Category: Weekly Wrap Up

Dominic Faherty and Matthew DiLeva attended the Sport Wellington awards dinner last night. They were both finalists in the Athletes With a Disability category – WHS was the only school to have two finalists in this category. Matthew and Dominic at the SPOTY awards 2012

Trisha Castillo, Novia Karaitiana and Jon Pilalis won a Wellington Crest Award last night for their product ‘Times Two’.  Milan De Maule, Louis Robinson and Kris Devereux (TCo) and James Malcolm, Vanessa Taal and Scarlett O’Callaghan (Fizzpop) were awarded Highly Commended. All students were fantastic ambassadors of Wellington High School and really enjoyed interacting with […]

Lily Mason-Mackay has been chosen to attend the 2013 Rotary National Science and Technology Forum. This will take place in Auckland from 12-26 January 2013. Lily has won a scholarship from the Harbour City Rotary club to attend, and has been chosen from applicants nationwide. The National Science and Technology Forum each year gives 120 gifted New Zealand science and […]

Conor Ivory and Rennie Pearson (both Year 12) have been selected to be part of the first New Zealand squad to compete in the under-19 world championships in Ultimate Frisbee. Read more here

Caitlin Agnew-Francis (Year 12) has been selected to represent Wellington at ‘Enterprise in Action’ (at Massey at Albany campus from June 16-18). Caitlin is one of only 88 students nationwide – this is a very prestigious business opportunity indeed. Six students from this group will be selected to represent NZ in Hong Kong in the […]

Rachel Linton (Year 12 ) was presented with a Silver medal for her entry in the Pasta Main Course class of the 2012 Culinary Fare competition held at the Food Show Wellington. She was placed second, one point behind the winner, who also received a Silver Medal.  Rachel’s dish was a goats cheese and pumpkin […]

Sixteen intrepid Year 11 and 12 students experienced Italian life for three weeks last month as guests of schools in Colle Val d’Elsa (Tuscany) and Guidonia near Rome. The group was the subject of seven newspaper articles and one TV report as we are the only New Zealand school to exchange classes with an Italian […]

During the last school holidays, sixteen students, one parent and one teacher completed an eight day trekking trip in the Annapurna area of Nepal. The group did some sightseeing, got involved with the local villagers at grass-roots level and some serious trekking. They also donated $1600 (US) to an orphanage which plans to use this […]

Lucy Roche and Evie Orpe (Year 13) and Sam ‘Ted’ Bartley (Year 11) performed in the International Comedy Festival as part of the Class Comedians Showcase on Saturday 12 May. The three students had been attending workshops and preparing for 6 weeks. Evie and Lucy both gained the top award, “Nailed It On The Night” […]

Our students had great success at the recent Special Olympics Trans Tasman tournament and Matthew Di Leva was our torch bearer. ATHLETICS RESULTS (Wellington) Trans Tasman Tournament 2012 Matthew Di Leva: Gold Medal 400m; Silver Medal 100m; 5th 4×100 relay; 6th 200m Dominic Faherty: Silver Medal 400m; 5th 4×100 relay; 7th in both 100m and […]