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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. |
Room 2 year Ones My teaching goal is to provide my students with a rich learning experience that stays with them beyond the classroom. In my spare time, I love to dance, listen to music, read, hike and spend time with my wonderful family and friends. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Room 28 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. |
Lisa Pasalic Team Leader Room 7 Year 1 - 2 My goal is to give young children the very best start to their learning journey, so that they develop a passion to be lifelong learners. My passion is with the visual arts and I thoroughly enjoying working with different media throughout a school year. |
Room 8 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. |
Room 6 Year Twos I have been teaching at Western Heights in Year 2 for 2 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. |
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. |
Room 11 Year 3/4 My undergraduate degree was a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and English Literature. I have a passion for reading and the visual arts that I love to share with my class. I enjoy travelling, photography and being crafty and creative. |
Jessie Eyre Literacy Leader Room 12 Year 3/4 I am passionate about literacy and really enjoy seeing my class develop the same love for reading that I have. I am often raiding public libraries for their book sales to contribute to my own class library. |
Room 13 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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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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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. |
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. |
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. Each child is an individual born with his or her unique set of skills. As an educator my job is to tap the potential in each child and make him or her use it to their optimum level. Personal passions: I am passionate about Politics (Current affairs), Cricket , Music / Dance and Cooking |
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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Room 22 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. |
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. |
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. |
Room 25 Year 5/6 Stuart is on leave from a permanent position with leadership responsibilities in Melbourne. He has also taught in Sri Lanka, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, and New Zealand before coming to us. Stuart is a Visual and Performing Arts specialist, and an Outdoor Education Specialist. His personal interests are Visual Arts, music, theatre, travel, architecture, antiques, reading, tennis, outdoor fitness. |
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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Deputy Principal I have three awesome children - all were students at Western Heights and all have wonderful memories of their time spent here. I have been teaching in West Auckland for 30 years at all levels from Years 0 - 8. In the last 15 years, my practice has centred around the early years of education and I am passionate about providing children the best possible start to their journey of learning at school and beyond. We focus on building relationships with local pre-school providers and all parents to ensure a smooth, stress-free transition to school. |
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. |
Michelle Ballard |
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