Curriculum

School Vision

Soaring to Success

"Whaia ou huarahi ki te mana"

We are a community of learners in a safe nurturing environment.

School Mission Statement

We will provide experiences across life to enable learners to become successful, curious, resilient risk takers.

School Values

Respect
Responsibility
Courage
Diversity

School Goals

To provide a broad curriculum with emphasis on literacy and numeracy.
To use a shared and consistent assessment system that promotes learning.
To use a shared and consistent process to gather, analyse and use achievement data to promote learning.
To continue to develop good teaching practices which promote student achievement for all learners.
To promote a strong culture of self review within the school.
To maintain our family-like atmosphere and have strong engagement between home and school.

Our Programmes Include:

PB4L School-Wide
Mathletics
Reading Eggs
STEPS
Life Education Trust
Music with Mrs Beckers.

Please click on the links below to view our students in action:

We also have special events like:

Athletics, Swimming Sports, Cross Country
Cluster School Events
Whole School Camp
Show Day
Water Fun Day
Prize Giving

Cultural Practices

At Clifton School we pride ourselves in who we are as individuals. We recognise and celebrate the multi-cultural diversity of our nation, community and school. We foster and value a strong partnership between home and school and especially between school, whanau and iwi.

Important aspects of our cultural practices are as follows:

Pronunciation, akonga names, places and iwi.
We ensure our akonga are achieving success by promoting language, identity and culture as well as the cultural competencies of tātaiako.

Long term as well as short term planning reflects this:

We value cultural diversity and celebrate who we are.
We foster and build partnerships with the local iwi and the community; this is continually strengthened through what we do and their
interactions with us.
That all of us foster a ‘have a go’ attitude in recognising the importance of who we are and what each person stands for.

These five key elements form the cornerstone of who we are and what we stand for in recognising the cultural and social diversity and its importance for us at Clifton School.

Matthew from Bulls Library Reads to Room 1

Stewing Apples from Our Trees

Wheelchair Netball

Show Day!

New Zealand has a national curriculum that guides what your child learns at school. Your child will develop a range of values and key competencies, or capabilities, that they need to succeed in life. These are all woven into the teaching of learning areas, or subjects.

The National Curriculum is the term used to refer to The New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa. These set the direction for student learning and guide schools and kura as they design and implement a curriculum that meets the needs of their students.

There is a big focus on reading, writing and mathematics in the primary years, as these are really important foundation skills that everyone needs in order to be able to do well in life. Children need strong reading, writing and mathematics skills to progress through the levels of the National Curriculum and be able to achieve NCEA Level 2 or above at secondary school.

NZ Curriculum Online