This week, Year 9 and 10 learners have taken part in the nationwide classroom-based Aotearoa New Zealand Spelling Bee. 🐝 The 2023 Aotearoa New Zealand Spelling Bee Wordlist has 100 challenging and marvellous words for the students that want to participate in the National Spelling Bee. 🔤

Our school was again fortunate to have the young tertiary health students visit as part of their wider annual Rural Secondary Schools program.

The weather cleared on Tuesday for the annual Twizel Area School Cross Country, an opportunity for the whole school to come together and support each other, and have lots of fun to boot! 🏃🏼‍♂️🏃🏃‍♀️

Term 3 news from the Junior School, including reminders about assemblies, winter weather, and teacher changes.

Head Student Monique welcomes everyone back to school for Term 3, reflecting on Matariki. There's also a reminder about Photo Day, our "favourite day of the year"!

A group of Twizel Area School students were recently challenged to build a picnic table, in a collaboration with the Mayor's Taskforce for Jobs.

Last night we came together as a community to celebrate Matariki. We weaved, sang waiata, enjoyed delicious kai, and stargazed with astronomer Alan Gilmore.

TAS students joined Waiau and The Catlins to form a team to enter the Junior South Island Secondary Schools Netball tournament over the school holidays.

Year 12 student Finn continues to enjoy and learn real life systems while on his Gateway experience with thanks to Meridian Energy.

Are you a keen basketballer? Every Monday, there is a weekly Girls Basketball Skills and Development programme for girls in Years 5-8. See here for more info and registration.

Here's an update on the progress with our bus transport service as we continue to work towards improving our students' school transport experience.

The Board of Trustees are reviewing the following Policies in Term 3.

St Agnes Secondary Schools Music Group entertained students in Years 1-10 this week. The group of 70 students are from three separate secondary schools in Port Macquarie, currently touring the South Island.

With Winter now upon us, it's Cross Country season. Check out the details here.

It was great to see so many people dressed up last Friday for our Dress as a Person in Your Future Job Non-Uniform Day, all in aid of I AM HOPE. We had teachers, All Blacks, skiers, and even super heroes!

Two Twizel Area School teams hit the road last week, travelling to Timaru for the annual Jump Jam Extravaganza Event.

Ākonga in Room 13 have been learning about Tāwhirimātea and the story of Matariki by creating an artwork using watercolours. Have a look at their awesome creations!

Head and Deputy Students Billy and Fred wrap up Term Two and look forward to the National Area Schools Tournament and JSISS Netball taking place during the holidays.

The Home and School Committee have some updates from the first few months of the year, plus a look forward and ways where you can get involved in fundraising.

The Community Dental Service will be providing dental care for children enrolled with the service during the upcoming school holidays. The clinics will offer treatment and relief of pain sessions by appointment only. 🦷🪥