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Growing Good People For A Changing World
NEWS
Issue Date: November 2018
Congratulations to our Dux for 2018, Jayden Hunt (left) and
Coming Events to our runner up to Dux and Top Māori Scholar, Mikaylah Selby (right)
November
NCEA Exams in Progress
Thursday 15th
Careers Speed Dating—Year 10
Careers Event
Thursday 22nd
Paid Union Meeting—
School closes at 12.30pm
Tuesday 27th
Project Day for Junior students
Friday 30th
Tuakana Training
NCEA Exams Finish
December
Wednesday 5th
Year 8 Tamatea Intermediate
Orientation—9am—12pm
Year 13 and Families—Leavers’
Dinner at Kennedy Park
Thursday 6th
Year 8 Napier Intermediate
Orientation 1pm—3pm
Monday 10th
Reward/Catch Up Day 1
Tuesday 11th Heimoana Latu Robyn Nicholls
Reward/Catch Up Day 2 Top Year 12 Student and Momoisea Top Year 11 Student Naya Nepe-Apatu
Shield for Best All- Round and Overall Senior Golden Sportsperson of the Year
Tuesday 11th International Student Fern Award Winner
Ahuriri Sports Society AGM at
3.30pm in the Library
Wednesday 12th
Splash Planet for Juniors
Thursday 13th
Junior Prizegiving at
10.30am—all welcome
Last day of Term 4
Pyper Horton Mika Kaitao Kelson McKay Winners of the House Cup
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Principal’s News
Tēnā koutou te whānau
Ngā mihi ki a koutou i roto i tēnei wā māhana!
Greetings one and all as we move into the warmer part of the year.
Over the Labour Weekend break and week 3 of this term, I was lucky enough to join the
Mayor and a Senior Manager from the Napier City Council on a visit to Lianyungang which is
the Napier sister city in China. While I was there, we visited the Lianyungang Foreign Language
School and signed a sister school agreement which should see us start exchanges in 2019.
China is a huge country and quite different to Aotearoa – I am looking forward to giving some
of our students the opportunity to visit and experience a different way of life.
Term 4 is flying past, and we have around five weeks of school left. Most of our seniors are on study leave with some still
coming in to school to finish assessments and study with their teachers. Our juniors continue with their programmes – they
are working hard to meet the requirements of their Junior Diploma and we have some fun events coming up; in week 7 we
have a project day planned and in week 9 we have two activity days planned and a final day at Splash Planet.
These days are important parts of our programme and the remainder of classes will be solidifying the foundation for next
year – so it’s still very important for all our juniors to keep coming to school. Please help us by making sure your tamariki are
here on time. Most students are looking great in the uniforms, but a couple are wearing non-regulation hats and shoes.
Please remind them to follow the school rules that they agreed to when they enrolled.
Last week we celebrated our seniors at our Prizegiving. Once again, it was a real pleasure to have Tamatea’s first Principal,
John Ryan, in attendance and presenting the major awards. Our Head Boy, Kelson McKay and Head Girl, Mikaylah Selby,
delivered wonderful speeches that were authentic, heartfelt and made us all feel very proud. It was fantastic to award our
prize for Dux to Jayden Hunt, who has worked hard this year to achieve some impressive academic results. We were all
delighted to be able to recognise his work by adorning him with the new school korowai which is a kakahu created over the
last year by our very own Learning Assistant, Beverley Ansell.
In the next few weeks we will be interviewing applicants for leadership positions in 2019 and I look forward to announcing
the successful candidates at our Junior Prizegiving on Thursday 13th of December.
Finally, I’d like to acknowledge the recent announcement that Mr Stephen Hensman, the Principal of Taradale High School,
will be retiring next year. Stephen is a friend and mentor of mine and he has been a terrific servant to Taradale High. We wish
him well.
Koinā āku kōrero mō tēnei wā – ngā mihi aroha ki a koutou katoa.
Matua Robin
Beverley Ansell presenting the kakahu to Jayden Hunt our Dux for 2018.
The kakahu was hand-woven and hand crafted by Beverley. A wonderful taonga for our school.
The Ball Committee
Congratulations
Congratulations to our YES Tamatea team
to Naya Nepe-Apatu who who won the Regional Young
won the Hawke’s Bay Enterprise Scheme Sales and
Secondary School Award for Marketing Award. Their
Contribution to Sport, cotton fruit and vegetable
sponsored by NZ Couriers. bags are still for sale if you
need a Christmas present for
a loved one.
Waiata House Competition
Our hotly contested Waiata competition was recently held, judged by Maaka Papuni
(Principal of Porritt Primary School), Sharon Fabish and Theresa Nepe-Apatu, Tawa
house were the winners!
Naya Nepe-Apatu, our Sport HB Youth Council member recently organised a team of juniors to compete in a Co-Ed sports
competition between local schools. The students looked fantastic in our new tracksuit jackets. Naya was able to persuade
Ben Tristram and Pyper Horton to help her with the competition.
Sister School in China
Matua Robin recently visited China with Mayor Bill Dalton. While he was there he signed an agreement to establish a sister
school relationship for the purpose of linguistic and cultural exchange programmes with Lianyungang Foreign Language
School, Jiangsu.
Trades Academy @ EIT Prizegiving
This event took place on 24th October. Tamatea high School had a
number of students who took top in class in their trades area—an
awesome effort by everyone.
Thank you to all those who came to our garage sale and grabbed a bargain. We raised
School Magazine 2018 in excess of $750 which will go towards ‘outside the classroom’ fun, student activities.
Our school magazine will be
We still have lots of sizes of bike stands for sale—give us a call on 844 6600.
available soon. It is a photographic
record of everything your children
have done in 2018 and is a bargain
at just $10. Pop into the office to
pay for one or credit the school’s
account (12 3479 0023354 00)
using ‘magazine’ as the reference.
Year 13 Leavers’ Hoodies
PRINCIPAL DEPUTY PRINCIPAL DEPUTY PRINCIPAL BOT CHAIRPERSON
Mr Robin Fabish Ms Nicky Anderson Mr Nigel Groom Mr Michael Mackrill
principal@tamatea.school.nz nickya@tamatea.school.nz nigelg@tamatea.school.nz
YEAR 13 DEAN YEAR 12 DEAN YEAR 11 DEAN YEAR 10 DEAN YEAR 9 DEAN
Miss Sarah Grant Mr Dave Murdoch Mrs Annie Macfarlane Mr Sanjesh Kumar Ms Josie Burdon
sarahg@tamatea.school.nz davidm@tamatea.school.nz anniem@tamatea.school.nz sanjeshk@tamatea.school.nz josieb@tamatea.school.nz
INTERNATIONAL DEAN GUIDANCE COUNSELLOR CAREERS ADVISOR ACCOUNTS
Ms Cheryl Brownlee Ms Wendy Isakson Mrs Cindy Morgan Mrs Vicky Bowie
cherylb@tamatea.school.nz wendyi@tamatea.school.nz careers@tamatea.school.nz accounts@tamatea.school.nz
Thank you to these companies, trusts and foundations for their support of Tamatea High School
The Gwen Malden Trust
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