Meet our Principal, Mr Vasau

Welcome to Holy Family School! We hope you enjoy exploring our web site and learning a little more about us.

Holy Family School is a Christ centred community committed to the education and development of the whole person in a Catholic environment. If you want high achievement, values based education for your child and a Christian philosophy on life Holy Family is the place for you. Our school offers an education for primary school students from Year 1 to Year 6. Holy Family has a relatively small maximum roll of 305 pupils, but we are mighty in spirit!

Throughout the school community there is a strong sense of family, warmth, caring and spirituality. Gospel values are at the centre of the life of our school family and our curriculum. Our commitment to the Gospel values has meant that we care for those in need. This is part of our Brigidine tradition.

We are situated in Porirua East, a short distance from the Porirua main shopping centre and there is a regular bus service that goes past the school both in and out of the Porirua. We have well equipped buildings and resources including specialist teachers. We teach the full New Zealand curriculum and we operate an integrated approach with school wide teaching themes with the development of the whole child as paramount.

We provide extension programmes for high ability pupils as well as special education support where needed, we have leadership opportunities, information technology teachers, music, culture, arts and sports programmes including aquatics and advanced education outside the classroom programmes.

We have modern computers in all classrooms, and Internet for research. We aim high in every area and this includes extension programmes and scholarships to our highest achieving pupils. Your child will be encouraged to achieve and go as far as they can go. Other pursuits include sports such as Rippa Rugby, netball and soccer, touch rugby and rugby league as part of our sports cluster.

There are still some limited spaces for families from other faith traditions and I welcome enquiries. Once again welcome to Holy Family School