Under intense scrutiny from industry judges Tiana Wakefield and Luca Scognamiglio (with Tinei Taiaoga in stand in supporting role) produced four entrees and mains (in 90 mins) at the recent NZ Secondary Schools Culinary Competition. They showed considerable poise, skill and teamwork and came away with a silver medal.
This year, for the first time, the New Zealand Linguistics Society is holding a New Zealand Linguistics Olympiad. In the Olympiad, students use language data to solve logic problems. No knowledge of the language is needed and the problems can be in languages from Estonian to Elder Futhark Runes. WHS student Anna Liu, Year 9, […]
WHS Kapa Haka were proud ambassadors for the school at the recent Anzac commemorations. Their smart new uniforms and stirring performance drew lots of comments.
Qona Christie picked up three medals, including two golds, at the Oceania judo championships in Noumea. She won gold in the cadet women’s under-52kg and also won a team gold. Fantastic result, Qona. Congratulations!
Wellington High School proudly hosted both Scouts and Guides overnight before the dawn service for the 100th commemoration of the landing at Gallipoli.
Year 10 student Kathleen Rose and her NZ Junior Women’s team have won gold in the in the Oceania Inline Hockey Championships. Kathleen is Lead Goalie and the team took out all 5 games they played to win at the championships held recently. Congratulations on a fantastic result, Kathleen!
Wellington High School students Kaya and Kahu van de Wiel both came away with medals at the Wellington Regional Tae Kwon Do Tournament recently. Kaya won Silver in Patterns and a Gold in Sparring and Kahu won Silver in Sparring. Both girls will now be representing Wellington at the NZ National Tournament in July. Congratulations […]
Two of our senior debaters, Shakked Noy and Jack Comer-Hudson, have been selected for the Wellington regional debating team as a result of doing well in last weekend’s Russell McVeagh debating competition. Shakked was named best speaker of the competition. Congratulations to them both
At the national finals of the New Zealand Young Physicists’ Tournament, held in in Wellington on 21st March, a very strong Wellington High team won silver medals. Shakked Noy (captain), Jack Tregidga and Tess Breitenmoser were outstanding, winning the regionals against arch-rivals Onslow only to be beaten by the same Onslow team in the final. […]
