Rawhiti School, Christchurch | Fees, Address, Admission, Vacancies, Reviews & More

Best school I’ve ever been to. they provide food for your kid everyday, does NOT tolerate any type of bullying. If you get your period during school hours they give your child pads and tampons and if your underwear is covered in blood they will call your parents or legal guardian and tell them what happened and ask of they can bring the child some extra underwear and maybe pants/shorts if needed.

I doubt that this is the best place to discuss such a matter but if it could help an undecided family here goes.
It is really hard to gauge how poor this school is compared to other schools.
It is the local school that was combined with other schools and was brand new after the earthquakes.
Well, our children have been used in a terrible experiment.
We have had our two kids through this school and have been shocked at the lax standards and general lack of teaching.
This school cares more about Maori culture than about teaching the basics.
I say this as this is the one area where they push their agenda on to the kids.
A real push for Maori culture in all areas of the school.
There are massive class sizes of 100 kids plus
Zero maths
Zero writing but plenty of talk about feelings.
An example of the weak teaching for me is how covid has brought the classroom home. Having a look at what my kids are learning was shocking. I would be ok if they at least work towards mediocrity but they can’t even do that.
One Example.
To learn about the Gallipoli campaign they were given a video about a teddy bear that was found by a solder on his way to war? I asked my kids did they know anything about the war the WHAT WHO WHEN WHY They had no idea. I ended up showing them the Mel Gibson movie as well as books and documentaries. They had zero teaching from school. Zero follow up to see if the students understand the subject.
The teaching consists of here is a video go self learn.

Teaching starts at home and you would think that the school would be there to help you with this but you would be wrong.
I don’t know if this is the general level of schools around NZ but
If you have an option don’t send your children to this school.https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/ed
ucation/132378974/no-more-headaches-schools-removing-openplans-to-reduce-distractions

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350150162/misguided-philosophy-heart-modern-learning-environments-schools

Our kids where part of a stupid idea

As a mother of 5 children, I’ve had the pleasure sending 4 of my children here, in all walks of life, from autistic to reading issues and the staff have taken the time to learn my children and also love them,
The team at rawhiti school have been absolutely amazing, from when they started at age 5, to the start of them leaving to head to high-school years,
Thank you so much guys! Your all amazing at being my kids daytime parents

This school teaches you absolutely nothing. The merge was completely and utterly an idiotic idea. I am neurodivergent and I was given absolutely no help with my dyslexia, the classes are 100+ students and they straight up forgot to teach us about puberty in my last year so when I went to my next primary, I was severely far behind. Do NOT send your kids here. The only good thing was the kapa haka program when I attended that dreaded school.

Both my kiddies go here. Easily the best school from primary through to the start of high school. Great teachers all staff helpfull and very friendly. Could t ask for more