(From Moerewa School Strategic Plan)

• We honour the Treaty of Waitangi and Maori rights as tangata whenua. We recognise and celebrate the unique role of Ngati Hine in our community.

• Our school is a place where children, whanau and staff feel safe, and are strong and secure in their own cultural base and language.

• Our children have the right to high quality, innovative academic, social, and cultural learning opportunities and the responsibility to learn from these.

• Whanaungatanga is the basis of school organisation and practice .

• We will foster a climate of trust, honesty and mutual respect

• We will develop reciprocal relationships with our community

• which will be of mutual benefit to families and school and which will support our children’s learning.

• We believe that teaching is a reflective profession. We value our teachers and our support staff and will support them in their role and their professional development.

What our community want…;

(From Moerewa Community Campus Submission to the Minister of Education 2003)

A learning village - “It takes a whole village to bring up a child”
Mainstream, Bilingual, Total immersion Maori education, Preschool, Primary, Secondary, Tertiary & Adult Education

Womb to the tomb - Prior to the formal system of education that we have today, communities were still able to evolve and had their own processes relevant for learning which were based around their cultural & communal survival. Womb to the tomb, means learning is a lifetime process, fashioned around passion, need and excellence

School of passion - Learning wrapped around people’s passion or natural skill areas, i.e. sporting academies, music academies, performing arts, technology, the arts & the sciences. “We believe that people working in their passion creates excellence and creates capacity for a more diverse and stronger community”

Community enterprises - “That the natural process of learning involves an outcome, taking the potential of people, and fitting it into a economic or social framework” Linking into employment options in the Building, Tourism, Horticulture, Social work, Lawyers, Drs or Teachers etc, or by creating new enterprises or opportunities in the Music /sports /film /The Arts or Computer industries etc”