Thank you for inquiring about our school.
Welcome to our Melville Primary School learning community. We have a very supportive school community, with top staff dedicated to providing the best educational opportunities for all learners in our care. All our teaching and learning support staff are enthusiastic, resourceful, and very approachable.
· Our school has excellent facilities – 12 classrooms, a large learn to swim swimming pool, a large hall complex, a well resourced Library and computer pod in our Information Centre, and Learning Support teacher aides working in junior classrooms and in special target programmes.
· We cater for learners from Year 0 to Year 6. We have partial Maori immersion (Bilingual) classes, in our 3 He Iti Pounamu classrooms junior – Year 1/2, middle Year 3/4 and senior Year 4 - 6.
· The school is organised broadly into two Teams:
§ Junior - Year 0 - Year 3
§ Senior - Year 3 - Year 6
· We have a major focus on literacy and numeracy throughout the school and guide student learning using the inquiry learning, critical thinking approach. We provide opportunities for all learners' learning styles.
· We embrace the Virtues & Skills for Living Programmes. All our learning has a strong values focus. We expect our students to take ownership of their behaviour and we support children to be positive and take responsibility. We talk the Virtues language.
· We maintain an "open-door" policy, where parents, whanau and caregivers are encouraged to visit their child's classroom whenever they choose. However we do ask that you sign in at the office first to comply with Health & Safety regulations - identifying who is on the school site in the event of an emergency. Often teachers may give you a simple task to do in the classroom when you visit to help you fit in and become part of the learning environment.
· If you wish to specifically discuss your child with the teacher then an appointment is necessary so the teaching and learning time for the class is not interrupted.
· The focus of our teaching programmes are to provide learning that best suits the needs of each individual child and we place a high priority on parent consultation believing that the best education is when we have a true partnership. We value parent input into school life. We want to be paddling our waka of learning together in partnership.
Welcome to our place, the place where learners are nurtured to grow and blossom like our kowhai trees.
Kindest Regards
Dianne Pollard-Williams
Principal