TAINUI
Back Row : Patrick Sawyers , Daniel Arcus Fifth Row : Max Powell , Lily Harding , Jai West , Luca Barclay Fourth Row : Courtney-Rose Wilson , Angela Leijen , Jessica White , Meg Russell , Sophie Watt , Madeleine Pritchard ,
Zara Tissies , Bronson Cotter Third Row : Benjamin Bush , Cormac Turley , Ashley Sedcole , Annabelle Williams , Dhilka Sookdev , Lily Stephens , Saige Lindsay , Macy Heaton , Frances Ebbett-Watt , Zoe McNamara , Jamie Matthew
Second Row : Jack Tait , Lily-Mei Stuckey , Keshavleen Kaur , Rosemary Yorke , Heith Adams , Connor Grant ,
Angelica Simpson , Emilie Horsfall , Rani Williams , Alex Congalton Front Row : Nicholas Waitoa , Holly Renwick , Adam Engelke , Hannah O ’ Herlihy , Jeremy Bradshaw ( Teacher ) Absent : Jena Gregory , Rozario Human , Joemie Jones , Eleanor Simmonds
TAINUI
LEADERS ’ REPORT
2021 has been an overall great year for Tainui and it has been such a rewarding experience leading this amazing house . For Tainui , the year started strong as the Year 13s battled hard and brought home the camp shield . Camp was a good opportunity for our house to build strong connections with each other and build up the Tainui spirit . The Year 13s came out pumped and ready for the year . Our highlights from the camp were firstly the skit where we performed a ‘ school of rock ’ inspired skit , and executed it to the top level . We also really enjoyed the lip sync battle where a group of us choreographed an
amazing dance to Ace of Spades and came out in first place . Another highlight was sitting around eating meals and drinking cordial together . This is where some of our best memories were created as the house came together to become a year group . We started the day of swimming sports off strong . The house gathered together creating a sea of yellow singing , chanting at the top of our lungs , banging our drums , encouraging each other to get into the pool . Sadly , the odds weren ’ t in our favour this day and we came in third . However , the passion and energy we bought that day helped us create amazing memories like pushing each other into canoes to paddle across the pool and screaming at each other to swap flippers quicker with the person on the other side of the pool . Athletics was the next major house event . We knew we needed
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