The Adventures of Rūma Ono

By Layla Wainwright

We're one week into our Novel Study in R6 and I can see what J K Rowling is talking about.

While most students are relaxing over the holidays, Ada Silva is working harder than ever, performing in Taieri Musical's production of Frozen Jr and The Lion King Jr.

Congratulations to our two Tahuna Classics teams who competed in the 2023 Dunedin Intermediate and Junior Classics Quiz.

Today we headed to the Ōtepoti Barrett Art Gallery to learn about and make beautiful art!

Ngā mihi to our Term Two Merit Award Winners!

By Ada Silva

To launch our statistics unit we conducted our own census.

Our second prototypes are being constructed as we work towards our finished products.

The chess elective has taken off!

Congratulations to Cayden Seyb and Quinn Holt on your efforts, progress and achievement in T1!

We're just starting to learn about Teeko and how it can help us with our mathematical learning.

By Madeline Hage-Sleiman

We're lucky to have Ms Murphy with us for the next few months.

Mines. Challenges. Horror

Remember scrabble? What about the 3 Second Rule? Game of Awesome? Boggle? Story Cubes? Hedbanz? Bananagrams? We've got them all, plus loads more to support our reading and writing work in Rūma Ono.

The music knowledge and ability in Room 6 was a pleasant surprise to me (and our music teacher Mrs Bowen Barrett).

By Quinn Holt

By Abi Crowley

After 8 weeks of hard work we all came together to produce a spectacular pantomime performance!

Tahuna sent a strong team to the Chess Power Regionals.

Yes, you read that right.....

By Aleiyah Gielen

An impressive display of teamwork, game sense and individual skill, saw our football team convincingly take out their game against Oamaru Intermediate School.

A key part of the design process is to evaluate the design, then improve and redesign: and that is exactly what we did in Room 6 today.

Our students experienced VR videos filmed by New Zealand Geographic in marine environments around Aotearoa to understand our underwater environments and what threatens them.

We learned about harakeke and how it's uses and the tikanga around harvesting it have clear sustainability values for our whenua (land) and the environment.

Room 6 will miss you.

Thank you for a fantastic season!

Menzie Saker and Connor Horne both competed in the Otago Schools Swimming Champs.

Some very fast times were recorded on our first block run of the year.

Excitement. Games. Glow Worms.

With just over a week to go till our camp, we thought it best we brush up on our first aid skills.

Here are just a small selection of some of our adventures this week.