Our Values
These values are based on community feedback, board/leadership team ideas, and also on international research highlighting the key skills that are most valued in society and the workplace.
We want our learners (both children and adults) to be:
Confident
Creative
Curious
Collaborative
Community-minded
We want to prepare our learners for their futures. Whatever that future brings, we know they need to be highly skilled. In order to achieve this, we believe these core values will enable Te Ao Mārama School learners to not only be more successful in their schooling and career, but more importantly life ready.
This word cloud shows the feedback from parents and community, with the size of the words reflecting the number of times each word was mentioned. You can easily see the "5C's" emerge. Other key words (e.g. empathy and resilient) will be incorporated into the "unpacked" versions of our values. e.g. empathy is a big part of being community-minded, resilient can be linked to challenge (one of our vision principles).
We will develop a deeper meaning around each of these values, working alongside our staff and students.