Visual Arts – Celebrating Creativity
Kia ora koutou and warmest greetings from the team in Visual Arts. It is portfolio season and we are heading into the busiest time of our year for senior students who have moved into the Art rooms and seem at…
TERM 2 Dance Highlights
ACTIVATE WSCW Dance Department were fortunate again this year to host Unitec Performing and Screen Arts Director Katie Burton and third year students in their annual ACTIVATE dance workshop. This workshop involved a showing of student work, teaching and learning…
Our Students in ‘A Little Mermaid’
Recently eight of our students appeared in the National Youth Theatre's presentation of Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'. The show took place at the Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre. Holly Broom, Isla Crowther, Indigo Devereux and Saskia Mok (all Year 10 students),…
Hana Shimada – Hip Hop Success
In July Hana Shimada, a Year 13 student at WSCW traveled to Phoenix, Arizona to take part in the World Hip-Hop International competition as part of the IDCO group young ID. The group came second in their division - Junior…
WSCW Music/Puoro Term 2 Round-Up
Te Whare Puoro has been a hive of activity in Term 2 with all sorts of musical happenings! Bear with us - this is going to be a long article! NZ Music Month Term 2 began as it always does,…
We love the Music Careers Expo!
On 6 May, our Year 12 and 13 music tauira headed to Big Fan in Morningside for the Music Careers Expo - the first of its kind! Our students participated in panel discussions, info from various music organisations, 1:1 kōrero…
‘Reality’ by Olya Pound
Recently we celebrated the release of Yr 13 student Olya Pound's poetry book 'Reality'. Olya read some poems from the book for an appreciative audience. Olya's poems are about her experience living with a chronic condition, and are a touching…
Visual Arts News
Scholarship Success in Visual Arts and Art History It is with immense pride that we congratulate our 2025 Y13 Visual Arts and Art History students who have achieved wonderful results in NZQA Scholarship examinations. Congratulations to Rosa Campbell. She has…
2025 Wrapped – The Puoro-Music Department Edition
Spotify Wrapped tells us we have listened to 248 genres this year so that demonstrates just how diverse and exciting the musicians at our school are! We have been a busy wee department so here is our final wrap up…
Toi Whakaari NZ Drama School 2026
The First year intake for Toi Whakaari is highly contested with only 20 auditionees selected. This year Ocean Michael, Addison Matagi-Pritchard and Vi Poutukua-Rua were successful in auditioning for the 2026 intake at Toi Whakaari, where they will join Wiremu…