February 20, 2020
Hope springs for school coexistence
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The opening of a new campus for Ngā Puna o Waiōrea is being hailed as a significant milestone for bicultural education in the state school system.
Tumuaki Chris Selwyn says it's the product of 30 years of innovation and evolution at Western Springs School, as what started as a Māori unit became a school within a school and now a school alongside a school.
That is reflected in the co-governance constitution gazetted last year by the Ministry of Education.
"That sense of our rangatiratanga, of our mana motuhake, so the two can sit alongside each other. On a physical level, the students see that each day in terms of the resourcing from the ministry to both Western Springs College and Ngā Puna o Waiorea and therefore being able to run the two kura co-existing side by side," Mr Selwyn says.
The Jasmax-designed building will be opened by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Associate Education Minister Kelvin Davis tomorrow morning.
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