This learning community cluster includes two state primary schools, one state integrated school, one state integrated secondary school, one teen parent unit and 11 early childhood education providers.

 

Schooling

1. Kaiapoi Borough School
2. Kaiapoi North School
3. Karanga Mai Young Parents College
4. Kaiapoi High School
5. St Patrick’s School

Early childhood education (ECE)

There are 440 licence spaces across the early childhood education (ECE) providers in this cluster, including 116 spaces for children under two years of age. At July 2011, 557 children were enrolled at early childhood services in this cluster, 102 were under two. Of the 116 new entrant students who enrolled at a school in the Kaiapoi Cluster in the year to March 2012, 115 (99%) had attended an ECE service. Of the 21 Māori new entrant students, 21 (100%) had attended an ECE service, and five (83%) of the six Pasifika new entrants had attended an ECE service.

Service

1. Kidsfirst Kindergarten Kaiapoi North
2. Kidsfirst Kindergarten Vickery St
3. ABC Kaiapoi Tahi
4. ABC Kaiapoi Rua
5. HoNeyBeeZ Preschool & Nursery
6. Kaiapoi Preschool
7. Karanga Mai Early Learning Centre
8. Portobelo Kaiapoi
9. Portobel Otaki St
10. The Ark – Kaiapoi Community Childcare
11. The Rainbow Preschool and Nursery

ECE services are independently owned and managed.

School governance

There are three types of schools: state, private (or registered or independent) and state integrated schools.

State integrated schools are former private schools which, while now “integrated” into the state system, also provide programmes around their particular religious or learning philosophy.

State and state integrated schools, while government funded, are managed by boards of trustees. Private schools receive only partial funding from the Government. Day to day management of all schools is the responsibility of the principal.

The Crown is responsible for property provision for state schools to ensure students have access to their closest school. The proprietors of state integrated and private schools are responsible for their own buildings. The Kaiapoi cluster includes one state integrated school and a Teen Parent Unit attached to Kaiapoi High School.

School boards are required to develop individual charters and annual plans and report their performance against these. You will be able to access the school charter from your school or at Find a school.

Education Review Office (ERO) reports on school and early childhood performance are publicly available.

Kaiapoi cluster ERO review cycle

Kaiapoi Borough School	3 years
Kaiapoi North School	3 years
Karanga Mai Young Parents College	3 years
Kaiapoi High School	3 years
St Patrick’s School (Kaiapoi)	3 years

 

School roll changes

 

In March 2010, prior to the earthquakes, the primary schools in this cluster provided teaching and learning to 1137 students. While individual rolls have fluctuated, the combined primary roll in this cluster has declined by 151 to 986 at March 2012.

Individual school March rolls, 2008, 2010, and 2012:

Note: only roll data for primary schools in this cluster is displayed.

The following chart shows the ethnic composition of the combined cluster school rolls by percentage of total combined roll

Education achievement

National Standards aim to lift achievement in literacy and numeracy (reading, writing, and mathematics) by being clear about what students should achieve and by when. Boards are required to report on learners’ achievement for 2011 in their 2012 Annual Report. You will be able to access National Standards data for your school from the Find a school section of the Education Counts website as soon as this information is available.

Special Education

Special Education delivers specialist services and support to learners with special education needs across this cluster. This includes support to early childhood education, schools, teachers, parents, families and whānau.

Māori and Pasifika provision

Māori-medium education programmes involve students being taught either all or some curriculum subjects in the Māori language, either in immersion (Māori language only) or bilingual (Māori and English) programmes. There are no Māori or Pasifika bilingual units or language programmes delivered by schools in this cluster.

English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) provision

ESOL provision for refugee and new migrant learners from non-English speaking backgrounds is not provided in this cluster.

Technology

Technology provision in this cluster is located at Kaiapoi Borough School.

Land – State schools only

School sites sit outside the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) land classification process and will not be given any Technical Category foundation rankings, though the land in the surrounding residential area of this cluster has been classified TC2 and TC3. Geotechnical assessments on the state school sites in this cluster indicate land issues are likely to compromise continued education provision.

Further Ministry commissioned assessments may be required at a later date, should any of these sites be further developed.

Buildings – State schools only

There are 50 teaching spaces included in the 5,596 square metres (net area, which is internal useable space) of teaching and learning and administration space across this cluster of schooling provision. The teaching, learning and administrative space is incorporated into 40 actual buildings. All of these buildings suffered damage during the earthquakes.  Repairs have yet to be made to the building stock. Condition assessments confirm over time earthquake strengthening will be required across 12 of these buildings within the cluster. There are weather tightness issues in a further 14 buildings.

Building condition information – State schools only

	Number of buildings	Number of buildings with EQ damage	Number of buildings with strengthening required	Number of buildings with weather tightness repairs required	Number of buildings with both strengthening and weather tightness repairs
Kaiapoi Borough	20	20	5	8	0
Kaiapoi North	20	20	7	6	1
Cluster	40	40	12	14	1

Based on March 2012 rolls – a minimum of 36 teaching spaces will be required for ongoing teaching and learning in this cluster, as below.

School rolls and classroom numbers – State schools only

	March 2010 roll	Classroom (no.) current (July 2012)	March 2012 roll	Estimated classrooms required at March 2012
Kaiapoi Borough	528	28	437	18
Kaiapoi North	467	22	428	18
Cluster	995	50	865	36

The way forward

Extensive condition assessments and engineering investigations have confirmed all buildings in this cluster currently remain fit to occupy – unless already isolated. A number of the buildings across this cluster will, however, require remediation and strengthening over the longer-term. Five buildings across the cluster which are not considered cost effective to repair. This includes 10 teaching spaces.

Future planning

The earthquakes provide an opportunity, as outlined in the Education Renewal Recovery Programme [PDF; 881kb], to consider options for revitalising the greater Christchurch education network that go beyond simply replacing what was there. Discussions with schools, communities and providers within this cluster will be key to informing decisions around the future shape of education for the Kaipoi education community. Ways to enhance infrastructure and address existing property issues, improve education outcomes, and consider future governance will form part of these discussions.

Community engagement

There will be conversations with boards of trustees to establish how schools in this cluster can not only restore services but also deliver improved outcomes for their education communities. In line with the support signalled in the Education Renewal Recovery Programme [PDF; 881kb] for improved collaboration, this will provide an opportunity to gain further suggestions around shared provision across schools and services within specific areas of interest and the wider community, as appropriate.

Check out the engagement schedule for further details.

Secondary Schools

Secondary, state integrated and independent schools located within these clusters will be involved in discussions around the future shape of provision within their education communities.

The Ministry has worked collaboratively with secondary schools on ideas for future secondary school education provision in greater Christchurch.  In October 2013, the Minister of Education announced decisions for the secondary school network.