School Information
Type of School
Clifton Terrace is a U4 state primary contributing school, with pupils from the New Entrant level (5-year-olds) to Year 6.
More on the School's Facilities
The classroom blocks and administration area include 15 classrooms, most well modernised, and two junior school classrooms. This block includes a resource room, two Reading Recovery suites, a music suite and a large resource room for the storage of school resources.
There are three classrooms which were erected to start the 1996 school year. This group of classes is named The Betty MacGillivray Block in honour of a teacher who was at the school for 29 years.
There are five other prefabricated classrooms, one of which is an art room. The Board of Trustees owns and maintains a classroom. There is an on-site dental clinic. There is a large purpose-built school hall (1998) and an upgraded administration area. (1999).
Staffing is very stable and consists of a non-teaching principal, a deputy principal, an assistant principal, a senior teacher and nine basic-scale staff. As well, there are two part-time secretaries.
The school also caters for groups of pupils with special needs ranging over a broad spectrum from gifted pupils to children of lesser ability. The general ability of pupils reflects positively in all aspects of their later development.
A Description of the School's Community
Clifton Terrace School is situated eight kilometres north of Nelson City centre. The school draws the majority of its pupils from an area bounded by Gentle Annie to the north and the Brooklands Road area to the south. A small number of children are drawn from the city and the Hira area. Private contractors transport the majority of children to school.
Parents of the school's pupils are employed in a variety of occupations, ranging from rural to urban. Part of this area of the community dates back to the early settlement of the district. The urban parts of the district have largely been developed over the last forty years. The composition of the community is predominantly European, with approximately 16% of other ethnic groups.
Community Facilities
A supermarket, a unisex hairdresser, two churches and two halls, a fish and chip shop, a country club, tennis courts ( Wakapuaka ) a number of neighbourhood playgrounds and reserves, the Atawhai Playcentre, a Montessori early childhood centre and access to Grove Street Kindergarten in the city.
There are a variety of community groups and clubs which cater for children's leisure and sporting interests outside school hours. Many activities are located out of the immediate community area. The strength of this community, as far as the school is concerned, lies in the many forms of support it gives to the school. Coupled with this are the high academic, recreational and cultural expectations parents have of the school. Community / school relations are based on an open-door policy which welcomes parent and community involvement.
