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Charlotte Westerhof
Room 5
​Year Ones
I am so excited to be a part of the Western Heights team this year!
I have a real passion for teaching children and making a difference in their lives. 
I enjoy literacy and the arts. 
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Nicole Nicholson
Room 28
year Ones
Bio to come
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Annette Pram
​Team Leader
Room 29
Year Ones
 I am passionate about young children and love being a teacher and part of the learning process especially since each day is different and exciting. I believe that every child has to enjoy school and that is a motivational factor in itself. 
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Michelle Ballard
Room 3
Year Ones
I love seeing the delight and pleasure that the children get when achieving success in their learning.  
I look after the school library and love seeing children wanting to read every day.
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Tanya Boyd
Room 7
Year ones​
I enjoy working  within my local community and am passionate about fostering relationships with my students and their whanau. I am the netball coordinator. This is busy role, yet a sport I am passionate about.
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Lisa Pasalic
Learning Support Coordinator
Office
LSC
A new role - bio to come.
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Kelley Head
Room 31
Year Twos
 I enjoy all aspects of teaching - literacy and numeracy in particular. I also enjoy sports and dance. 
A personal passion of mine is dancing, having grown up learning tap, jazz and Spanish I have a real love for all types 
of dance.
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Lauren Nummy
Room 4
Year Ones
 I love working at this school! I am an ex pupil of Western Heights.
I really enjoy getting to know all the children in my class and their whanau. These relationships are crucial for the children's learning. 
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Helen Rollo
Room 33
Year Twos
I have been teaching at Western Heights in Year 2 for 3 and a half years and I love it.
I have a 16 year old son, Ethan, who like me, is a bit of an adrenaline junkie and we both enjoy doing outdoor 
recreational activities. 
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Dana Taylor
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Team Leader
Room 10
Year Twos
With her university major in English, Dana is passionate about learning and teaching new innovations in teaching 
literacy. Dana is football mad and also plays Gaelic football. She takes junior soccer skills twice a week during lunchtimes. 
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Olivia Leaning
Room 34
Year 2
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Shradha Marshall
Room 17
​Year 3/4
I love teaching at Western Heights. My son attends WHS and loves it as much as I do.
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Christine Khan
Room 14
Year 3/4

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Nadia Nawaaz
Room 16
Year 3/4

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Aaron McGreal
Maori Language Teacher

Room 15
Year 3/4

​It is a privilege to work alongside teachers dedicated to encouraging our children to achieve their best. With our supportive community  teaching is one of the most rewarding careers in the world. 
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Smita D'Lima
Room 19
Year 3/4
Teaching has and will always be a Calling. I am truly passionate about education because our children are our future. We need to guide them and empower them with the best skills, techniques and opportunities so that they can live up to life's challenges.

Personal passions:
I am passionate about Politics (Current affairs), Cricket , Music / Dance and Cooking
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Abdel Ramadan
Room 13
Year 3/4
Bio to come
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Mark McLay
Music Maestro
Music has been in my blood forever.  I want children to experience music in all they do with me:  listening, singing, playing, creating, moving, reading and recording. I follow the Orff approach to music education. This means always starting with the words and ideas of the children themselves, then finding the rhythms, melodies and harmonies that emerge out of those.  I play various instruments, write songs and listen to a wide variety of musical styles and genres.
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Jenna Aalbers
Team Leader
Room 18
​Year 3/4
I worked at Western Heights for 3 years in the Junior School before taking time off to study Full Time Dance and Fitness in Australia.

Outside of school I love dancing (Hip Hop is my favourite), water skiing, and running my Bootcamp fitness classes.

I am an ex pupil of Western Heights

I am now back at WHS as Team Leader of our Middle School.
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Iris Morrison-Raju
Room 20
Year 5/6

I was born in Northern Ireland and am one of 8 children. I came to New Zealand in1988 as an exchange teacher. I taught in a Polynesian school in Mangere for a year and during that time I was fortunate to visit the islands of Rarotonga, Nuie, Samoa and Tonga. This was an insight into the lives of these Polynesian children.

I enjoy implementing   Inquiry based learning into all the subject areas. I encourage my children to be independent learners and take responsibility of their learning. I have high expectations of each one of them. 
I really love teaching at WHS and I have been at WHS for 16 years. 

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Rebekah King

Room 21
​Year 5/6
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Tim Taura
Room 25
Year 5/6
Before WHS, I spent nine years teaching at Sunnyvale Primary School as senior teacher in the year five and six syndicate, and  was their Sports Coordinator.
I enjoy teaching all areas of the curriculum, especially literacy as I am passionate about reading.
I am the WHS Sports Coordinator along with Nuree Greenhalgh. I really enjoy working with her to organise school sports events and to help maintain Western Heights’ outstanding level of sporting achievement.

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Joe Merritt
Room 23
Year 5/6

I embarked on a path of study to enable me to leave NZ and head to Japan to do study Japanese in Tokyo. My experience assisted me when I was located to the wintery North of Japan to teach English to for three years. 
I am interested in literacy and helping students to understand the power of words and what they can do. The English language is full of fun, interesting words and subtle nuances which I enjoy teaching children to embrace and control so as to articulate and express their ideas with accuracy. 

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Jessie Eyre
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Literacy Leader
Room 22
Year 5/6
Jessie is our in-school Literacy Leader for our Community of Learning Schools.
​She teaches year five six, runs our library (both brilliantly) and is a Marriage Celebrant in her spare time.

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Nuree Greenhalgh
Room 26
Year 4/5

I have been teaching for 18 years now and still absolutely love it! My dream was always to be a teacher.
I am married to James and we have two gorgeous daughters, Hayley and Sophie.
 I used to represent New Zealand in 400m and 800m on the track.  Running is still a huge part of my life.  
I feel very blessed to be teaching at Western Heights Primary School.  We really are one big family.
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Alannah Lupe-Houben
Team Leader
Room 24
Year 5/6

Each teaching day brings new challenges, learning, excitement and fun.
​  I started as a Junior School Teacher and have taught all year levels.  
I believe that Reading, Writing and Maths are the most important areas and children need to have a strong foundation and knowledge of these before they leave Primary School.  I always refer to my class, as my kids because that’s how I feel about them.   I maintain high expectations for myself as well as my class - behaviour, independence, responsibility and learning.  
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Mel Sullivan
Part Time Teacher
My role at Western Heights is a unique but special one.  I release a variety of teachers and this enables me to teach across a variety of levels within the school, which I love.  I really enjoy seeing that moment when something 'clicks' within a child and watching the sense of pride and achievement they feel.
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Sharon Fraser
​Isla Noakes
Room 9
Year One 
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Vicki Nabete
Room 32
Year 2

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    • Learning through Play the WHS Way
    • Creativity through Play
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      • Ash's Blog
    • Deputy Principals
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    • KCs and KTs >
      • Foundation Stones
      • Whakatauki
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