We teach our children to have
​GRIT in the Pit - Growth          Resilience
                                 Integrity      Tenacity

 because
Greatness  Requires
Internal       Toughness

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National Champions: 

Our Rippa Rugby team won the Air New Zealand National Championship in Wellington in August 2019.
We were the only team to win every game going into the semi final vs Waikato - and won that game 50 to 25.
In the final we beat Poverty Bay 30 to 15.

​Huge thanks to coach Jamie Laufiso, Tim Taura and running coach Nuree Greenhalgh. Also to Chaperone Monique Talbot and to all our supporters and parents. It was a total team effort and an experience these children will never forget. The support from our school who watched the Livestream of the games was also just awesome.

Our School has an incredible record in Jump Jam - National and North Island Champions on numerous occasions.
This year we entered two teams - both finishing third in New Zealand.

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Kaupapa
The theme will be 'Kia Kaha te Reo Māori’.  ‘Kia Kaha’ meaning ‘be strong’. We often talk about languages as if they are people – talking about language health, strength and revitalisation.

So when we say ‘Kia Kaha te Reo Māori’ we’re saying  - ‘Let’s make the Māori language strong'.

2020 Stationary Lists here...

​Te Reo Maori - Maori Language -  is  a Taonga No Te Mutu - a national treasure

A great place to start is by saying "Kia Ora". Watch the video at right to see how cool this greeting is, and let's all make an effort to greet each other with a warm Kia Ora.
It's our own, unique, Kiwi Way.

This site has a list of 100 words in Maori we all should know... https://goo.gl/iwMMHR

Why Choose Us

​At right a quote from our latest Education Review Office Report where we gained a 5 Year Review.

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From Our Latest Education Review Office Report:
​The school’s processes and actions very effectively help achieve equity and excellence for all children. They include:

• a well-established culture of high expectations
• highly effective school leadership that has established an environment that is conducive to children’s learning and wellbeing
• a meaningful curriculum design that is responsive to context, and children’s heritage, language, culture and identity
• strong partnerships between home, school and community
• a professional teaching community, committed to using educational research and ongoing learning and improvement
• a strategic approach to accelerating students’ achievement.

Our Pōhatu Tūmu Foundation Stone Value for 2020 is Whakamana - Leadership. 

At Left: Our Office terrarium features five much loved Red Eared Turtles.

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Find Us at         126 Sturges Road
                                 Henderson 
                                 Auckland 0612
Ash Maindonald
Principal
ADE

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