Category: Weekly Wrap Up

The Premiere A debating team (Ailidh Leslie, Merinda Jackson and Lauren Thompson) defeated Wellington College in the Wellington Secondary school’s top debating cup on 10 Sept. We successfully argued the motion ‘that academic streaming should be compulsory in New Zealand schools’ – The top speaker award went to Ailidh Leslie. It was a quality debate […]

There are a number of important dates that are looming on the calendar for our students and we would like draw your attention to them.   Teacher Only Day Friday 23rd Aug – Teacher Only Day.   School Exams Tuesday 20th Aug – Senior students will be given their school exam timetable. Monday 16th Sep – […]

Congratulations to Elizaveta Zyuzina who has won a prestigious award for her art based around the theme “The Face of…”.  Elizaveta created an artwork entitled “The Face of Winter”. We are all so proud of her and look forward to her developing her talents over the coming years at Wellington High.

    Sport & Cultural Photos are on the 13th of August 2013. All students must report to the Reily Centre by the stated report time. All students must bring their sports uniforms. You can get a copy of the Timetable in the links below. 2013 Sport & Cultural Photos Timetable (PDF) 2013 Sport & Cultural […]

The amazing fledgling feminist group at Wellington High have established a wall of commentary from students around the theme: “I need Feminism because”.  

  Congratulations to Max Beauchamp, Taran Molloy and Eddyn Perkins-Treacher who proudly represented Wellington High School at this year’s Maatangi Whenua Geography competition. The team were tested on their understanding of geographic concepts, skills and general knowledge of global geography. They ended up second out of 14 teams in the Wellington Region. What a great […]

This year Wellington High school entered three teams in the Aurecon Bridge Building competition. Each team of  year ten students were given some simple building materials and tasked with building a bridge to span a fixed distance. The judging criteria were strength, aesthetics and innovation. The Sassbandits team of Jess Eaton, Lucy Brown and Isabella […]

Three of our junior teams made it to their division finals this week and they were all played at WHS on Thursday after school. The year 9 boys did particularly well to win Division 2 – they beat a Rongatai team made up of all year 10s by 5 games to 1. Excellent effort by Otis Rea […]

Iana Takarangi and Oakley Spain on the 8th of August, led a panel discussion with critically acclaimed author, Witi Ihimaera. Iana and Oakley asked Witi about his family, his inspiration for writing and his education and career. They were awesome!  

Every week on Thursday a special group of staff gather in the library to support students needing extra help with their learning. There’s a quiet buzz as senior students work alongside Year 9s and 10s and teachers work one on one with kids to provide extra, focused support. Suz Meijer, Maths teacher extraordinaire with a senior student. […]