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KURA
School Profile
Te Whare Matauranga o te Ataawhai was established in 2002
by Te Roopu Ataawhai the school's governing body.
The school is located in the St Albans and Dandenong community
areas.
It has a current enrolment of 29 children and 32 adults.
The student population is predominantly second generation
and from a diverse Maori and multicultural background. |
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The school building
is currently the Grantham Green Community Centre, Grantham
Parade, St Albans and the Scout Hall, Endeavour Hills.
Te Roopu Ataawhai the parent body, apply for and provide funding
administrative support and conduct regular assessment and
bench level standards for the school. |
Our Philosophy...
Ensures that we cater for a broad range of social and cultural expectations that are apparent in our Maori-Australian multicultural community. It is based on the firm belief that our learners;
..learn best when...
- They are treated as individuals with their own needs and interests;
- They are provided with opportunities to participate in the communicative use of Maori in a wide range of activities;
- Exposed to maori communicative data which is comprehensible and relevant to their own bilingual /bicultural needs and interests;
- They focus deliberately on various maori language forms, skills and strategies in order to support the process of language acquisition;
- They are exposed to maori socio-culture data and direct experience of maori culture embedded within their maori language teaching and learning;
- They become aware of the role and nature of maori language and culture in their lives and place as a heritage language;
- They are provided with appropriate, ongoing feed-back about their progress, and
- They are provided with opportunities to manage their own language.
The staff of Te Whare Matauranga o te Ataawhai provide an atmosphere of warmth and friendship and are extremely proud of the open door policy which applies to the school community.
They believe that learning and maintaining maori is a shared responsibility and works in partnership with whanau to promote a supportive second language environment for everyone.
The Staff will develop programs to educate and inform whanau in areas related to current maori second language teaching practices.
This will result in whanau playing a more active role in maori learning and subsequently assist in improving LOTE CSF learning outcomes for student's by reinforcing and further developing the strong partnership between whanau and our school.
..further development..
We will develop a sequential maori performing arts program incorporating extended dance and music, thus strengthening the cultural importance implicit in learning a heritage language, whilst providing a broad range of language activities for learners to practice and develop their maori language proficiency skills.
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