Assembly Awards 01/08/2014

Principal Awards (Term 3 Week 2)

Maya Powdrill, Jessica James, Patrick Maloney

Classroom Awards (Term 3 Week 2)
Ivy Anderson-Podmore, Keilani Worthen, Courtney Holmes, Lucas Coster, Jamie Paprzik, Cruz Gonzalez-Bourke, Sam Groves, Kane Campbell, Sharnye Calois, Olivia Burgess, Yu Min Song 

Assembly Awards 25/07/14

Principals Awards (Term 3 Week 1)

Kiana Edwards, Jessica Hayman, James Appleton and Megan Gardiner

Classroom Awards (Term 3 Week 1)

Laura James, Troy Barnett, Jessica Cotterill, Minnie Collins, Ngahuia Edwards, Winchester Howard, Sarah Kennedy, Dency Tasi, Noah Lord and Chenoa Williams

Tauriko Gymnastics

Over the past two terms Tauriko gymnasts have been training for the Argos Gymsports competitions. These have been held over the past few weeks.
Tauriko gymnasts have had some incredible results in every section that they entered.

Springers:  Ngahuia Edwards 2nd overall
Silver Medal Team (2nd team): Ngahuia Edwards, Madison Lennane, Poppy Richardson, Stevie Simmonds

Flyers- Year 3/4
Peta Elliot- 1st overall
Sara Esterman - 2nd overall
Gold Medal Team (1st Team): Peta Elliot, Sara Esterman, Imogen Aulding, Jasmin de Buisson

Flyers- Year 5/6
Kiana Edwards- 2nd overall
Hailey Paprzik- 5th overall
Wikitoria Galvin- 7th overall
Gold Medal Team (1st Team): Kiana Edwards, Hailey Paprzik, Jenny Mackinnon, Amy Campbell

Twisters
Paige Aulding 4th overall (Year 5/6)
Keilani Worthen 1st overall (Year 7/8)
Arohaina Worthen 6th overall (Year 7/8)
Bronze Medal Team(3rd team): Paige Aulding, Cristina McCormick, Lisa Evans,
Year 7/8 Silver Medal Team (2nd team): Keilani Worthen, Arohaina Worthen, Hannah Rose, Jessica James

The following girls were then selected for the Best of the Best competition: Ngahuia Edwards, Peta Elliot, Sara Esterman, Kiana Edwards, Hailey Paprzik, Wikitoria Galvin, Paige Aulding, Keilani Worthen, Arohaina Worthen.
The Best of the Best competition involves students from Years 3-8 competing against each other in their section.
Springers (2nd overall): Ngahuia Edwards
Flyers: 4th overall Sara Esterman, 5th overall Peta Elliot
Twisters: 2nd overall Arohaina Worthen
Congratulations to all of these fabulous girls for their hard work and positive attitudes. You were wonderful representatives of Tauriko School.

West Cluster Young Einsteins Quiz

Last Wednesday we had two Year 5 and 6 teams compete at the West Cluster Young Einsteins Quiz which was held at Merivale School. During the quiz teams had to answer questions in 9 different categories (a total of 90 questions). The categories were; General Knowledge, Sport, Entertainment, Famous Faces, New Zealand Places, Geography, New Zealand, Current Events and Science.

Congratulations to our Tauriko Team 1 who won the quiz by one point. Riley, Mitch, Lisa and Troy will be representing the school at the Best of the Best Competition which will be held on Wednesday 2nd July in the Tauriko School Performing Arts Centre. Teams from all over the Bay of Plenty will be coming to compete. Good luck team!

FUNKY HAIR DAY

Funky Hair Day is here!

Lots of cool hair creations and smiling faces!

House Points

Congratulations to the Blue and Green house for winning the cross-country house points competition. The overall leader board has been updated. 

Cross-country House Points Results

Blue House (Kahikatea)            255

Green House (Totara)                255

Yellow House (Rimu)               253

Orange House (Kauri)               221

Overall Leader Board

Whole School Cross Country 2014

On Wednesday the 28th of May, Tauriko school had whole school cross country at Waipuna park.

We all arrived at school before 8:20, ready to go to cross country. Everyones hearts were pounding and bodies were shivering from the cold. Ding, ding, ding went the bell, we all lined up nervously waiting to get on the bus.

When we arrived at Waipuna Park we found our house coloured flag and sat down with our team mates.
Suddenly Mrs Billington said “could all of the year 1s please make there way over to the starting line’.3, 2, 1 BANG! went the starting gun. The year 1s sprinted off in a second. All you could here was cheering from the sideline for each house colour.

In a split second the year 2s raced off. Most of the year 2s were back in a flash, the first person plunged over the finish line.
The years 3s, 4s, 5s races flew by.
Before you knew it the year 6s had shot off in a hurry, down the hills, around the bends, through the icy cold grass, up the killer hill, over the log and before you knew it they had crossed the finish line. Last but not least the Tall Poppies went to the starting line BANG! off they went.
Once the Tall Poppies had finished we packed up and lined up in our classes and got on the bus.

When we got back to school we had morning tea and watched the parent, teacher, student race. It was so funny to watch Mr Rikiriki give Miss Dravitski a piggy back ride across the line. After that we had a sausage sizzle, the sausages were really hot and a little bit spicy.

WOW! that was a marvelous end to cross country.
The best thing was that everyone cheered each other on and the sausage sizzle. Everyone tried their best and didn't give up even though they wanted to give up.
After that day we all went home tired.

By Paige, Olivia and Summer.