Taradale High School

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Taradale High School

Motto	N/A
Type	State Secondary School
Year established	1970
Address	Murphy Road, Taradale, Napier
Coordinates
Principal	Stephen Hensman
School roll	1020
Socio-economic decile (10 is highest)	8^[1]
Ministry of Education Institution no.	0215
Website	Taradale High School

Taradale High School (THS), is a co-educational secondary school situated in the suburb of Taradale in Napier, New Zealand. Taradale High School accommodates from years 9-13. The school currently has an attendance role of approximately 1020 students (ranging over the five years of age) as of February 2008.

1 Senior Management Team
2 Facilities
3 Broomstick case
4 Student Support
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Senior Management Team

The Senior Management Team provides the educational leadership at Taradale High School. The team of Taradale High School consists of:

Mr Stephen Hensman,
Mr John Marshall, Deputy Principal with responsibility for day-to-day management
Mrs Barbara Irving, Deputy Principal with responsibility for learning and teaching
Mr Al Bain & Mrs Liz Drury, Assistant Principals with responsibility for student discipline and welfare.

[edit] Facilities

Taradale High School is well resourced with modern facilities which include a learning support centre, a gymnasium, a music and drama suite, four computer suites, an extensive technology complex and an attractive environment with extensive sports grounds. A state of the art food technology / hospitality facility was commissioned in 2006 and has since been completed along with a dance studio as part of a major gymnasium refit.

[edit] Broomstick case

Taradale High School received unfavourable attention nationally when six pupils sodomised another student with a broomstick at a party at one of the students homes on the evening ofOctober 17, 2001. The boys were convicted of sexual assault and forced to serve jail sentences of between 2 and 2.5 years. The incident led to issues in following years such as students from other schools referring to Taradale as 'Broomsdale Highschool'.^[2]^[3]

[edit] Student Support

Taradale High School has a long running tradition of having student leaders to help with tasks and leadership roles around the school. But this did not stop the entire region being in shock after what can only be regarded as 'the broomstick incident'. The school support system was in disarray after this incident and the schools reputation has never fully recovered, though recent roll growth would indicate that much of the stigma has faded.