Hastings Boys' High School
| Hastings Boys' High School | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
| 800 South Karamu Road, Hastings, New Zealand | |
| Coordinates | 39°39′00″S 176°50′09″E / 39.6501°S 176.8357°ECoordinates: 39°39′00″S 176°50′09″E / 39.6501°S 176.8357°E |
| Information | |
| Type | State single-sex boys, Secondary (Year 9-13) |
| Motto | "Young men united by respect" |
| Established | 1904 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 227 |
| Headmaster | R.G. Sturch |
| School roll | 750[1] (July 2016) |
| Socio-economic decile | 2F[2] |
| Website | hastingsboys.school.nz |
Hastings Boys' High School is a boys' secondary school in Hastings, New Zealand. The school is part of the Super 8. The school was founded in 1904 as Hastings High School. In 1922, it became Hastings Technical School under the leadership of William Penlington, who remained headmaster until 1949.[3][4]
In the mid-1950s, the school split into Hastings Girls' School and Hastings Boys' School.[3] It has four Houses, Te Mata (red), Heretaunga (blue), Te Kahu (grey) and Mana Huia (black). These houses compete in many sporting events with each other throughout the year.
Students at Hastings Boys' High School organised a conference in 1999 to consider cloning the Huia, their school emblem.[5][6] The Maori tribe Ngati Huia agreed, in principle, to support the endeavour, which would be carried out at the University of Otago, and a California-based Internet start-up volunteered $100,000 of funding.[7] However, as of 2008, the cloning has not taken place.
Notable alumni
- Neil Dawson (born 1948), sculptor[8]
- Hika Elliot - All Black
- Robert Fenton (born 1923), National MP for Hastings (1975–1978)[9]
- Tohu Harris - NZ Kiwi's, Melbourne Storm
- Sydney Jones (1894–1982), National MP for Hastings (1949–1954)[10]
- Phil Judd (born 1953), composer, songwriter, musician, producer, performer and visual artist
- Josh Kronfeld - All Black
- Danny Lee - All Black
- George Lowe - mountaineer, including 1953 Everest expedition
- Ross McEwan - CEO The Royal Bank of Scotland
- Hubert McLean - All Black
- Alby Mathewson - All Black
- Bruce Robertson - All Black
- Roger Randle - All Black
- Kevin Tamati- NZ Kiwi's
- Paora Winitana - NZ Breakers
Notes
- ↑ "Directory of Schools - as at 2 August 2016". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 2016-08-16.
- ↑ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- 1 2 "History". Hastings Boys' High School. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
- ↑ Boyd, Mary. "William Arthur Greener Penlington". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved December 2011. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ Boys Cloning Birds, New Zealand Science Monthly, September 2000. Retrieved on 15 December 2008.
- ↑ "CNN - Cloning of extinct Huia bird approved". CNN website. CNN news. July 20, 1999. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
- ↑ Dorey, Emma (1999). "Huia cloned back to life?". Nature Biotechnology. 17 (8): 736. doi:10.1038/11628. PMID 10429272. Retrieved 2008-12-15.
- ↑ Moore, Christopher (8 June 2013). "Conjuring space and freedom". The Press. Christchurch. p. C3. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
- ↑ Gustafson 1986, p. 310.
- ↑ Gustafson 1986, p. 324.
References
- Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.