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High School
Our High Schoolers embrace their individual learning journeys, share their passions, and take responsibility for themselves.
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Middle School
Our Middle School balances a sense of play and wonder, social and emotional learning, and academic challenge.
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Primary School
Our Primary Learners dive headfirst into a world teeming with opportunities, everyday is a thrilling voyage of discovery.
THE GSNZ EXPERIENCE
Green School New Zealand impacts families in various ways, from life-changing to life-affirming. Hear what our community wishes to share with the rest of the world about the Green School experience here in Taranaki.
Family Stories
OUR LEARNING PROGRAMME
To thrive in a world that’s changing exponentially, we need education to inspire students to innovate, find purpose, love learning, and make an impact now.
Towards An Education Revolution
Partners In Education
Green School New Zealand has the honour of receiving world renowned education guidance and support, helping shape the GSNZ curriculum and craft the Green School experience here in Taranaki, New Zealand.
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New Zealand Qualifications Authority ensures that New Zealand qualifications are recognised and respected, here and overseas, and that qualifications and credentials meet the needs of learners in the changing world.
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NEASC - New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
NEASC Accreditation is a respected, effective, and time-tested methodology for school improvement and growth. It is not a single event, but rather an ongoing, voluntary cycle of comprehensive internal and external assessments, short- and long-term strategic planning, and periodic reporting sustained by professional partnership and support. It is intended to serve as a framework for schools to meet their own unique goals for student learning while maintaining alignment with research-based Standards for Accreditation that define the characteristics of high quality, effective learning communities. It also serves to assess the systems in place for ongoing institutional self-reflection and a school’s commitment to and capacity for continuous growth and/or transformation.
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Education in Motion are global leaders in pioneering education for a sustainable future. EiM’s mission is to create meaningful change for the world by empowering communities through innovative education.
EiM supports a growing family of premier education brands, including Green School International Schools.
More on EiM here.
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Please see details on our Advisory Board here.
Green School NZ Graduates
OUR LEARNER PATHWAYS
We offer a unique High School Diploma (Advanced) that is accepted for University Entrance by Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara. Along with accreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), this recognition affirms our diploma’s rigorous academic standards and innovative approach to education, offering students pathways to higher education both in New Zealand and internationally. Our diploma is guided by our own ‘Green Literacy Framework’ which promotes innovative teaching and learning experiences by moving away from the traditional disciplines of most school curricula. Our High School students graduate with a GSNZ HS Diploma and Academic Transcript – alongside their own e-portfolio. Our diploma aligns with our goal to Thrive with Purpose, and has put us at the cutting-edge of student-centred, mission-driven learning.
OUR LEARNING COMMUNITY
Our community of learners allows us all to learn, collaborate and connect globally and locally – from our students and teachers, to our parents and local neighbourhood.
It Takes A Village To
Change The World
News
We are on a mission to educate changemakers for a positive sustainable world. Hear what our community has to share and what the world has to say about our community.
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GSNZ recently Puanga Festival on campus with our wider community every year.
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Green School New Zealand receives NEASC Accreditation.
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Green School NZ receives the Taranaki regional Council Sustainable Education Award for empowering students to take action to build a sustainable community and take action to protect and restore the environment.
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Green School NZ saw three first place awards in a national art competition which will contribute to a book and be presented at an international climate change conference.
Green School NZ had students from years one to nine win first place at the Aotearoa national 'Our Papatūānuku' competition.
Students from around the country entered projects in poetry, graphic art, illustration and mixed media categories representing their care and concerns for the Earth.
Kyan Hoskin, Evie Sellen and Nina Roorda-Vianna all received first place in their divisions and were three out of nine students from Green School NZ to place.
Read more here.
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Green School NZ Wins 'Western Architecture Award'.
The Kina form is celebrated with an organic, circular shape to create a safe and nurturing learning environment, with classrooms all opening to a shared central play space. Read more here.
Green School NZ Wins 2020 Western Architecture Award’.
An extremely tight programme drove an extraordinary collaborative effort between client, architect, structural engineer and the local construction industry. Read more here.
Timber Design AwardsRead all about it here: Architecture Now, Timber & Forestry News.
OUR LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Our award-winning campus, nestled in Taranaki between Taranaki Maunga and the Tasman Sea, is a model for sustainability and a centre for experimentation, innovation and solutions.
A Curved-Walls, Healthy, Safe, Nature Immersed Campus
Awards
The Green School campus features some of the worlds most stunning education landscapes, architecture fit for another planet and students both gifted and hardworking. During our short tenure we have amassed a collection of awards recognising the mahi and aroha that has gone into creating and embodying our one-of-a-kind school.
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Green School New Zealand middle schooler’s recently won big at the local WITT Science Fair Awards.
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Green School NZ Kina, was awarded the top timber design award at the NZ Timber Design Awards. These Awards recognise and celebrate the engineers, architects, architectural designers and builders who push boundaries and continue to champion nature’s greatest renewable building material, timber.
Read about it here!
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Green School New Zealand Outdoor Educator Matua Damian Firth is the recipient of the Service To Education Outside The Classroom Award, by the Independent Schools of New Zealand.
The ISNZ Honours Awards were established to honour exceptional staff who demonstrate talent service and commitment to independent schooling that is truely above and beyond what might be expected.
Matua Damian will be recognised during the opening ceremony of the 2023 ISNZ Annual Conference, by the Minister of Education, Hon Jan Tinetti.
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Green School NZ has had the honour of winning big - twice, at the Western Architecture Awards.
Read more here.
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Green School NZ saw three first place awards in a National Art Competition which will contribute to a book and be presented at an international climate change conference.
Green School NZ had students from years one to nine win first place at the Aotearoa national 'Our Papatūānuku' competition.
Students from around the country entered projects in poetry, graphic art, illustration and mixed media categories representing their care and concerns for the Earth.
Kyan Hoskin, Evie Sellen and Nina Roorda-Vianna all received first place in their divisions and were three out of nine students from Green School NZ to place.
Read more here.
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Taranaki regional Council has Awarded Green School NZ in a 'Sustainable 2022 Education Award' for empowering students to take action to build a sustainable community and take action to protect and restore the environment.
Read more here.
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