2012 News
Tuesday 10th January
Relocatable classrooms have begun arriving this week. The schedule that is being worked to is as follows.

Process	Duration	Dates
Building Relocation, Siting and Piling	10 days	5 January – 14 January 2012
Ramps, Steps, Decks and Canopies. Services	2 (7 day) weeks	15 January – 29 January 2012
Classroom Set Up	1 day	Monday 30th January 2012
Start of Term One	1 day	Tuesday 31st January 2012
Baseboards, paths, making good to fences etc	1 week	30 January – 6 February 2012

Our Place



Nau mai haere mai to the website of Newtown School ? the multicultural primary school at the heart of Wellington?s liveliest suburb.

For more than 127 years, this school has educated the children of Newtown and its neighbouring suburbs, giving them the broad start in life that all New Zealanders need.

These days that start includes special teaching programmes, a rich multicultural environment and a clear focus on achievement in many areas.

Newtown School provides its students with a well-rounded education that is not available at other schools. We have a Maori immersion class ? Ngati Kotahitanga ? providing an 80 per cent immersion environment, and our facilities include an indoor heated swimming pool, computer suite, and separate junior and senior playgrounds.

We have a strong emphasis on literacy and numeracy in both Maori and English, and the vast majority of our students achieve at or above the norms for their age group.

Our student roll is drawn from a rich variety of backgrounds, reflecting the diversity of Newtown, and we pride ourselves on being very much an integral part of our neighbourhood.


Rhys McKinley, Principal

Ko te manu kai i te miro nona te ngahere, ko te manu kai i te matauranga nona te ao. The bird who eats from the miro tree owns the forest, the bird who eats of the tree of knowledge owns the world.






Our Community



Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand
Newtown has many old wooden buildings and a few high density council apartments. Wellington Hospital and Wellington Zoo are within the suburb of Newtown. There is a small shopping centre that has all the essentials. Newtown School is part of this busy community.



History, Ngake and Whataitai

The Maori(Indigenous people of New Zealand) version of how Wellington Harbour and surrounding land forms were made.Click on the link to find out about the story of Ngake and Whataitai.ppt

Newtown is set in the southern hills of Wellington New Zealand. Newtown was a harsh place. A swamp beginning somewhere in the Melrose Hills wound its way through what is now the zoo, and down through Newtown, widening in its swampiness as it went until it reached the lake that became known as the Basin, then flowed on past what is Courtenay Place to the harbour. Scrub thickly covered the sloping parts of the suburb and the roads were heavy and lonely.