Sport & Cultural Photos are on the 13th of August 2013. All students must report to the Reily Centre by the stated report time. All students must bring their sports uniforms. You can get a copy of the Timetable in the links below. 2013 Sport & Cultural Photos Timetable (PDF) 2013 Sport & Cultural […]
Category: Weekly Wrap Up
Feminist Wall
The amazing fledgling feminist group at Wellington High have established a wall of commentary from students around the theme: “I need Feminism because”.
Geography Competition
Congratulations to Max Beauchamp, Taran Molloy and Eddyn Perkins-Treacher who proudly represented Wellington High School at this year’s Maatangi Whenua Geography competition. The team were tested on their understanding of geographic concepts, skills and general knowledge of global geography. They ended up second out of 14 teams in the Wellington Region. What a great […]
This year Wellington High school entered three teams in the Aurecon Bridge Building competition. Each team of year ten students were given some simple building materials and tasked with building a bridge to span a fixed distance. The judging criteria were strength, aesthetics and innovation. The Sassbandits team of Jess Eaton, Lucy Brown and Isabella […]
Junior Badminton Success
Three of our junior teams made it to their division finals this week and they were all played at WHS on Thursday after school. The year 9 boys did particularly well to win Division 2 – they beat a Rongatai team made up of all year 10s by 5 games to 1. Excellent effort by Otis Rea […]
Iana Takarangi and Oakley Spain on the 8th of August, led a panel discussion with critically acclaimed author, Witi Ihimaera. Iana and Oakley asked Witi about his family, his inspiration for writing and his education and career. They were awesome!
Awhina
Every week on Thursday a special group of staff gather in the library to support students needing extra help with their learning. There’s a quiet buzz as senior students work alongside Year 9s and 10s and teachers work one on one with kids to provide extra, focused support. Suz Meijer, Maths teacher extraordinaire with a senior student. […]
Te Whanau a Taraika Kapa Haka
Wellington High’s Kapa Haka crew Te Whanau a Taraika represented our school at the Wellington Regional Whakataetae competition and placed fifth amongst a strong field of schools. This achievement is outstanding for our fledgling group as many of the other schools compete year after year and have a wealth of student experience to draw on. […]
WHS Emergency Preparedness
Term 3: Welcome Back
We have had a formal engineering assessment showing that all our buildings are safe and sound. We look forward to welcoming our students back into school on Monday 29 July. We encourage all our whanau to make a firm family emergency plan in case there is a large aftershock during school hours.Click here for more information about […]