Manurewa High School

At Manurewa High School we have a vision, Piki atu ki te rangi, Aim High, Strive for Excellence and a mission to grow a community of learners to ‘Be the Manurewa Way’ and live our values of Respect, Excellence, Whanaungatanga and Akoranga. We have three focus outcomes we want for all our rangatahi:

• Aakonga engaged on akoranga.
• Aakonga engaged in their Cultural Identities.
• Aakonga taking positive steps into, through and beyond school.

We have co-designed with our whaanau, students, staff and wider community our Te Ara o Tawhaki educational framework and Learner Profile and we continue to work hard to design a local curriculum that serves our community aspirations and prepares our rangatahi to tino rangatiratanga and make positive steps into the world beyond school.

We are blessed to have an amazing and dedicated staff at Manurewa High School who are all striving towards our vision, living and modelling our values and working hard every day to educate and inspire our rangatahi and achieve our focus outcomes supported by many community and business partners. Throughout this website and our school Facebook and Instagram pages you will see many examples of our rangatahi celebrating success and sharing the wide range of opportunities we are able to offer.

Manurewa High School is committed to meeting the needs of all our learners, in partnership with parents/caregivers/whaanau and the wider school community. Assessment informs our planning and guides educational decisions. We collaborate with students, parents/caregivers/whaanau, and professional specialists and resource teachers to develop responsive programmes based on developmental stage, previous learning and experience, culture and personal interests, and aspirations. We provide flexible learning environments, expert teachers, individually tailored learning programmes, one-to-one and small group teaching, teacher aide support, mainstream and specialist class options for ORS funded students, and transition and work experience programmes.

At Manurewa High School we work with students and their whaanau to meet student needs by adapting programmes and learning environments, and providing specialised equipment or materials. Therapists work in partnership with student, whaanau and school to support the individual in the learning context.