2025 is another exciting year of learning at Hedgehope School!

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 54 students, who all love to learn! We all REACH for Greatness in everything we do!

At Hedgehope School students are learning across our rich literacy and numeracy curriculum. Our students are connected to their people and place to continue learning about citizenship, environment, their local area, community, collaboration, planning, reflection, empathy, relationships and the complexities involved with a sustainable

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As a Green Gold Enviro School we have decided to embed one of the five Enviro School principles, our overarching theme this year is ‘Learning for Sustainability’.

Proud to be a Green Gold Enviro School. Photo: supplied

This week students are entering Master Chef to fill the school kitchen leadership positions for the year and next week students will be undertaking an onsite sustainability challenge to name our 2025 Enviro Leaders.

Our first half of Term 1 has been about setting up our routines and learning attributes, so that learning for the year is challenging and all students understand how to manage themselves and contribute positively to our learning environment.

We have also developed skills for athletics, spending an hour each day on rotation. This time on task really built understanding and fundamental movement for our students to really step up at Eastern and Central Athletics. We are into our fourth year of suppression and advocacy at Sherwood Forest. Students are also continuing to develop a native plant nursery and sustainable projects at school.

This year we have been lucky enough to secure funding from RaboBank for our students to create a series of children's books to share our learning and inspire schools and children to get involved with environmental projects. We are a proud Green Gold Enviro School! Our Integrated curriculum learning areas included in this project are literacy, maths, science, technology, social studies/history, Health/PE, Visual Arts.

Reaching for Greatness. Photo: supplied

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We are proud of our integrated curriculum approach to our morning routines that are rich in literacy and numeracy skill and knowledge development. We may be small but we can achieve because we believe anything is possible with effort! 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!

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Hedgehope School proudly sponsored by Winton & District Funeral Services