Growing student leadership is a key focus for our senior students.
Many of our students aspire to be a student leader in their final year at Tairangi School. 

Senior students are provided with opportunities to :

• Lead in areas of personal strength.

• Lead school activities such as running assemblies, hosting visitors, or inducting and looking after new students.

• Lead or have input into activities e.g. Kapa Haka, clubs, enviro-schools, sport, or health.

• Experience mentoring programmes for student leaders, peer, buddy, tuakana–teina approaches, whānau, or house groupings.

Tuakana-Teina is a traditional Māori cultural philosophy and practice; literally referring to the relationship between an older and younger sibling, or close family members like cousins. 

It is when an older or more expert tuakana (brother, sister or cousin) helps and guides a younger or less expert teina.

The tuakana-teina relationship is an integral part of Te Ao Māori (Māori world) and it provides a model for peer learning.  It refers to the relationship between an older (tuakana) or more expert person, and a younger (teina) or less expert person.  These roles can be reversed at any time depending on the circumstances.

Our learning spaces promote tuakana-teina relationships across all our learning and play activity.