Senior Boys First XI Football Tournament week saw us extend our three-month long undefeated streak to seventeen games (with fourteen wins), which unfortunately ended in the quarter-finals. We finished a creditable sixth in a twenty-four team competition, the highest finish for WHS in a number of years. It was a positive end to a wonderfully […]
Wellington High School students gained sixteen prizes at the NIWA annual Science Fair awards for 2014. This is a fantastic result and was the highest of any school in the Wellington Region. A full list of awards can be viewed at www.sciencefair.org.nz. Congratulations to all the prize recipients and to all the teachers who have […]
A lot of us are still trying to recover from last night’s game (Wednesday 27 August) played under lights at Petone Memorial Field against St Patrick’s Silverstream. It was a wonderful game of football to watch with St Pat’s Silverstream adopting a Spanish type of passing game and strangling us in the midfield but being […]
Eva Tinga (Yr 11) has been selected as one of 3 Wellington students to go to Japan as part of the JENYSYS exchange program which is fully funded by the Japanese government. Students will spend 10 days in Japan doing a variety of activities including homestays, visiting schools and sightseeing in Tokyo.
This year’s JYPT team of Shakked Noy (C), Joseph Ivory, Jack Tregidga and Callum Davidson were again a very strong force. They started strongly with Joseph’s presentation scoring well in round 1 to put the team into 3rd place. The next day Shakked made history by being the first person to fall ill whilst in […]
Hi from Jinsan High School in Korea. This school has 200 students (and it seems about 400 staff). Classes start at 7am and don’t finish until 11pm.Today we had the opening ceremony and have started the competition. The team are in 3rd place after round 1, just behind Onslow College. Cheers Murray. […]
Bruce Granshaw, Angela Christie and Glynn MacGregor from TENZ (Technology Educators New Zealand) turned up to our whole school assembly last Thursday 7 August to present Kylie Merrick with her award for her contribution to technology education. The award recognises Kylie’s outstanding capability in teaching of Technology and consistent excellence in teaching practice.
This year, the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) co-hosted a Video 2 Vote competition with the Tertiary Education Union and the New Zealand University Students’ Association to help engage young voters and reverse the trend of a low turnout of young voters. The winners of the secondary school category were Lewis Wong and Rose MacKenzie […]
It has been a very successful year for Physics at Wellington High School. Our WHS physics team (Luke Porteous, Callum MacRae and Stanley Sarkies) won the regional tournament and came second in the Nationals. This led to Luke and Stan being selected for the NZ Physics team, meaning that of the team of five students, two […]
Amy Vaculik-Hamilton will be competing in October in the up coming The Barry Sheene Oceania Challenge. It is a Cross Tasman Motorcycle Racing meet which is held alternatively in Australia and New Zealand. This year it is being held at Hampton Downs, south of Auckland. A special feature of the event will be a focus […]
