Wakatipu High School
Encyclopedia
Wakatipu High School is a secondary school in Queenstown
, New Zealand
. The school had been taking pupils from year 7 to 13, now it takes covers from year 9 to 13, with year 7 and 8 now attending Wakatipu Primary School.
, Geography
, Economics
, History
, Tourism
, Arts
and English
, Health (Physical education
) and today (2011) it is where study class is taken, for children that needs more help.
, Biology
, Physics
, Chemistry
, Electronics
, Design Technology
, Drama
and Study which is only available for seniors (year 11 to 13).
, Māori
and Accounting.
, Graphics
, Art
, Bio food technology, Hard materials technology, Material
s and Structure
.
and career office is located in L Block. The room which the career's office is being taken is where the ESOL room was located, but now the ESOL room is located in C block.
. M block has only one topic which is music.
) is taken. During raining days the gym is often used by students doing P.E (Physical education) or during assembly time. The school's canteen was located in G block, but the canteen now is beside the school's library providing more space.
Generally there are seven of each class every fortnight with the exception of senior students where usually one (or sometimes two for Year 13s) of each class is replaced with study.
Queenstown, New Zealand
Queenstown is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island. It is built around an inlet called Queenstown Bay on Lake Wakatipu, a long thin Z-shaped lake formed by glacial processes, and has spectacular views of nearby mountains....
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. The school had been taking pupils from year 7 to 13, now it takes covers from year 9 to 13, with year 7 and 8 now attending Wakatipu Primary School.
Houses
Wakatipu High School uses system with different colours: Fox House(red), Hay House (Green), Arthur house, (Yellow and Blue), Mackenzie House (orange) and Duncan House (black).School's ground
Wakatipu High School is a large school, and each classroom has different directions.Robertson block
Roberston Block (also known as R Block) is where the following topics are taught: Social studiesSocial studies
Social studies is the "integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence," as defined by the American National Council for the Social Studies...
, Geography
Geography
Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
, Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
, History
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
, Tourism
Tourism
Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".Tourism has become a...
, Arts
ARts
aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
and English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
E Block
E block is located near Roberson Block is where the following topics are taught: MathematicsMathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, Health (Physical education
Physical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
) and today (2011) it is where study class is taken, for children that needs more help.
D block
D block is located near E Block is where the following topics are taught: ScienceScience
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, Biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
, Physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
, Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....
, Electronics
Electronics
Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...
, Design Technology
Design Technology
Design and Technology is a school subject offered at all levels of primary and secondary school. In some countries such as England it is a part of the National Curriculum. It is offered in many countries around the world such as Brunei, Bermuda, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Jordan...
, Drama
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
and Study which is only available for seniors (year 11 to 13).
C block
C block is located near D Block is where the following topics are taught: English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), MathematicsMathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, Māori
Maori language
Māori or te reo Māori , commonly te reo , is the language of the indigenous population of New Zealand, the Māori. It has the status of an official language in New Zealand...
and Accounting.
B block
B block is located near C Block is where the following topics are taught: Food technologyFood technology
Food technology, is a branch of food science which deals with the actual production processes to make foods.-Early history of food technology:...
, Graphics
Graphics
Graphics are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings,or...
, Art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
, Bio food technology, Hard materials technology, Material
Material
Material is anything made of matter, constituted of one or more substances. Wood, cement, hydrogen, air and water are all examples of materials. Sometimes the term "material" is used more narrowly to refer to substances or components with certain physical properties that are used as inputs to...
s and Structure
Structure
Structure is a fundamental, tangible or intangible notion referring to the recognition, observation, nature, and permanence of patterns and relationships of entities. This notion may itself be an object, such as a built structure, or an attribute, such as the structure of society...
.
L Block
L block is located between B block, C Block and D block. The school's libraryLibrary
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
and career office is located in L Block. The room which the career's office is being taken is where the ESOL room was located, but now the ESOL room is located in C block.
M block
M block is located near the drama room (D block)and the school's office Block is where the following topic are taught: MusicMusic
Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
. M block has only one topic which is music.
G block
G block is located near the music room (M block). More known between the students and staff as "the gym" or "stadium". G block is where PED (Physical educationPhysical education
Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
) is taken. During raining days the gym is often used by students doing P.E (Physical education) or during assembly time. The school's canteen was located in G block, but the canteen now is beside the school's library providing more space.
School's new buildings
Now new classrooms are being built near E block and R block, there will be built a bigger drama and music room, and the area where the old canteen was demolished, now there is new classrooms for Health classes.Tutor group
Tutor group happens every morning during the week. The tutor group has a mix of students, each of them from different year, and together their tutor group teacher, which reads the notices for the student about the school and the tutor group teacher also helps the students if they need. There is many tutor group classrooms, each of them belong to a different houses (Fox, Hay, Arthur, Mackenzie and Duncan). In the classrooms usually have worlds equal the following "FRG", the first world which is "F" represents the first world of the houses which is Fox House the other two worlds "RG" would be the tutor group teacher's first and second name. Each classroom has different worlds on the door our inside walls. Tutor Group time usually takes around only 25 minutes, and starts at about 8:40 am.Time Table
| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period 1/Line A | Period 1/Line F | Period 1/Line D | Period 1/Line B | Period 1/Line G | |
| Period 2/Line B | Period 2/ Line G | Period 2/Line E | Period 2/Line C | Period 2/Line A | |
| Period 3/Line C | Period 3/Line A | Period 3/Line F | Period 3/Line D | Period 3/Line B | |
| Period 4/Line D | Period 4/Assembly | Period 4/Line G | Period 4/Line E | Period 4/Line C | |
| Period 5/Line E | Period 5/Line C | Period 5/Line A | Period 5/Line F | Period 5/Line D |
| Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Period 1/Line E | Period 1/Line C | Period 1/Line A | Period 1/Line F | Period 1/Line D | |
| Period 2/Line F | Period 2/Line D | Period 2/Line B | Period 2/Line G | Period 2/Line E | |
| Period 3/Line G | Period 3/Line E | Period 3/Line C | Period 3/Line A | Period 3/Line F | |
| Period 4/Line A | Period 4/Line F | Period 4/Line D | Period 4/Line B | Period 4/Line G | |
| Period 5/Line B | Period 5/Line G | Period 5/Line E | Period 5/Line C | Period 5/Line B |
Generally there are seven of each class every fortnight with the exception of senior students where usually one (or sometimes two for Year 13s) of each class is replaced with study.