Education / February 2021
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Stakeholder Update – Return to Alert Level 2 (1 March)
- College Sport Wellington
- Dear students, staff, family members, partners and supporter of College Sport Wellington, On behalf of the Board and Staff of College Sport Wellington, I want to thank you for your continuing support of secondary school sport, particularly under these trying times.
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Cullen Breakfast
- Wellington Girls' College
- On Thursday 25 February Head Girl Izzy Hewett (left) and Head of Heritage Sophie Trench attended the Cullen breakfast where Hon. Grant Robertson spoke about the direction of the NZ economy.
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Wellington Girls' College, Pipitea Street, Pipitea, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Workshop to Empower Young Women
- Wellington Girls' College
- The Wellington Dream Series event on Saturday the 13 March is part of 3 events across the country which will include a workshop led by a professional coach, the chance to talk to awesome mentors and a keynote speech delivered by Jacinta Gulasekharam (co-founder of Dignity).
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Space: Robinson Research Institute’s next frontier
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Director of the Robinson Research Institute Dr Nick Long explains how his teams' expertise in electromagnetic technologies is taking them to space.
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Weekly Wrap Up (Term 1, Week 4)
- Wellington High School
- Important Dates Monday 1 March – Year 9 Noho Marae begin Wednesday 31 March – Learning Conversations Y9-13 Thursday 1 April – Teacher-Only Day: Capital City Kāhui Ako.
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The value a society places on knowledge is judged by how it treats public libraries
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Anne Goulding from the School of Information Management explains why the part privatisation of Wellington's Central Library is dangerous in this opinion piece originally published on Stuff.co.nz
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Turfing Latin part of a disturbing pattern
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Josh King explains how the axing of Latin from NCEA is indicative of a wider trend in New Zealand and the world.
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Wireless for sound
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Alumnus Harsh Tataria, who graduated here in 2017, is waiting to return from New Zealand to his job teaching communications engineering at Lund University.
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High Jump – Jumping Higher!
- Wellington Girls' College
- Two fantastic results out of WGC’s Athletics Day, were in the High Jump.
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Drilling into Peter Barrett’s career
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Emeritus Professor Peter Barrett FRSNZ, FGS explains how he became Aotearoa New Zealand's pre-eminent Antarctic scientist and climate change spokesperson.
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‘I don’t know anybody who’s got a job as interesting as mine’
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Shanny Campbell tracks her career from a Master in Development Studies to country director of Tajikistan for the Asian Development Bank.
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Storytelling to come to terms with the pandemic
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Storytelling is a crucial coping device, enabling you to situate yourself in relation to a bigger event, write professors Stephen Dobson and Donna Prendergast.
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Climate Change Committee advice will shift our impacts—to where?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Alan Brent, Chair in Sustainable Energy Systems, considers the impacts of replacing petrol-powered vehicles with electric vehicles.
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Climate Change Commission advice will shift our impacts—to where?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Alan Brent, Chair in Sustainable Energy Systems, considers the impacts of replacing petrol-powered vehicles with electric vehicles.
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Local government’s Māori representation gap
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Jack Vowles puts paid to the claim Māori wards are unnecessary because Māori are proportionally represented in local government.
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Relay Champs
- Wellington Girls' College
- It was another amazing contest between the best sprinters from WGC and Wellington East in our annual 4 x 100m relay.
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Wellington Girls' College, Pipitea Street, Pipitea, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Athletics Champs 2021
- Wellington Girls' College
- Following Athletics Day – congratulations to our WGC Athletics Champions for 2021. The Juniors (Year 9) was a tightly fought competition with three athletes coming in with the same points. From left are the Teal Seal, Molly O’Sullivan (Intermediate Champ), Katelyn Sceats (Senior Champ), Briar Nicolson, Tapini Raea and Asha Young (Junior Champs) and Principal Julia Davidson.
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Wellington Girls' College, Pipitea Street, Pipitea, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Second Hand Uniform Sale – 5 March
- Wellington Girls' College
- Be the first to know when sales are happening: Sign-up here Drop your uniform off by this Wednesday – If you have items for the second hand uniform sale on 5 March, you need to drop them off by this Wednesday.
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Weekly Wrap Up (Week 3, Term 1)
- Wellington High School
- Important Dates Tuesday 23 February – Aroha Day Friday 26 February – Athletics Carnival Monday 1 March – Year 9 Noho Marae begin Important Information Covid-19 Update Kia ora koutou I am sure that we all have welcomed the news of the move back to alert level 1.
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Tennis – Premier Teams Day
- College Sport Wellington
- Wellington College and Hutt International Boys battled it out on Wednesday at the Premier Teams Tennis Champs.
