Through the Hobsonville School life skills programme, students will learn a range of skills that will help them throughout their life.

It will provide the students opportunities to explore activities they may not already know. Some of these activities will involve financial skills which will help them with budgeting and saving, fixing a bike (putting on a chain, changing the tire, and puncture repair), sewing buttons onto shirts, and assembling tents. In Technology, students are negegating their way through the range of tasks and using the 5 key competencies (K.C.) to be the best they can be. These K.C. are; thinking, managing self, relating to others, using language, symbols and text, and participating and contributing.

On my journey to be a teacher at Hobsonville School I have had a range of different jobs that have built me to the teacher I am today. Some of these jobs were, working in retail, building, architectural draughting, cleaning, early childhood teaching, a high school support worker, and a part time tennis coach. These jobs have helped add on to the skills I learnt growing up in rural Rotorua. I strongly believe that students need to be taught everything so they can succeed in life and the life skill programme is designed to give our students the opportunity to do so.