Welcome to all new students and Whānau, and welcome back to all those returning! This weekly wrap up includes important information about school photos, an update on the scholarship achievements of last year, plus a few other assorted updates on the year ahead.
There’s plenty to catch up on in this last Wrap Up for the year. Read on for end of year information including junior prizegiving, stationery orders for 2022, as well as community news and the sports and cultural photos available for download. We wish all our families and whānau a relaxing summer and a peaceful holiday.
In this Wrap Up have opportunities to sign up for the Gateway Work Experience Program for 2022. The Visual Art portfolios have been added so you can view the outstanding work from our senior students, from photography to printmaking. As well as that, an update on the flourishing school garden!
In this Wrap Up catch up with our prizewinners from Senior Prizegiving and Whakanuia and coverage of maestro Fritz Wollner’s final Music Evening. We celebrate literary success with the Katherine Mansfield short story award. Plus, the last chance to order a school magazine for 2021!
It’s the end of term and the Wrap Up is busy! Next term’s key dates (including a change to the end of term) are highlighted and we include important information for the derived grade exams and start of Term 4. We celebrate Drama, Music and Science and join the International Department in activities through the term.
As the Wrap Up goes live, Year 10 Jasper Barkett-Greenberg is on his way to Denmark to participate in the first ever Children’s General Assembly. Follow his story here.
Three of our talented footballers have played their first matches for Wellington Utd and He Kākano are busy painting a mural in the Level 1 Linkwell.
Elsewhere in this Wrap Up: looking for employment? or Wanting to find out about Wellington Trades Academy for 2022? Our careers team have the low-down.
This Wrap Up shares stories from the past few weeks, celebrating success in Japanese Speech, the national Spelling Bee and the IYNT tournament; sharing lockdown poetry and Haiku and offering the opportunity to join the Calm Collective for meditation. If you missed Year 11’s DNA or Cadence Chung’s Blind Faith, you can find out more here.
In this Olympic fortnight we highlight the Olympic achievements of alumni Anton Down-Jenkins and Josh Junior and celebrate our own Year 11 Football squad’s unbeaten run. We bring you our annual Arts exhibition, Blank Canvas, and an update on Gateway placements in Terms 1 and 2. With careers information for senior students and their whānau there is a lot to get your teeth in to.
With information on the term’s key dates and the senior derived grade exams, the Wrap Up is back. We invite you to Blank Canvas and to the premier of Blind Faith, a full-length musical written by Year 13, Cadence Chung. We follow Rebecca Heath, He Kākano Teacher Aide in preparation for the Special Olympics and share coverage of WHS alumnus Anton Down-Jenkins, currently competing in Tokyo. For all this and more, read on…
Happy term 2 holidays! This week the Wrap Up celebrates success in the Year 9 Readers’ Cup Challenge, Underwater Hockey and we look back on an activity filled term in He Kākano. Our Guidance team give information for those who may need support over the holidays. We also include information for next term’s Parent-Teacher meetings and an update to Metlink’s 726 bus service.
