The major focus centres on the implementation of the New Zealand Curriculum, with literacy and numeracy being the core focus areas.
There are seven key learning areas:
English: Studying, using and enjoying language and literature communicated orally, visually, or in writing.
The Arts: Exploring, refining and communicating ideas as they connect thinking, imagination, senses, and feelings to create works and respond to the works of others.
Health and Physical Education: Learning about student's own well-being and that of others and society, in health related and movement contexts.
Mathematics and Statistics: Exploring relationships in quantities, space, and data and learn to express these relationships in ways that help them make sense of the world around them.
Science: Exploring how both the natural physical world and science itself work so that they can participate as critical, informed, and responsible citizens in a society in which science plays a significant role.
Social Sciences: Exploring how societies work and how students can participate and take action as critical, informed, and responsible citizens.
Technology: Learning to be innovative developers of products and systems and discerning consumers who will make a difference in the world.
Location | 72 Hamilton Road Hataitai, Wellington
Email | office@kilbirnie.school.nz
Phone | 04 939 2311