Wellington East Girls' College
| Wellington East Girls' College | |
|---|---|
| Address | |
| Austin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand |
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| Coordinates | 41°18′10″S 174°47′07″E / 41.3028°S 174.7852°ECoordinates: 41°18′10″S 174°47′07″E / 41.3028°S 174.7852°E |
| Information | |
| Type | Single Sex Girls State Secondary (Year 9-13) |
| Established | 1925 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 274 |
| Principal | Sally Haughton |
| School roll | 1056(July 2016) |
| Socio-economic decile | 8P |
| Website | www.wegc.school.nz |
Wellington East Girls' College (Maori name: Te Kura Kōhine o te Rāwhiti o Te Upoko o Te Ika) is a state single-sex girls' secondary school which sits directly above Mount Victoria Tunnel, Wellington, New Zealand. Serving Years 9 to 13 (ages 12 to 18), the school currently has 1056 students.
The College primarily serves families of the eastern and southern suburbs and inner city Wellington. However, it also has students from all over Wellington, the Hutt Valley and Porirua City. The school has a Special Needs Unit catering to approximately 20 students, some of which are integrated into the school system.
Ethnicities of Students are:
The school's longtime principal Janice Campbell retired halfway through 2007 and was replaced by Sally Haughton.
Currently the Senior Leadership Team consists of the principal herself and three deputy principals. There is also a principal's nominee, a staff member nominated by the principal who is responsible for maintaining quality within the School to ensure the validity and credibility of assessment for qualifications according to the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA).
The school also employs a Guidance team (composed of one international and five year-level deans, careers advisors, counsellors, and a Guidance Leader) as well as a sports director and many department heads.
Wellington East Girls' was built on reserve land bordering Wellington College in 1925, to cope with the demand for female education in Wellington at the time. By the end of the First World War, there were over 800 pupils at Wellington Girls’ High School (now Wellington Girls' College) in Thorndon, and teaching became severly hampered by the overcrowding - so much so that rooms in nearby houses were rented out to use as classrooms. Miss A. M. Batham, who had served on the staff at Wellington Girls for 22 years and would be the first Headmistress of Wellington East, petitioned the Board of Governors repeatedly until it was a agreed that a new school would be founded on the other side of the city. The school was originally named Mt Victoria Girls College but was changed to avoid confusion with Victoria University of Wellington, which was called Victoria University College at the time.
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