Student Life & Learning

Our Curriculum

The curriculum at Rāroa is designed to educate the whole student and cater for the intellectual social physical and creative aspects of the emerging adolescent. It has the school’s values as its underlying principles and contains the Key Competencies from the New Zealand Curriculum Framework.

Personalised Learning

  • Is a flexible system(s) that is built around the learners’ needs and interests with the aim to develop self-regulated learners.

Diversity and Equity - Manaakitanga, Whanaungatanga

  • Diversity; encompassing variations and differences in both knowledge and people; is recognised as a strength to be actively fostered.
  • Provide opportunities for students to embrace diversity; value people, environment and themselves.
  • The students experience equity in engaging with the curriculum.

Knowledge - Ako, Wānanga

  • Building or creating relevant knowledge to use in authentic contexts including future focussed, as they arise on a “just-in-time” basis.
  • The ability to apply and reflect upon meaningfully learned knowledge and skills in a variety of contexts and situations.
  • Practical, hands-on learning experiences integrated throughout the curriculum.

Roles and Relationships in the School Community - Whanaungatanga, Manaakitanga

  • Key relationships develop emotional, social and academic stability.
  • Ako – reciprocal teaching and learning. The roles of teachers, students and the wider school community merge in ways that draw on the strengths and knowledge of each.
  • Our learning environment will be emotionally and physically safe and inclusive.

Networked

  • Utilising technology to enable new learning, connect locally and globally and develop new ways of learning.
  • Seek out ideas from students, parents, community and global partners, exchange information with them, and involve them in innovation and value creation.

Socially Constructed Learning – Ako

  • The organisation of learning should be highly social so that learners have opportunities to teach each other and collaborate.

Assessment for Learning

  • Students owning and knowing what they are learning.
  • Assessment is used to inform/enhance learning.

Developing Positive Dispositions for Life

  • Deliberately modelling and acknowledging dispositions that will create positive contributing citizens.

OUR PROGRAMMES

POSITIVE EDUCATION & WELLBEING

OUR CULTURE