Year 5 and 6 Amazing Race

3, 2, 1, HONK went the hooter as Tauriko school sprinted to Doug and Kevin. Ben, Casey, Toby, Troy, Sara and Claire had been chosen to represent their school and compete in the Amazing race against other primary schools from Tauranga at the Historic Village. Doug passed us a small white bag that contained a passport, maps and different notes about the Amazing race. In the back of the passport was a uncoded sheet of paper from a-z. The passport was filled with coded questions that you had to solve. All the schools ran to their first question which was ‘what supports the Historic Village sign?’ We answered the passport and turned right where we found a window with a piece of paper asking how many lollies are in this jar. We all guessed how many lollies were in the jar and we went with Troy's answer (75). After we uncoded the next message we headed off to our next clue. We wandered around looking for the answer for about 5 minutes but we still couldn't find the answer to our problem. So we flipped the page to our next question hoping it was an answer we knew. We sprinted to our next destination - we knew where it was this time. Kevin said we only had 45 minutes left to solve the puzzles in the passport. Looking at the passport we found our next question to solve, we headed off to the church to find the answer. The Church was a small room made out of wooden boards that reached to the tall triangular roof. When you entered the church  you stopped for a second as it was very cold. On the left of you was a beautiful and detailed mural that answered our question to the passport. In the 45 minutes we completed a lot of questions and surprisingly finished our passport, happy and proud. We felt that we represented our school very well and we think we did an amazing job.

‘My favourite part of the Amazing Race was decoding the messages and finding the answer to the problem, also the sack racing’ - from Sara.  
             
‘I really liked how the Amazing Race was set up and how they made the Historic Village apart of it’ - from Claire.
 
‘I really liked how it was at the Historic Village and how you had to crack the code’ -from Casey    

‘My favourite part of the Amazing Race was running to the different areas and finding all the clues and getting thrashed in the sack race by Sara’ -from Troy
                                                                                   
‘My favorite part of the Amazing Race was running from clue to clue’ -from Toby

‘My favourite part of the Amazing Race was the 3 legged race with Toby’ -from Ben

West Cluster Swimming Results (Year 5 and 6)

Last week we had a number of Year 5 and 6 students compete at the West Cluster Swimming Sports at Greerton Pool. Congratulations to the following students who managed to get placings on the day.

• Troy Barnett 
• 3rd in the Year 6 boys 100 metre Freestyle
• 3rd in the Year 6 boys 75 metre medley
• Ben Charman-Moore
• 3rd in the Year 5 boys 25 metre Freestyle
• James Hollard
• 1st in the Year 6 boys 25 metre Freestyle
• 2nd in the Year 6 boys 50 metre Freestyle
• Zane Davey 
• 2nd in the Year 5 boys 25 metre Backstroke
• 1st Year 5 boys 50 metre freestyle
• Toby Elsom 
• 2nd in the Year 6 boys 25 metre Backstroke
• 3rd in the Year 6 boys 50 metre Freestyle

The Year 5 and 6 Tauriko team also did really well at the relay events on the day:

• 2nd in the Girls Relay
• 1st in the Boys Relay
• 2nd in the Grand Relay

Congratulations to James Hollard and Zane Davey who have qualified and will be swimming at the Western Bay of Plenty Swimming Champs next week. Good luck!

West Cluster Sevens

Hockey

GO TAURIKO! There was lots of cheering for the three Tauriko teams. These teams were Tauriko, Tauriko 1 and Tauriko 2. Tauriko was the year 5 team, Tauriko 1 was the year 6 team and Tauriko 2 was the year 5 and 6 team. Boom Clack SCORE and the crowd goes wild. It was a very fun day everybody had a blast. We sadly had 3 injuries one was Wiki where she got whacked in the face with a hockey stick and ball, another one is where Darragh got hit on his temple with a hockey stick and the last one was where Ally’s sore ankle rolled and it really hurt her. Oropi won out of the year 6's and Greenpark won out of the year 5's but Tauriko year 5 team came 2nd!

By Gemma and Wiki.

Netball

For 7’s Netball we were split into 2 teams of 9 people, Tauriko 1 and Tauriko 2. For the 1st game we played against our own school as we had two teams, Tauriko 1 won. It was a hot, sunny day and some people poured water all over themselves. We played Merivale, Pyes Pa, Gate Pa, Greerton and Oropi. Pyes Pa and Merivale tied first. We all think it was a good tournament all together, although we didn’t win, it was still fun. 

By Hailey, Rachel and Caitlyn

Rugby

On the 3rd of September 2014 we had West Cluster Sevens rugby. We played at Greerton Marist Rugby Club. After a fail attempt to mould Riley’s mouth guard we played our first game against Pyes Pa. They played dirty and shirt grabbed us. Unfortunately we lost 19-12. Soon we played Gate Pa, which was a pretty good team. We lost 48-31. Next was Greerton Village. We lost 60-12. Next we played Greenpark. We lost 42-7. We lost all of our games but we still had fun.


By Sam, Riley, James and Jerry

Soccer
On the 3rd of September 2014 the 7s soccer team organised themselves into cars and departed for Morland Fox Park, where the sun was baking. We arrived and had a briefing. The referees were from Tauranga Intermediate and they went over the rules. The opposing schools where Greerton Village, Greenpark, Gate Pa and Pyes Pa. All three Tauriko teams were first up first. Mrs van Dijk was cheering everyone on. In the end it was was a good fun day with only the year six team getting a place. They got second by only one goal in goal differential. Everyone would like to do it again. Go Tauriko!


