Our
Story
We are a vibrant, inclusive school in Blockhouse Bay. Our community is supportive, multicultural and proud!
Over the past 10 years Glenavon School has grown significantly. We are a school of 400 that is growing!
From the moment you walk into Glenavon you will be greeted with aroha and a smile.
We have everything but a high school all on the one site! Our Glenavon Early Childhood caters for our community children from 3 years old. This can be accessed from our Hertford entrance. Also down our Hertford entrance end we have Te Ara Hau, a space for special needs students to learn, play and grow.
Our Community Hub is positioned at our entrance and is run by a team of loyal, motivated school parents, doing good stuff for our community.
Glenavon School is a full primary catering from years 1 through to 8.
We have a separate Intermediate area for our year ⅞ students. These students have an intermediate programme and are fully merged with our primary, participating in whole school activities, buddy programmes and lunch play. Tukana Teina is strongly valued at Glenavon.
Our friendly, committed office and leadership team are positioned in our administration block. As you walk further into the beautiful grounds of Glenavon School you will meet passionate, hard working teachers delivering strong programmes underpinned by modern day literacy and numeracy. Sciences, Social Sciences, NZ History, The Arts, Health and Physical Education and Languages are integrated into learning over the course of the year.
We are also fortunate to have specialist teachers for our tamariki. An Arts specialist, English Second Language specialist, Special Education Needs Coordinator and a Learning Support Coordinator. As well as a team of wonderful Teacher Aides supporting in our classrooms and running needs based programmes.
taonga at Glenavon School
In 2022 Glenavon one of our beloved teachers, Mrs Jackie Miru-Fransham passed away. Jackie was not only a respected colleague, friend and teacher here at Glenavon, but she was a truly amazing visual artist. Mrs Miru-Fransam created and contributed to many pieces around the school and was pivotal in the creation of the school logo which will be worn on the hearts of our students for many years to come.