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Tapawera Area School caters for the education of students from 5 years old all the way through to the end of high schooling. The school works strongly to function as one school but for many activities secondary and primary work in different ways and spaces.
Tapawera Kindergarten is also onsite, located in one of the primary classrooms. It is a separate entity but we do work together to link learning and ensure smooth transition of Early Childhood Education into Primary schooling.
Being a rural school means our programmes have a particular flavour at times and strong connections with our local environment and the opportunities that environment provides. Tapawera Area School was established in 1942 as the ‘Consolidated School’ which was formed through the closure and combining of a number of small primary schools across the region. Later it became a District High School and then finally an Area School.
Many of our students travel a good distance to attend using the services of Wadsworth Motors School Bus Services. A service which is still going strong after 100 years.
Our primary classes tend to be much smaller than town schools giving students opportunity to form closer learning relationships with teachers. Our high school classes are much smaller than those found in large secondary schools but with all the same opportunities and resources. We work hard to ensure equivalent or better opportunities for students.
31 Oct 2024
It’s Calendar Art time again!
The student’s have been busy creating art work that can be made into affordable Calendars, Cards, Diaries, Mouse Mats and Sketch Pads.
Each product is made from your own child’s art.
These make unique Christmas gifts for family and friends and are perfect for posting overseas.
Follow these instructions to place your order online:
1/. Go to www.kidsartworks.com
2/. Use the Entrance Code: KZ365
3/. Enter your child’s room & name when prompted
The order is open from now until 26 September
Payment can be made over the website via credit card or account2account.
If you have any questions please contact Sabine on sreinert@tapawera.school.nz
If your child is in Year 5-8 and has not brought a paper version of these instructions home, and you can't find them online, they have chosen to opt out of making a calendar art.
Thanks for supporting the school with this fundraiser...
Week 2 Term 4 Friday 25 October 2024, 10am to 11.15am
Nelson Centre of Musical Arts
Family are welcome to attend
A REMINDER ABOUT TOMORROW EVERYONE. :)
Hi all,
We are very lucky to have the Tasman Mako captain Quin Strange bringing the Ranfurly Shield out to our school on Monday the 23rd at 1pm-2pm. We will all meet in the school hall.
We are so lucky to have this opportunity and how exciting for our Tamariki to be able to have a close up look and get some photos.
If your child has any club rugby kit or Mako kit/colours these can be worn to school on monday.
Parents/caregivers and the wider community are more than welcome to come and join us for the welcoming of the Ranfurly shield.
Thankyou Judy for organising this for our Kura.
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