By Troy, Lilly and Joshua

Competitive Swimming Sports Results

Please find attached the competitive swimming sports results and relay results. Many of our year 5 and 6 swimmers will be competing at the West Cluster Swimming Sports in a few weeks.

WBOP Athletics Champs

Hi i’m Ellie and I’m Emma, we represented Tauriko School at the  Western Bay Of Plenty athletics on Wednesday the 4th of December. We had 10 students from Tauriko School represent the West Cluster.
We mostly competed in the running events but we had one person compete in the high jump and came away with third place. Well done Emma! We had heaps of fun and gave it our best shot. We would like to say a big thank you to Miss O’Reilly, Steph Aulding and Mr Loveland who were our supporters on the day.

Whole School Athletics

On Tuesday 19th November (Week 6) we will be holding our Whole School Athletics Day at Tauriko School. The Year 3 – 8 students will be competing from 9am in a range of athletics skills. The year 1 and 2 students will partake in a fun morning of run, jump and throw activities from 9 – 10.20 using the PAC and sounding grass areas of the playground. The whole school will then join together in the afternoon for sprint finals and relays. From our school event we will be choosing our top athletes from Year 5 and 6 in each event to compete at the West Cluster Athletics Day on Thursday 28th of November (Week 7). Hope to see you all there!

WBOP Sevens Netball

West Cluster Sevens (Year 5 and 6)

Netball
On  Tuesday the 10th of September I jumped out of bed, put my uniform on, then my sneakers and  hopped out of the house and into the car excitedly!

When we arrived at school I ran into the classroom to meet my team and Coach, Miss O’Reilly.
Miss O’Reilly called the roll and told us all whose car we were travelling in. ‘Paige, Taila, Ellie and Holly  are going with Paiges’ Mum, Stephanie to the Netball Courts’ she said. So we nervously  got in the car and drove to the Courts. When we got to the courts we put our bibs on and got in our positions, I played wing attack, wing attack is when you get the ball and feed it down to the goal attack and goal shoot.

First up we were playing Gate Pa school, then the whistle blew. I was feeling a bit sick but excited. The centre threw the ball to me and I passed it to another player then the whistle blew and my team got a goal. Then the whistle went again and it was the end of the game, so we said “good game” to the other team and huddled up in a circle and said “wahoo, we won our first game”. So we had some morning tea and a big drink of water, my team was a little bit tired.

We got ready for our next game then we did some passes and a game called piggie in the middle. Then it was our second game, I was off. We tied with the other team. Straight after that, we played  another game and we won.

It was now lunchtime, I had yummy Subway. After lunch  it was our last game so my team got together and sorted out what positions we will be, they put me as wing defence because there was a fast little player in wing attack, wing defence is when you defend wing attack  and stop them from getting the ball. ‘Fweeeeeet’ the whistle blew, my team started off to a good start then the whistle went again and Tauriko school WON! At that moment I was so excited.

Also the person who was running the Netball games said that Tauriko A team came first. Miss O'Reilly (my coach) was really excited because she likes coming first.
Our team received a cool certificate!

I had a great time at 7’s Netball and I’m looking forward to next year!

By Paige            

Soccer
Pass, kick and score. On Tuesday the 10th of September the senior school went to the West Cluster Sevens tournament.  There was a range of different sports to choose from but I choose soccer. As the car stopped at Moreland Fox Park I jumped out , I was so excited, I slapped some sunscreen on my face on the bright sunny day. It was 9.54am the horn had gone for the game to start, Tauriko A against Tauriko B. It was a very close game but Tauriko A got the most goals in the net. I remember sitting on the side of the pitch yelling go Tauriko!! All and all it was a great day and Tauriko A ended up being placed second in the Year 6 grade.  We all had fun !!! By Lisa











Basketball (QE11)
Our first game was on court  2 against Pyes Pa. We had a slow start and it took us awhile to warm up but after the 1st 5 minutes we were away and the end score was 6/4 to us. Next we played Merrivale and we won again 4/2. The next team we competed against was Greerton Village. This was a hard game but in the end the score was 10/6 to us.

We had to wait for 40 minutes which felt like a long time. With 16 points on the table we were in the lead but Greenpark was close behind us with 14 points. We had to win the next 3 games to win the competition.

Next we played against Oropi. The final score was 12/0 to us and when we played Gate Pa we had another win. Our final game against Greenpark we had to win against them. It was a close game. Greenpark got a goal but we got a goal quickly after. BUT THEN our defence dropped the ball and we stopped getting goals in. Greenpark came out by winning 6/2. 3rd went to Greerton, 2nd went to Tauriko and I bet you have already guessed who got first.

When we got back to school Tracy our coach bought us all ice creams. We had a great day. Thank you to all the helpers that made this day happen for us and a big well done to the team; Brenden, Lachie, Lucy, Campbell, Josh, Olivia, Mitch, Sean, Reife, Ben and Arohaina.

By Lucy J

Rugby
Nine year 5 and 6 boys represented Tauriko at the West Cluster rugby Seven's  tournament.
We played four games and we won two against Greerton Village and lost two to Greenpark the scores against Greerton Village  was 19-21 and then 7-54.
Our coach was Gavin Dyer.  Highlights of the day were beating Greerton Village and being able to spend the whole day playing sport.
Not so good parts of the day were getting punched in the face by another player.
In summary it was an awesome day, enjoyed by all.
By Mitch