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Construction work at Wellington High School – summer 2025/6

This week, Naylor Love has started establishing their site for the building of our new Science and Technology block where the car park currently stands. This will affect access to the car park from this evening (Monday 15 December). Included are site establishment plans affecting the school holiday period as follows: Site setup from 15/12/2025 […]

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Principal’s Message – End of Term 4, 2025

I have shared a fair amount of data through these messages. I do this to support the decisions and direction we take as a school.  If you have read a number of these messages, you will know that I have linked connection to achievement, and attendance to achievement. I expect most of you would understand […]

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Water supply reconnected

The water supply to Wellington High School was reconnected earlier this afternoon. School will be open as normal tomorrow, Tuesday 25 November.  

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Wellington High School Board response to Education Amendment Bill

18 November 2025 The Wellington High School Board has sent the letter below to the Minister for Education, Erica Stanford.  

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Whakanuia postponed to 30 October at 5pm

Whakanuia postponed The met service has issued a red weather warning for Wellington from 8am – 6pm on Thursday 23 October. We have taken the decision to postpone Whakanuia to 5pm on Thursday 30 October. Please share the word with others you know who are attending. If you have any questions, please contact Whakamarurangi Chadwick. […]

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WHS Board election results

Voting for the parent, staff and student elections has now closed with the following duly elected to the Wellington High School Board: Parent representatives: Lucy Kebbell, David Cooling, Antonia Reid, Lars Stannard and Julie Reddish Staff representative: Sue Kemp Student representative: Isobel Butler (with support from Arana Inns Hall and Ella Pritchard-Yeo) The new Board […]

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Network Outage Notice – 22/09/2025

On the Monday, 22th of September, Wellington High School will be conducting a migration to a new internet service provider. During this time all on-site services will be offline. We expect the migration to be completed by the end of the same day. For update to date information, please bookmark and refer to the page […]

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Principal’s Message – Mid-Term 3, 2025

I watched Erica Stanford being interviewed on Q&A recently. I was interested to hear what she had to say about the NCEA changes that she announced on Monday 4 August. There was a moment where Jack Tame raised a statistic that you may have heard that NZQA published in their 2024 report about that year’s […]

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WHS Board Election – nominations close 12.00pm 6 August

Kia ora koutou The forthcoming election for the WHS School Board is a vital opportunity for parents and whānau to contribute to the governance and strategic direction of our kura. The Board plays a crucial role in ensuring the school provides a high-quality and inclusive education for all students, overseeing school property, finances, and setting […]

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Principal’s Message – Mid-Term 2, 2025

In November 2019, our school submitted an education brief to the Ministry of Education to inform a future planning process for the school. At the time, we were experiencing some roll growth and estimates of capital works required for the school were approaching $10,000,000 with considerable work needed on the old Alington concrete blocks.  An […]