Academic Assembly  

Kia ora, boys and staff e noho please be seated. Welcome to Assembly.  I’d like to invite Academic Prefect Harrison Quayle forward to deliver today’s reading.  

Today’s reading comes from Philippians Chapter 3: Verses 12-16  

Not that I have already obtained this, or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.  

This is the word of the Lord 

(Thanks be to God) 

Rectors Comments: Thank you, Harrsion. I invited Harrsion to deliver today’s reading as an academic prefect because today we celebrate our 2024 academic results. I know that you are all now starting the work towards your 2025 academic goals, but the end of year NCEA and NZ Scholarship examinations have produced some outstanding results and we must celebrate them.  

It's the day when we hand out our academic ties to Year 12 students, Academic Colours to Year 13 students, NZ Scholarship badges , Rector’s citations and we acknowledge our Centurions. Before we do that, I want to congratulate all students on your fine academic results in 2024. Year 12 students, well done on your 95% pass rate for NCEA Level 1 last year. Year 13, congratulations on your 97% pass rate for NCEA Level 2.  

I was speaking to Jaimil Ravla yesterday, our other Academic Prefect, and he and Harrison have got some big academic goals for you senior boys this year and they’re going to share them with you in the coming weeks. I think it’s awesome that the boys are thinking about academic goals and so please get behind them and let’s make 2025 the best ever year in the Academic Cornerstone. 

Harrison read from Philippians Chapter 3 as follows: “But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize”. So we celebrate today, but then we push on to our 2025 goals. 

Today reminds us of the important College value of Striving and Achieving.  

Remember that it’s not about Striving to be the best. Although that’s great if some of you have that goal. There will be boys in here with their eyes on Dux, Top of  Year or Top in Subject. It’s about striving to be your best. Judge yourself against your own potential. You will know if you’re working hard enough in class, doing enough study in study classes, doing enough homework, doing enough exam revision. You also know when you’ve put the hours of work in, and then been rewarded with a grade your satisfied with.  

Today we also celebrate those young men in Year 13 who passed their NZ Scholarship examinations at the end of last year as Year 12 students. Scholarship is mainly targeted at Yr 13 students and is the hardest exam you can sit at high school level. It’s beyond NCEA Level 3. Incredibly, four of our current Year 13s who sat the exams a year early achieved Scholarship passes so well done to those boys.  

So, I wish you all the very best with your 2025 goals. I ask for your courtesy and respect for the young men who come up one stage today. We have a large number of students to acknowledge, followed by a sports report later in the assembly. 

Assistant Rector, Mrs Duncan, will now announce our Academic Scholars for 2025. 

Academic Awards: Read by Mrs Duncan.  

