Pursuant to section 158B of the Education Act 1989, I hereby give the following notice:

1. I hereby approve Te Runanga o Tūranganui a Kiwa to be a sponsor of a Partnership School Kura Hourua.
2. The name of the sponsor’s school is Tūranga Tangata Rite.
3. The sponsor’s school will be located in Gisborne.
4. Tūranga Tangata Rite will be a co-educational junior secondary school.
5. Education at Tūranga Tangata Rite will be given for class levels 9 to 11.
6. Tūranga Tangata Rite is permitted to provide religious instruction to students.
7. Tūranga Tangata Rite will operate with the following aims, purposes and objectives:
   1. to be a unique, iwi driven and responsive, Years 9 to 11 School which will meet students’ preferred learning styles and will not be restricted to a traditional classroom setting;
   2. to offer a physical, culturally safe learning environment with high quality teaching that revolves around students being linked to their iwi, hapū, marae and communities with a high focus on achievement;
   3. effective governance that places students at the centre as an Iwi in catering to the individual learning needs of students; and
   4. to move students from a position of unrealised potential, to one where their potential, as active, empowered contributing members of society, secure in their own cultural identity, and with a wide variety of options for their future, is unlimited.
8. This notice shall come into force the day after its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

Dated at Auckland this 6th day of September 2017.

Hon NIKKI KAYE, Minister of Education.