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‘Learning in Paradise’

 

These are a few of the things that make the learning culture at Big Rock School special:
  • Equality and Equity in Education
  • Little Rockets (Let’s Get Ready for School for 4 year olds)
  • Excellent literacy programmes and high achievement levels
  • Great maths programmes and learning resources leading to great achievement
  • Specialist Maths programmes
  • Information and Communication Technology (1 laptop for every child aged 8 and over at no cost to family and whanau)
  • No fees or donations
  • Outstanding children and families
  • Kapa Haka
  • The Kid's Kitchen- Regular cooking and nutrition experiences for all children
  • An amazing Education Outside the Classroom (Camps, kayaking, paddle boarding, skiing, deep sea fishing, scuba diving, curriculum based trips and of course our beautiful beach) 
  • Beautiful heated and covered swimming pool
  • Senior Surfing Programme
  • EOTC Cycling adventures (Year 4 Up)
  • Minecraft Education
  • Well stocked library with all books purchased after surveying whanau
  • STEM and integrated learning programmes
  • Google school
  • Mountain Bike Adventure Extension Groups from Year 3-8

Kia ora and welcome,

My name is David Grant and I have the very real privilege of being the Principal of Big Rock Primary School. A role where I get to work with amazing teaching and support staff, supportive whanau and most importantly incredible, hard-working, engaged, friendly, resilient, happy children.

Our aim at Big Rock Primary School is to ensure that we provide the very best educational and developmental experiences we can for all of our students.

We do this by having Rock solid foundations in Numeracy and Literacy and by working hard to provide an environment that is stimulating and safe for your children to learn and grow. Our success levels in the core areas of Reading, Writing and Mathematics are excellent. Our programmes are based on a topic based integrated approach where children’s interests and key learning areas such as Science, Social Sciences, Art and Technology are integrated into Reading and Writing and Mathematics programmes to add meaning and depth as well as creating engaging and relevant learning experiences. 

This is supported by modern teaching methods, plentiful modern teaching resources, sensible class sizes and highly skilled positive teachers.

To further support our Reading, Writing and Mathematics programmes we utilise a teaching model that we developed at Big Rock, that is based on the three concepts of Investigation, Explanation and Presentation. This allows and encourages the children’s inquiring minds to explore, share their thoughts and ideas, while developing their presentation skills and strategies.

Further to this, we understand that for a curriculum to be meaningful we utilise E.O.T.C. so that there are class trips to support all topic based learning. Learning experiences have to be real and meaningful.

We also have an in-depth adventure based Education Outside the Classroom programme that includes surfing, kayaking, mountain bike adventures and road safety, deep sea fishing and scuba diving. The benefits of these programmes is much more than just biking, kayaking etc, but they support self-esteem and mental health, which has led to improved outcomes for many children in core curriculum areas.

We also have a full biking programme as part of our curriculum, that involves all children, from early riders in the younger years, to Advanced Mountain Bike extension groups.

Our goal is to have happy, resilient, lifelong learners with Rock solid foundations in Reading, Writing and Mathematics. Our curriculum and curriculum delivery is achieving this, with excellent achievement levels, high levels of engagement and attendance and happy resilient children. Of course this would not be possible without the support of our amazing whanau and the incredible children.

Big Rock is a great place to learn, play, grow and develop. It’s a pretty cool place to come and work as well.

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Latest Notices

School BBQ Thursday
19 Mar 2024

Hi, no school bbq tomorrow. This week it is on Thursday due to the Room Four bike trip
Thanks

Basketball and Netball at Big Rock
19 Mar 2024

Hi, thank you everyone who has registered their child for either basketball or netball. We need all names by next Thursday please. Then we will enter teams. We still have a few names that we would expect missing from our lists.

A little bit more information

Basketball

Year 7-8's play on Monday afternoon/evenings. The first games are on the 6th May., 

Year 1-6 play on Thursday afternoons/evenings. The first games are on the 9th May.

Year 5-8 fees are $70 per player, Years 1-4 are $35 per player.

Netball

Year 1-6 play on Tuesday afternoons/evenings. The first game/skills day is on 28th May.

Fees for netball are $70 per player.

At this stage we have not received any information regarding Year 7-8 netball.

Thanks

Futsal and stuff
19 Mar 2024

On Wednesday Room 4 have their Goldfields Bike trip and need to be at school by 7:15, ready to go at 7:30.
Room 5 have surfing on Friday.
This week's futsal draw:
Tuesday
Big Rock Dolphins v East Taieri court 11 at 4:45
Big Rock Starfish v Sawyers Bay court 11 at 5:45
Big Rock Stingray v Tainui court 13 at 5:45

Wednesday
Big Rock Barracuda - No game due to Bike Trip
Big Rock Sharks v Steiner court 17 at 5:45
Thanks

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