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The Wrap Up (Term 3, Week 7 2024)

Take note of timetable changes for next week during derived grade exams and CAAs. Mark your calendars for the infamous Battle of the Bands. Delight in the scrumptious results of the WCF Chocolate Dreams competition and congratulate our very own ‘Supreme Winner’. Visit the new safe space for young people at Te Tai Ohinga and learn how to manage school anxiety at our upcoming webinar. This and much more in this week’s Wrap Up.

Important Dates

  • Monday 9 – Friday 13 September: Derived grade exam week. Corequisite and DCAT exams.
  • Monday 16 September: Board meeting 6pm.
  • Friday 27 September: Term 3 ends.

Important Information

 

Timetable Changes – Derived Grade Exams Next Week

Derived Grade Exams: Monday 9 – Friday 13 Sept 

  • Year 12 and 13 students will only come into school for their derived grade exams
  • Year 9 – 11 – school as usual but class times will change.

Note: Lunch will run from 12.20-1.20pm and P4 from 1.20-2.20pm

Numeracy and Literacy CAAs: Wednesday 11 – Friday 13 Sept 

  • Year 10 and 11 (including Year 12/13) who are entered for literacy and numeracy CAAs will be sitting these in the afternoon as follows:
    • Wednesday pm – Numeracy
    • Thursday pm – Reading
    • Friday pm – Writing

Note: Students will have been in class as normal in the morning and must be in the foyer for the exam by 1.00pm.

WHS Whānau Workshop: School Anxiety Webinar

with Michelle Mitchell and Karen Young on Monday 9th September 2024, 6:30pm – 8:00pm at school.  Free of charge!

The Counselling Team and Learning Services are facilitating this event which will provide actionable insights and tools on how to get young people with school anxiety to school. For more information on this event and the speakers, please click here. 

Watching this webinar together at school provides the opportunity to connect with key staff and other whānau who might be struggling to manage school anxiety in their young people. There will be some time at the end for comments and to ask questions.

If you are unable to attend in person or would prefer to watch at home in your own time, you can also opt to receive a unique promo code to watch this webinar anytime within six weeks from Monday 9th September 2024.

If you would like to attend, please email admin@whs.school.nz before 12.00 on 9 September stating whether you will be attending in person or online. If online, the link will be sent to you.

Te Tai Ohinga – Now open

This free youth hub that has been designed as a safe space for young people to hang out, study, play games, connect and learn, is now open on 203 Willis St in the city.  To find out what’s going on, you can connect on the Te Tai Ohinga website.

What’s Happening?

Save the date:  Battle of the Bands!

Join us for our Battle of the Bands event and experience the musical talent of our students live on stage.   This event is being held at a venue which has been a staple of the NZ touring circuit since 2008.

Date: Sunday, 22 September 2024
Time: 4:00 PM onwards
Location: Meow, Wellington


Stay tuned for ticket details. Mark your calendars for a great evening of music and community spirit!

 

Achievements

Emily Batty – Supreme Winner of WCF Chocolate Dreams 

Wellington Chocolate Factory Design Competition attracted a large number of participants this year.  Nine finalists were selected and judged at WCF on 29 August on both flavour concept and wrapper design.  Our very own Emily Batty remarkably won both the Teen category and took the title of ‘Supreme Winner’ with her Honeycomb bar which was inspired by a love of flowers, lemon and honey drinks and featured flavours of lemon, manuka honey and caramelised lemon zest.  Read the judges comments here

Honeycomb, designed by Emily Batty

Aside from the impressive category prizes of return airfares for two to Wellington, one night’s accommodation, a year’s worth of chocolate and tickets for experiences from event sponsors Wēta Workshop, Zealandia, Cable Car and Space Place, Emily also gets to become Willy Wonka for a day and handmake 50 of her bars to take home with another 450 bars available for sale online and in the WCF store!

Read more about the competition finalists here

Tournament of Minds

Congratulations to our WHS team who participated in Tournament of Minds on Saturday 31 August. It was a great day of teamwork, thinking out of the box and putting  presentation skills to practice! They were the winners of their category and will go through to Nationals at the end of September.

Sport

Underwater Hockey Nationals 2024

All four Wellington High teams finished in the top 5 of their grades. Maddy Murdoch made the senior girls tournament team. Aidan Relph made the tournament team in the senior open. Liam Whitaker and Samantha Leadbetter were MVPs in the junior teams. Thanks to all the parents, coaches, managers and supporters who have helped the teams get to where they are now. Many of our senior players will be playing for Central Zone U18 teams in Labour Weekend’s national interzone tournament.

New players are welcome to come along and try out the sport at the beginning of 2025.

Junior girls and senior boys supporting the senior girls (Image credit: Joerg Bungert)

Careers

Careers Newsletter

Here is this week’s Careers Newsletter.

If you are interested in any of these opportunities and require further information please contact Chuni Bhikha – Careers Advisor, located in Year 13 Dean’s office by student services.

Explore Tahatū with your rangatahi

Our school/kura is collaborating with the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) to pilot Tahatū Career Navigator – a new interactive careers website. Tahatu.govt.nz is designed to give you, and your rangatahi a new way to explore careers advice and information.

Choosing a direction in life can be a challenging time for rangatahi, and they may turn to you for guidance. You and your rangatahi can:

At this stage we request that you please don’t share the Tahatū website address outside your school/kura community as we are just only in a pilot phase.