Wellington bleg: good high schools for music
The staggered move of Offsetting Behaviour to Wellington will soon be completed. I will be following Eric to the capital having taken a position at the School of Government at Victoria University, starting in the new year.
When Eric was about to make his move, he blegged on real estate in Wellington. I shall free load off the intelligence that he gathered then, but now I have a different request: What are the good high schools for children with a strong interest in classical (orchestral) music? Considerations here are whether they have music options as a classroom subject that group together people who already know how to read music and have the rudiments of theory, and whether they have school ensembles (not necessarily an orchestra) of a reasonable standard. We have a preference for co-ed over single-sex and state over private, but are looking at all options. All suggestions welcome.
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Seamus, If you’re planning to live in central Wellington, there’s only one coed state school, and that is Wellington High School. Our lad goes there and I can warmly recommend it overall. I haven’t had a lot to do with orchestral music but it’s very strong in performing arts overall, with a group of lads taking out the national Smokefree Rockquest title this year. And (just saying) they also did very well in the regional science fair ..
Thanks Carol. We don’t know where we will be living yet. Probably, we will choose a high school and backward induce from there.