Wellington High School Arts & Culture

🌿 Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori 2025 @ Wellington High 🌿
This week we’re looking forward to filling Taraika with wānanga, kōrero, mau rākau, theatre, art, and waiata — celebrating te reo and kaupapa Māori together.

✨ With guest speakers, creative workshops, and performances lined up, it’s a chance to connect, learn, and honour te reo Māori as a living, thriving taonga.

💚 We can’t wait to come together as a kura and keep the kaupapa alive — not just this week, but every day.

🌈 WHS Pride Week – A Fabulous Drag Celebration 🌈
What a way to crown WHS OutLOUD Pride week! Wednesday’s Drag Show brought colour, joy, and plenty of sparkle to our school hall. Huge thanks to our gorgeous guest performers who lit up the stage and to our own WHS LGBTQ+ group, Ultraviolet, for their mahi in making it happen. A special shout-out goes to our resident drag aficionado, Paton Smith, whose energy and passion were at the heart of this unforgettable event.

This week has been a time of celebrating diversity, community, and creativity and this show was the perfect Jewel in the glorious Tiara that is WHS outLOUD week!

🎸 Battle of the Bands – A incendiary evening of WHS rockstars 🎸
Last Sunday, Meow was packed to the rafters for Wellington High’s Battle of the Bands—a sold-out show featuring 16 phenomenal bands and one boisterous, buzzing audience. The energy was electric from start to finish as students took to the stage with everything from blistering rock to soulful originals.
Amidst the scorching lineup, LUX rose to the top and claimed the title of Battle champions. But as the cheers echoed through the venue, it was clear that the WHS creative community was the real overall winner.

PHOTO credits: Wes Collins

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🎭 It’s Shakespeare Season at WHS 🎭 And what better way to honour World Shakespeare Day (yesterday!) than by celebrating the incredible creativity and collaboration alive in our kura? ✨ First, three bold and imaginative scenes lit up the stage at the SGCNZ Regional Festival — each entirely student-directed and produced. A powerful testament to the initiative, leadership, and talent that drives our extra-curricular arts programme. 🌍 Then came A Stranger’s Case — a striking multilingual performance developed in collaboration with the NZ Refugee Youth Council, exploring the global realities of displacement through Shakespeare’s words. From 38 regional entries, this piece was one of only two selected to represent Te Whanganui-a-Tara at the SGCNZ National Festival at the Saint James Theatre this King’s Birthday Weekend. 🧟‍♀️ And next… the undead take the stage. The WHS Shakespeare Society opens its 2025 production of Romeo and Juliet — with ZOMBIES — this Monday on the Riley Stage. It’s daring, it’s different, and it always sells out. 🎟️ Tickets available now at TryBooking. #ShakespeareSeasonWHS #WHSArts #SGCNZ #StudentLedTheatre #RileyStage #RomeoAndJulietWithZombies #WHSShakespeareSociety #WorldShakespeareDay #ExtraCurricularExcellence

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Here is a little collection of images taken by one of our star photography students Aiden Scott. They capture some of the wonderful moments from last term's Music Events- Battle of the Bands and the Unplugged Evening. Happy rest of the holidays e te whanau!