Tupu Tahi Tatou.
Together We Grow.
Te Miro School
PRINCIPAL’S WELCOME
OUR VALUES
Whanaungatanga - Relationships
Kotahitanga - Holistic Development
Kaitiakitanga - Taking care of our environment
Kia ora koutou, Nau Mai Haere Mai,
Welcome to Te Miro Kura and thank you for taking the time to visit our site to learn more about our fantastic staff, aakonga (learners) and amazing learning environments.
Te Miro is located on the beautiful Maungakawa, approximately 15 15-minute drive northwest of Cambridge. Te Miro School opened in 1920 and the original classroom still stands proudly on site today.
We enrol children from years one to eight (5 years old to 13 years old). We are proud of our natural environment and see this as an extension of the classroom. Our many green open spaces are where children play and learn. Our wonderful environment supports our vision of "Tupu Tahi Tatou/Together we grow".
At Te Miro, we strongly believe that the holistic development of our children is as important as academic achievement. We understand that happy children learn and thrive, and we believe that knowing and understanding their needs is done in partnership with their whānau and strong community connections.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Ngā mihi nui
Michaela Phillips
Principal
principal@temiro.school.nz
Green-Gold Enviro-School
The Enviroschools kaupapa (philosophy) is creating a healthy, peaceful and sustainable world through facilitating action-learning; where inter-generations of people work with and learn from nature. It weaves in Māori perspectives, combining traditional wisdoms with new understandings. Importantly, our kaupapa reminds us to be in connection: to love, care for and respect ourselves, each other and our planet. We are a Green Gold Enviro School.
Play-Based Curriculum & Structured Literacy
Our teachers create authentic learning opportunities where rich conversations encourage ‘wonderings’ and ‘curiosities’ that enable them to learn more about the world around them. Through play, the teacher becomes a partner of learning, judging when it is appropriate to provide a scaffold to new ideas and knowledge, when to be a resource provider, when to be a commentator and when to be a silent partner in the process.
Outdoor Classroom
Learning in our many outdoor classrooms, ākonga develop an understanding of how their curiosity inspires learning. Our 10-acre bush, borrowed from our neighbours, is a weekly learning environment for the whole school. Ākonga work their way through levels in areas of Survival and Bushcraft, First Aid and Biodiversity. They develop a strong connection with the native bush and respect the unique space where they learn, co-operate, discover and play.
Community
At Te Miro school, strong partnerships are fostered both within our school and beyond to the wider community. As a result, the school is very ably supported by a strong PTA group, a dedicated Board of Trustees, our local iwi Ngati Haua, and a proud community.
