Tauhara College
| Tauhara College | |
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Committed to Excellence! | |
| Address | |
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Invergarry Road Taupo, 2730 New Zealand | |
| Coordinates | 38°41′49.92″S 176°6′15.54″E / 38.6972000°S 176.1043167°E |
| 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 | 566[1] (March 2015) |
| Socio-economic decile | 6N[2] |
| 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)
Notable alumni
- Donovan Bixley - Illustrator, author of Faithfully Mozart[3]
- Bevan Docherty - Athlete, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Bevan Graham - Chief Economist, AMP NZ[4]
- 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
- Te Ururoa Flavell - Minister of Maori Development, Leader of The Maori Party, and Former Head of Maori Studies
Notes
- ↑ "Directory of Schools - as at 7 April 2015". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 2015-04-08.
- ↑ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
- ↑ "Donovan Bixley". Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ↑ "AMP creates new role of AMP New Zealand Chief Economist". AMP. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
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