Tironui Trust Music Programme

Tironui Trust delivers a challenging, rewarding and fun instrumental music programme to a select number of schools in the Mt Wellington and Papatoetoe area.  Students are selected to learn string instruments from Year 5.

 

Students participate on Tuesdays in small group lessons and ensemble rehearsals delivered by skilled and enthusiastic professional instrumental tutors who maximise music learning and literacy.  Musical instruments, sheet music and notebooks are provided, with students encouraged to rehearse daily.  Regular performance opportunities are provided throughout the year and students are further motivated through exposure to uplifting performances by professional musicians.  Our wonderful teachers are - Veronica Dale, Lena, Nathan Pinkney and Natarani.

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Tironui Trust Mission

To provide a fully funded and inspiring performance music programme to young New Zealanders

       with limited opportunity.

To foster diligence, nurture confidence, celebrate aspiration and achievement.

Together discovering the joy of music making with others.

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Better Start Literacy Programme

The Better Start Literacy Approach is a structured approach to literacy instruction in the Rata Team, to support children's early reading, writing and oral language success. It has been developed by our team specifically for our New Zealand educational and cultural context and controlled research trials have proven its effectiveness. It includes the systematic teaching of critical phonological awareness skills and letter sound knowledge skills through fun, games-based activities, activities making explicit links to the reading and spelling context, and structured small group reading sessions using the new Ready to Read - Phonics Plus early readers series. In addition, the approach includes explicit teaching in vocabulary skills and in building children's oral narrative and listening comprehension skills through quality children's story books. The Better Start Literacy Approach follows a structured phonics scope and sequence that is used in the class and small group reading teaching.

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Rimu Technology - Year 7 and 8 

Rimu students attend Technology lessons for half a day each week with our specialist Technology Teacher.  Through the Technology course, we aim to give students creative, hands-on learning experiences using a range of equipment and materials.  The areas covered are Food Technology, Robotics and 3D printing, STEM learning, Materials and Design Technology. No two terms are ever the same!  Our Technology Teacher is the brilliant Ms Lolesi.

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Student Leadership Programme

The Bailey Road School Leadership programme has undergone changes this year.  We have student Whānau Leaders that lead our four Whānau groups - Kiwi, Kea, Tui and Weka.  Rimu students have various other leadership opportunities - Student Council, Yearbook Committee, Graduation Committee, Leaders of Language Weeks, Peer Mediators, Road Patrols and PALs (Physical Activity Leaders), Enviro Leaders and Kaitiaki of our beloved Whare Ahuru Mowai (library).
 

Mathex - Auckland Mathematical Association

Mathex is a challenging and fast-paced mathematics contest where schools from across Auckland compete against each other in teams to answer questions as quickly as possible.  Bailey Road School send Year 7-8 teams to compete in this competition every year.

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Discovery

The Discovery programme happens on Thursday afternoons for Rata Team (Years 0-3).  Discovery sessions promote learning through play, where play is the valued mode of learning.  Students are provided with a variety of opportunities they can explore, experiment, discover, and solve problems in imaginative and playful ways. 

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