Working with the architects on ensuring that the board’s vision for a modern learning environment is enabled has been an exciting task.  As the school will also cater for deaf and hearing impaired students this has also added interest and new experience for board members.  We are fortunate to have on the board one of the staff currently working with deaf children at Papatoetoe.  This has enabled board members to ensure that  provision for these students is appropriate.

The local iwi assisted the board by conducting a blessing on the site on Monday 10th March before the contractors begin.  The contract for construction has been awarded and signage will be appearing shortly.   At a later stage there will be another ceremony for the laying of the mauri – “the energy which binds and animates all things in the physical world.   Without mauri, mana cannot flow into a person or object”.

The Ministry of Education has been working on a draft enrolment zone and this draft is to be discussed with the boards of trustees of the surrounding schools at a meeting on 24th March.  Once input from that meeting has been incorporated into the draft it will then be published on this website and also advertised in newspapers circulating in the area.  There will be a possibility for further input at a public meeting to be held in June.