Five Westlake students won medals at the New Zealand Secondary Schools Athletics Championships held in Dunedin in early December. Kaia Tupu-South (Year 11) won a Gold Medal (and is therefore the New Zealand Champion) in the Senior Girls Discus and also won a Silver Medal in the Senior Girls Shotput. Anna Steven (Year 13) won…
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Junior Touch team defend title
The Westlake Girls Junior Touch team defended the Auckland Secondary Schools Junior Touch title today, which they also won last year. The team won all its pool games, beating Rutherford College, James Cook High School, Epsom Girls Grammar School and St Kentigerns College. This put them into the final against Auckland Girls and they…
Five winners at prestigious Sports Awards event
Westlake Girls had five students selected as Category Winners at the 2018 Auckland College Sports Awards held in mid-November. Sara McCarthy (Year 13) won a Sports All-rounders Award for competing in three or more Premier competitions. Sara was part of our top Netball, Volleyball and Touch teams that all placed in top level tournaments….
Junior Volleyball win another title
After winning the North Harbour Secondary Schools Junior Volleyball title two weeks ago, the Westlake Girls High School Junior Volleyball team has made it “two from two” by winning the Auckland Secondary Schools Premier Junior Volleyball title. Three students, Domi Menoita (pictured left), Tamara Nu’u and…
Volleyball team wins Championship
The Westlake Girls High School Junior Volleyball team has just won the North Harbour Secondary Schools Junior Volleyball Super League title. After a very close semi-final win over Carmel College, the Westlake team beat Orewa College 2 sets – 0 in the final.
Future Problem Solving team heading to World Championships
The Westlake Girls High School Year 9 Future Problem Solving (FPS) team competed in the New Zealand FPS National Championships at the start of November. They competed in the Middle division which also included students in schools from Year 10. The Westlake team produced a fabulous result, winning the Silver Medal in the Division….
Talented students win Fashion Awards
Every year the Home Economics and Technology Teachers’ Association of New Zealand run a Fashion Awards competition for students from Years 7 – 13. There are five different categories students can enter into. Guest judges looked over all the entries and two Westlake Girls students have just be announced as having won Awards. They…
Three basketballers selected for New Zealand team
Three students form Westlake Girls have just been selected for the New Zealand Girls Under-15 team to represent New Zealand at the FIBA Oceania U-15 Championships to be held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea in December this year. The students are Simone Barnard (Year 10), Emma Pugh (Year 11) and Makenzee Boucher (Year…
Talented students selected for Football Wold Cup team
Aneka Mittendorf (Year 12, picutred) has just been named in the New Zealand Under-17 Football (soccer) team to play in the FIFA Womens Under-17 World Cup to be held in Uruguay in November this year. Casey Klyn (Year 12) has been named as a non-travelling reserve for the same team.
Student selected as Youth Member of Parliament
Each year to improve students understanding and interest in Government and political processes, every Member of Parliament gets to select a student as their Youth Member of Parliament (MP). The students attended events with the Member of Parliament, they worth with them to explain Government processes, how Laws are made and passed and to…
