Category: Weekly Wrap Up

Local photographer and WHS parent, Sandy Connon, has joined forces with the school to raise money for Nepal.  Book your family portrait with her now and support this very important cause.

With two weeks left in the term, Week 9 picked up the pace and saw a lot happening around the school.  

Week 8 at WHS was busy in all areas of the school.

Outward Bound, located in the Marlborough Sounds, helps you reach your full potential through challenge in the outdoors. Our classrooms are the mountains, bush and waterways of this special part of New Zealand. We welcome people of all ages, cultures, abilities and backgrounds to our school at Anakiwa. Year 13 WHS student, Hunter Connon, has […]

WHS has a strong connection to an orphanage in Nepal. This is an email update that teacher Bharat Pancha received over the weekend regarding how they are faring after the earthquake. Dear Bharat, Good luck for the music evening. From your donation so far we gave 80 sets of T-shirts and half pants for 80 […]

Senior Geography went to Rotorua last week to investigate the spatial and temporal patterns of tourism in Rotorua. They took part in a range of tourist activites and spent time interviewing the locals about issues related to tourism. Lots of fun had by all​!​

Some photos of WHS Annual Student trip to Nepal. Please keep an eye out for upcoming fundraising events that the school will be holding to help the community we are involved with after the earthquake.

Twelve students and two teachers spent the Easter holidays and the first week of Term 2 in Japan. The first two weeks were spent visiting Tokyo, Kanazawa, Shirakawago, Kyoto and Osaka where students saw some amazing things and participated in some unique experiences from the Amazing Race in Tokyo, to decorating boxes with gold leaf in […]

Under intense scrutiny from industry judges Tiana Wakefield and Luca Scognamiglio (with Tinei Taiaoga in stand in supporting role) produced four entrees and mains (in 90 mins) at the recent NZ Secondary Schools Culinary Competition. They showed considerable poise, skill and teamwork and came away with a silver medal.

This year, for the first time, the New Zealand Linguistics Society is holding a New Zealand Linguistics Olympiad. ​In the Olympiad, students us​e language data to solve logic problems. No knowledge of the language is needed and ​the problems can be in languages from Estonian to Elder Futhark Runes. WHS student Anna Liu, Year 9, […]