Our People 2024
Staff Leadership Team
Principal - Shane Robinson
Deputy Principal - Darian Schulz
Deputy Principal - Brigitte Ferguson
Kakano
Years 1 & 2
Junior Syndicate Leader: Adam Murfitt
Teachers:
Room 1 - Kayleigh Maclean - Year 1 & 2
Room 2 - Adam Murfitt - Year 1 & 2
Room 6 - Caeleen Warder - New Entrants & Year 1
Room 7 - Brydie Wolfe - New Entrants & Year 1
The Kākano Syndicate (Year 0-2) is a growing team with new students joining us every term. Our teaching team is Whaea Caeleen, Whaea Kayleigh, Whaea Brydie and Matua Adam as Syndicate Leader. We believe relationships with our students and their whānau is at the heart of what we do. Our learning programmes inspire to be engaging through hands on activities and using our student's interest. This year we are excited to be continuing to run our structured Literacy programme in our syndicate and we love seeing the children engaged with Literacy learning. We hold high expectations for all students to achieve at their full potential.
Tipu
Years 3 & 4
Middle Syndicate Leader: Nicola Prichard
Teachers:
Room 16 -Grace Esquilant
Room 15 - Anna Coyne
Room 14 - Nicola Prichard
Room 13 - Valerie Archer
The Tipu Syndicate is home to our Year 3 and 4 students and are based in Rooms 13, 14, 15 and 16. The teaching team is Grace, Anna, Valerie and Nicola. The Tipu syndicate are focused on delivering a fun and engaging programme, through building relationships, giving students opportunities to build their independence, find their passions and be curious, particularly through Pākiki time.
Koru
Years 5 & 6
Senior Syndicate Leader: Holly Hughes
Teachers:
Room 9 -Kim Webby
Room 10 - Hayley Saxton
Room 11 - Holly Hughes
Room 12 - Ben Glue
Kia ora koutou! We are team Koru. We are made up of Ben, Kim, Hayely and our syndicate leader Holly Hughes. In Koru we are excited to support our tamariki to develop firm work habits, and further develop their confidence to express themselves. We work mainly from our own classrooms, but are together for a range of activities every day. Our collaborative time fosters bonds between all our tamariki, and develops relationships with all three kaiako.
We use a variety of online learning tools and programmes to support their learning. Some of these are Reading Plus, Prodigy, Banqer, and Epic. As well as this we utilise each others strengths as teachers, and our natural environment, to offer a learning programme we are proud to be a part of. Through our Inquiries we also delve a bit deeper into their creative, critical, and design thinking.
In Team Koru, we are passionate about making sure all our tamariki get the most out of us and our time in the classroom.
Fern
Years 7 & 8
Intermediate Syndicate Leader: Ben Young
Teachers:
Ben Young
Jo Fox
Sam Blandford
We are the Ferns Intermediate team and we're passionate about providing rich and engaging learning opportunities for the Year 7 and 8 tamariki of Maungaraki School.
We believe in growing young leaders who actively live out our HEART values and give back to the school and wider community in a variety of ways, using the unique skills and strengths they have developed during their time here.
We have three separate classrooms and balance a mixture of home-class time with collaboration as a whole syndicate each day.
Release and specialist teachers
Jayne Chatfield
Moira Hooper
Christine Trummer
Alle Pollard
Kelly Cooper
Chris McCullough
Support staff
Admin Support Staff
Juanita Kil (PA to Principal)
Tania Potaka (Office Manager & Bursar)
Tim Barnes (Caretaker)
Teaching Support Staff:
Barbara Hatton
Chloe Rahui-Durkin
Shona Morris-Priest
Helen Billingham
Simon Rodwell