16 September Newsletter

By Noah V and Georgia

A mixture of year 7 & year 8 pupils where keen to learn techniques on how to use watercolour paints.

In Room 9 this week, we have been learning about chemistry and reactions. On Tuesday we completed the CO2 Sandwich Experiment.

Building and testing catapults and airplanes is a great way to learn about design and experiments.

This year instead of the Science Fair all students at Tahuna Int. made a project based around what Dunedin might look like in the year 2040.

Squash is a new sporting opportunity available at Tahuna as a sports elective. It is a fantastic opportunity, taught by Aynsley Munro of Squash Otago, and the students involved are loving it! Recently, two of our students (JJ Frei - Year 8 and Riley Bridgman - Year 7) signed up to represent Tahuna in the School's Squash Competition, run by Squash Otago. Riley and JJ both won the individuals for CRT 4 and 1 respectively, winning all of their games. The tournament was very well organised and Riley and JJ displayed good sportsmanship throughout the competition. Excellent work boys!!

Room 12 and Room 20 benefit from the Kelly sports lessons that carefully break down the skills for Long Jump

Help us to help our neighbours by making sure you are not parking over driveways

Time and effort was spent on creating self portraits.

On Tuesday, students had to apply everything they had learnt from a previous introductory session on climbing, at the Long Beach rock face.

Fridays are a chance to make something precious for students in the year 8 jewellery elective.

Tongan Language is celebrated at Tahuna

Aimee Fraser from Room 15 has achieved High Distinction in ICAS English

Congratulations goes to Gemma Cagney 1st Prize and Lucy van Heezik awarded Highly Commended out of 62 submitted art works from Tahuna.

This year, for the first time, we ran our own version of the O'Mathalon at Tahuna. After some initial disappointment when the full Year 7 and 8 O'Mathalons were cancelled due to Covid-19, we realised that, with so many able mathematicians at Tahuna, we could run our own competition.

Saturday 19th September 10am-noon