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To be a learning community, committed to excellence, where all people grow to their best potential and help others to do the same.
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 The Clover Park Middle School logo was designed by students, PSA Tofa and Miri Paroma, and adopted in 1994.
The two halves show our Maori and Pacific Island cultures joined together. The bottom half is a Pacific design and can be interpreted as the roots from which Maori culture derived. The top half incorporates a heart shape to symbolise aroha - our school motto is Kia Aroha (through aroha).
The top part can also be seen as a flax (harakeke) plant with the children in the centre, the parents supporting them and both surrounded by the extended family.
The light and dark signify contrast, and the balance of opposites which lie in each and every one of us.
The Clover Park Middle School saying, "more than just a school" was adopted in 1995 to show the school as a whanau.
Te Whanau o Tupuranga’s name came from the whakatauki, Ka ruia te kakano kei te rangatahi, kia tipu ai nga hua, whangaia ki nga tupuranga. (Plant the seed in the young. It will flourish and bear fruit to nourish future generations). Originally named just Tupuranga the name was extended to Te Whanau o Tupuranga - again to encompass the concept of whanau.
Tupuranga also continues to use the original slogan from 1986, "Pai rawa atu i nga mea katoa" (the very best in all things).
The Kia Aroha motto applies to both schools and is used as the name of our school marae.
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The original symbol, adopted by Te Whanau o Tupuranga, in 1986 depicts the child at the centre with both school and home whanau wrapped around and providing nourishment.
Since 1990, with the growth of the whanau to include Years 9 and 10 students, the symbol has also been used to denote the 3 age groups in Tupuranga - the Yr.7 child (teina) at the centre supported by the Yr.8 (tuakana) and Yrs. 9/10 (pakeke) students.
In the new logo Manukau artist, Terry Klavenes Kolomatangi, (Manukau artist of the mural in Clover Park school library and the Botany Downs library) has retained the original concept of three koru and added a fourth koru to show the addition of another age group to the whanau - the Year 11 to 13 students and their role in the whanau. The three curving lines that partly surround the koru represent the past, present and future of Te Whanau o Tupuranga.
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