Attendance by Year Level

Young men in Year 9 have, on average, the highest attendance so far this year at 94.6%, followed by Year 10 (94.2%), Year 11 and Year 13 (93.1%), and Year 12 (92.2%).

Overall, average attendance across the school is 93.5%.

Of our 1813 students:

• 1,433 young men have a 90% or higher attendance rate

• 1,015 young men have a 95% or higher attendance rate

• 223 have maintained a 100% attendance record so far this year.

Attendance by Club

Murray Club students have the highest attendance rate among clubs at an average of 96.6%, followed by Albion (93.4%), Phoenix (93.3%), Gordon (93.1%), Kia Ora (92.9%), and Vernon (92.8%).

Attendance by Form Class

The top average attendance by Form Class at each year level:

Year 9 - 9BD - 96.5%

Year 10 - 10PA - 96.8%

Year 11 - 11PW - 97.1%

Year 12 - 12DT - 95.6%

Year 13 - 13OM - 97.8%

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Thank you to Mrs Durston, who presented this week's book review in assembly this morning. Mrs Durston reviewed Three Wild Dogs and the Truth, written by Markus Zusak.

https://hail.to/pnbhs/publication/QNUfWok

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Well done to all young men and staff who donated blood on our Blood Donor Day last term. We recently received a certificate from the NZ Blood Service acknowledging this important contribution to our community. Thank you to the Prefects who organised the day: Rhys Hobdey, Charlie Chisholm and Nakul Lakhani, who are pictured here with the certificate. Blood donors are always in demand, click here to book an appoitment and make a life-saving contribution to your community https://www.nzblood.co.nz/become-a-donor/book-an-appointment/

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Last weekend several PNBHS students competed at the New Zealand Secondary Schools Orienteering Championships held in Auckland.  The team was without our top competitor, Jakob Abernethy, who is racing in Europe.

The highlight saw the Junior Boys Relay team of Tom Transom, Jimmy Linklater and Hugo Sherman finishing in third place.

Other results of note from the three-day event included Hugo Skerman gained second place in the individual Long Course  and 11^th in the Individual Sprint event.