EDUCATION
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Getting the best start F
rom pre-school to secondary, tertiary, special needs and beyond, Rotorua offers excellent educational opportunities. It is easy for students of all levels to excel within our education system, which features smaller class sizes and a greater opportunity to access many extra-curricular activities. Our schools also provide cultural and sporting pursuits during and outside school hours. Rotorua has 90 licensed early childhood services in the district, providing an early start to the formal education of more than 3400 children each year. The area has 13 urban primary schools and 11 rural primary schools offering easy access to quality education throughout the district. The city has three urban intermediate schools, offering children access to high-class preparation for their secondary school education. It has six urban and one rural secondary school, offering a wide range of high-quality curriculum and extra-curricular activities. Quality tertiary education opportunities include Waiariki Bay of Plenty Polytechnic, Te Wananga O Aotearoa as well as a number of private training organisations. Leading training organisations represented in the district include EmployNZ, New Zealand Apprenticeships, Teach NZ, and Trade and Commerce Training For Industry.
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We moved to Rotorua in August 2015 and our 7-year-old settled so well into primary school. We found the school so welcoming and the transition was very smooth. The kids can bike to school, or walk on the walking school bus. They hang out with all the neighbourhood kids. It feels really safe — like a real community. Stacey
Rotorua’s schools provide cultural and sporting pursuits during and outside school hours. Smaller class sizes are popular with many parents.
All of these institutions offer full, part-time, adult education and educational block courses in a wide range of subjects including commerce, industry, health, forestry and wood processing, tourism, arts, Maori culture, as well as a full range of apprenticeship courses. There are a variety of up skilling and training development providers within the district or nearby that offer
on- and off-site short courses and fulltime programmes. The city’s five urban secondary schools all offer courses in English as a second language. Western Heights High School, John Paul College, Rotorua Lakes High School, Rotorua Boys High and Rotorua Girls High School, Waiariki Bay of Plenty Polytechnic and the Rotorua English Language Academy
have banded together as Education Rotorua, under which they will promote Rotorua as a premier destination for foreign students. All seven institutions have signed a memorandum of agreement in standards of operation and home stay for international students learning English as a second language. Overseas students who come to Rotorua for English language studies have unlimited choice of where to go for their university studies as they are not formally linked to any university.
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