Contains details about our school vision, curriculum, programmes, enrolment scheme and other important information.

1. Linwood North
Primary School
P R O S P E C T U S
www.linwoodnorth.school.nz | 03 389 8112

2. OUR VISION
ʻLearning to take us places...ʼ
Together we travel the F.L.A.X pathway:
Focused Learners who Achieve eXcellence
We support our Linwood Learners to be:
• Planners
• Inquirers
• Creative
• Reflective
achievers

3. AN INVITATION
‘Developing confident, lifelong learners
and achievers’
Our children are the most precious resource of our community and we need to nurture them by
providing them with the very best education possible. At Linwood North School, education is a living
partnership in which our parents and the school work closely together to ensure that our young children
are able to become confident, caring and capable citizens of the 21st Century.
At Linwood North School we offer a vibrant, innovative, yet rigorous education based in Literacy ,
Numeracy and eLearning. Our shared mission of ʻFocused Learning Achieving Excellenceʼ is weaved
into our Teaching as Inquiryʼ Learning Model. The vision of the Linwood North School community,
ʻLearning to take us Places…ʼ is based on our core values of ʻRespect and Responsibilityʼ that
permeate through all our curriculum programmes. Our students develop a love of learning that ensures
they have the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to cope with a rapidly changing and sometimes
challenging world.
We encourage every student to develop and enhance their individual talents and we support them in a
very special, friendly and caring environment.
The relationship between school and home is critical and nurtured by our school. Parents are always
welcome at Linwood North. Their thoughts and ideas are valued and this partnership is essential for
each one of our students to reach their full potential. We encourage all families to become fully involved
with our school community and the daily life of the school.
We are very proud of the achievements of our past and present students. Linwood North School is
unique - it has a proud tradition of over 100 years of outstanding leadership and dedicated loyal staff
committed to providing an excellent education to the children of the North Linwood community. We can
look past to the past with appreciation where the spirit of the school was embodied in the ʻenterpriseʼ
and Linwood North was a school ʻproviding quality education where children come firstʼ. We can
look forward to the future where our school is recognized nationally as ʻa school of enterprise,
innovation and a leader in eLearningʼ. We offer not only an outstanding academic programme but an
exciting curriculum, both in and beyond the classroom, with various Music, Drama Dance, Arts, Cultural
and Sporting opportunities that ensure the successful education of the whole child.
Our aim is to develop confident lifelong learners
and achievers of the future.
I would welcome the opportunity to meet with me to show you around
our fabulous new school and answer any questions you may have that
are not covered in our prospectus. Linwood North School proudly
offers a truly excellent, exciting and challenging education that
we would love to share with you.
Ms Sandra Smith. T.T.C. (Dist), Higher DipTchg
PRINCIPAL
principals message

4. LEARNING
Linwood North, is a state co-educational Linwood North has developed a curriculum that
contributing school from Years 0-6, located places students at the centre of the learning
at 221 Woodham Road in the east of process. We want our students to be life-long
Christchurch with approximately 150 learners who aspire to dream bigger... ʻlearning
students. to take us places...ʻ
The school has a happy, secure, safe We deliberately make our learning programmes
environment with the grounds soon to be meaningful. There is a strong emphasis on
fully landscaped to match our brand new literacy and numeracy, with our students being
administration and learning blocks. motivated and engaged in their learning. We
put technology in the hands of our students,
The school is very well resourced with assisting them with their e-learning skills and
modern, vibrant and purpose built supporting them with online learning
classrooms that support 21st century environments.
learning. Class sizes are small with low
teacher to student ratios, ensuring children Linwood North wants our students to achieve to
receive valuable one on one support. their highest standard and we design learning
programmes and offer experiences to help
The school grounds are large, with a sizable foster individual talents whether that be cultural,
playing field with a fitness trail and two large academic or sporting.
adventure playgrounds. There is a
multipurpose basketball/tennis court and an For more information on our curriculum go to
additional netball court is soon to built. The our website www.linwoodnorth.school where
students have ʻEdible Gardensʼ that provide you can download the document or make an
a focus for healthy eating as we are a appointment to speak to the Principal to discuss
ʻHealth Promoting School.ʼ our teaching and learning.

5. VALUES
Our students and staff actively embrace our Our Golden Rule is that, ʻWe treat others as
Core Values at Linwood North. The values we want to be treated.ʼ
are part of the everyday curriculum and are
encouraged, modeled and explored as we Staff truly care about our students and
aim to make Linwood North a fun, safe and families. We explicitly teach our values and
inclusive environment to learn in. ʻwalk the talkʼ as we strive to make our
environment a secure and positive place of
Our values are ʻRespectʼ and learning.
ʻResponsibilityʼ for:
During weekly celebrations of learning,
• Ourselves individuals from each class are selected by
• Others the teacher for modeling our values. The
• Our Environment students receive acknowledgement during
our assemblies.
We do this by negotiating,
sharing ideas, working as
a team, appreciating
different points of view,
interacting with give and
take and knowing when to
compete and when to co-
operate.
relationships

6. OPPORTUNITIES
There are a wide range of extra learning opportunities and experiences for students at
Linwood North.
CULTURE SPORT
We have strong Kapahaka and Pasifika We have many summer and winter sports
culture groups with students receiving teams. These teams participate in a variety
specialist tuition and performing at the annual of local sporting competitions. Some of the
Cultural Festival. We invite all of our students sports on offer include; netball, unihock,
to become a part of this group. football, rippa rugby and tee-ball.
THE ARTS ACADEMIC PLUS
The Choir is comprised of Years 4, 5 and 6 Enrichment programmes operate to support
students. They have the opportunity to sing a usual class instruction, for Digital Literacy
variety of traditional and contemporary songs and our ESOL students.
and participate in the Christchurch Schoolsʼ
Music Festival held at the CBS Arena. TECHNOLOGY
We are a school that embraces the use of e-
Some of our education programmes are learning. All students in the school have
supported by specialists who teach our access to engaging virtual classrooms and
students for Sports, P.E, Music, Dance and learn about cybersafety in a secure
Drama. These opportunities may change environment monitored closely by teachers.
dependent on what programmes are on offer. Ipads, ipods and many other technical
resources are utilised to help create
meaningful learning experiences.

7. ENROLMENTS
We warmly welcome all visitors and prospective parents.
GENERAL ENROLMENTS PRE ENTRY PROGRAMME
We believe in making the new entrantʼs
For all general enrolments, we ask parents/ transition from home to school as
carers to contact the School Office and smooth as possible.
make an appointment to meet with the
Principal to discuss options and arrange to We have a pre-entry programme that is
be shown around the school. designed to encourage a happy,
confident start to school for both the
student and their parents/carers.
For further information on our enrolment Additional information for our pre-entry
procedure please visit our school website. programme is available from the School
Office.
www.linwoodnorth.school.nz
welcome
Documentation and information that the
school will require to enrol your child
available through our school office and
on our school website.
We encourage you to read through this
before contacting the School Office so
you can be prepared.