Aquinas College, Tauranga

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Aquinas College

Motto	Tene Veritatem "Hold Fast to Truth"
Type	Catholic co-educational collegiate and intermediate (Year 7-13)
Year established	2003
Address	183 Pyes Pa Road, Pyes Pa, Tauranga
Coordinates
Principal	Mr. Brendan Schollum
School roll	720
Socio-economic decile (10 is highest)	9^[1]
Ministry of Education Institution no.	482
Website	http://www.aquinas.school.nz

Aquinas College is a state integrated Special Character school on the south western outskirts of Tauranga City, New Zealand. It is a Roman Catholic Co-educational combined collegiate and intermediate (yrs 7-13). It was founded in 2003 with St. Thomas Aquinas as its patron by the first Principal Brendon Schollum, a former Catholic monk.

The school colours are green and navy blue. First formers (Yr 7) to fifth formers (Yr 11) wear white (female) or dark blue (male) blouse/shirts with navy shorts or green skirt. Sixth and seventh form (Yr 12-13) wear a Green Blazer with navy skirt or trousers. All students wear the blue and gold school tie from term 2 until term 3 along with the winter uniform, which changes back to the summer uniform in term 4.

1 House system
2 Sport
3 Curriculum
4 References and Further Reading
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] House system

The school has four houses. They are:

Foy
Cluny
Heni Pore
Browne

Each house is represented by a different colour - gold for Foy, blue for Cluny, red for Heni Pore and purple for Browne. The annual House Championship is fiercely contested for.

[edit] Sport

Aquinas fields numerous teams across a wide range of sports, with many teams and individuals representing the College regionally and nationally, including, but not limited to: basketball, rugby, soccer, water polo, softball, tennis, rowing and clay pigeon shooting.