Tauranga Girls' College are part of the Tauranga Peninsula Kāhui Ako, a Community of Learning which is made up of 15 schools, 38 ECE centres, members of our local iwi, school whānau and the wider Tauranga Moana community. We aim to bring together our individual strengths as a collective to establish effective interventions, strategies and innovations for our ākonga from ECE through to their schooling years (Years 1-13) and beyond into tertiary education.

Ngāi Te Rangi hikoi

Te Ohu Mātauranga Reo organised a collaboration with our Tauranga Peninsula Kāhui Ako schools for a hikoi around Mauao on 19 February to learn about the Ngāi Te Rangi/Tauranga histories around our significant maunga.

Te Rangimarie Hamiora, Kirimatao Ahomiro, Ngawai Hooker, and Caroline Gill  represented Tauranga Girls' on the hikoi led by Reon Tuanau.

We look forward to continuing to develop our confidence in delivering the Ngāi Te Rangi resources.

Te Tai Whanake ki Tauranga Moana Launch

Tauranga Girls' College are excited to be partnering with three other Kāhui Ako (communities of learning) across Tauranga Moana as part Te Tai Whanake ki Tauranga Moana. 

The project will work to develop a Te Ao Māori Localised Curriculum for all schools/kura, ECEs and the wider community in partnership with Tauranga Moana Iwi. The curriculum will include foundational Te Reo from ECE to Year 14, Tauranga Moana Tikanga, protocols, stories and the history of the area.

This collaborative project is supported by TECT funding of $176,640.00 and The Ministry of Education.

Tara Kanji (Tumuaki), Ngawai Hooker (Tumuaki Tuarua), and Caroline Gill (Across School Kāhui Ako Leader) attended the launch of Te Tai Whanake ki Tauranga Moana last week at Ōtūmoetai Intermediate School.

Progress Aspirations 2021 - 2023

Te mahitahi kia taea e ngā ākonga katoa te kite i o rātou pūmanawa.
Working together to enable all learners to realise their full potential. 

Our Across School Leadership Team in consultation with school leaders, Iwi, and kaiako have identified three Progress Aspirations for our Kāhui Ako. These are:

Mahitahi | Collaboration and partnerships

To establish strong partnerships and effective collaboration between schools and the wider Tauranga Peninsula Kāhui Ako community, with a focus on establishing coherent pathways for all learners from ECE to Year 13 and beyond.

Te Marau-ā-Rohe | Localised Curriculum

To provide ākonga with access to a localised curriculum, where they will experience culturally rich learning opportunities, which will be responsive to their needs, identity, language, culture, interests, strengths and aspirations of their whānau.

Hauora | Wellbeing and Learning Support

A positive culture of wellbeing will be embedded across the Kāhui Ako achieved through:

1. To implement a localised whānau-centred model of hauora that supports the development of a positive culture of wellbeing within our Kāhui Ako.

2. To implement the Learning Support Delivery Model that supports better facilitation and sharing data enabling us to work together which creates more flexibility so we can improve outcomes for children and young people.

These localised models will promote partnerships and collaboration to improve hauora, address students’ needs and enable our people to feel happy, healthy, accepted, respected, supported and connected. 

Our Within School and Across School Leadership teams will work toward encouraging and support leaders and teachers in collaborative inquiries to meet these shared aspirations.

Meet our within school leadership team who will work alongside Across School Leaders.