The Wellington High School Jazz Band is gearing up for another outstanding night of Jazz at Meow to raise funds to compete at the 37th Annual National Youth Jazz Band Competition in Tauranga this year. The musical extravaganza will be hosted by Dominion Post columnist and well known satirist, Dave Armstrong. Dave co-wrote the much […]
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Elise Forman and Roydon Goldsack have both been selected to represent Wellington at the North Island Secondary School Athletics Championships in April. Elise qualified in the Hurdles and 200m, and Roydon qualified in the Triple Jump. A fantastic effort from both these athletes – big congratulations and good luck!
Kathleen Rose of year 9 has been selected to play for the 14U (14 years and under) Junior Women’s New Zealand Inline Hockey team to compete against Australia at the Inline Hockey Oceania Championship being held in Hamilton this July 2014. Kathleen is the team goalie.
Lily Mason-McKay has been chosen for the annual Royal Society of New Zealand – Realise The Dream programme. Read more here!
Check out our awesome student Hana Olds speak on the Festival for the Future stage… More awesome speeches at www.festivalforthefuture.org.nz
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Touch Success
Congratulations to Waisale Tabuavou and Ruiha Evans who have both been named in the Wellington U17 Representative touch team.
Congratulations to superstar Year 10 Hana Olds who has been selected as one of five finalists in the Westpac Women of Influence – 2013 Emerging Leader Awards. This is a fabulous achievement for Hana whose (first) book was published and launched last year. We admire her passion, her leadership and her effervescent contributions to […]
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WOW Factor – Cook Strait News
Four year 13 fashion students from Wellington High School are hoping to WOW Wellington with their wearable art designs. Maia Holder-Monk, Hannah Van Seventer and Frankie Berge were all selected to take part in this year’s Te Papa WOW project.The project, which is run in partnership with Queen Margaret’s College, has been running for the last eight years. It gives […]
The Premiere A debating team (Ailidh Leslie, Merinda Jackson and Lauren Thompson) defeated Wellington College in the Wellington Secondary school’s top debating cup on 10 Sept. We successfully argued the motion ‘that academic streaming should be compulsory in New Zealand schools’ – The top speaker award went to Ailidh Leslie. It was a quality debate […]
There are a number of important dates that are looming on the calendar for our students and we would like draw your attention to them. Teacher Only Day Friday 23rd Aug – Teacher Only Day. School Exams Tuesday 20th Aug – Senior students will be given their school exam timetable. Monday 16th Sep – […]