Our Glen Oroua Curriculum

Glen Oroua School provides teaching and learning programmes which incorporate the New Zealand Curriculum (essential learning areas, essential skills, and attitudes and values) as expressed in The New Zealand Curriculum 2007, and the refreshed NZ curriculum as it is rolled out.

Curriculum areas are:

• The Arts (music, drama, visual arts)
• English
• Health and Physical Education
• Learning Languages
• Mathematics
• Science and Technology
• Social Studies

Digital technology is used throughout the curriculum as a learning tool for processing information and creating with and also as they learn to think computationally. Recently we have joined the Enviroschools community, and students are developing ways that this can be incorporated into their learning - currently through a gardening challenge and re-invigorating our compost heaps. The school incorporates te reo Māori in each classroom.

Since 2020 we have been implementing structured literacy increasingly across our kura, both in regular classroom use, and as a support for our learners needing a little extra. We have recently started using the Numicon resources to aid our teaching of Maths, and we really value the emphasis of using lots of manipulatives to grow their mathematical understandings, so our tamariki can 'hold Maths in their hands before they hold it in their heads'. 

In addition to this, our Y7&8 students attend 'Tech' at Longburn Adventist College every Thursday - learning about cooking, hard materials, design & communication technology and photography in four blocks across the year. Our Rākau class also create their own MarQet Days, where they operate their own functioning community, creating and running ventures/businesses supplying goods and/or services to others in their own community, named QZealand.

Our students have the opportunity to participate in small group music lessons with the Epic Music Academy who are onsite on Wednesdays.  Students can choose to learn the drums, the keyboard or guitar, with our youngest students learning across a range of instruments.  Families cover the cost of these lessons themselves.  We have also been fortunate enought to secure the support of Raukura Te Momo to help develop kapa haka at our school, learning local and relevant waiata-ā-ringa.

Our Enviro Rōpū are our kura's way of bringing our vision 'Kaitiaki for Our Community' to life, developing our students as actively involved community members. Check out the slides to see more information about this aspect of our curriculum.