This week, the Amnesty International WGHS group has been raising awareness about the human abuses women and girls in Afghanistan are now enduring, since the Taliban has resumed control over the country.

It is hard to believe that we are nearly at the halfway point of the term.

Deans are currently meeting and working with senior students on mid-year check-ins. Next week whānau of our senior students will receive an email showing academic progress (NCEA credits). Note that some of the results will not be showing yet due to work still being collated or moderated.

Students currently in Year 10, 11 and 12 are having level assemblies with Deans this week to learn about making good choices for subjects in 2024.

This was an amazing opportunity for the team to watch a live professional game.

Applications are open for the 2024 Rotary National Science and Technology Forum! The Rotary Science and Technology Forum is a two-week Summer Science camp in Tamaki Makaurau I Auckland for Year 12 students entering Year 13.

On Wednesday, 2nd August, 15 of our year 9 and 10 students travelled to Timaru to compete in the annual Aoraki Mathletics competition.

Chanique Smit Yr 12.

Waitaki Girls' was well represented at the annual Lion's Speech competition.

The Year 11 ELL class were sad to say farewell to Ruby an international student from Taiwan.

Each year, like every secondary school in the country, we have a number of students who require special assessment conditions for their NCEA assessments, both internal and external.

Our Senior A Netball and 1st XI Hockey teams recently attended our annual Quadrangular interschool with Christchurch, Avonside and Timaru Girls' High Schools.

In class, we are learning about creating characters & background stories through imagination, creativity and costumes! Here are some outfits they came up with to tell their stories.

This week is National Boarding Week, and the hostel managers from WBHS, Scott and Chelsea invited our hostel to Waitaki Boys for a quiz night.

On Tuesday, August 8th, Waitaki Girls HS took 9 teams of four or five players each to Timaru to participate in the Aoraki Secondary Schools tournament.

COVID-19, we have 25 reported cases and 130 students off school with sickness.

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