http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/ The latest Blog feeds from www.tamatea.school.nz en-us Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:48:38 +1200 Rocketspark http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/post/106955/pania-a-huge-success/ Matua Rāwiri Hindle (Ngāti Kurī) joined the staff on our visit to Wharerangi marae late in January this year as we started our journey that culminated in a fantastic show on the last Thursday night of term 2. Nearly a third of the school was involved in a show which was a response to the Ngāti Pārau pūrākau about Pānia, Karitoki and their baby, Moremore. It was far from a narrative play about the couple and much more an interpretation and response to the story.The pūrākau tells of... Fri, 07 Jul 2023 08:06:05 +1200 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/#post106955 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/post/100626/school-reopening--wednesday-22-february/ Tuesday 21st February Kia ora e te whānauHe mihi nui tēnei ki a koutou i roto i te āhuatanga o te wā. Koutou kua pā i te pouri, i te kino o te waipuke, nei mātou e tuku aroha ana ki a koutou.We want to acknowledge the challenging times we have all faced in the past week. Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have experienced loss. We know some of our community are staying with friends and whānau, some are still without power and some are isolated because of road damage.We are g... Tue, 21 Feb 2023 11:25:36 +1300 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/#post100626 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/post/100274/cylone-gabriella-update--sun-730pm/ Kia ora e te whānau. Given the potential for significant disruption and unsafe conditions as a result of conditions caused by Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle, we have made the decision to close the school for the next two days (Monday, 13 and Tuesday, 14 February). Students and staff are not required on site.We are aware it is an unpredictable situation, but we are acting out of an abundance of caution and would rather make an over-cautious decision than have students, staff and parents in unsafe co... Sun, 12 Feb 2023 19:35:19 +1300 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/#post100274 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/post/100017/latest-education-gazette-article/ ... Tue, 07 Feb 2023 15:02:40 +1300 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/#post100017 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/post/88070/te-tohu-pai/ This week saw Pete, our caretaker, place the finishing touches on our new welcome sign. He's done a fantastic job on these. We've erected a sign by the Taradale road entrance and one in the Freyberg road entrance. For a number of months we have had trial corflute signs, and we have tried two different colour schemes. Now we've settled on the final designs and they are permanently installed with steel frames. The signs are bilingual and reflect the diversity of our kura. On the reverse side are o... Fri, 09 Sep 2022 07:47:54 +1200 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/#post88070 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/post/86901/manawatia-a-matariki/ Ka rere a Matariki, ka wera te hinu! Tamatea High School celebrated Matariki on Thursday 23rd of June by planting a native ngahere. With funding and support from Matariki Tū Rākau (NZ Forestry), Panpac Ltd, One Foundation, Ray Burkett, Leon Phillips and Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Inc, the school has been able to cover the nearly $60 thousand for plants, irrigation, electricity, mulch and landscaping. The dawn ceremony started with a blessing of the ngahere by Koro Matiu Eru and Tipene Cottrell. The ... Fri, 12 Aug 2022 14:17:27 +1200 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/#post86901 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/post/86057/year-9-homerooms/ Tamatea High School is planning for all of their Year 9 classes in 2022 to be homerooms. Deputy Principal, Nicky Anderson oversees junior school learning and is a strong advocate of the homeroom system. Whaea Nicky says ‘Our homeroom students have the same teacher for their core subjects and other teachers for their option subjects. Instead of having 8 different teachers a week, they typically only have four. This means the transition from intermediate isn’t such a huge leap. The students f... Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/#post86057 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/post/86075/tamatea-high-chooses-fees-free/ This week the Tamatea High School Board of Trustees made the decision to sign up for the governments new ‘Donations Scheme’ which will mean that students will not be charged a donation to attend Tamatea High School in 2020.The new donations scheme will see the Ministry of Education pay the Tamatea High $150 per student instead of the school charging its normal $80 donation plus course costs. The scheme is only for schools which are decile 1 to 7 and is designed to take the pressure off famil... Thu, 15 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/#post86075 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/post/86056/green-light-for-facial-hair-at-tamatea-high/ Liliana Rio is the Head Girl at Tamatea High School and has been a champion for her tungāne (brothers) in her role as Board of Trustees student representative. Like many schools around the country Tamatea High School had a rule that boys needed to be clean shaven. The boys questioned the rule and Liliana took their concerns to the Board of Trustees. Liliana put the case that the boys should be able to have tidy facial hair as an expression of their individuality and because facial hair has no i... Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +1300 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/#post86056 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/post/86070/mufti-day-for-salvation-army/ Last Friday, the prefects at Tamatea High School organised a mufti day to give support to the Salvation Army food bank. Each student was required to bring a can of food instead of the usual gold coin. The response from students was fantastic and a huge amount of canned food was gathered. Deputy Head Girl, Saskia Hook, said that the prefect group thought supporting the food bank was something that the school would get in behind of. It also might have been easier for them to grab a can from the pa... Thu, 21 May 2020 00:00:00 +1200 http://www.tamatea.school.nz/blog/#post86070