Our Vision

Learning to Inspire & Impact

You will agree that children by design are curious and natural learners. Imagine then, a school where young students truly know themselves as learners, can articulate their strengths and areas for development and design challenging learning programmes for themselves. A place where the vision for learning and the school’s values firmly position the learner at the centre and where adults value student voice and agency.

What if learning at school was limitless no matter your age, size, gender or ethnicity and unbound by time or location. Where learning success was measured and celebrated by the development of key capabilities alongside extraordinary academic progress?

Paparoa Street School is committed to the provision of learning to inspire and impact. We believe we can become an irresistible education choice for all families within our geographical community, for education professionals and especially for our children who we want to be “running in” to learn in their “happy place”. We are determined to have extraordinary (going beyond what is usual, regular and customary) expectations of our teachers and learners within a warm and demanding culture. We expect our learning experiences and our learners to make a difference to our people, our place and our world both now and in the future.