Welcome back to Term 4! Read about student successes in Literature and Physics, Music Evening fundraising success and details of next week’s Sports Prizegiving.
Category: Weekly Wrap Up
While the visit of Education Minister Chris Hipkins was undoubtedly a highlight of the week, there have been many other events of note: CREST awards, students speaking in Parliament on the subject of prison reform, winners in Chinese Essay Writing, winners in Skateboarding and much much more.
If your student is considering Gateway or Trades Academy in 2020, this Wrap Up is a must-read. Plus: celebrating Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori and Pride Week, and with reports from the rebranding workshop, Papa Taiao and Year 10 Fashion, this wrap-up is jam-packed full of colour and activity!
Reflecting on events from the past fortnight, this Wrap Up includes coverage of Race Relations Commissioner, Meng Foon’s visit to WHS, plus photos from winter tournament week, the National Secondary Schools Culinary Competition, and news of achievements in Music and more.
With our mid-term break tomorrow our Wrap Up is out a day early this week. If you are starting to think about course choices for 2020, the senior course choice booklet is now online. In addition, we congratulate our IYNT team who have returned home, bringing the title from Minsk.
WHS are national winners! Bus Stop Productions took first place in the schools’ section of the 48hr Film festival for their film ‘The Talk’. Our Kapa Haka team drew on their assembly performance contributing to renowned restaurant Hiakai’s Hāngi 2019 and our Senior A girls Netball team finished top of their division. Read about all forthcoming events and many other achievements in this week’s Wrap Up.
Read about our Kapa Haka team’s assembly performance, the Feminist Club’s Flea Market, Year 9 and 10 Fashion projects plus student achievements in Fencing, Chinese Speech and much more.
Excursions to the Pop Up Globe, NZSO and an invitation to watch Year 12’s Drama monologue and duologue performances feature in this week’s Wrap Up. Also included is more information about the Senior Derived grades exams and an update from our Capital City Kāhui Ako.
Find out about the forthcoming senior students derived grade exams and the related changes to the Junior timetable. Join Te Whānau a Taraika for their hui, sign up to the Futsalathon, and find out how the re-branding project is developing.
The first week of term has brought with it the arrival of a new cohort of international students from eleven countries. We have news of student achievements in film, chess and sports in New Zealand, Australia and beyond, plus much, much more.