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North OtagoDecember 19

Employment major issue at WBHS

Employement-related complaints and grievances have occupied the most time as commissioner Nicola Hornsey works through issues at Waitaki Boys' High School.
Employment major issue at WBHS
Employment major issue at WBHS
NewsDecember 16

Waitaki Boys' High School junior prizegiving

Waitaki Boys' High School held its junior prizegiving recently. The prize list is. -
NewsNovember 18

Game on - it's good for you

The majority of adults and parents have a very specific view on video games - they are useless, brain- damaging and a complete and utter waste of your valuable time.
NewsNovember 18

Focus on 'how cows are mistreated'

This painting, General Cow, by Waitaki Boys' High School level 3 art pupil James McCulloch, focuses on his experience working on a dairy farm.
North OtagoSeptember 22

Calls for school trustees to resign

Calls are being made for the resignation of the Waitaki Boys' High School board of trustees after a report released on Friday found serious issues at the school.
Calls for school trustees to resign
Calls for school trustees to resign
North OtagoAugust 10

Recommendations assigned for action

Outside and internal people are being used by the Waitaki Boys' High School Board of Trustees to act on recommendations in an independent assessment that said the school was ''at a point of crisis''.
North OtagoMay 26

Teacher tried to talk to chairmen

A Waitaki Boys' High School head of department teacher tried to talk to two separate boards of trustees chairmen about issues within the school before she left at the end of last year.
Teacher tried to talk to chairmen
Teacher tried to talk to chairmen
North OtagoMay 26

'Simmering' issues upset WBHS staff

Issues at Waitaki Boys' High School have been raised by teachers with their union for at least a year, the Post Primary Teachers' Association told the Otago Daily Times yesterday.
North OtagoMay 26

Former teacher wants WBHS issues resolved

A former Waitaki Boys' High School teacher wants it to confront and resolve issues for the benefit of the school and wider community.
Former teacher wants WBHS issues resolved
Former teacher wants WBHS issues resolved
North OtagoMay 23

Facebook page musters support for school and rector

A Facebook site was set up yesterday calling for those supportive of the school and rector Paul Jackson to post comments.
North OtagoMay 20

Board works on issues

Two meetings have been held by the Waitaki Boys' High School board of trustees and another is planned for tonight as it moves through the process of dealing with comments and complaints about the school.
North OtagoMay 16

'Frustrating' for trustees

A special meeting will be held next week by the Waitaki Boys' High School board of trustees to start working through complaints and comments about the school.
NewsAugust 1

A powerless pawn in a board game

Waitaki Boys' High School year 13 pupil IvanPedersen describes the world that characters live in in George Orwell's book 1984. It is a fictional world, but one which seems frighteningly similar to the one in which Edward Snowden lives.
NewsJuly 30

Impersonal combat death dealt out from behind a machine

The stench of rotten flesh, filling our lungs with the aura of death as we wade through the constantly flowing mud.
NewsJuly 30

War leader became rector

To be a soldier in the Battle of Monte Cassino, you had to have courage, devotion, foresight and above all, the ability to fight on.
North OtagoJuly 26

Sir Malcolm 19th knight from Waitaki Boys' High

Professor Sir Malcolm Grant, CBE, last month became the 19th knight of the realm to be educated at Waitaki Boys' High School (WHBS) in Oamaru.
Sir Malcolm 19th knight from Waitaki Boys' High
Sir Malcolm 19th knight from Waitaki Boys' High
North OtagoFebruary 18

Agriculture course boosts school

Waitaki Boys' High School is returning to its roots with a major investment to boost its agricultural courses.
Agriculture course boosts school
Agriculture course boosts school
North OtagoDecember 7

WBHS staff changes

Waitaki Boys High School will next year have to continue without almost a century's worth of teaching experience, after it lost the services of several senior teaching staff in the second half of the 2012 school year.
NewsApril 24

Poetry: The Anzac service

Surrounded by giant, gruff old men, Nothing can scare or sadden them.
NewsApril 24

Officer's story that of the age

In the Penal Colony is a story about moral beliefs and sticking with those beliefs right to the end, even if that means sacrificing your own life.
North OtagoMarch 19

Boys' charity 20-hour run nets $5000

More than 100 Waitaki Boys' High School (WBHS) pupils ran more than 1000km in 20 hours during the weekend to raise funds for an Oamaru girl needing an operation.
Boys' charity 20-hour run nets $5000
Boys' charity 20-hour run nets $5000
North OtagoFebruary 2

New Waitaki rector inspires pupils to set goals

New Waitaki Boys' High School (WBHS) rector Paul Jackson was welcomed to the school at an assembly in the Hall of Memories yesterday morning.
New Waitaki rector inspires pupils to set goals
New Waitaki rector inspires pupils to set goals
NewsNovember 11

Waitaki Boys' High School senior prizes

Waitaki Boys' High School held its senior prizegiving recently.
Waitaki Boys' High School senior prizes
Waitaki Boys' High School senior prizes
North OtagoNovember 6

Rector gets rousing farewell

Departing Waitaki Boys' High School rector Dr Paul Baker was honoured in a stirring farewell assembly in the school's Hall of Memories yesterday morning.
Rector gets rousing farewell
Rector gets rousing farewell
North OtagoSeptember 2

Those were the days

Murray Millar, of Queensland, points himself out to (from left) Burns Pollock, Colin Wheeler and Phyllis Wheeler in Mr Wheeler's painting The School Dance.