Society
Tamariki Society
Tamariki School's Proprietor is known as 'The Society', and has a responsibility to maintain and preserve the Special Character. It also owns the buildings and is responsible for capital maintenance and development of the school property.
Strategic Plan 2024
1 January 2024 – 31 December 2025 Provide all students with a child-centred learning environment focused on social and emotional intelligence where…
2023 Board of Trustees Annual Report
2022 Board of Trustees Annual Report
The Competencies from NZ Curriculum
Thinking creative analytical critical self-reflective meta-cognitive Developed by a curriculum that: · is responsively based on the children’s own experiences, ideas and…
Developing Cognitive Skills
Because the opportunities for self-directed learning through play are so vast at Tamariki our children develop high-level cognitive skills and abilities – including the…
The Vision from the Special Character
The culture of our school and our pedagogy (the way we teach and learn) provides our students with competencies and skills that…
School Board - The Governors
The Board is a Crown entity and is responsible for the governance of the school. The role of a board member, is to ensure that Tamariki is run in the best interests of the students and the community. The Board acts to set policy guidelines and goals for the Principal and Staff and monitors progress and compliance. The government pays our teacher’s salaries directly to them and provides the Board with an operation grant and a minimal level of maintenance funding. The donations paid by school families and collected by the Society, are passed onto the Board to help fund the Special Character of the school e.g. to employ staff to ensure that we have a high adult-to-child ratio and can provide adequate supervision throughout the school, given the range of activities that can be going on at any one time.
The Board normally has seven members:
- Three Parent Representatives, elected by the parents every three years.
- Two Proprietor’s Appointees, appointed by the Tamariki Society.
- One Staff Rep is selected by the staff every three years.
- The Principal is an ex officio member.
- The minutes secretary also attends but is not a member of the Board.
You are welcome at all Board meetings, however only board members have speaking rights by default.
Different types of learning stories
We have many different types of learning stories – sometimes just a photo to remember a moment, capture and event, or celebrate…
Learning Stories
A huge amount of learning happens every day at Tamariki School. It is diverse, often spontaneous, and can happen in any place…
Meetings – Teacher Information
Pointers of Good Teaching Practice The Meeting System The meeting system is a complex interplay of dynamics, which include the relationships between…
Teachers Manual
Pointers of Good Teaching Practice Teaching at Tamariki School is very demanding and testing, and very rewarding and satisfying. Teachers need to…
Assessment and Evaluation
The Special character philosophy impacts on the ways in which assessment and evauation is practised at Tamariki School. It happens on a…
Info for teachers and student teachers, specialty teachers (and any interested parents)
Tamariki School is different from the typical New Zealand school. Due to this, the demands and skills required by the staff are…
Care Days for Our School
Usually once a term we have a care day for school. This is where we give back to our school and we give the school buldings and grounds some much needed Tender Loving Care. These events also give us an opportunity to build our school comminity and make comnnections with other parents (some life long friendship have been formed while weeding or painting etc.)
As everyone knows, our Care Days help us to keep our fees down. Your help is extremely important and is valued.
Regards,
Blake