Post by Kiwi Frontline on Jun 19, 2020 3:18:22 GMT 12
TE PUKE HIGH SCHOOL'S NEW MĀORI STUDENT LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
Te Puke High School has created its first Māori Student Leadership Council.
The council members will serve as positive role models for both Māori and non-Māori students as they demonstrate manaakitanga, rangatiratanga, mana, whanaungatanga and aroha, says deputy principal Polly Thin-Rabb, who has been a major driving force behind the creation of the council.
"I actually had this idea before I came to the school," she says. "I worked with a group of students in Wellington when I was a facilitator and did a similar thing, but I wasn't working in the school, I was working with the teachers and the students.
"When I came to Te Puke High School I thought it would be really great to have a group of Māori students who were driving change within the school.".......
www.nzherald.co.nz/te-puke-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1504472&objectid=12340416
Te Puke High School has created its first Māori Student Leadership Council.
The council members will serve as positive role models for both Māori and non-Māori students as they demonstrate manaakitanga, rangatiratanga, mana, whanaungatanga and aroha, says deputy principal Polly Thin-Rabb, who has been a major driving force behind the creation of the council.
"I actually had this idea before I came to the school," she says. "I worked with a group of students in Wellington when I was a facilitator and did a similar thing, but I wasn't working in the school, I was working with the teachers and the students.
"When I came to Te Puke High School I thought it would be really great to have a group of Māori students who were driving change within the school.".......
www.nzherald.co.nz/te-puke-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1504472&objectid=12340416