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Westlake Boys High School (Māori: Te Kura Tuarua o Ngā Taitamatāne o Ururoto) is a state secondary school for boys in Forrest Hill, Auckland, New Zealand. The school opened in 1962, when Westlake High School (opened 1958) split into Westlake Girls High School on the existing site and Westlake Boys High School on a new site.[3] Serving Years 9 to 13, the college has 2,711 students as of February 2024.[1]
Westlake Boys Deputy headmaster David Ferguson took on the role of Headmaster of Westlake Boys High School, taking over from Craig Monaghan, a former Commonwealth Games Judo representative and referee.[4]
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Westlake Boys and Girls
Physically a few hundred metres apart, Westlake Girls and Westlake Boys engage in a joint annual theatrical production, participate in several joint musical ensembles (including a joint choir, two orchestras, a concert band and a jazz band), and some social dances, among other things. The two schools share a motto – Virtute Experiamur – "Let Courage Be Thy Test" in Latin.
Academic pathways
Westlake Boys High School uses the National Certificate of Educational Achievement to assess students. Until 2019, it also offered Cambridge Assessment International Education as an option, but this was phased out from 2016.[5][6]
Sporting
The school's teams compete in all Auckland and North Harbour inter-secondary school competitions leading to regional, national and international championships.[7] In 2008/09, Westlake came second in both the Gillette and Maadi Cups in 2009, in both cases, losing to Hamilton Boys'. [citation needed]
Music and performing arts
The educational music programme covers performance, composition, analysis, history and aural skills. Along with the option of taking music as a subject, there is also a compulsory Year 9 course, focusing on the appreciation of music and drama in everyday life through theoretical and practical exercises, which runs for multiple weeks throughout the year.[8]
The school has a number of performing groups: a choir ('Voicemale'), a Barbershop Chorus ('Virtutti'), a Concert Band, Stage Band, and Junior Symphonic band. Orchestral groups include the Westlake Symphony, Chamber Orchestra the junior Taharoto Orchestra and the boys' string groups Conchordia and Camerata. The performing groups have won awards at the annual KBB Music Festival (formerly the Auckland Secondary Schools Band and Orchestra Festival or 'ASSBOF'). Some groups, such as the Choralation Choir, which won the platinum award at the Big Sing Finale in 2009, 2010, and 2011 are combined with Westlake Girls High School.[9]
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Notable alumni
- Charles R. Alcock – astronomer, director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Politics
- John Watson – Auckland Councillor, former local board member and former Head Boy[10]
The Arts
- Martin Henderson – film, TV and theatre actor
- Don McGlashan – musician, The Mutton Birds and Blam Blam Blam
- Tim Mahon and Mark Bell – founding members of Blam Blam Blam
Business
- A. J. Hackett – popularised bungee jumping
- John Hood – Rhodes Scholar, former CEO of Fletcher Challenge, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland and of Oxford University
Journalism
- Duncan Garner – television journalist
Environment
Sport
Basketball
- Thomas Abercrombie
- Jarrod Kenny
- Kirk Penney
- Corey Webster
- Tai Webster
- Robert Loe
- Jack Salt
- Yanni Wetzell
Cricket
- Andre Adams – former Black Cap
- Billy Bowden – ICC cricket umpire
- Paul Hitchcock – former Black Cap
- Justin Vaughan – former Black Cap, CEO New Zealand Cricket
- Lou Vincent – former Black Cap (National Cricket Team)
- Willie Watson – former NZ cricketer
- Bevon Jacobs – New Zealand cricketer
Football
- Neil Jones – former All White
- Tommy Smith – footballer, All Whites
- Robert Ironside – former captain All White
Rowing
- Barrie Mabbott – Olympic Bronze medallist rower
- Mike Stanley – 1984 Olympic rower[11]
- Eric Verdonk – Olympic Bronze medallist rower
- Andy Hay – 1984 Olympic coxswain
- Michael Brake – 2021 Olympic Gold medallist
Rugby League
- Frano Botica – former All Black and Kiwi
- Taniela Tuiaki – former Kiwi and West Tigers
Rugby union
- Nick Evans – former All Black
- Mike Harris – current Wallaby
- Luke McAlister – former All Black
- Dillon Hunt – current All Black
- Ron Williams – former All Black[citation needed]
- Wayne Pivac – former Wales national rugby union team coach
Sailing
- Tom Ashley – Olympic Gold medalist board sailor
- Dean Barker – a skipper of Team New Zealand, has participated in America's Cup and Louis Vuitton Cup as well as representing New Zealand at Olympics
- Hamish Pepper – Navigator of Team New Zealand, has participated in America's Cup 2003 as well as representing New Zealand at Olympics in 1996, 2004, 2008 & 2012
- Chris Dickson – former helmsman of BMW Oracle Racing and had participated in Louis Vuitton Cup
Shooting
- Malcolm Cooper – double Olympic Gold Medallist and founder of weapons manufacturing company Accuracy International, makers of the Arctic Warfare Magnum rifle
Motorsport
- Nick Cassidy — New Zealand racing driver, current Formula E driver for Jaguar TCS Racing.[12]
References
- ^ a b "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
- ^ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ^ Sparks, Zizi (17 February 2017). "Former Westlake High School students celebrate 60-year reunion". North Shore Times.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ "Curriculum Review 2015 | Westlake Boys High School". www.westlake.school.nz. Archived from the original on 17 May 2016. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ Nicoll, Andrew. "Westlake Boys High School 2019 Board of Trustees Annual Report" (PDF). Westlake Boys High School.
- ^ [2] Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Arts | Westlake Boys High School". www.westlake.school.nz. Retrieved 25 May 2016.
- ^ [3] Archived 23 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Meet the Team – John Watson". Putting People First. Archived from the original on 7 July 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
- ^ "Mike Stanley". Westlake Boys High School. Archived from the original on 6 October 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
- ^ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/motorsport-teen-prodigy-changes-gear-for-trs-series/ZWRD32JGPM4CW2IDKYGGRF4QDY/ [bare URL]
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