Cockle Bay School

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Cockle Bay School
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Sandspit Road, Howick, South Auckland, New Zealand
Coordinates 36°54′19″S174°56′22″E / 36.905375°S 174.939457°E / -36.905375; 174.939457 Coordinates: 36°54′19″S174°56′22″E / 36.905375°S 174.939457°E / -36.905375; 174.939457
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Type State, co-educational, contributing
Motto Strive On
Ministry of Education Institution no. 1253
Principal Dorothy Bigwood
School roll 718 [1] (February 2018)
Socio-economic decile 10
Website www.cocklebay.school.nz

Cockle Bay School is a primary school serving the community of Cockle Bay, which is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.

Cockle Bay is an eastern suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. According to the 2006 census, Cockle Bay has a population of 4,779. The suburb is in the Howick ward, one of the 13 administrative divisions of Auckland city and currently under governance of the Auckland Council. The high school of the area is Howick College, a decile 8 school of the Howick area. The primary schools of the area are Cockle Bay School and Shelly Park Primary School.

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History

Cockle Bay School was established on 3 September 1956 as a full primary school with a roll of 217, almost all of whom were transfers from Howick District High School (now Howick Intermediate School). All bus children from the Whitford area were included in this transfer.

Howick Intermediate

Howick Intermediate is a co-educational intermediate school located on the corner of Botany Road and Pakuranga Highway, in Auckland, New Zealand. Pupils attend for years seven and eight.

Whitford, New Zealand human settlement in New Zealand

Whitford is a suburb in south-east Auckland, New Zealand. There are multiple versions of how the town was named. It may be named after Richard Whitford, a man who operated a flax mill on the Waikopua near Housons Creek and was the postman. Others think Whitford referred to the White-ford over the Turanga Creek at the end of Sandstone Road, where the salt dries when the tide is out. Another possibility is that it is named after Whitefoord Park part of a vast property belonging to L.D. Nathan was initially listed as ‘Whitefoord Park’ in Wises Post Office Directory for 1875-6, but by the time it went on sale for subdivision in 1903 it was known as Whitford Park.

Although the six classrooms, administration block and sick bay were complete, the grounds were a sea of mud in wet weather, so the new school began life as a line of prefabs at Howick District High School. The headmaster W E Tonks used the old dental clinic as his office.

Prefabricated building

A prefabricated building, informally a prefab, is a building that is manufactured and constructed using prefabrication. It consists of factory-made components or units that are transported and assembled on-site to form the complete building.

Over the years the school has maintained steady growth, except for a brief time in 1965 when Forms 1 and 2 left to attend Howick Intermediate School. The roll reached its all-time high roll of 796 in 1976 and this hastened the setting up of Shelly Park Primary School which opened in 1979.

At its largest, the school comprised 12 permanent classrooms and 11 prefabs, three of which were built on the site. Room 4 was donated by the Auckland Education Board when it became surplus to requirements in 1980. The School Committee and PTA developed it into a resource room. The infant library was built by voluntary labour and funded by the School Committee and PTA to provide library facilities for infant classes and to relieve crowding in the main school library.

The swimming pool was opened in 1964 having cost about $4000 and hundreds of hours of voluntary labour. A small surplus from this project formed the nucleus of the Hall Fund and in 1969 the hall, at a cost of $22,000, was officially opened by Hon George Gair.

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Since its earliest days the school has been noted for the tremendous support of its parents. Annual galas and donations have provided almost all the present playground amenities and outside facilities, with working bee labour extending over the entire period of the school's existence.

Communal work

Communal work is a gathering for mutually accomplishing a task or for communal fundraising, for example through a knitting bee. Communal work was more common in the past, when it provided manual labour to others, especially for major projects they couldn't achieve on their own, for example in barn raising, log rolling, subbotniks, and other bees of various kinds. They are less common in today's more individualistic cultures, where there is less reliance on others than in preindustrial agricultural and hunterer-gatherer societies.

Several staff members have each served at the school for periods up to 25 years, and Mrs S Austin was School Secretary from 1966 - 1989.

Now the school is expanding with new rooms 29, 30, and 31, a bigger hall, a new music room and the rebuilding of many of the early classrooms.

Since it was established the school has had only seven Principals:

The school is involved in environmental activities, including recycling and worm farming. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Directory of Schools - as at 14 March 2018". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Cockle Bay kids clean up". Eastern Courier. 25 September 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-24.
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