Category: Weekly Wrap Up

The Wellington High School Team of Jack Bannister-Sutton, Blake Scott and Oliver Spicer are the Wellington Region Robot Junior Soccer champions. They gained the title at the Wellington Regional Robocup Competition held at Tawa College on the 8th of August. The team is off to the nationals at Christchurch on the 4th of September.   […]

High wins at robot skirmish A new technology sport is growing in popularity at High.  A group of students under the tutelage of Chemistry teacher Ryan McCroskery is building and competing robots At a recent competition Rowan Self, Callum O’Neil, Thomas Fuller, Tom Leslie, Michael Kula and Joshua Machiela took out the opposition in the Wellington vex robotics Skirmish.  Well done teams, […]

Dominic Faherty won a trophy at the AWD 10 pin bowling competition last week for the highest game score for the day He scored 137 points in one game and no one could catch him by the en d of the day. Well done Dominic.   Dominic with his trophy Dominic receiving his trophy

Yr 9 to Bedizen the linkwells Building on the success of the managing self sculpture A group of Yr 9 art students are planning a mural which they plan to put and brighten one of our many linkwells.  

Congratulations Massey Graduates who attended WHS graduated from Massey University recently (the year on brackets was their last year at High). Zoe Knighton, (2005), Bachelor of DesignRebecca Bramley, (1998), Bachelor of Health ScienceMarta Buda, (2001), Bachelor of DesignLesley Gilliam, (2004), Bachelor of DesignLai Lam, (1996), Diploma in Fashion Design and TechnologyKatrin Schulze Boeing, (2003), Bachelor of Nursing (Student […]

Drew Brice-Ford has made a film that was a finalist at the Last Ocean Online Short Film Competition. The awards ceremony took place in Christchurch on Thursday 15 September as part of Conservation Week. Entrants were asked to produce a short film exploring “Why the Ross Sea, Antarctica is special”, and were given online access to over 70 clips from top […]

Professor Peter Barrett from Victoria University Antarctic Research Centre was our first Library Lunchtime Lecture presenter. Peter is a geologist who has been a member of and led expeditions to Antarctica and he spoke about Antarctic Exploration Then and Now. This talk coincided with a year 9 Icy Ecosystems Inquiry topic. Victoria University Associate Professor […]

Two Year 12 students, Conor Ivory and Rennie Pearson are part of the first New Zealand squad to compete in the under-19 ultimate Frisbee world championship in Dublin, and will be putting their accuracy and agility to the test against 22 other teams. Connor said training comprised of four matches a week, and “intense” sprint […]

On Friday the 22nd of June, pupils and teachers at Wellington High School, together with local youth centre Zeal, attempted a Guinness World Record by making a 100.26 metre vanilla ice cream sundae. The sundae stretched across the school field in spouting donated by local business Capital Continuous Spouting, and was made up of 400 […]

Wellington High School and Rongotai College played in the tournament from June 8-10 at WRAC, finishing 4th overall. There were nine teams in the junior open grade with most from boys’ schools. The team would have qualified for Nationals but they are ineligible because they are a combined team. This team has made huge progress […]