Elmwood Normal School is a decile 10, U6 State Contributing Normal School. If offers a six year programme from which most children proceed to intermediate schools. As a Normal School, it has a partnership with the Christchurch College of Education and the NZ Graduate School and regularly hosts students for teaching practice and for demonstration lessons. The school also attracts visiting teachers and students from overseas.
The school also has a Visual Resource Centre on site which is managed by Homai School for the Blind in Auckland, from which staff members meet the special educational needs of learners with vision impaired children from birth to 21 years throughout Canterbury and Westland.
This school is well served by the individual talents of all staff members.
Parent involvement is a strong feature of the learning programmes at Elmwood Normal School. The ideal that responsibility for children’s learning should be a partnership between parent and school is increasingly being realised.
The Elmwood Normal School Community is diverse, supportive and enriching. It is composed predominantly of European descent.
Elmwood Normal School is situated in beautiful grounds in the central city suburb of Merivale. If you wish to read more about the history of the school visit our website.
Some facts about the school
- Founded in 1882 on was originally sited in the Merivale Anglican Church and known as the “St. Albans Side School”.
- 1908 was renamed as the Elmwood District School.
- The War Memorial was unveiled by the Minister of Education on 26 February 1921. It was erected in memory of the 154 Elmwood boys who served the Empire in the Great War 1914-18.
- 1954 “Normal” was added to the name. “Normal” comes from the French word Normale - meaning “model” or “teaching”.
- The school celebrate 100 years in1982, and 125 years in 2007.
- The school has a partnership with UCCE involving pre-service teacher training.
- Contributing State Primary School
- Caters for Y0 - Y6 children
- Roll range: 550 - 600
- Decile 10 school
- In 2010 the school employs a staff of 47 (21 classroom teachers, Management Team made up of Principal, Deputy Principal and 2 team leaders (junior and senior school) and 7 specialist teachers), 5 teacher aides, 7 support staff and 3 property staff.
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All staff members enjoy a set of agreed employment core values. These are: Integrity - Teamwork - Participation - Caring - Layalty
- The school has an enrolment scheme.
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The majority of enrolments come from within the school’s home zone
- Eighty percent of the school’s community is of European descent
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The school’s intakes of International Students is small (maximum of 12)
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The school’s vision is to promote a culture of high expectations, high standards and delivering excellence.
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The vision statement for the school is expressed in the motto "Striving to be the best that we can”.
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The parent community is educationally aware, has very high expectations and strongly supports the school’s vision and strategic goals.
Our point of difference
- Elmwood Normal School is a significant stakeholder in pre-service teacher training with particular focus on providing models for teaching practice.
- Our teachers have responsibilities within their employment conditions to provide pre-service teacher training.
- There is an expectation that our teachers will provide exemplary teaching practices to model for those in training. This expectation is a performance management dimension for all of our teaching staff.
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Our teaching and learning strategic direction has alignment with the training programmes offered at the UCCE.
Kevin Gooch
Principal
February 2010 |
