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KURANUI COLLEGE
THE YEAR
THAT WAS
STAFF 71 STUDENTS 503
PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Kuranui College’s ethos is “Be the best you can be – Whaia te iti kahurangi kit e tuohu koe, me maunga teitei!” and it truly sums up the attitude of our school community.
Mathematics and Science subjects are becoming increasingly popular for students at the senior level, as more Kuranui students look to study these subjects at university. This year, the college won both the Year 9 and Year 10 Matharapa titles, and the Year 9 ‘B’ team was awarded second place. Out of this year’s 72 Year 13 graduates, 38 will be taking up degree level courses in 2016.
Kuranui students are encouraged to embrace a positive attitude and inspired to be the best they can be in everything that they do. The college is centred around five core values of Respect, Integrity, Empathy, Creativity and Determination.
We are immensely proud of our students and staff, and extremely grateful to our whānua and the wider community. Kuranui College has had another outstanding year. There have been many academic, sporting and cultural successes achieved by our students in 2015, and we have been impressed with the way they have represented the college at a wide range of events and occasions. We are always striving to improve our students’ level of achievement and continue to look at new and innovative ways to deliver our programmes of learning.
Kuranui has implemented changes to its 2016 senior curriculum. It aims to be as broad, flexible and as relevant as possible. All senior courses have been rewritten and renamed to give them a real life context, with many whole year courses now halved into 17-week semesters and all courses linked to a vocational pathway.
Kuranui sports teams punched well above their weight this year. The Boys 1st XI Football Team won the Wairarapa secondary schools A Grade, the Girls 1st XI Football Team the Wairarapa Girls Division 1, the Boys 2nd XI Football Team the B Grade, and the U15 Boys Rugby Team gained the Principal’s Cup as winners of the Wairarapa U15 competition.
The Kia Eke Panuku professional learning programme continues to increase achievement across all year groups. The Ministry of Education initiative focuses on lifting the achievement of Māori students by helping teachers to look at changing their teaching practice and to become more culturally responsive in the classroom. Kuranui is also a proactive member of the South Wairarapa Super Whānau Advisory Group and a contributor to the Ngāti Kahungunu iwi education strategy.
Kuranui continues to pioneer its Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programme. Year 9 students are introduced to e-learning, digital citizenship (which includes learning about safe use of the internet and social media), and are taught how to share documents with their teachers via Google Docs during their first term at Kuranui.
Our involvement in the Kia Eke Panuku professional learning programme continues to increase achievement across all of our year groups and individual learning plans remain a focus in helping our students be the best they can be in everything they do. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to what has been a highly successful year for the college. Good luck to our Class of 2015: we wish you the very best in your future careers! GEOFF SHEPHERD
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