Our Vision is to deliver Aotearoa New Zealand's best all-round education.
Principal's Message
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Wakatipu High School’s vision is to ‘deliver Aotearoa New Zealand’s best all-round education’. This aspirational vision challenges us to strive to deliver the very best possible opportunities and outcomes for all of our students each and every day.
Our ‘Ākonga Profile’ outlines what we want for our students in their time at WHS, and encapsulates the all-round nature of our vision. The Ākonga Profile includes not only every student gaining their best possible qualification, but essential competencies and knowledge, and holistic development as a young person - underpinned by our school values of excellence, responsibility, resilience, inclusion and respect. |
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Integral to the Ākonga Profile and our vision is student engagement, learning, progress and achievement, and our strong academic results are testament to our success in this area. Students are also supported to achieve in vocational pathways, which include our Trades Academy, Gateway and Central Otago Youth Employment programmes. In addition, we provide learning support in literacy and numeracy, and have a Gifted Education programme.
A key part of our all-round education is the wide range of extra and co-curricular opportunities that we offer, including sport, arts, music, culture, outdoors, community and leadership. From our Winter Sports Academy and rowing, to our jazz band, school musical, Kapa Haka group and Duke of Edinburgh programme, our students have an incredible range of opportunities in which to participate and excel, as well as to grow and develop as young people. Furthermore, the Wakatipu Basin and its unique environment enables us to offer our great outdoor education programmes.
Student engagement, wellbeing and resilience are also very important at WHS, and we work hard to support our students to ‘feel good and function well’, to enjoy coming to school, but also to understand that sometimes things are hard and that we need to build strategies for working through times of challenge. We have a comprehensive pastoral system, central to which are our five Houses - Arthur, Duncan, Fox, Hay and Mackenzie. Additionally, we have a school-wide wellbeing programme and a bullying prevention programme.
In terms of our campus, 2023 marks the completion of the new school, including its extension, which takes our student capacity to 1800 students. With just over 1300 students, our state of the art facilities are well placed to support students to achieve their potential.
Well-governed and very generously supported by the WHS Foundation and Branches Trust, Wakatipu High School is well on its way to delivering Aotearoa New Zealand’s best all-round education. We welcome you to join us at our remarkable campus and to ‘reach for your heights’.
A key part of our all-round education is the wide range of extra and co-curricular opportunities that we offer, including sport, arts, music, culture, outdoors, community and leadership. From our Winter Sports Academy and rowing, to our jazz band, school musical, Kapa Haka group and Duke of Edinburgh programme, our students have an incredible range of opportunities in which to participate and excel, as well as to grow and develop as young people. Furthermore, the Wakatipu Basin and its unique environment enables us to offer our great outdoor education programmes.
Student engagement, wellbeing and resilience are also very important at WHS, and we work hard to support our students to ‘feel good and function well’, to enjoy coming to school, but also to understand that sometimes things are hard and that we need to build strategies for working through times of challenge. We have a comprehensive pastoral system, central to which are our five Houses - Arthur, Duncan, Fox, Hay and Mackenzie. Additionally, we have a school-wide wellbeing programme and a bullying prevention programme.
In terms of our campus, 2023 marks the completion of the new school, including its extension, which takes our student capacity to 1800 students. With just over 1300 students, our state of the art facilities are well placed to support students to achieve their potential.
Well-governed and very generously supported by the WHS Foundation and Branches Trust, Wakatipu High School is well on its way to delivering Aotearoa New Zealand’s best all-round education. We welcome you to join us at our remarkable campus and to ‘reach for your heights’.
Mr Oded Nathan
Principal
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Board of Trustees
Parent Trustees
Adrian Januszkiewicz (Chair)
Guy Blundell
John Edmonds
Rachel Exell
Gaylene Hastie
Ben O'Malley
Staff Trustee
Mark Baldwin
Student Trustee
Daphne Ricketts
Whānau Representative
Louise Wright
Secretary
Florentyna Sue - for all correspondence please email fsue@wakatipu.school.nz
Adrian Januszkiewicz (Chair)
Guy Blundell
John Edmonds
Rachel Exell
Gaylene Hastie
Ben O'Malley
Staff Trustee
Mark Baldwin
Student Trustee
Daphne Ricketts
Whānau Representative
Louise Wright
Secretary
Florentyna Sue - for all correspondence please email fsue@wakatipu.school.nz
Board Meeting Dates:
- Monday 20 February
- Monday 3 April
- Monday 15 May
- Monday 26 June
- Monday 7 Aug
- Monday 18 Sept
- Monday 6 November
- Monday 11 December
Strategic and Annual Plans
Please click here to view our Strategic Plan.
Please click here to view our Annual Plan. Please note the landing page is our Strategic Priorities for 2023 - hover and click on a priority to see its annual plan.
Please click here to view our Annual Plan. Please note the landing page is our Strategic Priorities for 2023 - hover and click on a priority to see its annual plan.
ERO Report
Education Review Office Report
Te Ara Huarau is the new evaluation approach that the Education Review Office (ERO) is using in all schools in New Zealand. This is a developmental approach to evaluation where ERO and our school work together over time rather than one off reviews that happened previously. Te Ara Huarau is used in most English-medium state and state-integrated schools.
ERO maintains a regular review programme to evaluate and report on the education and care of young people in the schools. Our school worked alongside ERO to write our Profile Report. This type of report will only happen once as part of our initial engagement with Te Ara Huarau. The profile report reflects our strategic goals and a shared evaluation focus one or more areas that are important to us as we work together to improve outcomes for all our learners. ERO, like us, have a strong focus on equity and excellence. Future reporting will show our progress and achievement towards meeting the goals we have set. Public reports like the Profile Report are published on ERO’s website.
A Board Assurance Report that shows how we are meeting regulatory and legislative Requirements and a Provision for International Students Report has also been published.
Te Ara Huarau is the new evaluation approach that the Education Review Office (ERO) is using in all schools in New Zealand. This is a developmental approach to evaluation where ERO and our school work together over time rather than one off reviews that happened previously. Te Ara Huarau is used in most English-medium state and state-integrated schools.
ERO maintains a regular review programme to evaluate and report on the education and care of young people in the schools. Our school worked alongside ERO to write our Profile Report. This type of report will only happen once as part of our initial engagement with Te Ara Huarau. The profile report reflects our strategic goals and a shared evaluation focus one or more areas that are important to us as we work together to improve outcomes for all our learners. ERO, like us, have a strong focus on equity and excellence. Future reporting will show our progress and achievement towards meeting the goals we have set. Public reports like the Profile Report are published on ERO’s website.
A Board Assurance Report that shows how we are meeting regulatory and legislative Requirements and a Provision for International Students Report has also been published.
Tahuna - School Waiata
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E te tini e te mano Kia ora ra Anei a Wakatipu E mihi mahana Kia koutou katoa Takahia mai ra Ko te aroha Mai ringa ringa pōwhiri E tuwhera atu nei Ko Whakatauki te maunga Ko Wakatipu te roto Haere mai ra ki Tāhuna (x2) |
To the many, to the thousands Greetings Here we are Wakatipu A warm welcome To you all Come forth with love We welcome you all With open arms Bob’s Peak the mountain Wakatipu our lake Welcome again to you all (x2) |
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