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Tauranga Intermediate | |
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30 18th Avenue, The Avenues, Tauranga | |
Coordinates | 37°42′49″S176°09′16″E / 37.7136°S 176.1545°E Coordinates: 37°42′49″S176°09′16″E / 37.7136°S 176.1545°E |
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Type | State Co-educational Intermediate |
Motto | Kimihia kia taea Explore and Achieve |
Established | 1958 |
Ministry of Education Institution no. | 1990 |
Principal | Cameron Mitchell |
School roll | 1250 |
Socio-economic decile | 5 |
Website | tauranga-int.school.nz |
Tauranga Intermediate is an Intermediate school situated in Tauranga, New Zealand. It is the largest in the country, with over 1,300 students in 45 classrooms.
Tauranga Intermediate, since the early days of the school, has had house groups which over the years have changed very much.
Matai, Tawa, Rimu and Kauri.
Miro, Tawa, Totara, Tanekaha, Matai, Kahikatea, Rata, Rimu, Manuka and Kauri.
Every house has 4 classes except for Kahikatea (5 classes) and Matai (6 classes). Each class has about 30-32 students.
Every house has normal classrooms while Rimu, Tanekaha and Miro have 'pods'. They are large classrooms that have all 128 students/4 classes in one room. Each class has a small corner commonly known as their whanau (home) class, but most of the time every class is working together around the whole pod.
Also in 2018, it was announced that Manuka and Totara were getting pods as well, and is estimated to be built/finished in 2020.
Miro, Tawa, Kahikatea, Rata, and Kauri are the normal houses, whilst the houses listed below are different.
Totara house is a CWSA house which stands for Children With Special Abilities. This house is for students who are quite smart and academically focused. To get in you have to sit a test the year prior.
Rimu house is the multimedia house and each student owns a laptop and uses it at school for most of the student's learning. You must apply online the year before. Only a limit of about 64 students per year can be accepted into multimedia.
Matai house is the bilingual house and speak both English and Maori. Their classes are based on their Maori vocabulary instead on age.
About 5-10 students who enrol to Tauranga Intermediate School are special needs kids, and are usually transported to and from the school grounds to Tauranga Special Needs. These students are put into Manuka house.
In 2018, Tanekaha became a second multimedia house, letting about 64 more students into multimedia (giving 128 students the opportunity each year).
House Colours:
Miro (Orange)
Tawa (Dark Blue)
Totara (Purple)
Tanekaha (Light Blue)
Matai (Yellow)
Kahikatea (Light Green)
Rata (Black)
Rimu (Red)
Kauri (Dark Green)
Manuka (Pink) [1]
There are 7 different facilities that every student gets to go to during their 2 years of attending Tauranga Intermediate:
You would be split into 3 groups (year 7's) or 4 groups (year 8's) named 7A, 7B, 7C, (year 7s) and 8A, 8B, 8C, 8D (year 8s), and these groups would be created within your house. About 21 year 7s will be in a group, and 16 year 8s in a group.
Every term you will have 2 technology rotations, but one term you will only have 1.
You will get 5 lessons across 5 days per rotation. But 1 term you will only have 4 lessons per rotation, which is usually term 3, the term of the AIMS Games
In 1993, Mr. Brian Diver became principal of Tauranga Intermediate School, but at the end of Term 1 in 2019, he resigned and was replaced by deputy principal Mr. Cameron Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell's old place of deputy principal was replaced by Mr. Arthur, who has worked as deputy principal years before.
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