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NEWCASTLE BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL
NBHS 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 closed as Newcastle Boys’ High School
and became a co-educational non-selective school, initally named Waratah High School.
MOTTO
Latin: Remis Velisque
With Oars & Sails
(ie With all one’s might)
HOUSES
Hannell ♦♦♦ RED
Hunter ♦♦♦ YELLOW
Shortland ♦♦♦ GREEN
Smith ♦♦♦ BLUE
SCHOOL COLOURS
♦♦♦ RED & ♦♦♦ BLUE
Newcastle Boys High School was established in 1929 when the Hill High School on the Hill 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.[3] Later it became Waratah Technology High School, and then Waratah Technology Campus of Callaghan College in 2000.
An academically selective boys-only high school which moved to Waratah in 1934.
HEADMASTERS
The Headmasters of Newcastle Boys High School were:
- 1930–31 Robert Frederick Harvey
- 1932–34 Charles Herbert Christmas
- 1935–44 Norman Ross Mearns
- 1945–47 William Pillans
- 1948–63 Frank Harold Beard
- 1964–74 Leonard Thomas Richardson
- 1975–76 Victor Huish Webber (relieving)
SCHOOL SONG
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.
SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIPS
The following Newcastle Boys’ High School students won scholarships to the Professor Harry Messel International Science School:
1962 Malcolm James Williams / 1964 Peter Gordon Browne / 1965 Ian Donald Henderson / 1966 Grahame John Edgar / 1967 Michael Duncan Daffey / 1968 David Ian Cocking / 1969 David Bruce Williams / 1969 Graeme John Williams / 1971 Danny James Llewellyn / 1971 Ian Allen Watson / 1973 Richard Kleeman / 1973 Stephen Bruce Ticehurst / 1974 John Ambler / 1974 Dale Kleeman
NOTABLE ALUMNI
Michael Back – Freehills Brisbane managing partner
Reginald Ian Barrett – jurist; Judge, Supreme Court of New South Wales (2001–2015)
Jonathan Biggins – entertainer, writer
Leigh Blackmore – horror writer, critic, editor, musician
Peter Cave – journalist; Current Affairs Foreign Editor, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Peter Robert Charlton (1946–2007) – journalist, soldier, military historian; editor at The Courier-Mail from 1996
William T. Cooper AO – artist and ornithologist
Phil Cousins OAM – community worker, surf life-saver, mines rescue leader; Venerable Order of Saint John (2004), Centenary Medal (2003), named Open Champion (First Aid) Surf Life Saving Australia (1994 and 1997), Gold Medallion NSW Mines Rescue Service (1993)
Julian Croft – novelist and poet; Emeritus Professor of English, University of New England
Howard Crozier OAM (1936–) – teacher, education administrator, CSIRO manager, shire councillor, grazier
Roger Dean CBE – Federal Member for Robertson 1949–64, Administrator of the Northern Territory 1964–70, diplomat
Robert Douglas AO – medical practitioner and academic; chair, SEE-Change ACT; emeritus professor and visiting fellow, Australian National University; chair, Australia 21
Gary Gilmour – Australian cricketer
Ross Gittins AM – author; economics editor of The Sydney Morning Herald
Kevan Gosper – international sports administrator; company director
John Harding – violinist; Concertmaster, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (2006–)
Sam Jones – trade unionist, politician; Labor member of New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Waratah (1965–84)
Patrick McGorry – psychiatrist, academic, 2010 Australian of the Year
Jeffrey Miles – author, jurist; Chief Judge, Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory (1985–2002)
Arthur Morris – Australian cricketer
Peter Morris – Federal Minister; Federal Member for Shortland 1972–98
Gary Neat – journalist and author; Foreign Correspondent ABC Indochina/SE Asia; CEO of the Queensland Liberal Party; Senate Candidate & Federal Executive; National President – Australian Institute of Management
Dick Tooth – Australian rugby union footballer, orthopaedic surgeon and sports science pioneer
Ivan Welsh – politician; Lake Macquarie mayor and member of New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1988–91)
