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Southwell was a boys-only school from 1911 until 2000 when it went fully co-ed and in 2011 celebrated its Centenary. From one staff member and one student in 1911 Southwell presently has 600 students and 100 staff. Its present-day all-around education cherishes its traditions, history, and the people who over time have made it the great school it is today. Southwell is a dynamic, inspiring, and nurturing, Year 1 to 8, coeducational, Day and Boarding School that is set in the heart of Hamilton City on a magnificent campus. Southwell offers an educational experience designed to inspire individual achievement, strong personal values, and confidence for life. Our learning is personalized, modern, relevant, and meaningful to the individual. Small class sizes, specialist homeroom, and subject teachers allow our students’ minds and gifts to be exposed. Our learning is underpinned by our Southwell Values of Integrity, Respect, Caring, Resilience, Creativity, and Excellence. We define excellence as ‘giving your best. Southwell Boarding is a caring, family-based environment with around 50 to 60 boys and girls from Years 5 to 8. Our routines, structures, and care aim to provide a home-like atmosphere where each student’s academic, social, physical, and emotional wellbeing are occurring seamlessly. Southwell Boarding develops life skills like no other environment. We love our sport at Southwell and offer a wide range of sports options with specific training and match times weekly. We offer internal options, play in Waikato club competitions and have historic midweek fixtures with 10 other Independent Schools played in both summer and winter seasons. We aim to create better people through sport. Everyone performs on the stage at Southwell as we aim to expose our boys and girls to a magnificent array of oral, musical, instrumental, and theatrical opportunities. We aim to develop each student’s confidence to perform and act before others. From choirs to individual speech tuition, our opportunities are vast. The Performing Arts at Southwell provides students with a range of high-quality learning experiences in the disciplines of Dance, Drama, Music, and Speech. Children are inspired to achieve artistic excellence whilst developing the confidence and creativity to freely express their ideas and feelings. Performing Arts courses are taught by qualified, experienced specialist teachers in a well resourced, nationally acclaimed teaching facility which consists of purpose-built Music/Drama classrooms, a Dance space, and a magnificent Auditorium. Southwell Students enjoy learning about and through the Performing Arts and engage deeply in the many exciting opportunities available to them. Student learning is supported by homeroom specialist teachers and specialist subject teachers who work with students in purpose-built learning environments. Southwell has specialist teachers for Science, Art, Technology, Pottery, Library, Sport/PE, Music, Drama, Christian Education, Chinese and French. View full school

Every day in school is focused on learning and developing a love of learning. We hope our website will provide you with a flavor of the many wonderful opportunities and experiences offered in our school, and also give you the information needed to support your child’s educational journey. We are a Catholic Primary School in the heart of Kingsbury, clear in our beliefs and values, and the importance of Jesus Christ in our daily lives. Our Mission Statement underpins all we do: “Following Jesus’ footsteps, and inspired by St Robert Southwell, we work hard, aim high and treat everyone with honesty and gentleness” Our school is a thriving community that is well supported by parents and the Parish. There are many opportunities for us to work and celebrate together, including assemblies, concerts, coffee mornings, curriculum workshops, and fundraising events. We are immensely proud of our school and our very hardworking, enthusiastic children, with their wide range of individual talents. We are blessed to have extremely hardworking and committed staff who are ambitious for all our children and are wholly committed to achieving excellence for every one of our children, by providing the best learning opportunities each day. It is a tremendous privilege to lead such a wonderful community and to be part of your children’s learning journey, and work with you in preparing them for their future. At St Robert Southwell, Learning is central to all we do and is our core purpose. We approach learning in exciting, enriching, and creative ways, to engage, inspire and enthuse our children. We believe the curriculum should be relevant to children’s life experiences should inspire and engage them in their learning, while enabling them to work collaboratively using their imaginations. The aim of our curriculum is for pupils to have the requisite skills to be successful, independent, and motivated learners, in readiness for their next stage of education. In September 2016 we launched our ‘Creative Curriculum’ which is planned around the development of knowledge, skills, and understanding using content from the National Curriculum, under broad and engaging themes. The purpose of our Creative Curriculum is to ignite curiosity, nurture fascination and imagination while developing skills and providing a knowledge base for our children. Our Creative Curriculum has English and Maths at its core links are made to ensure children are engaged, motivated, and stimulated in all areas of their learning and subsequently make progress across the board. The general aims of our school are: To help and complement the exercise of the educational rights and duties of the R C family to cultivate the intellectual, creative, and aesthetic values of the child to help the child develop a lively enquiring mind, the ability to acquire information and to question and argue rationally, and the will to apply themselves to tasks and physical skills To help children develop the ability to make correct use of their judgment, will, and emotions To promote in the child a sense of values To encourage just attitudes and inner discipline To develop the children’s knowledge of their own culture and the culture and background of others, so that there will be a mutual understanding between people whatever their race, religion, and ways of life To help children understand the environment in which we live and the interdependence of the individual groups and nations To help children appreciate human achievements and aspirations in art, music, science, and technology To help children acquire knowledge and skills relevant to adult life at home, at work, and leisure. For the achievement of these aims St. Robert Southwell School strives: To provide a stable, caring environment conducive to study and learning in an atmosphere in which the love of God is shown in all aspects of school life To directly instruct children in the Roman R C Faith and to support the parish in preparing children for the reception of the sacraments To provide a wide curriculum that will develop the intellectual and physical skills of the child and enable them to use their particular abilities, talents, and interests to the full To give good emphasis to the skills of numeracy and literacy to seek close co-operation from parents so that the values taught and respected at home and school are the same To encourage the child to play a full part in parish life by contributing to parish worship and parish projects To recognize that the child is living NOW and not just for the future and that children should be happy now, purposeful, and able to contribute to the society around them now. View full school