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Weekly Wrap Up (Week 8, Term 2)
This week’s wrap up includes details of the two candidates in the forthcoming Board of Trustees by-election. In addition we celebrate publication success for three year 9 students and marvel at the art produced by Year 11 students during lockdown. Finally, we ask all families and whanau to update their emergency contact information: read the Wrap Up and fill in the form!
In this week’s wrap up you are invited to attend the Year 13 production of Every Brilliant Thing, catch up with Year 10 science enrichment and news from alumni recently graduated from postgraduate study at Harvard University in the US and Cambridge University in the UK. We also share updates from He Kākano, the Careers desk and Cafeteria.
This week we celebrate our return to the WHS campus with staff and students interviewed by RNZ on their return to school. We celebrate success in Wellington regional debating and recognise the achievements of a student who has been awarded a youth mentorship space by the New Zealand Society of Authors. With reflections of lockdown in an international students vlog and our oldest alumna celebrating her 100th birthday, the wrap up is as diverse as ever.
I write at the end of the first school week at level 2. The key principles of level 2 are to: reduce the risk of someone getting infected in the first place, ensure we can identify and contact anyone who becomes infected, understand that it is not business as usual. We have extensively planned for […]
As we prepare for all students to return to campus on Monday, this wrap up features updates the cafeteria, the Music department and a reminder to complete the public transport survey. We celebrate student lockdown success in the Money Jam competition and commend our students who, this week, opted to compete in the Otago University Junior Mathematics competition at home.
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COVID-19 update 15.05.2020
Kia ora koutou This email is to provide a little more detail about some of the services at school under alert level 2 and some information about Queen’s birthday weekend. A reminder that we are expecting to greet all of our year 9 and 10 students at 8.45am on Monday 18 May and all our […]
From Monday 18 May, WHS’s cafeteria will be using the mykindo app (or website www.mykindo.co.nz). Orders can be placed through the app or website and the service is click and collect. EFTPOS machines will also be available in the cafeteria for the week commencing 18 May. For more information, visit: https://www.whs.school.nz/wp-content/uploads/KINDO-One-page-guide-for-lunch-orders-Wellington-High-School.pdf. In addition, the cafeteria is […]
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COVID-19 update 12.5.2020
Kia ora koutou Yesterday, the Prime Minister announced that New Zealand will move into Alert Level 2 from Thursday 14 May. The Government will be reviewing this decision in two weeks time. In light of this announcement, our school will be reopening for all students from Monday 18 May and we will be making preparations […]
This week’s wrap up includes an update from Dominic Killalea in relation to COVID-19, plus we farewell Art teacher Lou Wycherley who retired on 1 May. The Shakespeare Society have been rehearsing online and we share a special lockdown edition of Fresh Avocado. In addition, we follow the 48 hour Film Festival online, celebrate alumnus Jack Buchanan’s Lockdown Boogie success and introduce CSW’s esports competition. Also including information from Simply Dental about the services they are currently able to offer.