Congratulations to our Head Students for 2019. Paige Downard (Deputy Head Girl), Danny Lawson-Jones (Deputy Head Boy), Sammie Maxwell (Head Girl), Tayhn Walden (Head Boy). Awesome team!!!

The Turangi Tongariro Sports Foundation hosted the annual Turangi Sports Awards 2018 event. Year 9 student, Emma Billing, won the award for 'New Coach of the Year' up against 4 others. Emma started coaching Beginner and Learner swimmers at the Turangi Swimming Club this year, as well as continuing with her swim training, and has been doing a wonderful job at both. Emma was also the youngest nominee in this category and was praised throughout the night during the MC, Guest Speaker and Chairperson of the Sports Foundation speeches. Year 11 student, Tangiariki Wanikau, won the award for 'Junior Sportsperson of the Year' up against 6 others, including the talented Year 9 student, Jorja Neill for cricket. Tangiariki has been training and competing successfully for the past 8 years at local, regional, national and international level. Tangiariki was also awarded 'Dedication to Club' for services to the Turangi Karate Club above and beyond the usual expectations. Turangi Black Belt Girls Kata team including Tangiariki Wanikau, won the 'Junior Team of the Year' award up against 4 others. The girls did surprisingly well in this category as they were nominated alongside teams who had impressive success's locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

The results were: Meredith Bowler- 2nd place Under 15 girls, Alex Rainbow - 5th place Under 16 boys, Corbin McArthur - 23rd place Under 16 boys And Meredith, Alex and Corbin won the Mixed Team Relay.

DANCE TEAM - UNSTEADY

BOYS FOOTBALL 1ST XI

Well done Reagan Branje - she won the ‘Overall Excellence Award ' at the Blue Light Leadership course at Wairakei.

THURSDAY 6th DECEMBER, WAIRAKEI RESORT

Huge thanks to Mrs Sawada for taking the Year 10 Food Technology class for Sushi as part of their International Cookery topic!

Thank you to the following people who have volunteered to enable our students to play in their chosen sports.

Olivia Moore’s business 'Top That' has been awarded 1st place in the Bay of Plenty Regional YES (Young Enterprise Scheme) Finals. She will go onto the National Competition in Wellington on the 6th December to Pitch against the top 21 companies from around New Zealand. There were 900 companies involved in YES this year and making the top 21 teams is a fantastic achievement. Additionally, Olivia is likely to be the youngest contestant at only 15 years old and in Year 11. Students generally enter this competition in Year 12 when they are completing Level 2 Business Studies. As a sole-trader Olivia has had to research, experiment and work extremely hard to develop, produce and sell her amazing product. She has accomplished many of the goals she set for herself at the beginning of the year. Her product is now for sale in 3 businesses - Spacecraft, Raw Balance and Le Cafe Telephonique. Also you can visit her website and purchase from her online store https://topthat.thatgreenolive.com/. To create fabulous meals and add nutrition to your plate be sure to try one of Olivia’s 3 new flavours from her Top That range. Olivia’s twin sister Brooke also had success at the Regional Finals. She was the Runner up with her business Crema Calda and her amazing and innovative world first product - Hot Ice Cream. This is definitely another product to keep your eyes out for in the future. She aims to have it in production in early 2019.

Sport Waikato has recognised Tauhara College student Emma Billings for her valued contribution to the Turangi Swimming Club. Thirteen year old Emma is a talented member of the club. Her exceptional ability to teach and guide swimmers has this year seen her start coaching a group of 5-7 year old learner swimmers. Emma’s skill, initiative and caring and friendly manner has seen swimmers’ water confidence improve and their ability progress. Emma’s dedication and commitment were recently rewarded when she won the New Coach of the Year category at the Turangi Tongariro Sports Awards. The Turangi Swim Club will continue to encourage and provide coaching opportunities for Emma until she is old enough to gain her swim teacher’s qualification. She is a real asset and an exceptional role model who is quickly becoming an amazing new coach for the club.

The Taupo RSA closed earlier this year and recently donated a huge pile of books for our library. THANK YOU TAUPO RSA for your extremely generous gift! Staff and students are excited for the opportunities this gives us.

Tangiariki Wanikau trained and competed at the 25th Gasshuku Championships in the weekend alongside 55 others from as far and wide as Australia, Gore, North Auckland and in between and gained her best results yet. She was placed in the Black Belt Under 18’s Girls category with 3 others and came 1st in the 3 events she entered into-1st in Kata, 1st in Kumite and 1st in Black Belt Team Kata. We are very proud of Tangiariki’s and all other Turangi members achievements who achieved 10 first place wins from the 16 events they were entered into. It was a great weekend for Karate in our region.

The Year 13 Sport Science went on a trip to Mount Ruapehu to complete their last internal assessment. Great weather and good times.

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