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It is hard to believe that we are almost a month into school! Our recent year 7 camp to Whakanewha was a standout highlight of the first month with staff and students alike taking this opportunity to build whanaungatanga. A major thank you goes to all of our parent helpers and especially to our prefect team; our student leaders took centre stage in making this camp a real success. Alongside this, today’s athletics day has been a resounding success and it has been great to see everyone in their house colours, competing to their best ability to kick off the yearly house competition with style. Next Friday we follow this up with beach sports at Oneroa Beach and whānau are welcome to pop in throughout the day to say hello.

I want to thank all of our parents and caregivers who attended our “meet the teachers” evening this Tuesday. The event was absolutely bustling and our staff were excited to meet so many new parents and make early learning connections with their new students.

Research shows that engagement from whānau is a key determinant of student success so it was pleasing to see these relationships begin to flourish.

If you were unable to make it this week, we have two further opportunities in the coming weeks with our parent information evening in a fortnight and whānau learning hui the following week. It would be great to see as many of you as possible as we build strong learning focused connections as early as possible.

The parent information evening is a new initiative we are trialling this year designed to create a space for connecting specifically with parents around their tauira’s education journey. While schools do a good job of keeping students up to date with all of the nuts and bolts of education, this is often a grey area for parents and we want to demystify this space.

More information around this event is to follow but key topics for our first iteration will include an overview of our strategic direction, information on CAAs (common assessment activities) for literacy and numeracy, understanding NCEA requirements, Q&A with current students, and space for general questions with members of the senior leadership team. We are aiming to have one of these per term with each built around a different focus on how the school operates with a chance to connect directly with school leadership.

Ngā mihi mahana,

Cameron Flude

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Welcome to all of our students and whānau for the start of the new academic year. I hope you had a restful break and that students are returning to kura ready to embark on the year ahead.

At Waiheke High School, our commitment to outstanding learning remains our core purpose, grounded in our belief that every student has the potential for individual excellence.
I am a firm believer in high expectations for all of our ākonga in how they conduct themselves and how they achieve, and we have started the year positively in this regard. The energy across the school has been fantastic through our pōwhiri for new students and orientation days late last week. It has been great to see the diligent and settled approach students have brought for their first day of formal classes.

To start the year, we are consistently messaging our belief in our students and the high expectations we hold for them – and how this shows we care about their future and believe in each of them. When we challenge students to cultivate consistent, productive learning habits, it is to push them to be the best that they can be, and open as many doors as possible for their future – preparing them not just for academic qualifications, but for the world beyond school.

This dedication to academic excellence is bearing fruit. We are proud of our preliminary NCEA results, particularly Level 2 pass rates that are about 5% higher than comparable socio-economic schools and about 10% higher than the national average. Congratulations to our seniors for their commitment and achievement across 2025. Final results will be confirmed soon and should rise even higher as a few more students confirm outstanding grades from last year.

As we move forward, let us remain focused on what drives us. While we offer a wide variety of opportunities at Waiheke High School, our core business will always be educating our next generation. By holding high expectations and working in partnership, we will ensure every student takes full advantage of all that 2026 has to offer.

Ngā mihi mahana,

Cameron Flude

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We would like to invite you and your wider whānau to our annual Term 4 Exhibition: Friday 17th October.

This year we will be exhibiting a selection of projects across three venues; the main foyer (reception), Whare Toi and our studio café (B3). The exhibition will open at 3:30, there will be an informal prize giving at 4:00 – 4:30 in the Whare Toi foyer and we will close at 5:30pm.

There will be light refreshments provided by Level 1 Food Design and live music on the grand piano up until the prizegiving.

There are a few projects that we will be working frenetically to get completed by the exhibition so you may hear from teachers about additional workshop times and drop down days as we endeavor to maximise practical time.

Looking forward to seeing all the incredible work up and all of our community together!

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