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Shirley Boys' High School (known as SBHS) is a single sex state (public) secondary school in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is situated on a 6 hectare site in the suburb of Shirley, 3.8 kilometres (13 minutes) from the city centre, but it will be co-located with Avonside Girls' High School at a site in east Christchurch. The location was announced on 12 February 2015 as the former QEII Park site. The school colours are sky blue and gold. == Brief history == Parents in the eastern and northern suburbs of Christchurch had wanted single-sex education for their sons. In 1957, this finally became available when the school opened under its first Headmaster, Charles Gallagher. Established on a swampy paddock formerly used for grazing horses to the west of North Parade, the School grew rapidly. Within a few years it became a self-confessed and proud rival to Christchurch Boys' High School as well as to St. Andrew's and St Bede's College.〔 〕 A detailed satirical portrait of the school as it was in the late 1960s can be found in ''The Shining City'', a novel by former student Stevan Eldred-Grigg. A boy about to begin at the school is told 'The big guys will pull your knob off. The big guys pull the knob off all the little guys'.〔This referred to the knob on the top of the caps which were then part of the uniform〕 Charles Vaughan Gallagher, the headmaster of the period, is portrayed as John Vere Coughlan: 'a squat man in a drooping black gown'. The protagonist of the novel decides that the school was 'just a lie, just a blank in the middle of the day'. On the Easter weekend (April) of 2007, Shirley Boys' High School celebrated its 50th Jubilee. Commemorative events included an Old Boys' XV playing the current 2nd XV and the 1st XV playing in historic uniform against St. Andrew's College; as well as a golf tournament, formal black-tie dinner, staff luncheon and 'meet-and-greet evening'. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shirley Boys' High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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