A distinctive event for the Junior Technical School in 1942 was the retirement of the founding Headmaster, Mr A.W. Steane. His replacement was Mr C.F. Jeffery from Wangaratta High School. He revived the Annual Speech Night with a gathering in the Masonic Hall on 8 December 1942. These events may have been stopped during the Depression years when the number of students attending school dropped. The Students' Association introduced the House system in 1919 - blue, yellow and green - the School colours. .1 item lists three Houses - blue, yellow and green Twenty-five years later, in 1944, a fourth House was created due to the increased school enrolment in the Post Depression years. .2 item lists four Houses - blue, yellow, green and red.1 Blue printed sheet folded. Outlines the programme for the night, Staff names, prize winners for form levels, sports awards and entertainment by the students at the Speech Night - 1943. .2 Pink printed sheet folded. Outlines the programme for the night, Staff names, prize winners for each form, sports awards and entertainment by the students at the Speech Night - 1944.ballarat junior technical school, headmaster, a a w steane, c f jeffery, speech night, masonic hall, depression, wangaratta high school, house system

Black yearbook with a full page image of 2002 VCE students standing in a crowd shaped like Australia, with a orange sunset background and a WHS logo in the bottom right corner. 2002 is in the left corner in yellow and orange.Wangaratta High School 2002

Black folder and cream manila folder containing documents and letters relevant to the submission to the Ministry of Education by the Wangaratta High School Council to retain the name of Wangaratta High School

Certificate of merit awarded to Wangaratta High School for its contribution in teaching German language in 2011 and 2012. The certificate has a yellow bar along the left and a colour SAGSE symbol at the top of the page. One is framed in a gold frame, the other unframed. The text reads:GOODWILL IN ACTION Since 1967 Founded in Melbourne, Victoria SAGSE Scholarship for Australian-German Student Exchange Certificate of Merit Presented to Wangaratta High School in recognition of Exceptional and Outstanding Contribution to German Language Teaching in Victoria Egon Vetter President Melbourne 14 October 2011 / 12 October 2012

Brown hardcover prefect pledge book with a glossy gold cardboard box. Each page has the prefect pledge, prefect signatures from years 1942-1962 and the signature of the Mayor of WangarattaWANGARATTA HIGH SCHOOL PREFECTS REGISTER

Yellow booklet with black ink and three black stripes on the cover and a black WHS logo in the centre.The Wangaratta High School Magazine 1944

Cream yearbook with blue ink and WHS logoWANGARATTA HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1996

Black and white bound photocopy of the 1956 yearbook with a WHS logo in the top left corner under 1956, with WNGARATTA HIGH SCHOOL written along the bottom edge and KORRUMBEIA written vertically along the right side of the cover page.1956 KORRUMBEIA WANGARATTA HIGH SCHOOL

Black and white bound photocopy of the 1987 yearbook featuring a white yearbook with a collage of words and images, with three stripes in the school colours along the bottom edge and a simplified WHS logo in the bottom right.Wangaratta High School MAGAZINE '87

Wangaratta High School 75th Anniversary narrow wine glass with gold logo and gold plated rim. This item is was a part of a time capsule buried in Wangaratta High School grounds in 1984

Grey Wangaratta High School Student Handbook with blue ink WHS logo. In protective plastic cover. This item is was a part of a time capsule buried in Wangaratta High School grounds in 1984

One of the first badges produced by Wangaratta Agricultural High School since its opening in 1909Small brown and blue metal badge of the Wangaratta Agricultural high School logo. contained within a small leather protective pouch.

Bound photocopies of extracts from the 1943 Wangaratta High School Magazine

Bound photocopies of pages from the 1944 Wangaratta High School Magazine

Navy hardcover student planner with gold text and WHS logoWANGARATTA HIGH SCHOOL WORK PLANNER 1996

Navy student work planner with gold text and WHS logo.WANGARATTA HIGH SCHOOL WORK PLANNER 1997

Navy WHS student work planner with gold text and WHS logo.WANGARATTA HIGH SCHOOL WORK PLANNER 1998

Navy WHS student work planner with gold text and WHS logoWANGARATTA HIGH SCHOOL WORK PLANNER 1999

Navy WHS student study planner with gold text and WHS logoWangaratta High School Study Planner 2002

Navy WHS student study planner with gold text and WHS logo.Wangaratta High School Study Planner 2003

Navy WHS student study planner with gold text and WHS logoWangaratta High School Study Planner 2004

Light blue booklet used to give description and analysis of recent changes in the school with a black decorative border, a small WHS logo and black text reading:WANGARATTA HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL REPORT 1987

Pastel yellow booklet used to give description and analysis of recent changes in the school with a black decorative border, a large WHS logo and black text reading:WANGARATTA HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL REPORT 1989

9x Wangaratta High School badges 1x Student Representative council badge

Red marble trophy with a base and upright section. Flanking the upright section are two black and red triangles. On the base and on top of the upright section are identical gold statues of bowls players. Engraved in the metal plates on the upright section and base is text reading:Wangaratta Bowl Club INTER SCHOOL COMPETITION 1998 WANGARATTA HIGH SCHOOL 1999 OVENS COLLEGE 2000 WANGARATTA HIGH SCHOOL

Black A2 scrapbook filled with written information on the early history of Wangaratta high School

Image of an early Wangaratta High School Cookery Class at Chisolm Street with typed description1916 Cookery

White newsletter given to year 9 students undergoing the Community Learning Centre (CLC) program, with a black border and black text reading:WANGARATTA HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTRE NEWSLETTER

Navy WHS student work planner with gold text and WHS logoWANGARATTA HIGH SCHOOL V.C.E. WORK PLANNER 2000

bound black and white photocopies of the 1947 WHS magazine with a WHS logo in the centre and a striped borderThe Wangaratta High School Magazine VOL. 7. 1947