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Our school newsletter for April 2021

Wellington East Girls' College's annual Food Fair is back on this year on May 14th (Week 2 of term 2). The Food Fair can't be held without the support of the student and parent body.

Easter Holiday break dates 2021

Learning Conferences are being held 31 March and 1 April

Our school newsletter for March 2021

As you will all know we have returned to Alert Level 2 from today Sunday 28 February for up to 7 days. The government will be reviewing this regularly, and I will update you with any changing information relating to school.

Thursday 25 February 2021, Newtown Athletics Stadium 8.45am - 3.00pm. Attendance is compulsory and students are permitted to wear non-uniform in House Colours. All parents are welcome to attend.

With the move to Alert Level 1 from midnight Wednesday, there will be no major changes to what we are doing.

As of midnight Sunday 14 February we have returned to Alert Level 2 for 72 hours. This is a reminder of the practices at Alert Level 2 at Wellington East Girls’ College.

East has new house names from 2021.

Start dates/times for 2021

Our school newsletter for December 2020

Our school newsletter for November 2020

We have Teacher Only Days on Monday the 16th and Tuesday 17th November.

The school Prize Giving is on Wednesday 4 November at 6.30pm, at the Michael Fowler Centre

Our school newsletter for September 2020

Senior Parent/Teacher Interviews with subject teachers will be online this year. They are taking place Thursday 27 August 5pm - 7pm and Monday 31 August 4pm - 6pm. Bookings open at 9.30am Friday 21 August

As of 12pm Wednesday 12th August we have returned to Alert Level 2 until Friday midnight. This is a reminder of the practices at Alert Level 2 at Wellington East Girls’ College.

The school is now operating under Alert Level 2. We will be sending out more detailed information at 5pm this afternoon after the Prime Minister's briefing.

Learning Conferences (Year 9 and 10) are being held 6th and 7th August.

We are holding our annual Course Selection Evening here at the College on Tuesday 11 August from 6.00pm to 8.00pm.

You will be aware that Term 2 arrangements for reporting and face to face meetings were altered due to the Covid19 lockdown. While we continue to encourage you to engage with Ako teachers and subject teachers, we have also created the following opportunities for you to engage with teachers.

Wellington East Girls' College - Purple Power Week - which advocates for the empowerment of women is now set to go nationwide.

Due to the move to Level 1 we will have an Open Evening on 24th June 2020. Starting from 6.00pm.

Melink has informed us that fares will return to normal across the region from 1 July. Fares, including the handling of cash, were temporarily suspended to support the Government's public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the move to Alert Level 1 there will be no major changes to what we are doing. Wellington East continues to be safe to attend for all, including any staff and children who are considered more vulnerable to COVID.

To build on innovation that took place during lock down we have introduced Flexi Fridays.

NZQA have made changes to NCEA and University Entrance (UE) requirements for this year

Our school newsletter for May 2020

There has never been a more important time to support us with our fundraising and local business at the same time.

We have heard from Metlink and the Greater Wellington Council that there has been some mixed messages regarding what is allowed on school buses during Alert Level 2.

There is a Teacher Only Day scheduled for Friday 29th May and we will also have a mid-term break on Tuesday 2nd June.

Updated 15 May 2020

Our school newsletter for April 2020

Please find a link to the NZQA website and information regarding NCEA.

Please find a link to all the information for how to stay in touch and East@Home learning

Message from Head Students - Hello! As the start of Term 2 has dawned on us, Lorna and I decided this would be the perfect time for us to share with our students, teachers and WEGC community a small project we have been working on

East@home distance learning should now be well underway. There are also other online learning opportunities offered by the Ministry of Education

Our student’s online safety is important. At school, Network for Learning (N4L) helps keep students safe from unsafe aspects of the internet. With students currently working from home N4L has worked out a way to help parents keep their children safely connected at home.

As yet, it is unclear when the Government imposed lockdown will end. However, staff have been working over the break to ensure that East@home, our digital distance learning for students, is ready for the start of Term 2 on Wednesday 15th April. 

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.

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

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

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

Our school newsletter for August 2019

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

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.

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"

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

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.

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.

Our school newsletter and info sheet for February 2019

Our school newsletter and info sheet for February 2019

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