We are having a working bee at the garden project on Saturday 6th November from 10am to 2pm. The garden is at St John’s Avenue – opposite the church. The aim is to finish installing the watering system and repairs to the greenhouse. It will help if you can bring Continue Reading
Beer and Bite (after the AGM)
You are welcome to join us for another Beer and Bite to be held on 20 August 2021. This will follow the AGM so come along earlier if you would like to attend. (Particularly if you are an administrator or accountant as we need a new Treasurer.) Notice of the Continue Reading
Rugby Premiers celebrate 50 years
Members of the New Town High School 1971 Under 16 Rugby Team met on Saturday 17th July to celebrate their Grand Final win 50 years ago. They were joined by Assistant Principal, Ben Wilson for a lunch at University Rugby Clubrooms. It was at this ground where the ‘Boys of Continue Reading
Hall of Excellence and Annual Debate details
1. Hall of Excellence – 2021 Inductees On Friday 23 April, 15 former scholars were inducted into the Hall of Excellence. About 75 members of the old scholars community attended the event and were entertained by former Head Prefect Nic Clifford who did a great job as MC. See full Continue Reading
April 2021 News
Next Event: Centenary Book Launch and Hall of Excellence Inductees for 2021 The next event will be at 6pm on Friday 23rd April 2021 at the school assembly hall. Firstly, we will be launching the Centenary Book. Edited by former scholar and teacher, Alec Young, this book covers the history Continue Reading
Hobart Junior Technical College Old Boy – Ralph King
Welcome to the latest edition in our series of features about the life and times of former students of New Town High School, Hobart Technical High School and Hobart Junior Technical College. In this edition, we’re very pleased to introduce you to Ralph King, a student of Hobart Junior Technical Continue Reading
December 2020 News
At our AGM in September, Geoff Dodge was elected President. Geoff says, “I was at Hobart Technical High School from 1957 until 1961 and was in the last Matriculation class at the school. In fact, the school was renamed New Town High School the year after I left. I spent Continue Reading
A Walk Down Memory Lane
It’s at this point that we’d normally be publishing a story about an “old boy” of the School who has gone on to make a significant contribution in their after school years, perhaps a contribution that their years at school may have mapped for them. This time around however, time has beaten me Continue Reading
Annual Debate wins support!
Readers may remember the Great Debate held in our Centenary Year. Three schoolboys took on three Supreme Court judges to debate the merits (or otherwise) of lowering the voting age to 16. The debate was fierce and very entertaining. The look on Justice Estcourt’s face was priceless when he realised Continue Reading
Garden Update – December
Planting, watering and weeding have been the order of the day at the Urban Food Project at St John’s Avenue. Some more Old Scholars have been joining regulars Rick Cazaly, Wayne Fletcher and John Lennard, under the very experience eye of garden guru David Stephen. Dr Mike Hodgson kindly donated Continue Reading