This year WEGC fielded two teams in the Wellington Dragonboating festival for secondary schools.  The Year 12 team managed to win the girls' grand final with the Year 13 team coming in 7th.

The Year 12 team had lost to QMC in the semi-final and were only seeded 4th for the final.  They managed to claw back and win by 9/100ths of a second in a photo finish with Chilton in a thrilling race.

The race had been called off last week due to the tsunami warning.

Having two teams make the final is testament to the depth of East's talent, as is having such a young and inexperienced group of paddlers win the division.  They will go into next year's competition as hot favourites.

See more photos from the dragonboating competition.

Photos by Mina Boag of Year 13.  Above:  Year 13s paddling.  Below:  Some of the champion Year 12 team.

The Senior A Volleyball team took it to the Wellington College prefects in a fundraising match.   While the Coll boys muscled their way to the win, it was a great game to watch and the gym was full of generous students who contributed gold coins towards the Senior A's summer tournament trip.

Along with the waka ama team and our defending national champion softball team, they are gearing up to take on the best teams in the country in two weeks time.

See more pictures from the game.

Photos by Kayla Kiriau Year 13

Above:  The winning banner, produced by 1061.

On the first day of school, the lucky Year 10s were suprised with brand new form classes. To get to know each other better, we had an interclass competition in which we had to make the best class poster, with the criteria of using collage and communicating a sense of community.

There was sweat, there were tears and (of course) the insane amount of lunchtimes spent in the rush to finish them. Each class had a different structure and a different perspective. We saw lots of wrongly coloured crests, cubes, villages, textiling and heaps of more awesome, yet kooky, ideas. The hurridly-finished posters were then judged by the supreme teachers who were Ms Greenaway and Ms Munro.

In the end, Room 1061 took the title of champion poster makers.  Second was 1024 and third 1011.

See all the banners.

Photos and text by Flora Lu and Lauren Turrell Year 10.