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The amazing fledgling feminist group at Wellington High have established a wall of commentary from students around the theme: “I need Feminism because”.  

  Congratulations to Max Beauchamp, Taran Molloy and Eddyn Perkins-Treacher who proudly represented Wellington High School at this year’s Maatangi Whenua Geography competition. The team were tested on their understanding of geographic concepts, skills and general knowledge of global geography. They ended up second out of 14 teams in the Wellington Region. What a great […]

This year Wellington High school entered three teams in the Aurecon Bridge Building competition. Each team of  year ten students were given some simple building materials and tasked with building a bridge to span a fixed distance. The judging criteria were strength, aesthetics and innovation. The Sassbandits team of Jess Eaton, Lucy Brown and Isabella […]

Three of our junior teams made it to their division finals this week and they were all played at WHS on Thursday after school. The year 9 boys did particularly well to win Division 2 – they beat a Rongatai team made up of all year 10s by 5 games to 1. Excellent effort by Otis Rea […]

Iana Takarangi and Oakley Spain on the 8th of August, led a panel discussion with critically acclaimed author, Witi Ihimaera. Iana and Oakley asked Witi about his family, his inspiration for writing and his education and career. They were awesome!  

Every week on Thursday a special group of staff gather in the library to support students needing extra help with their learning. There’s a quiet buzz as senior students work alongside Year 9s and 10s and teachers work one on one with kids to provide extra, focused support. Suz Meijer, Maths teacher extraordinaire with a senior student. […]

Wellington High’s Kapa Haka crew Te Whanau a Taraika represented our school at the Wellington Regional Whakataetae competition and placed fifth amongst a strong field of schools. This achievement is outstanding for our fledgling group as many of the other schools compete year after year and have a wealth of student experience to draw on. […]

We have had a formal engineering assessment showing that all our buildings are safe and sound. We look forward to welcoming our students back into school on Monday 29 July. We encourage all our whanau to make a firm family emergency plan in case there is a large aftershock during school hours.Click here for more information about […]

This year the WHS Shakespeare Society took on the daunting task of producing one of  the bard’s most challenging plays – King Lear. The drama follows unraveling of a King’s kingdom and mind as his family implodes and he finds himself the victim of numerous betrayals (brought on by his own ego and those closest […]