Sophie Baldwin and Jack Walker, both from WHS, enjoyed their 20 minute “Flight of Discovery” in the October school holidays at the Commercial Pilot Academy in Wanganui. Commercial Pilot...
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"In Our Hands" Youth Art Exhibition
The prizewinners who were at the prizegiving. Eloise Young, 3rd from left, Mikayla Baldwin 4th from left and Ara Moljin far right. We are super proud of our Whanganui High School students for...
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'A Serious Girl' captures teen hopes and dreams
Roberta Thornley's exhibition 'A Serious Girl' is on at Sarjeant on the Quay. PHOTO: Bevan Conley ON SHOW: Roberta Thornley began working on her exhibition A Serious Girl when she was...
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'Gentle souls' leave behind grieving family - May 2015
MUCH LOVED: Zane and Jennifer Town, who were killed in a car crash on Saturday. Jennifer and Zane Town were gentle souls with a deep love for all children. That's how Michael Peck, Jennifer's brother...
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'Lucky' kids face Classic test - March 2016
THE NEW generation of Whanganui basketballers departed on the trip of a lifetime on Thursday as this Easter weekend sees them among more than 140 age group representative teams entering the Mel...
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'Mind connection' a key to success - June 2016
ON KEY: Te Paerata Tichbon (left) and Michael Peterson work closely together as Why Vibrations. The band that won Whanganui's Smokefreerockquest is already doing gigs and looking for more, Te Paerata...
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'People person' Amber finds dream job
TRICKS OF THE TRADE: Occupational therapist and former WHS student Amber Ward (left) with acting patient using a medicine ball for desk comfort. Emma Russell continues her series charting the stories...
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'UN' thrashes out problems in city - March 2015
Congratulations to Wanganui High School students Alister Hughes and Tim Rowe who were top speakers at MUNS and Ben Clow who received Merit. A "United Nations General Assembly" made up of students from...
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1st Prize in the Senior Short Film Category
Dear Jack and Whanganui High School Team Members, Nusr and Mikaya Congratulations – your Bullying-Free NZ Week competition entry has won First Prize in the Senior Short Film...
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1st XI Boys Hockey convincing win over Collegiate - May 2016
Well done to our 1st XI Boys Hockey team who had a convincing 5-0 win over Collegiate last night, Thursday 26 May, in their competition game. Awesome result boys! (Lisa Murphy, Sports...
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1st XI Cricket won their T20 regional semi final
Woohoo!!!!! Our 1st XI Boys Cricket team won their T20 regional semi final game today at school against Horowhenua College. WHS went in to bat first and made 115 runs with Harry Lillington...
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2017 Cultural Festival - fantastic evening!
2017 Cultural Festival If you came to the cultural festival on the 17th of June you would have been able to smell a lot as soon as you stepped through the doors of the full WHS hall. From German...
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2017 was an AMAZING year for WHS SPORT
The Year 2017 What an amazing year WHS has had with sport. Here are a few great moments we have had! February • NZ Kayaking Champs started the year well with our WHS...
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3 students selected CRNZ high performance camp for kayaking
Lucas Thompson, Sophie Brooke and Jack Clifton are up in Karapiro this weekend for their 2nd CRNZ high performance athlete pathway camp for kayaking. All 3 were selected for the pathway based on...
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50th celebration of High School Tramping Hut - October 2015
A group of Wanganui High School students, teachers and parent helpers on a Hut working bee. Back in the 1960s the Tongariro Parks Board wanted to expand the number of huts in the Park. Wanganui...
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