Current Projects

There are many pockets of mahi going on in the background that you may not be aware of.

Below are our current projects in various areas.

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All of the mahi we do aligns with our achievement challenges and strategic plan.

Find these documents below.

If any of these initiatives appeal to you and you wish to be involved, check the calendar dates, apply for release and come along! 

All are welcome :)

In 2025, Te Iti Kahurangi Kāhui Ako has continued to work as a learning community of 9 schools with the overarching goal of working together to help students achieve their full potential through collaboration across schools and improved teacher practice and pedagogy. Te Iti Kahurangi Kāhui Ako is responsible for the education of approximately 5000 students and has been working together since 2018.

The goal is that by collaborating and sharing teaching capability and expertise, children's and young people's learning pathways are supported and their transition through the education system is improved.

We have developed shared goals that are based on data and identified needs which have formed the basis of a 2025 strategic plan.  We identified in 2025 that a focus on implementing the new curriculum and supporting formative practice and pedagogy would form the basis of both the Mahi Ngatahi and curriculum focus working groups. The sharing of best practice across schools, alongside unpacking the new curriculum has enabled schools to grow their curriculum knowledge and to gain an improved understanding of the year by year teaching sequences that support teachers to build on the expected learning expectations each year.

This work will continue for the remainder of the year across all work streams ensuring we do our best to make the most of the remaining time we have together as a kahui Ako, working collaboratively and as cohesively as possible across our 9 schools.

Robyn Curry, Kydene Sinclair, Robin Tapper and Kay Penniall

Whanau Attendance & Engagement - Lalaga

WHO: All whanau, board members and teachers

The group has three main focuses including:

• To Communicate- connect and build strong whānau connections across our 9 schools

• To provide opportunities to be able to come together to share ideas or experiences to help help support our tamariki

• To Empower- our whānau, tamariki and Kura

Solutions and interventions are co-constructed with whanau and students.

Lalaga meets regularly and represents the Kahui Ako at many community events. A successful Back to school event was held at the beginning of the year, a disco at Waterlea in term 2, and a gospel choir meets regularly with children from many of the schools represented. Lalaga are presently organising our second performing arts showcase on the 6th September to be held again at Onehunga High School.

Please go on our Facebook page for more information.

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If you are interested in joining this working group, contact Robyn robync@tepapapa.school.nz  or Paul pleulusoo@onehungaprimary.school.nz 

LSC/SENCO work 

The LSC Collective has continued to meet regularly, both face-to-face and online, to discuss best practices, share professional development that individuals have been involved in, analyse trends and patterns illustrated by our Learning Support Registers, and identify areas of need across our Kāhui Ako and then brainstorm ways to address these needs, gaps and inequities.

Through discussion, inquiry and reflection, the LSC Collective have identified two areas of professional practice that need to be further developed so we are better able to support our whānau and learners with additional needs. These are Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Culturally Responsive Practice. Successful funding applications were made to the MoE to source facilitators to provide this professional learning for the LSC Collective and other members of the Kāhui Ako (SENCos, APs, DPs, etc).

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Te Iti Kahurangi Kāhui Ako has engaged the services of Thane Williams from Cyclone to provide learning and support around UDL, with a particular focus on enhancing/strengthening curriculum and classroom adaptations for our learners with additional needs. Te Iti Kahurangi has also engaged the services of the team at Poutama Pounamu to provide guidance and to walk alongside us as we journey down the path that is Culturally Responsive Practice.

LSCs have spent time identifying and analysing trends within the Learning Support Registers (LSRs) of their respective schools. They have found that there is a significant number of learners across our schools that are on the Autism Spectrum and another large group with ADHD. At this stage, we are planning to improve our understanding of these areas and how we can better support these learners across the Kāhui Ako.

Transition Project teams have continued to meet and discuss possible pathways and procedures at key transition points for our learners with additional needs. Whānau, ECE providers, and members from the MOE and RTLB Service have attended meetings both online and face-to-face and have made valuable contributions to the discussion and planning processes.

An across-school LSC/SENCo whanaungatanga group has been established. The purpose of the group is to make links across the six primary schools (Te Papapa, Onehunga, Waterlea, Oranga, Māngere Bridge, and St Joseph’s) that the four shared LSCs work with. We meet to share best practices, brainstorm ideas, network and discuss ways that the skills and knowledge of the LSCs can be best utilised to support our whānau and learners with additional needs.

Cultural Capabilities - Poutama Pounamu

This year, we are working with Dawn Lawrence and her team from Poutama Pounamu ~ accredited cultural capability educators from the University of Waikato. Dawn supports kaiako and schools to: