on a cherry tree. The boys jumped around as the crowd celebrated in jubilation.

Beating the second ranked team in New Zealand 3-2, a team that contains five U19 New Zealand players, and a team that has been undefeated for so many years. Only one word could sum it all up; team. They didn’t have one, we were one.

1st XI Girls Football

Author – Mr R Bell

This has been a very long season for the girls: five months and 26 matches

Team: M Ibrahim, A Cliffe, A McMichael

R Paine, L Jackson, A Fraser, C Sayer, P Miln

C Reeves, C Atherton, A Dyer, T Thomas, S McCallum,

E McCallum, KJ Slater

AWARDS:

Captains Cup : Sarah McCallum

MVP 2010: Emma McCallum

Gold Medals: All players (Division 1 Champions)

RESULTS SUMMARY

As the season unfolded the team developed both in strength and determination to win the title of “Division 1 Champions”. With 8 wins and 2 losses by the end of the championship St Paul’s had secured top placing, having held off strong attacks from both Sacred Heart and Morrinsville’s 1st XI’s. This was a wonderful result for a team who really dug deep to achieve their goal; a result largely achieved by the efforts of Sarah and Emma McCallum with wonderful support from Ashley Dyer and Ashley Fraser.

The final event for the season was the Maurice Hulme Tournament, run by N.Z. Secondary Schools Girls Football. Eight matches in five days was an enormous challenge and to come out in the top 16 at 15th place was a most creditable achievement. The crowning glory however was the awarding of the “Most Valuable Player of the Tournament” to Sarah McCallum as voted by the other teams. This year will certainly go down as the greatest year for girls football here at St Paul’s.

2nd XI Football

Author: Mr Josh Nyika, Coach

Being my first coaching experience, it took me a while to get used to the role. I had only recently finished 7th form at Hamilton Boys’ High School, where we had firmly established St Paul’s 1st XI as our local rivals. This made it interesting for me when I found myself changing my colours. No other Waikato school has produced such reputed players as Chris Wood and Michael Built. It has been a privilege.

The most satisfying thing about this season has been seeing the players from this team improve their skills and confidence on the field. Jake Wrathall is a good example, cooperating and visibly improving because of it. The perseverance of these boys has been admirable, despite many tough games where lesser men may have given up; they stuck to their duties and gave it their all. During the Tauranga exchange game, their determination against a more experienced team than ours was a fantastic reflection of the team’s spirit. They fought valiantly, doing the school, themselves and me proud. Admittedly, I have enjoyed Brad Nieper’s questionably solid tackles on the field, keeping our opposition on their toes down our left wing.

We permanently waved goodbye to Chris Wakefield, who was drafted into the 1st XI late in the season, and have had other players such as Harry Colone, Chris Fletcher, Mark Mills and Ryan Hobbs spending time with the school’s best.

Team: Chang Zhai, James Kennedy

M Mills, F Walker, J Wrathall, H Colonne

N Singh-Thandi, A Grinter, C Fletcher, B Fletcher, V Long

Absent: B Nieper, A Mills, R Hobbs

AWARDS:

MVP 2010: Chris Fletcher Coaches Award Harshita Colonne

RESULTS SUMMARY

3rd XI Football

MVP 2010: David Thomas Coaches Award Sam Tharratt

Author:

Mr James Hepburn, Coach

For 2010 the 3rds almost didn’t exist. Low numbers of registered football players meant we would either have a 2nd XI with 22 players or try and form a 3rd XI using players from outside of football. The decision was made to form a 3rd XI which led to a few issues, particularly in the middle of the season, where as few as eight players were available for some games. Thankfully a group of year 13 students slowly became regulars of the team mostly because of the enjoyment of playing fun football.

Notable players this season were the goal scoring machines in Michael Aitken and Thomas Moser, the off field organisation of David Thomas, and the huge improvement in goal keeping shown by Sam Tharratt. Sam was a particular revelation, initially a timid goal keeper he quickly learnt the technique and started to develop some much improved skills.

By the end of the season we had won more games than in any of the previous four seasons and finished fifth in our division.

Team: D Thomas, J Markman, M Gajzago, R Campbell, J Mistry

S Tharratt, V Ilic, A Mills, D Cho, T Moser, J Chancellor

L Rodwell, N Taylor

Colts A Football

Author: Mr Subesh Naidu, Coach

On face value you would believe our season has been a disappointment, one win from our ten league games is a miserable return. Our results this year have been dire; we have suffered from 6-0 losses on more than one occasion this year. However results are of little to no concern to me, an ideal I have emphasised to the Colts A players all year. Performances are what interest and drive me; I would rather lose 5-0 whilst playing beautiful football, than to win 1-0 playing atrocious, ugly anti-football.

Our season began with a loss to the HBHS Colts A, a win versus St John’s Colts A, and a hard fought draw against last years’ division champions, St Peter’s. From that point onwards, we lost many a game, but the improvement in our style of football was noticeable, our ability to pass the ball, combined with our dedication to playing passing football has astounded me, players this young, showing no fear in the style of football they want to play. Our season may seem to be full of low points, but on further inspection I believe this season to be a major victory for St Paul’s. The youth talent coming through the ranks is truly remarkable, and the development made by all of the boys this year has been unbelievable to be a part of. To be a coach, and see players incorporating what you have taught them, with their own individual brilliance and genius, was something special. The show they put on, was completely in sync with the footballing philosophy present at St Paul’s, I have the utmost faith that these players will grow into even better footballers, which as is, is something that blows my mind away.

Team: C Aldridge, A Lakhera, T Burt, J McCarthy

S Materson, B Bowden, C Downey, J Penyas, S Woolerton, S Krystman, A Sakalkale, S Rooney, D Johnson

Absent: L Fisher, D Goodwin, P Srisa-An, O Tomic, M Swarbrick

Manager: Julie Goodwin

RESULTS SUMMARY

AWARDS:

Colts B Football

Author: Rev C Luccock

The Colts B football team found itself placed in a division higher than last year and, as a result, faced much stronger competition. The first half of the season saw the Colts B team struggle at times, only managing to win one game. While we lost several outstanding Year 10 players to the Tihoi program, the Colts B team was injected with fresh energy and new talent from the players who returned to the main campus in Term 3. The team also benefited greatly from the energy and enthusiasm of one of the parents, Brent Sanders, who stepped in to help coach the team on Wednesday afternoons and on game day. His enthusiasm was infectious to the team and we immediately became more competitive in our matches.

A special thank you must also be made to Brent Sanders for instilling a sense of pride and enthusiasm in the second half of the season and to Jonathon Keliher for offering to referee many of our games.

Team: D Hsiao, H Watt, J Sanders

D Chegwidden, A Jackson, N Joyce Te-Waka, J Liddell

M Thomas, J Moss, V Reilly, Y Goo, R Forde

Absent: B Yates, J Ruri

Tihoi: M Davis, B Morton, Q McKay, P Pattanakulchai, S Keliher, J Fache,

Creative Writing

Destiny

It was cold. The sky was grey and the mood was very tired. Football had been played all week and somehow the last game was against… Them! Our rivals.

The guys that thought they had it all.The blank canvas that was the pitch now filled with yellow, black and red stripes as the opposing teams shook hands.This was the day the SPC boys were not going down without a fight.

As the game went on with passion and enthusiasm there were shots hitting the woodwork, shots being cleared off the line and tackles being made that turned agonizing defense into enthusiastic attack.The game was very much defending for us as we dug deep and gave it everything.

As both teams were tired from the previous five games everybody was struggling. In the 60th minute Coach Groom pointed at me to sub off. Suddenly one of the brothers went down. He went off instead of me. Maybe this was my day, maybe what was going to happen was meant to happen. Suddenly the sky’s opened, the sun shone down on the pitch, the grass began to glitter between my yellow boots.The whistle blew for full time.The game was to be decided on penalties. I realised now that this was my time.

All the sleepless nights thinking about this moment. All the practice and all the words my brother had said to me came down to one kick. If I scored I would be respected, if I missed my life would never be the same.The boys gathered together and decided I was going to step up and take the first one for our team.The boys stood shoulder to shoulder at the halfway line next to…Them.The air was filled with nerves.The first penalty taken by the opposition was saved by our reliable goalkeeper Angus.Then it was my turn, my turn to stand up and be counted. It was my time to shine.

All the nerves I might have had suddenly vanished.The voices that surrounded me were somehow silence to me and even though the goalkeeper was the NZ U17 goalie from the World Cup in Nigeria, I knew I was going to score. I shrugged past him with confidence. It was even more clear to me that this was meant to

be.The white ball glistened between the shinny strands of grass as I looked Alex in the eyes.The moment was here.The moment was now. For once in my life it was my turn and my destiny that hung between the ball hitting the net or straying wide of the post. I knew what I had to do and I was going to do it.

I calmly placed the white Lotto ball on the spot. Everybody else could see and hear both teams, St Peters on the sideline and the rest of the spectators the flooded the edge of the field. For me it was just me, the goalie and the ball. I could hear Josh’s voice in my head “put the ball down, take three steps back on an angle and BANG!”That’s exactly what I did.The whistle blew and I stood there for what was just seconds but felt like minutes. I kicked the shinny white ball into the bottom right corner. It was as if it was all in slow motion. Alex dived the right way but he still didn’t get there.The ball met the back of the net like a bullet hitting its target.

People would expect me to scream with joy and relief. But no! Not today. I knew I was going to score. I turned around and strolled back as I heard a roar of happiness from the boys.

I grin slyly and point at the man sitting on the sideline,That man is my coach.That man is my father.

We went on to win that day. Defeat our rivals in our last game. I would like to think I lea[Marker]d my team that day. On the way home in the van the boys were talking about the penalty’s and how great mine was. I sat there and smiled. I was no longer just “Weezy” the funny guy. I was somebody who could be counted on.

Every morning I wake and what lies in the corner of my room is the match ball. A match ball that holds memories. Memories that will never leave me till the day I die

By Dylan Groom

Together we grace the stone-clad hallways long since dust, as our pouted lips relax into a language few understand, yet all recognize.

I am not myself but far more; following in the worn footsteps of those who have come before me. To some, it was all they were, to others, it reflected a time long past, and to a few, it was as uncomfortable as snakes skin, but too addictive to the pallet to ever turn away.

Words flow into lines that grow and change, to finally resemble an immortal conscience; given life in the mind of a ghost. We are as shadows of them, only ever to fall so far down the rabbits’ hole.

As one we divulge a mood that I have never felt, as we pronounce wishes I have never dreamt. I am so far away and yet in the moment, my red trimmed aura sweeps and dances in thick, shadowed folds about us. Nothing here is my own but to be sacrificed as a gift; once, twice, thrice over till the sky is as dark as the scene.

The pressure builds.

Sometimes her words are kind and slide off my tongue, a soft lullaby, swaying on the long grasses of some forgotten field. Sometimes her words croak and burst out; as a mad untameable idea that will never rest till the beast is satisfied. But always I feel the sickly sweet reflections of ghosts, pulling and torturing her conscience and twisting solemn morality.

The pressure builds.

I pause, to steady my mind, I must press through this; least I lose my own humanity along with her. As one we suffer, plead, grieve and fall… Together.

The dripping guilt smeared over graceful fingers: spawn for a treacherous deed; “Though I shame to wear a heart so white.” I feel her conscience manipulate, taste her tongue, violate once honourable souls, and sense her façade quiver and distort into a wild thing; grieved with malice. The pressure builds.

These deeds are not my own but I convey a whisper of them, just a small hint as their darkest depths. For no mortal could possibly show a perfect reflection of what one cannot imagine. We fear what we do not understand. She frightens me. Forcing innocent questions of my self worth only to unmask crude, loathing realizations.

The pressure builds.

Interior motives begin to creep into expressed fears as it dawns, we will never be able to wipe this barbaric guilt from our hands: “’Tis safer to be that which we destroy, then by destruction live in doubtful joy.”

The staged world spins into a blur around me, no matter how many times I grasp out for comfort our hands only discover the faint interlocking fingers of false hope. The pressure builds.

The road we have travelled is perilous; one misread movement and everything achieved accounts for dust. Stunted and blinded by the mask, that holds back the devil himself, we move on; to whatever end. As long as there is an end.

“What’s done is done.”

The pressure builds.

Blissful ignorance has abandoned us along with the peace of a fleeting nights sleep. We are restless; nothing satisfies nor bridges the deepening crevasse to contentment. In this moment the earth fades to still, I am recollected within myself. Even Alice would’ve been wary, I am again falling down the rabbits hole; farther, farther. Stop.

We are as one again, but she is not herself. Mockeries of foul practice has claimed her sanity and mutilated her conscience. There is

no more of a woman left behind the mask. The pressure builds.

Surely all the collective shadows of the world cannot accumulate to the unknown darkness before our feet. Shifting sands, sanctity no more. The ever-changing winds sweep certainty from our mind-sight, to hide is in some doubt ridden place. I am numb yet full to overflowing with neither hate nor love. Far away something snaps,

The condemned dam, the façade cracks. Simple pain spills out across our cheeks: tip of the iceberg to the chaos bellow. The weight of our judgment transforms fear into insanity; here I must be careful not to lose myself in the haze between reality and her conscience. We rise, less then human, unfeeling we walk as one condemned. I am the ghost now, a whisper of a shadow. There is no set stitch in the fabric of conscience that portrays her ending; where I begin. But this connection has run its course through time and space.

Thick blood-red angel wings enclose around me, darkness claims me as I begin to purify the stains of torture and guilt which still yet clings to my soaked hem. It is a process of redemption, a right of passage calling me to my own being and self. The bond will never be broken; I have seen beyond the natures of the flesh and will. I have gazed into a demented soul, cut too deep for healing. I shed her as one would an old wind-worn coat. I release her cruelty, her torment; all gone into the darkest facets of my mind. Till I call on her once again to re-live her tragic tale. And so the call arises, “Tomorrow, tomorrow.” And tomorrow shall be, but tonight, I am much more then She; I am me.

Shallow breaths, sweaty brows and trembling fingers are all left in the wake of the direst evil displayed. As I once again step out on the stage I am not anyone but my true self, greeted by an unwavering storm of cheers and shouts. I know I am where I belong.

I am no longer frightened.

By Jennifer Currie

Deep cleansing breath stifled by the dust, closed eyes, tight with fear; shedding myself I step out, into her conscience. She is not I, but I am with her.

“. . . Words flow into lines that grow and change, to finally resemble an immortal conscience . . .”

I Wanted Us To Be Forever

She sat across the room from me once, eyes glimmering in the half-light, blue – serenely so. I rocked solemnly on my chair’s back supports, a frown etched on a downcast canvas, hands interlocked, quivering slightly. She, chest rising delicately then falling, the calmest melody.

The congregation rises in unison as the final rest-bed - raised aloft - exits. Crystal tears trickle from my raw eyes; the last photograph cements its place – the knowing smile, those glimmering sapphires. I look to her father, the protector he never was. She was scared of him – she had told me. His hand, once raised to strike, now clasping the elegant handle. His eyes ice-blue, uncaring, taken by the drink.

It was the last day of summer; already the ochre-brown colour was transforming the landscape. I rested against a coarse maple, thinking – something I did often, back in my lonely days. She approached, her dark locks caught by the crisp breeze, a tentative smile gracing her cherry lips. Crouching down beside me, she asked about my weekend, her eyes dancing gaily. As we spoke I found myself at ease, my worries subsiding, mesmerised. Time lost its grip, it seemed.

A flash of light ended her dance, a knock to her head proving fatal. The offenders were never found, never punished. I was there, beside her until the end. Holding her limp wrist as the methodic tones synchronised into one progressive note. Her eyelids locked concealing her greatest treasure – never again to see the light of day.

The night before the Winter Ball found us wrapped in our warmest apparel huddled on the weathered steps of my front porch, the soft snowflakes alighting on our warm open palms. We sat in silence, peering out into the cold night. Her sweet woody aroma filling each breath, Beauty.

The subsequent night I waited, cold and clammy, outside her address. A small corsage gripped tightly in one hand. She

emerged from the front-door, magnificent in appearance, an angel without means to fly. As the music played we lost ourselves, staring into our open souls, swaying the night away. I didn’t know how long we had left - I didn’t want too. She whispered in my ear, three words.

The heavens’ cleansing tears are cascading down upon this mournful gathering. Damp earth squelches under polished shoe. The bouquet of violets leave my breast tumbling slowly into the earthen grave, covering the varnished wood – her eternal home. The crowd disperses, each to their important lives, this day an unnecessary disruption. I remain, staring up into the gloomy sky as the bitter downpour soaks me to the bone.

“Why?”

The darkness is closing in now - maybe it is just my eyes tiring, the world becoming hazy. I didn’t want her to go; I wanted us to be forever.

…

The tyre swing rocks lazily as an autumn zephyr whips up the small piles of leaves, haphazardly tossing them about the manicured lawn. My wife and I recline on the veranda seat, watching our young daughter skip merrily as she attempts to apprehend a pretty butterfly.With a cry of delight she calls to us, raising her hand. On an outstretched finger, the butterfly perches steadily, flourishing its colourful wings. Her gorgeous eyes are teeming with excitement. Eyes - unlike her mother’s, an azure blue.

Long forgotten memories wash over me in an emotional deluge. Twelve years have passed since our worlds were cast apart. I wanted us to be forever.

By Andrew Mills

She Lived Like She Was Dying

I was. Afraid of hers, mine. She remained so strong through everything; I could’ve sworn she was invincible.

Prior to meeting Makena, I’d never even really visited a hospital. I didn’t need to, nor have the desire to. I’d been there many times now, I saw her as often as possible when she was going through a relapse period. I stood in front of the automatic doors that served as mirrors, fixing my hair and silently complaining about my lack of ability to tan. The hospital office revealed itself as the doors peeled sideways and I began to make my way through the labyrinth of hallways before making it to the ward where I’d find her. I already knew what she’d be doing; lying on her bed in the most inelegant manner, watching Dr. Phil or something equally as tacky. I smiled and carried on walking. I finally made it to children’s ward desk. A small, frumpy woman stood there, fiddling with files and papers.

“Here to see Makena, love?” She looked at me with warm eyes. I couldn’t remember her face, but she obviously knew mine. I felt guilty.

“Yes thanks, usual room?”

“Yup, just down there and to the right.” She said, motioning down the hall. I nodded and began to turn towards the doors of the ward.

“You know, love…” She started. I spun back around to make eye contact with her but she’d returned to her fiddling. “It’s really good that you’re here. She’s gonna need you today.” She didn’t look up. I stood there for a few seconds letting myself realize what she just said. I turned around again, pushed the green button and walked through the doors in the main hall.

This was the part of the hospital that I hated. Ladybugs and butterflies painted on the walls didn’t seem so joyful when combined with the cries and screams of babies. That familiar anti-septic, clean

smell was in the air, as if to hide the obvious ghosts of sickness, pain and death. I felt ill myself walking down there, seeing the doctors faces, some hopeful, some hopeless. I turned into Makena’s room sharply and pulled back the curtain in the doorway. I got a fright when I didn’t see the scene I’d imagined while walking down. The T.V. was off and instead of being sprawled out across her bed; she was sitting right at the end of it. She turned around. I could see the dampness of her cheeks and the tears sitting in her eyes. I went to hug her but stopped when I saw her smile at me. “Took you long enough to get here.” She laughed. I looked at my watch. She’d called and asked me to come and see her four hours ago, but I’d stayed at home for a while to do some chores first. I felt guilty again, but not in the way I did when I couldn’t remember the charge nurse’s face at the desk. This was much worse. That sickly feeling returned.

“Why are you crying?” I asked, worried. She looked at me for a while, probably thinking of how to word what was about to be said.

“I’ve come to the end stage of my lung disease…” I just stared at her, awaiting the rest.

“It’s critical.”

“So what does that mean?” I asked, harshly. I already knew the answer.

“It means I have to have a lung transplant…” Her voiced trailed off as

she wiped her cheeks. My heart sank and my chest tightened. I knew the statistics of those who lived through lung transplantations. Her voice cut into my negative thoughts.

“I’ve been on the waiting list for a while now, just for precautions. I have a donor, and I get to choose when I can be operated on.” It was as if she was trying to make good out of this terrible situation. I continued to listen.

“My family, the doctors and I have decided that it would be best to do it as soon as possible.” She paused for a second. “I’m going in tomorrow.” I watched a tear roll down her cheek.

This is when I broke down. I thought back to when I was standing in front of the doors looking at myself. Who cares if my hair doesn’t always stay in place or if I have pale skin, at least I was alive. There I was, standing in front of my best friend who was terminally ill and about to go under the knife with a 91% chance that she wouldn’t wake up. I stayed with her for the remainder oft he day and basically had to be forced out of the hospital at 10pm. I wasn’t allowed to see her for at least two days to give her time to recover. I knew that those two days were going to be almost unbearable. However, I only had to wait 36 hours before finding out how Makena was. The battle against Cystic Fibrosis that she’d been fighting had ended and she had been defeated.

Despite the fact that she had gone and I was experiencing the most intense grief I had ever felt, this is when the amount of admiration I had for her grew even more. She’d been through more in her short life than many of us ever will. She’d fought for hers since birth and never took anything for granted. I may not have a life threatening disease, but I want to live just like Makena did,who literally lived like she was dying.

By Caitlin Reid

When you’re healthy, it’s easy to forget the hardships in the lives of those who aren’t. The constant struggles and battles, rising just to fall again. I never stopped admiring the valour Makena possessed. She’d always told me she wasn’t afraid of death.

“. . . Despite the fact that she had gone and I was experiencing the most intense grief I had ever felt, this is when the amount of admiration I had for her grew even more. . .”

Creative Writing

Jenni,

I never really knew her until her sister moved to my town. She was a stranger to me. A stranger who knew me. A stranger who loves me, but still a stranger. Now I look forward to her visits and I know she looks forward to seeing me.

I can always feel when she’s at the front door and when I feel her. I run to her.Then suddenly, there she stands dressed in an elegant attire. There she stands, wearing a smile from cheek to cheek.There she stands waiting and welcoming the love from her family, which we all willingly give.

She has all these stories about her life but Jenni is modest. She likes to here knew stories, not tell her own. So I get mum to tell me. Mum told me why Jenni loves me, my sister and my brother and why Jenni wants us to succeed and be safe.The problem is, even though I know the story, I don’t know what to say about it.

When I sat next to her at dinner one night, I felt very close to her. I was talking about an 18th that I had just been too. I spoke of my decision not to drink. I explained that I didn’t drink because I didn’t want too. Jenni asked me if I ever felt pressure to drink. I think I said “yes all the time, but I just don’t want to yet.” After this Jenni looked at me with a sparkle of love in her eyes and told me “it’s amazing you can make the decision on your own”. I love to have Jenni’s praise. It was like a bullet pierced my heart when I heard where she was. Tears filled my eyes. It was a shock. I found it hard to believe that Jenni isn’t as strong right now as I know she is.

I imagine the hospital room feels cold to her.The unfamiliar creaking bed will be uncomfortable. It was mum who told my Jenni is in the Hospital because mum tells me Jenni’s stories.

I talked to Jenni on the phone, she was tired, but she laughed along with me and I felt her smile, even through the phone line. Jenni is older than me, this makes her wise.When I don’t know what to do, I think of her.Then I smile, because of the gleam of a memory I have of Jenni, I smile.

My favourite memory of my great aunt Jenni is when my brother greets her with “Jen-mista”, then she laughs until her eyes are full of tears.

Jenni has always been apart of my life. She has always been around. I had thought she was a formal, classy, old lady but now I know that’s just a disguise. Underneath she’s original, like I want to be. Jenni is unique. She’s always ready to get the best out of life. Now she’s no longer a stranger to me, because I know her and I love her as well.

By Charlotte Atherton

Technology

Another successful year for the students that have been involved in the Technology Department this year. The new machines and tools that have been installed in the workshops have helped with the influx of students wanting to take these subjects. It has been great to see so many students enjoying the subject. The hard work and the accurate application of theory and practical skills have produce projects to a very high standard for most students. Each student can be very proud of the projects they have produced. Another highlight would be the Construction class trip to Samoa and building a fale for a family whose house was swept way in the tsunami. Thanks to Heta Smith, Les Varney, Phil Clement and Andrew Harries for their passion and commitment.

Art

The Art Department exhibit students’ work in an annual display. Here is a selection of their work

Malcom Luman

Martyn Brown

Alex Gudsell

Jess Elliot

Claire Sayer

Jess Elliot

Bon Scott

Art

Photographic art is part and parcel of the Art Departments annual exhibition of student art

Jim Law

Lashara Lim

Sofia Harbottle-Villasol

Caitlin Reid

Alex Wilson

Matt Hickmott

Ebony Tapara

Nathan Russell

Ally French

Harington Day House

Author: Megan Colwley

Here we are again at the end of another year. We soon realised that this was the year for change when we arrived at Tihoi. We seventh formers were no longer the majority and had the new challenge of learning all the new faces and names. Even though there were a few grumbles at the start of Tihoi, this had changed by the end. Everyone appreciated the fact that when they arrived at school they would know somebody.

After a few weeks back at school we were still adjusting to the volume of girls. Just walking to class, sitting in the house and doing house events, there was such a difference in numbers. Some new girls were finding it hard to adjust to the new rules. Rhymer soon sorted these girls out by showing no mercy and putting them on a house run. Once everyone had settled in we really did show how much we wanted to be part of the school. Everyone was getting involved in the house events. With so many more girls in the boys’ houses we could actually pick and choose the events we wanted to do, unlike other years when we hadn’t had enough people for every event.

Introducing the new ‘5th Form Clean Up’ proved to be successful, even though there were some complaints from the fifth formers. The house was cleaner than ever. Beth introduced a new home made slice which was a treat from the Harington Tuck Shop.

No one had ever expected to be told by Mr Lander that we would be performing a female Haka. Not only that, but that we had to do it in front of the whole school and guests at the 25th jubilee of girls attending St Paul’s. At first we were a bit hesitant, as most of us hadn’t done anything like it before. With early morning practices and lots of time put into it, we managed to pull it off on the day– earning us a well deserved morning tea. Getting involved in house music would have to be the highlight for the year. With the song choice of ‘Like A Prayer’, we all sang our hearts out and really got into it. I was really impressed and proud of all the girls, as not everyone feels comfortable on stage performing. This was a really good event, as it gave us girls the chance to show what we are capable of to the rest of the school and parents. Due to our hard work, singing ability and enthusiasm we earned the second placing.

Housemaster: Ms Katie Rhymer

Assistant Housemaster: Mrs Kelly Saunders and Mrs Jackie Lock

Head of House: Megan Cowley

Deputy Head: Jess Morton

House Prefects: Bex Atkinson, Ashlee Dyer, Liz Lawerance, Polly Larkham, Lucinda Needham

Tutors Teachers: Mrs Christine Coates, Mr Roger Bell, Mrs Rose Don

To top this year off we found out that Ms Rhymer was pregnant! Although this is great news the house will not be the same without her next year. We all wish her the best for her new adventure.

Overall the year has been a great success with the introduction of the fifth form girls. No one knew how this year would play out but the girls have united to maintain the positive environment in Harington. The key was to carry on the tradition of involvement in all aspects of school life.

Now it has all come to an end. With another busy year finished there will soon be another one starting. I would like to say a big thanks to Ms Rhymer, Mrs Lock and Mrs Saunders for all that they have done for us as a House. I wish everyone the best for next year. Good luck!

Haringtons annual Fashion Show

Haringtons annual Fashion Show

Cross Country

Haringtons annual Fashion Show Haringtons annual Fashion Show

Caitlin a little devil

Nina Lee

Alana Timms

Swimming Sports

Fun at Tihoi

Melissa Gilmartin-Kara performing the Haka

Unity and trust

Hiking at Tihoi

Caitlin Reid

Liv Jackson

Jen Currie

Girls 1500m

Swimming Sports

Girls together

Tihoi kayaking

Paul’s

Harington Day House

Back Row: L. Buckley, L. Roberts, C. Elsing, K. Britto, M. Oosterwijk, C. McRae, R. Fortescue, R. Paine, J. Elliot, N. Singh, A. Jarvis-Hall

J. Frick, L. Kang, J. Kim, E. Tapara, M. Posa, C. Chegwidden, S. Singh, K. Slater, A. Watson-Holmes, N. Phillips, L. Rajan, S. Patel, C. Sayer, S. Cranswick

6th Row:

E. Ferguson, A. McMichael, A. French, M. MacCalman, B. Pederson, J. Brogden, C. Reid, C. Kapoor, R. Wilson, B. Noble, S. Vusoniwailala, J. Currie, A. Singh

5th Row:

K. Robertson, A. Boshier, M. Latto, M. Gilmartin-Kara, S. Nola, N. Hong, E. Neish, L. Carter, M. Ibrahim, C. Atherton, A. Wilson, A. Brown, A. Zhang, C. Singh

4th Row:

T. Panettiere-Welch, H. Embling, N. Banks, A. Mariu, C. Harrison, L. Needham, S. Jefferis, R. Henderson, F. Stewart, L. Lim, S. Harbottle-Villasol, J. Hugo, C. Booth

3rd Row:

L. Lawrence, S. McCallum, A. Dyer, N. Lee, L. Jackson, K. Rattray, M. Jacquet, A. Timms, K. Hodge, L. Lin, J. Reilly, A. Fraser, B. Atkinson, L. Travis

2nd Row:

Front Row: S. Henley-Smith, Mrs Coates (Teacher), A. Fisher, Mrs Lock (Teacher), E. McCallum, Miss Stephens (Teacher), M. Cowley, Ms Rhymer (Teacher), J. Morton, Mr Bell (Teacher), P. Larkman, Ms Don (Teacher), P. Miln

Hall House

Author: P. Wilson

2010 has been another successful year for Hall House. House spirit is strong and our House Motto - “Success through Effort” has been evident throughout the year. We may not have won the Shaw trophy this year but we have achieved our goals of participating with effort and enjoyment. The House continues to be a happy and safe environment for all students and we pride ourselves on being a “family” not just a place to hang out.

The year 9 students have adapted quickly to life at St Paul’s and are proud to wear the “Cambridge Blue”.

Luke Toomey has done a great job this year as Head of House. He has led by example and has worked diligently to motivate and encourage participation of his peers in every house activity.

Head of House Report

Author:

Luke Toomey

2010 was a fantastic year for Hall House and will stand out in my mind as the best of my five years. Although we weren’t able to seek out the ultimate prize of finishing first in the house competition, there were a number of goals accomplished amongst the Electric Blues, accomplishments I think every member of Hall should be proud of. We got off to a flying start by winning both Athletics and Swimming sports which gave us a commanding lead at the end of term one. This was certainly comforting as the House Leader, knowing that my team was going to give there all from day one and continue it throughout the course of the year. We fought hard in every competition put before us however I believe our most outstanding performance came in term three, House Singing. To see ninety-or-so mono-toned boys practise their hearts out for five weeks to explosively deliver Toto’s ‘Africa’ was awe-inspiring and the audience’s applause along with the performance itself is something I shall remember for many years to come.

After a year of predominantly ups rather than downs, it seems appropriate that I take this chance to publicly thank all those that

He has been ably assisted by Sam Kaelin and Luc Rodwell as Deputy Heads of House. I commend them on their enthusiasm and willingness to carry out any task asked of him.

I particularly comment them for the combined efforts in house music while I was away. They took charge and produced a great house and group item. The prefects have contributed effectively to the efficient functioning of the house and I have appreciated their involvement this year.

The house tutors have provided another avenue to help in the pastoral care of our students. I thank them for their involvement with the students during house and tutor periods –Mike Groom, Tess Hastie, Ben Van Meygaarden and Phil Clements.

contributed, not only to a fantastic year, but the shaping of myself to become the person I am today. Paul Wilson and Jeremy Coley, you guided me through what I can call a busy year, and our success as a team would never have reached its potential without you both. Luc Rodwell and Sam Kaelin, you became honourable deputies and friends that I will never forget, thank you for your support. My house prefects, certain competitions would never have happened without your persistent attitude to organise the boys. Megan Cowley, we have never had the girls be so enthusiastic about being a part of Hall, something that wouldn’t have been possible without you. And finally to every single member, the body of the House, your participation and energy was the reason for our success, and the reason for my enjoyment of 2010. Thankyou all, I wish you all the best for 2011 and whatever field you find yourself in for the years after.

“Are We? Yes!

Yes Oh Yes!

Housemaster: Mr P Wilson

Assistant Housemaster: Mr J Coley

Head of House: Luke Toomey

Deputy Head: Luc Rodwell, Sam Kaelin

House Prefects: Craig Batie, Cam French, Dylan Groom, Scott Joblin, Andrew Lord, Andrew Mills, Kent Stewart

Girls’ Leader:Megan Cowley

Teachers Tutors: Mr M Groom, Ms T Hastie, Mr B Van Meygaarden, Mr P Clement

A special thank you must go to Jeremy Coley who leaves Hall House at the end of the year to focus on his Head of English role. He has contributed hugely in the three years that he has been part of Hall. We will miss his youthful enthusiasm and sense of humour.

“Go Hall – Go you good thing”

Hall in lead

Hall won Swimming Cup

Hall House Hall House We’re The Best!”

Road Relay – M.Proudfoot and K. Dale

Carl Brandt

Cam French

Human art

Luke Toomey

Keiran Dale

Mr Lander presents Cam French with Senior Athletics Cup

Enjoying the day

Hall wins group item with ‘On the Road Jack’ in House Music

Hall House

Back Row: S. Keliher, C. Elliott, T. Weake, B. Wilson, S. Masterson, J. Kosoof, B. Bowden, J. Randle, B. Agnew, D. Johnson, M. Swarbrick, T. Martin

M. Gutry, S. Savage, N. Diamond, T. Fletcher, D. Glover, J. Mansson, O. Tomic, J. Ogilvy, A. Jackson, J. Davies, J. Robb, D.Shewan, A. Wilson, J. Law, M. Proudfoot

5th Row:

J. Powell, M. Lalich, J. Curran, T Swarbrick, K. Dale, H. Mahon, K. Fly, D. Rogers, L. Ronke, C. Fletcher, B. Gordon, N. Payne, R. Sullivan, C. Brandt

4th Row:

M. Shewan, M. Gajzago, C. Roycroft, A. Kosoof, B. Daly, G. Croasdale, A. Grinter, T. Coventry, E. Miles, R. McCallister, R. Patterson, M. Husband-Dravitzki, B. Rogers

3rd Row:

A. Elliott, H. Wind, C. Rowland, H. Tai, J. Hunt, M. Snodgrass, S. Colson, A. Crow, D. Shewan, J. Mason, C. Davison, S. Byun, A. Bennenbroek, J. Gajzago

2nd Row:

Front Row: S. Johnson, D. Groom, C. Batie, A. Mills, Mr B. van Meygaarden (Tutor), S. Kaelin (Deputy Head of House), Mr P. Wilson (Housemaster), L. Toomey (Head of House), Mr J. Coley (Deputy Housemaster), L. Rodwell (Deputy Head of House), Mr M. Groom (Tutor), S. Joblin, A. Lord, K. Stewart, C. French

Hamilton House

Author: Nick Taylor

Following a first place in the 2009 House Competition, Hamilton looked to maintain a high tempo. Going into 2010, we aimed for a top 3 finish, and this was achieved by once again winning the Shaw trophy as top House. All the House members have made considerable contributions and this has seen such results as 1st in Arts week and Hockey/ Soccer, 2nd in Swimming, Road Relay and Cross Country as well as 3rd in House Music. Without too many individual stars, it shows that the House as a whole combined as a tight knit unit and performed very well. We have also managed to edge School House in many of the competitions to see the infamous ‘paddle’ residing in School House most of the year.

Once again we owe a big thank you to the girls of Hamilton House who gave us great support when we really needed it.

2010 saw most of our goals achieved and special thanks must go to the House prefects,

Mr Holmes and Mr Campbell whose passion, enthusiasm and drive can be attributed to this feat.

To all those who are about to leave the House we wish you all the very best for your future endeavours and to those who are returning “Carpe Diem” seize the day.

Academic Achievements: Scholars Ties in Level One were awarded to: James Lin (91% ), Chang Zhai (84%), Edward Tseng (82% ), Roydon Nutsford (76% ), Max Stuart-Jones(73%), Angus Harris(72%) and Navdeesh Singh-Thandi (72% ).

In NCEA Level Two, Nick Taylor (89%) and Matt Hickmott (80%) were awarded ties..

Sporting Achievements: Senior sporting colours were awarded to the following : A Keppler(basketball), C Hobbs, K Barry, S Slegh (BMX), C Zhai, E Tseng (chess), A Harris (cricket), R Nutsford (hockey), S Sleigh(MotoX), J Pickford, M Stuart-Jones (rowing), G Beaumont (rugby), D Howlett

Housemaster: Mr Ian Campbell

Assistant Housemaster: Mr Martin Holmes

Head of House: Nick Taylor

Deputy Head: Matt Hickmott

House Prefects: Geoff Beaumont, Michael Rooney, Kane Barry, Taylor Saywell

Harington Leader: Liz Lawrence

Tutors Teachers: Mr Hepburn, Mr Varney, Mr Sole, Ms Bradford

(shooting), R Campbell (skiing), A Harris, M Rooney (Football), J Stevenson (swimming), R Bovill (Equestrian).

Cultural Achievements: Senior cultural colours were awarded to the following: M Hickmott (drama), C Zhai (orchestra). James Lin, Matthew Hickmott, Samuel Tharrat and Paul Newton Jackson were members of the school choir. Special mention must also go to Chang Zhai, James Lin, Taylor Saywell and Ben Fletcher for the group item and Chang again for the solo in House music.

Nick Taylor

‘Going to da dogs’

Hamilton leading the pack

Hamilton ham up in Lip Synch

All concentration – Mantez Singh Thandie Still 20m to go – Todd Barry heading for the line

‘This is serious stuff and its only lunch’

M. Rooney and N.Taylor putting on the pressure

‘Laughing all the way to the end’ –D. Rooney

Edward Tseng – Mr Tamborine Man

‘Hard day at the office’

Junior House Rugby – looking for a fast break Clean air behind me – 4x400m final

‘Hitting the high notes’ – House Music

Whipping up some Irish music – Group Item, House Music

Paul’s

Hamilton House

Back Row: John Penyas, Jordan Fache, Richard Hutchison, Tyler Gurnell, Callum Bowick, Angus Black, Paul Newton-Jackson, Jackson Bovill, James Finch, Samuel Crawford, Stefan Krystman, Benjamin Donaldson

Marcus King, Edward Johnstone, Hayden Middlemiss, Simroop Singh-Thandi, Mantez Singh-Thandi, Lucas Martin, Hamish Malins, David Tharratt, Joshua Walpole-Smith, Cody Hobbs, Remy Campbell, Danyon Fernando

5th Row:

Declan Howlett, Roydon Nutsford, Samuel Ammon, Rian Bovill, Benjamin Fletcher, Cameron Blue, Samuel Tharratt, Chang Zhai, Matthew Verryt, Storm Saywell, David Rooney, Maxwell Stuart-Jones

4th Row:

Riley Malins, Aaron Keppler, Jonty Wood, James Lin

3rd Row:

Ryan Hobbs, Edward Tseng, Alex Armstrong, Gurjot Rai, Navdeesh Singh-Thandi, Chris Moon, Angus Harris, James Pickford, Bradley Nieper, Drew Reid, Luke David, Jonathan Harkness

2nd Row:

Front Row: Thomas Hollman, Joel Stevenson, Mrs Helen Bradford (Tutor), Michael Rooney (House Prefect), Mr James Hepburn (Tutor), Matthew Hickmott (Deputy Head of House), Mr Ian Campbell (Housemaster), Nick Taylor (Head of House), Mr Martin Holmes (Deputy Housemaster), Geoffrey Beaumont (House Prefect), Mr Dave Sole (Tutor), Taylor Saywell (House Prefect), Cyrano Embling

School House

Author: Glenn Eyers

This year has been a truly memorable year in School House. We set a number of ambitious goals at the start of the year as a prefect group and have done very well in achieving most of them.

