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With New Zealand moving to Alert 4 schools will be closed. We have put together a site for parents and students to find information they many need for learning from home, how to contact the school and details of the Term 1 break and Term 2 start date.

The Minister of Education has announced that the school holidays have been brought forward and will now start on Monday 30th March and run until Tuesday 14th April. Our East@home programme will therefore end on Friday 27 March and resume on Wednesday 15th April. 

School will be closed to students tomorrow except for those who have parents who are in essential services such as Health

With the Government's announcement we are at Alert 2 - Reduce Contact we are encouraging young people and staff who fit into the high risk category to stay at home. In light of this we have also changed the dates for East@Home.

Metlink notified us today that for them to stay one step ahead of COVID-19 and give their passengers and staff more peace of mind, Metlink will be removing all cash sales from trains, buses and stations as of Monday, 23 March.

With so much information and misinformation circulating about COVID-19, we wanted to share with you what will happen if we were to have a case in our school community. We have been planning for this and are in a position to respond quickly.

There has been a new announcement from the Prime Minister this afternoon. She is advising anyone who has been overseas in the last two weeks to self-isolate, even if they returned to New Zealand before the official deadline. We need to continue to follow the advice of our government and health officials, and as a consequence we request that any student or staff member who returned to New Zealand prior to Monday’s border restrictions stay away from Wellington East Girls’ College for the balance of their 14 days.

COVID-19 continues to present us with a rapidly evolving situation. Each day, we are reviewing our plans in light of Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education advice and guidelines and updating our website with the latest information for our school community. With the recent change in the Government’s approach to containing the spread of the virus which was announced over the weekend and on Monday, we have updated our plans and I wanted to share this information with you.

In line with Ministry of Health advice, any member of our school community who returns to New Zealand from overseas after 11.59pm on Sunday 15 March, or has been in close contact with someone confirmed with COVID-19, is required to self-isolate, stay away from the Wellington East Girls’ College campus for 14 days, and register using Healthline's dedicated COVID-19 number 0800 358 5453.

An update regarding Pandemic announcement

Ako Class photos will be taken on Thursday 19 March.

Learning Conferences will be held on Thursday 26 March from 1pm - 7pm and on Friday 27 March from 8.30am - 4.30pm.

As you may be aware there has been increased media coverage regarding the COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus). We are monitoring the situation closely; taking advice from both the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education.

The Government has recently confirmed its final NCEA change package. The opportunity for feedback will be open until 20 April 2020.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, Newtown Athletics Stadium 8.45am - 2.15pm. Attendance is compulsory and students are permitted to wear mufti in House Colours. All parents are welcome to attend.

Our school newsletter for February 2020

The Wellington East Girls’ College Branch of the PPTA has advised that there will be a Paid Union Meeting (PUM) for members of the PPTA on Tuesday 25 February at 1.20pm.

Metlink has notified us that there will be school bus changes effective from Term 1, 2020

Our school newsletter for November 2019

Have your say on the future of education.

Our school newsletter for September 2019

There will be a Teacher Only Day on Friday 15 November. The school will remain open and any student wishing to be at school should report to the School Office, where supervised study will be arranged. There are NO NCEA exams scheduled for this day. The Supported Learning Classroom will not be open on this day.

Our Prize Giving is on Thursday 31 October at 6.30pm, at the Alan Gibbs Centre at Wellington College.

The timetable for NZQA exams - please see link

As part of the planning to re-roof a section of the Ahumairangi (East Wing) asbestos has been identified in the cladding.

Metlink are making the following changes to Route 727 & Route 731, effective from Monday 14 October 2019

We are currently have technical issues with our phone system. Please email wegc@wegc.school.nz if you need to contact the school. We hope to have this issue fixed as soon as possible and apologise for any inconvenience.

Our school newsletter for August 2019

There will be a Teacher Only Day on Friday 16 August.

Join us and Annabelle White, Celebrity Chef, famous food writer and author of eleven cookbooks, as part of our Inspirational Breakfast Series on Thursday 29th August. Students, family and friends all welcome.

