Struggletown – set in a rundown ghetto – is a musical about two messengers, ‘Woody & Major’, who spread the political gospel of their wise prophet – ‘Ethel the Shop Keeper’s Daughter’. Ethel’s political rival – an arrogant white male billionaire known as ‘The Swamplord’ – has recently been elected as mayor of Struggletown. Unhappy […]
Staged in a cabaret club known as The Poet’s Corner – this gripping musical explores the life stories of several performers with whom you will share a compelling evening of song and dance. Set during the politically turbulent times of the Weimar Republic in Berlin, Germany, we soon appreciate that there is no sacrifice too […]
Happy IDAHOBIT Day! Today we are celebrating IDAHOBIT Day (the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia). If the name of the day is not enough reason to understand why we are celebrating it, at least 75% of LGBTQI+ Youth experience some form of discrimination and at least 25% also experience depression. Regardless of […]
Recently, the Year 9 and 10 Girls’ homegroups attended a workshop run by Maxine Beneba Clarke, a successful author who has published fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Maxine’s workshop was mainly about her collection of short fiction, Foreign Soil. Which is a prize-winning collection of short fiction. Some of the stories in the book include Harlem […]
Congratulations to William Amos on his excellent achievements in Judo. William has been the Victorian State Champion for the past three years and has recently been selected to represent Victoria at the Australian National Judo Championships which will be held in Queensland this June. We are extremely proud of William’s hard work and dedication to […]
Congratulations to all of our Aerobics teams and Soloist who competed last weekend at the Regional Competitions in Gisborne. Our teams all did exceptionally well and will now progress to the State Finals on June 1 in Geelong. We are extremely proud of our students who have shown such great determination to achieve this wonderful […]
WHS is extremely proud to have hosted the Statewide Indonesian Speaking Competition yesterday with over 200 students participating in this competition from schools throughout Melbourne. We are extremely proud of these Students who all performed exceptionally well. Thank you to Mr Grose and Ms Croft for organising this wonderful event.
We are very proud of our students and teachers who have just returned from Mt Gambier for Generations in Jazz – a large competition with over 5000 students in attendance from across Australia, headed up by James Morrison. They were lucky enough to see performances from US Jazz singers Lizz Wright and Kurt Elling, organist […]
Families of Williamstown High School are invited to join their local community for an exclusive screening of the award-winning documentary, Screenagers: Growing up in the digital age at the Sun Theatre on Wednesday, 12th June at 7pm. This is the first feature documentary to explore the impact of screen technology on kids and offer solutions […]
Congratulations to Shae Moate, Lachlan Warren, Will Olver, Tane Roordink, Brock Gourley, Lachlan Hodge and Harry Gibson who competed in the Lacrosse U18s National Championship and came in first place. We are extremely proud of this outstanding achievement by our students! Photo left to right; Tane Roordink, Brock Gourley, Lachlan Hodge, Harry Gibson, Shae Moate […]
Yesterday our Year 11 Students visited the University of Melbourne and RMIT. It was fantastic day for our students providing them with the information and tools needed to explore the many possible future pathways. We were very pleased to hear our students having conversations with their peers about their future pathways, and getting excited about […]
Williamstown High School was lucky enough to be represented by 6 students in 11 events at the School Sports Victoria STATE Swimming Competition. Thomas Kay (2 individual events & medley relay), Tom Frisby (4 individual events & medley relay), Sebastian Acaster (medley relay), Jack Mifsud (medley relay), Lachlan Dosser (3 individual events) & Heath Corry […]
Congratulations to our students and Mr Commons on a fantastic production! We are extremely proud of the hard work and dedication shown by our students who not only performed in this play but also assisted Mr Commons in the entire theatre production.
Congratulations to Mia McCarroll and Brydie Logan who last weekend won a bronze medal for competing at the Australian Lifesaving Championships in North Burleigh. We are extremely proud of these students who have shown such great determination! Well done Brydie and Mia! Photo left to right; Brydie Logan, Mackenzie Bull, Charlotte Drake, Alessandra Donnelly and […]
