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The Wrap Up (Week 9, Term 4) 2025

Cook festive treats with a renowned food tech guest and get artistically creative on an environmentally friendly project. Polish your investigative skills in a science and physics tournament and test your ethics with our silver medalists.  This and much more in this vibrant end of term Wrap Up 

Important Dates

  • Tuesday 9 December – Year 9 Celebration 9.15-10am and Year 10 Celebration 11am-12.15pm
  • Tuesday 9 December – End of Term 

Important Information

New Zealand Traveller Declaration

Going overseas for the school holidays? Everyone travelling into New Zealand must complete a New Zealand Traveller Declaration, including returning New Zealand passport holders.  Its FREE and you can do it on the online form or on the NZTD app. 

If you’re travelling as a family or group and completing multiple declarations, the NZTD app allows you to copy your travel details into another declaration, making it easier to complete multiple declarations for the same journey. The submitted declarations are then all easy to see within the app.

The New Zealand Traveller Declaration collects travel, customs, immigration and biosecurity information and aims to improve the safety and security of New Zealand. It replaces the paper card you used to fill out on the plane.To make your arrival easier, do your digital declaration before your flight back to New Zealand.  Head to travellerdeclaration.govt.nz  today!

Note: If students are going overseas during the holiday period and would like the geolock lifted then they need to email admin@whs.school.nz with the dates they are away from NZ for it to be lifted.

What’s Happening

He Kākano – Duke of Edinburgh – Kaitiakitanga Beach Clean-up Sculpture

He Kākano students have worked towards their Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Award this year. For their voluntary service, they have visited Wellington beaches to clean up rubbish throughout the year with some challenging weather at times. Over 26 hours of mahi resulted in several bags of refuse and a renewed appreciation of our moana and whenua. The rubbish collected was then sorted, with items either disposed of correctly or cleaned and repurposed to craft our Kaitiakitanga Shark and individual artworks on canvas.

 

Year 10 Food tech Christmas cooking

This week we were fortunate to have Liam Brash cook with us. Liam has worked at the Savoy Grill in London with Gordon Ramsey and has been a tutor at Weltec. For this Christmas cook we made neenish tarts & gingerbread.

Special thanks to Ada for asking Liam to come in to our kura and share his expertise.

Ka Rawe!

University of Canterbury – MATH199 

Congratulations to the six Wellington High School students who have recently successfully completed their Canterbury University Star Level 1 maths course.

This course was run extramurally and required students to complete many hours of advanced maths tutorials with regular 3 hour assessments held at school during the year.

Grades were officially released this week with 4 out of the 6 students gaining A+ grades. The successful students were Maxwell Clarke, Viraaj Ravji, Elijah Michel, Cooper Laing, Kalani Fransen and  Koen Mackenzie Erkens. Ka Pai!

Achievements

Wellington Junior Science Tournament 

Teams of year 9 and 10 students from 8 schools competed at Wellington High School on Monday in the 11th WJST. WHS had three teams entered; the highest placed were Jonas Lamarche’s year 10 team called “My Personal Favourites”, who finished a close second to Queen Margaret College. Our other teams finished 5th and 6th out of 13 teams.

My Personal Favourites

Ethics Olympiad

Two groups of WHS students recently entered the NZ round of the Ethics Olympiad, a competitive event which asks students to apply their understanding of various ethical frameworks to a variety of real-world situations. 22 teams from across the motu competed (via Zoom), providing their own responses to case-studies and critiquing those of other teams. Congratulations to the WHS Black team who came second overall, gaining a silver medal and entry to the International Final in February 2026.

Zakia Goddard, Lizzie Nicholson, Paige Field, and Anastasiya Surorova-Priya.

Ex-student Nino Raphael

Congratulations to our ex-student Nino Raphael who has crafted a rambunctious new production that features sea shanties, original music, and is sure to have the young and young-at-heart singing along.  It promises swashbuckling fun wrapped up with a heartfelt message and is running from the 5-14 December at Hannah Playhouse, Wellington.  More information here