Student Leadership

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Peer Mediators

Peer Mediation is about students helping students.

At Trentham School we have the “Cool Schools Peer Mediation Programme” running in the classroom and playground. A group of selected senior students have been trained to help other children in the playground solve conflicts that may arise. The skills the children learn are life skills which can be applied to everyday conflicting situations.

The Peer Mediators do a fantastic job to keep our school a happy and safe place.

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School Patrol

The road patrols are run by senior students who are volunteers. They are trained by the Police Education Officer.

The students are rostered on one day per week. They operate the ‘lollipops’ on the Moonshine Road crossing or at the traffic lights on Fergusson Drive. Each crossing is policed by an adult.

Every day five student patrollers are on duty. On cold mornings patrollers are warmed up with a hot cup of milo when they return to class.

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Sports Leaders

Students help lead and run lunchtime sport activities for both our Koru and Patu students and help with school events such as the Triathlon, Te Oma Whakanikoniko (Colour Run) /Cross Country and our annual Athletics Day.

Sports leaders are selected for their role based on speeches given to their class peers, votes from their class peers and recommendations from last year’s students and teachers of Year 5 and 6 classes.

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Te Roopu Kaiarahi

‘Te Roopu Kaiārahi’ is the name for our student leaders who organise fundraisers, represent and collect student ‘voice’, run events and support projects within the school.


Student leaders are selected for their role based on speeches given to their class peers, votes from their class peers and recommendations from last year’s students and teachers of Year 5 and 6 classes.

Our Kaiārahi meet weekly to develop their Leadership skills and are actively involved in supporting Hubs throughout the school.

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Office & Assembly Hosts

Office monitors are present in the school office over interval and lunchtime to give the office staff a break and to welcome any visitors who come to the school during this time.

Assembly hosts help to prepare and run the assembly whether it is a school or syndicate assembly. The students introduce themselves with their Pepeha and the script is usually in Te Reo and English. For full school assemblies, the model is a tuakana-teina approach with a more senior class working with a junior class.

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