Churchill Park School is a co-ed primary and intermediate school in Glendowie, Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

, New Zealand. It teaches from year one until year eight. It is a school with a student population of approximately 450. It is surrounded by Churchill Park, Glendowie

Churchill Park, Glendowie

Churchill Park is a 40 hectare park in the Auckland suburb of Glendowie, in New Zealand. It was named after Winston Churchill upon the park's creation in 1945, and lies on the western side of the Auckland Isthmus towards the Tamaki River. Glendowie suburb was established in the 1920s when George...

. There are 21 classrooms, with staff consisting mostly of females.

All students have a music lesson every week. Year 7 and 8 students have a weekly class learning a language. They also have a 90 minute technology programme each week, which covers some basic skills such as cooking and hands-on crafts. Science is also a minor part of the students' programme.
The school has a library and an ICT

Information and communication technologies

Information and communications technology or information and communication technology, usually abbreviated as ICT, is often used as an extended synonym for information technology , but is usually a more general term that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of...

 facility, both of which are valuable resources used to assist class activities, although both of these structures have been destoryed by a fire at 3am on November 15, 2011. Students are also encouraged to make use of these during their daily lunch hour.

Extra Curricular Activities

Churchill Park School offers an array of extra-curricular activities, including the opportunity to learn to play musical instruments, perform with a Choir

Choir

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 or Band

School band

A school band is a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music together. A concert band is usually under the direction of one or more conductors...

, record songs in a fully equipped music studio, as well as participation in a number of sports such as Netball

Netball

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, Water Polo

Water polo

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 Rugby

Rugby football

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 and Soccer. Churchill Park School excels in sport; teams from the school have been representatives at the city-wide Auckland Championships. Churchill Park does well academically, with standardised test results generally higher than national averages.

House Groups

Churchill Park Students are split into four house groups for most sporting events. Students are randomly assigned to either Green, Red, Yellow or Blue house. Each house has two student house captains (elected at the start of the year by their peers) and competes for the House Cup, awarded at the end of each term.

Environmental Projects

Churchill Park School strives to be as environmentally friendly as possible and has received environmental awards. Efforts include having a worm farm, vegetable garden, and a student-planted wetland area. At the beginning of 2010, native trees were planted around the school. Environmental messages such as "I Only Drain Rain" are painted around their stormwater drains, to ensure that nothing other than water is poured down them, since they lead to the ocean.