Class Placements 2021

Kia Ora,

Maungaraki School has been extremely busy over the last two weeks. We have had amazing speech competitions, a wonderful cultural sharing day, fun filled athletics days, some neat assemblies and a great quiz night. Thank you so much for supporting your children and the school in the way you do, it is much appreciated.

We are at the mid way point of Term Four and that means that some of the work being done here at school is around planning for 2021 and how that may look. We have a great teaching team and we are very lucky to have most of these amazing people staying here next year.

We do have two sad farewells to make. Kate Shirley and Rebecca Renfrew will be leaving Maungaraki School at the end of the year. Kate has been a part of the team here for the last two years, teaching in the junior and middle areas of the school. She has a passion for seeing play based learning impact on education and is hoping to further explore this in her next role. 

Rebecca has been at Maungaraki School for the last 7 years teaching in the junior school. Rebecca has won a job at Ko Taku Reo as a case worker for children with hearing needs. This has been a passion of hers and she is very excited about her new role. We are sad to say farewell Kate and Rebecca but wish them all the best in their next adventure.

The teaching team will look like this in 2021.

2021

KĀKANO TEAM - Year 1 & 2

Trish Cherry - Team Leader
Stephanie Ross
Caeleen Wolmarans
Jen Long
Michaela Schauer

Key Information

This team will be led by Trish Cherry once again in 2021. All of the team have been teaching at Maungaraki School this year and this will provide stability and consistency for our junior children.

We will begin the year with five classrooms. Three year 1 and 2 mixed classrooms and two more year one classrooms. These year 1 students will be our youngest students and will grow during the first half of the year as new students join us. Once these classrooms are full a new classroom will open up in approximately June of 2021.

Class sizes : Between 15 - 24 students

TIPU TEAM - Year 3 & 4

Chris Cowman - Team Leader
Chris McCullough
Nicola Prichard
Valerie Archer
Moira Hooper

Key Information

This team will be led by Chris Cowman once again in 2021. All of the team have been teaching at Maungaraki School in 2020 with three of the team currently teaching at this level. This will provide stability and consistency for the children in our Tipu syndicate. We will have four classrooms in Tipu made up of Year 3 and 4 students. Moira Hooper will teach one day a week in Chris Cowman and Chris McCullough's classrooms.

Class sizes : 22 students

KORU TEAM - Year 5 & 6

Hazel Andis - Team Leader
Kim Webby
Kayleigh Maclean
Ben Glue

Key Information

This team will be led by Hazel Andis once again in 2021. Three of the team have been teaching in the Koru team at Maungaraki School in 2020 and they will be welcoming Ben Glue in 2021. Ben is an experienced teacher who has been working at Churton Park and brings an expertise for teaching this year level and a passion for sports. We will have four classrooms in Koru made up of Year 5 and 6 students.

Class sizes : 24 students

FERN TEAM - Year 7 & 8

Ben Young - Team Leader
Alle Pollard-Smith
Sarah Cappleman
Caro Wills .2

Key Information

This team will be led by Ben Young once again in 2021. The Fern team will be largely the same as they welcome Alle Pollard-Smith in 2021. We will have three classrooms in Fern made up of Year 7 and 8 students.

Class sizes : 29 students

Class Placements

We are currently in the midst of looking at class placements for 2021. Staff look at a wide range of factors to make classrooms lists that best suit the learning and social needs of all children. If you do have something additional that you would like to be taken into consideration as we look at these lists please contact me within the next week - at principal@maungaraki.school.nz or alternatively call the office to make an appointment to meet.

As always, if you have any questions about this please contact me.

Nga Mihi Nui

Shane Robinson
Principal