Te Miro School
Room To Grow - Ruma Kia Tipu
Nau Mai Haere Mai / Welcome
Bigger isn’t always Better
"As for how small schools stack up against larger schools academically, they hold their heads high. The Otago University-based National Education Monitoring Project has made some qualitative assessment and dismissed the claim that "bigger is better". Its research says that size is not a predictor of student achievement.”
Neville Peat in NZ Herald.
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 wonderful environment supports our vision of "Ruma Kia Tipu/Room To 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. At Te Miro, children are celebrated for the unique individual they are.
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 Maaori 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.
Nature Ed
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 along with our orchard and gardens.
Aakonga work their way through levels in areas of Science, survival, bushcraft, arts and biodiversity.
They develop a strong connection with the native bush and respect the unique space where they learn, cooperate, 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.