Upper Hutt College
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Upper Hutt College is a state co-educational secondary school
in the city of Upper Hutt
, in the Wellington
region of New Zealand.
The school day runs from 8:40 am to 3:15 pm, and students attend five one-hour classes per day. Form classes are attended for 20 minutes each day, and are formed by a vertical form system which means students from every year level are placed in the same form class to encourage social growth between year levels throughout the school.
Each house also has their own set colour which is used at house events e.g. Athletics Day so each student can comfortably represent their house, and it also encourages artificial division within the school.
Other subjects include: Accounting, Art, Biology, Calculus, Chemistry, Classical Studies, Design, Drama, Economics, Electronics, English (internally assessed), ESOL, Food & Nutrition, French, Furniture Making, Gateway, Geography, Graphics, History, Hospitality & Catering, Human Biology, ICT/Computing, Japanese, Maori, Mathematics Applied,Mathematics unit-standard,Materials Technology, Media Studies, Metalwork, Music, Outdoor Education, Painting, Photography, Physics, Retailing, Sports Performance, Statistics, Textiles, Tourism, Transition.
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
in the city of Upper Hutt
Upper Hutt
Upper Hutt is a satellite city of Wellington. It is New Zealand's smallest city by population, the second largest by land area. It is in Greater Wellington.-Geography:Upper Hutt is 30 km north-east of Wellington...
, in the Wellington
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
region of New Zealand.
The school day runs from 8:40 am to 3:15 pm, and students attend five one-hour classes per day. Form classes are attended for 20 minutes each day, and are formed by a vertical form system which means students from every year level are placed in the same form class to encourage social growth between year levels throughout the school.
Houses
The school is divided into four houses, each who have received their name from a famous New Zealander as voted by the student body in 2004.Each house also has their own set colour which is used at house events e.g. Athletics Day so each student can comfortably represent their house, and it also encourages artificial division within the school.
- Blake (Sir Peter BlakePeter Blake (yachtsman)Sir Peter James Blake, KBE was a New Zealand yachtsman who won the Whitbread Round the World Race, the Jules Verne Trophy – setting the fastest time around the world of 74 days 22 hours 17 minutes 22 seconds on catamaran Enza, and led his country to successive victories in the America’s Cup...
, Red) - Hillary (Sir Edmund Hillary, Yellow/Gold)
- Jackson (Sir Peter Jackson, Green)
- Te Kanawa (Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Blue)
Subjects
The mainstream subjects are English, Mathematics, Science, Health, Social Studies and P.E. These subjects are compulsory for Year 9 and 10 Students.Other subjects include: Accounting, Art, Biology, Calculus, Chemistry, Classical Studies, Design, Drama, Economics, Electronics, English (internally assessed), ESOL, Food & Nutrition, French, Furniture Making, Gateway, Geography, Graphics, History, Hospitality & Catering, Human Biology, ICT/Computing, Japanese, Maori, Mathematics Applied,Mathematics unit-standard,Materials Technology, Media Studies, Metalwork, Music, Outdoor Education, Painting, Photography, Physics, Retailing, Sports Performance, Statistics, Textiles, Tourism, Transition.