Sports

Kia ora e te whānau, Welcome to Fiona Glen, our new Learning Support Coordinator. To find out a little bit about her, please click on the pdf document below:

Kia ora e te whānau, Last week we were fortunate to have Corey from Cricket Wellington and ex Tawhai parent, Amanda Williamson who is the Junior convener for the Stokes Valley Cricket Club come along to take a fun session after school. After a couple of warmup games, it was down to a ‘quick’ game…

Kia ora e te whānau, Two very exciting and very close games at the Stokes Valley Pool yesterday! A very narrow loss of 5-6 for Tawhai White who were first up to play. Tawhai Blue won their game 7-5!

It was down the pool yesterday to capture both our Tawhai teams in action against two Waterloo teams. Despite a valiant effort and trying to cope with the deeper end of the pool, the Tawhai Whites had a loss. Tawhai Blue were the dominant team in their game with a 13-0 win against Waterloo.

Kia ora e te whānau, It was down to the Walter Nash Stadium to capture our 3 miniball teams in action this afternoon. Great competitive spirit and lots of goals for and against! Photos posted with kind permission from whānau and the Naenae team!

Kia ora e te whānau, It was down to Stokes Valley Pool yesterday to capture both the Tawhai Blue and the Tawhai White in action. Tawhai Blue came away with a very narrow 3-4 loss. Tawhai White despite valiant play also suffered defeat at the hands of a very tough and very physical oppostion!

Kia ora e te whānau, It was down to the Stokes Valley Pool yesterday to capture both the Tawhai teams in action. Tawhai White despite a spirited performance lost their game to Boulcott. Tawhai Blue had a great win against Belmont. Photos posted with kind permission from whānau, Belmont’s coach, and a Boulcott parent.

Kia ora e te whānau, Our netballers will be having their last game of the season so coaches Kate Watkins and Renee Saul thought that it would be lovely idea to turn the last practice for the teams into a friendly game! The Year 5 & 6 teams playing out on the court and the…

Kia ora e te whānau, It was down the Stokes Valley Pool yesterday to see one of our two waterpolo teams playing their first game of the competition proper against St Peters and Pauls. The game was played end to end with some great effort and good attempts at shooting for goal from the Tawhai…

Kia ora e te whānau, Our wonderful Year 6 netball team, coached by parent Kate Watkins took part in the annual Upper Hutt Junior Netball Club Tournament which was held at Heretaunga College yesterday. They had an awesome tournament and took out second place! (see first photo with certificates!) Many congratulations Tamariki! Photo credits: Kate…

Kia ora e te whānau, The lovely Tamariki from Room 4 had a lovely idea after one of the reading groups read a story about a writers walk in one of the school journals they were reading. They decided to do something similar, choosing to write some poems about their life in Wellington and beautifully…

Kia ora e te whānau, Our gorgeous tamariki in the Horoeka Hub came together yesterday afternoon for their fortnightly assembly in Room 9a. They sang along to; Hey little heart, Le Aute, and Kindness is free! Mrs Poole popped in to do her favourite job and present the Principal awards and Miss Sissons did the…

Kia ora e te whānau, During the summer break our wonderful Farmer Paul and his wife Sally have been keeping up with the gardening duties! ( despite losing a few gardening gloves along the way thanks to the thieving and opportunistic, local black cat!) Today he decided that it was time to share some corn…

This term the Kopara Hub have been learning all about fire safety, road safety. Yesterday Rooms 6 and 11 went down to Stokes Valley pool to learn about water safety. With the summer break and good weather coming up, it is so important for us to practise keeping safe in and around the water. Living…

Kia ora e te whānau, On Thursday our gorgeous tamariki in the Horoeka Hub had a fun session of 4 rotational activities involving some dribbling and goal scoring skills, flying an aeroplane, running under a colourful parachute, going through a few obstacles, and diving onto a high jump mat! The tamariki had so much fun…

Kia ora e te whānau, On Thursday it was the turn of the Kopara Hub to enjoy the thrills and action of the popular Tawhai Cup Tournament. As with the previous 2 tournaments, the tamariki went through a series of 5-minute round robin games during the middle block, followed by the knockout round also lasting…

Kia ora e te whānau, On Wednesday it was the turn of our Year 3 & 4 Kereru Hub to take part in the Tawhai Cup Football Tournament. It followed pretty much the same format as the Year 5 & 6 Tournament that took place the day before, with the usual 4 trophies up for…

Kia ora e te whānau, On Tuesday the first of the 3 days of tournament kicked off with our Year 5 & 6 tamariki playing for the prestigious Tawhai Cup. The round robins were played before morning tea, then it was straight into the finals to decide who were the winners of the Plate, bowl,…

Kia ora e te whānau, A few fly-on-the-wall photos taken of both the Ngahere & Kereru Hubs celebrating the end of Week 8 with assemblies just before lunch! Our wonderful co-hosts for the Ngahere Hub were Abby and Ava who did a fine mahi of presenting this particular assembly! We had the usual Principal and…

Kia ora e te whānau, Our lovely Kopara Hub held their fortnightly assembly this afternoon in Room 12. Our  hosts for this assembly were Tallulah & Ryder from Room 11 and they did a fantastic job coordinating the events. Mrs Boese dropped in to present the Principal awards and Mrs Lynley Poole handed over the…