2014 HNHS School Magazine | Page 27

2014 became a year of a whole lot of fun for Tainui House. With introducing Mr Throp as Tainui’s main man. He brought laughter, excitement and held together the family that Tainui is. Tainui was not just about winning, it was also about having fun. It all started off at year thirteen camp. Tainui brought it home by dominating in the chant competition. Combining the classic “We will rock you” mixed with some witty original rap. Next was the skit. Even though we did not win the overall skit, we definitely dominated in the content area. This was due to some key acting done by Campbell Hay, Anna Milne and the rest of Tainui year thirteens. Even though our skit brought a slight bit of controversy, it created With Tainui going from second to third and jumping many laughs and a lot of great memories. contionuosly between places on the leader board. It confirmed it to everyone in Tainui House that even though we did not win the Patu, we have had a great year filled with tears of laughter. We have all bonded as a house in many different ways and everyone from Tainui House will have many great stories and memories to share. TAINUI Next up was swimming sports. Tainui’s record for great chants kicked off the day on a high. With receiving great results from our juniors and a great turn out of people in Tainui house, we placed third overall. This gave us a great amount of determination to do well in athletic sports.With Georgia Hulls being the star runner for Tainui House and a very close relay we were hoping for a win. Second place was the result and we celebrated with some great drumming skills and of course another chant. House Choir was the big event for Tainui house. With taking on the almighty song Bohemian Rhapsody. Tanui House had Great vocals for key parts of the song enabling us to pull off those crazy high notes. We had an amazing band that held everyone together and of course we had great house spirit. Even though it was a singing oriented house event. Tainui had a huge amount of personality which made our performance so great. Slick moves from Shaidyn Kopu and multiple back flips from Mikey Parsons added to the visually entertaining show that Tainui put on. We came second overall in House Choir. Even though we were gutted that we did not win. We had the best time creating the performance and on the night performing what we had all worked really hard on to the rest of the houses. A huge thank you to Mr T for all the amazing things he has done for Tainui house and to the rest of Tainui, Thank you for contributing to the greatness that Tainui is. Emily Scott and Michael Parsons