Category: Weekly Wrap Up

Head Chef have won the National Rockquest tournament for 2014. You can read about it here: http://stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/10554350/Head-Chef-triumphs-at-rockquest

Iona Forsyth (Science) and Melanie McGrath (Social Sciences) are going to be exploring the Galapagos Islands for the next 3 weeks as part of their staff travel scholarship investigating, as they say, “…Evolution, Sustainability, Eco-Tourism and Conservation.” You can follow their travels here.

The Yr 13 students have installed their Wearable Art around the retailers of Wellington. The strong relationship that has been built with the Te Papa Store has continued and Christoph Nutsford and Sheryl Wong have their work on display in the main windows. Their theme, Alice in Wonderland, comes from the Lantern Slide collection. Both […]

Ex student Jack Buchanan has put together a series of videos portraying the various political leaders and their policies leading up to the election. Stuff reported on it at the link below and there is a link to Jack’s series on their page. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/10504113/Flat-Race-2014-Cunliffe-or-Key-or-someone-else

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]