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Te Aratika High School Curriculum
Te Aratika High School (TAHS) is a co-educational secondary school for students in Years 7 – 13. We cater for taiohi using a kaupapa that is committed to providing an education that is culturally responsive, inclusive, and future-focused.
Te Aratika High School Curriculum
TAHS embraces the intent of both the New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa. Our vision is to realise young people as confident, connected, actively involved, and lifelong learners. Central to this vision is the development of strong identity, language, and culture, alongside academic success and wellbeing.
We have designed a tailored, localised curriculum that is underpinned by the New Zealand Curriculum and Te Aho Matua. This curriculum acknowledges and responds to the distinctive strengths, aspirations, and needs of our taiohi, while honouring mātauranga Māori and Pacific worldviews. Through authentic learning contexts and strong relationships, we support our students to thrive both within and beyond the classroom.
Vision
TAHS is driven by the overarching vision of providing a positive platform for change, enabling each one of its taiohi to take their ‘right path’.
‘The Right Path’
To create a positive platform for change that is globally recognised, and positively supports and encourages one person, one family, one community at a time to find their path and journey to success.
Goals
There are three overarching goals which drive the TAHS Marautanga (curriculum):
1. To meet the unique cultural, academic, physical, social and emotional needs of Māori/Pacific youth
2. To collaborate with iwi, hapū, industry partners, schools and tertiary institutions
3. To provide innovative learning experiences for foundational education and vocational pathways with a primary focus on infrastructure works and employment opportunities.
Ko te whakapono, ko te tumanako me te aroha –
Ui mai koe ki ahau he aha te mea nui o te ao,
Māku e ki atu, ‘he tangata, he tangata, he tangata!’
Faith, hope and love –
Ask me. ‘What is the greatest thing in the world?’
I will reply, ‘It is people, it is people, it is people’
Our Graduate Profile
Our Te Aratika Graduate is a young person who has a positive sense of well-being confident and competent, and is culturally connected as Māori and/or Pacific.
These interdependent competencies combine to create a tūāpapa, a firm platform, from which young people can step into employment and career pathways, and contribute in a positive role within whānau, hapū, iwi and hapori with confidence and competence.