Te Taura Here o Ōtautahi kāhui ako is a community of learning like no other: four really diverse schools and 10 early childhood education centres, located in and around the central city!

Key stats:

• Numbers: our kāhui has 600 children enrolled in early childhood education, 700 at primary level and 1500 students at secondary level: a total of 2800 learners.
  
• Our ECEs are Beststart Parkside, Beststart Salisbury St, Active Explorers Central City, AuPair Link, Ara Early Learning Centre, Co Kids, Grow, ECE, Millie's House, Hagley Preschool, Rangi Ruru Preschool

• Our kura are Ao Tawhiti, Christchurch East School, Te Pā o Rākaihautū, Hagley College.
  

• Start date: we are one of the last kāhui to be formed: we started at the beginning of 2020
• Our kāhui in-school teachers are Lorraine Lowe, Sonia Cushing, Michelle Stock [Christchurch East]; Craig Perry, Sarah Higginson, Laura Borrowdale [Ao Tawhiti] Sarah Parder, Jo Eaton, Angela Brett, Rebecca Donaldson, Lesley Cowie, Dale Leckie, Naomi Milner [Hagley]
• Across-school teachers are our ECE expert Jocelyn Wright, Nathan Walsh, Jasmine Lambert [from Hagley], and Kay Hayes [Ao Tawhiti]. The community leader is Mike Fowler [Hagley].
  

Our achievement challenges:

• Wellbeing: happy, safe and responsible akonga who are positive and have a strong sense of identity and belonging in Aotearoa.
• Future focused education: communities working collaboratively to contribute to our inner city environment and surrounding areas.
• Pathways: ākonga and whānau who successfully transition into our educational settings, within them and beyond them.