Achievements
We are proud of the many achievements of everyone in our Tupuranga and Clover Park extended whanau:
OUR LEARNING
Congratulations to our Year 13 students who achieved university entrance and completed NCEA Level 3 in 2009. Four of our students were awarded scholarships from MIT and Arrow International, to support their tertiary study in 2010.
Arrow International CEO, Hugh Morrison, with Chanelle Herewini and Bryce Kaumoana
We are very proud of all those students who were recognised for their academic achievement, leadership, cultural knowledge, whanaungatanga and contribution to our campus, and their sporting achievements at our 2009 Celebration Day on 8 December. It was a great community day!
OUR PERFORMING ARTS
· KAPA HAKA 
In 2009 our Year 7/8 Kapa Haka group represented Auckland in the National Kapa Haka competitions in Gisborne andworked very hard to achieve a high standard.
2009: Our senior Kapa Haka group competed in the ASB Polyfest in Division A and in Te Ahurea competitions.
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TONGAN SPEECHES
In 2009 our Fonuamalu students entered the Tongan speech competition at the ASB Polyfest – and scooped the pool with the following out standing results:
Year 9
1st = Mele Lepa Year 9
2nd = Semisi Faguna Year 7
3rd = Mele Akauola Year 8
Year 10
1st = Masiu Filihia
Year 11
1st = Ofoi Taumoelau
Congratulations to everyone involved.
· PASIFIKA PERFORMING ARTS
Our Tongan, Samoan, and Cook Islands students are active in performing arts in a number of different community events and the ASB Polyfest competitions.
SPORTS
Both schools were involved in a range of sporting codes in 2009 with both individual and team successes.
See 2010 Waka Ama story here
OUR FACILITIES
2010: Te Whanau o Tupuranga has been shortlisted for the New Zealand Institute of Architects Awards. We were regional winners of these awards in 2009. Congratulations to Roy Blok and Jazmax for their stunning design.
2010: Our campus grounds and environment have been entered by Jazmax into the New Zealand New Zealand Institute of Landscape Architects Resene Pride of Place Landscape Awards Design section.
Update 17 April 2010: Tupuranga won a Gold Award in the Landscape design section of these national awards, and was also chosen for one of the overall Awards of Excellence!
2009: Arrow International's Julian Huggins, Project Manager for our major construction project, was awarded a national New Zealand Institute of Builders (NZIOB) Excellence Award for his management of the building of Te Whanau o Tupuranga.
OUR PEOPLE
2010: Our Board member, Matua Sam Chapman, has been named as the “Local Hero of the Year” in the inaugural New Zealander of the Year Awards. Sam, his wife Thelma, and their whanau work tirelessly in support of our community. Sam is a staunch advocate and supporter of our schools and the first chairperson of our Computer Clubhouse Trust. Congratulations Sam!
Our principal, Ann Milne, was awarded the Auckland Savings Bank/Auckland Primary Principals’ Travelling Fellowship in 2009. This award enabled her to study and share what we do with universities and schools in the USA and Canada. Ann has also been awarded prestigious research awards and scholarships in 2007 and 2008.
Three of our teachers completed Masters’ Degrees in Educational Leadership in 2009. We now have 9 staff with Masters’ Degrees and three more will complete this study in 2010. The majority of our staff are bilingual in a range of languages and are advocates for bilingual education.
COMMUNITY
TSUNAMI SUPPORT
Senior Tupuranga students successfully rallied together both schools and the community to raise funds to buy sports equipment for Ulutogia Primary School, which was devastated by the tsunami in Samoa. With a fantastic fundraising concert, sponsorship from corporate friends of the school and a range of other activities students raised almost $3,000.00. Sports equipment will be purchased and shipped early in 2010.
Ulutogia Primary School - before and after the Tsunami in October 2009
CLUBHOUSE 274
Check out the Clubhouse 274 link to see the amazing achievements of our students who are advanced creators, designers, and users of Information and Communications Technology. In recent years six students have travelled to the World Teen Summit of the Clubhouse network, in Boston and two Clubhouse members travelled to Stanford University in California in 2009 as members of the Adobe Youth Voices project. Three more students will be selected to go to Boston again in 2010.
NATIONAL COMPOSITE SCHOOL OF THE YEAR 2002
Clover Park Middle School was the National winner of this Award in 2002.
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