Tauhara College

Secondary school in Taupō, New Zealand

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Tauhara College is a state coeducational secondary school located in Taupō, New Zealand. Serving Years 9 to 13, the school has approximately 600 students.

Tauhara College is one of three high schools in Taupō; the others are Taupo-nui-a-Tia College 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^[4]
Bevan Docherty – Triathlete, Olympic silver medalist
Te Ururoa Flavell – Minister of Māori Development; leader of the Māori Party; former Head of Māori Studies
Carly Flynn – journalist, presenter of Sunrise
Melina Hamilton – pole vaulter, Olympian
Sammie Maxwell (born 2001) – cross-country cyclist^[5]
Todd McClay – Member of Parliament for Rotorua; former Cook Islands diplomat (Ambassador to European Union)
Dion Waller – former New Zealand All Black

Notes

^ "from disruption to discovery". Furnware. Furnware. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
^ "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
^ "Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools". Ministry of Education. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
^ "Donovan Bixley". Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
^ Marshall, Chris (29 July 2019). "Taupō's Sammie Maxwell has a mountain bike dream". Waikato Times. Retrieved 18 September 2023.