Our vision

As a school with a contemporary outlook, our staff are highly skilled and work collaboratively to foster safe and supportive learning environments that will prepare children to engage in a world that is characterised by constant change. Shotover Primary School endeavours to be aspirational and empowering, offering a diverse range of opportunities for children. It seeks to make the school the heart of the community.

All children are valued as individuals and have the opportunities to engage in personalised learning to maximise their potential, with a holistic approach to curriculum that looks outward. Every effort is made to ensure that, at the completion of their educational journey, children have the skills to move successfully into post-primary education in the Wakatipu and further afield.

As a school, we value excellence and the personal qualities that lead to achieving it. We will also value innovation and curiosity by encouraging creative thinking and drawing from the beauty and diversity of the natural alpine environments found in the richness of our heritage and the legacy of our partnership with Tangata Whenua.    

Staff and children will experience and be encouraged to adopt equity through fairness and social justice, community responsiveness, ecological sustainability and integrity through honesty, accountability, leadership and ethical behaviour. A sense of worth will be fostered in all children to enable them to engage fully in the world and pursue their dreams and aspirations.

If you are curious how we go about making the above statement real in day to day life at Shotover, what drives and guides us, day to day, week to week and month to month then this image is a starting point.  It outlines why we do what we do and the values that guide our work. You can download a printable PDF here