Our Year 11 Arotahi group were recently presented with certificates for completing the Circus Skills course and PE assessment in Term 2. Congratulations to all involved!
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Campbell Takes Gold
The College Sport Individual Swimming Championships were held at Huia Pool this week, and Campbell Tacon had an outstanding day representing WHS. Campbell competed in five events – 50m Freestyle, 100m Freestyle, 200m Freestyle, 100m Butterfly and the 100m Individual Medley – and took out gold in all five!
The Great Inaugural Matariki Kite Competition was held today as part of our school’s Matariki celebrations. About fifty students and staff braved uncharacteristically sunny and windless conditions on the field to get their kites airborne. Kites were constructed over the last week in rōpū time using a variety of materials. Kites were traditionally flown at […]
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WHS on the 4.30pm show
Three year 12 students from Wellington High School were selected to compete against celebrities last week on the 4.30 Show. Eddyn Perkins- Treacher, Jack Comer- Hudson and Lucy Edwards travelled to Christchurch to take part in ‘The Zone’, the quiz show segment of this programme. The team battled against the New Zealand boy band Titanium. It […]
Stanley Sarkies and Luke Porteous flew out today to Shrewsbury in England to compete in the International Young Physicists’ Tournament – the Junior World Cup of Physics! For news and updates about the tournament see https://www.facebook.com/IYPTNZ.
On Wednesday 18 June the Feminist Club hosted Nicola Young, Sarah Free and Iona Pannett from the Wellington City Council. The City Council women talked about the individual, social and historical challenges that women have faced in roles such as theirs, and what they personally have done to overcome these barriers. They also outlined the […]
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Robocup Success
Last week Year 11 students Joseph Ivory, James Matheson, Jan Mueller, and Oliver Sundin competed in the Wellington Region Robocup senior rescue competition. They came 1st and will go to the nationals in September. The original Robocup rescue competition was introduced to encourage researchers into disaster-rescue following the Kobe earthquake. The concept has been transferred […]
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Junior Debating Success
The junior premiere debating team, consisting of Kate Mills Workman, Ruby Medlicott, Ben Roberts and Ruby Douglas, continued their unbeaten run this year with a hard fought win over Queen Margaret College. We successfully argued that co-education schools provide a better education that single sex schools. Perhaps the Dominion Post should have consulted these students […]
Zach Mackie and Noah Allen-Collins came equal second and gained a Gold medal in the NZ Secondary Schools Culinary Challenge Regional final last week. They did this by cooking four entrees and four mains in 90 minutes and by losing less than 10 points in the process out of a possible hundred. Zach and Noah […]