Tauhara College

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Tauhara College

Committed to Excellence!
Address
Invergarry Road Taupo, 2730, New Zealand
Coordinates	38°41′49.92″S 176°6′15.54″E / 38.6972000°S 176.1043167°E / -38.6972000; 176.1043167
Information
School type	State Secondary
Established	1975
Ministry of Education Institution no.	166
Principal	Peter Gould
Faculty	43
Years offered	9-13
Gender	Co-Ed
School colour(s)	Blue and Gold
School roll	600+
Socio-economic decile	5^[1]
Website	www.tauhara.school.nz

Tauhara College is a state coeducational secondary school located in Taupo, New Zealand. Serving Years 9 to 13, the school has roll of approximately 600 students.

Tauhara College is one of three high-schools in Taupo; the others being Taupo-nui-a-Tia College and Lake Taupo Christian School (state integrated).

As well as normal school curriculum, Tauhara runs various night-classes for the public, and has a long successful record of hosting international students from all over the world.

Canoes

The students in the school are divided into four "canoes" which compete in numerous events, mostly sporting, throughout the year in order to gain the most points in the Tauhara College Canoe Competition. The houses, and the colours they are represented by, are:

Aotea (Blue)
Arawa (Green)
Maataatua (Red)
Tainui (Yellow)

In 2010, the top canoe in the Canoe Competition was Aotea.

Controversies

Tauhara College was featured in the New Zealand Herald in 2006 when the principal at the time, Peter Grant, attributed the college's falling roll to the fact that New Zealand Idol contestant Michael Murphy had attended rival school Taupo-Nui-a-Tia College. The theory was not supported by the Tauhara College School Board, nor Murphy himself. At the same time the school board announced it would be replaced by an independent commissioner as it felt it was "battering its head" against Mr Grant without making any headway or much needed changes to the school's management.^[2]

Notable Former Students

Donovan Bixley - Illustrator, author of Faithfully Mozart
Bevan Docherty - Athlete, Olympic Silver Medalist
Carly Flynn - Journalist, presenter of Sunrise
Melina Hamilton - Pole vaulter, Olympian
Todd McClay - Member of Parliament for Rotorua and former Cook Islands diplomat (Ambassador to European Union)

Dion Waller - New Zealand All Black.

Notes

↑ Decile change 2007 to 2008 for state & state integrated schools
↑ O'Rourke, Simon (24 January 2006). "'NZ Idol' lured pupils to rival school, says principal". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 19 November 2011.

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