NZ Police arrived at Twizel Area School yesterday afternoon with a hiss and a roar, and despite the rain gave a great display of their skills. 🚔 👮‍♀️ They even bought along some furry friends! 🐕‍🦺

Touch Rugby arrived in Twizel this week, organised by Mr Metcalfe, Ms Blanchard and Miss Smith. 🏉 Four mixed teams from Years 7 to 13 were put up for a Touch challenge in a very competitive round-robin series and despite the inconsistent weather, it was great to see so many students getting involved!

Next week is Twizel Area School's Outdoor Education Week for 2022. All the details you require can be found here...

Last week's two Junior School discos, arranged by our Home & School Committee, were a raging success with over 100 tamariki getting their dancing shoes on at the Twizel Bowling Club! 🪩 💃 🕺

The North Otago Athletics were held this week at Centennial Park in Oamaru with Twizel Area School students producing some amazing results. A massive thank you to Bevan Newlands and the parents who attended with tamariki.

The New Zealand Secondary School Photography Competition is thrilled to announce the fourth year of its competition! 📷 The competition will see year 9 to year 13 students submit up to three unique photos to be adjudicated by a panel of the Photographic Society of New Zealand's accredited judges.

Junior students in Rooms 7-13 had a great time at their Athletics Morning last week. 🏃🏼‍♂️ The sun came out (finally) and it was awesome to see so many whānau members supporting the tamariki! 😎 🙌

Leading up to last week's Aoraki Mount Cook trip, ākonga in Room 13 were lucky enough to welcome Claudia into their class. 🏔️ She helped the students learn some key painting skills, including how to use the colour wheel and mixing colours. 🎨

Ākonga from M2 and M3 headed off on camp last week after weather conditions had shortened and delayed their trip. 🏕️ 🌦️ That didn't dampen their enthusiasm for camp though, after the COVID cancellations earlier in the year!

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Room 9 student Abbey Martin would like to show the school community her classwork on symmetry. Abbey's work shows an exact matching of form and arrangement of parts on each side. 𑗊 Ka pai Abbey. 👍

A reminder to students who are moving on from Twizel Area School at the end of the year - you must all complete a Clearance Form by 9th December. 📝 These can be collected from the school office.

Congratulations to Year 8 student Yug Thapa who represented North Otago at the Southern Primary Schools event held in Dunedin on November 11, along with 2 other students from the region.🎾 👟

Room 4 ākonga have been learning about Graffiti Art. 🎨 👩‍🎨 We have been discussing what makes graffiti a piece of art and what makes it vandalism. This has included lots of research and lots of experimenting using bold contrasting colours for effect.

Room 8 students have been having fun learning about rhythm and sound by beating out patterns on the drum/bucket, using sticks kindly crafted by Mr Van M. 🥁 🪘

Ka pai to everyone who showed off their amazing work at last week's Junior Assembly and for the awesome mahi you show, displaying your WAKA values.🤩 Students also celebrated those who competed in the Upper Waitaki Athletics, and those selected to represent TAS at Otago.🏃🏼‍♂️

Two groups of students have visited the Puketeraki Marae in the last week. Year 7-10 students visited last week and Junior students this week, where they joined ākonga from Roxburgh Area school, Maniototo Area School and Lawrence Area School.

On Thursday 17th November, ākonga from Rooms 9 and 13 headed to Aoraki Mount Cook, having been learning about Antarctica and Antarctica's link to Aoraki in class. It was a great day and it sounds like everyone had an awesome time in the National Park.🏔️

A reminder that there are two upcoming paid union meetings that will affect both Primary and Middle School students...