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Futsal Level 1 Coaching Course
- College Sport Wellington
- Capital Football are running a Level 1 Futsal Coaching Course on Sunday 28 February.
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Women’s power in anonymity
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Netflix show Bridgerton shows another side to the agency and influence of women in heavily patriarchal societies, writes Rachel Boddy.
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Defiant through Shock – Liam Maitland
- College Sport Wellington
- “I don’t remember much, but what I’ve been told is I turned pale and was puffing heaps.
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Scholarships reward school students’ resilience
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The new Ngā Hoe a Kupe Pathfinder Scholarships have been awarded to twelve young women from Wellington secondary schools.
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Stakeholder Update – Alert Level 2, 15 February 2021
- College Sport Wellington
- Dear students, staff, family members, partners and supporters of College Sport Wellington, As we’re sure you’re all feeling, last night’s news was disappointing and certainly a fly in the ointment for the sporting calendar.
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School Photographs – revised schedule
- Wellington High School
- Following the move to Alert Level 2 we have worked with the photographers and have revised the school photos schedule.
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Weekly Wrap Up (Week 2, Term 1)
- Wellington High School
- Important Dates Monday 15 February – Year 9 Meet the Teacher (6pm) Monday 15 February – Board of Trustees meeting (6.
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Why impeachment might not be a good idea
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Hayden Thorne is no fan of former US president Donald Trump, but asks if a public impeachment is really the best way forward?
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Entries Open – 2021 Wellington SS Waka Ama Sprint Champs
- College Sport Wellington
- Hoe Tonga Pacifica Waka Ama Association, in association with College Sport Wellington, is pleased to offer secondary school students the opportunity to participate in our region’s Secondary School Sprint Champs.
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Pasifika Family Fun Day
- Wellington Girls' College
- What a great, fun day for our Pasifika families – check out the photos!
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Researchers illuminate a role for moonlight in fisheries management
- Victoria University of Wellington
- A University-led study shows how the lunar cycle influences the behaviour of larval fish predators and prey and as a result growth rates.
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Artist reworks Adam Art Gallery building for new show
- Victoria University of Wellington
- US-based Walters Prize winner Kate Newby is internationally sought after for her architectural 'interventions' that lead to new appreciations of locations and materials.
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Study finds birdsong remains the same after 1080 drops
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Researchers find no evidence forests 'fall silent' because poison is killing large numbers of the very birds it aims to protect.
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Public Programme Feb – May 2021
- Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
- Details of the public programme will be posted soon.
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Adam Art Gallery, Hunter Car Park, Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6145, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Weekly Wrap Up (Term 1, Week 1)
- Wellington High School
- Important Dates Monday 8 February – Waitangi Day holiday (school closed) Monday 15 February – Year 9 Meet the Teacher (6pm) Monday 15 February – Board of Trustees meeting (6.
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Kate Newby YES TOMORROW
- Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
- Kate Newby YES TOMORROW 20 February – 30 May 2021 Kate Newby has built her career on the principle of ‘travelling light’, responding to locations where she is invited to work by translating her casual observations of things and places into sculptural installations of locally sourced materials, and testing where she can be and what she should do through architectural interventions and site works.
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Adam Art Gallery, Hunter Car Park, Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6145, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Kate Newby YES TOMORROW
- Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
- Kate Newby YES TOMORROW 20 February – 30 May 2021 Kate Newby has built her career on the principle of ‘travelling light’, responding to locations where she is invited to work by translating her casual observations of things and places into sculptural installations of locally sourced materials, and testing where she can be and what she should do through architectural interventions and site works.
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Schools are failing to identify high-ability science students, research shows
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New Zealand's smartest young science students aren't always identified in the school system, indicates new research.
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Powhiri and blessing
- Ridgway School
- Twice a year we formally welcome new staff and students with a pōwhiri. We do this at the start of the year and at the start of Term 3.
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Ridgway School, 120, Mornington Road, Brooklyn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Athletics Success
- Wellington Girls' College
- At the NZ Secondary School Athletics and Road Race Champs in December in Hawera, Emma Douglass won the 800m Senior Girls event in 2:14.
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Call for 'immediate and decisive action' on climate change
- Victoria University of Wellington
- The Climate Change Commission's Professor James Renwick outlines its long-anticipated advice to the New Zealand Government.
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Study shows benefits of wetland restoration
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Gains in soil quality contribute to a more stable climate, diminished flooding, and cleaner waterways, says study leader Dr Stephanie Tomscha.
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The politics of public spaces
- Victoria University of Wellington
- New Zealand’s history of the built environment is not immune from the discrimination seen in the US and other countries, writes Christine McCarthy.
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