Continuing our Year of Action!

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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 43 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 developing a native plant nursery, launching businesses and currently filming 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 4.

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

Please get in touch if you would like to purchase any Native Seedlings!

As part of our Inquiry into History of Migration, we are highly engaged in making our documentary film with Samantha Robertson (REECE), about the history of Hedgehope.

The documentary starts way back with dinosaurs and then jumps a few millennium to Early Māori (Waitaha, Kati Mamoe and Ngai Tahu) arriving, Otāupiri battle scene between Chief Tutemakohu and Chief Waitaha, then early settlers arriving and the livelihoods they undertook, the development of agriculture, present day and on into a predicted future. 

Everything is as authentic as possible, including the traditional river rafts (Mōkohi) that the team built last term thanks to the support of Rodney from Hōkonui Runanga.

Students have written the 17 scene script after lots of research and taken on the roles of actors, camera person, sound engineer, coach to film over 3/4 of the scenes already this year.

We are hoping to red carpet our documentary in Term 3.

Our students also hosted and facilitated the first School Led Enviro Hui for Thornbury and Heddon Bush Enviro Leaders.

It was a great day of show and tell about the suppression and advocacy tasks we enjoy at Sherwood Forest and then back to school for a fresh local lunch created by our chefs and a look at the school projects of garden, nursery, shop and animals.

Our team is really looking forward to visiting Heddon Bush’s Donut area this term. 

Our student team have also been asked to present at the NZ Biosecurity Conference at The Ascot Hotel in July to a distinguished audience of around 200 people

Our students are keen sports enthusiasts, they are currently committed to Cross Country training daily with laps, hill climbs and games, also enjoying Netball, Rugby.

They are also excited about the Central Cup Tournament. 

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.

So it was especially exciting to meet so many keen and experienced athletes last week as the Westpac Chopper Bike Appeal stopped at school. 

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 4 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