350 students from the Otakou Mandarin Cluster attended the growing event that is Chinese Immersion day on October 18th 2017.

Term 4 has begun very well with everyone settling back into school routines after the holiday break. It is a busy term as there are many learning activities happening in and out of the school. Our focus as always will be on students giving their very best to achieve to the best of their ability no matter what the learning context.

Athletics day was held on Friday, 20th of October. A chance for our four houses to battle it out for house points and a chance to qualify for South Zones. 

Great last week of Term 3 at Stewart Island with the Extension Campers. Great weather, great fishing and excellent learning opportunities.

What a day! A big group of Tahuna students and parents took on the Taieri River last week.

Check out the Links below for all the exciting action from the Tahuna Athletics Day.

In the first week of the holidays there was a South Island rugby competition held here in Dunedin. There was a good representation of Tahuna students.

Although less students enrolled for the internationally renowned ICAS Exams this year the results showed a huge improvement. Emma Tasker and Ray Ma achieved High Distinctions!

We are going to be making a journey to China. If you are interested in being a host family for 2 or 4 weeks this would be a great place to start.

Congratulations to Nikhil, Isabella and Mei who won our year 7 speech contest held last Friday. The year 7's did very well presenting a variety of speech topics such as Climate Change, Blob Fish, Food, Clothing and motivation.

On October 14th and 15th I competed in the South Island Secondary School Mountain Biking Champs held at Signal Hill here in Dunedin. I was entered in the Under 13 Downhill, Super D and the Cross country.

On the 8th of October 2017 I went with my team to represent Otago in the Under 13 Collier Cup. We flew to Christchurch, then Auckland and then took a van to Tauranga.

On Friday 27th of October, the annual Otago Primary and Intermediate School Tennis Tournament was held at Logan Park.

Held at Kaikorai Valley College on Thursday afternoons, the annual InterSchool competition concluded in Week 2 after 7 weeks of competition.

Last term, we (Tehya and Ngaio) travelled to Alexandra to trial for 13th and 14th grade National Age group for Lower South Island rep girls. 

Tahuna A waterpolo team entered into the South Island tournament over the weekend. We were faced playing teams all over the South Island, in a bid to win a trophy.

Three students from Rm 16 have done well in the U13 South Island Tournament!

Luke Rogers of Room 1 Surfing in Gisborne

Room 1 was grateful for the beautiful sunshine on our recent visit to Long Beach. Students thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to utilise the skills they learned previously on the rocks. Everyone faced a challenge, enjoyed the sunshine, BBQ lunch, treasure hunt and beach cricket. Special thanks to the adults who helped with supervision and transport. Without you, trips like this couldn't happen.

Archer wins at Bandquest 2017

Tahuna medal winners from the Otago Southland Regional Aerobics champs 

Miniball is over and the results are in!

Last week Room 9 set off on their Long Beach Rock Climbing adventure. A big thank you to our parent helpers for helping us out for the day! Fergus tells us about the experience.

Pupils have been looking at Pop Art and researching various artist's that where influential during that period.

Enjoy looking at pupils showing the printmaking process and their quality prints.