Our first goal was to create an awesomely fun environment in the house. I believe this goal comes before all results and is one that I believe we most definitely achieved. This introduction of foosball and the PS3 only enhanced the already fun environment and created a house that could put a smile on someone’s face even after the longest assembly or rainiest day. This could be seen by Mr Gibbs being inundated with new students wishing to be a part of this amazing house in the near future.

Next, we next wanted to win Athletics, a very successful event for us in the past. After some outstanding performances, from athletic machines Sam Hewat, Lucien Nabbs and Oliver Smith as well as some good input from other talented house members, we managed to achieve this goal and retain our first placing from the previous year.

Following in this rich vein of form in the athletic department, our next two goals seemed more than achievable. They were everyone ‘Balls to the wall’ in cross country and 1st in road relay a very successful past event. Sadly, due to the injuries sustained by our two best runners Oliver Smith and Ajay Chimanlal our result in cross country did not reflect our potential and a 5th placing had to suffice. Hence we believed

with all our stars present road relay was a realistic chance. However, we soon realised that our pool of running talent was not as deep as we thought; in fact we discovered that it was nothing more than a paddling pool as we got last in both sections.

The road to redemption was the arts activities. First came arts week and a top 3 place beckoned and a goal we could not let slip. After creating painting Monet himself would have been proud of and chalk art of a similar ilk, we were able to get a well deserved 3rd place.

However, this only brought us closer to our next goal, to win house music. Our year hadn’t gone quite as planned up to this point; however 1st place in house music was the only place we would be happy with after last year’s disappointing result. We practiced long and hard and when it came to the crunch the school house boys delivered. What we produced as a house was a rendition of Man in the Mirror that MJ himself would have been proud of. It was my proudest moment not only as head of house, but also as a member of school house and proved that if we put our minds to it, anything was possible albeit a little too late for the other house activities.

This brings us too our most important goal, to keep the paddle in Hamilton. Despite a couple of hiccups, I do believe that our wall is empty and hence this goal has been achieved much to the dismay of Mr Campbell.

Our final goal was to have enthusiastic participation in all areas. Despite not having the talent of previous years, you, the students who sit before me have always put the house first and given a hundred percent no matter what the situation and its is that kind of persevering attitude that will take School house back to the top.

I’d like to thank Mr Gibbs who is the rock in our house and a man we can always go to for advice. He is not only a housemaster but also a friend and the is no other teacher in the school that I would prefer than him to lead this wonderful house. I would also like to thank Mr Clothier whose input to house meetings and the arts performances in school house are second

Housemaster: Andrew Gibbs

Assistant Housemaster: Nicholas Clothier

Head of House: Glenn Eyes

Deputy Head: David Hoskins, Andrew Kingham

House Prefects: Nathan Alloway, Luke Dinnis, Samuel Hewat, Hugh McKay, Martin Petch, Matthew Stevens, Sam Thomson

Harington Leader: Jess Morton

Tutors Teachers: Gary Judkins, Chris Foot, Kelvin Hogg

to none. I would also like to thank the other staff in the house who take us for our tutor groups, and despite us only meeting in our tutor groups once this year you did a magnificent job that one time. I would like to thank my prefects who have really helped me this year and the behind the scenes work that you do and all the jobs such as roll call are much appreciated. Finally I’d like to thank you, the 2010 students of school house. You guys have been a pleasure to lead this year and have done the house proud. I look forward to hearing about the success of this group of students in the future and am sure that the 2011 School house will bring back the Shaw trophy to its rightful place. Thank you all and god bless.

To be … rather than to seem to be.

Be something, make something of yourself and make the most of your opportunities. Don’t just drift through school life looking involved and missing out on the valuable opportunities St Paul’s offers to develop your full potential. The House motto encapsulates the expectations of the staff and senior boys of School House. It is our way of encouraging the junior boys to participate in all activities. It also generates a sense of pride and belonging. Basically, any boy who willingly participates in House competitions and activities and makes a contribution to the House in any form, will quickly find their place, form some wonderful friendships (often life long) and make their time at St Paul’s more rewarding and enjoyable.

Martin Petch - House Photographer

Roger Bell showing the way at the Cross Country

Big E Trophy recipient Harashitha Colonne

Glenn Eyres gets paddled

Andre Hay with a gutsy performance

Olly Smith cleans up the middle distance at Athletics Day

Olly Smith

Nic Clothier demonstrates his gardening skills Chess is cool so is School

Mini Me is only a name… not a label!

Muslafa Ibrahim send a javlin into orbit

Evan, Evan Wilson, He’s the fastest man in History!

House Music champions sing Michael Jackson’s ‘Man in the Mirror’

‘Listen Andre… Long socks are the way forward’

School House

Back Row: J. Brown, W. Broderick, L. Fisher, A. Wyndham-Smith, S. Patil, W. Heald, Q. McKay, J. Chen, B. Morton, L. Xiong, C. Downey

A. Cleland, C. Dunstar, J. Kelly, L. Cooper, M. Law, L. Nabbs, L. Phillips, O. Smith, M. Zhang, J. Harris, E. Wilson, S. Findlayson

4th Row:

C. Ware, C. Windley, S. Armstrong, M. Ibrahim, R. Noble, N. Lamont, J. Eyers, M. Luman, J. Oh, J. Kennedy, A. Hargreaves, A. McPherson, S. Huang, M. Davis, W. Guest

3rd Row:

M. Cleland, L. Cowie, L. Mickell, A. Hay, D. Back, J. Wrathall, L. Dinniss, N. Alloway, M. Stevens, A. Gudsell, B. Scott, H. Colonne, M. Collins, B. Carrick

2nd Row:

Front Row: O. Jackson, H. McKay, S. B. Hewat, Mr G. Judkins (Teacher), D. Hoskins (Deputy Head of House), Mr A. D. R. Gibbs (Housemaster), G. Eyers (Head of House), Mr N. Clothier (Assistant Housemaster), A. H. Kingham (Deputy Head of House), K. Hogg, J. Mason, S. Thomson, M. Petch

Fitchett House

Authors: Mr Andrew Tharratt and Mark Mills

OBSERVATIONS:

It has been a year of change for the boys of Fithcett. The “Fitchett Family” had its usual ups and downs as any extended family would have. As a Housemaster I appreciated the support and effective way in which House issues were addressed. I continue to encourage parents to contact me if they have any concerns or queries and urge parents to keep the Housemaster informed of all matters that may affect their son’s life at St Paul’s. I know that it is important for parents to be confident that their sons are safe both physically and emotionally. As you will see from our achievements listed below, our boys excelled in many aspects of the school.

I was pleased with the effort the year 10 students put into their presentations; on the values they gained at Tihoi and how these values could be implemented in Fitchett in the future. A number of year 10 students also managed the tuck shop during the absences of the senior students. This is truly a group to watch as they take leadership seriously and rise to any responsibility.

Potentially in Year 11 there are many students that will be able to take up a leadership role next year. I will watch this group closely next year to who stands up to the challenge. There have been a number of students in the Year 12 group who have risen to the challenge of leadership, taking active rolls in the House Charity and teaching the Haka to the students in Fitchett. I believe that we have the leaders but we need to continue to

build and provide leadership opportunities for students at all levels.

One of the goals this year was to make the students of Fitchett stand out by having a high standard of dress and grooming. I believe we have almost achieved this goal this year. Fitchett students do stand out and are generally well dressed and groomed. I believe the students have adapted well to the new high standard of dress and grooming. Punctuality at roll call remains an ongoing issue, and will be addressed – excuse the pun – uniformly, throughout the school.

HOUSE ACHIEVEMENTS:

In the Inter-House Competition we were 7th overall. We managed to achieve some noticeable placing’s in Arts Week (lipsync - 2nd; photography - 1st), Rugby 5th and Rowing 2nd.

As usual Fitchett won the House Spirit Cup (athletics and swimming) and took the honour of winning the inaugural Charities Competition, which the house celebrates with a special morning tea.

Individual students who achieved at a regional and national level in sport were:

• Nic McGuire- Holcroft who won the Boy’s Intermediate Swimming Trophy at the swimming and multi-sport.

• Jonty Rae & Jonty McPhearson –Athletics;

• Thomas Moser – Cycling;

• Josh Randell, Keegan Ellis, Jonty Rae, Adam Ballentyne – Rugby;

• Louis Cronin - snowboarding;

• Alistair and Robert Carmichael – hockey & in-line hockey,

• Ryan McIntyre & Tim Prestage – in-line hockey;

• Josh Lenssen, Joshua Fawcett, Freddy Walker and Michael Aitken – Cricket.

• Dan Goodwin – Soccer;

• Taylor Rae Motor Cross

Alex Penrose was elected as school prefect and had the honour of delivering the valedictory speech at the leaver’s dinner and prize giving. We wish Alex all of the best as he take up a Gap tutor position at Bishops Preparatory in Cape Town, next year.

Housemaster:

Assistant Housemaster: J McGrath

Head of House: Mark Mills

Deputy Head of House: Michael Aitken

House Prefects: Alex Penrose, Karl Munden, Josh Lenssen, Tim Prestage, Matt Taylor, Thomas Moser and David Thomas

At the annual House Dinner at Valentines trophies were presented to the following students:

• Matt Atkinson Trophy: Junior Sportsman of the Year – Adam Ballentyne

• Mr B Jester Trophy: Adam Rawson

• Marting Ewen Trophy: Cultural Excellence – Alex Penrose

• Nick Jensen: 3rd Former of the YearYoungman Goo

• Peter gilbert Trophy: Sporting Excellence

– Thomas Moser & Josh Randell

• Duncan Hall Trophy: Outstanding Service to the House – Cody Nepe

• Jason McGrath Trophy: Academic Excellence – Tim Prestage

• David Mayne Trophy: Outstanding Contribution to the House Competition

– Alex Penrose

• Mark Mills Gentleman’s Trophy: Cody Nepe

To the girls from Harington thanks for your support and help with the house competition; and also to Becks Atkinson for her organisation and help throughout the year. Special thanks also to my Assistant House Master, Dr McGrath for all of his support, encouragement, guidance and advice. To the House Tutors; A Harries, R Aldridge, A Visagie, F Cowan who have always been willing to help and stand in during busy times and to help organise art week and inter-house competitions.

To Mark Mills my Head of House thanks for your leadership and loyalty.

To the students and parents of Fitchett, thank you for your support and acceptance of the many changes and adjustments that have been introduced this year. I am confident that 2011 will be the start of many great things ahead of us.

Connor Spence and Tim Prestage

HouseSpirit Cup

Michael Aitkin Deputy Head of House

Interhouse cooperation

Chalk Art Karl Munden Head of Sport

Jonty leads the pack for Fitchett

Mark Mills aka Jackson Nick swimming sports

Mark Mills - Head of House recieving the Spirit Trophy

Josh Randall and Vaughn Christie

Taking a break from standards

Kippa puts in his best for the U14’s

Fitchett House

Back Row: F.D.F. Claridge, R.S. Lindsay, C. Suk, S.S. Woolerton, L.R. Hastie, T.E. Hayes, Z.R. Watson, N. Kim, T.A. Rae, H.C. Gill, C.S. Fawcett

N.G.A. Baldwin, A.J. Mills, J. Ham, R.J. Carmichael, N. McGuire-Holcroft, D. Cho, C.F. Spence, Y. Goo, F.L. Walker, J. Mistry, J.S. McCarthy

5th Row:

A.T. Fullerton, V. Illic, J.C. Rae, M.W. Shaw, E.B. Ellis, C.J. Chilcott-Parker, R.R. McIntyre, A.R. Ballantyne, C.T.R. Nepe, N.M. Anderson, L. Tian

4th Row:

A.M. Bishop, P.S. McGougan, J.M. Fawcett, D. Anderson, H. Blyde, A.T.G. Rawson, N.G. Allan, J.H.R. MacPherson, M.J. Hodge, L. Balin-McCarthy, T.A. Rae

3rd Row:

Mr R.J.C. Aldridge, W. Hsiao, L.A. Bowers, C.R. Fullerton, S. Cao, D.G. Paterson, A.D. Carmichael, V.C. Long, J.A. Sanders, M.R. Baker, B.N. Muirhead, A. De Guzman, S.S. Rai

2nd Row:

Front Row: D.H.M. Thomas, M.K. Taylor, T.J. Prestage, Mr F.J. Cowan, K.T. Munden (Head of Sport), Dr J.E. McGrath (Assistant Housemaster), M.A. Mills (Head of House), Mr A.J. Tharratt (Housemaster), M. Aitken (Deputy Head of House), Mrs A.L. Visagie, A.P.C. Penrose (Head of Culture), J.F. Lenssen, T.R. Moser

J. Randell, S. Singh, S. Singh, E.L. Berridge, V.L.L. Christie, A.D. Fullerton, D.F.S. Goodwin, S.N. Henley-Smith, T.J. Henstock, J.B. Humble, D. Singh, L.T. Cronin, J.M. Fuller, D.C. Chegwidden 128 Collegian 2010 St Paul’s Collegiate School

Sargood House

Authors: Mr Craig Morton and Jason Heatherley

It was an up and down sort of year with people coming into the house and people leaving the house. The year started with a prefects’ strategic planning weekend at Mr Dell’s holiday home at Waihi Beach. There was a determination by staff and boys to develop a new culture for Sargood House based on virtues such as respect and steadfastness to reflect the motto of the house and the spirit of good men who went before us. Housemasters and prefects decided that a new tone all began in the morning house meeting, where mutual respect was shown by standing and greeting each other. The House Prayer also became a formality once again.

Term One and Term Two performances included: Athletics

At the end of Term Two Mr Dell tendered his resignation and left with his wife Jill to teach in Qatar (see article: Sargood farewells Mr Dell). Sargood finished Term Two with a hiss and a roar by winning House Rugby. We went to the holidays positive and in high spirits. It was a good way to send Mr Dell off.

Term Three started with some big changes. Mr Morton took over as Housemaster and Mr Williams came blundering and blustering into the house as assistant housemaster, but the prefects soon sorted him out and let him know who really ran the show.

House Music is usually a struggle for Sargood. Only a few talented musicians come our way, but if anything reflects the tone of a House its House Music and it’s not just a case of places, but making an effort is. The goal in House singing was to lift ourselves off the bottom rung and Ben Maclachlan’s choice of the Billy Joel classic For the Longest Time did just that for us. The boys performed well on the night with a great deal of pride in themselves and the House. These are the things that turn a House around and fifth placing showed we are no longer the cellar dwellers of House Music and we didn’t have two or three boys spoiling the performance as the two houses below us did. The group item deserved better than sixth.

This was the third year of the House Quiz competition and we haven’t performed that well in that competition, but this year we

suspected that we had a team that wasn’t too bad. The competition requires a student at each level. The following represented the House: Taylor Deakin (Year 9), Sam Bowley (Year 10), Daniel Kenna (Year 11), Mitch Jensen (Year 12), and Thomas Te Whare (Year 13). Ashleigh Browne was our girl representative from Harington and boy was she helpful on the science questions.

We led in the early rounds and our combined knowledge on sport, historical, geographical, things Biblical and current events was outstanding. Our final second place behind School House was something special and something new for the House. This was the third year of this competition and we haven’t performed that well, but this year we suspected that we had a team that wasn’t too bad. The competition requires a student at each level.

The following represented the House: Taylor Deakin (Year 9), Sam Bowley (Year 10), Daniel Kenna (Year 11), Mitch Jensen (Year 12), and Thomas Te Whare (Year 13). Ashleigh Browne was our girl representative from Harington and boy was she helpful on the science questions.

We led in the early rounds and our combined knowledge on sport, historical, geographical, things Biblical and current events was outstanding. Our final second place behind School House was something special and something else that showed that this House is capable of This was the third year of this competition and we haven’t performed that well, but this year we suspected that we had a team that wasn’t too bad. The competition requires a student at each level.

The following represented the House: Taylor Deakin (Year 9), Sam Bowley (Year 10), Daniel Kenna (Year 11), Mitch Jensen (Year 12), and Thomas Te Whare (Year 13). Ashleigh Browne was our girl representative from Harington and boy was she helpful on the science questions.

We led in the early rounds and our combined knowledge on sport, historical, geographical, things Biblical and current events was outstanding. Our final second place behind School House was something special.

Housemaster: Mr Geoff Dell (Terms 1 & 2), Mr Craig Morton (Terms 3 & 4)

Assistant Housemaster: Mr Craig Morton (Terms 1 & 2), Mr Defyd Williams (Terms 3 & 4)

Matron: Mrs Beverley McCarthy

House Tutors: Mr Jason Gibbs (terms 1,2, & 3), Mr Tom Nabbs (terms 1, 2, & 3) Mr Scott Keene, Mr Zane Hartley

GAP Tutor: George

Head of House: Jason Heatherley

House Prefects: Ben Maclachlan, John Roach, Thomas Te Whare, Daniel Ford, Lance Wolfe, Andrew Miln and Ludwig Hope.

Girls’ Leader: Ashley Dyer (Harington House)

Academic Tutors: Mr P. Gilbert, Mr C. Luman, Mr D. Smith and Mr A Constable

Good performances in hockey and soccer helped us fight up the house-points leader board in the dining room.

Jason Gibbs decided to call it quits at the end of term three to work in his ever expanding printing business.

By the end of Term Three the House was in strong spirits. Boys seem to be happier with the disciplined approach demanded by the housemaster, tutors and year 13 leaders. Some staff said that they can’t believe the transformation. It’s a change for the better. Term Four began the business end of the year, with all students having to prepare for final examinations. The major co-curricular thrust was the House Haka competition. This was superbly led by Jared Wilson and William Cooper, who taught the boys the words and actions. This had an important influence on uniting the House and giving the boys a focus other than examinations. It also provided balance for the boys who didn’t have many externals or sporting commitments.

The Haka competition was held in the new school gymnasium and was judged by Archbishop David Moxon and his son Dr Te Aro Moxon, former head boy of the school and composer of the haka. In judging Sargood as winners of this competition the judges’ comments praised our juniors for standing up and standing out. The boys were delighted with their success and the $500 prize for a big feed.

Sargood House CONT

Sargood featured strongly in the Awards Evening winning colours and ties for sporting and cultural pursuits. The following boys can be congratulated for their achievements: AFL Jason Heatherley; Kurt Heatherley, and Ludwig Hope; Athletics: Andrew Milne and John Roach; Basketball: Kurt Heatherley; Music: Ben Maclachlan; Rugby: Jason Heatherley; Brandon O’Mallan; Soccer: Daniel Ford; Triathlon: Andrew Milne; Cross Country: Andrew Milne; Service to Sport: Mitch Jensen.

