Tauranga Intermediate
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| Tauranga Intermediate | |
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30 18th Avenue, The Avenues, Tauranga 37°42′49″S 176°09′16″E / 37.7136°S 176.1545°E | |
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| Type | State Co-educational Intermediate |
| Motto | Kimihia kia taea Explore and Achieve |
| Established | 1958 |
Ministry of Education Institution no. | 1990 |
Principal | Cameron Mitchell |
| Enrolment | 1250 |
Socio-economic decile | 5 |
| Website | tauranga-int.school.nz |
Tauranga Intermediate is an Intermediate school situated in Tauranga, New Zealand. It is the largest in the country, with over 1,300 students in 45 classrooms.
Houses
Tauranga Intermediate, since the early days of the school, has had house groups which over the years have changed very much.
- In the 1980s there were four houses:
Matai, Tawa, Rimu and Kauri.
- Sometime in the late 1990s two additional houses were created, these being Totara and Rata.
- In 2006 3 new houses were created being Miro, Kahikatea and Tanekaha.
- In 2009 A new house Manuka was created.
- Each house has 4 classrooms but Matai has 6
House Colours:
- Miro (Orange)
- Tawa (Dark Blue)
- Totara (Purple)
- Tanekaha (Light Blue)
- Matai (Yellow)
- Kahikatea ([Light Green)
- Rata (Black)
- Rimu (Red)
- Kauri (Dark Green)
- Manuka (Pink)
Teachers
In 1993, Mr. Brian Diver became principal of Tauranga Intermediate School, but at the end of Term 1 in 2019, he resigned and was replaced by deputy principal Mr. Cameron Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell's old place of deputy principal was replaced by Mr. Arthur, who has worked as deputy principal years before.