Deanwell School Waikato

New Entrant Teacher

Mā tātou anō tō mātou korowai e whatu
We will weave our own korowai

At Deanwell we use the metaphor of a korowai to explain our vision: We believe that each person (mokopuna) is born with their own korowai. Their korowai is embedded with their identity, their language, their culture, their stories passed down to them from their ancestors.

When our students transition to Deanwell, we value and acknowledge their already developing korowai. We feel incredibly privileged that we are then allowed as educators to stimulate and provide learning opportunities where each student can add new knowledge, new strategies, new skills, new feathers to their korowai. 

Accordingly, we place the learner at the heart of all decisions that we make, mana mokopuna.  

Our people, our students, our employees, our board, our whānau, our community are all worthy of aroha and belonging.  

Our inclusive learning pedagogy is based on hauora – where developing high trust relationships is critical for learning. Relationships in our learning community are based on our values, Hāpaitia te MANA - manaakitanga, aumangea, ngātahi, ako.

Deanwell is 100% committed to providing evidence based professional learning and we have high expectations of teachers transferring this learning for the educational benefits of our students.