Hutt Valley High School:
Provides high quality education for all students within a safe and stimulating environment, offering:
- A wide range of subject choice
- Innovative programmes at senior level
- A strong guidance and support network
- A systematic social skills and health programme
- Specialist assistance for scholarship candidates
- Streamed top classes for top academic achievement
- A highly qualified teaching staff
Recognises and celebrates diversity amongst its students, no matter what their learning needs or background, through:
- Effective support and extension programmes
- Multi-cultural performance opportunities
- Flexible timetabling, allowing multi-level study
- The Awhina whanau promoting mentoring connections withVictoria University
- Kapahaka
- Polynesian Cultural Group
Complements its academic prowess with a strong cultural and sporting focus, including:
• Diversity of musical performance opportunities
• Strength in the performing and creative arts
• Participation in a wide range of sporting codes
• An expectation of fair play and high standards
Generates and maintains strong links with its community, through:
- Partnerships with parents, students, past students, staff and the
wider community - Links with service organisations
- Active community service
- Growing interaction with local iwi
Fosters pride amongst its staff and students, by:
- Emphasising respect for self and others
- Celebrating achievement and progress
- Promoting excellence and effort
- Supporting the strong Past Pupils’ Association
FACILITIES
Our extensive facilities include the following:
- Library and information centre
- Six computer suites
- Photographic dark room
- Three gymnasiums
- Marae
- Learning Support Unit
- Year 13 common room
- Student Centre
- Recording studio
- Science laboratories
- Careers library
- Canteen
- Medical facilities
- Modern Art block
- Modern Dance and Drama facilities
- Horticultural Unit
- Data projectors in most classrooms