Next week your child will be meeting their new teachers and the teams they will be in. As our learning spaces are now completed we have been able to review what spaces will meet the needs for our teaching and learning in 2021.

Our numbers in our year groups vary considerably which has resulted in us reconfiguring which year levels will be in which spaces. 

Staff has spent a considerable amount of time discussing and reviewing what went well during the lockdown. One of the areas that was recognised was the strengths of relationships and how we could continue to build these within our school structure and our learning spaces. During the last 5 years our year 7-8 students have worked together in the same space as one group working at level 4 of the curriculum. This has enabled the students, parents and staff to build strong relationships and minimise the changes for the students over a two year period. 

As this model has been so successful in building connections we are extending it across the school in 2021. This will enable the students to have some teachers who know them from previous years and have already built relationships with them. Each team will relate to the New Zealand curriculum level for their ages. This is a common model used in collaborative learning environments across schools in Canterbury. 

We will have 4 teams and they will use the new names gifted to our buildings by our local Rūnunga.  The names of the building relate to our Cultural Narrative and are not year level specific.

Our teams will be 

Year 7/8 Team Pātere Level 4 of the NZ curriculum

Year 5 /6 Team Kōmingo Level 3 of the NZ curriculum

Year 3 /4 Team Huatau Level 2 of the NZ curriculum

Year 1/2 Team Rurutu Level 1 of the NZ curriculum

Reception Year 0 Taiheke -beginning Level 1 of the NZ curriculum

We would like to invite our families to a shared breakfast with you and your child in their new spaces and to share the new routines.