Boarding House Awards: Mr Lander introduced this new awards evening and our boys featured at all levels in all categories. Sargood won the following awards: Year 9 Academic: Taylor Deakin; Year 9 Cultural: Taylor Deakin; Year 9 Citizenship: Hamish Te Whare; Year 10 Sport: Caleb Lingman; Year 10 Citizenship: Rhodri MacKenzie; Year 11Sport Kurt Heatherley; Year 13 Citizenship: Ben Maclachlan

STEADFAST ACHIEVERS

• Kurt Heatherley won contracts in Australia in 2011 to play AFL and basketball.

• Brandon O’Mallan as well as playing for Guam National Team made the Waikato Under19 Rugby Team.

• Ben McLaughlan trialled for the Harlequins Rugby Team

• Lance Wolfe is well on the way to achieving his pilot’s licence.

• Jason Heatherley our head of House was a Waikato Under 18 Rugby representative.

• Taylor Deakin is determined to revive junior debating at St Paul’s. He was a member of the team that beat Tauranga.

• Mitch Jensen is a fully qualified lifesaver, so you should feel safe at Whangamata.

• Sam Bowley and Caleb Lingman were selected for the Und 14 Harlequins’ trials team and were members of the championship winning team, which

included Tihoi boys – Josh Malpus and Ryk Hermsen

• Caleb Lingman went on to captain the Waikato Under 14 team

• William Cooper won our citizenship award for helping a new student; coming back for House Music when sick; and helping 3rd form learn the new school haka. He also went down to Tihoi with Hilton Gibbons to teach the boys there the new school haka.

• Jared Wilson with William Cooper did a superb job teaching Sargood the new School Haka. We won the $500 prize in the inaugural inter-house competition

• Josh Tye Under15 Waikato Rugby representation

Sargood seems to have turned the corner as a house, the proof will be what happens at the start of next year and if we can sustain what we believe is the new Sargood.

Josh and Ryk

Sargood Standards

“Lift it mate’

Swimming Sports

Mr Craig Morton - Housemaster Ben the crooner

Sargood House

Back Row: Hamish Te Whare, Jaden Rouse, Jack McDonald, Riley Chick, Mark Adlam, Rhodri MacKenzie, Samuel Hunter, William Fraser, Taylor Deakin, Zachary Posa

Mitchell Jensen, Andrew Roberts, Jared Wilson, Reece Franklin, Alistair Bayly, Kurt Heatherley, Arie Brogden, Luke Wyllie-Miln, Daniel Kenna, Patrick Sauni

4th Row:

Mr C. Luman (Tutor), Sukhjit Sarai, Sebastian Taylor, Joshua Tye, Calib Lingman, Sam Bowley, Riley Thompson, Jenn Swatthanakoon, Liam Dobler, William Kenna, Jack Dunphy

3rd Row:

B. McCarthy (Matron), Joshua Lemon, Eason Chen, Samuel Robinson, Ze Wang, Brandon O’Mallan, Benjamin Schroder, Andrew Buswell, Kyle Dean, William Cooper, Mr P. Gilbert (Tutor)

2nd Row:

Front Row: James Hurrell, Daniel Ford, Thomas Te Whare, Ludwig Hope, Mr D. William (Deputy Housemaster), Jason Heatherley (Head of House), Mr C. Morton (Housemaster), Benjamin Maclachlan, Lance Wolfe, John Roach, Andrew Milne

Clark House

Author: Michael Eggleton

2010 saw the Addition of the new dorm for Year 9 in the old prep area,15 new beds and two prefect rooms.( air conditioning - through out) and also at the end of the 2010 academic year will see the departure of Mr. Henley Smith as House Master, who is Retiring from Clark after six years 2005 – 10.

Our goals this year were to reestablish the glory days of Clark House and make a noise on the inter house competition scene. To work together as a team and become consistent throughout the year. To respect the house and everyone in the house. And last but not least to have fun.

Clark House brought back its reputation of being a running powerhouse. We came out strong at the start of the year, winning House Athletics Standards for the first time in 26 years. We finished a very close third in the school athletics champs, and won the A Road relay inter-house championships with a close second place In the B relay and a second place in the girls. In the process two of our Clark Athletes broke school road relay records, Tegan Voykovich setting a girls long course record, and Michael Eggleton beating the senior boys record he set last term.

School cross country saw Clark win 2 of the 4 titles, with Tegan Voykovich blitzing the field in the senior girls race and Michael Eggleton defending his senior boys title from 2009. Tom Smith also placed 3rd in the Junior boys race and year 13 house prefect Nathan Darling finished a close 4th in the senior boys race. Several commendable efforts come in the form of

senior boys Zane Carlyon, Nicolas Anda, Sven Pederson and Michael Loft who all rounded up top 10 places.

House Rugby saw us achieve yet another top 3 placing, with our Clark girls taking out the competition and our boys showing fierce camaraderie right until the final whistle.

Clark house hosted yet another successful 24 hour run relay. The 48 boys in the house averaged a marathon each (42km) and last year record distance holder James Chancellor ran an impressive 115km. James Chancellor was also awarded the Duke Of Edinburgh Silver award during the year, and is now has his eyes set on the gold award. Several students showed athletic success at the representative level. Year 9 Tom Smith achieved double success at the North Island Secondary school Athletics Championships where he placed 2nd in the North Island in the 100 and 200m. Michael Eggleton set a Waikato Bay Of Plenty track Record in the 800m and Daniel Ruri placed 4th in the North Island in the junior Javelin. Sven Pederson finished a commendable 2nd in New Zealand for windsurfing. In term 4 we learnt that Clark house student Sam Hogg, who earlier in the year had won a trip to Gallipoli with the Prime Minister, had been awarded a prestigious Auckland Scholarship.

At the Boarding prize giving several Clark House students were awarded prizes: Academic achievement: James Chancellor Y13, Dominic Scott Jones Y10 winner Sporting achievement: Tom Smith Y9 2nd

Housemaster: Gary Henley-Smith

Assistant Housemaster: Neil Muirhead House Tutor(s) (for boarding houses): Daniel Teka, Frans Van Der Merwe, Nicolas Jensen

Head of House: Michael Eggleton

Deputy Head: Dion Candy

House Prefects: Zane Carlyon, Nathan Darling, Chris Wakefield, Murray McKensie, Ben Knowles, Sam Hogg, James Chancellor, Jarred Bellingham, Jeremy Markman

Harington Leader: Polly Larkman

Tutors Teachers: Andrea Dela Rue

NI for 100 & 200 m, Waikato U14 rugby rep, Sven Pederson Y12 second in NZ for Wind Surfing

Many Clark Boys went on to represent the school and region at competition and several Clark House boys achieved senior school sporting colors.

This included: Dion Candy (shooting, Nathan Darling (cross country), Sven Pederson (wind surfing), Michael Eggleton (Athletics + Cross Country), Peter Grieson (soccer), Hadley May (Rugby), Jarrod Bellingham (rugby).

HOUSE MOTTO AND MEANING:

“Learn as though you would live forever, live as though you would die tomorrow”

Blue for Clark

Michael Eggleton

Looking good on the blocks

Emma McCallum

Jake Barber and Jack Tatton

Michael Eggleton and Sven Pedersen ‘Up, up and over’

Mr Henley-Smith

U16 Relay members: Harry Larkman, Jake Barber and Jack Tatton

Interhouse Cross Country

Fiona Stewart and Annie Boshier winners of the Arts Week Sculpture

Senior girls champion – Sarah McCallum

Baton change: Jake Barber and Henry Larkman

Arts week

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Clark House

Back Row: B. Andrews, J. Liddell, C. Connell, T. Gyde, J. Taylor, J. Doneghue, T. Gordon, J. Madgwick, K. Frost-Jones

D. Matthews, H. Larkman, C. Leggett, M. O’Connell, P. Srisa-An, J. Hogg, D. Hulain, J. Xue, J. Chenery

5th Row:

J. Tatton, F. Atkinson, C. O’Neill, D. Ruri, O. Oxley, A. Rawson, J. Barber, J. Ruri, M. Loft, H. May, D. Rust

4th Row:

N. Anda, R. Colcord, S. Penson, T. MacDonnell, S. Pederson, M. Seton

M. Tingey, R. Grierson, J. Bellingham, D. O’Rourke, J. Chancellor, B. Knowles, M. McKenzie, C. Wakefield, L. Dunsmuir, T. Coster

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Front Row: Mr D. Teka (Tutor), Z. Carlyon, Mr D. Williams, S. Hogg, Mr G. Henley-Smith (Housemaster), M. Eggleton (Head of House), Mr F. van der Merwe (Tutor), D. Candy (Deputy Head of House), Mrs M. Bruce (Matron & Abby), N. Darling, Mr N. Jensen (Tutor)

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Williams House

Author: Zach Oliver

At the beginning of 2010, Williams House made a goal to finish on the points table as the top boarding house. Every competition we have given a very fair go and even had some good highs throughout the House competition year. We have placed first in the cross country, second in athletics standards and second in House Music to name a few. These efforts have had major contributions from all the House members and we have very rarely been placed near the bottom in the House competitions due to the diversity of talents within the House. Williams House has had a steady year being consistent with their effort towards being the top boarding house and with very little issues within boarding life this year we can happily say that we have achieved what we set out to do, placing second in the InterHouse competition and first amongst the three boarding houses.

Academic achievements: A scholar’s tie was re-awarded to Nathan Wright for his academic achievements in NCEA Level Two. He has also earned a Scholarship to Auckland University in 2011 to study Commerce.

Sporting Achievements: Williams has had a number of athletes who competed

at representative levels. James Atherton Waikato U/15 swimming, Israel VanoStorer Waikato U/14 Rugby, Stuart Marr U/18 Harlequins Rugby, Zach Oliver NZ U/18 Rowing Coxed four.

Cultural Achievements: In House Music this year, the House placed second for their version of “Stand by Me” by Ben E King. A special mention can be given to an outstanding performance by Nathan Russell who played the drums in the solo section of the competition and was also involved in the group item where the house band played “Fast times in Tahoe” by Elemeno P. The other band members were Nathan Wright (guitar), DJ Hale (guitar), and Oliver Hamlin-Rowling (Lead vocalist).

Williams had a House motto introduced just last year by Mr. Smith which is “Who dares Wins”, borrowed from the special air service and it has served Williams well this year.

Dare to be Honest

Dare to be Trustworthy

Dare to be Respectful

Dare to be Loyal

Dare to use Good Manners

Dare to Uphold the Good Name of the School

House Parents: Heta & Margie Smith

Assistant Housemaster: Craig Hardman

House Tutors: Sam Broadbent, Danny Moore, Jamie Smith

Gap Tutor: Henry Ripper

Head of House: Zach Oliver

Deputy Head: Patrick Glidden

House Prefects: Stuart Marr, DJ Hale, Nathan Wright, James McGregor, Ben Hamilton, Tyler Staunton, Hilton Gibbons, IzakEksteen, Sam Tipping

Harington Leader: Lucinda Needham

Tutor Teachers: Craig Luccock, Lee Elliot, Richard Turnball.

Dare to Try Your Best

Dare to Set Your Standards High

Dare to be a Williams House Man

This year we have had some terrific highs with the results we have had in the inter-house competition, but we have also had some lows which is reality within a boarding house. Not everything is perfect, but I believe that it is all behind us and it has developed the house into a stronger house which I’m sure will have a terrific year next year.

Ben Hamilton

Stuart Marr Simon Yates

Sam Tipping and Tom Tietjen

Charlotte Atherton for Williams

Paul’s

Izak Eksteen

Josh Mann

Martyn Brown

Nathan Wright

Heta and Margie Smith talking tactics

Fransois Eksteen

‘Go Green Machine’

Sean Vartiainen

Petra Milne

Williams Values

Down but not out

Josh Mann Senior Field Events

Williams House

Back Row: H.J. Watt, I.J. Eksteen, H.W. Fahey, S.A. Yates, A.L. Collie, J.J. MacKenzie-Hooper, A.P. Langdon, J.J. Mann, D.B. Coull, L.E.R. Meban, G.H. Scheres

T.D. Ganley, C.R. Poole, I. Vano-Storer, T.E. Tietjen, S.M. Tipping, T.G. Burt, T. Moss, J.R. Petrie-McVean, M.T. Brown, M.J. Kerr, J.K. Croasdale-Saunders, M.D.F. Laurich

H. Ripper (Gap Tutor), J. Moss, E.R.B. Reynolds, D.S. McMullin, W.P. Reeves, A.G.K. Simpson, Z.D.F. Laurich, W.J. McLaughlin, M.B.U. Burke, T.J. Way, K.S. McGregor, C.W. Nam, D.M. Wallbank, S.A.J. Reynolds

C.C. Watson, T.W. Harsant, B.C. Yates, O.B.C. Clausen, G. Needham, J.N.J. Moss, D.K. Reeves, N.M.A. Russell, J.W.D. Pritchard, J.J. Dyke, Y. Yokoyama, S.J. Vartiainen, L.W. Jackson, J.G. Hankins

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3rd Row:

Front Row: J.S. McGregor, N.A. Wright, B.L. Hamilton, Mr R. Turnbull (Staff Tutor), D.J. Hale, Mrs G. Thompson (Matron), Mr C.M. Hardman (Assistant Housemaster), Z.T. Oliver (Head of House), Mr H.G. Smith (Housemaster), Mrs M.J. Smith, P.F. Glidden (Deputy Head of House), S. Broadbent (House Tutor), T.J. Staunton, S.C.N. Marr, H.H.K. Gibbons

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Harington Boarding House

Author: Mrs Sonia Wells

2010 was a unique year in the life of girls at St Paul’s. After 25 years of girls at Year 12 and Year 13, Year 11 students were admitted, greatly strengthening the girls’ cohort.

OUR GOALS FOR THE YEAR WERE

• Integration of Y11 girls into citizenship in the Boarding House and into the unique co-educational boarding culture at St Paul’s Collegiate

• Ensuring that Year 12 students (who were all new as well) did not get overshadowed by

• Staff and Prefects developing a supportive culture among the three year groups with the aim of friendships forming naturally, between girls of different year levels.

• Encouraging integration of boarders and day girls.

CONGRATULATIONS TO:

• Charlotte Atherton – Choir Trip to Hawaii; Lead role in Productions Sweeney Todd; Dorm Leader 2010; Most merit marks in Year 12, Head Boarder for 2011, Deputy Head of School for 2011; Academic and citizenship award for Year 12 boarder

• Annie Boshier: Head of Clark; Chapel, School and Boarding House Prefect for 2011; won the “Little Sister Award”

• Jo Brogden: completed Outward Bound Course;

• Ashleigh Browne: Top Year 13 academic for Harington boarding; Placed 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in events at Waikato InterSchool Swimming Championships; holds St Paul’s record for girls’ 50 and 100 metre backstroke; Swimming Colours

• Sarah Cranswick: Open A Netball Team, Good Report Morning Tea,

• Ashlee Dyer: Vice-Captain Girls’ 1st 11 Soccer Team – winners of Waikato Secondary Schools’ 1st Division Championship 2010; Soccer Colours; Boarding House Prefect; Girls’ Head of Sargood

• Ashley Fraser: Chapel Prefect; School Prefect; Member of Girls’ 1st Eleven Soccer Team which won the Waikato Secondary Schools’ 1st Division Championship 2010; Soccer

• Talya Thomas for School Prefect, Head of Sargood House and Deputy Head Boarder

COLOURS;

• Gloria Imms: Year 11 Merit Award Term 3

• Livi Jackson: Member of Girls’ 1st Eleven Soccer Team which won the Waikato Secondary Schools’ 1st Division Championship 2010: selected for Elite Dance Team; Y11 Merit Award Term 4; Y11 Boarders’ Cultural Award

• Polly Larkman: Girls’ Head of Clark House; Year 13 Merit Mark Award T 3

• Emma McCallum: Head Boarder 2010; Full School Prefect; Highland Piper who performed regularly at school events and concerts, Member of Girls’ 1st Eleven Soccer Team which won the Waikato Secondary Schools’ 1st Division Championship 2010; Soccer Colours.

• Sarah McCallum : Chapel Prefect; School Prefect; Soccer Scholarship for Hawaii University; Captain of Girls’ 1st Eleven Soccer Team which won the Waikato Secondary Schools’ 1st Division Championship 2010; Soccer Colours; Golden Boot Award for most valued player of the Mid-North Island Tournament ; 1st 4 x 400m relay and 4x100m relay, 2nd 200m, 3rd 100m at North island Secondary Schools’ Athletics. Highland Piper who performed regularly at school events and concerts.

• Petra Miln: Member of Girls’ 1st Eleven Soccer Team which won the Waikato Secondary Schools’ 1st Division Championship 2010: St Paul’s Athletics, 1st 3000m and 1500m; Waikato Zone Athletics, 1st 1500m; Bronze Medal in National Kaimai Classic Multi Sports,

• Lucy Moss: Boarding Prefect; Boarders’ Exemplary Citizenship Award,

• Lucinda Needham: Boarding Prefect; Girls’ Head of Williams

• Rosanna Paine: Boarding Prefect; Guardian Trust Scholarship for Teacher Training at Waikato University; Manager of Girls’ 1st Eleven Soccer Team which won the Waikato Secondary Schools’ 1st Division Championship 2010.

Housemaster: Mrs S Wells

Assistant Housemaster: Ms R Don

House Tutor(s): Ms A Whiting, Ms G Jones

Gap Tutor: Ms F Cormack - Loyd

Head of House: Emma McCallum

Deputy Head: Lucy Travis

House Prefects: Lucinda Needham, Ashlee Dyer, Rosanna Paine, Lucy Moss

• Belinda Pedersen: As Y11 student, top of Year 13 Statistics Class; top Year 12 ICT, top Year 11 Chemistry and Physics; Top 100 in National Bank Mathematics Competition; Top 10% for age level Languages; ICAS Science Distinction.

