End of Year Prizegiving 2024

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                                   School Prizegiving 2024 

Our guest speaker was Eva Hakansson, who with her husband owns a business new to Tokoroa - KiwiFil.                                                                                                                      Find out more about Kiwifil here

Eva is a truly remarkable woman, she told her life story and shared her amazing achievements with the school. Her racing vehicle the Killajoule' was until very recently the world's fastest electric motorcycle at 434 km/h  (270mph) with Eva as the rider.

The Worlds Fastest Electric Motorcycle

Room 10's who received awards at 2024 Prizegiving:

Kelani Maea:  * Joint Winner - Te Tino Tangata for General Excellence                                      *  Dux of the school 

                    *  Sheldrake Award of Excellence                                                                        *  Ta Upu Pere - Top Academic Pasifika Student                                                  *  Lawry Cup for Excellence in Year 8 Mathematics 

                    *  Public Speaking - Wilson Cup   Speech Competition Winner Y8

Niko McCloskey - Board of Trustees Award for Excellence

Marley Mathis  - Te Toko Mataurangi ki Nga Mokopuna o Tokoroa -

                        Top Maori Award for a Year 7 Student

                      - Public Speaking - Law Cup    Speech Competition Winner Y7

Mana Manu   - Top Year 7 Student - Music

Zoe Luxford  - Food and Nutrition Trophy - Top Year 7 Student

 

School ends for 2024 - Brains and Christmas Houses

 And just like that the 2024 School year was over - our final activity for the year was this one - whats going on in your brain, an idea from Diary of a Wimpy Kid....

Some exemplars were shared: 

and here are some of this years ....

Room 10 2024 has been a great class -  with 22 boys and 13 girls there was never a dull moment - and lots of new words and characters were introduced into our class vocabulary. Words like skibiddi, rizz and sigma, the boys decided I 'glazed the girls'  - and interesting YouTube characters kept popping up in discussions. 

We had an end-of-year competition  - working together to create Gingerbread Christmas Houses. The girls came out the winners - ' reading and following instructions' was not a strong point for some ....

                                                          and a shared lunch at the end 

               

  On Tuesday 17 December, the class was packed up and school officially finished for the year.

  The Year 8's will be missed and we wish them well for their High School years...

Athletics Sports and Sports Prizegiving

 The SPORTS Prizegiving was held on Friday, December 13. Our guest speakers were from the local Gym, Muscle and Curves Fitness Centre: Thelma Kerr and Nicole Bartie. Both were former TIS pupils who gave inspirational messages.

Room 10's who received awards were: 

Azlan Paora - Year 7 Junior Boys Cross Country Champion                                                                       

Zoe Luxford - Year 7 Junior Girls Athletics Champion

Maitland McCurran Cup - Most Dedicated Netball Player - Swavay Gage 

Kieran Cantwell Memorial Cup - Endeavour in Sport - Teinakore Ford-Takiri

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Te Whare Pono also came out winners:

Brian Spraggon Memorial Trophy Top Team -   Rōpu   Wai

JIB Trophy for Inter House Sport    - Pono 

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Our school Athletic Sports were held in November - lots of success especially in field events 

Zoe was the 2024 Junior Girls Champion 

   1st Shot Put and 1st Cricketball Throw 

Mana 2nd Junior Boys Champion  - 1st Discus and Shot Put

 

Kelani 1st Discus  and Shot Put, 3rd Cricket Ball Throw  = 2nd Senior Girls Champion   

Braxton 1st Cricket Ball Throw,    Swavay 1st 100m,    Azlan 2nd High Jump, Teinakore 3rd Shot Put

Marley  Cricket Ball Throw        Noah H 4th  Cricket Ball Throw     

Zoe and Mana went on to represent the school and have success at  WIMS (Waikato Intermediate Middle Schools)Athletics held  at Porritt Stadium,

Mana was 1st in the Junior Boys Shot Put.

Zoe placed in the Junior Girls-  3rd in Discus and 4th at Shot Put, 

 

Whare Prizegiving 2024

Our Whare Pono Prizegiving was held on 12th December 

Certificates given out were  - for Excellence in Huarahi, Leadership - School, Whare and Ropu - Huarahi leaders,  Class Awards ( 2 Year 7 and 2 Year 8 each class).  Maths Whizz Green Tick and Attendance Certificates, Principal's - Deputy Principals and Assistant Principals  Awards, Class Councillors and certificates for those who helped with Garden to Table Maara Kai, there Lawn Care team and  our Year 8's all got Leaving Certificates. 

                  
                                          Teinakore and Nadis were the recipients of the first                                                                         Room 10  Whare Pono MVP  -   (Most Valued People) Awards

Kelani not only co-hosted the Prizeging as one of our Pono School Leaders - she also received many well deserved awards/

Room 10's Class Merit Awards were presented  to: Year 7 - Levi Shaw and Blake Creigh Smith                                                                                                Year 8 - Temali Tausinga and Braxton Smith

Other major awards received were:

Food Technology - Ina May Petero                                                                                                              Hard Materials -   Ina May Petero and Zoe Luxford                                                                                    Kapa Ahurea - Teinakore Ford Takiri and Kelani Maea     

                                                                                                                                    

                                                

                            A special award was given to Noah Martin - The Bunnings Award ! 

Noah sees a job needs doing and he says 'I can fix that ... and he does. First up this year was when my laminator got jammed and I thought it was beyond repair - with some help from his friends, he soon had it working again 

Then when he saw that one of our picnic tables had been graffiti all over it - he took it upon himself to sand it down and paint it. No job to big or too small for Noah