welcome to our school!!

1WELCOME TO OUR SCHOOL!!

From Factory to Shopping Centre!!

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Some of our shared facilities!!

OUR GYMNASIUM

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Our special character

Students are central in directing their own learning.

Students follow individual interests and enthusiasms.

Curriculum and qualification needs are met through a student’s chosen path, not a prescribed route.

Learning experiences extend beyond the boundaries of time, age, methods of learning and areas of study.

The entire community is the learning environment.

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Our special character continued

Families are vital and active partners in the holistic learning for students.

We encourage, nurture and celebrate creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship.

The individuality of each student is valued.

We are a high trust community, treating each other with mutual respect and kindness.

Everyone is a learner and everyone is a teacher.

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To make our ten tenets live we have developed a number of unique practices that are a very important part of the Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti way:

• a focus on learning, supporting learning, and building learning capacity with facilitated support from Learning Advisors who consistently work in a close and positive way; • a personalized approach to learning through an Individual Education Plan (IEP) negotiated and monitored three times a year plus regular (usually weekly) one-on-one meetings with a Homebase Learning Advisor; • flexibility and choice for learners through our distinct “Look of Learning” which includes student initiated inquiries through to Learning Advisor facilitated learning as well as the opportunity to be part of authentic holistic learning plus intensive and Inspire experiences often led by other students and/or parents. • our open approach to students being able to explore learning without restrictions of age; and, • our commitment to always seeing and supporting students as capable learners always ‘at potential’.

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Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti

Our “Look of Learning” - Learner Directed Experiences

Learnerdriven(Individual or collaborative)

Learning AdvisorFacilitated (classes)

Learners own passions& interests e.g. projects, inquiries

Co-constructedlearning objectives and outcomes

Learners encouraged through IEP’s and 1:1s

Career and qualifications pathways - National Qualifications Framework

New Zealand Curriculum - learning areas,

values and key competencies

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Educators & Teacher

Education

Physical Resources & Organisation

Leadership & Governance

0 – 20% of variance in outcomes

40-65% of variance in outcomes

Most important

effect

Quality Learning

16-60% of variance in outcomes

Families & Communities

Student Participation &

Involvement

Outcomes

What affects how well students learn?Findings from a Best Evidence Synthesis- NZ Ministry of Education 2003, A. Alton-Lee

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CASH FOR BUILDINGS• All of our property is leased.• We did, however, have the

opportunity to have input into the interior design of our Northern Tower building.

• Like all NZ schools funding for maintenance, modernisation, furniture and equipment plus an allowance for inflation additional and roll-based

• Our property funding is via a currently unique “Cash for Buildings” policy.

• The Ministry of Education calculated cost of a new school to determine the funding for quarterly lease payments.

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PO Box 4666263 High StreetChristchurch, NZ+64 3 377 7773

www.unlimited.school.nz

john.mather@unlimited.school.nz