Takapuna Normal Intermediate

If you want a word-by-word full overview of TNIS written by a Yr 7 student, then you should read this. So, yes every school has bullies, and you can't blame the school for that. But Takapuna doesn't know how to handle them. They also have loads of dodgy reliever teachers. One of them (old) started hugging my friends for no reason and let us out of class 5 minutes late. Some everyday classroom teachers are unexperienced as well. My teacher is new and doesn't know a lot of things. As a result, I endured a year of classroom telling-offs, stinky corridors (with a mouldy lunchbox), and toddler-level education. Me and my friend has gone to the point where we can't even bear to come to school anymore. We get slammed into the wall by immature and loud boys at least 3 times a day, and our teacher can't really do anything about it. One Year 8 girl in my class likes to push people and hit them for fun and likes to steal other people's belongings. She almost reduced my friend to tears by yelling at her to go away when she came to sit with me. I don't really care to be polite anymore because she is truly mental and my teacher has too much on his hands to care about her. Some girls in my class like to swear a lot (I know this is normal for kids this age but they use these words as common english) and have got in trouble for doing terrible things to other people, so me and my best friend do not want to have that kind of influence on us so we can only be friends with the girls from another class. The classrooms students are proportioned pretty unfairly. The boys stand out like neon. The other class (with people we are friends with) have double the amount of Yr 7 girls than us, and the good thing is most of them are pretty nice. I'm not talking about how the other classes are better than us, too, because they also have some pretty immature and terrible students as well. As most people say, you can't blame the school if they have bullies. But it is up to the school to help guide them through their tough years. Because I'm not that type of childish person who likes to complain, I'm saying the truth.

Okay, now about the education. It is pretty average because as far as I'm concerned, almost every intermediate is following the Oxford workbooks, which for me, is too easy but you shouldn't count that because I'm one of those people who have really good education at home and can do 3-5 extra hours of non-school related homework at home. And I have a class for every day of the week. Oxford is okay, definetly not as good as those parent-child learning at home (which can be extra tiring for people like me) but it does give below average and average students a nice and simple blow-by-blow analysis of the different aspects of learning for the standard nz curriculum, considering that NZ is plummeting very below in math. But that way, TNIS doesn't have to add anything else. Writing is okay, reading is okay, and PE is a waste of time (it will never work for the people who don't like it) I am actually very good at PE but I do not enjoy what my teacher does. Dumping us on a court with a game that nobody understands, loads of balls and equipment, and plenty of growing and immature boys, and that always equals chaos. I'm sure that the other classes do better things, so don't just judge PE just by what I'm saying, because I mean, in the end if you want to be athletic and sporty, just sign up for after school classes or the school sport teams (which aren't bad, considering I don't really like sport). The very sad thing is that every day is filled with these boring things, and for Inquiry we do too much useless connection and planning stuff and we never ever actually have any fun. I mean at least we could go on some interesting school trips but the camp was not fun and the fun run was probably nice for everybody, but it was because we fundraised 25 thousand so the school could have some extra cash on their hands. And that was it. There was also a cancelled museum trip (the school mixed things up) and nothing else.
To be very honest I really enjoyed primary school. And everybody said that intermediate was going to be even better. It wasn't for TNIS. I'm dreading coming back next year.

The start of year 7 was great I earned many new friends and many different pov's however we would always have a fight and some of the girls even made rumours saying I would fake sick to bully them online, This was never dealt properly even thought we emailed the school bully email "tnisstopbully' n that shit

In year 8 (where im currently in) I wanna kms I hate it here the only reason I even go is because I have new friends they split you in groups and its so obvious who is a pick me and wannabe, your secrets get spreaded everywhere and even the teachers go in on it. and if you complain about anything they send u to that stupid counsel lady who is mental Totara Team sucks and teacher pick favourites. they hardly teach u shit too and make u compare yourself to others I wanna go to tgs rn

a few words ms young and ms buller

If you would like to experience teachers that yap all day about their life, waste time making everyone read out their sentences, weird rules about your own hair( making you tie up your your hair if it is touching you shoulders), not recognising your work if you are an introvert, favoring some students, mentally dying from running around the huge field ( like it is HUGE !) , and the freezing cold because the hoodies are paper fin, then go to this school.

It’s been pretty great so far going to tnis for me personally my class and my new friend groups it’s been so nice and enjoyable. And I hope it stays this way.