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Kaipara Flats School principal Gary O’Brien has resigned after three years to take up the position of principal at Torbay School in Auckland.
Mr O’Brien joined Kaipara Flats following five years as a Year 8 teacher at Mahurangi College.
“It was a big transition to go to a rural school, but the community has been outstanding,” Mr O’Brien says.
“I will have to make another big transition moving from a school of 100 pupils to 600, but I will take all the skills I’ve learnt from my role at Kaipara Flats.”
Mr O’Brien says highlights of his term at the school included the school show days and the $45,000 turf construction.
The new principal will be Debbie Hamer, who also comes from a Year 8 teaching position at Mahurangi College.
