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Welcome to Home–School Partnerships online!

This site is for school leaders, teachers, and school support services advisors. It provides information, guidance, and resources to support schools in developing and building on their home–school partnerships. It also contains specific information related to the National Standards and reporting to parents, family and whānau.

The New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa both emphasise the importance of collaborative partnerships in co-constructing a school’s curriculum. The curriculum has meaning for students, connects with their wider lives, and engages the support of their families, whānau and communities.

What are home-school partnerships?

Home–school partnerships are shared relationships and initiatives between schools and whānau. Students are part of both groups, which together make up the wider school community.

What can your school do?

Find information here to help you develop your own home-school partnership:

Initiatives that have been effective

Home–school partnerships take many different forms, depending on the context and their purpose. Some successful initiatives to promote student learning include:

Keeping in touch, reporting to parents, and the National Standards

Communicating clear, dependable information about progress and achievement provides a basis for building a strong partnership between the child, the teacher and the child’s parents, family and whānau to support learning and improve student outcomes. Read more ...

Schools' stories

Read how these schools have developed their home-school partnerships:



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NZ curriculum
Marautanga

This website has been developed to support The New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa

Parents, family and whānau

If you are a parent or community member who would like to learn more about home–school partnerships, particularly what you can do at home to support learning, check out the Ministry's parents, families and whānau website.

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