Tauranga Boys' College Newsletter 13 December 2017

Tauranga Boys' College Newsletter
13 December 2017

R.W.Mangan, Principal

Dear Parents, Caregivers & Friends of the College

Thank you to all who have supported the College throughout the year. Your support is greatly appreciated and we look forward to this continuing in 2018.

We wish all the Tauranga Boys; College Community a very relaxing and enjoyable holiday. We look forward to welcoming all our boys back safely in 2018 and to working together to ensure your sons are supported to achieve their potential in academic, sporting and cultural endeavours.

Wishing our students, parents, staff and community the peace and joy of the Christmas Season and an enjoyable and safe holiday break.

Robert Mangan
Principal

Congratulations to all our prize winners:

Year 9 Junior Award Winners

Diligence Award Winners: (selected by the Tutor, Mr Harlie Deacon)

Cohen Radich, Jack Hoggard, Ben Akers, William Pakes, Dane O’Reilly, Prabalpreet Singh, Shakeel Roa, Cameron Gaualofa, Rhys Newbury, Leo Booth, Tristan Hanna, Moses Razak-Begg, Kaden Henry, Lucas Wharehinga and Joshua Williams

Third Aggregate Winners: (for students studying within their academic group)

Reece Talopau, Hayden Collier, Zac Smith, Jacob Browne, Morgan Grobbelaar, Gerhard Van Der Merwe, Jack Bonney, Chrysler Aguilar, Sean Galdeman, Brayden Hohaia, Jack Hinton, Rohan James, Jaydon Hetet and Ngawaka Ririnui

Second Aggregate Winners: (for students studying within their academic group)

Joseph Mortimer, Archie Bruning, Callum Berkett, Grady Forbes, Corey Bates, Ryan Kaeding, Ben Foster, Jared Williams, Isaac White, Michael Rolleston, Ryan Nicholson, Jonathan Archer, Alex Watt and Johnlees Faulkner

First Aggregate Winners: (for students top in class within their academic group

Lucas Cowley, Matthew Wagstaff, Louis Nixon, Blake Cooper, Tuawhenua Downes, Alistair Sedgwick, Shahil Shearman, Michael-Dean Palmer, Daniel Stratton, Peter Vernall, Aidan Kearvell, Reuben Irwin, Xavier Jarvis and James Eilers

Year 10 Junior Award Winners

Diligence Award Winners: (selected by the Tutor, Mr Mark Orchard)

Thomas Friskney, Mathew Karrol, Nik Donovan, Tunufa’i Pudney, Cameron McGuffie, Woolim Joo, Lachlan McSweeney, Patrick Sutherland, Thomas Denzel, Arumandip Sandhu, Seath Vander Logt, Jack Wu, Tuakana Te Wheoro, Karanveer Lidher and Dante Gardiner

Third Aggregate Winners: (for students studying within their academic group)

Benjamin Adams, Ronan Yip, Jaehoon Shin, Jip Haitsma, Jack Finn, Caleb LePou, Jacob Halling, Max Powdrill-Clarkson, Jack McOnie, Luca Harris, Caleb Ioane, Tommy Rowlands, Zack Purton, Lyrik Kete and Mahjon Taikato

Second Aggregate Winners: (for students studying within their academic group)

Logan Green, Callum Owen, Jack Towers, Joel Bezuidenhout, Julian Ng, Alec Mudgway, Zac Paterson, Cameron Shennan, Jonathan Schlothauer, Max Faulkner, Francois Brand, Khushwant Singh, Jack Ayala-Taylor, David Naunta and Hohepa Borell

First Aggregate Winners: (for students top in class within their academic group)

Donghyun Lee, Tristan Eiselen, Jackson Little, Jackson Loomb, Torin Bryant, Mason Tressider, Kyeol Choi, Joseph Bacon, Joshua Hulbert, Trey McLeod, Logan Emery, Sean Resente, Thomas Coffey, Solomon Nimo and Kane Taikato

