last updated Tue 29 Jan 08
Primary School
The primary school delivers the following essential learning areas of the New Zealand National Curriculum:
- Mathematics
- Science
- The Arts
- Technology
- English
- Health and Physical Education
- Social Sciences
In delivering the curriculum, individualised programmes for students allow a focus to be placed on the development of the essential skills:
- Communication skills
- Numeracy skills
- Information skills
- Problem solving skills
- Self-management and competitive skills
- Social and Cooperative skills
- Physical skills
- Work and study skills
In addition, students in the primary school have access to a local curriculum which includes:
- Deaf Studies
- Literacy
- Speech/Language