Ngahere Hub 2023

  • A Tale of Two Turtles!

    Kia ora e te whānau Ngā Manu have been learning so much about our wonderful sea creatures so Ruma Rua & Ruma tahi had a real treat today when Madison brought in her honu (turtles) for a special show and tell! She showed the rest of the ākonga how to handle the honu, with clean…

  • Ngā Manu Newsletter Term 3

    Kia Ora Ngā Manu Whānau, To see what exciting things that our senior tamariki will be doing in Term 3, please click on the pdf document below!

  • Island Bay Marine Education Centre Trip

    It was an exciting first week back for our Ngā Manu tamariki as it was the much-anticipated trip to the Island Bay Marine Education Centre. The children not only had the chance to go exploring in the Rock Pools and find cushion starfish, crabs, glass shrimps, small black fish, snails, limpets, and anemones but put…

  • Year 5 imovie Fun!

    Kia ora e te whānau Whilst our Year 6 spent the morning at Avalon Intermediate, the Year 5 tamariki had a great morning making imovies using the 4 Tawhai Kura values, respect, responsibility, integrity, and resilience! After an instructional video on how to create the movies, they got themselves into groups of 2 up to…

  • Ngā Manu Assembly!

    Kia ora e te whānau It was a wonderful day for our Ngā Manu tamariki as they got to enjoy their first assembly for the year under the canopy this morning! Ella & Brydon did a fantastic job as co-presenters for this assembly. Mr Whiteman was very proud to present the Principal Awards and Ella…

  • A Song off between the 2 Senior Hubs!

    After morning tea, the fly-on-the-wall photographer happened to to capture a ‘sing off’ between Room’s 3 & 4 and 14 & 15 as they went through the repertoire of some of the waiata that they have been learning during their years at Tawhai Kura!

  • Out on their Wheels!

    Room’s 1 & 2 spent some down time outside on wheels during part of the middle block! Some had brought along their scooters and were happily doing circuits around the forecourt. For those that wanted to cycle, they either had their own bikes or used the school ones! Early next week, a notice will go…

  • Welcome to Room 15

    It has been an absolute pleasure to get to know the 2022 Room 15!  We have had a magnificent and very busy start to the year. We have looked at the Tawhai School values and used these to make our Class treaty. (This year we have had to add in something about masks!) We have…