Our Classrooms
Open plan Classrooms
At Stanmore Bay School we have a range of single-celled and open planned classrooms. Our open-planned classrooms have the same teacher-student ratio as our single-celled classrooms. We have three open planned classrooms and these spaces are within Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3.
● Year 1: Rooms 7, 8 and 9
● Year 2: Rooms 28 and 29
● Year 3: Rooms 15 and 16
These classrooms will cross-group (mix students from both/all classroom space) occasionally throughout the timetable, where the need is required or where the learning can be maximised. There are possibilities for greater collaboration in these open-plan classrooms than in a single-celled space due to there being more students.
Please see the School Map for all classrooms.
Year 5 & 6: multi age classrooms
Our Kāhū Whānau classrooms are multi aged. This means that each classroom has a mixture of Year 5 and Year 6 learners.
This principle follows the Te Ao Māori concept of “tuakana teina” - older (tuakana) to younger (teina) or younger to older learning possibilities and opportunities.
Teachers group and teach the students based on their ability, rather than their age.
There are still a few activities throughout the school year where Year 5 and 6 students are grouped together according to their age, for example, cluster sporting competitions/gradings, school camp, preparations for Year 7 transitioning.
