Piwakawaka Team - Caters for Year 0 - 1 students.  

Our Piwakawaka Team supports our new entrance students to make smooth transitions into their new school lives.  With a strong focus on routines and values, new students are exposed to a brand new world of education.

Tui Team - Caters for Year 2 - 3 students.  

Our Tui Team supports our young learners as they move through the foundations of learning, cementing it in order to build their education upon through the years.

Kereru Team - Caters for Year 4 - 6 students.  

Our Kereru Team supports our students as they move from the foundations of learning and onto the framework to extend their learning.  They investigate new ways of thinking, questioning and reasoning about their learning and the world around them.

Kahu Team - Caters for Year 7 - 8 students.  

Our Kahu Team supports our students as they prepare to move on towards high school.  Our teachers support our older students as they learn to become independent learners and to stretch their thinking beyond what is directly in from of them.  A big part of our Kahu team is fostering our students within leadership roles and cementing great values and relationships during these critical years.

Takahe Team - Caters for all of our students 

Our Takahe Team brings together a focus in the curriculum areas of Music, Art and Sustainability.  During teacher release periods, our students will move through each of these curriculum areas with our specialist teachers.  

• Music - Students have the opportunity to explore the world of rhythm and music

• Sustainability - Students are led through the natural world around them and how we interact with it.  Watch this space as Taupaki School will be creating an outdoor classroom in the near future to take these Sustainability lessons to a whole new level!

• Art - Students are exposed to the world of art through techniques and using various materials.  For examples of our Art programme, please have a look through the slideshow below.

Kiwi Team - Our Learning Support Team caters for our students who need extra support.  

Ruru Team - Our Teachnology Team caters for all Year 7 & 8 students from Taupaki School and partnering school within our community.

Taupaki School is the Technology Hub for our community and we have Year 7 or 8 students arrive from neighbouring schools to participate in Technology lessons each day.  The programmes are catered for students who are completely new to the subjects as well as those who are able to build on prior knowledge they may have learnt at home.

Technology classes are,

• Design

• Digital

• Food

• Hard Materials

For more information about our Technology Department, please visit our Ruru Webpage.