About Ross Intermediate

OVERVIEW

Ross Intermediate School has a focused direction for our goals and vision. At the centre of this is the intention to provide the best possible education; academically, sporting and culturally to all students.

A positive partnership between home and school is essential to the achievement of the goals that you as parents, we as teachers and your child as the learner want to realise. We work together to enable your child to reach their potential. We have a strong Behaviour Management Plan which you can learn more about by clicking here.

At Ross Intermediate School, every student has the opportunity to make a unique contribution, within an environment, which has high standards and expectations - both behaviourally and academically. Our size allows us to focus attention on each and every one of our students.

Ross Intermediate offers a high quality-learning environment with an array of extra-curricular opportunities in sports and music catering for students at all levels. We provide:

• Special Abilities class
• A school based radio station 88.6FM
• An Environmental Education focus, part of which the old swimming pool area is being developed for Biotechnology
  
• A creative and innovative Arts Programme
  
• A well-equipped ICT focus and strategy offering students access to state of the art technology.
• A L.O.T.E. (Language other than English) programme, where all students have the opportunity to touch on another language and learn about other cultures.
  
• A Hauora (well being) programme which actively encourages students to make healthy choices in diet and exercise.
  
• Support classes in Literacy and Numeracy
• A range of sporting opportunities including an elite Sports Academy
  
• A high calibre of teaching staff delivering quality learning programmes. 

Source: nzedge.com and teara.govt.nz

CLASSROOM STRUCTURE

REGULAR CLASSROOMS
All of our Teaching Rooms are Year 7 and 8 composite classes. Students do not generally stay with the same teacher for 2 years. We take a great deal of care to ensure that students are placed in a learning environment that is best suited to their needs. Our regular class sizes average 26 - 28 students (T1 figues) with numbers reducing as low as 25 for Literacy and Numeracy. The Board of Trustees are committed to ensuring class numbers remain under 30 where possible.

Our classes are made up into Teams. Each team is named after a famous New Zealander:

Sheppard House (Rooms 1,2,3)
Learn about Kate Sheppard by clicking here .

Ngata House (Rooms 4,5,6,7)
Learn about Sir Apirana Ngata by clicking here .

Batten House (Room 8,9,10)
Learn about Jean Batten by clicking here .

Hillary House (Rooms 11,12,13,14)
Learn about Sir Edmund Hillary by clicking here .
 

Visit these pages for more information on any of our programmes:

     Academic Programmes

     Arts, Languages and Cultural Programmes

     Sporting Opportunities

 
Of course, the best way to find out about our great school is to visit! Please call us now on (06) 358-5461 or email Wayne by clicking here and make an appointment to have a tour of the school.

We look forward to having you as part of our dynamic team.