Visit our photo galleries for memories from the 2024 celebration assemblies, Senior Celebration Evening and Sports Awards Award winner lists: Junior award winners and Junior special awards Senior award winners and Senior special awards Gateway certificates Sports awards
Kia ora koutou, The following information, regarding the start of year in 2025, was sent to parents and caregivers of all enrolled students on Wednesday18 December 2024. New Year 9 students New Year 10-13 students Returning Year 10-13 students Please ensure you check your spam folder and add no-reply@whs.school.nz to your safe email address list.
Dominic’s Principal’s Message for the end of Term 4 is his address to our Year 13 students from their Senior Celebration Evening on Monday 2 December. Tēnā koutou katoa Firstly, I watched the final game of our senior A boys volleyball just over a week ago. They asked if I would mention them in a […]
A lot can change in a year, particularly in education. The new coalition government was sworn in on 27 November 2023 and immediately decided to implement a phone ban in high schools across New Zealand. Since then there have been a raft of changes and re-prioritising in the education sphere. The new government has been […]
I am handing my Principal’s message over to one of our staff for this term. Our very own Tessa Prebble has written an op-ed piece on the co-requisite exams which has been published on Emily Writes.
There has been a lot of sickness circulating in our community this winter. Perhaps we are not as good at protecting each other as we were a few years ago when COVID forced us into better practices around sickness and going to school/work. I was afflicted by a nasty bug that knocked me off my […]
I think I can speak for all (staff and students) when I say that we are looking forward to a break. Some time to refresh, recharge and get ready for what the rest of the year is going to offer. Term 2 has provided us with memorable Shakespeare Society performances, outdoor education tramps, winter sports, […]
Thank you for the response to my email in relation to school donations, fees and other charges a couple of weeks ago. I have had many families get in touch with me needing support and other families able to provide support. Miraculously, the two seem to be balancing financially at the moment and I appreciate […]
Open Evening 2024 Our Open Evening will take place on Monday 10 June. We will be offering three sessions. Tickets for all sessions must be pre-booked. 4.30pm – tour followed by Principal’s address at 5.45pm 6.00pm – tour followed by Principal’s address at 7.15pm To book, click here: https://www.trybooking.com/nz/SGF For our rangatahi Māori and those […]
Kia ora koutou I have written to whānau on a couple of occasions about the new government regulations for cell phone use in schools and the need for schools to have a policy in place for cell phone usage at school. Earlier this term we shared a draft cell phone policy with our teachers, students […]
