Congratulations to Bowen Steffert, who has come first place in the Manu Korero Competition in June 2024.

University Scholarships for Year 13 Students

  • MoneyHub has published a guide to hundreds of scholarships for any student planning to start university in 2025.
  • https://www.moneyhub.co.nz/scholarships-nz.html is the link.
  • The comprehensive list includes scholarships offered by every university as well as those specifically available to local students.
  • A list of privately-funded, Maori, Pacific and International university scholarships completes the list
  • Applications close throughout the year, with tens of millions of dollars available.
  • MoneyHub has also published a list of tips for scholarship success. 

Junior Graduation Programme

Hastings Boys' High School will start their new Junior Graduation programme at the start of Term 2. The aim of the graduation programme is:

  • To encourage students to work to achieve their best
  • To provide timely and indicative snap shots of progress and achievement
  • To actively reward both achievement and effort at all ability levels
  • To further support out identification of students that require additional support
  • To provide data that can be used by form teachers in their role as academic mentors
  • To provide additional understandable data to parents on academic achievement and attendance

Students will be graded on four criteria every two weeks and the outcomes will be readily available to all students and families/whānau on their student app accounts. The criteria ae:

  • Learning progress
  • Attendance
  • Co-curricular participation
  • Ākina Man Values

Students who are not meeting the expected criteria will be quickly identified and provided with additional support and guidance to assist them in improving.

At the end of the year the students will either:

  • Graduate with Achieved
  • Graduate with Merit
  • Graduate with Excellence
  • Fail to Graduate

All graduates will be recognised at Junior Prizegiving.