Tereora College
Tereora College | |
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Address | |
PO Box 107 Avarua Rarotonga | |
Coordinates | 21°12′19″S 159°48′26″W / 21.2053°S 159.80713°WCoordinates: 21°12′19″S 159°48′26″W / 21.2053°S 159.80713°W |
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Motto | Cook Islands Māori: Kia Toa (Be Brave) |
Established | 1895 / 1954 |
Principal | Tania Morgan |
Years offered | 9-13 |
Gender | Coeducational |
School roll | 760[1] |
Website | https://www.tereora.edu.ck/ |
Tereora College is a secondary school in Nikao, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. It is the oldest secondary school in the Cook Islands and the national college of the Cook Islands for Year 9-13 students.
The school was first established in 1895 by the London Missionary Society. It closed in 1911 by the New Zealand colonial administration.[2] It was re-opened in 1954 as a public school.[3] The junior school offers the Cook Islands National Curriculum, while the senior school offers levels 1 - 3 of the New Zealand National Certificate of Educational Achievement.
The school buildings were built in the 1950s,[3] but by 2015 were old and damp.[4] In 2015 during the celebrations of the Cook Islands' 50th anniversary of self-government, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced an $11.7 million gift to redevelop the college.[4] The redevelopment was to be designed by two former students who had studied architecture in New Zealand, and run in partnership with the .[5] New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern opened stage one of the redevelopment in March 2018.[6][7]
A book on the early history of the school, Below the Bluff at Nikao, was published in 1995.[8]
School Anau[]
The school groups students into four anau each named for a mountain on Rarotonga:[9]
Ikurangi | |
Te Kou | |
Maungaroa | |
Te Manga |
Students stay in the same anau class for their whole time at school.[10]
Notable alumni[]
- Pa George Karika (born 1893), soldier and ariki
- Jim Marurai (born 1947), 8th Prime Minister of the Cook Islands
- Mike Tavioni (born 1947), arist
- Mark Brown, Deputy Prime Minister of the Cook Islands
- Teariki Heather (born 1959), politician and Deputy Prime Minister of the Cook Islands
- Margharet Matenga (born 1955/56), netball player, NZ Silver Ferns & Cook Is
- Ngamau Munokoa (born 1944), Cabinet Minister and the first woman Deputy Prime Minister
- Tina Browne, lawyer and Democratic party leader
- William (Smiley) Heather (born 1958), former Democratic Party leader
- Terepai Maoate Jnr (born 1961), MP
References[]
- ^ "Students". Tereroa College. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ Sissons, Jeffrey (1999). Nation and Destination: Creating Cook Islands Identity. Rarotonga: University of the South Pacific. pp. 13–14. ISBN 982-315-002-8.
- ^ a b Richard Gilson (1980). The Cook Islands, 1820-1950. Wellington: Victoria University Press. p. 214 fn. ISBN 0-7055-0735-1.
- ^ a b Jo Moir (5 August 2015). "Kiwi cash boost for ageing Rarotonga school". Stuff. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ "Tereora College Redevelopment Plan". Cook Islands Investment Corporation. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ "Buildings officially opened". Cook Islands News. 9 March 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ "Tereora College welcomes PM Ardern". TeAoMāori.News. 9 March 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ "Below the bluff at Nikao". Pacific Islands Monthly. Vol. 65, no. 9. 1 September 1995. p. 57. Retrieved 9 August 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Anau". Tereroa College. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ "Tereora adopts anau system". Cook Islands News. 11 March 2013. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- Schools in the Cook Islands
- Avarua
- Educational institutions established in 1895
- 1896 establishments in the British Empire