Events Calendar
We organise lots of events, competitions and activities throughout the year for our students. We update our calendar every week with even more events the students can become involved with. Check out just a taste of whats been on offer so far this year.
January 2009
- Shearing Course, Glenburn
February
- 17th - Small Bore Rifle Shooting
- 19th - Guest Speaker - Levi from Mitre 10 Mega
- 20th -
22nd - Masterton A & P show
- 28th - Tramp into Tararuas
- Indoor Cricket (weekly)
March
- 1st
- Federated Farmers Open Day (Taratahi)
- 5th - 7th - Golden
Shears (Masterton)
- 9th - Fear Factor
- 14th - Weekend
at Glenburn
- 23rd - Sheepies vs Dairy Competition Week
- 28th
- Rimutaka Incline cycle
April
- 8th -
Student function (woolshed)
- 9th - Students Term 1 finishes
- 13th - UK students arrive from Walford
- 20th - 23rd -
First Taster course
- 28th
- Students Term 2 starts
- 30th - Hangi with UK students and
hostel
May
- General Farm Skills
Programme.
- 7th - Outstanding in the Field (Wairarapa)
- 9th
- 11th - Future Beef NZ, Hook & Hoof Competition (Fielding)
- Young
Dairy Farmer of the Year speech at local venue. Students all welcome
- Basketball league in gym - weekly
June
- 4th - Young Farmers Meeting
- 8th - Indoor hockey -
Sheepies vs Dairies
- 11th - Movies
- 15th - Quiz night
- 16th - Small bore rifle shooting
- 18th - Young Farmers
Meeting - Guest Speaker - Paul McGill
- 20th - 21st - Taratahi
Reunion!
- 25th - Black and White function in woolshed. Bye bye
second termers!
- 26th - Students Term 2 finishes
July
- 6th - 9th - Second Taster course
- 14th - Students Term 3 starts
- 15th - Basketball game -
staff versus students
- 16th - Hockey game - staff versus
students
- 21st - Young Farmers - Small bore rifle shooting
- 22nd - Movies in town
- 22nd - Young Farmers - Small bore
rifle shooting
- 23rd - Young farmers meeting
- 27th -
Video night in
August
- Every Tuesday
in August - Small bore rifle shooting - Young Farmers.
- Every
Tuesday - Competition - Last Man Standing in the Hall - Final 18th
August
- 5th - Movies in town
- Every Wednesday in
August - Basketball league in the gym
- 6th - Young Farmers
meeting
- 13th - Indoor hockey
- 21st - Poker and
casino night
- 26th - HIGH TEA!!! Chris Lay, Guest Speaker
- 27th - Indoor pool and table tennis competition
September
- 2nd - Student Council meeting
- 9th - Movie night - half
price ticket
- 10th - HIGH TEA!!!! Shaun Bicknell, Ballance
Fertiliser Rep, Taratahi Graduate, Guest Speaker
- 15th - Small
bore rifle shooting
- 17th - Rugby match with Smedley
- 17th
- End of term function - Woolshed
- 18th - Students Term 3
finishes
- 27th - Royal Agricultural Society of NZ - Junior
Stock Judging Seminar
October
- 28th -
2nd - Third Taster course
- 5th
- Students Term 4 starts
- 13th - Taratahi Information Evening
- Stratford
- 14th - Young
Guns Competition - Lower North Island
- 16th - 'Thanks for
all your help students' function in the Woolshed
- 16th - Touch
rugby competition in town
- 21st - 23rd - Hawke's Bay A & P
Show
- 27th - Young Farmers meeting
- 27th - Young Guns Competition -
Central North Island
- 28th - Student council meeting
- 28th
- Touch rugby in the gym
- 30th - Touch rugby competition in
town
- 31st - 4 teams at the Hunterway festival
November
- 2nd - High Tea. Bridgid Buckley - Policy Advisor
- 2nd - Young Guns Competition - Grand
Final
- 6th - Touch rugby competition every Friday in November
- 9th - Interview Techniques Workshop with Natalie
- 10th -
Multi-sports in the gym
- 11th - Student Council meeting
- 17th
- Ironman/woman contest
- 18th - Young Farmers Kick Start
programme -
- 18th - Career
Advisors Day Out
- 20th - Woolshed night!
- 29th -
Day tramp to Atiwhakatu hut in the Tararuas
- 30th - Shearing
competition in the woolshed
- Throughout November - Scholarship
Interviews
- Every Friday - Dog training with Murray
December
- 4th - Fencing Competition
- 11th - Student's
Term 4 finishes
- 11th - Taratahi Graduation - at 1.30pm
- 14th
- 17th - Fourth Taster course
January
2010
- 13th - Second year students
start back
- 21st - EIT information day (Taradale)
- 23rd
- Wairarapa Young Farmer District Finals
- 24th/25th - First
year students arriving at Masterton
- 25th - Wellington
Anniversary Day
- 25th - Stratford campus students start
- 26th
- First year students start their course
at Masterton
- 28th - High Tea in dining room. Guest
Speaker - Garry McPhee - Carterton Mayor
- 29th - Stratford
campus Graduation
- 31st - Taratahi cricket versus Old
boys. 12.30pm Chanel College
February
- Every
Monday throughout year - 6 - 8pm Night catch up classes
- 1st -
Taradale campus students start
- 5th - Multi sports in the gym
- 5th
- Stratford campus Teambuilding day
- 6th
- Waitangi Day
- 6th - Martinborough Fair
- 9th - Summer Hummer, Masterton Sports
Bowl - Midnight Youth!!
- 11th - Taradale campus Teambuilding
day
- 10th and 17th - Donnelley's flat walk and BBQ
- Small
bore rifle shooting (every Tuesday)
- 12th
- Masterton A & P show
- 14th - 8am-5pm tramp to Atiwhakatau
Hutt (10 students)
- 16th - 'Chick Flick' in town (The Time
Traveler's Wife)
- 18th - Photography club meeting
- 20th
- Rugby 7's competition in town
- 21st - 8am - 5pm tramp to Jumbo
Hutt (10 students)
- 22nd - Scholarship interview techniques
workshop - 5.45pm
- 22nd - Shearing courses kick off/Golden
Shears Practise
- 23rd
- Lincoln
Diploma
students
start
- 24th - Rugby practise for 15's
- 28th -
8am -
5pm tramp to Powell Hutt (10 students)
March- 4th
- 6th - Golden Shears
(Masterton)
- 10th - 2nd High Tea of the year
- 13th -
Young Farmers Club - Daytona Go-Karting,
Palmerston North
- 15th - Stratford students doing shearing
and/or
artificial insemination courses
- 18th - 20th - Central
Districts Field Days (Feilding).
- 19th - Students heading
to Field Days
- 28th - Federated Farmers Farm
Day (Taratahi)
- 30th - Stratford campus Field trip
- 31st
- Pre-season rugby game versus Chanel College 1st XV (3.45pm)
April
- 1st
- Term One
finishes
- 2nd - 5th - Easter
- 6th - 9th - Taster Course One
- 12th - 15th
- Taster Course Two
- 12th -
UK students arrive from Walford, Shropshire
- 19th -
Students Term 2 starts