Kia Aroha College
Kia Aroha College is a co-educational composite school in the South Auckland suburb of Clover Park, New Zealand, catering for students from Year 1 to Year 13. The school opened in 1981 as Clover Park Intermediate School, later becoming a middle school and in 2011, merged with Te Whānau o Tupuranga to become Kia Aroha College. There are two bilingual streams within the school: Te Whānau o Tupuranga, which offers bilingual courses for high school students in Māori, and the Fanau Pasifika section, which offers bilingual education in Samoan and Tongan. History The school opened in 1981 as Clover Park Intermediate School, a two-year intermediate school for year 7 and 8 students. The school was the first English/Māori bilingual intermediate school in New Zealand. In 1995 after lobbying from parents who wanted students to continue to benefit from the whānau (extended family) environment of the school, the school became Clover Park Middle School, offering classes to year 9 and 10 students. In 2006, Te Whānau o Tupuranga was established as a stand-alone bilingual year 7-12 high school, sharing a campus with Clover Park Middle School. For many years, Pasifika students enrolled at the school to continue their studies, and to