Megan Rangiuia is no stranger to teaching and leading at local kura (schools).
After 13 years at Ilminster Intermediate School in Gisborne, including five as its tumuaki (principal), Megan is “elated” to return home after her appointment to step into Broadgreen Intermediate School’s top job.
She will take over as principal from Pete Mitchener who departed in April after seven years at the helm.
Megan says she has deep connections in Te Tau Ihu (Top of the South), with generations of family who have farmed in Golden Bay since arriving in Nelson in the 1840s, and her three children were born in Nelson.
She had been a deputy principal at Waimea Intermediate School between 2002 and 2004 and was a Richmond Primary School-based resource teacher of learning and behaviour for the Waimea cluster from 2009 to 2010.
“Lots of good reasons to move back home to Nelson,” she says. “[My plans are to] continue the good work that’s been done [at Broadgreen Intermediate], build on the success of the kura, and make it the best that it can be.
“My first priority is to get to know the school, the students, the kaiako [teachers] and the community… there will be lots of people who I’ll reach out to when I’ve got my actual feet under the desk.”
A spokesperson for Broadgreen Intermediate School says its principal vacancy attracted a high calibre of strong applicants. They say Megan has a proven track record of being able to build an innovative school, focussed on achievement and in which whānau are engaged and students and staff are thriving.
Deputy principal Craig Maybee will be the school’s acting principal before Megan officially starts her new role in October.
