This week’s Wrap Up includes information for our Future Focus Evening (Monday 17 August) and an update from College Sport Wellington. In addition we revisit Tuesday’s Election Panel that saw intense political debate in the Library and we celebrate wide-ranging achievements in film, debating and maths.
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COVID-19 Update – 12 August
Under Alert Level 2, Wellington High School remains OPEN with good hygiene and distancing practices in place, as we have done before. The information below has been sent to all families and whānau this morning. Students with cold/flu symptoms should stay at home and call the Absence line [Wednesday 12 – Friday 14 August]. Kia […]
In this Wrap Up, Te Whānau a Taraika farewell Chair Tim Poi as he steps down, we visit Blank Canvas opening night and fund raise for Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori. We look forward to International Week, and give you an update from the Careers Department. Not enough? We can add Breakfast Club, He Kākano, the Horticulture Trip to Palmerston North, the Year 10 and 11 Trade Fair, Hospitality and Food Tech students working with Kaibosh, Shakespeare Society, and Year 11 Jean Cleaver-Parris speaking at the National Library. And there is sport too: Badminton, Junior Boys Football and Cross Country not to mention the Outdoor Education Jumbo Circuit winter tramp. Its a Wrap Up that will leave you breathless.
This bumper Wrap Up includes important information and dates for the term ahead. Roots and Shoots have been out in the field for a beach clean-up and lizard rehabilitation project, Year 12 students have visited Kilbirnie Mosque as part of their English with Religion course and our Junior Premier debating team have made it to the quarter finals! On the sports front we congratulate Joe Sione who is Cadbury volunteer for July and get to know more about our Hockey, Netball and Junior Girls football teams.
We have raced towards the end of term with fantastic speed, fitting as much in as we can, and much is included here! This week the wrap up includes a link to the end of term message from the Principal, reviews open evening and the music evening, features powerful political discourse work from Year 10 computing, snowy footage from the Outdoor Education tramp and art work from WHSInk our Year 9 and 10 Art club. We also feature Councillor Tamatha Paul’s lunchtime lecture, the Roxy5 Film Festival and squeeze in a short report on the Boys 1st XI Football.
Sports are back! With reports from our junior girls football team, basketball and 1st XI boys football team, this Wrap Up is celebrating our return to competitive sport. Year 13 Drama students report on their production of ‘Girls like that’. The Wrap Up also includes information about the term 3 parent-teacher meetings, an announcement of the Board of Trustees by-election result, and an update on COVID-19 testing protocols.
This week the Wrap Up focuses on the Prime Minister’s visit last Friday. We celebrate student achievement at the Doc Edge film festival and follow He Kākano through their day. Read on for news of CEC courses, the launch of our breakfast club and more.
This week we are delighted to feature more artwork from Year 10, Outdoor Education’s return to the water in search of the Little Blue Penguin and Āwhina, our homework club, hard at work in the Library. We feature updates on our Open Evening, Board of Trustees election and mykindo app. Finally we celebrate Year 9 success in Maths and the arrival of four prefab classrooms on our school field.
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Weekly Wrap Up (Week 8, Term 2)
This week’s wrap up includes details of the two candidates in the forthcoming Board of Trustees by-election. In addition we celebrate publication success for three year 9 students and marvel at the art produced by Year 11 students during lockdown. Finally, we ask all families and whanau to update their emergency contact information: read the Wrap Up and fill in the form!
In this week’s wrap up you are invited to attend the Year 13 production of Every Brilliant Thing, catch up with Year 10 science enrichment and news from alumni recently graduated from postgraduate study at Harvard University in the US and Cambridge University in the UK. We also share updates from He Kākano, the Careers desk and Cafeteria.