Welcome to
Taradale Intermediate
Te Kura Takawaenga o Otatara
T.I.S. - The place to be!
2012 Information for the start of the year.
Welcome to the start of another great year at TIS. All students start on Tuesday 31 January.
Y7 and new Y8 students - please come around to the turf area behind the hall. You will need to be here by 8.25am. You will be welcomed into the hall by a Powhiri - parents you are most welcome to attend.
Y8 students are expected to be at school by 8.20am and assemble in their house areas ready to come over to the hall.
At the end of the powhiri, classes for 2012 will be announced.
Remember to have purchased your stationery from Office Products - you will need this for the first day.
Laptop classes, you will need your stationery for the first day but not your laptops. You will need these from Day 2.
Student Successes: Check out these video links!
In May 100 of our students were involved in the Hawke's Bay Stage Challenge performance at the Opera House in Hastings. The video is now available by clicking the link below. Please vote for us as your favourite video.
http://www.globalrockchallenge.com/#!1911
More recently our Kapa haka group of 70 participated in a festival in Hastings. A fantastic performance all round. Check it out below (we're about 7 minutes in):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f92tI3YbfXU
Latest ERO report :
TIS_REPORT.pdf
We are very pleased to give you the opportunity to read this report as it reflects the quality of TIS teachers, our curriculum and our high expectations for achievement and support. No official compliance requirements and no "Areas for Review and Development" were identified in this review!
Taradale Intermediate is a specialist school for the emerging adolescent, the 11 - 13 year olds of this world. This fact makes our school a special place as our programes, our activities and events are geared specifically for this age group. To quote Professor James Beane "... adolescence is an absolutely critical stage of development. It is a time of increased social awareness, dramatic physical change, a deepening sense of values, growing independence, and increasingly complex cognitive capacity". This website will give you an informative insight into our world - students, parents and staff.
Taradale intermediate is located in the most beautiful suburb of Napier - tree lined streets, parks, streams and wonderful assets such as the surrounding hills, river, walkways, marae, wineries and shopping area. Our students mostly come from this neighbourhood but also from across Napier. Including our 5 main contributing schools students may come to us from up to 20 different schools so we are always a diverse, interesting and exciting school community.
Our school motto "Seek to Achieve" is at the heart of our endeavours as we challenge all students to be the best they can be - through academic challenge, sporting activity, cultural action and service to our school and local community. This is expanded on as you explore this website.
We welcome all visitors to our school - parents, relatives, locals and visitors to Hawke's Bay. Please feel free to contact us with any queries or requests for further information.
Phone: (06)8447264
Fax: (06) 844 6822 Email: admin@taradaleint.school.nz
Regards
Dennis Coxon
Principal
"Intelligence is knowing what to do when you don't know what to do" ..... Piaget (adapted)
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit" ........ Aristotle
Remember - being stuck is OK, its what you do about it that counts!
