Our Students

Growing student leadership is a key focus for our senior students.
Many of our students aspire to be a student leader in their final year at Tairangi School. 

Senior students are provided with opportunities to:

• Lead in areas of personal strength.
• Lead school activities such as running assemblies, hosting visitors, or inducting and looking after new students.
• Lead or have input into activities e.g. Kapa Haka, clubs, enviro-schools, sport, or health.
• Experience mentoring programmes for student leaders, peer, buddy, tuakana–teina approaches, whānau, or house groupings.

At Paparoa Range School, we love celebrating the success of our students. We recognise that success looks different for everyone — it might be achieving a learning goal, showing perseverance, or living out our school values.

We celebrate these moments in a range of ways, including classroom recognition, certificates, assemblies, and special acknowledgements. These celebrations help build confidence, motivation, and a strong sense of belonging.

Tuakana-Teina is a traditional Māori cultural philosophy and practice; literally referring to the relationship between an older and younger sibling, or close family members like cousins. 

It is when an older or more expert tuakana (brother, sister or cousin) helps and guides a younger or less expert teina. 

The tuakana-teina relationship is an integral part of Te Ao Māori (Māori world) and it provides a model for peer learning. It refers to the relationship between an older (tuakana) or more expert person, and a younger (teina) or less expert person. These roles can be reversed at any time depending on the circumstances.
Our learning spaces promote tuakana-teina relationships across all our learning and play activity.

Our Year 7/8 children travel into Greymouth High for technology on Thursday once a fortnight. Greymouth High School has guidelines set that students must wear correct school uniform, tie long hair back and wear covered shoes 

All children are in whanau groups that compete in team challenges together. The houses are Davis, Croesus, Anderson and Hawera after peaks on the Paparoa Ranges.