Onslow College


Onslow College is a state co-educational secondary school located in Johnsonville, a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. It had a student population in 2020 of 1250 students. The current principal is Sheena Millar.

History

Onslow College opened in 1956 to serve Wellington's rapidly growing northern suburbs.
The school has not had a school uniform since the 1970's when it was abolished following student protest. In 2016 Onslow was one of the first schools in the region to have gender-neutral toilets for students.
Several staff have received awards for teaching excellence. Terry Burrell, received the prestigious Prime Minister’s Science Teacher Prize in 2014, and the same year Esme Danielsen received a Woolf Fisher Fellowship.
On 13 February 1997, 18-year-old former student Nicholas Hawker murdered 15-year-old St Mary's College student Vanessa Woodman on the school's grounds. Woodman was strangled, had her throat slit, and was stabbed 32 times. Hawker was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 10-year non-parole period. He was released on parole in 2015, but is not allowed in the North Island.

Notable alumni

Academia