New School Name

Our gifted school name is Pītau.

Pītau is:

the young succulent shoot of a fern, fern frond, fern shoot.
a perforated spiral carving
the figurehead of a canoe ornamented with perforated spiral carving
canoe with a pītau figurehead

The proposal would extend to all sites having a name that relates to the base school. For example, the Ashgrove site would be Pītau - Raki (Pītau North) and the Burnside-Cobham site would be Pītau - Uru (Pītau West).

The name Allenvale relates to our current land, i.e. it was the land (vale) gifted by Mr Allen. When we move to the Belfast site, our connection to the name ‘Allenvale’ will be different.

Some schools have chosen to use both their gifted name and their historical name together. Others have fully embraced their newly gifted name. We need your feedback on the following three options.

Pītau
Allenvale-Pītau
Pītau-Allenvale

Please tell us what you think using the link below the next section.

New School Vision

As a part of developing our local curriculum (i.e. the way our school brings the NZ curriculum to life) we have been reviewing our vision, values and principles. Through three stages of drafting, our staff have come up with the options below.

Learning for Life - kia ako mō ake tonu atu
Celebrating Uniqueness - kia whakanuia te rongomaiwhiti
Empowering Potential - kia whakamanaia te māiatanga
Unfurling Potential - kia wherahia te māiatanga

*unfurling relates to the unfurling frond of the fern - pītau

The existing vision ‘Toward Community Inclusion - Ko to kura, ko te hapori, ko tatou!’ will be a fifth option.

Please tell us what you think at the link below.

Voting

School Naming and Vision Preferences, Allenvale/Pītau 2021.

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