Newsletter 12th February 2016

Expressions of interest in this fantastic trip are open now!

Public Health Nurse Julie Buxton (2016) 

As part of our Year 8 Unit on Pasifika, all Year 8 classes will visit the Otago Museum to take part in the Maori Art and Music Education programme and the Celebrating the Pacific Education Programme.

Tahuna is lucky enough to have three Mandarin Language Assistants joining us this year to support our classroom teachers in teaching Mandarin Chinese. We have welcomed, Liu Xin Yu, Ren Xin and Peng Zheng. They will be working in all our classes over the course of the year as well as going out to many other schools in our community. We look forward to working with them and benefiting from their expertise. 

For the first 3 week of the term we are lucky to have 15 Chinese students visiting from Beijing and Guangzhou.

The Canteen provides food through ordering Tuesday-Friday. Most food needs to be ordered as it is supplied to the school through outside providers. Students can order in their classroom in the morning. The Canteen is open for sales at lunchtime Tuesday-Friday with limited items for sale.

"Need to stretch the mental elastic or stimulate those creative juices? Then the Extension Activities Progamme at Tahuna could be just the thing for you!"

It has been a wonderful start to 2016 in Year 7 with our new Tahuna students looking fantastic in their uniforms and eager to be involved in whatever is on offer.    

Miss Cooper liked Tahuna so much as a College Teacher she decided to come back and start her teaching career here.

Tahuna has become renowned for excellence in the Performing Arts. The opportunities for students to perform are many and varied, from performing at the closing ceremony of the Special Olympics to winning the Band Quest to performing for the Royal visit .