• Lucy Roberts, Year 11 merits in Term 2

• Clare Reeves: Member of Girls’ 1st Eleven Soccer Team which won the Waikato Secondary Schools’ 1st Division Championship 2010

• Caitlin Reid: Awarded Performing Arts Excellence Award for most outstanding Cultural Student 2010; Drama Colours; Mrs Lovett, Lead Role in Sweeney Todd; Lady McDuff in production of Macbeth; Choir Trip to Hawaii; Head Soprano in Choir, sang at many concerts, chapel services and school events; Top Boarders’ Y13 Drama Award

• K-J Slater: Choir Trip to Hawaii; Performed in many concerts and events; Member of Girls’ 1st Eleven Soccer Team which won the Waikato Secondary Schools’ 1st Division Championship 2010;

• Theresa Steiner : Member of Rowing team at North Island and Maadi Cup; Open A Netball Team,

• Talya Thomas: Member of Girls’ 1st Eleven Soccer Team which won the Waikato Secondary Schools 1st Division Championship; Boarders’ Citizenship Award

• Lucy Travis: School Prefect; Deputy Head Boarder; rowed at North Island Championships and Maadi Cup, Rowing Captain; !st Eleven Hockey, Captain; Scholar’s Tie, Good Report Morning Tea Term One;

• Teagan Voykovich Open A Netball Team, 1st Girls’ Cross Country

Girls striking a pose

A night out

Hawaii Trip

Harington Dinner

Soccer Girls

The two Ashley’s

Polly and Lucy hanging out

Ready for School

Hanging out at school

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Harington Boarding House

Back Row: J. Kiwi, P. Larkman, P. Miln, S. Jefferis, M. Posa, T. Voykovich, L. Roberts

G. Imms, S. Cranswick, O. Jackson, A. Boshier, S. Nola, J. Reilly, T. Steiner, C. Atherton, C. Reeves

Ms A. Whiting (Tutor), M. Jacquet, S. McCallum, T. Brogden, T. Thomas, C. Reid, B. Pedersen, S. Ingham, A. Browne, Ms G. Jones (Tutor)

3rd Row:

2nd Row:

Front Row: A. Fraser, R. Paine, A. Dyer, Ms R. Don (Assistant Housemaster), E. McCallum (Head Boarder), Mrs S. Wells (Housemaster), L. Travis (Deputy Head Boarder), L. Moss, L. Needham

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Class of 2010

Michael Aitken Nathan Alloway Rebecca Atkinson

Kane Barry Craig Batie Geoffrey Beaumont

Jarrod Bellingham Joanna Brogden

Ashleigh Browne Leah Buckley

Andrew Buswell Seong Won Byun Alexandra Canales-Wolter

Dion Candy Zane Carlyon James Chancellor

Catherine Chegwidden

Jun Young Cho

Aleesha Cliffe Megan Cowley

Jennifer Currie

Nathan Darling Luke Dinniss Ashlee Dyer

Michael Eggleton Keegan Ellis

Cyrano Embling Glenn Eyers

Alice Fisher

Daniel Ford Ashley Fraser Cameron French

Matthew Gajzago Hilton Gibbons Patrick Glidden Dylan Groom

Daniel Hale

Benjamin Hamilton Jakobi Harris Jason Heatherley

Stephanie Henley-Smith

Samuel Hewat Matthew Hickmott

Katie Hodge

Samuel Hogg

Thomas Hollman Ludwig Hope David Hoskins

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Shih-Hsien Huang

James Hurrell Mustafa Ibrahim Oscar Jackson Scott Joblin

Samuel Kaelin Jian Kang Hye In Kim

Andrew Kingham Benjamin Knowles

Polly Larkman Tsz Fung Law

Elizabeth Lawrence

Joshua Lenssen

Andrew Lord Benjamin Maclachlan

Jeremy Markman Stuart Marr Emma McCallum Sarah McCallum James McGregor Hugh McKay Murray McKenzie Andrew Mills

Mark Mills Petra Miln

Andrew Milne Jong Moon

Jessica Morton

Thomas Moser Lucy Moss Karl Munden

Lucinda Needham

Beth Noble Brandon O’Mallan

Daniel O’Rourke Zachary Oliver

Rosanna Paine Tayla PanettiereWelch Alexander Penrose

Martin Petch Liam Phillips Joseph Powell Timothy Prestage

Joshua Randell Kathleen Rattray Caitlin Reid John Roach

Kelly Robertson Samuel Robinson Luc Rodwell Michael Rooney Taylor Saywell

Benjamin Schroder Mark Shaw Michael Shewan

Chaman Singh Niharika Singh Tyler Staunton Matthew Stevens Joel Stevenson

Kent Stewart Jonathan Sullivan Ming Hang Tai

James Taylor Matthew Taylor Thomas Te Whare

David Thomas Samuel Thomson Alana Timms Luke Toomey Lucy Travis

William van der Vyver

Christopher Wakefield Ze Wang Patrick Wilkins Lance Wolfe

Nathan Wright Amy Zhang Dingyuan Zhang

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Prefect Pen Sketches

GEOFF BEAUMONT

Geoff joined the Prefect Body in Term Two and immediately showed the school why he is such a good prefect. Leading by example, Geoff continued to impress staff and students with his ability to inspire others as well as being a positive role model on the sports field, notably in Rugby as he was a vital member of the 1st XV’s 2010 success. Geoff has proved a brilliant addition to the original group of prefects and has made the step up. In 2011, Geoff is heading to Lincoln University to do Valuation and Property Management.

DION CANDY

Head of Boarding, Charities portfolio.

In 2010, Dion was Head of the Boarding Portfolio and was a member of the Charities portfolio. Dion was a strong and proud leader who often led by example, both within his house, and in the school. Dion was always contributing and encouraging during prefects meetings and served the boarding community well. In 2011, Dion is doing a Diesel Mechanic Apprenticeship.

MEGAN COWLEY

Head of Harington House, Head of Publications portfolio, environmental and academics portfolios. Megan has shone this year with her positive and bubbly personality. She has

helped the new girl girls of St Paul’s feel welcome into the house. She has juggled many commitments like head of house, academics and hockey this year. Megan is very reliable and always ready for any task. In 2011, Megan is going to Auckland University to do a Biomedical Degree.

JEN

CURRIE

Head of International portfolio, Charities and Publications.

Jen is a very reliable prefect and always gets the job done at her best and often goes beyond of what is asked of her. She has maintained a high standard in whatever she does and has been reliable in the house and also throughout the school. In 2011, Jen is going to Wellington to attend Victoria University to complete a three-year BA double major in Psychology and Theatre.

MICHAEL EGGLETON

Head of Clark House, Sport portfolio. In 2010, Michael was a part of the Senior Sport portfolio as well as being the Head of Clark House. Michael was another prefect that found this year to be particularly busy. Michael had a busy programme juggling a successful running season with academics and prefects duties and has proved a hugely successful Head of House, taking Clark to an all time best in

the House Competition. In 2011, Michael is looking at heading to America to take up a four year degree at a prestigious University where he will study Biomedical Engineering and running competitive track.

GLENN EYERS

Head of School House, Environmental portfolio. Glenn was a member of the Environmental Portfolio and was Head of School House. As well as juggling 1st XI Hockey Captaincy, Prefects Duties, House organisation and Cross Country, Glenn has maintained a high level of academics and continues to show why he is one of the strongest leaders in the school. He has excelled in all areas of school and prefect life and has played a monumental role in the success of the 2010 St. Paul’s Prefects. In 2011, Glenn is staying in the Waikato to study a Bachelor of Science at Waikato University.

ALICE FISHER

Head Girl, School Spirit Portfolio.

Alice has led the girls with enthusiasm and gusto as the inaugural Head Girl. She has a cheerful demeanor and fulfilled her many duties with aplomb. In 2011, Alice will be attending Wintec in Hamilton to study for a Bachelor of Nursing.

ASHLEY FRASER

Chapel Prefect, Head of school spirit portfolio. Ashley has really a strong personality, which has helped her with allowing the new girls in the school feel welcome into the St Paul’s community. She is always ready for any tasks and is keen to help anyone who needed help. In 2011, Ashley will being going to Palmerston North to attended Massey University to study Zoology.

JASON HEATHERLEY

Back Row: A. Fraser, J. Currie, S. McCallum, L. Travis

3rd Row: M. Hickmott, D. Hoskins, K. Stewart, N. Taylor, A. Penrose, S. Kaelin, M. Mills

2nd Row: S. Hogg, T. Te Whare, D. Candy, J. Heatherley,

Head of Sargood House, Sport Portfolio. Jason was part of the Senior Portfolio as well as being Head of Sargood House. Jason has proved monumental in both the positive attitude and the determination of Sargood House in 2010. He has supported the Prefect Body well and has a reason to hold his head high. In 2011, Jason will pursue a Degree in Mechanical Engineering at Waikato University whilst continuing to develop his Rugby Career.

Rev C. Luccock (Chaplain), Z. Oliver, G. Beaumont, G. Eyers

Front Row: E. McCallum, S. Henley-Smith (Deputy Head Girl), Mr P. Gilbert, S. Hewat (Head Boy), Mr G. Lander (Headmaster), A. Fisher (Head Girl), Mr C. Luman (Deputy Headmaster), B. Maclachlan (Deputy Head Boy), M. Cowley

STEPHANIE HENLEY-SMITH

Deputy Head Girl and Charities portfolio. Stephanie has been a hard working prefect this year and has always been reliable. Over the year she has worked hard to keep all her commitments. Steph has lead by example by upholding the school values and is a good role model for the girls in the school. In 2011, Stephanie is attending Waikato University and doing a Bachelor of Primary school Teaching.

SAM HEWAT

Head Boy, Publications Portfolio.

Sam was Head Boy for 2010 as well as part of the Publications Portfolio. Sam has led the school by example in so many areas as he has incredible talent in sport [both football and athletics], music and is a very capable academic. In 2011, Sam am hoping to obtain a Scholarship to a school in the United States so that he can further his soccer career whilst still achieving a world class degree.

MATT HICKMOTT

Head of Social, Cultural, International portfolios. Matt was Head of the Social Portfolio and a member of the cultural and international portfolios. Matt has continued to be a creative and vivacious prefect that has contributed hugely to the success of the Cultural and International portfolios. As head of Social Portfolio Matt has organised various junior socials, staff vs. prefect’s sports games and of course the amazingly stunning and successful 2010 St Paul’s Collegiate School Ball. In 2011, Matt is heading to Massey in Wellington where he will be studying a Bachelor of Design.

SAM HOGG

Chapel prefect, Academic & Publications portfolios. Sam was Head of the Academic Portfolio, a member of the Publications Portfolio and a Chapel Prefect. Sam played a major role in the success of the Prefects Publication as well as being a vital part of the Chapel Team and the Chapel Environment. Sam was always willing to do a job needing to be done and was a keen and enthusiastic part of the prefect body. In 2011, Sam is going to Auckland University to do a Bachelor in Law, Computer Science and Economics.

DAVID HOSKINS

Charities, Cultural portfolio.

In 2010, David was the Head of the Charities Portfolio, Deputy Head of School House and a member of the Cultural Portfolio.

David’s contribution to these areas has been priceless and there is no doubt that the 2011 prefects will have a hard time reaching the standard David and his team have set for the Charities Portfolio. David has been a vital part of the prefect body and is always ready with ideas and solutions. In 2011, David is heading to Auckland University to study a Bachelor of Science with Biomedical Science, in the hope that in 2012 he will be accepted into Medical School.

SAM KAELIN

Head of Cultural Portfolio.

Sam was the head of the cultural portfolio. Alongside partaking in Macbeth, Sweeney Todd and the choir’s trip to Hawaii, he has also organized various concerts, variety shows and house competitions. Sam has been a valued member of the prefect committee and has always strived to make sure that culture is instilled in every aspect of school life. In 2011 Sam will take a gap year to England as a Tutor at Oswestry School after which he will return to complete a Bachelor of Law and Arts at Canterbury University.

EMMA MCCALLUM

Head of Harington Boarding and Boarding portfolio.

This year Emma has lead by example in all areas of the school, including sport and academics. She has provided the boarding house with a positive attitude. Emma has been very reliable with her duties over the year and in her portfolio. In 2011, Emma is going to be doing Health Science at University of Auckland or Otago.

SARAH MCCALLUM

Chapel Prefect and Sports portfolio. Sarah has been a diligent and reliable prefect year as she has committed herself to her responsibilities. Sarah has done well juggling her commitment to the school as well as her sporting commitments. She has also lead by example upholding the spiritual values of the school. In 2011, Sarah is going to the University of Hawaii to do Engineering.

BEN MCLACHLAN

Deputy Head of School, Environment Portfolio. Ben was a part of the Environmental Portfolio as well as being our Deputy Head of School. Ben has made huge personal developments in the past year and this has seen him become one of, if not the best, student leader in the school. His ability to not only lead the

school, but his house as well, is a testament to Ben’s ability to inspire all who are around him. In 2011, Ben is heading to Canterbury University to study Engineering.

MARK MILLS

Head of Fitchett House, Social Portfolio. Mark was a part of the Social Portfolio and Head of Fitchett House. Mark was an influential leader in Fitchett house and has continued to develop his many talents throughout the year. In 2011, Mark is attending Waikato University to study a Bachelor in Communications majoring in Marketing and Sociology.

ZACH OLIVER

Head of Williams House, Social portfolio. Zach was a part of the Social Portfolio as well as being the Head of Williams House. Zach has had a very busy year as he realized when he was forced to mix school life, with training camps and competitions with his New Zealand rowing team. Zach has proved a very proud leader of Williams House for 2010 and has served the prefect body to the best of his ability. In 2011, Zach is heading to Auckland University of Technology to study a course in Graphic Design, in his hope that he will later convert to either Product Design or Architecture.

ALEX PENROSE

Cultural portfolio.

Alex joined the Prefect Body in Term Two and instantly made his talents and potential known. Alex continued to show his determination and participation in all areas of school life through sport, academics and culture. The decision to appoint Alex as school prefect in Term Two is something that has proved hugely successful to both the prefect body and the aspects of school life Alex has involved himself in. In 2011, Alex is doing a gap year in South Africa at Bishops Prep School in Cape Town, after which he will return to New Zealand to attend Canterbury University to study Law and Commerce.

KENT STEWART

Chapel Team, Charities, Scholars/Academic Portfolios.

In 2010, Kent was a part of the Charities Portfolio, Scholars/Academic Portfolio and a Chapel Team Leader. Kent showed great leadership in all these areas and his technical expertise will be greatly missed in the Chapel environment. As part of the Charities portfolio, Kent has contributed

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to wide success of Charity in the school this year and has always come up with helpful ideas amongst the prefect body. In 2011, Kent is going to Canterbury University where he will study a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours.

NICK TAYLOR

Head of Hamilton House, Sport Portfolio.

Nick was head of the Junior Sport portfolio and the Head of Hamilton House. Nick juggled a year of 1st XI Hockey, Prefect Duties, Head of House duties and organisation of events, to which he excelled in and became an asset to the prefect committee. Always reliable, Nick made sure that his hand was always up for things to do around the school. In 2011 Nick will either attend Canterbury University to study Engineering, or he will depart to Otago University to study Health Science.

THOMAS TE WHARE

Chapel Prefect, Spirit portfolio.

Thomas was a part of the House Spirit Portfolio as well as being a vibrant Chapel Prefect. Thomas is always helping the Prefect Body and the School in any way he can, through duties, leadership and involvement. He has proved a postivie role model for those younger than him and is an asset to the St. Paul’s Prefect Body for 2010. In 2011, Thomas will do a gap year, working as a Tutor down at Tihoi Venture School.

LUKE TOOMEY

Head of Hall House, Sport portfolio.

Luke was the head of Senior Sport and the Head of Hall House. Luke found himself busy all year with his Golf going to even further heights of success as well as his duty as a Prefect and Head of House. In saying this, Luke handled the task well and managed to balance Golf and leadership.

Valedictory Speech

Author: Alex Penrose

In 2011, Luke is heading to the University of Waikato to undertake a double major in Sport and Leisure and Management Marketing. Luke hopes to earn a scholarship to the United States in 2012 where he can further his career in Golf.

LUCY TRAVIS

Head of Environmental Portfolio, Deputy Head of Harington, Boarding and Social Portfolio. Lucy has worked very hard this year and has kept with her commitments as a prefect. Her friendly and approachable personality made it easy for the new girls of the school to feel welcomed to the boarding house. She has helped organise social events around the school for students, which have been enjoyed by all. In 2011, Lucy will be attending Otago University to do a Bachelor of Law.

By definition valedictory means a bidding farewell, while this speech is a farewell to this school and such words as Yim, skinny and Ladell, which Patrick Glidden seems to enjoy shouting at the top of his voice, this speech is not an absolute farewell as we will still have the memories that we have shared at this school over the past 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 and much longer in the case of Jonny Mason. These memories will linger in the back of our minds

for many more years to come. I have no doubt we will all be sharing them with each other at the 75 year anniversary and many more years to come.

It is simply impossible for us to forget the memories we have all shared at this school that has been at the heart of our lives for the majority of our teenage years. I know that many of you will be asking yourselves why he is calling this place special, well it is for a few simple reasons this school has shaped you into who you are today and who you will be in the future. There is no doubt in my mind that many of us sitting here today have had enough of this place, we want to escape, we have had enough of detentions, headmasters runs, spotless lunches, assemblies that seem to run over 20 minutes, the list goes on. But for one moment just try to remember those special memories you have shared at this school.

I hope that today through this bidding farewell that I can bring those memories back to life. I understand that it is impossible for me to recall all your memories, I have not had the experience of a Sargood shower nor do I want to. But I am sure that the memories I share with you today are very similar to the ones that you have all experienced at this special school.

When I was first told that I would be doing the valedictory speech, if I am perfectly honest with myself I had little or no idea what it meant, so I consulted the dictionary to find the definition.

Alex Penrose

“ . . . well it is for a few simple reasons this school has shaped you into who you are today and who you will be in the future . . . “

For many of us sitting here today our time at this special place began in 2006, I did not join this school until term four of 2006 so I cannot tell you what it was like to be a bait on the first day of the year. But I can share with you my first day at school, up until about Year. 12 I had thought that my first day had gone rather well, until I was told by Josh Lensen that, Michael Aitken had texted him in roll call saying that there was a new fat high balled English guy in the house, as you can tell nothing much has changed. That’s another great thing about this school I have been able to be that fat English guy from yr9 to yr 13 and no one has seemed to have any problems with it.

From Year 9 we moved onto Yr 10, for some of us we went off to Tihoi for others of us we remained at the St. Pauls campus where we pretty much did nothing. If year 9 was to be the year of learning about the school and its traditions, year 10 and Tihoi would be the year where we would learn about ourselves. Tihoi is called the “Jewel in the crown” I believe that for a long time to come it will be the jewel in our lives. We changed on the outside developed a sun tan, grew our hair, lost weight, but we changed on the inside the most. Out of all the experience at St. Pauls Tihoi has probably shaped us the most. We went from being immature yr 9’s to a little less immature yr 11’s. However whilst our maturity had necessarily not developed hugely, we had discovered ourselves we had learnt what annoyed us, what made us tick, and how to develop new friendships. Tihoi helped to mold many of us into the people we are today. Tihoi is the key part if not the most important part of what St. Paul’s it’s holistic education

Yr. 11 came around and we returned to our normal course of life we had stopped making our beds, very rarely did any cooking or cleaning and our parents where probably wondering at this point what they had spent $20000 on. We had now started to discover our new best friend NCEA which of course we all spent hours studying for.Year 11 was probably when we were at our cockiest we thought that we ruled the school we were the coolest things out and nothing could stop us. It is only now looking back at year 11 and looking at the current year 11’s that I realize how wrong we were.

Yr12 and 2009 came around rather quickly, once again we were reunited with our friend NCEA and our rather new friends ‘the ladies’

for some of us such as Lance Wolfe this meant major distractions while for others of us such as David Thomas we were still glued to the front cover of our economics books. 2009 also signaled the 50 year jubilee, However we went from the highs of the 50 year jubilee, to the very lowest point with the tragic death of Mr. Van, however as Mr. Luman said last year this tragic event united our school into what can only be described as a close knit family. 2009 also signaled the departure of Mr. Fenton and the famous Darth Vader walk would no longer be seen at assemblies and chapels.

As we moved into Year 13 change was and is occurring we have a new headmaster, new rules and of course our favorite the headmasters run and whilst the Darth Vader walk had disappeared we have now learnt that assemblies can consistently run over time by around 20 minutes. At the begging of the Year we believed Year 13 would mean free study periods and array of privileges. However the large majority of this turned out to be some what of an urban myth. However Year 13 for me has probably been the year were I as a person have learnt the most, at the begging of the year I was just your normal St.Pauls student no prefects tie, but now I stand in front of you all Valedictorian and a School Prefect. I realized that in life when you are knocked down you must start again and never give up. I really wanted to have that prefects badge sitting proudly on my blazer and after grit and determination I have achieved it and if you put your mind to something so can you. So whenever you are in a situation when you have been knocked down don’t give up, pick yourself back up and carry on trying, life will be full of obstacles and the best way to tackle them is head on.

We must remember and value the fact that this school is a special place there are not many like it is a place were the rugby jocks are made to sing in front of the school at House Singing and where those of us who

prefer culture are made to throw a rugby ball around at House Rugby. This is a school were academic success is not frowned upon it is embraced and encouraged and the teachers actually want us to achieve. However this would not be the case if it wasn’t for a few special people yes of course I am talking about the teachers, thanks to you all, without you we and this school would be nothing. To my teachers Miss Don thanks for the motherly love, Mr. Holmes two periods in a row has been well…..interesting, Mrs. Hastie sorry I wasn’t very good at Stats but all your help has been greatly appreciated and finally Mr. Williams or Defyd as you are better known, history just wouldn’t be the same without you thanks for all your help outside the classroom as well as inside and yes the pen has risen from the desk.

