Charter Schools | Kura Hourua

Charter schools | kura hourua give a new schooling choice to families and more flexibility for educators to lift children’s achievement.
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A specialist school for autistic and neurodivergent secondary school students who have struggled with traditional schooling, will open campuses in Wellington and Auckland in term 3 next year. 

Learn more about New Zealand charter schools - where they are, when they are opened, or will open, and what they are focussed on. 

The great outdoors is waiting at Forest School. Students at the Warkworth school will spend at least four hours outside each day, year-round. They will have limited screen time, focusing instead on hands-on creativity. Read more about charter schools here.