Tarras School

The day has come - our new playground equipment finally arrived from overseas and has been installed!

The tamariki loved playing on the new pieces - drums, piano, an excavator in the sand pit, a spinner and very fittingly, ram and sheep springers!

We hope you come down and make use of the new gear!
Special thanks to Central Lakes Trust for their generous donation towards our playground upgrades! We couldn't have done it without you.

We had a tūmeke (great) day at the Small Schools Athletics held in Roxburgh on Friday. We're super proud of all our tamariki who gave everything a go, achieving their personal best with a positive attitude!

It was great to have so many of our whānau there supporting and encouraging the kids.

Special mention to the following tamariki for their placings:

Year 3
2nd in Shotput - Maddie

Year 4
1st Shotput - Tyler
2nd High Jump, Shotput and Hurdles - Lewis
2nd Year 4 Discus - Tyler

Year 5
1st in 800m - Bailee
2nd in High Jump - Will
2nd in 60m Sprint and Long Jump - Frankie
2nd in 800m - Matilda
2nd in Shotput and Hurdles - Bailee
3rd in 60m Sprint - Frankie
3rd= in Long Jump - Will
3rd in Discus - Charley
3rd= in Shotput - Charley

Year 6
1st in Shotput - Abbie

Overall for their year group across the 5 schools:
2nd Place in the Year 5 Girls group - Bailee
3rd Place in the Year 4 Boys group - Lewis

That is quite the list!

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Thanks so much to Rotary Club of Wanaka for supplying our 5 year olds with Literacy packs for home! These packs are full of books and resources to help tamariki learn and as each new learner starts, they'll receive a pack too! Such a great initiative - we're grateful!

Time and time again we are blown away by the generosity and support from our community! This time, on Friday night Scott Worthington kindly premiered his adventure films to a captivated audience at the Tarras Church.

It was incredible to see the places he has visited, the things he saw and the challenges he had to overcome with nothing but share resilience and strength! Thank you to all those that purchased a ticket - I'm sure you all enjoyed every minute of it.

Scott generously donated all the proceeds from the ticket sales to the school as well as his own personal contribution. Because of his incredible kindness, we raised $2000.90!!!

These funds, plus the School Produce Stall funds from December and January will be used to purchase a much needed drinking fountain! How good!

Thanks Scott for helping us, Paul and Antonia for their organisational skills and the Tarras Church for letting us use the beautiful space.

The stall is full to the brim with school grown plums, lettuces, courgettes, potatoes, peas and tomatoes!
We've also got cherry jam (thanks Wanda), cucumbers (thanks Rutherfords) and cherries (thanks Joff)!
Be sure to pop down before it's all gone!

The kids new fundraising goal is a milking shed for the farm!

We hope you can attend this movie screening of 'Around the Bend' at the Tarras Church!?!

Scott and Dave are kindly donating all funds raised to our cool, wee school with the help of the Tarras Church Committee! Thanks for thinking of us.

Such fun at the Waterpark today to celebrate the end of a very successful year! We're super proud of our tamariki!

Special thanks to all the parents that came along to join in the fun; Jackie, Camilla, Zara, Matt and Sam, Holly and Brenda, Reuben, Nicke, Chrissy and Lisa!

We hope you all have a lovely Christmas and enjoy your summer!

Swimming Pool Access!
If you are wanting to purchase a swimming pool key, please email [email protected]

Our Office will close on Thursday at midday.

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and Summer break :)

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We hope to see you at either 1pm or 6pm! 😊

Today, before our Production rehearsals, we got to visit our local fire brigade to see Matt, Al and Scott. They took us on a tour of their station, showed us how everything works, let us sit in the truck and listen to the sirens!

We're so fortunate to have a fire brigade full of great Tarras people, ready to protect and help us if we ever need.

Great mahi Tarras Volunteer Fire Brigade! 🙌