Whānau ora - Dedicated teaching time. 

We often ask the question when are we teaching students to study? When will we teach students about lease forms for flatting, how to engage in positive relationship, supporting career education, develop key competencies to be successful in life?  This is our teaching time for the non curricular teaching, all that falls outside a curriculum and some that falls inside too, wellbeing and resilience, Goal setting, mentoring.

From 2023 Whanau ora time will be Horizontal (in year groups) for 50mins of teaching programme time a week. We call this time Wānanga.

The second part of Whānau ora is 40mins of House time once a fortnight where the focus will be on developing across house relationships as well as a sense of pride and belonging - connections and relationships. We call this aspect Whānaungatanga.

There are 36 Whānau ora teachers - with class sizes varying between the Year levels from 13 - 25, with an avarage of about 17.