Napier Boys' High School

Napier Boys' High School is a secondary boys' school in, Napier, New Zealand. It currently has a school roll of approximately 1,200 pupils. The school provides education from year 9 to Year 13.

Napier Boys' High School
Address
Chambers Street,
Napier,
New Zealand
Coordinates39.5145°S 176.9138°E / -39.5145; 176.9138
Information
TypeBoys Secondary with boarding facilities
MottoMahia Tika Mataku Kore
Justum Perficito Nihil Timeto
"Do Right and Fear Nothing"
Established1872
Ministry of Education Institution no.216
HeadmasterMatt Bertram
Teaching staff~80
GenderMale
Campus typeUrban
Colour(s)Navy Blue & Sky Blue         
School roll1200
Socio-economic decile6N[1]
Websitenbhs.school.nz
Aerial View of the campus

Notable alumni

Business
  • Rod Drury – Chief executive officer of Xero, accounting software.
  • Chris Tremain (born 1966) – Real Estate investor & entrepreneur.

Arts

Public service
  • Oscar Alpers (1867–1927), Supreme Court judge[2]
  • Frank Corner (born 1920), diplomat
  • Cyril Harker (1899–1970), National MP for Waipawa and Hawke's Bay (1940–1963)[3]
  • Sydney Jones (1894–1982), National MP for Hastings (1949–1954)[4]
  • Arnold Reedy (1903–1971), Māori leader
  • Percy Storkey (1891–1969), Victoria Cross recipient in an Australian unit
  • Chris Tremain (born 1966), MP for Napier (2005–2014)
  • Stuart Nash MP for Napier (2014 – Present) and Minister of Police (2017 - Present)

Religion
  • Ralph Vernon Matthews – Bishop of Waiapu from 1979 to 1983
  • John Bluck – Dean of ChristChurch Cathedral from 1990 to 2002, Bishop of Waiapu from 2002 to 2008

Sport

Other

Sport

The school is Super 8 school and has an exchange program with Wairarapa College. It also has a rugby exchange with Palmerston North Boys' High School, the Polson Banner.

Houses

The school uses a house system; the houses are:

  • Scinde (blue) the hostel house
  • Napier (red)
  • Hawke (green)
  • Clyde (yellow)

Campus

The school occupies a site of approximately 30 hectares. Originally built in brick in 1926, the school has since been redeveloped in the Art Deco style, in keeping with the Napier City theme.

The school grounds accommodate 4 rugby and 2 soccer pitches in winter and 8 grass cricket wickets in summer. There is also a swimming complex on site. The school is also the site of the Hawkes Bay Holt Planetarium.

The boarding house (Scinde House) is located on-site, and accommodates 185 pupils.

Notable teachers

Drug controversy

In 2002, a teacher Reuben John Martin was arrested and charged for manufacturing Class B MDMA, more commonly known as ecstasy. Martin pleaded guilty to the charges.[7][8]

Notes
  1. "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  2. Alpers, Oscar. "Oscar Thorwald Johan Alpers". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  3. Gustafson 1986, p. 319.
  4. Gustafson 1986, p. 324.
  5. "Richard Steven Turner : New Zealand All Black". www.rugbymuseum.co.nz. Archived from the original on 2010-06-03. Retrieved 2010-06-16.
  6. Anzac Day: From teen ratbag to hero Archived 2012-04-28 at the Wayback Machine (April 25, 2012). Hawkes Bay Today. Retrieved 2012-05-02
  7. "Bail for teacher on drugs charges". WYSIWYG New Zealand News. 10 May 2002. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008.
  8. "Two admit charges of manufacturing ecstasy". The New Zealand Herald. 11 August 2003. Retrieved 24 January 2019.

References
  • Gustafson, Barry (1986). The First 50 Years : A History of the New Zealand National Party. Auckland: Reed Methuen. ISBN 0-474-00177-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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