Kia Ora and Welcome to Hukerenui School’s Website

At Hukerenui School nothing is more important than our students’ wellbeing and education. We continuously work at developing a unique experience for each student at Hukerenui, and are proud of our culture, vision and principles.  Our Board of Trustees purposefully resource our school to ensure smaller numbers per classroom.

The cornerstones that form a Hukerenui School graduate is developed across the time students attend our school and reflected with pride.  These are based on our 4 values:  Resilience (Manawaroa), Respect (Wakaute), Problem solving (Whakakaoti Rapanga) and Caring (Manaakitanga).

Our students are provided with opportunities to be extended, be collaborative, have real life learning experiences, to be culturally responsive, grow leadership skills and to be accountable.

We are dedicated to support all our students with experiences that give purpose to learning. Hukerenui School actively promotes authentic learning in a deliberate and purposeful way. 

This means that we provide opportunity for students to apply their academic learning to something real and purposeful whilst working towards sound enterprise.  We have turned our rural land space into a learning resource and deliver a deliberately integrated curriculum for science, technology, health, social science, maths, literacy and the arts curriculums, using our developed land spaces for hands on learning experiences.   

We have alpacas, bees, a lavender plantation, an orchard, composting, a vegetable garden and a native bush. We also plant a maize trial with the support of Pioneer Seeds on our school grounds and plant another 5 ha of maize on a neighbouring farm.

Our students therefore also develop skills in entrepreneurship and finance, as they organise the work involved with various supportive contractors, who all support the school by donating their service and students then sell the maize for a profit.

A yearly craft market, where students sell those products they make from produce from the bees, alpacas, lavender, native plants, fruit and vegetables provides the same learning. This includes many healing balms, and a variety of products fit for storing. There are many criteria around the learning that guides the deeper development of knowledge in all curriculum areas.

Mrs Bastienne Johnston