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The Wrap Up (Week 1, Term 3, 2025)

Welcome back to Term 3! Some great achievements to celebrate over the school holidays, from the LEGO Robocup competition to half-marathon success. A lot to look forward to this term, including our annual Blank Canvas. This and more on this week’s Wrap Up.

Important Dates

  • Monday 21 July – Board Meeting 6.00pm
  • Monday 4 August – Careers Expo (parents welcome from 3.20pm) and Future Focus      Evening
  • Monday 11 August – Senior Parents Evening 2.00-5.30pm
  • Monday 18 August – Board Meeting 6.00pm
  • Friday 22 August – Mid-Term Break
  • Monday 25 –  Friday 29 August – Winter Tournament week
  • Tuesday 2 September – Sports Awards
  • Thursday 5 – Friday 5 September – Writing CAA exam
  • Monday 8 – Friday 12 September – Derived grade exam week. Numeracy and Literacy    Reading CAAs and DCAT exams
  • Monday 15 September – Board Meeting 6.00pm
  • Thursday 18 September – Music Evening
  • Friday 19 September – Term 3 ends

Important Information

Extended Absence Notifications

If your student will be away from school for an extended period, please notify the Principal via admin@whs.school.nz. This enables us to track student absences ensuring they are categorised correctly and the relevant staff notified. It also means that whānau understand implications for their student e.g. in terms of NCEA assessment etc.

Doors open 8am

This week we have had a number of students arriving at school as early as 7am. Our doors do not open until 8am so students should not be arriving before then to avoid being out in the cold.

What’s Happening

WHS Counselling Department

We are excited to announce that the official new name for our counselling department is now: Kia Tū Māia. There was a small ceremony to celebrate this on Wednesday morning. For us, Kia Tū Māia means ‘to stand confidently’ reflecting our department’s aim to develop people’s capabilities and resilience and support them to grow and develop as a person. In relation to this, the counsellors are kaiwhakamāia, who help to build people’s confidence and our associated whakataukī is ‘Kia kaha, kia māia, kia manawanui’ – Be strong, be brave, be steadfast. Ākonga studying Toi Māori worked together to create our new logo:

Blank Canvas

WHS Annual Blank Canvas Staff & Student Exhibition is happening!

SWIS Open Evening

 

Achievements

Wellington Half Marathon

Shout out to Will Cleaver-Paris (Year 12) for his phenomenal achievement in the Wellington half marathon last month. Will smashed the course in a time of 1:19:35, placing him 2nd in the U20 division and 52nd out of the 926 participants. To give this some perspective to non-runners, that is 1km per 3m 45s maintained across the 21km course.

LEGO Robocup Regional Competition

On Sunday 29th Wellington High School hosted the LEGO Robocup Regional competition. Two pf our students, Jet and Callum, placed first place for ‘onstage novice’ with their team ‘useless robots’.

From Tuhura Tech who ran the event emailed Mr Barrow, saying “Huge thanks to Wellington High School for generously providing the space, and to all the tamariki, mentors, and whānau who made the day so special.” We are also looking forward to seeing some of these amazing teams head to nationals, run by the Ministry of Inspiration!

 

 

 

WHS a new approach to waste

No visitor to WHS can have missed the recycling and composting bins that are present (and extremely well used) in every area of our kura. Behind the project is Year 9 Dean and Social Studies Tina Stolze who, this week, has been featured in the Enviroschools project write up ‘Wellington High School: a new approach to waste’. This in-depth write up details just how much mahi Tina has undertaken to get the project from its inception in 2023 to where it is now. Ka rawe Tina!

Careers

Pathway Newsletter

Please read this week’s Pathways Newsletter! 

Contact Chuni Bhikha: bac@whs.school.nz or drop into S502 if you require further information on the above events.

Important Update

The Pathways Team are transitioning from these types of Newsletters to an online format through our new website–Careerwise. Please check out the link below, and subscribe to our newsletter so that you can continue to receive communication from us. From mid-way through this term, newsletters will be in this format ONLY.

Link to online newsletter via Careerwise

HOW TO SUBSCRIBE

This is an open website, which means that students and staff don’t need to “log in.”

If you go to the homepage, you will see a section that says “Click here to stay connected with Wellington High School”

Once you click this section, two options will come up, one being “Sign up to receive regular updates.” You will be able to enter your email, where the newsletter will be sent!

Please let me know if you have any other questions by emailing PMA@whs.school.nz.