An incredible array of Tahuna talent was on show on Wednesday night. Just a reminder of the performing arts activities that have been available for all students to take part in this year. It also showed how committed to providing quality extra-curricular activities Tahuna staff are. Well done students and teachers!

The 2017 School year is coming to end and it is appropriate that we reflect on another very successful and rewarding year at Tahuna.

Anna Grimaldi returned to school today to speak at the Sports Prizegiving and present the Shanks Family Trophies. Anna also signed her photo on the Wall of Fame. We are incredibly proud of her achievements and she gave a very interesting speech about her journey to Paralympic Gold.

Charlotte Underwood-Nicol and Jacob Murray take out the trophies this year from strong fields. 

Piere Tapsell, an outstanding artist has gifted an amazing artwork to Tahuna to be used in school promotions. We really appreciate the hard work and hours of time he spent doing this.  Piere shares the meaning of his design below.

Recently in year 7 6th Tech we made our own hurdles from newspaper.

We can't wait to see all our new Year Seven's next year and our returning Year Eight's. Here is the link to our information newsletter to help all students settle in at Tahuna in 2018.

After many years in the school office Mrs Chittock has decided to retire. Lots has changed in her time, first the abacus then calculators, computers and now iPads and drones! We will miss her cheery disposition and her exemplary phone ettiquette. Haere ra! Mrs Chittock all the best for the future.

On Wednesday evening the Pasifika Success Talanoa Celebration was held at Bathgate school for schools in the cluster. 

Room 19 have been working hard on creating Picture Books for 5 year olds. 

Check out a selection of this weeks Year 8 projects.

The year 7's were seen swinging from the beams in the Science Lab this week!

Planning is already underway for new EOTC activities next year. If your child is interested in taking part in these opportunities it is a good idea to start thinking about them now.

Tahuna Girls' Cricket had great success in Term 4

Room 6 visited St Kilda Kindergarten as part of their picture book unit. Students read a selection of picture books to their kindy buddies and interviewed them about their favourite picture books.

Alex, Louis and Nick spent most of Wednesday testing the water and counting fish. Nets had been set the night before ready for the big count the next day. They caught 395 fish in total and thousands of invertebrates.The day had been very successful but there was still much work to do.

A tough learning curve for the team that played at Lincoln. The tournament was played at a fantastic venue with outstanding facilities. It took a couple of days to adapt to the high standard and conditions and the team showed excellent improvement.

The Police Competency Test Challenge is held annually at the Edgar Centre. 25 teams participated, with Tahuna contributing 4 teams. Read on for results.

Congratulations to Penny Temple and Bronson Monga

After the house fire that devastated the Carter family recently, it was wonderful to be able to offer our support in a practical way.

This holiday many people will be going to the movies and one I would highly recommend is Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them.

Recently I played in two intermediate tennis tournaments. The first tournament I won two of three matches and qualified for the next tournament. This one was much tougher and I played the top seed who eventually went on to win the tournament. I knew he was a serious player when his tennis kit was bigger than my cricket kit bag. I was actually pleased to get a couple of games to deuce. In the next game I had many good rallies and won a few games. I lost that match too but was pleased to have had the chance to play for Tahuna. It was good to see the high standard of school players from different parts of the South Island.  

Every Tuesday  in term 4, I made it my priority to go to the inter-school badminton competition which for the Boys is held at 3:30pm.

Tahuna continues to attract International students for short term stays.