Our 2016 Senior Prizegiving, held on Friday 4 November, was a wonderful celebration of the achievements of our Senior Students. Our guest speaker was ‘Nano Girl’ Dr Michelle Dickinson who gave the audience an insight into her work as a Nano Technologist both here and internationally. Staff, students, proud parents, family, friends and the Henderson […]
31 October 2016 Huge congratulations to two of our student business teams who were prizewinners at the Young Enterprise Scheme Regional Awards held at AUT Business School. MACR Enterprises produce a delicious tumeric and herb pasta, which coupled with their business initiative and know-how won them the Food and Beverage award for West Auckland. Our […]
4 November 2016 Save the date! Henderson High School Senior Prizegiving Ceremony is being held next Friday 4 November at 11am. All welcome. […]
24 September 2016 On Saturday 24 September three of our year 11 students, Caroline, Brendon and Charles competed as a team in Jhack, a series of programming challenges in a competition format in a Junior Hackathon. Through developing a game called ‘Contrast’ they won first place in the group section, receiving prizes from Microsoft, JB […]
21 September 2016 Our talented Year 11 student Rebekah Gray is putting the wheels in motion for her musical future by applying for an AMP Scholarship which will allow her to fulfill her dream of joining a professional Orchestra. The Scholarship has a peoples choice component to allow friends to vote and show their support.To […]
15 September 2016 Congratulations to another rising league star at Henderson High – Jack Roudon! Last weekend year 10 student Jack was awarded Player of the Year for the Under 14’s Waitemata Seagulls. This is a great feat of sportsmanship under any condition, let alone in the 2016 Auckland Rugby League Club of the Year! […]
9 September 2016 This year’s Mixed Team competed at the North Island Secondary Schools tournament held in Gisborne August 29th – September 3rd. The team managed to achieve their primary goal which was to make it to the quarter finals, and ended up placing 8th. This was a fantastic result for a relatively young squad, […]
31 August 2016 Congratulations again to year 9 student Jake Rutherford who, after winning Most Valuable Player in the Under 15 9-a-side Auckland schools competition, has been named as a representative player for Auckland Rugby League. He will be playing for the northern team in the under 14 open representatives in the Regional Representative Challenge […]
29 August 2016 This term, Year Nine Alpha classes are taking part in cross curricular enrichment. As part of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) challenge Mr de Weerd’s Alpha class spent Thursday morning in Food Technology working as “Food Detectives”. Students were set the task of measuring the effect that Poly-glycerol polyricinoleate (PGPR), […]
26 August 2016 Hamish is a senior technology student and an enthusiastic sailor. He has undertaken a very complicated project for NCEA Scholarship; the design and manufacture of an affordable hydro-foiling skiff. It is a radical design which involved Hamish designing his boat from the ground up to ensure his design is both functional and […]
