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| Avonhead School | |
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| File:The Avonhead School logo.png | |
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55 Avonhead Rd, Avonhead, Christchurch 8042, New Zealand | |
| Coordinates | 43°31′26.77″S 172°33′34.189″E / 43.5241028°S 172.55949694°E |
| Information | |
| Motto | Growing Excellence Together |
| Ministry of Education Institution no. | 3287 |
| Principal | Micah Hocquard |
| School roll | 562 students as of March 2025[1] |
| Color(s) | Red |
| Website | avonhead.school.nz |
Avonhead School is a full primary school (years 1–8, or ages 5–13) within Avonhead, located between Ferrier park to the West and Avonhead Road to the East. The school has 562 students as of March 2025.[1] Although located within Avonhead, the school zone also includes sections of the nearby suburbs of Ilam and Sockburn. Most students from Avonhead School go on to secondary schooling at Riccarton High School or Burnside High School. The school currently has 22 classrooms, a result of construction work undertaken to address issues of overcrowding which had been previously faced.[2] These were accompanied by additional work on school facilities, including the construction of a new school hall, basketball and netball courts, which had been made necessary by the construction of classrooms on the sites of previous courts.[3]
Between 2021 and 2022 the senior playground was demolished and replaced with a hockey court with a temporary playground being constructed on the north side of the HQ which was replaced by a permanent new senior playground in June 2022.[4] In the same year, there were also new crawling tunnels constructed near the junior playground replacing a birch tree.
References
- ^ a b "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
- ^ O'Callaghan, Jody; Redmond, Adele; Small, Jamie (23 May 2017). "Hundreds of schools over capacity or at risk of overcrowding". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
- ^ "Our Vision". Avonhead School. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
- ^ Hocquard, Micah. "Message from the Principal". Avonhead School. Retrieved 21 August 2022.