Starting school for the first time is an exciting and important time for children.
Our new entrant class is a fun and friendly environment that will help your child transition from early childhood into formal schooling.
What happens in new entrants
As well as spending time engaged in early literacy and numeracy learning, our new entrant programme includes lots of fun activities to help develop children’s foundation skills (memory, visual, auditory, gross and fine motor).
We also sing and dance, recite poems, get messy and creative making artworks, explore science, social and health topics, get outside for daily fitness and much more.
The new entrant class also helps children to learn about the routines of school life.
School visits
To give your child the best possible start with us, we strongly recommend that they come for school visits several times before their first day of school. This will allow you, your child and their teacher to get to know each other. It will also give your child the chance to meet classmates and become familiar with their classroom before that all important first day at school.
We have no set times for these visits, and will happily discuss with you what best suits your particular circumstances. You don’t need to stay for these visits.
After you enrol your child with us, our New Entrant teacher will get in touch to arrange the school visits before their expected start date.
Six-week interview
After your child has been in the class for six weeks, the New Entrant teacher will catch up with you to talk about how your child is going and have been settling in to school.
Come and visit
Once your enrolment has been accepted and you would like to learn more about our school and the new entrant class, contact us closer to when your child is due to start school and we can arrange a visit to the classroom and you can meet our New Entrant teacher Jan Riley, Natalie Schrijer our Deputy Principal and Tūī Team Leader and our Principal Kelly Barker.