Curriculum

Under review: Our Local Curriculum Delivery

Programmes of literacy (reading, writing, vocabulary development) and mathematics/statistics are your child’s core learning each day.

As part of ‘Student Inquiry Learning’, we seek to engage with our local community as a base for our students’ studies. We have four themes a year and bring the local environment and local interests into our learning experiences. Themes for 2025 are:

• Living the Dream – Social Science focus
• Inspired to Create – The Arts / Technology focus
• Our Journey – Social Science focus
• Eureka! – Science focus

Teachers develop these themes into learning programmes based on the NZ Curriculum – the refreshed learning areas and their learning objectives.

Year 7 students choose to engage in ‘Specialties’ such as: Robotics, Foodstorm, Bike maintenance, Dance, Ukelele, Minecraft, Gardening and Technology design, and consider careers that might arise from these activities. Our Year 8 students go by bus to Maangere College each week for technology lessons and the Year 7 Specialties programme is taught at School.

We enjoy talking with parents /whaanau /aiga each year about what learning is important to you, for your children, and how to best build that into our programmes.