Introducing Hokowhitu School
Introducing Hokowhitu School
Hokowhitu School is located in central Palmerston North, and we work hard to provide a supportive, caring, and positive environment for our children.
Our roll is currently around 380 students, and our children come from more than thirty different cultures. We are categorised as Decile 7 by the Ministry of Education.
We have an extensive playground and a swimming pool. We are also able to make use of the neighbouring Hokowhitu Park.
Hokowhitu School was opened in February 1924, and the Albert Street frontage—including our bell tower—is a Category II listed historic building.
Our mission
Strive to be the best you can be
Torongia ki te tihi o te maunga
Our vision
Our school is a wonderful place where students are inspired and guided on their journey through life.
Our values: STRIVE
Our STRIVE guidelines encapsulate the virtues and values we teach at Hokowhitu School:
Step up and be the best you can be
Try new things and persevere
Respect self, others and things
Investigate, wonder and learn
Value others
Enthusiastically live by our virtues
Our ERO Report & ERO Case Studies
Our latest ERO Report (2018) can be found here.
Hokowhitu School is also profiled in an ERO exemplar report:
An exemplar report may be produced when ERO finds an organisation demonstrates effective practice in relation to specific aspects of performance.
The exemplar report is based on ERO's reports on Hokowhitu School in their Teaching Strategies that Works series:
Keeping children engaged and achieving in writing (June 2019)
Case Study #4: Making sure all teachers have the knowledge to enable literacy success for every child
Mathematics approaches and strategies that worked (2018)
Case Study #3: Working collaboratively to develop and implement an agreed mathematics curriculum and consistent, high quality teaching practices
The reading approaches and strategies that worked (2018)
Case Study #8: Ensuring more children achieve success when initially learning to read
Keeping Children Engaged and Achieving in the Upper Primary School (2017)
Case Study #8: Empowering student learning, efficacy, aspirations and success
Other useful information
Our profile on the Education Counts website can be found here.