Westlake Boys' High School

Peter Rae leaving some words of wisdom with the students.

Celebrating two Westlake legends.

Louis Borok leaving some words of wisdom with the students.

Farewell to two Westlake legends

After an extraordinary first half of the year, arriving Student Director, a position he held for the last 17 years at the end of a prolonged second term was eagerly of his full-time career. In recognition of Peter Rea’s welcomed by students and staff, and was marked contribution to Westlake, as a student and then with a celebration to remember. Following an as a social sciences’ teacher, our main school incredible 45 years of service, two Westlake auditorium will be known as ‘The Peter Rea legends retired from teaching and were Auditorium’ or as Peter likes to call it ‘The Great recognised for their momentous contributions Hall’. at a school assembly and farewell function. These fine men completed their final day

Peter Rea and Louis Borok recounted stories at Westlake at an evening function celebrating from their teaching careers to a captivated assembly with friends, family, and current and past staff and passed on some pearls of wisdom to the boys. Peter Rae (left) and Louis Borok enjoying their members who were excited to share this special After their speeches, the entire school honoured them standing ovation. occasion. The room buzzed with great memories with a passionately performed school haka and there was including a few hilarious anecdotes of their early not a dry eye to be seen. years in teaching. The evening concluded with the cutting

As a tribute to Louis Borok we will name our new languages block of a magnificent chocolate cake made by our talented Director of (due for completion this December) after him. Mr Borok was Head Music, Warwick Robinson. A truly special day enjoyed by so many to of Languages for many years before he became the International acknowledge two very special Westlakers.

Students enjoying the House Cross Country.

Year 9 top 3.

Year 11 top 3.

House Cross Country

30th June was a brisk but clear day, perfect for our annual House Cross Country competition. A fantastic morning of racing with over 1000 of our students donning their house shirts and completing the three-kilometre course.

The fastest time of the day belonged to Cameron Maunder, a Year 10 student, who completed the course in 10 minutes and 11 seconds! Smale House was the overall winner of the competition, followed closely by Murchison and in third place was Pupuke.

Year 10 top 3.

Senior top 3.

Paper Plane Competition

The Paper Plane competition is an event hosted by our Transition Buddy Committee to develop teamwork and demonstrate technical paper plane design knowledge. Each form class had a week to design the best paper plane that they believed would fly the furthest or could perform the best acrobatic display in the trick shot section of the competition.

The competition took place over a week and each form class competed to become the top of their house. One form class from each house advanced to the final of the distance competition and Murchison came away victorious. A standout performance from the week’s events was a 47m throw from Pupuke House. The trick shot division was very entertaining, and the most remarkable design was a cylindrical plane!