Category: Weekly Wrap Up

This week the Wrap Up focuses on the Prime Minister’s visit last Friday. We celebrate student achievement at the Doc Edge film festival and follow He Kākano through their day. Read on for news of CEC courses, the launch of our breakfast club and more.

This week we are delighted to feature more artwork from Year 10, Outdoor Education’s return to the water in search of the Little Blue Penguin and Āwhina, our homework club, hard at work in the Library. We feature updates on our Open Evening, Board of Trustees election and mykindo app. Finally we celebrate Year 9 success in Maths and the arrival of four prefab classrooms on our school field.

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.

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.

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.

The Wrap Up is back! Including important information for supporting students wellbeing we also share results of the International Department homestay bubble positivity challenge. Students and staff share their creativity and success in Fashion and film making. With this, plus updates from alumni and a message to all from student leaders across Wellington schools, this Wrap Up is proof that although we are at Level 4 lockdown, there is much that is positive to celebrate.

This final wrap up of the term includes a link to the Principal’s message for the end of Term 1, information about reports and careers activities that all students could complete from home. In addition, we share photos of the chalk messages left by students on Monday and photos from our garden.