The aim of the evening is to inform you and your daughters of the wide range of courses on offer and to answer any questions you may have regarding subject requirements, NCEA, University Entrance and possible career pathways.

Senior exams are being held from Monday 19 August to Friday 23 August.

Breakfast Club is on every morning 8 - 8.30am. Please see the poster for further details

Speaking on "Tips to help with passing exams and being career ready"

Our annual Course Selection Evening is being held Tuesday 13 August, 6pm - 8pm. Further information on the evening will be sent to Year 9 - 12 parents later this week.

Declaration of Parent and Staff Election Results

The Wellington East Girls’ College Branch of the PPTA has advised that there will be a Paid Union Meeting (PUM) for members of the PPTA on Wednesday 26 June at 1.00 pm. There will be no classes that afternoon. Students may leave the college at 11.45 am.

We have received formal notice from the PPTA that the proposed industrial actions on the 25 June (Year 11) and 2 July (Year 12) have been cancelled.. This means school will be open on on both these days for all year levels.

We have received confirmation from the PPTA that the rolling regional strikes planned to commence Monday 17 June are no longer happening.

We have scheduled report evenings which are an opportunity for parents and students to meet with their subject teachers.

The Ministry of Education has recently announced important changes to NCEA fees. Fees will no longer be charged for domestic students participating in NCEA and New Zealand Scholarship, with funding instead to be provided directly to NZQA by the Government

School hours during Open Day

The PPTA have cancelled the industrial action which they had planned for Tuesday 11th June. School will be open for instruction for all students.

As part of the planning to remove the prefabs from the village area at the front of the school, asbestos has been identified in the cladding of some of the prefabs. The village is no longer occupied due to the migration into the new building. The area has been isolated and there is no access for students, parents and staff.

We have our open day / evening coming up next week.

Our school newsletter and info sheet for May 2019

The PPTA have confirmed that as part of the industrial action planned to support contract negotiations they will be withdrawing labour for different year levels groups over the next four weeks.

On behalf of the Wellington East Girls’ College Board of Trustees, it is my great pleasure to announce the appointment of Gael Ashworth to the role of Principal. Gael will take up her position on 8 July 2019.

Voting papers have now been sent out for the Board Of Trustees election. Voting closes at noon 7 June.

The Post Primary Teachers' Association (PPTA) has indicated to the Wellington East Girls' College Board of Trustees that teachers at our school will be taking strike action on Wednesday 29 May 2019. The strike will affect all students.

We are ontrack with the plans to open the new building.

Your school needs you.

Preparations for the Board of Trustee Parent elections on 7 June are underway.

Our school newsletter and info sheet for April 2019

A ceremony to bless the new building will held on Monday 20th May.

Due to the Learning Conferences on Wednesday the school day will be altered. School will finish at 12.30pm this day

The rescheduled date for Learning Conferences will be Wednesday 10th April from 1.30pm – 7pm.

Due to an incident the decision has been made to postpone this afternoon's Learning Conferences. Students will still leave at 12.15pm today.

Learning Conferences will be held on Thursday 4 April from 1pm - 7pm and on Friday 5 April from 8.30am - 4.30pm.

We have communicated with students to give them the following messages.

Information about Measles outbreak in Christchurch, Auckland and Dunedin

Wellington East Girls’ College is raising funds. Here is how you can help….

Our school newsletter and info sheet for February 2019

Our school newsletter and info sheet for February 2019

Course Confirmation today for Year 11-13 (10.00am - 1.00pm). Timetables are now available to view through the student portal. Please Note Year 9 and 10 are not finalised as yet..

Informaton for start of year. Further information on Term Dates can be found under Parents

Read our latest issue of Welink

The Board would like to advise that Principal, Sally Haughton, has decided to step down at the end of term 2, 2019 after nearly 12 years in the role. Please read the attached statement for further information.

New Welink Available now

New Welink Available now

During 2015 and 2016 we have gathered feedback on the longer learning times from students, staff and parents and based on this review we will continue with having the longer sessions ...