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Listen to our Student Leaders and Tū Rangatira Students.

Enthusiastic staff members foster student leadership and development through a great variety of cultural activities, actively engaging students in expanding their social and personal cultural awareness and leadership skills.

The Te Reo Māori and Tikanga learning pathways at Rangitoto College focus on building our learners’ confidence, competence and connections. This is seen through our Tū Rangatira programme, through community celebrations, wānanga series, and our ever growing academic pathways – Te Reo, Carving and Te Ao Haka (Māori Performing Arts).

Student led groups and clubs provide rich engagement opportunities to their fellow students. We have over 85 clubs and 35 service opportunities that celebrate international arts events, champion charitable causes and provide avenues for students to explore their passions and foster friendships.

Students serve and make positive contributions that address the needs of their wider community. Needs such as restoring native ecology networks, pest and predator prevention, providing Service to our neighbouring Knightsbridge Retirement Village, recycling chip packets to be manipulated into thermal blankets or support for our wider community through our Community Garden. Students’ efforts are recognised via both the Rangitoto Summit Diploma, Year 11 Diploma and the Student Volunteer Army. In 2024, students provided over 11,000 hours of service to our community

Students are also able to participate in many student leadership opportunities throughout the school. The college has a strong student leadership programme that offers students leadership growth opportunities in many areas of responsibility within our student leadership teams. These teams are led by our Year 13 Student Leaders and are comprised of teams from Year 10 through to Year 12 and lead in areas such as the Arts, Sports, Pastoral Care, Community and Environment and Culture and Globalisation. Specialist Student Leadership teams lead their peers in key cultural areas providing leadership growth and engagement opportunities for our Chinese, Korean, Māori and Pacific Peoples communities.

Te Ahurea Tino Rangatiratanga

The Kapa Haka group train twice a week and enter the prestigious Te Ahurea Tino Rangatiratanga Auckland Competition in Term 4 annually.

Pīpīwharauroa Festival

Our bi-annual Pīpīwharauroa Festival celebrates the migration of the Pīpīwharauroa bird from the Pacific Islands to Aotearoa during spring. The event ia a culmination of our journey in learning mātauranga Māori at school. Our community of Māori and Pacific performers came together to honor mātauranga through the maramataka, celebrating the deep connection between place and people. With diverse food stalls and a rich array of captivating performances, the festival beautifully highlighted the diversity of our school.

ASB Polyfest

We are extremely proud of our students’ contributions to the diversity of Rangitoto College.

Our students’ outstanding performances at the ASB Polyfest are truly memorable.

In recent years, Rangitoto College was represented by our amazing Chinese and Korean cultural teams on the diversity stage.  It was an amazing experience with our Chinese Team performing a traditional sleeve dance and our Korean Team a fan dance.  The students performed exceptionally well and it was an amazing experience.  In 2025 the Chinese cultural team achieved 2 placements on the diversity stage.

 

Chinese dance starts 4:14:18 and ends 4:21:40

Korean dance starts 4:35:40 and ends 4:43:30

Student Testimonial

Cuba Rihari (Alumnus)

Kia Ora, my name is Cuba Rihari and my experience at Rangitoto College as a Year 13 student of Māori and Pasifika descent was extremely enjoyable. I was able to connect with many other students and teachers throughout my time at this school and I have enjoyed every moment of it.

In Year 9 and 10 I had the opportunity of joining the Cultural Committee which was amazing because it helped me develop my leadership skills and also helped me step out of my comfort zone. In Year 13, I was fortunate enough to be a part of the Māori and Pasifika Leadership Team and the Tū Rangatira Tutor class where we based our goals around Māori and Pasifika students to help strengthen our community. I was in the school’s Kapa Haka group where we trained hard for lots of performances and events which contributed to the school’s success.

These cultural groups allowed me to deepen my connection with my peers and my teachers because they taught me strong values such as pride, integrity and respect within the school. Also in Year 9 and 10, I was involved in a wide range of sporting activities such as the Sports Performance Academy, the junior premier volleyball team, and I had the privilege to get accepted into the senior premier volleyball team and the 1st XV rugby team. I am extremely passionate about volleyball and I know that if I work hard enough I can achieve my dream scholarship to the States.

Rangitoto is truly a special school because it works hard to ensure that each and every student gets great opportunities to allow them to also pursue their goals in life as well.

These have been extremely great opportunities for me because I believe that they have allowed me to realise the importance of my self-identity through the help and guidance of others.

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Auckland 0630
New Zealand