Graduate Profile
Graduate Profile
Our Graduate Profile articulates the collective aspirations for students learning at Ōtūmoetai College.
An Ōtūmoetai College powerful learner can:
- Collaborate effectively with others
- Value their own and others’ hauora
- Be resourceful and open to possibilities
- Connect and apply their learning for success
- Be an effective and confident communicator
- Use a range of media to articulate with clarity
- Take risks in learning and persist through difficulties
- Demonstrate creative and critical/analytical thinking
- Be responsive to context, audience and environment
A citizen of Aotearoa New Zealand can demonstrate the values and principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi through:
- Identity: Kia u ki te Tuakiritanga o te Tangata
- Integrity: Kia Tika ai te Tangata. (Ngākau tapatahi)
- Independence: Kia Mau ki te Mana Motuhake o te Tangata
- Inclusion/inclusiveness: Kia Toro Atu, Toro mai nga mahi a te Tangata (Korowai aroha)
- Initiative: Kia mohio ai te Tangata, He Tikanga to tena, to tena hei whakapakari ake. (Kaiurungi)
- Intellectual stamina: Kia Mau ki te Kura Wananga, ki te Kura Mātauranga. (Te Iti Kahurangi)
A Universal Citizen can:
- Represent themselves, whanau and their community with pride
- Embrace diversity and be intolerant of discrimination
- Participate in co/extra-curricular activities
- Make informed and responsible decisions
- Act in a respectful manner to all
- Contribute to their community
- Use resources sustainably