Special Awards

The Ken Oliver Cup - Most Improved Instrumentalist - Daniel Page

The Buxton Cup - Top Junior Graphics & Technology Student - Logan Muller

Social Science Super Quiz Champions, Top Year 9 Student - Matthew Wagstaff

The Business Studies Cup, excellence in Business Studies - Sebastian Green

Top Year 10 Performing Arts Student - Mitchell Sigley

Top Year 10 Visual Arts Student - Khushwant Singh

Junior Sportsman of the Year for 2017 - Oliver Puchner

First Place NCEA Level 1 English, studying above peer group - Logan Green

Top Year 10 Accelerated Global Perspectives - Nicholas Rea

First Place NCEA Level 1 Science, studying above peer group - Donghyun Lee

First Place NCEA Level 1 Mathematics, studying above peer group - Donghyun Lee

The Junior International Student of the Year - for outstanding academic results - Donghyun Lee

Cricket

A report from Neil Howard, Coach, re the New Zealand Premier Grade 1st XI Cricket Cup Tournament held in Hastings early December:

Tauranga Boys' College qualified for the First XI Cricket finals for the first time in six years when they defeated Hamilton BHS in the Northern Districts Final in March. This tournament was played from December 4-8 in Palmerston North in sweltering conditions and featured Otago BHS, Palmerston North BHS, Christchurch Boys' High School, Hutt International Boys' School and Rosmini College from Auckland.

First up we played Palmerston North Boys' High School who won the toss and elected to bat. The Tauranga Boys' bowlers controlled much of the innings with Rhys Mischewski and Rhys Donaghy taking wickets to have Palmerston North BHS in trouble at 4/39. The pressure was maintained when the spinners entered the fray and PNBHS were removed for 125. Craig Baldry was the best of the bowlers taking 3/19. Our reply was slow and when Marcel Collett fell for 25 the acid was on the lower order. Some late hitting by Brad Howard got the initiative back and Iman Singh held his nerve to secure a two wicket victory with 8 balls to spare.

On the second morning Mikaere Leef won the toss and elected to bat but at 137/8 things were not looking good as the batsmen had once again thrown away starts. Jacob Logan batted very well on his way to 46 and was supported by Rhys Donaghy as the partnership realised 66 in ten overs. The final score of 206 was a bonus and once again the opening bowlers took early scalps. Craig Baldry then put the screws on the Otago batsmen taking 1/12 off his ten overs. The introduction of Jacob Logan to the bowling crease saw him take the key Otago wicket and a couple of run outs finished off Otago by 24 runs.

On day three Rosmini College won the toss and elected to bat and their top order made a strong. At five down with 172 runs on the board the Auckland side were in a strong position but two quick middle order wickets slowed the opposition momentum. The tail tail stated to wag however with the Rosmini batsmen posting a solid target after reaching 275 for the loss of seven wickets. Brad Howard finished with 2/32 with the other wickets shared between Rhys Mischewski, Dominic Crombie, Craig Baldry, Jacob Logan and Iman Singh. In reply a number of batsmen got starts but at 109/5 the game was long gone. Iman Singh worked hard to graft out a half century and Tas Carsons chipped in with a 21 as the chase petered out at 189.

Day four saw us up against the pace setters Christchurch BHS. Solid batting from the Cantabrians saw them post 286 with Iman Singh 4/63 and Rhys Mischewski 2/51 doing their best to stem the tide of runs. Despite the score the fielding was strong with Andy Mascall in particular taking a great catch. In reply Marcel Collett was the only batsmen to reach the twenties and only a late partnership between Tas Carsons and Brad Howard managed to get the team past the 100 mark to 114. The boys returning to school next year hopefully learned some lessons from this defeat as Christchurch were a class apart at the tournament.

