Newcastle Boys' High School


Newcastle Boys' High School was a government-funded single-sex selective high school, located in Waratah, a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The school was active between 1929 and 1976, after which time it became a co-educational non-selective school.

History

Newcastle Boys High School was established in 1929 when the Hill High School was split into two selective single-sex schools, the other being Newcastle Girls High School. Hill High School's campus was located on Newcastle Hill, at a site now occupied by Newcastle East Public School, and was referred to as "the School on the Hill". Newcastle Girls High School moved to a new campus in Hamilton, and Newcastle Boys High School moved to a new campus in Waratah in 1934, at which time Hill High School became Newcastle Junior Boys High School. Both Newcastle Boys and Newcastle Girls high schools carried on the traditions established by the original school, including use of the same motto and school colours.
Newcastle Boys High School became non-selective and co-educational in 1977 and changed its name to Waratah High School that same year. Later it became Waratah Technology High School, and then Waratah Technology Campus of Callaghan College in 2000.

Headmasters

The Headmasters of Newcastle Boys High School were:
Newcastle Boys High School continued to sing the Newcastle High School song: words by a member of staff, R. G. Henderson MA set to the tune of "D'ye ken John Peel?", chosen by competition announced in 1913 in the school journal, "Novocastrian". When the boys moved to the plain at the Waratah site, they no longer climbed up The Hill and the first verse was re-written in 1943 by Mr Hodge.
1913 version1943 version

D'ye ken the school on the hill so high,

Bravely facing the winds and the sky,

While the waves sing their song to the beaches high,

As the bell goes for school in the morning.



Chorus:

Yes, when we are gone in the years far ahead,

When the last game's played and the last lesson said,

The name of the school will awaken from the dead

The memories of many a morning.



Serving straight in a hard-fought match

Sprinting for the tape or a puzzling catch.

The 'blues' from the limit man to the scratch

Will still do their best night and morning.







Remis Velisque's the motto for all

And our hearts once again will still hear its call,

When the muscles are stiff that once toed the ball,

Or climbed up the hill in the morning.





Smith House boys, here's a song for you,

Hunter and Hannell and Shortland too,

Sing it as our fathers sang it, loud and true,

As they climbed up the hill in the morning.



Chorus:

Yes, when we are gone in the years far ahead,

When the last game's played and the last lesson said,

The name of the school will awaken from the dead

The memories of many a morning.



Serving straight in a hard-fought match

Sprinting for the tape or a puzzling catch.

The 'blues' from the limit man to the scratch

Will still do their best night and morning.







Remis Velisque's the motto for all

And our hearts once again will still hear its call,

When the muscles are stiff that once toed the ball,

Or climbed up the hill in the morning.




Science scholarships

The following Newcastle Boys' High School students won scholarships to the Professor Harry Messel International Science School:
YearSchoolboy
1962Malcolm James Williams
1964Peter Gordon Browne
1965Ian Donald Henderson
1966Grahame John Edgar
1967Michael Duncan Daffey
1968David Ian Cocking
1969David Bruce Williams
1969Graeme John Williams
1971Danny James Llewellyn
1971Ian Allen Watson
1973Richard Kleeman
1973Stephen Bruce Ticehurst
1974John Ambler
1974Dale Kleeman

Extra-curricular activities

The following Newcastle Boys' High School boys were awarded "Blues" by the New South Wales Combined High Schools Sports Association under the system which operated from 1957 to 1980:
YearSportSchoolboy
1960TennisD Kelso
1960AthleticsP Langley
1961TennisP Marshall
1962BasketballD Collins
1962SoccerJ Smith
1962SoccerJ Thurlow
1962TennisP Marshall
1963CricketB Gibson
1963TennisW Harrison
1964CricketI Forrester
1964TennisC East
1965AthleticsP Wright
1967BaseballG Gilmour
1967Rugby LeagueJ Davis
1967Rugby UnionJ Davis
1968SoccerR O'Hearn
1969CricketG Gilmour
1970Rugby LeagueJ Shield
1970SoccerG Valentine
1971BasketballT Antcliffe
1974BasketballG Logan
1974SailingM Long

Notable alumni