This year we are excited to have Whaioro Trust providing the Alternative Education programme Te Ata Kura for Horowhenua, Waiopehu and Manawatu College students.

Manawatu College is the managing school for the Alternative Education programme and has been for the past 9 years.

There are many reasons why students from the Horowhenua region  attend Te Ata Kura.   Alternative Education is a short term intervention to support up to a maximum of 15 tauira (students) who have been removed from mainstream schooling. The programme is designed to re-engage these tauira in a meaningful leaning programme targeted to their individual needs and support their transition back to mainstream schooling, further education, training or employment.

The Te Ata Kura supports tauira to progress in the areas of:

· Attendance and engagement

· Academic achievement

· Personal and social skills

· Hauora (Health and wellbeing)

· Cultural identity and awareness

· Building positive whanau and peer relationships

Sonia Whakatihi and Willie Brokenshaw are the Youth Coordinators and will be tutoring  and supporting the tauira on a daily basis.  We start 2017 with 5 tauira enrolled in Te Ata Kura.