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Sapiens fortunam fingit sibi
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State single-sex boys, Secondary (Year 9-15) with Boarding Facilities
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1911
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Private Bag 3201, Hamilton
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Susan Hassall MA(Hons)
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Ministry of Education Information
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is a state boys' secondary school in
Hamilton ,
New Zealand . The school was established as Hamilton High School in 1911 but was later split into separate boys' and girls' schools. The school crest features a lion, sash and star, and bears the motto "sapiens fortunam fingit sibi" which translates to "a wise man carves his own fortune".
The school colours are black and red. Third formers (year nine) through to sixth formers (year 12) wear grey shirts and shorts with black socks and maroon jerseys. Fifth formers and above have the option of wearing grey trousers. Seventh formers (year 13) wear black shirts with black jerseys. School prefects (and all students when travelling on official school occasions) wear black blazers with black, red and yellow striped ties.
Most of the school's approximately 1500 students are day boys from
Hamilton and surrounding townships such as
Cambridge ,
Te Awamutu , and
Morrinsville . Around 120 boys are housed in an onsite boarding hostel - Argyle House, which forms one of the six houses into which the school is divided.
In 1999 the school hit the news when it appointed a female Headmaster - the first boys' school in New Zealand to do so.
Hamilton Boys' High School is one of New Zealand's top rowing and
Cricket schools. Hamilton Boys' High School has won the
Gillette Cup for schoolboy cricket twice since it was established in
1990 . It has won the
Maadi Cup for rowing Eights three times, and the
Springbok Shield for Fours six times.
The school has regular exchanges with
Auckland Grammar School including the annual tennis quadrangular between themselves,
Auckland Grammar ,
Wellington College and
Palmerston North Boys' High School .
Hamilton Boys' High School competes regularly against another
Hamilton school,
St Paul's Collegiate . The two schools are traditional foes, and games between them generate intense but good-natured rivalry.
The school fields a number of sports teams in a variety of codes. In recent years it has won the New Zealand secondary schools competitions for rowing, cricket, touch rugby, rugby sevens and clay target shooting. Its soccer and hockey teams are also regularly in the top five teams in New Zealand, and its rugby team has made the semi-final of the New Zealand secondary schools competition.
Hamilton Boys' High School has traditionally maintained some of the best external examination marks in the
Waikato region, regularly gaining a significant number of A grades and scholarships. In recent years students from the school have been awarded the top mark in New Zealand in Mathematics, History of Art and Maori examinations.
With the advent of the
National Certificate Of Educational Achievement (NCEA) qualifications, Hamilton Boys' High School has adopted the
Cambridge International Examinations in addition to the state run
NCEA .
Hamilton Boys' High School currently has six houses. All of the day boy houses are named after former headmasters of the school.
- Tait - Red
- Taylor - Green
- Wilson - Blue
- Steel - Grey
- Baigent - Yellow
- Argyle - Black
Hamilton Boys' High operates an
Enrolment Scheme .
Enrolment was traditionally by academic examination followed by an interview. Alternatively a student might be enrolled if he had a family connection to the school. The school still examines new students but only for the purposes of streaming students.
As well as a number of
All Black s and
All Whites , the following people are Old Boys of Hamilton Boys' High School:
- Eben Wilson 1911 - 1937
- Harold Tait 1938 - 1957
- Aubrey Baigent 1958 - 1969
- Dick Taylor 1970 - 1979
- Tony Steel 1980 - 1989
- James Bennett 1990 - 1999
- Susan Hassall 1999 -