There’s also some other people we have to thank our parents, they sacrifice a lot for us to come here and don’t necessarily get the thanks. Thanks Mum and Dad for what you have done for me over these past 17 years. We must remember that behind all the funny stories and events which have occurred at this special place each year has taught us something special, we have learnt new things, made new friends, experienced new cultures such as a choir trip to Hawaii or history trips to Waitangi. And it is these experiences that have given us all that St. Paul’s Holistic education which has shaped us into what are fine young men and women and the leaders of the future. However it is how we use this education that will truly shape who we are in the future, we have been given an opportunity now we must embrace it Finally I would like to remind you all of something right now everyone of us is on an equal playing field, however once we move out into the big wide world, some of us will have great success and some of us will fail. However it is up to us to make our own future decisions. But let the lessons you have learnt at this very special place aid you on whatever path you take. Don’t neglect this school as a fragment of the past embrace the fact that you have been here never forget what you have learnt, be proud to State In Fide and finally be proud and thankful to be a St. Paul’s boy or girl.

Thank you and God Bless.

“ . . . let the lessons you have learnt at this very special place aid you on whatever path you take . . . “

Head Boy Speech 2010

Author: Sam Hewat

A poem, which many of the students here today will have studied, seems to encapsculate not only St. Paul’s, but life as a whole. It is poem that I feel one, whether an adult or a child, can understand and relate to in so many ways. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, is a lesson that, for many, may seem irrelevant or inapplicable to their current lifestyle, but in time, they will see the importance of the statements contained in such a powerful piece of literature. It goes like this:

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. There are times in our lives when we come to a fork in the road. A time when the right choice matters. But all the decisions we make shape who we are as a person. When we make a choice, we cannot go back, or travel the road we wished we could go back on. We must walk forward on a path that only WE can create. No decision is instant. The big decisions require our thoughts and our emotions, and the guidance of God’s Spirit, and never will the decision be easy. Never in your life will you be faced with

a decision and not also be faced with the option of taking an easier road. But the shaping of true character comes when one takes the road less travelled. No school is better at offering different roads than St Paul’s. Five years here is long enough to know that St. Paul’s offers so many more paths than any other schooling environment in New Zealand. I hope that all of us here today realise this. So many times at St Paul’s we would or will face paths that make us stand long, thinking hard about which one to take. But the truth is, every decision shapes us and what better way to shape your character than through opportunity and seizing its rewards. Many of us will look back on the year or years past and see the road we have travelled, either regretting a few steps or turns, or wanting to change our path completely. This is inevitable and comes with the learning of life. But realising a missed opportunity, furthers your passion to grasp the next one. This school isn’t an environment where after you fail once or miss out on a chance once, you have no hope left. You will be shown new doors that will perhaps reveal an even better path than the one you had thought was best. Regardless of whether or not you finished St Paul’s as the Dux, Sportsman of the Year, Cultural Captain, Head of House, Best boy at Tihoi or the naughtiest kid in your year, each fresh beginning offers a new path and a chance to change the one of old. Whilst we are at the end of a year, the one which you leavers in particular will be remembered for, the year ahead presents a chance to change. Whether you are Year 9, 10, 11, 12, your next year at St Paul’s is a further step along the path of creating the best possible future for yourself as a person. For the younger school, I speak out of experience when I say that you must

utilise the hard working and persistent staff at this school. Whilst they can go on a few Detention sprees from time to time, I guarantee you will never find a more committed group of individuals. They are dedicated to making you the best you can be and not only this, but the facilities that people have put in place for you are beyond description. Embrace every aspect of this school, and you will see your path grow steadily into the future.

To the leavers for 2010, all I can say is this, look back on your path through St Paul’s and look at every twist and turn it has taken. You may see a path that you are proud of, you may see a path that you are anything but proud of, but the end of your time at St Paul’s presents the end of one path. You now have the ability to create a new path, one that will lead you wherever you need to go.

So, in my final address as your Headboy for 2010, on behalf of all the leavers we would like to thank you all for supporting not only us, but this school. We thank our teachers, our friends and the people who have tested us for helping shape who we are today. We would also like to thank our parents, who above any one else, have poured the most time, effort and of course money into our education. Without them, there is no car for driving to school, but most importantly, without them there is no support.

So to all of you here today, leavers, students, staff, parents and guests, embrace every opportunity this world has to offer. And I would like to finish with a quote that I think sums up this speech fittingly. “Do not go where the path may lead...............go instead where there is no path............and leave a trail”.

Kia Kaha

And thank you.

I suppose it is hard to sum up an experience of five years, into one small speech. An experience is different for everyone. The decisions we make shape only ourselves as a person and only we can be accountable for our own mistakes.

Sam Hewat

Head Girl Speech 2010

Author: Alice Fisher

Welcome to staff, students, parents grandparents, Mr Lander and Mr Morgan and special guests to the 2010 final prize giving.

created for ourselves. When I look back, I realise that what matters most is what we have learnt during our time at St Paul’s rather the amount of time we have spent here.

St Paul’s creates plenty of opportunities for students to achieve their goals. It is up to us to take up these chances that we have been given because we may not get these opportunities again in life. Our committed and dedicated teachers push us to reach our highest potential and take time out their busy schedules to help us as much as they can.

Firstly, I would like to congratulate Mr Lander for finishing his first year at St Paul’s collegiate. For the Year 13’s this is our final day of high school, now we leave to begin the next important stage of our education and also to get a taste of the big wide world. As this happens, it closes one of the most important chapters in our lives. We leave with positive memories, friends and the potential to go far in life.

A wise man once said: “The greatest journeys in life begin with small steps”. Our journey of a lifetime began with one small step when we stepped through the gates of St Paul’s.

We have been truly blessed and privileged to attend such an outstanding school with plenty of opportunities to learn and push ourselves to the max. This has helped us to become independent young adults who have grown from these experiences, like Tihoi. We have been encouraged to believe that we can achieve whatever we set our minds to.

Our time at school is limited and we only have once chance to make something worthwhile from this opportunity. So at the end of our journey here at St Paul’s, we are left to analyse what successes we have

When I look back on my years, I see I have associated with students who have become friends for life, I see committed and dedicated staff who give us 100% of their time and experience and I see Old Collegians who keep coming back because they are proud to be part of the St Paul’s family.

Over the two years I have been at St Paul’s I have learnt from my experiences and these have shaped me into who I am today.

St Paul’s teaches you to create, imagine, inspire and mostly always to be yourself and follow your dreams.

To school prefects and house prefects without your support, this year would not have been half as successful as it was and for that I am enormously grateful. You guys are the ones who have made the year and house activities run smoothly and I thank you for that. I would like to acknowledge the support I have received from Sam, Steph and Ben throughout the year and especially to you Steph because I have appreciated your on going support.

To the continuing students of St Paul’s Colligate do not take for granted what you have here at this school. Take up all opportunities that the staff give you and take part in everything that is on offer whether it be sporting, cultural activities or academic. This school has the most amazing resources and staff. I challenge all of you to take part in the St Paul’s experience before your time runs out. One day, when you’re old I want everyone to all look back to your St Paul’s experience with no regrets. I also wish you all the best for next year. As I address you for the last time as head girl St Paul’s leavers of 2010 I wish you all the best for you future endeavours. I hope that you have enjoyed your St Paul’s experience and taken up all the opportunities that have been given. As rev said last night “We came here today as St Paul’s students and we are leaving as old collagens.”

Stand firm in the faith.

Alice Fisher

Alice Fisher giving her speech

“ . . . A wise man once said: “The greatest journeys in life begin with small steps”. Our journey of a lifetime began with one small step when we stepped through the gates of St Paul’s. . . . “

Chairman Speech 2010

Author: Philip Morgan QC

Honoured guests, staff of St Paul’s Collegiate School, parents and caregivers, pupils both past, present and future.

Welcome to the annual prize giving of St Paul’s Collegiate School.

One of the pleasures of being the Chairman of the Board of Trustees is the opportunity to address you all to tell you a little of the Board’s plans for the future of the school, to reflect on what has occurred over the past year, to wish departing students the best for their futures and to mark with appropriate thanks the people who have made special contributions to the school in the past year.

Like any such speech at this time of the year it is not possible to refer to everyone or to each momentous event. What I am endeavouring to give you is words of gratitude and words of hope as you would expect from a Christian school like St Paul’s.

THE NEW HEADMASTER

At this time last year I spoke when we had had a tumultuous year.The tragic death of Mr Van Niekirk and the resignation of the then Headmaster, Mr Fenton left things in a state of flux in the middle of the year.

Shortly into the commencement of the fourth term the Board was able to announce with much pleasure that the highly regarded Rector of Lindisfarne College in Hastings had accepted the position of Headmaster at this school. When I spoke last year it was with a sense of anticipation and expectation.

I suspect all of you have in some way been

touched or affected in some way by the arrival of Mr Grant Lander. His influence in one year has been truly extraordinary.

The change he was brought in the culture of the school, the sense of development of work ethic, of pride and comradeship has been remarkable.

I know to some of you that all he has done is not necessarily popular. Some have found change unsettling. Some have found the pace of change too quick.

Others have found new innovations disquieting and discomforting.

All reservations are understandable but I detect a huge level of approval for what Mr Lander has been able to achieve and to those of you who have experienced those reservations I say that none of the changes and none of the innovations have been introduced hastily. Mr Lander is a man of vision. But when he has a vision he takes care to consult and that is why I think that there is such a large degree of acceptance and approbation for all that he has done in the past year. I want to thank him now and publically for how extraordinarily hard he has worked this year. It has not gone un-noticed how hard he has worked and indeed many close to him have told me that he works too hard.

It is fair to say that he is not an easy man to slow down as many of you know and I am hopeful he will work at that particular skill in the new year but we can all say that we admire tremendously what he has been able to achieve.

FUTURE

The Board has consciously endeavoured to keep its attention firmly focused on the long term future of the school. It is a very complex organization. With such a complex organization those in charge of its governance have always got to be mindful of the need not to reflect on past glories or present success, but instead to see all that in perspective and ensure that

Philip Morgan QC - Board Chairman

the school is working steadily with an eye on the future so that what it has been able to achieve with its students in the past including those students who are leaving today, it will be able to continue and improve in five years and ten years and twenty years time. We need to recognise that the world in twenty years is going to be unrecognizable in exactly the same way as Boards of Governors of St Paul’s Collegiate School in 1990 would look at where we are now and say, it is very different but not unrecognizable, and true to the objects of the Trust Deed to provide a Christian education to the young people of New Zealand. I thought I would just briefly give you an idea of issues we need to address.

1. We still need to work on the area of curriculum to ensure its delivery prepares our students for the challenges ahead.

2. We need to invest money in the field of ICT.

3. The school needs capital development to keep it the sort of place that parents of young people want to send their children. We have taken some steps this year. Noteworthy has been the Headmaster’s commitment to boarding facilities.There has been a development in Clark House that we see as a template for all future boarding.That has recently been finished and we consider it to be very impressive and something to build on in the future. Ideally we would like to see that replicated throughout the boarding facilities in the entire school over the next few years, although there will be variations depending on the year groups.

We have done some work in the management centre. It was long overdue. With the retirement of Mr John Oehley to which I shall refer later we have engaged two assistant principals and we needed to house them and we needed to provide better facilities for those supporting the Headmaster.

We have embarked upon the development of the Old Collegians Pavilion. One of the

“ . . . It is just as much a success to be a good mother, to be a good father, to be a good husband, good Christian, to be a good employer, to be a good employee, to be a good friend . . . “

facilities that the school has desperately needed is some basic things as toilet facilities for this Chapel and changing facilities for the hockey turf and the rugby and cricket fields. The development of the old Pavilion is already under way and the Board hopes that it will receive community support, particularly from Old Collegians to see that built with a nominal cost to the school. Already some extraordinarily generous organizations and individuals have contributed substantially and the fundraising for that project is well on track. I would like to speak specifically of the Perry Group, the Bank of New Zealand and Craig’s Investment Partners who have been so generous and far sighted in assisting with donation and sponsorship.

What of the future? I speak of these in no particular order because priority is some of the decision making that will be required in 2011 but we need to spend money on ICT. Earlier this year I attended an Independent Secondary Schools Conference where one of the speakers gave a disarmingly frank assessment of the future by effectively telling the assembled audience that it did not really matter what we spent on ICT today the next day most of our students would be coming to school with devices more powerful than anything we had just spent millions of dollars installing in their pockets in the form of their iPhones. What is best, what does the future hold for us, we do not know but 2011 will see us make decisions. On the building field we want to continue our development of boarding. We want to build an addition to the music block.The dining hall needs expansion. It is too small.You might be interested to know that I attended St Paul’s in 1968 and ate in the dining room and to my eye nothing has changed between 1968 and today. I can go to that dining hall and to me it seems that nothing has changed in the intervening 42 years. 42 years for a dining hall is a very long time.

That is only some of the matters that we need to address. We are likely to need a new classroom block, we need to house our staff in appropriate and comfortable accommodation so the demands on a modest budget are constant.

Enough about future plans.

DEPARTING STUDENTS

As I did last year I would like to say something to departing students. When I became Chair and had the task of preparing the first speech of this kind I quite deliberately did not look at past Chairman’s speeches. I thought I would

develop my own and one constant topic will be to address departing students.

I do so because I am always very conscious that they have had the good fortune to have attended this school, largely because of the sacrifice of their parents.Their parents have worked hard, spent a lot of money and watched as their respective children have passed through St Paul’s year by year and supporting them. All of you owe a debt of gratitude to your parents or those who are funding you because I am very conscious that in many cases people are funded here by significant others, such as grandparents, aunts and uncles and the like.

Last Saturday I had the good fortune to be able to attend the prize giving at Tihoi for the Year 10s.That is those boys who had completed Tihoi intake 2010/2. As is the tradition several of the boys spoke about their reflections on their time at Tihoi. One of the most moving was a young man who spoke of the gratitude he had and the respect he had for his parents to have sent him to St Paul’s and thus to Tihoi and the way he felt that an award he had received was perhaps some small measure of thanks for what they had sacrificed for him to have had the privilege of attending Tihoi. What I wanted to say to the leavers is that that gratitude, that respect, shown to those who have given you the good fortune of being here is really something that you can show by what you do now, now that you have left St Paul’s.Tihoi is just two terms. The girls do not really experience that at all, but you have all I think, realised that your future in the world has just been made that much better, easier, more likely to be successful for you because you have attended this school and that is something for which you owe a debt of gratitude. It does not really matter what you do, I don’t speak of purely academic success for example, I speak of just success. It is just as much a success to be a good mother, to be a good father, to be a good husband, good Christian, to be a good employer, to be a good

employee, to be a good friend and all of those things you have learned to be at this school and the best way of repaying those who have sacrificed so that you could attend here is to make them proud of how you get on in the future in any of those endeavours.

I want to conclude by marking as I must the thanks that are necessary to those who have been so important to the success of the school in the last year. I have already mentioned Mr Lander. I now want to thank the staff and I speak of you all. I think if you will recall my speech last year I said then that one of the things that I had been told by Mr Lander that had attracted him to this school was the quality of the staff, he really saw something he would enjoy doing leading a staff like you. I was very interested to hear him tell me relatively early on this year what fine teachers you were.There were many aspects of the school that Mr Lander has been impressed with and equally there were many aspects of the school he has not been impressed with and is intending to improve. But one of the things he told me he was so very impressed with was the quality of the teachers.Yet again at the end of another year I know you have worked extraordinarily hard.You have taught in your classes, you have coached, you have provided pastoral care, you have spent extra time on extracurricular activities, you have gone back to your classes after teaching hours or even before teaching hours to provide extra tuition, you have unfailingly endeavoured to ensure that each pupil at St Paul’s Collegiate School is constantly working to achieve their goals and for that I thank you.

I want to speak now of the Board. For those of you who do not know St Paul’s Collegiate School is administered by a Charitable Trust. 51 years ago now a group of men with extraordinary foresight decided that it would be their goal to establish an independent secondary school in Hamilton called St Paul’s Collegiate School and so they set up a charitable trust to do it. It is still a charitable trust, the Board operates under the same Deed with the same objects, it is a not for profit organization and if you have a Trust which is a not for profit organization you have got to have a Board of Trustees.The Board of Trustees in St Paul’s case are all volunteers. They give of their time and their expertise to ensure that the school runs well, it has the right people managing it, it remains solvent and it remains producing fine young men and women.The Board consists of the Deputy Chair Mr Greg Thompson who is a lawyer

“ . . . the best way of repaying those who have sacrificed so that you could attend here is to make them proud of how you get on in the future in any of those endeavours . . . “

Chairman Speech 2010 CONT

in Auckland and he makes an enormous contribution in the form of his time and expertise.The Board has a Finance Committee which is chaired by Mr David Gasquoine and with him is Mr Richard Ludbrook and that Committee works very hard to ensure the Board’s financial affairs are conducted prudently and efficiently. Other members of the Board are Mrs Sally Wootton who runs Great Oaks Trading, Lyn Harris who many of you will know through the Parents Association and who has worked extraordinarily hard in the area of scholarships.These women work extraordinarily hard for the Board. We have Dr Kevin Morris from the University of Auckland to assist us make the right educational choices for our students.The Reverend Andrew Hedge who assists us maintain that constant thread of the Christian faith running through what we do and Murray Gutry brings his experienced businessman’s acumen and has contributed hugely to senior appointments. I thank you for your help.

I want to finish by drawing your attention to the fact that there is somebody very special

who is retiring.This is a person who has been at the forefront of academic rigor at St Paul’s namely Mr John Oehley. Mr Oehley came to the school in 1984, primarily to teach mathematics. His specialty in the mathematics curriculum is calculus. He became an Acting Housemaster of Hamilton House and was then the Housemaster of Clark House. In 1999 he was appointed to the position of Assistant Principal a position he has had ever since, some eleven years. He has seen to the task of timetabling ever since. He helped the school implement NCEA and he was the Principal’s nominee to the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, he was largely responsible for the development of the very successful Year 13 scholarship programme. Whenever you hear or read about the success academically of students at St Paul’s over the last ten years, you can be certain that Mr Oehley has had a hand in that because of his insistence upon academic rigor. Quite apart from that he has had three sons who have attended the school Michael, Nicholas and Stephen and it is a reflection of the man that those three young

Headmaster’s Speech 2010

Author: Grant Lander

Board Chairman, Mr Philip Morgan; Board members; Mr David Bennett, Member of Parliament; Bishop David Moxon, Archbishop of the New Zealand Dioceses; Mr Royce Helm, Headmaster of our Hamilton brother school; guests, friends and students of the School, it is my great privilege to present the 51st Headmaster’s report for St Paul’s Collegiate School.

The year has gone quickly and has been full of challenges and highlights. Many of those high points have occurred in this special place – the Chapel of Christ the King. Upon reflecting on what makes St Paul’s different from other schools, our website makes reference to the personalised education (the size of the School being small enough to allow each student to be known personally); achieving ‘Personal Bests’ in the classroom (St Paul’s prides itself on pursuing excellence in the classroom);

the holistic approach to the development of young people (a belief that youth learn as much about life through activities outside the classroom); our unique structure (best for boys in the junior school and a co-educational senior school); and growth through adventure

(the experiences that our Tihoi Venture School provides are certainly unique in a New Zealand sense and for many may prove to be life-changing and a defining moment in their personal development). But ultimately, what

men were very successful students at St Paul’s and are now very successful members of the community.

