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| Hastings Boys' High School | |
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| Location | |
| 800 South Karamu Road, Hastings, New Zealand |
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| Coordinates | 39°39′00″S 176°50′09″E / 39.6501°S 176.8357°ECoordinates: 39°39′00″S 176°50′09″E / 39.6501°S 176.8357°E |
| Information | |
| Type | State single-sex boys, Secondary (Year 9-13) |
| Established | 1909 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 227 |
| Headmaster | R.G. Sturch |
| School roll | 670 |
| Socio-economic decile | 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 1909 as Hastings High School. Fifty years later, it split into Hastings Girls' School and Hastings Boys' School. It has four Houses, Te Mata (red), Heretaunga (blue), Te Kahu (grey) and Mana 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.[1][2] The Maori tribe Ngati 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.[3] However, as of 2008, the cloning has not taken place.
[edit] Notable Students
- Phil Judd - AFI Award winning composer, songwriter, musician, producer, performer and visual artist. Founding member of Split Enz, also famous for writing No. 1 single "Counting The Beat" whilst frontman of The Swingers. He is a member of the ARIA Hall Of Fame for his work in Split Enz. As a visual artist, he has work notably in Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and the National Gallery of Victoria.
- Hikawera Elliot - Junior All Blacks and current All Black
- Alby Mathewson - All Black
- Danny Lee - Former All Black
- Josh Kronfeld - Former All Black
- Paora Winitana- NZ Breakers
[edit] References
- ^ Boys Cloning Birds, New Zealand Science Monthly, September 2000. Retrieved on 15 December 2008.
- ^ "CNN - Cloning of extinct Huia bird approved". CNN website. CNN news. July 20, 1999. http://www.cnn.com/NATURE/9907/20/cloning.enn/. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
- ^ Dorey, Emma (1999). "Huia cloned back to life?". Nature Biotechnology 17 (8): 736. doi:10.1038/11628. PMID 10429272. http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v17/n8/full/nbt0899_736c.html. Retrieved 2008-12-15..
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The schools drama department has had outstanding results in the past years' stage challenge event, taking out first place in 2008 and third in 2010.
