Hastings Boys' High School

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Hastings Boys' High School
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Hastings Boys' High School
800 South Karamu Road, Hastings, New Zealand
Coordinates 39°39′00″S176°50′09″E / 39.6501°S 176.8357°E / -39.6501; 176.8357
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TypeState single-sex boys, Secondary (Year 9–13)
Motto"Young men united by respect"
Established1904
Ministry of Education Institution no. 227
School roll821 [1] (February 2024)
Socio-economic decile2F [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]

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In the mid-1950s, the school split into Hastings Girls' High School and Hastings Boys' School. [3] It has four Houses, Te Mata (red), Heretaunga (blue), Te Kahu (grey) and Manu 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 Māori tribe Ngāti 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] The cloning did not ultimately take place.

Headmasters

Houses

Houses of Hastings Boys' High School
Te Mata

Named after the Heretaungan landmark, Te Mata Peak.

HeretaungaHeretaunga is the original name of Hastings.
Te KahuNamed after the hawk.
Manu HuiaNamed after the huia bird.


Head Prefects

and Deputy Head Prefects when appointed

Of the Hastings High School


Of the Hastings Boys' High School

Notable alumni

Notes

  1. ↑ "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
  2. ↑ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Archived from the original on 24 January 2015. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  3. 1 2 "History". Hastings Boys' High School. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
  4. ↑ Boyd, Mary. "William Arthur Greener Penlington". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography . Ministry for Culture and Heritage . Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  5. ↑ Boys Cloning Birds Archived 12 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine , New Zealand Science Monthly, September 2000. Retrieved on 15 December 2008.
  6. ↑ "CNN – Cloning of extinct Huia bird approved". CNN website. CNN news. 20 July 1999. Retrieved 3 December 2008.
  7. ↑ Dorey, Emma (1999). "Huia cloned back to life?". Nature Biotechnology. 17 (8): 736. doi: 10.1038/11628 . PMID   10429272.
  8. 1 2 "Hastings Boys' High School principal Rob Sturch dies". Hawke's Bay Today . 30 November 2023. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
  9. ↑ Hawke’s Bay news in brief: Hawke’s Bay marathon returns next month 18 April 2024. Retrieved 14 August 2024
  10. ↑ https://www.hastingsboys.school.nz/About/staff
  11. ↑ Moore, Christopher (8 June 2013). "Conjuring space and freedom". The Press . Christchurch. p. C3. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
  12. ↑ Gustafson 1986, p. 310.
  13. ↑ Gustafson 1986, p. 324.

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