Tauraroa Area School

Vision: To be the best we can be

Where is TAS?Our school is close to the tiny village of Maungakaramea. The main attractions in this village are the rugby club, the service station and the hall. As you may guess, not many tourists come here! It’s a cool place!

Cultural activitiesWe have many cultural opportunities at TAS, such as Kapa Haka (they participated in the Tai Tokero festival), concert band and new sound proof music rooms that we can use at lunch time. Many students have made their own bands!

SportsSports are very big in our school. Our rugby and netball teams are very good. We also have a shooting team, a hockey team, an equestrian team and HEAPS more.

lunchtimesWe have a lot of things to do at lunchtime because we have lots of clubs and facilities to go to such as the environment club, you can play music in the new sound proof music rooms, paint in the art room and play on the new playground.

Our school house teams

We have four houses at our school they are Arawa, Tainui, Takitimu and Aotea. We have many house competitions such as Top House, Swimming Sports, Calf Club Day, lots of sports like basketball, badminton and tennis and even a spelling competition. In Top House and Swimming Sports we all get covered in paint. All the houses are very competitive. Arawa usually wins (because we are the best) but sometime Tainui or Aotea will win. Takitimu is usually last.

Calf clubWe hold our Country Day (calf club) every year. Students of all ages look after an animal (lamb, calf, goat or caged animal) and enter in the flower and achievement displays.

A typical day at TAS

Camps!Every year at our school goes on camps. Years 1 to 5 go to Tangihua Lodge or Marsden Point. This year the year 6s went to Marsden Point. This year we went down to you in Auckland. It was our first place that wasn’t about a hours drive from civilisation. We went to Posonby Intermediate. Do you know them?

That’s our schoolWe hope you enjoyed it and learnt many things about how our school life is different to yours!

Our teacher, Mrs Anderson

Our principal, Mr Burns