Te Puke High School

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Te Puke High School is a state, co-educational secondary school located in Te Puke, New Zealand. The school serves students from Year 9 to Year 13, and had a roll of 915 students as of February 2017.StudentsThe two largest ethnic groups at the school are New Zealand European, which comprises 45% of students, and Māori, which comprises 37%. The rest of the school comprises of 5% Indian, 4% Other European, 3% Kiribati, 2% Other Pacific, 2% South East Asian, 1% Other Asian and 1% Other. 51% of students are female, and 49% are male.CurriculumTe Puke High School redesigned the Junior School Curriculum around 2015-2016, for "21st Century Learning" moving away from the traditional isolated subject classes and enhanced the Integrated Learning approach. They created "Themes" consisting of five core subjects, English, History/Social Science, Mathematics, Physical Education/Health and Science, in which all five subjects are taught in a cross-curricular approach. They created SPINS which have been traditionally called "Options" . The final aspect was Foci. Foci's are where students can enhance a deeper understanding/knowledge into a particular interest of two subjects