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Year 12 students on TV this week!

Eddyn Perkins- Treacher, Lucy Edwards and Jack Comer Hudson will be on TV3 at 4.30pm everyday this week as part of the 4.30 show. Check out their competition here: http://tvnz.co.nz/the-430-show More information on the quiz rounds attached here.

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Volleyball Success

Wellington High Volleyball Boys have dominated the Wellington Rep Team selections for the upcoming inter-provincial championships during the school holidays. U17 Boys Wellington Representative Team 2014 Campbell Tacon Wellington High School Edi Rose Wellington High School Graham Dickie Wellington College James McInnes Wellington High School John Sio St Patricks Town Laifa Ta’ala Newlands College Lawrence […]

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Winter Tournament Week 2014

Senior Boys First XI Football Tournament week saw us extend our three-month long undefeated streak to seventeen games (with fourteen wins), which unfortunately ended in the quarter-finals. We finished a creditable sixth in a twenty-four team competition, the highest finish for WHS in a number of years. It was a positive end to a wonderfully […]

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Sixteen prizes for WHS at 2014 Science Fair

Wellington High School students gained sixteen prizes at the NIWA annual Science Fair awards for 2014. This is a fantastic result and was the highest of any school in the Wellington Region. A full list of awards can be viewed at www.sciencefair.org.nz. Congratulations to all the prize recipients and to all the teachers who have […]

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WHS 1st XI win the Youth Championship Division 1 trophy

A lot of us are still trying to recover from last night’s game (Wednesday 27 August) played under lights at Petone Memorial Field against St Patrick’s Silverstream. It was a wonderful game of football to watch with St Pat’s Silverstream adopting a Spanish type of passing game and strangling us in the midfield but being […]

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Eva Tinga selected for JENSYS Japanese exchange program

Eva Tinga (Yr 11) has been selected as one of 3 Wellington students to go to Japan as part of the JENYSYS exchange program which is fully funded by the Japanese government. Students will spend 10 days in Japan doing a variety of activities including homestays, visiting schools and sightseeing in Tokyo.

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Junior Young Physicists Tournament – 13-17th 2014

This year’s JYPT team of Shakked Noy (C), Joseph Ivory, Jack Tregidga and Callum Davidson were again a very strong force. They started strongly with Joseph’s presentation scoring well in round 1 to put the team into 3rd place. The next day Shakked made history by being the first person to fall ill whilst in […]

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JYPT Update

Hi from Jinsan High School in Korea. This school has 200 students (and it seems about 400 staff). Classes start at 7am and don’t finish until 11pm.Today we had the opening ceremony and have started the competition. The team are in 3rd place after round 1, just behind Onslow College. Cheers Murray.       […]

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Kylie Merrick Presented with TENZ award

Bruce Granshaw, Angela Christie and Glynn MacGregor from TENZ (Technology Educators New Zealand) turned up to our whole school assembly last Thursday 7 August to present Kylie Merrick with her award for her contribution to technology education. The award recognises Kylie’s outstanding capability in teaching of Technology and consistent excellence in teaching practice.

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Lewis Wong and Rose MacKenzie win “Video 2 Vote”

This year, the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) co-hosted a Video 2 Vote competition with the Tertiary Education Union and the New Zealand University Students’ Association to help engage young voters and reverse the trend of a low turnout of young voters.  The winners of the secondary school category were Lewis Wong and Rose MacKenzie […]