Takapuna Normal Intermediate

Good school. Tuckshop is overpriced. Teachers are nice, except for one ( not stating )

I love this amazing school. It is fun. Only the tuck shop is overpriced, and one of the teachers was not so nice.

Everything is nice, the teachers are okay, and the principals are also nice. The tuck is overpriced, and I have been bullied once. Overall, I think you should come to this school.

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.

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everyday we have to do the boring stuff again and again and we almost never go on trips and the camp sucks so much and we never do anything fun and my teacher watches his phone and always complains and doesn't care about the crazy boys in our class. I personally think he enjoys watching them. And when he gives us a punishment, he locks all of us in the class at lunchtime, not only the boys. In specialist classes performing arts is okay just boring, the tech teacher is the worst, one of the material teachers is muddled up all the time, art is good though. its very hard to actually enjoy your time at this place unless you are a crazy person who likes to mess things up and get other people in trouble.

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.

for alll the learners that are thinking of going to TNIS I would not recommend to go here as me and my friends had really bad memory throughout my time in this school I was playing lunch time football with my class playing against the other class and I said I got kicked in the shin and in the head then the horrible teacher (Mr scrooby) said that you deserve it and then I sweared at him and he just took me to the office and he said he never said that but the thing is that I have everdince and witness that heard him say that. i went home crying and told my dad, and then my dad emailed him he just send a long message of absolute bullshit and he said that he said he 'oberserve it' but why didn't he say that when I was in the office. ps when I was in the office he just said I will never ever say that like wtf say it in the office and he is literally lying coz I have witness and he also said I pushing people and a yelling and being mean like the hell stop making up story and say it if it happened and say it in the office. i always wanted to kill my self going to this school ps do anyone of u readers know who to contact

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.

Best school years of my life. My teacher was nice, I had good friends. I miss it alll so much

this school was pretty nerve wrecking when you first enrol and its pretty exciting too. the teachers try to take care of your mental health but they overbear it and send you to the student counsellor if you seem abnormally sad (personal experience). they try to keep the kids not comparing themselves to others which on paper sounds like a good idea but it just makes them want to compare themselves even more. the school is also very separated into groups/gangs. the cishet 'DA BOIS' who harass people out and in of school. the girls get separated into sub-categories too. the 'white girls' who are the stereotypical social-media, boy hungry, pick me type. and then we have the talented children and the ones who just dont 'fit it'. some are gifted child burnout. the teachers are also worse. feels like you're being watched 24/7. there is one teacher who is amazing who is in tech. most of them either self deprecate you. it honestly depends on their learning style. well if you wanna enrol go ahead but its a pretty below average experience.