I wanted to say to you all that this school has been blessed by having had John Oehley as a loyal, able and hard working teacher of his stature. All of that can be tempered by the fact that his link with St Paul’s is not to be severed. He has undertaken a study of careers counselling. It is an area in which he has an interest and of course tremendous knowledge and he is going to be largely responsible for careers counselling at St Paul’s in the future. Even so, this is a momentous occasion because a man who has been of such enormous value to the school has come to the end of his full time working life here and I am using this speech to mark the gratitude of all who have had the good fortune to have been students of this school under his careful academic eye. I hope you all have a Merry Christmas. I hope you all have a relaxing holiday. I hope you all have a prosperous New Year. I hope you all have a successful New Year.

defines us as a community is that our Christian Dimension underpins daily life, our relationships and our expectations at St Paul’s.

Most schools aspire to nurture the development of the “whole” young person. They want to produce students that are able to think critically about academic and intellectual issues, but also on ethical spiritual dimensions such as abortion, genetic engineering, sex-before-marriage, as well as the societal challenges of the seemingly widespread

Grant Lander - Headmaster

use of illegal substances and ecological importance of sustainable practices. Citizenship involves acquiring the knowledge, values and skills to be a responsible member of our community. In many respects, schools are expected and often are required, to add more than a character veneer – they need to affect a personal transformation if many of their young people are to be successful citizens. The question we must ask then is whether this is a fair or reasonable expectation and what do we need to do to adequately try and address this expectation.

As a School, we are competing against an enormously well-funded, commercially driven influenced model that is sending out messages such as that provide by Nike – “JUST DO IT”. This particular message to me, typifies the stance that society encourages young people to adopt at present – “Don’t worry about others – if it is right for you, just do it.”

We see it in families today, where parents place their own personal enjoyment/pleasure over the needs of their teenagers. Rather than doing things together as a family, such as shared weekend activities, eating dinner at the table or being prepared to make hard decisions over where our children are going to be on Saturday night, we as adults often opt for things which give us personal enjoyment or avoid conflict or confrontation. Many of us focus too much on our jobs and careers and hence are not available or even at home when the real work needs to be done with our teenagers. I remember Bruce Murray, a well-known ex New Zealand cricketer and past Principal of Tawa College saying that he had surveyed a group of students in his School on firstly the importance of Good Friday and Easter; asked them to list the Ten Commandments; to explain the story of the Good Samaritans; and name the two parts of the Bible. In the second part of his survey they had to comment about the key value of honesty.

• Should politicians always tell the truth?

• Should teachers always tell the truth?

• Are you always truthful?

• When are you not truthful?

In the final part, the students were given a number of ethical scenarios and asked how they would respond.

• What would you do if you found a $50 note in the School grounds?

• What would you do if you saw someone you know shoplifting?

• What would you do if your best mate had ‘P’ in their school bag?

In Term Three, I did a similar survey with a couple of classes to see what responses they would give.The results proved very enlightening and in many respects heartening. Fortunately for our Religious Education programme, the older the students, the more they knew about Christian teaching. But the level of knowledge of younger students shows that we are to a large degree losing our institutional collective memory in this area – because it isn’t being taught, reinforced or experienced in their homes or in society in general.

What then should be our response as a St Paul’s community? How does a school deal with the tenets of Christianity, Love, Compassion and Justice in an effective and consistent manner? Especially given that it goes against the tide of the messages given out by society on the television, internet and at times in the home.The answer is by our actions; the way we treat students and other staff; the positive reinforcement we provide for our students; the messages we give within our School about what is important. In simple terms, what young people need from us as a society are “Harbours”, “Hospitals” and “Hilltops”.

“HARBOURS” – these are the safe havens to retreat to, safe anchorages to flee to. We need families and a School where our people are nurtured, loved, respected and cared about. Departure points from which teenagers can get a sense of destination when setting out for more distant harbours.The distance between different harbours provides our youth with the challenges and journey they in turn, take on in life.

“HOSPITALS” – this is where we care for the youth on their journey. Where their wounds can be honestly and realistically diagnosed. Individuals and institutions need jointly to make a contribution here.

“HILLTOPS” – we have all climbed many hills and first hand seen the trig stations at the top. These trig stations are the reference points – the standards that can be achieved.The standards that we give to our young people need to be those that have passed the test of time.They aren’t just those that are in current vogue – like the “Nike” slogan.They are those that are worth living and dying for.The hilltops or reference points we give our young people help guide them to their vision and goals. Perhaps the Nike slogan would be more acceptable if we changed it so that it read, “Just do it, but together”. In society today we have forgotten that our young people cannot do

it alone – they need our help and guidance. As a School, the implication of this makes our Christian Dimension all the more important. If we can help provide the harbours, hospitals and hilltops, then we should get below the character veneer and have a long-lasting impact on many of the lives in this Chapel. If we continue to short-cut many of our tried and true standards, then the value and the quality of life for many in this room will lack the depth, rewards and the real meaning it has the potential to offer all of us.

CHRISTIAN DIMENSION

It is with this key message in mind, that we evaluate the achievements, successes and performance of the 2011 year, by firstly reporting on the state of the Christian cornerstone at St Paul’s. If the quality and thought put into student input for weekday and Sunday evening worship is anything to go by, the spiritual dimension of our School is in great heart. I have been impressed by the prayers and sermons delivered in these services, finding them genuine, relevant and thought-provoking.

Reverend Craig Luccock has very effectively and successfully led this key aspect of St Paul’s. Proving a down-to-earth, sincere and empathetic source of support for students, staff and families. Mufti days and House charity activities have seen students and staff ‘give’ and support those less fortunate than ourselves, but one of the most tangible indicators of the health of the Christian Dimension was the outstanding success of Project Samoa, to build a Fale for Edmund and Sina Taufua who lost their three children and their business as a result of a devastating Tsunami.The whole of the St Paul’s and wider community got behind the project, raising an amazing $65,000 and everything from a shipping container to the materials and tools for the Year 13 Construction class to build the Fale. Mr Heta Smith is to be congratulated and thanked for the huge amount of time, effort and thought he put into this inspirational charitable activity.

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

To the general public and to the St Paul’s families making a huge financial and emotional commitment, the most important indicator of a School’s success is its academic performance. Small class sizes, committed and dedicated teachers, motivated and compliant pupils, and the opportunity of extra help and tuition are reasons why our students continue to excel in the national arena.

Twelve of our Year 13 students gained subject scholarships early this year (i.e. 18 Scholarships in total), with Hayden Gutry (four Scholarships, including one outstanding), John Scott-Jones (three Scholarships) and Jennifer Jin (two Scholarships) being our best performers. While 87% of our seniors achieved tertiary entry (22% above the national average) and 77% their NCEA Level 3 certificate (25% above the national average). Jennifer Jin (Chemistry), Jonathan Pullon (Calculus) Bryony Wilson (Physical Education) gained perfect GPA’s of 100%.

In Year 12, Matt Hickmott (Art Painting and Art Photography), Sam Hewat (Physical Education) and Sam Hogg (Level 3, Computer Studies) gained Excellence grades in all of their subject Achievement Standards, with Sam Hogg and Kent Stewart topping their year group. While the same percentage, 87% gained their NCEA Level 2 certificate (21% above the national average).

In Year 11 we trialled IGSCE Cambridge in Mathematics and English (which ultimately impacted on our percentage results for the Level One NCEA certificate), we gained outstanding results with 46% in Mathematics and 20% in English, gaining an ‘A’ grades (i.e. 80%) and St Paul’s being awarded a Top Centre award for a CIE centre whose students results were ranked in the top five in the country. 100% grade point averages in NCEA Accounting and Geography went to Jason Coventry and in Accounting, Lachlan Cooper, with Jason being our top scholar in his year group.

This year, 2009 Head Prefect, John ScottJones was awarded a prestigious Robertson Scholarship and will have his undergraduate fees paid to study at the Ivy League University, Duke in North Carolina.

Sam Hogg was the recipient of a Ministry of Veteran’s Affairs trip to the ANZAC Day commemorations in Gallipoli and went on to secure a prestigious Auckland University Scholarship. Other tertiary scholarships were gained by Nathan Wright (Auckland University Jubilee Award); Glenn Eyers, Rosanna Paine and Alice Fisher (all David Johnstone Charitable Trust Scholarships); Mitchell Gardiner (Lincoln University Sports Scholarship); Rebecca Atkinson (Netball Scholarship to attend Lincoln University; Matthew Hickmott (Gaba Tertiary Scholarship); David Thomas (University of Canterbury Science Scholarship); and Kent Stewart (University of Canterbury Emerging Leaders Scholarship).

Year 12 student, Chang Zhai, in gaining his High Distinction award for being a top 1% of candidates in the ICAS Science examination was awarded a medal for being one of the top candidates in the country. While in the National Bank Mathematics competition, Sheng Cao also gained High Distinction and a special award for being in the top 30 candidates in New Zealand.

Based on the intrinsic motivation of food and public recognition, the new initiative of ‘Good Report Morning Teas’ has provided us with an opportunity of recognising outstanding application and effort at regular points throughout the year.

SPORTING ENDEAVOURS

2010 was very memorable with success in a wide range of activities from Equestrian and Multisport through to the more traditional codes of Rowing, Football and Hockey. In Athletics, our students gained four titles, five silvers and two third places in the NISS event. While Triathletes, Duathletes, our Equestrian team, U14 and 1st XV rugby sides, 1st XI girls’ Football team all won their respective provincial titles. Our 1st XI boys’ Football side, courtesy of their 17th place in the National Tournament were ranked the top senior secondary Soccer side in the Waikato, with the 1st XI boys’ Hockey ranked 22nd best side in the nation. While on the national stage, our U16 four gained a silver medal at the Maadi Cup regatta and our U18 four a bronze in the prestigious Springbok Shield. Our senior Triathletes and senior Chess team gained silver in their respective national championships while our Clay Target shooting team gained silver in the NISS Champs.

A huge number of students represented their country this year; Cameron French and Michael Eggleton (Athletics), Lauren Jakes (Cheerleading), Sven Pedersen (Windsurfing), Evan Wilson (Swimming), John Penyas and Stefan Krystman (Football), Luke Toomey (Golf), Louis Cronin (Skiing), Brandon O’Mallan and Josh Randall (Rugby), Alex Mason and Zac Oliver (Rowing),Thomas Moser (Cycling),

Jason Heatherley and Ludwig Hope (Australian Football), Aaron Keppler (Basketball), Kurt Heatherley (Basketball, Australian Football and Rugby).

CULTURAL PARTICIPATION

The cultural cornerstone of the School continues to grow from strength to strength. This year we put on two high quality productions – Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ and the ambitious musical, ‘Sweeney Todd’, providing us with a fantastic platform to showcase the outstanding acting and singing talent we have at St Paul’s. Both shows proved resounding successes, with the feedback on the musical extremely effusive about how the cast and production crew mastered the complexity of the music script, props and costumes. Choral music and singing in particular is in great heart currently at St Paul’s, the benefit of a wonderful trip to Hawaii were evident in a string of ambitious concerts including the ‘School Review’, ‘Musical Extravaganza’, and House Music Festival.

Individual highlights included Amy Zhang’s chamber music group’s selection for the prestigious national finals; Sam Kaelin’s selection and top six placing in the National Lions Youth Speechmaker competition and Harriet-Anne Embling’s selection as a junior associate for the New Zealand Royal Ballet Company.

Outstanding co-curricular success, as outlined in this report, is not possible without committed, enthusiastic and energetic staff and parental input. We are indeed fortunate to have teachers who are so dedicated and passionate about assisting as coaches, managers, conductors, directors and mentors of our sons and daughters.This same energetic involvement is not replicated in many of the nation’s schools and adds an extra dimension to the relationship fostered between our students and the staff of St Paul’s.

TIHOI

There is little doubt why Tihoi is seen as the ‘Jewel in the St Paul’s Crown’, you only need to visit and spend a night at the place to see the potential impact that the venture campus can have on young people privileged enough to spend time there.

An expanded five-day girls’ orientation camp was followed in October with a three-day Year 12 Senior Leadership Programme, as well as the normal life-changing opportunity for students involved in the Year 10 2010/1 and 2010/2 intakes.

“ . . . We need families and a School where our people are nurtured, loved, respected and cared about. “

Under the enthusiastic and capable leadership of Mr Chris Wynn and Mrs Cyn Smith, supported by an experienced, able and empathetic group of teachers and outdoor education instructors,Tihoi has “thrived” this year. We introduced an Outdoor Pizza Oven in 2010 and are looking at an introductory, yearlong, residential ‘Leadership in the Outdoors’ programme for Year 13 students in 2012.

We are thankful that so many of our students have been able to experience personal growth through self-discovery in such a wonderful, yet demanding, setting. But more importantly that they have all returned safely from their wide range of physical and mental challenges.

It was great to be able to mark 30 years of this very special programme with Old Collegians, past and present staff/Directors. The venture campus has gone through hugely positive physical development over the past three decades, but ultimately the underlying philosophy remains the same – one of personal challenge through adventure.

Old Collegians and the St Paul’s Community

This year was one with many firsts for our female students: girls in Year 11; our first Head Girl; celebrations marking 25 years of girls at St Paul’s. It was also a year when we worked hard on building our links with our Old Collegians. The Reunion marking milestones for girls in the School and the establishment of Tihoi were well supported, but we also hosted Old Collegians’ functions in Hamilton, Auckland, Tauranga and Gisborne and Mrs Glenys Parton and Mrs Deborah McRae have worked hard to update the information on our database and to forge links with those who have attended St Paul’s in the past.

2010/2011 sees the expansion of the Old Collegians’ Pavilion.The project sees the Pavilion move 25 metres closer to Hukanui Road and a lower-storey added which will include well overdue public toilets and sports changing facilities. We thank Mr Campbell Ludbrook, Old Collegians Chairman and his loyal group of committee members for their unwavering support of this project and I take this opportunity to encourage all present and past families to consider the sponsorship of the bleacher seating on the new 338 seat grandstand.

Sadly, this year saw the passing of recent Old Collegians: Bevan Henstock (Fitchett House 2004-2008) and Raymond Dippie (Clark House 2001-2004), prominent past Chairman of the Old Boys’ Association, Mr Geoff Blackett (School/Sargood 1959-1961), as well as long standing grounds man, Mr John van Grootel.

Prayers and support were given to all of their families at their most difficult of times. One of the special features of St Paul’s is the enthusiasm and passionate support it receives from its community.The Parents’ Association has been ably led by Mr Tim Elliott (Chairman), Mrs Lyn Harris (Secretary) and Brett Whiteley (Treasurer). By the end of the year they will have raised just over $80,000 from the tremendous support of the rural community for the Cattle Scheme and the entirely professional ‘Plates for Mates’ cookbook.The Associations’ donations have helped assist with funding improvements in both Day and Boarding Houses, subsidise sports trips, the cost of a new School minibus and a $50,000 donation to the Pavilion changing rooms. 2010 has been a difficult year financially for many St Paul’s families.The impact of the prolonged recession on many in our community, was reflected in a significant increase in requests for financial assistance. It is not easy to fund your son(s) or daughter(s) through an Independent School education. Be assured the young people here really appreciate and value the sacrifices that have been made on their behalf. We have greatly appreciated your support, encouragement and assistance in a wide range of activities from overseas tours, sports and cultural activities, to assistance with major events. Educating a student is a partnership between parents and the School and we have really valued your commitment towards that partnership.

To the Board of Trustees and their very personable and dedicated Chairman, Mr Philip Morgan, I thank you for your support and encouragement. I know I have at times exasperated you with my desire to get things done quickly and all at once. But we have established a Vision and pathway for the School, which will see St Paul’s go through a very exciting stage in its development. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a superb range and depth of expertise around the Board table and each and every one of the Trustees are very passionate and committed to the School and its pupils. I pay particular special tribute to Mr Jon Tanner who stepped down from the Board after four years of service (his second time on the Board) and who has challenged the Board to be more strategic in their thinking and who played a huge role in the development of the Hockey Astro-turf surface.

STAFF AND SENIOR LEADERS

In 2010, the teaching and support staff at both the Hamilton and Tihoi campuses deserve commendation for the goodwill, drive, and

loyalty that they continue to extend towards St Paul’s. A major factor in the success of our School is its staff.They are totally determined to get the best out of our son(s) or daughter(s).They work huge hours, they all take sports teams or cultural activities and they are many of the best in their profession.They go well beyond the norm to give teenagers the best possible experience of secondary schooling.

During the course of the year, two of our teachers left: Mrs Adrian McDowell (English/ Music) and Mr Geoff Dell (English, Media and Sargood Housemaster). We have greatly appreciated the input of Mr Richard Turnbull, Mr Neill Grant and the many staff that assisted with the coverage of their classes.

December 2010 sees Mr Stewart Auld leave us after three years of dedicated service as an Economics, Accounting and Enterprise Studies teacher. Mr Auld’s positive, upbeat influence, will be sorely missed in our staffroom and around the School grounds.

Mr John Oehley steps down as Assistant Principal, a position he has held for the past 13 years. Although not leaving our School, Mr Oehley will work in a part-time capacity as a Mathematics teacher and Careers Advisor; it would be remiss of me not to thank him for the huge contribution he has made to St Paul’s over the past 13 years as timetabler, student option advisor, NZQA liaison, and his crucial leadership in curriculum assessment and reporting. Mr Oehley has been the face of the academic side of St Paul’s during a period of huge national change. His analytical skills, wisdom and intellect will all be sorely missed in the School Executive and Senior Management. People seldom realise the huge amount of time and effort it takes to operate a school such as St Paul’s.To that end, I want to take this opportunity to thank and pay tribute to the contribution of the wider School Executive for the successes of this year: Business Manager, Mr Ian Bridge; Director of Marketing, Mrs Glenys Parton; Mr Oehley, our new Assistant Headmaster, Mr Jed Rowlands and the man responsible for the efficient day-to-day operation of St Paul’s, Mr Chris Luman and my hardworking PA, Miss Jennifer Purvis.

To Sam Hewat and Alice Fisher and their very effective group of School Prefects, I offer the collective thanks of all of those gathered here today.The twenty-seven Prefects and a huge number of other Year 13 students have played a key role in the operation of St Paul’s – wellrespected, admired and appreciated for the crucial part that these seniors play in events

such as Orientation and Open Days, the School Ball, Assemblies/Chapels, Inter-House events, the leadership of Sports teams and cultural activities. In 2010 our Year 13 students have had a hugely significant input into the School climate and culture and the leadership of the student body.

As I said at the start of this address, society’s survival depends on a group of people who are prepared to stand against the times and on occasions against the current climate.

To the leavers here today, especially those in Year 12 and 13, I would like to first thank you for the crucial contribution you have made over the past two to five years at St Paul’s.You are already significantly different from many young people of your age group. As adults we hope you will live by the high set of values that relatively few adults in your generation will stand for.

In every generation, the world is saved by a few people who stand for something. Socrates who said it was more important to live well (to live lives of value) than merely to live. Jesus

Guest Speakers Speech 2010

Author: John Oehley

Thank you Dr McGrath for your words of introduction.

I noticed a number of audible groans from Staff and students when they opened up their programmes and discovered who the guest speaker was today. Having heard from me all year – “ There are 11 days until the exams start – do some work..” the last thing they needed or wanted today, was to hear from me again!

Christ who said to his followers, “You are the salt of the earth (the few tiny grains that can transform the taste of a whole society)”; Winston Churchill who appeared to throw his whole political career away standing unpopularly against Hitler in the 1930’s; Mother Theresa, who was asked why she chose to live and die amongst the destitute and hopeless who replied, utterly against the spirit in our time – “I wanted to live a hard life”. In every generation, most people choose the easier, more comfortable way, living lives of what is known proudly in today’s society as “self-fulfilment”.

