AIMS Golf

Me and Jackson at the Mount Golf Club with our bronze medals.

On the 10th of September the AIMS games golf tournament kicked off at Omokoroa golf club. We played four rounds of 18 holes in four days. The courses that we played were Omokoroa, Omanu, Tauranga and Mount Maunganui. Tauranga Intermediate came third in the team stableford behind Mount Maunganui and Matamata Intermediate. Also Jackson from Totara came third in the Individual stabelford. For those people that don't know how stableford works, it goes like this. If the course par is 70 and your handicap is 30 then you should be hitting 100 and under. Your handicap starts at 36 and as you get better it will get lower.

By Matthew

Blue and Gold Day

Term 3 Tanekaha Gymnastics

For P.E,  in Tanekaha House, this term we explored the different types of appartus in gymnastics such as;

-Mini Tramp
-Floor
-Vault
-Beam
-Bar
-Mats

Millie, Casey, Georgia, Kelsey, Karah, and Georgina, students from Tanekaha, ran the gymnastics sessions because they had all been in competitions before and some even took part in the Aims Games.

Before each session of Gymnastics we had to do 3 stretches, sometimes we did;

-Lunges
-Straddles
-Leaning over our legs
-Seal

We really enjoyed doing Gymnastics and some of us have become extremley flexible!

Check out some of our class in the video below...

Room39 AIMS GAMES

In Week 5 Term 3, four people from Room 39 went to compete in the national sporting competition, NZCT AIMS Games.

Caitlin competed in the ‘Girls 11 a-side Hockey’. Thanks to her team coach Mrs. Flynn and manager Adele, the team placed 4th out of 24 teams. TIS Girls 1st 11 A Hockey team team won 4 games, drew 1 game and lost 3 games.

Mitchell competed in the ‘Boys 11 a-side Hockey’. Thanks to his team coach Mr. Plummer, the team placed 8th out of 16 teams.

Karah competed in the ‘Women's Flyers Artistic Gymnastics and Trampoline’. Trampoline is competed on a double mini tramp. When she competed on Tuesday in the trampoline event, she got 1st in the team event and got 2nd overall individually. She used a variety of positions such as seat, half turn, front drop, back drop, tuck jump, straddle jump and straight jump.

Kelsey competed in the ‘Rhythmic Gymnastics’. Rhythmic Gymnastics is a mix between dance and ballet. There are 5 different apparatus in Rhythmic. These include ball, rope, ribbon, clubs and hoops. These apparatus are all hand-held. She came 2nd individually overall with a score of 49.4 only 0.9 away from winning. 

Next year the NZCT AIMS Games is going international. We wish all competitors well, and hope that T.I.S will keep the winning title for the 9th year in a row!

Squash and Ten Pin

Room 39 won the Tanekaha class competition for Term Two.  Our reward for being the top class was to play squash and have a game of ten pin bowling on the last day of the term.  We walked to our venues and the rain held off.  A great time was had by all...

Isabella and Arna chase the ball around the court.

Mitchell and Brodie focus on the ball.

Arna, Brittany, Jannelle and Isabella

Anthony serves in style

Check out Brittany celebrating her 'strike'.  She had the highest score for the day!  Well Done, Brittany:)

Cross Country 2011

On Friday 1st July every one at Tauranga Intermediate competed in our 2011 Cross Country. Tanekaha came 10th overall but at least we tried our hardest and here are some of the pictures of us running!