Tahuna Normal Intermediate School
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Tahuna Normal Intermediate School is a school for Year 7 (Form One) and Year 8 (Form Two) students, based in Saint Kilda
, Dunedin
, New Zealand
. It is located near Saint Kilda Beach. It has a Principal: Tony Hunter, Deputy Principal: Keith Hutton, 22 teachers, teacher aids and Dunedin College of Education student teachers. It has a compulsory school uniform policy and most students are aged from 11 – 13 years.
Most subjects are taught by class teachers. Four kinds of technology are available to study; Woodwork, Design Technology, Food and Art. Technology lessons occur for four consecutive days every second week. During non-technology weeks a class may be assigned to do receptionist and rubbish duty.
At Tahuna Normal Intermediate School students have the choice of joining:
Each week, if a child has done excellent school work or has been helping their teacher with classroom duties, they may be given a Blue Card Award (4 are given Per week). This is an acknowledgement of appreciation or achievement from their class teacher. Upon receiving seven blue cards, the child receives a Bronze card, which allows him/her the privilege to go to the front of the school canteen line during lunch hours. Seven more Blue Cards produces a Silver Card, and seven more still produces a Gold Card.
After you have your Gold Card every extra 7 blue cards gives you a "Bar" for instance 28 blue cards gives you a Gold Bar and 35 gives you a Gold Bar Bar.
Every Tuesday afternoon Tahuna has sports options and students can choose one sport they like for each season. Available sports include: Badminton
, Running
, Cycling
, Power Walking
, Dance
, Padder Tennis
, Rippa Rugby
, Tae Kwon Do, and Golf
.
The school year starts in February and ends in December after 392 half days.
Saint Kilda, New Zealand
St Kilda is a suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. A densely populated residential suburb, it lies on the southern part of the city's central plain, to the southwest of the head of the harbour and immediately north of Ocean Beach, parts of which are within the suburb and form its major...
, Dunedin
Dunedin
Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. It is located near Saint Kilda Beach. It has a Principal: Tony Hunter, Deputy Principal: Keith Hutton, 22 teachers, teacher aids and Dunedin College of Education student teachers. It has a compulsory school uniform policy and most students are aged from 11 – 13 years.
Most subjects are taught by class teachers. Four kinds of technology are available to study; Woodwork, Design Technology, Food and Art. Technology lessons occur for four consecutive days every second week. During non-technology weeks a class may be assigned to do receptionist and rubbish duty.
Compulsory Subjects
- ArtArtArt is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
- P.E.Physical educationPhysical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
& HealthHealthHealth is the level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person's mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain... - ScienceScienceScience is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
- EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
- TechnologyTechnologyTechnology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
- Social StudiesSocial studiesSocial studies is the "integrated study of the social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence," as defined by the American National Council for the Social Studies...
- Languages
- MusicMusicMusic is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...
At Tahuna Normal Intermediate School students have the choice of joining:
- OrchestraOrchestraAn orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
- Multicultural group
- BasketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
teams - NetballNetballNetball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...
teams - DanceDanceDance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
groups - ChoirChoirA choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
Each week, if a child has done excellent school work or has been helping their teacher with classroom duties, they may be given a Blue Card Award (4 are given Per week). This is an acknowledgement of appreciation or achievement from their class teacher. Upon receiving seven blue cards, the child receives a Bronze card, which allows him/her the privilege to go to the front of the school canteen line during lunch hours. Seven more Blue Cards produces a Silver Card, and seven more still produces a Gold Card.
After you have your Gold Card every extra 7 blue cards gives you a "Bar" for instance 28 blue cards gives you a Gold Bar and 35 gives you a Gold Bar Bar.
Every Tuesday afternoon Tahuna has sports options and students can choose one sport they like for each season. Available sports include: Badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
, Running
Running
Running is a means of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot. It is simply defined in athletics terms as a gait in which at regular points during the running cycle both feet are off the ground...
, Cycling
Cycling
Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...
, Power Walking
Power walking
Power walking or speed walking is the act of walking with a speed at the upper end of the natural range for the walking gait, typically 7 km/h to 9 km/h...
, Dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
, Padder Tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
, Rippa Rugby
Rugby football
Rugby football is a style of football named after Rugby School in the United Kingdom. It is seen most prominently in two current sports, rugby league and rugby union.-History:...
, Tae Kwon Do, and Golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
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The school year starts in February and ends in December after 392 half days.