Te Paepae o Aotea is a state co-educational school for Year 7 – 15 students based in Hāwera, South Taranaki.
Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ruanui and Te Korowai o Ngāruahine have gifted the name of our school informed by the aspirations of our community. It was intended that the name be clearly South Taranaki, be inclusive and relevant to the whole community, and reflect our history and ambitions for the future.
Tēna Koutou e te whanau
Te Paepae o Aotea opened in February 2023 with approximately 1000 students. We are a co-educational state school catering for students in Year 7-15. Te Paepae o Aotea was formed in response to the closure of Hāwera High School and Hāwera Intermediate at the end of the 2022 school year.
Our school name, Te Paepae o Aotea, was gifted to us by Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ruanui and Te Korowai o Ngāruahine. Alongside our name, we were also gifted a whakatauākī and logo. There are two major components to our name, Paepae and Aotea and the condensed meaning is “We are on the learning journey of Aotea, as the people of South Taranaki, realising our full potential.”
Our whakatauāki, ‘Kia eke atu ki Taupaenui o te tangata,’ challenges us to instil in our students the tools to help them achieve their full potential, in the pursuits they and their whānau deem important. Our cultural narrative is the foundation that we use to unpack elements of Mātauranga Māori. Te Ao Māori is prioritised across the curriculum.
A school wide culturally responsive pedagogy builds a family-like context, in which restorative practice promotes a healthy community and maintains authentic relationships.
Ngā mihi
The New Zealand Curriculum is a document that outlines educational requirements in schools. The everyday teaching and learning that students experience is the result of teachers weaving together the national curriculum with local context and the diverse aspirations of learners and their whānau, in ways that are responsive to individual learner progress.
Today was a huge day for our Napier Activity Week camp! We kicked things off with an incredible visit to the Faraday Museum of Technology, then enjoyed a round of mini golf and spent time exploring the beautiful sights of Napier. ... See MoreSee Less
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Activity Week Rotorua Camp: Day 2
What an awesome day! The Rotorua camp group managed to catch some good weather in the morning and made our way to Velocity Valley. Students got to choose between an Indoor Sky Dive, Jet Boating, the Swoop or the Sweep. From here we dodged thunder storms over lunch before heading to Te Puea where our students explored Geothermal hot spots, saw Kiwi up close and checked out the NZ Māori Arts & Crafts Institute. Rain moved our evening plans indoors to Motion Entertainment where our ākonga spent a few hours at the Trampoline and Ninja obstacle parks. Stay tuned for day 3!
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Activity Week: STEMtastic Challenge Day 2: Fire & Flame
Day 2 turned up the heat as students and teachers explored the power of fire in safe, controlled, and exciting ways!
Mission 1: Steamboat Science
Students built mini steamboats to see how heat creates motion.
Mission 2: Burning Bubbles
With careful supervision, they experimented with flammable bubbles to learn how fire behaves.
A fiery, fun-filled day of hands-on learning!
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+8Te Paepae o Aotea congratulates the Hockey 1st XI Mixed Team on winning the Taranaki Secondary School Boys Championship Final in Stratford against Stratford Boys 1st XI. Final scor
The Te Paepae o Aotea team of Ronan Hurley, Tyler Midgley, Luke Barnett and Ryan Hockly took out the 2023 Taranaki Secondary School Safety Team Challenge against six other high s
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