Year 7 & 8 Programme

At Te Tipua we have a unique Year 7 and 8 programme which is a special programme carefully planned for this age group of students. We work in conjunction with four other country schools. A specialized Year 7 & 8 teacher is employed to take this programme. Travelling to Te Tipua is easy as we have a bus with stops outside Valley Takeaways & Glendu Road Tennis Courts.

Activities include :-

• Making new friends with other students from country schools.
• Deep Cove camp
• Careers camp including guest speakers talking about their careers. Students stay at Unicol & explore both the Polytech & University
• Guest artists e.g painting, carving Oamaru stone
• Learning
• Learn other languages: french, Spanish, Maori, and Japanese
• Life education Bus
• "Choices" programme run by the Police
• Team building activities
• Easier transition for students to secondary schools as they have made friends with the other country schools students
• Attend Young Leaders Day in Dunedin
• Digital Coding
• Science Experiments based at St Peters College
• Four days each term

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