The last day saw TBC face Hutt International Boys' School from Wellington with a win meaning third place. HIBS won the toss and got away to a flyer posting 49 runs before they lost their first wicket. The bowlers then tightened the screws and started to take regular wickets. With spin bowling to the fore on the dry surface Leef, Baldry, Howard and Singh bowled 34 overs between them, taking 7/77 with Leef being the most successful individually with 3/24. Dominic Crombie then ripped out numbers 10 and 11 as Hutt International were bowled out for just 143. Ben Pomare kept well during the week and recorded his seventh stumping of the tournament in this innings.

Once again we started a chase poorly and when Marcel Collett (21) and Mikaere Leef (29) were out the score stood at 79/5. Two more quick wickets saw TBC in further trouble at 96/7 still requiring 47 runs in the 13 overs remaining. Jacob Logan and Tas Carsons got a partnership going and with the odd good shot and a few wides it was looking good until Carsons fell at 131. Brad Howard settled the nerves with a four first ball and then went on to strike two more boundaries to see the team to victory by two wickets with ten balls to spare.

Final Placing - Third in NZ

Athletics

Our Athletes competed recently at the NZ Secondary Schools' Athletics Championships held in Hastings.

Results are as follows:

Taylor Smith: Bronze Medal: Junior Boys 800m: 1.59.88

Russell Green, Jamie Shields and Adam Hitchiner: Bronze : Senior Boys three-man Road Race Team

Russell Green, Jamie Shields, Adam Hitchiner, Josh Tisch, Fergus Hamilton and Matthew Lockheed: Silver: Senior Boys six-man Road Race Team

Max Brebner: 6th Junior Boys 200m

Tyzak Rhind: 13th Junior Boys High Jump

John-Lees Faulkner: 13th Junior Boys Shot Put, 14th JB Javelin

Anaru Mulipola: 20th JB Shot Put, 21st JB Discus, 21st JB Javelin

Korban Eades: 11th SB 1500m

Lachlan Haycock: 14th SB 1500m

Cody Tanner: 17th SB Shot Put

Touch Championships

At the recent NZSS 2017 National Touch Championships our team gained 2nd in the Plate Finals. Chas Roberts was chosen in the Boys' Tournament Team.

Rugby Sevens

Our Rugby Sevens Team were placed 3rd at the NZSS Rugby Sevens Tournament recently. Leroy Carter made the NZSS Team for the second year in a row, and was named MVP of the Tournament.

Junior Water Polo

Our 2017 Junior A Water Polo Team consists of year 9 and year 10 boys who have trained hard for a number of months toward the local Thursday night club competition, the Challenger Cup in Hamilton and finally the Division 1 North Island Championships. The boys, under Coach Brendan Horan, have been in the pool training three times a week over Term 3 and Term 4. At the Challenger Cup, the boys lost only once in the pool round to make it through to a heated final against St Kentigern College. Whilst the boys weren’t able to take out the Cup a lot was learnt and able to be built on. They showed just how much they had learnt by reaching the pinnacle of success at their level and taking out the Division 1 North Island Championships late in November. The team went through the Auckland based tournament unbeaten, taking out Kristin School, Aquinas, St Patrick's and St Peters College.

The Semi-final saw the boys' up against Auckland’s Water Polo heavyweights, Sacred Heart College who they fought hard to beat 6-4. The Final, held at Diocesan School late Sunday afternoon, was a well-supported match against Rangitoto College. The team played superbly to secure the final win with a score of 8-3.Donghyun Lee was impressive in goal and Jack Preston and Theo Bos were named in the Tournament Team. Theo was crowned Tournament MVP an outstanding achievement by both boys. Next stop, Division 1 Nationals in April 2018. The team consisted of: Jack Preston, Theo Bos (capt), Sam Jones, Joseph Cook, Jack Hitchfield, Donghyun Lee, Ben Paterson, Ashton Painter, Liam Davoren, Cooper Gibson and Jacob Browne. Coach: Brendan Horan and Manager: Justin Brewer.

Recently we held our "Good Man" Assembly with Year 9 and Year 10 students. At this assembly we recognised those boys who have shown excellence behaviour and attendance throughout the year. This is emphasised with a consistent message about respect for self, others and our school, being delivered in a number of forum from the classroom, sports fields, cultural arena and in Administration and Principal assemblies.

