Tauhara College is a state coeducational secondary school located in
Taupo,
New Zealand
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. Serving Years 9 to 13, the school has approximately 600 students.
Tauhara College is one of three high schools in Taupo; the others are
Taupo-nui-a-Tia College
Taupo-nui-a-Tia College is a co-educational high school in Taupo, New Zealand. The school currently has about 1050 students. Taupo-nui-a-Tia College is a Cornerstone Values school.
Academic performance
Taupo-nui-a-Tia College is ranked as one ...
and
Lake Taupo Christian School (state integrated).
Waka
The students in the school are divided into four
waka ("canoes") which compete in numerous events, mostly sporting, throughout the year in order to gain the most points in the Tauhara College Canoe Competition. The houses, and the colours they are represented by, are:
*Aotea (blue)
*Arawa (green)
*Mataatua (red)
*Tainui (yellow)
Notable alumni
*
Donovan Bixley - illustrator, author of ''Faithfully Mozart''
*
Bevan Docherty - Triathlete, Olympic silver medalist
*
Te Ururoa Flavell
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- Minister of Maori Development; leader of the Maori Party; former Head of Maori Studies
*
Carly Flynn
Carly Flynn (''née'' Kirkwood) is a New Zealand journalist and television personality.
Personal life
Born and raised in Taupō, New Zealand, where both of her parents were English teachers at Tauhara College, Flynn is the eldest of the three s ...
- journalist, presenter of ''
Sunrise''
*
Bevan Graham
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First name
* Bevan Congdon (1938–2018), New Zealand cricketer
*Bev ...
- Chief Economist, AMP NZ
*
Melina Hamilton
Melina Dawn Hamilton (born 15 June 1976 in Rotorua) is a retired New Zealand athlete who specialised in the pole vault. She represented her country at the 2004 Summer Olympics, as well as two World Championships, without reaching the final.
Her ...
- pole vaulter, Olympian
*
Todd McClay - Member of Parliament for Rotorua; former Cook Islands diplomat (Ambassador to European Union)
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Dion Waller
Dion Alan George Waller (born 6 January 1974 in Tūrangi) is a former New Zealand rugby union footballer. He played for the Wellington Lions, Hurricanes, New Zealand Maori and All Blacks. He was one of the leading locks in New Zealand rugby at ...
- former New Zealand All Black
Notes
External links
Tauhara CollegeTKI School Information: Tauhara College
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Educational institutions established in 1975
Secondary schools in Waikato
Taupō
Schools in the Taupo District