Pakuranga Heights School

Pakuranga Heights School

Pakuranga Heights School

Pakuranga Heights School
77 Udys Road,
Pakuranga, Auckland
PO Box 51147, Pakuranga
Phone: (09) 576-9209
Fax: (09) 576-3554
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Programmes at Pakuranga Heights School

The Hive of Learning and our Integrated Curriculum
Since the start of 2004 we have been developing an integrated approach to delivering the curriculum based around inquiry learning strategies and real contexts for learning. Children develop ‘authentic’ tasks and questions as part of the learning process and with the assistance of a range of resources, seek to find answers to these questions and apply the information to answer the questions they have posed. Computers in every classroom assist this process with access to web based resources. The traditional curriculum areas of social studies, science, technology, the arts, and health, as well as language and mathematics are integrated in this approach.

The Hive of Learning was developed to illustrate the stages in the learning process and to reinforce the metaphor of learning and working together. There are 5 stages in the learning process and children will always know what stage they are at.

The Basics of Literacy & Numeracy
We believe it is important to educate our children to be strong in the basics of literacy and numeracy and that it should be fun! In the first years at school children will be immersed in written, oral and visual language and taught to master the basics of reading and writing. We start to develop oral literacy and oral performance skills in the children from Year 1.

In the senior school, children then extend their reading and writing skills and experience a range of genres. They apply their literacy skills to research projects, performance and speech and refine and develop these so that they are fully independent and confident by the time they leave us.

Students are taught how to approach mathematical problems in a range of ways and apply their basic knowledge of number to a range of increasingly complex mathematical problems, using strategies developed under the National Numeracy Project. The basics of counting, time, money and times tables are still emphasized.

Values
Our BeeValued (BeeV) programme supports the learning environment and the way we care for each other. It is based on the Cornerstone Values programme and our senior students are expected to model these values to the younger ones. All children are expected to adhere to these.

Our values at Pakuranga Heights School center on:

•	Honesty & Truthfulness
•	Kindness
•	Responsibility
•	Respect
•	Consideration
•	Obedience
•	Compassion
•	Duty

The Bee Mascot
At Pakuranga Heights School the bee mascot is used to signify our commitment to the cornerstone values approach. The Bee statements are used to focus our behaviour towards:

"Bee-ing the very Bee-st we can Bee!"

Pakuranga Heights Bee Mascot

Pakuranga Heights has a new Bee mascot called BEE-atrice.
Bee-atrice will be play a significant part in any important school events.
The school ran a naming competition to name our bee, and children were
introduced to Bee-atrice at a school assembly. Her first public appearance
will be on Friday 22 June at the Pakuranga Heights Bee Fit Day.

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