Tawatawa News

14  March 2025

He mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa
Bonjour à toutes nos familles

Ultrawilding with award winning author and creative Stephen Mushin

We have kicked off an exciting five-week collaboration with award-winning author and designer Stephen Mushin with our Year 1-4 students and half of the Year 5’s having a session with him this week. 

Known for his book Ultrawild, Stephen helps people reimagine their environments as thriving, high-tech ecosystems where humans and wildlife coexist. Stephen’s sessions have really been a hit and it has been exciting to see the amazing and creative ideas coming out of our ākonga.  

Through his Ultrawild Design workshops, every class will explore futuristic, nature-driven designs for our suburb in the year 2050 – ULTRAWILDED! Students will brainstorm wild ideas, learn illustration and design skills, and build models that bring their visions to life. Their work will culminate in a grand exhibition where they’ll share their ideas with the community.

Ultrawilding The Ridgway – An Exhibition of Future Dreaming

📅 April 8th

⏰ 6:00pm – 7:30pm

📍 Tawatawa - Ridgway School

🌿 All welcome!

We’d also love some parent support during the workshops! If you have skills in art, design, model making, construction, science, or storytelling – or just want to lend a hand – please get in touch. Let’s help bring our students’ future dreams to life! Please email Nathan if you are able to help out. Here’s the link to our planning including dates of the upcoming workshops.

Check out these snaps from this week's sessions. 

Are you a videographer and drone operator with time to spare?

We’d love to create a short video showcasing Tawatawa-Ridgway School for our website – and we’re looking for parents with drone skills to help us capture some great footage to include. 

If you have a drone and experience with aerial filming, or know someone who might be able to assist, we’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch if you can help bring this project to life!

Silent Auction - coming your way in Term 2! 

We’ve already had some awesome ideas coming from our community.  These include a private tour backstage at WoW and two tickets to the show, a spoon carving workshop, a beginner’s mountain biking course on Mt Victoria and a beautiful piece of art done by one of our talented teacher artists. Keep those ideas growing, ready to be unleashed on the world! 

Athletics Day

Athletics day is this coming Tuesday 18th March at Newtown Park. A huge thanks in advance to our parent helpers who should have received an email with further information about the day. The weather next week is not looking great at the moment so fingers crossed we get a good day. 

Visit from the Phoenix - Thursday 20th March

We are lucky enough to have some of the Phoenix football players coming to visit us next Thursday 20th March at 2pm. They are going to run some drills with the Year 5 - 8s (and any keen Year 4's who play football). There will be a signing opportunity so if your child has something they want signed, they can bring that along on Thursday. 

Upcoming Events

• 16 March - Weetbix Tryathlon (sign up here)

• 18 March - Athletics Day at Newtown Park 

• 4 April - Multicultural Day

• 11 April - Cross Country

• 11 April - Last day of Term 1

• 29 April - Blessing of the pou