About

Mission
Tangara works in partnership with parents to form each child’s character, educating for personal and academic excellence.  We challenge our students to live a life of faith, and lead change for a more just and human society.

Vision
Our vision is a happy and vibrant School, highly regarded as a centre of excellence, where every child is encouraged to be the very best person they can be. Parents, staff and students work as a united team for the pursuit of character and academic success, with a commitment to service and a life of faith.

Values
At Tangara we draw from the Christian values of faith, hope and charity. Together with the values of justice, wisdom, fortitude and temperance, they form the foundation of our school’s ethos.

These values guide our teaching and our relationships with staff, parents and students. They are demonstrated in how we interact, speak and respond to one another. At Tangara we believe that students learn more from good role modelling than just mere words.

At Tangara we aim to foster and encourage genuine relationships, where our actions match our values, and where we promote an environment in which people are encouraged to do their best but recognising that mistakes can be made, forgiven and learned from.

• Faith - lived in daily life
• Hope - hearts open to happiness
• Charity - self-giving, love of God and kindness towards others
• Justice - social responsibility and fairness
• Wisdom - discernment in one's choices
• Fortitude - resilience and perseverance in the pursuit of what is good
• Temperance - balance and self-mastery

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Tangara girls know that leadership is first and foremost about character: leaders must be people other people want to follow.

Leading is not about personal ambition, but about serving others. Our aim at Tangara is to form women who will be leaders in all aspects of life.

The 1 on 1 mentoring system is unique to Tangara and other Pared schools. Each student has a staff member as their individual mentor who meets with the child once a fortnight to follow progress in his or her studies, as well as character, moral and social development.

Mentor meetings are informal conversations designed to help each child grow in self-knowledge, character, and set academic and personal goals.

Virtues Program
Fostering the development of character means helping students grow in the virtues needed to flourish as human beings, including responsibility, good judgment, resilience and self-control.  These strong character virtues are forged through student effort in academic studies, creativity, sports, social life, and service.

Tangara’s Virtues Program teaches our students the meaning of these virtues in a theoretical way and most importantly how they can personally live out these virtues.

GIVE Program
In the Junior School, the GIVE program (Growing in Virtue Everyday) allows for specific focus and discussion on a particular virtue each week, exploring practical implications and how it may be integrated into all aspects of life.

Service is integral to the Tangara ethos, from the smallest acts of ‘random’ kindness to the opportunities for magnanimous self-giving offered by service projects with the elderly and disadvantaged, people with disabilities, our Year 10 Community Service Immersion Program and the Year 11 Philippines Project.

Students in Primary and Secondary are involved in a variety of community service experiences where they develop a spirit of generosity. There is no better confirmation of this than the many Tangara Old Girls who continue this tradition of service with their work in Africa, the Philippines and South America.

Whilst all students are encouraged to participate in community service, secondary students are expected to complete 20 hours of community service each year. A range of projects are provided by the school and students are encouraged to take the initiative to organise their own community service opportunities.

Key Parent Functions (KPF) are held in Terms 1-3 and provide an on-going program to assist and support parents in raising their children.

Each KPF is held on an evening as seminars or workshops conducted by experienced leading educators and experts.

Christ is at the centre of our school at the heart of everything we do at Tangara. Our Religious Education Program is guided by the teachings of the Catholic Church.

Tangara was founded on the inspiration of St Josemaria Escriva’s educational vision. He saw that genuine education must be integral, developing the whole person. He tended to use the word ‘formation’ more than education to express the idea that young people needed help to grow in character, emphasising human virtues such as generosity, humility and kindness.

Because he knew that education was more than academics, St Josemaría highlighted that the school’s role is one of supporting the parents in educating and helping to form their child’s character.