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Tongan: "Ko Tonga Mo'unga Ki He Loto" ("A Tongan's Mountain Is His Heart")
Denomination
Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga
Established
1866
Founder
Rev. Dr. James Egan Moulton
Principal
Rev. 'Alifeleti 'Atiola
Head of school
Rev. Alafua Fisi'ihoi
Gender
Male
Age
11 to 18+
Enrollment
1000+ (2021)
Average class size
25
Language
Tongan, English
Hours in school day
7
Classrooms
21
Colour(s)
Blue, White and Black
Nickname
Tongan: "Vaotā Koula" ("The Golden Forest"); T.C.T.
Website
www.tupou.to
Tupou College is a Methodist boys' secondary boarding school in Toloa on the island of Tongatapu, Tonga. It is located on the Eastern District of Tongatapu near the village of Malapo. The school is owned by the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga. Established in 1866 by James Egan Moulton, it claims to be the oldest secondary school in the Pacific Islands. Enrolment is some 1,000 pupils. Tupou College was first established at Nuku'alofa at the location on which Queen Salote College stands today. From there it moved to Nafualu, Sia'atoutai on the site where Sia’atoutai Theological College now stands. In 1948, the school last moved to Toloa in the Eastern District of Tongatapu where it still stands today.
Tupou College's brother school is Newington College, located in Sydney, Australia. Rev Moulton was the founding headmaster of both Newington College and Tupou College.
Missionary A. Harold Wood was Principal from 1924 to 1937, during which time the school expanded from 30 students to almost 400. The first Tongan principal of the school was Rev. Sione Siupeli Taiamoni Taliai who was principal from 1970–1979.
The College has a 750-acre (3.0 km2) campus, on which crops of vegetables and fruit are grown. This includes an area of forest noted in Tonga as the Toloa Rainforest Reserve containing a variety of plant species endemic to Tonga as well as those no longer found in other parts of the kingdom. The forest is far smaller in size today then when they first moved there because of the construction of the airport, University of the Nations at Lafalafa and clearance for extra farmland. Tree planting projects have been carried out in the previous years within the forest to ensure the survival and continuous growth of the unique species found at Toloa.[1]
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Sydney in 1892. He was ordained and was appointed to the staff of the TupouCollege where he was Principal until 1905. On his return to Sydney he served...
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Vi of Fahefa Estate, Tongatapu. He was educated at TupouCollege and finishing off at Wesley College and Grammar School, Auckland, New Zealand. In 1946...
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with the Methodist Church of Australasia. Prior to the reforms of George Tupou II in 1898, the Established Church was known as the 'Wesleyan Free Church'...
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presided over the Methodist church and established TupouCollege, patronised by King George Tupou I. During his time in Tonga, a schism formed within...
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