Tauranga Intermediate
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| Tauranga Intermediate | |
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| Address | |
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30 18th Avenue, The Avenues, Tauranga | |
| Coordinates | 37°42′49″S 176°09′16″E / 37.7136°S 176.1545°E |
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| Type | State Co-educational Intermediate |
| Motto | Kimihia kia taea Explore and Achieve |
| Established | 1958 |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 1990 |
| Principal | Cameron Mitchell |
| School roll | 1250 |
| Socio-economic decile | 5 |
| Website | tauranga-int.school.nz |
Tauranga Intermediate is an Intermediate school situated in Tauranga, New Zealand. It is the largest in the country, with over 1,300 students in 45 classrooms.
Houses
[edit]Tauranga Intermediate, since the early days of the school, has had house groups which over the years have changed very much.
- In the 1980s there were four houses:
Matai, Tawa, Rimu and Kauri.
- Sometime in the late 1990s two additional houses were created, these being Totara and Rata.
- In 2006 3 new houses were created being Miro, Kahikatea and Tanekaha.
- In 2009 A new house Manuka was created.
House Colours:
- Miro (Orange)
- Tawa (Dark Blue)
- Totara (Purple)
- Tanekaha (Light Blue)
- Matai (Yellow)
- Kahikatea ([Light Green)
- Rata (Black)
- Rimu (Red)
- Kauri (Dark Green)
- Manuka (Pink)[1]
Teachers
[edit]In 1993, Mr. Brian Diver became principal of Tauranga Intermediate School, but at the end of Term 1 in 2019, he resigned and was replaced by deputy principal Mr. Cameron Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell's old place of deputy principal was replaced by Mr. Arthur, who has worked as deputy principal years before.