Our learning environment empowers learners by:
- Being learner centred and learner directed – we know and value our learners
- Having a focus on thinking and learning to learn
- Empowering all students to learn and achieve to the best of their abilities and to seek personal excellence
- Being interactive
- Having effective modelling
- Promoting risk taking
- Having specific expectations – understanding what they are learning, why they are learning it and how they will be able to use their new learning
- Catering for individual learning styles and needs
- Utilising a range of assessment strategies for feed back and feed forward
- Being safe, secure and fun
- Catering for the whole child
- Motivating and stimulating learners
- Being well planned and implemented
- Having high expectations
Providing authentic contexts for learning and multiple opportunities to learn - Valuing everyone as a learner
- Fostering independent, self managed learners
- Reflecting up to date curriculum knowledge and teaching practices
- Being well resourced
- Working in partnership with families and communities
- Using ICT and integrated inquiry approaches to open up new and different ways of learning to; overcome barriers of distance and time, create communities of learners that extend beyond the classroom, experience customized learning and use a range of tools
- Ensuring all students experience a curriculum that reflects New Zealand’s bicultural heritage and its multicultural society
- Ensuring our children are physically active each day