We want our school:
To be known as a caring school where all students gain the confidence to become positive 'can do' quality learners!

Our Mission:
To provide a caring, stable environment and academic excellence while preparing its pupils for life long learning.

Our School Charter includes the Goals of the National Curriculum Framework.

The following beliefs emphasise what we, the Board of Trustees, the teachers and parents, want our school to be known for - to be 'special' to our school.

1. 'Caring and stable family atmosphere'
   We believe it is vitally important that our students and parents feel their school is a safe caring and sharing learning community with a strong family atmosphere.
   This is important if our students are to develop the confidence to take the risks necessary for learning. To do this we will as a school, and in each classroom, work towards providing a warm secure environment with established routines and clear boundaries.
   To develop such a stable community will require us to develop explicit shared values that, reflect the special multicultural nature of New Zealand, and include respect, tolerance and fairness. We want to ensure our students behaviours reflect such values and we want to help our students develop respect for each other, other people (particularly those who are different) towards property, and towards their natural environment.
   Because of these values we feel it is very important that we help our students appreciate a sense of the obligations of: living in a community whether it be their family, the school, or their class. We believe that it important for them to work for the common good of a group and not just for their own self-interest
   To achieve such a positive community we will need to build a real partnership between the home and the school and also ensure our teaching team are given all the support they need.
   We must all work toward helping our students be proud of their school and community, able to take pride not only in their own achievements but also others.
   
   
2. 'Quality Learning - academic excellence'
   We believe it is very important that our students come to the realisation that it is their responsibility to do their personal best in whatever they undertake.
   We worry that too many students do not have this need to always do their 'personal best', and we will encourage our teachers to develop this sense of quality in our students in all they do.
   To achieve this our teachers will encourage students to set their own goals, to plan and assess their own work using negotiated criteria, and to develop such habits as: self discipline, the valuing of effort and the need to persevere.
   We also believe that to be life long learners well able to take advantage of their future education, our students will need to be confident in the traditional foundation skills of numeracy and literacy.
   If these behaviours and foundation skills are established our students will then be able to become responsible for their own quality learning equipped with the necessary 'can do' attitudes and 'stickability' to complete chosen tasks with a sense of pride.
   
   
3. 'Life Long learners'
   We believe it is important that our students develop the attributes to thrive in what will be a constantly changing world. To do this our teaching team will not only have to establish help our students achieve sound traditional work habits but also the emotional well being, the personal, team work and problem solving skills and attitudes, so that they develop a necessary 'risk taking' 'have a go' attitude.
   We will ensure our teaching team provides students with a balanced curriculum promoting academic excellence and mastery in a full range of Learning Areas, including the need to be confident with all aspects of Information Technology.
   We also want them to ensure that all students have an opportunity to have their potential talents developed because these will lead to leisure activities, and possibly future employment
   We believe that our Vision and Mission combines the best of traditional teaching with new ideas about how students learn. If we can achieve our Vision, in partnership with our parents, we believe we can develop future citizens we can all be proud of.