Learning at Otonga School
A Day in the Life of an Otonga School Student Presentations
As a parent of an Otonga School student, you play a vital role in your child’s learning journey. Alongside our teachers, your support as their first teacher has a significant impact on their development. To help you understand and engage with what your child is learning, we invite you to explore this page. It offers insights into our local curriculum and how we bring The New Zealand Curriculum to life at Otonga School Te Kura o Tihiōtonga.
Our local curriculum outlines:
- What we want students to learn and how our curriculum is designed to achieve this.
- Personalised and inclusive learning experiences that consider students’ aspirations, interests, identity, language, and culture.
- A long-term approach: We prioritise each student’s ultimate learning success over simply covering specific achievement objectives.
- A manageable and realistic framework that supports meaningful learning.
Central to our local curriculum is fostering our Graduate Student Profile. This profile provides a shared understanding of what a future-oriented learner looks like by describing the values, dispositions, knowledge, and attitudes that students develop during their time at Otonga School Te Kura o Tihiōtonga. These attributes prepare them to participate confidently in various life contexts beyond school.
At Otonga School, we teach people, not just subjects – we educate the whole child. This holistic approach is our distinctive point of difference. When our Year 6 students leave, they carry with them a treasured kete of skills – a taonga gifted to their next school and future endeavours. We are immensely proud of this ‘gift’ and the well-rounded students we help shape.
How can we prepare students for jobs that have not yet been created, to tackle societal challenges that we cannot yet imagine, and to use technologies that have not yet been invented? How can we equip them to thrive in an interconnected world where they need to understand and appreciate different perspectives and worldviews, interact respectfully with others, and take responsible action toward sustainability and collective well-being?