Dargaville Primary School
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Dargaville Primary School is the largest primary school
in the town of Dargaville
, New Zealand
. It is situated in the Dargaville Central Business District (CBD). The school takes students from the age of five up to eleven.
It was the original school in Dargaville established by 1877. In 1879, it had a roll of 16, which grew to 155 in 1899, and by 2008 reached just over 400 each year.
The pupils attending the school come from the town and the surrounding rural area. Rural students travel by bus each day. Baylys Beach is a small settlement about 15 kilometres from Dargaville. A bus load of children travel to and from Dargaville Primary School each day.
Dargaville Primary School is the Lead school for the Northern Wairoa Information and Communication Technologies Professional Development Cluster. It is also Lead school for the Northern Wairoa Resource Teachers for Learning and Behaviour cluster.
Elementary school
An elementary school or primary school is an institution where children receive the first stage of compulsory education known as elementary or primary education. Elementary school is the preferred term in some countries, particularly those in North America, where the terms grade school and grammar...
in the town of Dargaville
Dargaville
Dargaville is a town in the North Island of New Zealand. It is situated on the bank of the Northern Wairoa River in the Northland region. The town is located 55 kilometres southwest of Whangarei....
, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
. It is situated in the Dargaville Central Business District (CBD). The school takes students from the age of five up to eleven.
It was the original school in Dargaville established by 1877. In 1879, it had a roll of 16, which grew to 155 in 1899, and by 2008 reached just over 400 each year.
The pupils attending the school come from the town and the surrounding rural area. Rural students travel by bus each day. Baylys Beach is a small settlement about 15 kilometres from Dargaville. A bus load of children travel to and from Dargaville Primary School each day.
Dargaville Primary School is the Lead school for the Northern Wairoa Information and Communication Technologies Professional Development Cluster. It is also Lead school for the Northern Wairoa Resource Teachers for Learning and Behaviour cluster.