Newsletter 6th September 2018

In this issue

14th September - Enrolments Closing Date

27th September - Tahuna Athletics at Tahuna, School Disco.

28th September - Last day of Term 3, The Nukes Performance

15th October - First day of Term 4

13th December - Last day of the school year

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Jess Cooper

Room 9 are Curling Spheros

Room 9 have been learning how to free drive and code the spheros. This is the current challenge they are facing!

Roddy Scoles

Music at Tahuna

Mr Page reports on Music this term at Tahuna.

Liza Whitson

Success with Football

Tahuna girls selected to represent Otago.

Yvonne Toa

Elgregoe Returns to Tahuna

Elgregoe, Magician and Ventriloquist, presented "You've Got the Power" show to captive students, as he got his antibullying message across at Tahuna.

Salote Rouvi

Art Exhibition @Bayfield

Rooms 5 and 20 enjoy a quick stroll to Bayfield to appreciate the Art Exhibition

Kelsey Brocklebank

Ariki Athletics Club Information

Ariki Athletics Club - sign-up for 2018/19 season

Salote Rouvi

Art Exhibition @Bayfield

Rooms 5 and 20 enjoy a quick stroll to Bayfield to appreciate the Art Exhibition

Roddy Scoles

2019 Enrolments

We are now taking enrolments for 2019. Either come into the school office or fill out the form online on our website, click on the link below. Enrolments close September 14th. Please contact the school office if you have any questions about out-of-zone enrolments.

Jess Cooper

Room 9 Rock Climbers!

At the beginning of this term, Room 9 went to Logan Park to learn the ins and outs of rock climbing for their upcoming climb at Long Beach!

Jennie Scott

Terrific Textiles Projects

Amazingly creative soft toys made by our Year 7 students and some excellent reusable bags designed and constructed by our Year 8 students!

Jennie Scott

SPCA CUPCAKE DAY

We had some of our fabulous Food Technology students making cupcakes on Monday 13th August. Our student councillors sold the cupcakes at lunchtime and we raised $205 for the S.P.C.A

Roddy Scoles

Fun in the Music Room!

We were very lucky to recently host the Junior Syndicate from Grants Braes School in the Music Room and the Performing Arts Room. Mr Lousley and Mr Page took the group through a session on the Djembe Drums followed by a session with Mrs Rouvi and the Kapa Haka girls. Thanks Grants Braes for visiting and thanks to Mr Lousely, Mr Page and Mrs Rouvi for organising.

Salote Rouvi

Calligraphy Competition

Room 20 students prepare for the Calligraphy Competition.

Hamish Drummond

Sassenachs Rugby Tournament 2018

Tahuna clean up at annual interschool rugby tournament! With the Year 7 Boys, Year 8 Boys and Year 7 & 8 Girls winning their grades!

Liza Whitson

Tahuna young artist's Maraea Brooking Browne & Kaela Freeland receive awards.

Peninsula schools Art Exhibition show a display of creative works.

Jess Cooper

Miniball Success!

Miniball is one of the most popular sports at Tahuna with an increasing number of players and teams.

Kelsey Brocklebank

AEROBICS

Tahuna Representatives at Aerobics Nationals.

Kelsey Brocklebank

ARIKI CUP

Excellent team and individual success shown at the Ariki Cup event for 2018.

Roddy Scoles

Albion Junior Cricket Club Dunedin

Albion Cricket Club was founded in 1862, and is reputedly the oldest continuously existing club in Australasia

Tony Hunter

SUCCESS

Recently Tahuna students have been to the fore in a number of differing areas - winning the Classics Trophy; Miniball and Netball teams winning their grades and the Rugby teams winning the Sassenach trophy. Success in the Otago epro8 challenge engineering competition and success at the Peninsula Art Exhibition were other areas of achievement by Tahuna students.

Yvonne Toa

BUNNINGS TO THE RESCUE

Several months ago the concrete table tennis table that was purchased by the School Council was vandalised and it was going to cost a huge amount to replace.

Jess Cooper

Netball Tournament with the 8A Troopers!

The 8A netball team had a great season this year, with some great wins taking 4th place overall. On Thursday, they competed in the Otago Tournament and had an awesome day!

Jennie Scott

End of Season Netball Update

The netball season was concluded with our Tahuna Netball Prizegiving where team awards were presented.

Jess & Amelia

Gymnastics Success

Over the past few months we have been competing in gymnastics competitions in order to reach our goal of the New Zealand Gymnastics Championships in October. A few weeks ago we competed in the South Island Champs in Christchurch in order to gain qualifying scores to get into Nationals. Both of us compete in Individual Rhythmic and group Rhythmic routines.

Yvonne Toa

Tahuna Students get to "meet and greet" Stacey Gregg.

Hi my name is Aimee and I recently completed my Tahuna Platinum Reading Badge. I did most of it around Stacey Gregg. She is a famous New Zealand writer.

Roddy Scoles

Don't forget to enrol in the Spring Playball Holiday Programme. We will be operating from Bayfield High School during the upcoming holidays 8 am - 6 pm Daily. With specialised sports clinics delivered to children via our highly trained coaches, everyone is guaranteed to have lots of fun. In addition to this, we have Trip Days to Inflatable World, Laser Force, Bowling & Am I Fit. For the full schedule and more information head to http://playballdunedin.com/ or email: coachliam@playball.co.nz. Be QUICK as spaces are filling fast. WINZ Subsidies available.

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