Congratulations to the 418 Year 9 and Year 10 boys who received acknowledgement in the form of a certificate. This is to recognise and acknowledge those who have modelled the expected behaviour. They have had a great year and it is pleasing to be able to acknowledge them, and heartening to see the increased numbers each year. These boys do the right thing, exhibit the expected behaviour and level of attendance. They are getting the message explicit in our Respect Code and responding to expectations.

Congratulations

to the following boys who were placed in the Top 100 in the recent University of Otago 2017 Junior Mathematics Competition:

Benjamin Adams

Lucas Cowley

Kyle Duck

Donghyun Lee

Soobin Yang

Yeowon Yoon

Congratulations

to the following boys who were placed in the Top 100 in the recent University of Otago 2017 Junior Mathematics Competition:

Benjamin Adams

Lucas Cowley

Kyle Duck

Donghyun Lee

Soobin Yang

Yeowon Yoon

Asia-Pacific Robotics Championship.

This competition is the biggest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere with 78 teams competing from New Zealand, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea.

Our team of Braden Smith Yr9

Cesar Vargas-Tuerlings Yr9

William Bruning Yr 10

Joshua Badshah Yr 12

managed to get an exceptional achievement of 20th place overall with an additional 19th placing in the special 'Driver Skills' category. To add to this they were honoured with a trophy for the 'Judges Award' which was given to the most outstanding team for Sportsmanship, Attitude and Team Spirit.

The Asia-Pacific Robotics Championship is an international event, which aims to promote robotics education to young people in Asia-Pacific region. It nurtures young people’s interest in science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) by providing interactive competition platform with designable and programmable robots. It also reinforces students' real-world problem solving skills and teamwork spirit by providing hands-on experience and the idea-sharing community. It provides an experience full of engagement, challenge and passion." - VEX Robotics.

Start Dates / Term Dates 2018

JANUARY

Monday 29th Auckland Anniversary Day

Tuesday 30th Year 13 return at 8.30am

Wednesday 31st Year 13, Year 9, other New Students to the College & International Students return

FEBRUARY

Thursday 1st Whole School - 8.40am

Friday 3rd Whole School 8.40am

Tuesday 6th Waitangi Day Holiday

Option Changes -

Tutors are available from Thursday 25th January for option change meetings in the College Library 9.00am to 12.00pm

Other Important Dates Term 1, 2017

FEBRUARY

Thursday 8th Year 9 Parent/Teacher Meetings

Wednesday 14th Athletics Day

Wednesday 21st Accelerate Parents Evening

MARCH

Monday 19th Start of Summer Tournament Week

Friday 30th Good Friday Holiday

APRIL

Monday 2nd Easter Monday Holiday

Tuesday 3rd Easter Monday Holiday

Wednesday 4th School returns

Friday 13th Term 1 Ends

Term 2

Monday 30th Start of Term 2

MAY

Friday 11th Workday

JUNE

Monday 4th Queen's Birthday Holiday

Monday 11th Senior Assessment Week

JULY

Friday 6th Term 2 ends

Term 3

Monday 23rd Term 3 begins

SEPTEMBER

Friday 28th Term 3 ends

Term 4

OCTOBER

Monday 15th Term 4 begins

DECEMBER

Friday 7th Junior Prizegiving

School Year Book

This outstanding record of the year’s achievements at Tauranga Boys’ College has been given out to Year 9 and Year 10 students who have paid their school donation. Years 11 and 12 students who have paid their school donation, can call into the College Office and collect their Yearbook.. Year 13 leavers who have paid their school donation will be mailed their yearbooks. After those dates, the Yearbook can be collected from the School Office from Tuesday 30th January 2018 provided the school donation has been paid. My congratulations and thanks are extended to Ms Rhian Elmes, and Mr Mark Orchard for the production of a fantastic publication.