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 53 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 have just enjoyed the premier of their documentary about the history of Hedgehope area through the lens of migration at St James Theatre, Gore.

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 to create huge carvings of Matamata and his master Te Rakituaneke.

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

We are a proud Green Gold Enviro School.

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

We are proud of our integrated curriculum approach to our morning routines that are rich in literacy and numeracy skill and knowledge development.

Science integration has been really engaging this term as Tui researched animal species through a biology lens and Kereru creating through a scaffold of biomimicry.

The rich literacy Canva and poster presentations are truly authentic and full of student voice and interests.

Green Gold Enviroschool Award

Week 4 was a huge week, with a large amount of student preparation behind the scenes.

For our Green Gold EnviroSchools Award Day, chefs created a menu, catered and cleaned, leaders dug the hangi pit, advertising, organisation of the stations to share their learning, projects and successes, speeches were written and practised and student designed signs were collected and erected on our driveway fence.

The leadership and pride in our school and accomplishment of students was an absolute pleasure for all to enjoy during the day.

Rain could not dampen the spirits!

Once all of our visitors and community had been welcomed onto site, our new signage and Te Rakituaneke were unveiled and blessed, a very rare plant donated by Jesse Bythell was planted next to Matamata, haka and waiata were performed and then students facilitated their stations (Sherwood Forests suppression & advocacy, native nursery sewing seeds & repotting, heritage orchard maintenance, Matamata planting, vegetable garden care, Mōkohi design, movie set and kitchen for the chefs).

A fabulous hangi and catering followed for lunch, which was delicious!

Then came the speeches mainly from ex students now at high school and then our award from Councillor Ludlow and Josh.

Wow what a day to celebrate our amazing students and community!

Hedgehope School is a very proud Green Gold Enviroschool!

Film Premier

That was not the end of a Hedgehope Style celebration of learning!

In the evening we all headed to St James Theatre, Gore for our FILM PREMIER! 

The culmination of a year-long collaboration with Hōkonui Runanga and Samantha Robertson REECE.

Our students wrote, created, produced, edited, animated their own film!

The skills, knowledge and values they have gained this year has been exceptional!

Our very own animated King K on the big screen!

We may be small but we can achieve because we believe anything is possible with effort!

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

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 3 learning supports.

We are a happily connected whanau!

We all REACH for Greatness in everything we do!

Hedgehope School proudly supported by Fiordland Escapes