There is another way. It is the way of the few who want to make a difference; who do not fear unpopularity; who dare risk defeat and at times death, for what they believe in. As leavers and future leaders in society, which path will you choose? In fact as adults in this audience, which option have we each taken? Do we dare to put ourselves up for possible failure by trying to make a difference?

The final word on this theme goes to Randy Pausch, author of “The Last Lecture”. “We can all do more than we think, once we decide to do it. It’s very hard to find meaning in one’s life. It is much easier to find meaning in one’s actions – so look for someone who could use your help and help them in any way you can. If your actions have meaning … your life will begin to as well. More broadly, we should think about the fact that time is a zero-sum game. Things we spend time on, inherently take time away from other things, so constantly ask, “Is this the best and the highest use of my time …?”

It is my wish for you, that as you leave St Paul’s, that you take with you the values you have been taught and exercise them during your lifetime.

I thank my wife, Judith, for her on-going patience, support and encouragement. On behalf of both of us, we wish you an enjoyable and fulfilling Christmas break.

Until we meet again, may Our Lord guide over you and give you His on-going blessing.

I promise not to talk about academics – not too much anyway. I also promise not to talk for longer than 2 minutes —- for each of my 17 yrs at St Paul’s!

Bishop David, Mr Morgan, Board Members, Honoured guests, parents, staff and students. Thank you Headmaster for affording me the opportunity of addressing this year’s prize giving. Having spent the last 17 years of my teaching career at St Paul’s it is a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the changes and the growth within the school.

I would like to say first and foremost a big thank you to the school for the Haka they performed for me yesterday. It was awesome and I now understand why the Springboks never beat the All Blacks at rugby! I would also like to express my thanks to the Board Chairman, Mr Phillip Morgan, for his very generous and kind words.

When I started in 1994, most students in the room were not even born. Our leavers were all in nappies – I have a picture in my mind of Andrew Buswell lying in his cot waving his little hands, tiny knitted blue booties on his feet and a big grin on his face.

In 1994 there was no student centre, no Fitchett House, School House was a recently closed boarding house where the current Maths block is, no science block, no sports centre or hockey turf.The boarding houses

had not changed since being built in the sixties and the senior dorms had around 18 beds in them. Computers were only used for admin purposes.There were no data shows, air conditioned rooms and only a few rooms had whiteboards. Only four of us on the staff have survived these 17 years–Mr Wilson had brown hair, Mr Gilbert had some hair and Mr Varney ….. well he looked 65 then and he still looks 65 today – he hasn’t aged.

In those days the school had a roll of around 450 and the Chapel was a third of its current size. Imagine there was a wall where the black pillars are and turn the Chapel through 90 degrees. Instead of chairs there were long wooden benches (dreadfully uncomfortable!) and the alter where the organ currently is. The Chapel only seated 400 and so the third formers sat on the floor behind the organ, which was placed to the left of the alter.There was no audiovisual or flash sound system. Each student had to have a hymn book and you got a D if you did not have it in Chapel.

Tihoi comprised of 9 run down 100 yr old mill houses.They were rat and cockroach infested with holes in the floor and walls. If OSH had visited the dining hall (or probably the whole site) it would have been condemned.There was no Gallagher Centre or high ropes course. So you can see that there have been major structural changes to the school and many of our facilities are now world class.

John Oehley

Academically, everyone from Yrs 11 -13 sat external exams.There was no NCEA, very little internal assessment. Our boarding houses were full and we were seen as a good average school, which produced sound academic results and enjoyed some sporting success. The past ten years has seen amazing growth in the school in terms of its level of achievement. There has been quite a lot of criticism of St Paul’s in recent times – some of it valid, most in my opinion, not justified.

I challenge anyone in this Chapel to produce a school in NZ, which can match our achievements over the past ten years.Yes, there are some schools better than us academically, some better than us in sport or music but I believe that we must be one of the top ranked schools in the country from an holistic viewpoint.

Consider, we are a school that has averaged 500 on campus over the past ten years. What school can boast 2 students who were top in NZ and one second in NZ academically in this time period. We have had a number of national subject prize winners.Two students who have won major scholarships exceeding 200,000 dollars to study overseas. We have averaged more than 25 subject scholarships every year with a good proportion being outstanding scholarships (top 10 – 20 in NZ)–this from a cohort of 100 students. UE pass rates in excess of 85%, Merit and Excellence grades 20-30% more than the national median, NCEA pass rates in excess of 90%, Numeracy and literacy rates of over 95%.You might be saying – well, only the clever children come to St Paul’s. I would counter this by saying that we are one of the very few Independent/Integrated schools, which does not select its students.The only criteria to come to St Paul’s is how much of a financial sacrifice parents are prepared to make to ensure that their son/daughter gets a good education. We do not attract large numbers of the super bright and we do not select based on academic/sporting ability. It is also not only in academics that we excel. Two Maadi cup wins in the last fifteen years from a rowing club of on average 35.Three top four placings in the country in cricket–we have 25 to 30 senior cricketers. Our rugby club has on average, 40 senior players yet every year we play and regularly beat schools, which have three to four times the number of students. Our Chess team is regularly in the top three nationally – yes chess is a sport. Soccer, Hockey, Athletics teams, that are nationally ranked in top leagues. I could go on for hours about

the individual achievements of our students and hardly a week goes by when we do not acknowledge a team or an individual for some extraordinary achievement in assembly. Just yesterday, we acknowledged the achievements of our juniors and I was blown away by the accomplishments on the national stage, of a large number of our Yr 9, 10 & 11’s. Yes, we can do some things better, but considering our size, considering that we don’t only select the talented and the clever, there isn’t a school in NZ to match us. So what is it that makes us so successful?

1. We have a large number of hardworking, dedicated and disciplined students – and yes, some of them have amazing talent.

2. We have parents who are supportive and encouraging of their children, many of whom make huge sacrifices to send their children to this school, and

3. We have a staff, which is exceptionally hard working and dedicated. Staff who are at school at 7am to tutor, staff who run tutorials at night and over weekends, staff who coach after school and on the weekends. Staff who give up their holidays to take students on sporting cultural and educational experiences. To me this is the major influencing factor and I would like to acknowledge our staff, both here and at Tihoi, both academic and support staff and commend them on their outstanding contribution to the success of our school.

I would also like to reflect on the six staff who have died at the school over the past ten years. Many of those we will be honoring shortly via memorial trophies that have been gifted over the years in their memory.

What else has changed at St Paul’s?

I believe that we are in the middle of a major educational shift currently.

In the middle ages, before the time of the printing press, if you wanted something read or written, you went to the local priest or nobleman and paid them for the privilege.They had the power to determine what was read or written.This all changed after the invention of the printing press and more and more people learned to write resulting in the authority of those individuals being reduced.

For many years we were in the Information Age. Information had to be sought from books and learned.

People with power were those who possessed this information.

We are once again in the midst of a major shift. Fifteen years ago there were no cellphones and no internet. Facebook, Google,Twitter and texting were unknown terms.

Information is now readily available at our fingertips via sophisticated technology, and the new challenge to the students of tomorrow is how to deal with all of this information and the complexity of technology that delivers it.The leaders of tomorrow will be those who can distinguish what information is valid and then have the ability to analyse it and utilize it in the best possible way. All the things that Excellence grades demand,–analyse, evaluate, predict, problem solve.

This is not to say that students will not have to learn basic skills. Numeracy & literacy will still have to be taught, as will communication skills, practical problem solving skills, social skills as well as an ability to cope with the next generation of technological devices. Failure to learn these skills will find you falling behind.This is the challenge for us as a school and for you our parents.

To our leavers, I wish you every success as you embark on your next stage of your life’s journey.You will find that there are so many wonderful opportunities out there – take every one that comes your way.

To our prize winners, my very warm congratulations.You can be proud of your achievements and hard work.

To those who are not prizewinners, remember that many of our most successful Old Collegians never walked across the stage in their time at St Paul’s. Academic success is not the only indicator of success in the real world. Today is my last day as Assistant Principal at St Paul’s. I have enjoyed a career spanning 40 years and have been truly blessed with my choice of career. I would like to acknowledge my wife and children who have supported me in my career and who have often suffered because of the long hours that this job has taken.Thank you.

It has been a real privilege working on this staff and meeting so many amazing parents and students over the years.Thank you for the wonderful memories and I look forward to working with many of you in my role as part time careers advisor in the years ahead. Have a wonderful summer break. God bless you all.

Prizewinners

Tihoi Prizes

THE PAVLOVICH CUP

Callum Brown

Awarded to a student who showed real development at Tihoi—first intake.

MURRAY HARINGTON CUP

Richard Hutchison

Awarded to a student who showed real development at Tihoi—second intake.

SETON PRIZE

Toby Way

Awarded to a student who was outstanding in most areas of activity, academic and others, at Tihoi—first intake.

MORTIMER PRIZE

Lucas Martin

Awarded to a student who was outstanding in most areas of activity, academic and others, at Tihoi—second intake.

Sports & Culture Awards

THE GUMMER GAVEL

Amy Zhang

For excellence in Debating.

THE JANET COLE CUP

Jennifer Currie

For excellence in the Performing Arts.

THE RODNEY HAMEL CUP

Samuel Kaelin

For the most significant contribution to Culture.

THE WAYNE O’BRIEN TROPHY

Samuel Hewat

In recognition of all-round personal success in sport and the contribution towards others reaching their potential.

THE DIRECTOR OF SPORT AWARD

St Paul’s Chess Team

To the most outstanding team of the year. (For their silver Medal at the National Secondary School Championships).

THE SHAW TROPHY

Awarded to the House accumulating the most points over the year in the Inter- House competitions.

THE COLE CUP

Zachary Oliver

To the most outstanding Individual Sports Person.

Academic Prizes

Industry Awards are made to students who have narrowly missed winning a prize in a number of subjects, or are recognised for their consistent effort throughout the year in the classroom.

YEAR 9

INDUSTRY AWARDS

Ben Donaldson, Stefan Krystman, Samuel Masterson, Jack McDonald, Hamish Te

Whare, Dylan Wallbank

SUBJECT PRIZES

Cameron Downey

Art (share)

Taylor Deakin

Drama

Joseph Chen Graphics

Youngmin Goo

Mathematics

Callum Bowick

Maori

Sahil Patil Science

Brendon Carrick Technology Materials, Art (share),

Aditya Sakalkale

English, Religious Studies

Jordan Ogilvy French, Music, Social Studies

YEAR 10

INDUSTRY AWARDS

Heath Blyde, Devon Kyle, Connor Johnson, Ryan Littleworth, Rhodri

MacKenzie, Toby Way

SUBJECT PRIZES

Vaughan Christie

Art

Peter Winkelmann

Drama

Christopher Whiteley

French (share)

Bill (Chenghang) Li

Graphics

Kieran Dale

Maori

Sheng Cao

Mathematics

Paul Newton-Jackson

Music

Mark Davis Science

Ben Scott Technology Materials

Samuel Woolerton

English (share), French (share)

Nicholas Don English (share), Social Studies

YEAR 11

INDUSTRY AWARDS

Harrietanne Embling, Liam O’Donoghue, Ariana Mariu, Bon Scott, Mantez Singh-Thandi

SUBJECT PRIZES

Liam Buchanan Accounting (Share)

Claire Sayer

Art

Jaimee Hugo Biology (IGCSE)

Byron Muirhead Chemistry (NCEA)

Remy Campbell French

Jayneil Mistry Graphics

Sam Savage Materials Technology (Engineering)

Linda (Rongrong) Lin Mathematics (IGCSE)

Elizabeth Rajan Science, Accounting (share)

Malcolm Luman Mathematics (NCEA), Materials Technology (Furn)

Alex Hargreaves

Economics, History (IGCSE)

Marcus Collins Biology (NCEA), Geography

Joshua Tye English (NCEA), Physical Education

Jonathan Eyers English (IGCSE), History (NCEA), Music

Belinda Pedersen Chemistry (IGCSE), Physics

YEAR 12

INDUSTRY AWARDS

Sven Pedersen, Lucien Nabbs, Thomas Swarbrick, Annelies Watson-Holmes, Evan Wilson

SUBJECT PRIZES

Edward Tseng Accounting

Julia Frick

Advanced Physical Education (share)

Natalie Hong

Advanced Physical Education (share)

James Hogg

Art

Alexandra French Photography

Hollie Adamson Biology

Chang Zhai Chemistry (share)

Belinda Pedersen

Computer Studies

David Rooney

Drama

Sean Johnson Economics

Jason Coventry English (NCEA)

Roydon Nutsford Graphics

James Kennedy Geography

Catherine McRae

History

Corbin O’Neill

Mathematics (NCEA)

Melissa Oosterwijk

Mathematics (IGCSE)

Hadleigh May Materials Technology (Furniture)

Brook Daly Materials Technology (Engineering)

Fiora Stewart

Media/Classics (share)

Charlotte Atherton

Media/Classics (share)

Connor Spence Science

Reece Patterson

Physics, Chemistry (share)

James Lin English (IGCSE), Music

YEAR 13

INDUSTRY AWARDS

Megan Cowley, Luke

Dinniss, Alexander

Penrose, Mark Mills, Kathleen Rattray, Niharika Singh

SUBJECT PRIZES

Jonathan Sullivan Accounting

Aleesha Cliffe

Art Design (share)

Lucy Travis

Art History

Samuel Hewat

Media Studies (share)

Samuel Thomson Media Studies (share)

Daniel Ford Geography

Thomas Hollman

The Waikato Geographical Society Trophy, Computer Studies

Glenn Eyers

Advanced Physical Education

Caitlin Reid

The Wintec Sports Studies Trophy, Drama

Michael Aitken

Economics

Beth Noble Graphics

Karl Munden

Materials Technology (Construction)

Kent Stewart

Mathematics with Calculus

Belinda Pedersen

Mathematics with Statistics

Matthew Gajzago

Science

Matthew Hickmott

Art Photography (share), Art Design (share)

Catherine Chegwidden English, Art Photography (share)

Martin Petch

Classical Studies, History

James Chancellor Biology, Chemistry (share)

Timothy Prestage Physics, Chemistry (share)

Scholarship Winners

THE UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY, SCIENCE

SELECT SCHOLARSHIP

David Thomas

GABA TERTIARY SCHOLARSHIP

Matthew Hickmott

THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND JUBILEE SCHOLARSHIP

Nathan Wright LINCOLN UNIVERSITY NETBALL SCHOLARSHIP

Rebecca Atkinson

DAVID JOHNSTONE SCHOLARSHIP

Alice Fisher

(to attend Wintec, Waikato Institute of Technology)

DAVID JOHNSTONE SCHOLARSHIP

Glenn Eyers

(to attend Waikato University to study Science)

DAVID JOHNSTONE SCHOLARSHIP

Rosanna Paine

(to attend the University of Waikato to study Teaching)

THE UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY, EMERGING LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP

Kent Stewart

THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND SCHOLARSHIP

Samuel Hogg

Special Prizes

JOHN VAN GROOTEL MEMORIAL TROPHY

William Broderick

Awarded for outstanding diligence and persistence in the Junior School. This trophy was donated to the School by the Goldsbury family and is dedicated to the memory of staff member John van Grootel.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PRIZE

Jennifer Currie

Awarded to the student who has contributed most positively to fostering international relations in the School.

CULTURAL TROPHY

Hilton Gibbons

Awarded to an individual who is comfortably able to move between two or more cultures.

SHORT STORY PRIZE

Andrew Mills

Awarded for the most outstanding piece of writing produced by a student during the school year.

BECKETT PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

Catherine Chegwidden

Awarded to the student who excelled in the study of Literature in Level 3 English.

SENIOR ORATORY PRIZE

Samuel Kaelin

Awarded for the most outstanding public speaker in the School student body.

DAVID HARRIES MEMORIAL TROPHY

Beth Noble

Awarded to the most outstanding Graphics student in the School, across all levels.

MIKE POWELL MEMORIAL TROPHY

Hadleigh May

Awarded to the student who displays the most outstanding craftsmanship in the School, across all levels.

THE PHOTO LIFE STUDIOS GRAPHICS

ART AWARD

Matthew Hickmott

Awarded for excellence in Graphics and Art Design.

THE THORNTON

GALLERY TROPHY

Aleesha Cliffe

Awarded to the most promising artist at St Paul’s who will continue in the Arts.

KAUERANGA PLAQUE

James Chancellor

Awarded to the student who has excelled in the area of a Practical Science.

BEATTIE RICKMAN

PRIZE

Nathan Wright

Awarded to the top student in the Commercial Sciences area who is continuing with his/her study of the Economic Sciences at University.

UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO MANAGEMENT

SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP

Cyrano Embling

Awarded to the most outstanding Economic Science student who will be attending the University of Waikato.

ST PAUL’S PARENTS’ ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP

Laurence Meban

Awarded to a Year 12 student who started at St Paul’s in the lower band and has now qualified for a full NCEA Level 3 (Achievement Standards) course next year.

ST PAUL’S AWARD FOR YEAR NINE

Samuel Masterson

Awarded to the top third former who has excelled in all areas of school life, academics, sport, cultural and leadership.

ST PAUL’S AWARD FOR YEAR ELEVEN AND THE HAYLETT-PETTY MEMORIAL TROPHY

Belinda Pedersen

Awarded to the academic fifth former who has excelled in all areas of school life, academics, sport, cultural and leadership. The Haylett Petty Memorial Trophy was donated to the school by the Oliver family and is dedicated to the memory of former staff member, Paul Haylett Petty.

ST PAUL’S AWARD FOR YEAR TWELVE AND THE JOHN OEHLEY CUP

Chang Zhai

Awarded to the top academic sixth former who has excelled in all areas of school life, academics, sport, cultural and leadership.

WARD FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP

Catherine McRae

Awarded to a Year 12 student to research, study or participate in an activity beneficial to their academic, personal, cultural or sporting development during their final year at school.

HEADMASTER’S PRIZES

Glenn Eyers, Daniel Ford, David Hoskins, Alexander Penrose, Sarah McCallum, Kent Stewart, Thomas Te Whare

Awarded for outstanding service to the School in a wide variety of areas, academics, leadership, sporting, cultural and/or service – each of these students has made an extraordinary contribution to the School in their respective areas.

DE JONG TROPHY

Samuel Kaelin

Awarded to the student who has put in a really consistent effort into all areas of school life. Someone who always gives of their best in everything they do.

H.D. ALLISON PRIZE

Benjamin Maclachlan

Awarded in recognition of outstanding leadership both inside and outside of the classroom.

SEAVILL CUP

Samuel Hogg

Awarded to the student, other than the Head Prefect , who has contributed most to the School in a wide variety of activities.

THE FITCHETT TROPHY

Megan Cowley

Awarded to student, other than the Head Girl, who has shown the most outstanding leadership attributes.

ANDREA JEAN JENKINS CUP FOR THE HEAD GIRL

Alice Fisher

Awarded to the Head Girl, for her outstanding leadership and commitment, in all areas of School life.

LEGGATT PRIZE FOR THE HEAD BOY

Samuel Hewat

Awarded to the Head Boy, for his outstanding leadership and commitment, in all areas of School life.

MCCULLOCH TROPHY FOR PROXIME ACCESSIT

James Chancellor

Awarded to the runner up to the Dux award

KATRINA L WARD CUP FOR DUX OF THE SCHOOL

Timothy Prestage

Timothy Prestage – Katrina L Ward Cup for Dux

Alice Fisher – Andrea Jean Jenkins Trophy for Head Girl

Amy Zhang – The Gummer Gavel

Catherine McRae – Ward Family Scholarship

Chang Zhai – John Oehley Cup

Megan Cowley – Fitchett Cup

Sam Hogg – Seavill Cup

Sam Kaelin – de Jong Trophy

Headmasters Initiatives’

Above: Archbishop Moxon presents certificates at ‘Good Report Morning Tea’