Southern Cross Campus
Southern Cross Campus is a composite school that caters for students in Years 1-13 in the suburb of Mangere East in Manukau City, South Auckland, New Zealand. The school has deep ties to the Mangere East community by providing education, facilities, and programmes for the wider use of the whole school. It is a MÄori and Pacific Islands ethnic school, with students of European , Asian, and other ethnicities as a 0.5% minority.Southern Cross Campus is a fairly new school to the Mangere ward of Manukau City, by being an institute amalgamated with three previous schools in the area: Southern Cross Primary School, Mangere Intermediate School, and Nga Tapuwae College. Southern Cross Campus was founded by Terry Bates , the first Campus Director of the school. It now comprises four schools: Southern Cross Junior School , Southern Cross Middle School , Southern Cross Senior School , and Te Kura Maori o Nga Tapuwae .The educational aim of the Campus is "to provide a seamless education for students, so that school transitions are easy and that the student will have total confidence in moving from each level of schooling – providing them with environmental confidence that would improve academic attainment in the classroom as they progress to senior levels of education". "Southern Stars: Campus Magazine" is an annual school publication.