Go Kelvin! Have a Merry Christmas

Christmas colours by Mr Edwards

The Dive Camp Video

What a fantastic camp. Diving in the National Aquarium was the highlight.

Assembly Awards week 6

Black Badges

Jack Kinder

Angus Tylee

Kent Robertson  

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Star Badges

Mark Bartlett

Isaiah Pritchard

Jonty Lombard

William Morris

Michael Welch

jacob Dearlove

Taylor Burke

Bruce Donald

Jake Hobbs 

Headmasters Colours for Academics

Sam Reddish

Ben Dawson

Daniel Hadlow

Baxter Perry

Colours for Academics

Jack McKnight

Sam Scully

Fraser Martin

Harry Cave

Ben McAlley

Finn Coleman

Tennis Colours
Josh Lennox

Softball Colours

Finn Coleman, Chris Jaggard, Theo McNaughton, Isaiah Pritchard, Mitchell Cremer, Ricky Sharratt

Headmaster’s Softball Colours for Ben Bell, Szymon Dawidowski

Manawatu Cricket reps

Jamie Connell

Trey Bidios

Tom Alderson

Harry Cave

Horowhenua reps

Brodie Hobbs

Jake Hobbs

Taupo cycle race: Darren & Bradley 80k;  Hunter Stoneman Boyle 40km

John Key visits the Huntley boys

Did you see the boys on TV One? Looks like we backed a winner! Well done to old boy Ian McKelvie who is also the new member for Rangitikei. Ian's family have sent four generations of McKelvie's through Huntley. (I believe the 5th ar not far away:) )

Athletic Sports 2011

What a fantastic day!

Public Speaking 2011

Junior: Joe Reddish
Intermediate: William McRae
Senior: Angus Tylee

Hunterville Shemozzle Winners

Left to right
Darren, Jack, Hunter








Well done to Hunter Werthmuller, Darren Hirschberg and Jack Kinder for winning the School Teams event. It is the second year in a row that we have achieved this! It is also, rather amazingly, the second year in a row that Hunter Werthmuller has won the title.

Hut building on Sunday

The boys are madly building their huts getting ready for the sleepover near the end of the term.

Summer Sport starts

A great start to the term. The boys are happy to be out in the sun.

Boys warming up for nationals

The A team came 6th and the B side  came a very creditable 10th. Well done boys we are very proud of you all.

Jim Dixon

Huntley School drum teacher Jim Dixon has sadly passed away after an ongoing fighting with cancer.

Jim was an warm, caring, gentle man and his students had a lot of time for him as he did for them. He was enthusiastic about music and loved the energy the boys brought to his lessons. He was always happy to help with music concerts and quietly went about making sure the boys performed to the best of their abilities.

Our sympathies go out to Jim's family.

Go Tonga

What a magic game!

Open Day 2nd November 2011

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Here’s a little of what you’ll read in this issue:

• The amazing Dr. Jason Fox writes about motivating kids to learn through gaming
• Channel 9’s Morning Show regular Dannii Miller has a great piece on overcoming self-consciousness in girls (it’s great for boys too!)
• Fay Angelo writes about helping girls (and you) prepare  for their first period.
• Fivehive’s Yvonne Adele has some getting to bed tips with a difference
• Ninja Dad Malcolm Nix has a cool column for dads! It’s a great read and it’s fun too!

There’s heaps more......................

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Please pass this magazine on to your parent community. Oh, and have a good read of it yourself!

Regards,

Michael Grose

Music Concert

The Music Concert was a lot of fun and the boys once again enjoyed showing their skills.

Boys at the home show

2011 Golf Day

What a fantastic day! $38000 approx. Yay looks like the new Turf is getting closer.

ERO Review

The Education Review Office have been into the school on Monday and Tuesday of this week. Whilst this is a relatively short timeframe I was impressed with the amount of information they were able to process in that time. Key areas they wanted to see was continued improvement to our educational curriculum carrying on from our last outstanding report, our management of the dormitories, and our management of International Students.

I sent them a copy of our procedures and our new curriculum document. On site these were the areas they felt we were doing extremely well in:

1. Our Curriculum Document. ERO felt in their discussions and observations that our curriculum document was a very comprehensive document that drew in all aspects of the Huntley Ethos and gave staff a solid theoretical platform to launch their teaching from. They felt our staff attestation and professional development practices were of a very high standard and allowed for constant review by using the Teaching as Inquiry process. Staff are using high quality data to develop quality learning programmes. Advancement in nationalised testing was generally well above national standards expected. They felt that the teachers planning was in line with our stated curriculum and there was a clear correlation between planning and identified needs for the pupils at the school. They clearly identified that the boys knew their learning goals and what they were hoping to achieve within their lessons. The Huntley Values were strongly a part of the school ethos and this was apparent in many of the lessons they observed.
2. Our Dormitories. There was clear evidence of student voice in this area of school with surveys being taken regularly. The pastoral care of the boys is an obvious priority and they also commented on the role of the form teacher in ensuring that all boys have someone they can talk with when experiencing any difficulties. They felt the addition of the new heaters had been well received by the boys and their parents. They were pleased to see we had gone through a process of self review in the areas of Nutrition, Medication Administration, Earthquake and Fire drills and Bullying surveys.
3. International students were obviously very happy and making pleasing progress within the school. The quality of the pastoral care of these boys was exceptional and Lyn Barnett is obviously doing a fantastic job with these boys.

Lazer Tag THE VIDEO

Doodle for Google designs

Our junior entrants into the Doodle for Google competition.

Rourke Fraser


Taylor Burke

Medbury Matches

Snow Day at Huntley

Snow at Huntley

What a beautiful sight to wake up to!

Blokes Night Photos

Huntley School’s “Blokes Night”

a huge success!

Our third Blokes night was a great success with 220 blokes (Including boys) involved. The idea for Blokes night is for dad’s, uncles, male friends to spend an evening at Huntley celebrating what it means to be a bloke. In this case it was watching the All Blacks play Australia. The dress was “Black” although a few Yellow jersies seemed to appear.  I was overwhelmed by the response of our families. Most boys had a significant male in their lives there on the night. Dads were only too happy to have other boys join them as well so no one was left out.

Many dads, granddads and uncles appeared on the night and sent the message out “Hey son, you’re important and I want to be part of this.”  The evening started off with some drinks a meal of hot dogs and chips, followed by a rugby test. We watched the movie “Wild America (1997)”.

I have recently been re-reading Steve Biddulf’s book, Raising Boys and Ian Grant’s Growing Great Boys.  Both point out the importance of “male time”. One of the benefits of Huntley is its largely male staff but adding the boys own male role models into the mix is a real winner. Boys at this age love being with their mates but they also like the opportunity to be with older males.

“Without male role-models, boy culture feels lost…Boy culture that is not mentored by spiritually vital elder males is more a gang culture. The elder males provide it with inter-generational magic, discipline, and direction. –

Michael Gurian, The Wonder of Boys

I would like to thank all the men that made the evening such a special occasion. As always it is wonderful working with the Huntley families who understand the bigger picture of getting the best out of their sons. This is just another example of Huntley and families “Preparing boys for the adventure of life.”

Regards,

Brad gay

Headmaster

Capture the flag

Weekend table tennis

Boys enjoying a squad tournament Saturday.

Remember Blokes Night on Saturday

Click on the link below for more information.

Blokes Night

Dormitory Heaters installed

Parents and boys will be pleased to know we have installed new heaters in the dormitories. This will be warmly recieved, if you can excuse the pun, by the boys. Many thanks to the PFH for their help on this project.