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Environment and Facilities - Te taiāo me ngā taiwhanga

Waimea Intermediate School —

As a large intermediate school we have developed facilities to help us meet the specific developmental needs of our students.

  • Modern classrooms,

  • Large integrated library

  • Dance/Drama room, with sprung wooden Floor and mirrored wall

  • Media suite with projector and tiered seating.

  • Outdoor amphitheatre and stage

  • Expansive playing fields

  • Fitness circuit and playground areas

  • Outdoor chess

  • Hard courts ,including a new Basketball Court with Tiger-Turf surface, and traditional concrete surfaces, Netball courts, Ki o rahi and Tapu Ae markings. All weather cricket pitches, football posts.

  • Designated lunchtime skating, scootering hard court area.

  • Permanent Outdoor volleyball courts (under construction)

  • A class set of modern Hard-tail Mountain bikes

  • Kayaks and School Boat

  • Minibus

  • Green screen area for video creation

  • Plenty of large leafy trees for summer shade.

  • Full size athletics running track, and Fully equipped PE Shed.

  • 14+ chromebooks in each classroom

  • Computer suite (30 Windows 11 Computers)

  • Tablet computer pod (iPads)

  • Single Sign On for Office 365 and Google Chrome

  • School wide wired and wireless network, With N4L's Ultra fast, secure and filtered broadband

  • OnSite ICT Support

*Dedicated Specialist Subject Rooms with Passionate and Skillful full-time Teachers

  • Textiles, with traditional and 'State of the art' sewing machines and overlockers and modern Cricut design tools, and embroiding and transfer machines

  • S.T.E.A.M. a traditional Science room with many extras and hands-on equipment, including mBots, aquabots and Epro8

  • Art A dedicated and fully equipped Art Room, with modern and traditonal equipment.

  • Music Multiple rooms with abundant and various instruments, Computers for digital music creation and recording, with a sound-proof room and band practice room. (with Dance Room adjacent)

  • Foods a modern Food Technology teaching kitchen with newly updated appliances.

  • Workshop equipped for traditional materials technology and includes 3D printers, a Laser Cutter and a CNC Router, electronics and plenty of Digital Technology.