This will mean that your child will have a Nest Teacher but may work with a different teacher in a variety of curriculum areas. Our bigger spaces and our single cell learning spaces have also adopted this philosophy of teaching and learning. Students are being taught to be self directed and self regulated learners who can drive their learning by knowing their next learning steps and by identifying the tools and strategies they need to use to achieve their learning goals. 

They will also get the opportunity to further develop their gardening skills and help take care of our school garden. Students will be planting, learning about what is in season, and using the produce as part of their kitchen recipes.

Kaitiakitanga (Guardianship/Protection practices and values) and Maramataka (Traditional Maori Lunar Calendar) are an important focus within all our GTT sessions.

In our Garden to Table sessions, all students will be learning about how we can take care of our environment by reducing our waste. We at Hobsonville School want to reduce our waste. We will be promoting Waste Free lunches every day of the week. This encourages all students to bring no waste to school and to empty their food out of their individual packets. This will help our school reduce its overall amount of rubbish in our bins, and rubbish that is left outside during break times.