Continuing our Year of Action!

Hedgehope School is a fabulously modern and truly up to date, future focussed environment bursting with resources and wonder.

Our student whanau are curious, dazzled and hugely appreciative of our learning spaces and resources that the BOT and PTA have tirelessly supported.

Student efficacy and agency gives powerful voices to students to lead their own learning.

We have 3 classes of 41 students, who all love to learn!

We all REACH for Greatness in everything we do!

At Hedgehope School students are learning about citizenship, environment, their local area, community, collaboration, history, migration, planning, reflection, empathy, relationships with landowners, partners and interest groups, complexities involved with a sustainable compass.

We are into our third year of suppression and advocacy at Sherwood Forest.

Students are also starting a native plant nursery, launching businesses and currently writing their script for an entertaining documentary about the history of Hedgehope area through the lens of migration.

We are incredibly lucky to have received Creatives in Schools and Grants for Good funding to learn with professional film maker Samantha Robertson (REECE) and Jeromy Van Riel as he returns to complete our Matamata carving with the addition of his master Te Rakituaneke.

We truly value the many partners that support our philosophy, projects and students so passionately.

We are a proud Silver Enviro School that aim to bring all of our learning together for our Green Gold Award during Term 2.

The Integrated curriculum learning areas included in this project are literacy, maths, science, technology, social studies/history, Health/PE, Visual Arts.

As part of our Inquiry ignition into History of Migration, we had an intriguing day at Hedgehope Glencoe Community Hall.

Master Withington was far less of an inspiration than he usually is, his normally loyal fans definitely did not enjoy the 1915 version.

However our mock time travel history launch at the hall made the following days visits to Thornbury Vintage Machinery display (well worth a visit, if you haven’t yet been!) followed by Te Hikoi Museum, Riverton, far more sense and really boosted our curious minds.

The days of cursive writing, root learning, reciting knowledge, eating basics, punishments, speaking only when spoken to, obeying simply because you were instructed to.

Amusingly the team were not sure what to do at break time either, so sat in silence.

Our students are keen sports enthusiasts, they are committed to Junior and Senior Touch again this term and many are busy with trials for Netball.

Ten students qualified for Central Athletics and I know some have their focus on making it to Southland.

Sports, Health and PE is an exciting area of strategic focus as our students demand more and more opportunities to try new sports and compete widely.

Hedgehope is full of energy!

While we are adventurous and find learning everywhere in our community, we are passionate about creating literate, numerate, empathetic, critical thinking problem solvers that are proud of their community and environment.

Our mornings are rich with literacy and numeracy in our 3 classes (meeting and exceeding the newly prescribed 1 hour a day reading, writing and maths) through engaging, relevant and integrated learning.

Our students are coached by 5 incredibly talented and inspiring teachers and 2 learning supports.

We are a happily connected whanau!

We all REACH for Greatness in everything we do!



Hedgehope School proudly supported by Fiordland Escapes