Level One 2024 Rectors Citations  

Joe Garland 

Thomas Griffiths 

William Jerebine 

Joshua Parton 

Level Two 2024 Rectors Citations  

Lewis Bayes 

Cam Evans 

Selby Jowsey 

Nelson Taylor 

Level One Academic Tie – GPA of 70%+ for best 5 Subjects  

Beck  Allen 

Mason  Millar 

Cooper  Bowyer 

Orlando  Norman 

Hamish  Butler 

Ted  Oliver 
Fletcher Dawson 

Charlie Pike 

Alex Ferguson 

Ben Pringle 

Rupert  Fuge 

Patrick Ross 

Frank Gilligan 

Tom Robinson 

Musashi Goodchild 

Joshua Snijders 

Locky Hallett 

Ben Tian 

Otis Hoggard 

Logan Tims 

Thomas  King 

Charlie Tizard 

Leo Marcroft 

Joseph Turner 

Eli McBeth 

Tennyson  Wiffin 

Ben McGregor 

Ricardo Yao 

Level One Academic Tie with Distinction – GPA of 90%+ for best 5 Subjects  

Cody Caton 

Isaac Dann 

Noah Hemmingsen 

Jasper Jamieson 

Joshua Vossen-Chong 

Level Two Colours – GPA of 70%+ in Top 4 Classes 

Archie  Absolom 

Fletcher Mackay 
Adam Blair 

Matt McKendry 

Ben Boere 

Ari Milne 

Alexander Boustridge 

Liam Monteith 

Jack  Brownlie 

Oscar  Morice 

Hunter  Bruce 

Tom  O'Shaughnessy 

Jay  Carey-Smith 

Manraj  Padda 

George Chambers 

Sam  Parbhu 

Isaac  Chou 

Jacob  Porter 

Niko  Drayton 

Harrison  Quayle 

Archer  Ericksen 

Jaimil  Ravla 

Tom  Haliburton 

Jiten  Ravla 

William  Harrison 

Noah  Rogers 

Daniel  Hoffmeister 

Max Russell 

Jacob Holder 

Angus Scott 

Leo  Johnson 

Hugo  Symes 

Oliver  Kersjes 

Gino  Wang 

Theo  King 

Charlie  Wenley 

Riley  Lennox 

William  Young 

Jimi  Logan 

Level Two Colours with Distinction – GPA of 90%+ in Top 4 Classes 

Matthew  McPhail 

Josef  Oosthuizen 

Charles  Park 

Chris  Proctor 

Niko  Sawyers 

 Level One 2024 Centurion Awards – 100% Grade point Average 

Isaac Dan 

Technology 

Alex Ferguson 

Physics 

Rupert Fuge 

Physics 

Noah Hemmingsen 

English  

Noah Hemmingsen 

Lvl 2 Economics 

Jasper Jamieson 

English 

Jasper Jamieson 

Lvl 2 Physics  

Thomas King 

Physical Education 

Leo Marcroft 

Visual Art 

Ben Pringle 

Economics 

Charlie Tizard 

Visual Art  

Joshua Vossen-Chong 

Visual Art  

Level Two 2024 Centurion Awards – 100% Grade point Average 

Adam Blair 

Physics 

Daniel Hoffmeister 

Art Design 

Jacob Holder 

Physical Education 

Wyatt Holmes 

Art Design 

Jimi Logan 

Art Design  

Austin McDougall 

Physical Education 

Matt McKendry 

Art Design & Physical Education  

Matthew McPhail 

Art Design & Geography 

Ari Milne 

Art Design 

Liam Monteith 

AgriBusiness 

Josef Oosthuizen 

Lvl 3 Physics & Calculus 

Charles Park 

English & Physics 

Chris Proctor 

English 

Harrison Quayle 

Geography 

Jaimil Ravla 

Chemistry  

Noah Rogers 

Physical Education 

Max Russell 

Physical Education 

Niko Sawyers 

Accounting & Media Studies 

Gino Wang 

Physics 

Charlie Wenley 

Physical Education 

William Young 

Physics 

NZ 2024 Scholarship Winners 

Alex Boustridge – Scholarship in Accounting  

Matt McKendry – Scholarship in English 

Josef Oosthuizen – Scholarship in Economics  

Chris Proctor – Scholarship in English, History and Drama 

Rector Speaks: Thank you, Mrs Duncan, and congratulations boys.  

Please join with me in singing the hymn Shine, Jesus Shine. 

Rector Speaks: Thank you school, e noho, please be seated. 

I’ll now invite Sports Prefect, Matt McKendry, forward to update us on the latest Sports news 

Sports Report 

It’s my pleasure to deliver this week’s sports report. 

In the St Paul’s Exchange Our tennis boys played extremely well and came away with an 8-4 win. In golf, a predominantly young team dominated the opposition, winning 7-1.  Colts Cricket played 2 games of T20 on Sunday, and a 40-over on Monday. We won the T20 game, but lost the 40-over game narrowly. The 1st XI Cricket after a difficult start, won their three day game and claimed the Stu Duff trophy. 

Could 1st XI captain Angus Scott please come forward to receive the trophy. 

Congratulations to all the boys in this exchange. Thank you to the staff involved. 

CRICKET
Liam Monteith along with Jacob Holder, Riley Lennox, Andrew Wakefield and Sam Parbhu competed in the Central districts Yr 11/12 cricket tournament in Napier recently and lost narrowly in the final. 

Andrew was selected into the U17 men’s Central Districts cricket team.  

In the National tournament held at Lincoln University in Christchurch, Andrew scored 202 runs with a high score of 68. 

Well done to all these boys. 

TAG
Kiato Buxton and Ardie J Smith recently competed in the Junior Tag Nationals in Auckland.  They were part of the HB Panther U16 team.  They competed against Counties, South Auckland, Auckland Metro, North Harbour, Manukau and won the silver medal. Congratulations to both boys. 

