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The Principal's Report 2018 has been a watershed year for Māngere College with changes in the staffroom, an Education Review Office report and some significant visitors to the school. The year started off with us welcoming 13 new teachers to the school. This is a significant number for us and meant a lot of change in the staffroom. They each brought a different level of experience from first year teachers to very experienced teachers and each made a huge contribution during the year. One of our key areas to focus on this year has been to improve our teaching practice using a new appraisal process and the Teachers Council’s new professional standards and code of conduct for teachers. This work was reflected in a comment that ERO made during their visit when they said that a strength of the school was “the capability and dedication of the teaching team who are open to learning and committed to improving professional practice.” These two aspects - being open to learning and improving practice - are very important to me. In our work: we all make mistakes and perfection is an unrealistic goal but we can always learn from our experiences and strive to get better in what we do each day. Another important aspect of the school that was commented on by ERO is the environment that we create for our students around the school. ERO said that this strength is the “inclusive and positive learning and working environment where students’ diverse languages, cultures and identities are fostered and their religions respected”. It is this environment that our students need and deserve to be able to learn successfully and to achieve to their potential. This was the first ERO review during my time at the school and it was very rewarding to see the work that we have been doing over the past three years being recognised in this way. As well as commenting 2 Mangere College - 2018 on the quality of the teaching staff and the environment of the school they also made reference to these changes when they said “The school’s leadership and strategic change management processes and practices, together with the prioritising of Māori success and student wellbeing, are effectively contributing to achieving equity and excellence and the acceleration of learning.” Of course they also pointed out areas for improvement and the most important of these for me is the achievement of our Māori students. We are not doing well enough in this area as a school and it is something that I am committed to changing. This school should be a place where all students succeed and we need to continue to work hard to ensure that our results are equitable as well as excellent. At prizegiving this term we announced our Student Leaders for 2019. This is an excellent group of young people who are excited about leading the school and having an impact in the wider community as well. So many of our students are passionate about the society they live in and particularly their local community of Māngere. This was particularly evident to me when we hosted two politicians, the Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard and Minister Aupito William Sio, to launch a virtual reality tour of parliament. This gave our students a chance to have their voices heard by national politicians and to ask questions of them. They certainly expressed their views strongly. Allowing students to have a voice in the running of the school through our different councils is an ongoing focus for us at school. We want to provide all students with an opportunity to grow their own leadership and develop into the future leaders for our community. We have continued to work closely with our local schools in our Community of Learning, the Māngere Kahui Ako, which I am proud to lead. We have a vision as a group of schools of strengthening education in the Māngere community and of working together for the benefit of our students. We will see more positive outcomes of this collaboration in the years to come. Of course the year has not been without its difficulties and the loss of a student and an ex student during Term 3 was a real shock to the school community and a traumatic time for students and staff. At Māngere College we talk a lot about the importance of our <strong>MC</strong> family and when you lose two of your family it affects everyone. What was important to me was seeing the strength of the family to pull together and overcome these difficult times. I was humbled by the strength and resilience of our students and how they supported each other and I took pride in seeing the school come together to face this together. Our strength as a school is in the community that we have and the way that we can face difficult issues together and support each other through difficult times. - Tom Webb Principal
Māngere College Staff Back Row: Arihana Hakiwai, Soteria Samu, Sally Hay, Catherine Thomson, Neville Padavatan 4th Row: Asariah Potini, Huni Fifita, Laurence Earl, Paul Campbell, Milo West, Ruth Luketina, William Tupou, Daniel Wong, Melissa Tualaulelei, Satend Sharma, Mohammed Zaim, Ta’i Uamaki 3rd Row: Elizabeth Tupua, Brian Aubrey, Emma McCosh, Joanne Latif, To’asavili Telea, Mohammed Sameem, Thomas Pearson, Kevin Davis, Aisake Tuitupou, Bruce Breetvelt, Fuatino Nuusavili, Alisi Tatafu, Frances McIntosh, Subrail Naidu, Angela Kuo-Yu Yen, 2nd Row: Samer Hormes, Malae Aloali’i, Rosalie Kwan, Pauline Kumar, Raselin Imraan, Parwati Reddy, Nalini Singh, Kathleen Beaton, Nicky Haeata-Ruwhiu, Abtesam Salim, Kirita Leniu, Amera Franso, Alexandra Ana Marsters, Alison Blackwood Front Row: Mike Christo, Savitri Nadan, Michael Darragh, Ben Euden, Vivian Maskell, Keir Whipp, Deborah Ward, Tom Webb, Melegalenuu Ah Sam, Helen Faamoe, Katalina Ma, Viliami Bloomfield, Lynn Keating, Henry Fesulua’i, Christina Smith Mangere College - 2018 3
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Page 5 and 6: Haere mai to new staff Malae Aloali
Page 7 and 8: Haere rā e te piki kōtuku, Hone G
Page 9 and 10: Walter browne kathryn barclay heath
Page 11 and 12: Back Row: Jacinta Ringi, Hannah Pio
Page 13 and 14: Year 11/12 Prizegiving Sports' Awar
Page 15 and 16: special awards Vera Wilson Johnatho
Page 17 and 18: Year 13 subject prizes cont... Jasi
Page 19 and 20: polyfest
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Page 23 and 24: Samoan Group E muamua lava ona si
Page 25 and 26: Tongan Group Tongan Group Results P
Page 27 and 28: Refugee Activities REFUGEE OLYMPIC
Page 29 and 30: Students harvesting kiwifruit. Gard
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Page 33 and 34: Librarians 2018 Sitting on the floo
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Page 42 and 43: Tough Mudder Anne Tupou, Alexis Fen
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Languages Te Reo Māori Te Wiki o t
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qi gong workshop As part of celebra
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Cook Island Language Week Tuatua ta
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Performing Arts 2018 Music Succes S
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Te Rehu and Miracle with MC Staff a
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Year 10 students enjoying the conce
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2018 Dance report Dance in 2018 sta
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senior PE In our senior PE programm
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sports science The main purpose of
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2 geography hunua falls trip The Le
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fabric technology: Flag Making The
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wood technology Tic Tac Toe Project
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sports awards 2018 Basketball Playe
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senior sports girl Victory Tilo 12N
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U17 Mixed Girls Basketball This yea
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Soccer We had one boys team of comm
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2nd XV boys rugby Our 2nd XV team p
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senior girls touch The Senior Girls
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Form Group Photos Faiane, Gideon Fo
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Alatina, Loretta Anae, Lua Baker, T
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Davis-Ratumu, Likaan Fidow, Romeo F
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Ahmadi, Abdul Ahmed, Haris Anae, Ka
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