This learning community cluster includes five state primary schools, one state intermediate school, one state secondary school and 13 early childhood education providers.

As part of renewal planning, the Minister of Education announced a final decision for Kendal School to close.

The Ministry will work closely with the school to provide extensive support throughout the implementation of this proposal.

Special temporary enrolment schemes have been established in some areas so parents have certainty about where they can enrol their children if their school has a final decision to close or merge.

Read more about the special temporary enrolment scheme at Roydvale School or visit nzschools.tki.org.nz for more information on your local schooling options.

Supporting information for final decision

• Kendal School education report [PDF; 19.4mb]
• Kendal School Submissions [PDF; 25.4mb]

Documents are available in PDF format only. Accessible versions can be supplied on request from info@minedu.govt.nz

View supporting information for interim decisions for all schools in this learning community cluster on the interim decisions page.

The map below shows the current makeup of the learning community cluster.

Schooling

1. Harewood School
2. Isleworth School
3. Kendal School
4. Roydvale School
5. Wairakei School
6. Breens Intermediate
7. Burnside High School

Early childhood education (ECE)

There are 660 licence spaces across the early childhood providers in this cluster, including 150 spaces for children under two years of age. At July 2011, 716 children were enrolled at early childhood services in this cluster, 113 were under two. Of the 152 new entrants who enrolled at a school in the Roydvale Cluster in the year to March 2012, 151 (99%) had attended an ECE service. All 16 Māori new entrants and all five Pasifika new entrants had attended an ECE service.

Services

1. Kidsfirst Kindergarten Isleworth Rd
2. Kidsfirst Kindergarten Kendal Ave
3. Harewood Playcentre
4. ABC Pro-active Learning
5. ABC Pro-active Learning Rua
6. Bishopdale Community Preschool
7. Edukids Wairakei
8. Roydvale Preschool
9. The Enchanted Garden Early Childhood Centre
10. The Rabbit Patch – Saffron St
11. The Rabbit Patch Preschool
12. The Rabbit Patch Preschool – Airport
13. YMCA Bishopdale Childcare Centre

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 Roydvale cluster does not include any state integrated schools.

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 on Find a school.

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

Roydvale cluster ERO review cycle

Harewood School	3 years
Isleworth School	4-5 years
Kendal School	3 years
Roydvale School	3 years
Wairakei School (Christchurch)	In progress
Breens Intermediate	In progress
Burnside High School	3 years

School roll changes

In March 2010, prior to the earthquakes, the primary schools in this cluster provided teaching and learning to 1189 students. While individual rolls have fluctuated, the combined primary roll in this cluster has increased by 22 to 1211 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 learner’s 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 theEducation 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. In addition, Ferndale School provides on-site support at Wairakei School with a classroom (satellite provision) for learners with high and ongoing education needs.

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 provided to 59 primary and 65 secondary learners in schools across this cluster.

Technology

Technology provision in this cluster is located at Breens Intermediate.

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 TC1 and TC2 (link to TC1 and TC2 descriptor on landing page). Geotechnical assessments on the state school sites in this cluster indicate land issues will not 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 71 teaching spaces included in the 8,378 square metres (of useable space) of teaching and learning and administration areas across this cluster of schooling provision. The teaching, learning and administrative space is incorporated into 67 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 13 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
Breens Intermediate	8	8	0	2	0
Harewood	14	14	2	6	0
Isleworth	11	11	4	1	1
Kendal	6	6	2	0	0
Roydvale	14	14	1	3	0
Wairakei	14	14	4	2	0
Cluster	67	67	13	14	1

Based on March 2012 rolls a minimum of 52 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
Breens Intermediate	206	18	251	13
Harewood	180	9	164	7
Isleworth	199	13	210	8
Kendal	84	7	90	4
Roydvale	297	13	279	11
Wairakei	223	11	217	9
Cluster	1189	71	1211	52

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.  Nine are not considered cost effective to repair. This includes 21 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 Roydvale 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

Cluster support groups will be established to lead community engagement. The Ministry of Education will support these groups in providing information to their communities and gathering feedback to identify the preferred way forward. 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. Boards will formally consult with their communities where closures or mergers are indicated.

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.