(Ardie J is away competing, but Kiato please come up to receive your medal) 

TOUCH RUGBY  

At the end of last year Kiato Buxton, Ardie J Smith and Wai-ā-riki Hunia competed in the Māori Touch Nationals in Rotorua playing for the HB U17 Team.  The team placed 3rd.   

They also earned 5th place at the Touch Nationals in Auckland during Waitangi Weekend.  

The boys also represented Hawke’s Bay Te Mātau Maui at the Maori Touch Nationals in Waikato. Winning their semi against Tainui 8-2, they earnt a spot in the final against a classy crew from the Gold Coast, Australia. The boys won 7-4 to become The NZ Māori u16 National Champs.  What a fantastic achievement, well done boys. 

(Could Wai-a-riki and Kiato please come forward to receive your national champion badges) 

WAKA AMA
Kiato Buxton, Davey Simutoga and Julius Rai-hania competed in the National Waka AMA competition in Karapiro mid-January and came 3rd in the Junior U16 Mens W12 Final Race under their club Te Rau Oranga o Ngati Kahungunu.  It is a big achievement, well done boys. 

(Kiato, Davey and Julius please come up to receive your medals) 

SWIMMING
Sam Skidmore had an outstanding performance at the HBPB Summer Long Course Champs in Gisborne at the end of last year. Sam’s results were as follows: 

Winner of the Open Men’s 50m Freestyle Top 8 race, claiming the prestigious Brendon Long Memorial Cup!  

He also won the Open Men’s 200m Freestyle event and the 16-and-Under 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 50m Butterfly and 100m Butterfly!  

Incredibly, his times in all these events were the fastest male overall!  

Sam also secured 2nd place overall in the 100m Backstroke and was also named the HBPB Junior Swimmer of the Year. 

Congratulations on this amazing success, Sam! 

Could Sam please come forward to receive the congratulations of the College. 

We enjoyed a fantastic day at our annual College Swimming Sports last Friday, with the final events taking place on Wednesday.  

First, the House Banner Results.  

As you may know these incredible house banners were judged on the following criteria: 

• Use of House Colour 

• Overall Composition 

• Paint Application 

• Incorporation of other houses 

• Hierarchy 

You can see the house banners on the screen and I’m sure you agree that they have all met all the criteria. The standard was particularly high this year and there was very little between 1st and 4th.  

The results are as follows: 

In 4th place: Cuthbert House. 

In 2nd equal place: Aidan and Oswald 

In 1st place: Durham House, congratulations to Jimi Logan and the other Durham boys who assisted. 

Could Ben Gray please come forward to collect the House Banner Trophy.  

And now onto the swimming event itself. Here are the individual championship winners : (boys to come up to receive medals)  

In the Intermediate school, could the following boys please come to the front of the stage: 3rd place Flynn Webber, who is unable to be here today, 2nd Place Levi McEntee, 1st Place Hamish McLaren, who is unable to be here today.  

In the Juniors the following boys please come forward: 3rd place Thomas Birkett, 2nd Place Owen Booker, 1st Place Archie Cole 

In the Intermediate Section could the following boys please come forward: 3rd place Monte Douglas, 2nd Place Liam McEntee, 1st Place Sam Skidmore 

Move aside for Mr Hakeney to speak. And finally in the the Senior Division, if I could ask Mr Cournane to come and present the medal and could these boys please come forward: 3rd place Beck Allen, 2nd Place Matt McKendry, 1st Place Wyatt Holmes 

And now to the overall results for the day. It was great to see everyone involved, competing for their houses and it was an awesome way to kick off the House Competition for 2025. 

In 4th place with 1,135 points - Oswald,  

In 3rd place with 1,159 points - Cuthbert 

In 2nd place with 1,248 points - Durham  

and 1st place in the Swimming Sports Championships for 2025, with 1,285 point – Aidan House 

(Can Fletcher Mackay come forward to receive the winning house trophy and the Aidan flag to fly until our next House Event, which will be the Athletics Championships next Friday) 

That concludes this week’s sports report. All the best for this weekend’s sport and have a great weekend. 

Rector Speaks: 

Thank you, Matt. 

Congratulation to all those boys who were recognised today. I wish the pipe band all the best for tomorrow’s event in the auditorium and all of you who have sport and of course the rehearsals for Mamma Mia continue. There’s so much going on right now.  

Reverend Dunnett will now close our assembly in prayer. 

Article added: Friday 21 February 2025