Curriculum

Literacy

Reading and writing are foundation skills for tamariki to acquire at school. Our teachers plan for daily instructional reading and writing sessions that build on the existing knowledge and interests of tamariki. Teachers match tamariki to their next steps in learning and provide opportunities to practice and embed skills.

Garden to Table

The bountiful garden, food forest, and livestock (bee and chickens) at Kauri Park School allow tamariki to manage and care for these spaces. Using harvests from our kura, students prepare and cook meals whilst experiencing and learning the true value of both community and sustainability. KPS students explore tikanga through the process of eating and growing food together. 

Maths

Through daily mathematics at KPS, learners consolidate their basic facts knowledge and develop a range of strategies to solve problems. In addition, teachers at Kauri Park give tamariki opportunities to explore and learn in statistics, geometry, algebra and measurement. We love using these contexts to develop our collaborative and problem solving skills.

Te Reo/Tikanga

At Kauri Park we value Te Tiriti o Waitangi and integrate it into our way of being. Students learn their Pepeha and participate in a daily tikanga. Our Kapa Haka group performs to the whole school, and as part of our whakatau to welcome new members into our community. Te Reo is a vital part of our learning programme. 

Sports

We offer wide ranging sporting opportunities to our tamariki. These encompass those that are fun and for everyone, as well as those that are competitive and build skills for our serious athletes. Kauri Park tamariki regularly perform well at cluster cross sports events, something that we are all very proud of. Our open grounds encourage a range of sporting and regular exercise and, if you come on the right day, you may even witness one of our legendary Teachers Vs Students football games. 

Health Education Programme

Kauri Park Primary School provides a programme of Health Education within the Health and Physical Education learning area of The New Zealand Curriculum. The programme reflects the school’s strategic direction, values and the identified needs of its ākonga and community.

The programme supports ākonga to develop the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and values needed to maintain and enhance their own hauora and the wellbeing of others. Ākonga learn to recognise the personal, social, cultural and environmental influences on wellbeing and are provided with opportunities to take individual and collective action that promotes healthy people and communities.

Teachers use a range of age-appropriate, inclusive and culturally responsive teaching approaches and contexts that engage ākonga and support the development of the key competencies. Where appropriate, Health Education learning is deliberately integrated with other learning areas within The New Zealand Curriculum.

The Board will regularly inform parents, caregivers, whānau and the wider school community about the content of the Health Education programme and how it will be delivered. The school will also provide information about how parents and caregivers can obtain further information and exercise their rights under section 51 of the Education and Training Act 2020 to request that their child be released from specified parts of the health curriculum.