LEARNING AT GREERTON VILLAGE SCHOOL
Greerton Village School's Curriculum Plan is developed by us to cater for and meet the needs, interests and capabilities of our students. It is uniquely and proudly ours.
Our revised, reframed, refocused, revitalised, up-to-date and culturally appropriate curriculum sets the direction for learning in our school in a way which will meet the needs of all our learners. It reflects not only the knowledge needed for the future, but also the best of learning pedagogy and teaching strategies which we will use.
‘Ma tini, ma mano, ka rapa te whai'
By many, by thousands, the object will be attained.
By joining together in partnership we will succeed: a great number will easily accomplish what a few cannot.
What do we want for our children?
We want them to be literate and numerate.
We want them to have the opportunity to experience and participate in a broad and balanced education to:
- generate and test ideas using scientific methods
- use their imaginations as a stimulus for making music or producing an art work
- be involved in some learning in social sciences where they take action to make their community a better place to live
- attempt to develop somet
hing or make improvements to a product in technology that might make lives better, and to
- become responsive caring positive and productive members of society in the 21st Century
“School effectiveness is about a great deal more than maximising academic achievement. Learning and the love of learning; personal development and self esteem; life skills, problem solving and learning how to learn; the development of independent thinkers and well-rounded confident individuals; all rank as highly or more highly as the outcomes of effective schooling as success in a narrow range of academic disciplines.”
(Slee, Weiner, Tomlinson 1992)
We value as outcomes for our children when they leave our school:
- displaying physical agility and fitness
- critical creative thinkers who make rational judgments
- virtuous caring behaviour and development of a social and cultural conscience
- courage, responsiveness and resilience
- skilled in poetry, music and art
- effective users of technology
- competent communicators
- able to work at a high level in a team - ‘Together Everyone Achieves More.’
- competitive, ability to set high standards and have high expectations.
- development and use of their ‘voice’ to assist them setting personal learning pathways
- preparedness to take action to actively create their futures; and
- optimism and their belief in their ability to shape the future