September Newsletter 2019

In this issue

23-27 September - Stewart Island Extension Camp

26 September - Athletics Day at Tahuna + Disco

27 September - Last day of Term One

14 October - First day of Term Four

28th October - Labour Day

6th November - South Zone Athletics/Tahuna Deca Day

15th November - High School Orientation Day

19th November - Otago Champs Athletics

25th-29th November - Marae Week

12th December - Last day of the Year

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Yvonne Toa

STUDENT S.P.C.A. FUNDRAISING INITIATIVE

Majorie, from the S.P.C.A. was delighted to accept money raised from cupcake sales by Taylor and Sophie.

Jess Lang

3D Atoms in R11

This term our topic focus has been Chemistry.

Jennie Scott

Textiles Technology Year 7: Toy Story

Students in Textiles have identified a stakeholder and then carefully followed a construction process to plan and create their own soft toy. Have a look at a selection of these fabulous creations!

Anna Bowen

Tahuna band Amped Up rocks Bandquest

Rockshop Bandquest is a platform for the next generation of contemporary musicians to step out and perform in a supportive and encouraging competition format.

Kate Walsh

Guest Speaker from Geology department

By Teagan

Salote Rouvi

Taiopeka at Polyfest

After a huge commitment from the 120 participants in this year's Taiopeka Group, the students stunned the audience with an excellent performance.

Yvonne Toa

ROCK CLIMBING AT LONG BEACH

Following on from an introduction to the basics of belaying, Y8 students have been going to Long Beach to put this learning into practice.

Salote Rouvi

MALO E LEILEI - TONGAN LANGUAGE WEEK @ TAHUNA

Basic greetings, Numbers, Days of the Week and statistics are shared in celebration of Tongan Language Week.

Karen Parker

Robocup Nationals

Congratulation to our Robocup squad who competed at the National Robocup.

Roddy Scoles

Friend of Tahuna comes back to school with his friend!

Great to have a surprise visit today from Mr Gilbert, ex Principal of Tahuna. He brought along his friend, the Ranfurly Shield! Mr Gilbert finished up as Principal before he took over as the Highlanders coach in the late 90s. He of course went on to be an All Blacks assistant coach and later coached professionally overseas. Thanks Mr Gilbert for thinking of your old school!

Jade Reddington

Science with Dave Warren at Otago University.

Chemistry is always fun at Tahuna but this year we travelled to the Mellor Laboratory at the Otago University.

Kate Walsh

Basketball with Kings

By Aydean

Shannon Brawley

Tahuna 'Nike' 2nd in Otago Classics

Tahuna Classics teams collected 2nd, 4th and 8th place at the Annual Otago Classics competition on 21st August.

Salote Rouvi

Chemistry Fun in Year 8

Students enjoy both the Tahuna Science Lab and the Otago University lab.

Jess Lang

Namaste from the Yoga and Pilates elective!

Shannon Brawley

Tahuna Current Event squads clean up at Otago Competition

Tahuna had another successful night at the annual Extra Current Events Competition with a 2nd and 3rd place!

Kelsey Brocklebank

MINIBALL 2019

The 2019 season wrapped up on August 26th.

Sean Minhinnick

The Tahuna Grind

By Campbell Earl

Yvonne Toa

Pasifika Polyfest Performances

Congratulations to all members of the Cook Island and Samoan Performing groups who gave admirable, polished performances on Wednesday evening.

Roddy Scoles

Enrolment Process for 2020

Due to the huge number of enrolments for 2020 it is taking some extra time to make sure we carry out the process as per our Enrolment Zone process for out of zone enrolments.

Jennie Scott

Textiles Technology Year 8: Plastic NOT so fantastic..

Our Year 8 Students have been investigating sustainability and the damages plastic is doing to our environment. Their design task was to create a reusable bag for a specific purpose. Have a look at some of these excellent finished products.