Category: Weekly Wrap Up

  KING LEARDate: May 20 – 24th, Monday to Friday, 7pm Where: Riley Center – Wellington High School                 249 Taranaki St Mt Cook 6011 Cost: $7 unwaged $10 waged Book tickets at Wellington High School Office: (Door sales will be available)   The Shakespeare society puts on a highly successful, […]

Food Technology Scholarships: Scholarship Technology (Food) awarded to Lillian Savage and Morgan Christy-Jones. Lillian submitted a report on the development of an upmarket edible souvenir for Te Papa and Morgan submitted a report on the development of snack food for children claiming dental friendly attributes. Her product included tagatose as a substitute for sugar. Both […]

Wellington High has had three entries for the NZIFST product development Challenge in 2012. One of our teams won the challenge for the challenge for the south of the North Island. The other two teams received highly commended for their projects. The teams were: Team DiCapri for their 5+ A day carrot ice cream (Winner) […]

Morgan Christy-Jones received her Gold CREST award this year and is currently studying Food Science at Massey University in Palmerston North. Morgan developed a dental friendly lunch box snack for children by substituting sucrose with tagatose; Tagatose is a sweetener derived as a by-product from the production of cheese that is broken down from the […]

The Wellington High School Rock Climbing Club, in combination with the Tararua Tramping Club, took an adventure down to Golden Bay during the school holidays. Golden Bay has some of the best and extensive sport climbing in New Zealand and we were lucky to be able to spend a week there climbing and exploring. The students all had a […]

Anthony Young (2006 – 2010) was one of many talented musicians to have attended Wellington High School. He’s making waves over in his adopted hometown of Melbourne where online journal Beat Magazine has recently profiled him. Read the article at: http://www.beat.com.au/music/anthony-young.

Luminary Wellington High alumnus Troy Ruhe (2007 – 2011) has gained a prestigious Maori and Pacific Island Entrance Scholarship to Otago University worth $10,000. Troy won the Peace Prize in 2011 as a Year 13 and made an amazing contribution to Wellington High as a Tuakana leader, musician, and scholar in his time here. In […]

Cryptosporidiosis Cryptosporidium cases are increasing across the region, especially in Wellington. This bug causes watery diarrhoea and stomach cramps, which usually last 2-4 days but can continue for up to two weeks. This bug is easily spread through infected people swimming in pools.  Around half of the recent cases had swum in swimming pools either […]

Outstanding Year 13 Morgan Christy-Jones has achieved a Gold CREST for her work in creating a product using tagatose- a sweetener derived as a by-product from the production of cheese. She was mentored through her project by Professor Steve Flint, Massey University and Marietjie Van Schalkwyk, Food Technology teacher extraordinaire. Gold Crest awards celebrate advanced projects, […]

Wellington High School were asked by AraTaiohi (for people working with young people) to design some posters for Youth Week. Year 12 Art took on the task and submitted 5 designs which were voted on by the general public. Bailey Price’s design (to the right) received the most votes and will be used to promote Youth […]