Tauranga Intermediate

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Tauranga Intermediate
Address
30 18th Avenue, The Avenues, Tauranga
Coordinates	37°42′49″S 176°09′16″E / 37.7136°S 176.1545°E / -37.7136; 176.1545
Information
Type	State Co-educational Intermediate
Motto	Kimihia kia taea Explore and Achieve
Established	1958
Ministry of Education Institution no.	1990
Principal	Cameron Mitchell
School roll	1250
Socio-economic decile	5
Website	tauranga-int.school.nz

Tauranga Intermediate is an Intermediate school situated in Tauranga, New Zealand. It is the largest in the country, with over 1,300 students in 45 classrooms.

Tauranga Intermediate, since the early days of the school, has had house groups which over the years have changed very much.

• In the 1980s there were four houses:

Matai, Tawa, Rimu and Kauri.

• Sometime in the late 1990s two additional houses were created, these being Totara and Rata.
• In 2006 3 new houses were created being Miro, Kahikatea and Tanekaha.
• In 2009 A new house Manuka was created.

House Colours:

• Miro (Orange)
• Tawa (Dark Blue)
• Totara (Purple)
• Tanekaha (Light Blue)
• Matai (Yellow)
• Kahikatea ([Light Green)
• Rata (Black)
• Rimu (Red)
• Kauri (Dark Green)
• Manuka (Pink)^[1]

In 1993, Mr. Brian Diver became principal of Tauranga Intermediate School, but at the end of Term 1 in 2019, he resigned and was replaced by deputy principal Mr. Cameron Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell's old place of deputy principal was replaced by Mr. Arthur, who has worked as deputy principal years before.

• Tauranga Intermediate's school website
• Kaka Street Intermediate Satellite Class webpage
• AIMS Games