Haeata Community Campus

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Haeata Community Campus
Location
Haeata Community Campus
240 Breezes Road
Wainoni
Christchurch 8061
New Zealand
Coordinates 43°30′54″S172°41′45″E / 43.5150°S 172.6958°E / -43.5150; 172.6958
Information
Funding typeState
Established2017
Ministry of Education Institution no. 704
PrincipalPeggy Burrows
Years offered1–13
GenderCoeducational
School roll579 [1] (July 2025)
Website www.haeata.school.nz

Haeata Community Campus is a school in the suburb of Wainoni, in Christchurch New Zealand. It opened on 3 February 2017 with an initial roll of 955 from the closure of four schools: Aranui Primary, Avondale Primary, Wainoni School, and Aranui High. [2] The principal is Peggy Burrows. [3]

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Enrolment

As of July 2025, Haeata Community Campus has roll of 579 students, of whom 286 (49.4%) identify as Māori. [1]

As of 2025, the school has an Equity Index of 549, [4] placing it amongst schools whose students have the most socioeconomic barriers to achievement (roughly equivalent to deciles 1 and 2 under the former socio-economic decile system). [5]

In early December 2025, the school reported that a batch of lunches provided by School Lunch Collective contractor Compass Group were "mouldy and liquefied." The school's principal Peggy Burrows reported that several students had experienced diarrhoea and food poisoning. The Collective and Ministry for Primary Industries launched an investigation with the school. [6] [7] On 2 December, New Zealand Food Safety and School Lunch Collective spokesperson Paul Harvey suggested that some of the meals delivered by the Compass Group on the previous Thursday (27 November) and had not been properly refrigerated, with school staff accidentally serving the contaminated meals along with fresh food. Burrows disputed this account, stating that the school did not have facilities to heat food and that Compass delivered hot meals during lunchtime. [8]

On 10 December, a Food Safety investigation cleared the School Lunch Collective of wrongdoing, concluding that meals which had been delivered the previous week were accidentally mixed with hot meals that were served on 1 December. The investigators determined that it was unlikely that the School Lunch Collective had accidentally delivered contaminated meals on 1 December. NZ Food Safety made eight recommendations around procedures for distributing school meals. In response, Principal Burrows confirmed that Haeata Community Campus had received Food Safety's report and would review it alongside its own internal investigation, which is due on 12 December. [9]

Principals

Since its opening in 2017, Haeata Community Campus has been led by the following principals:

References

  1. 1 2 "New Zealand Schools Directory". New Zealand Ministry of Education. Retrieved 1 July 2025.
  2. 1 2 Fletcher, Jack (4 February 2017). "First day at Haeata Community Campus". The Press . p. A2. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  3. 1 2 Kenny, Lee (20 March 2020). "Christchurch's Haeata Community Campus appoints permanent principal". The Press . Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "New Zealand Equity Index". New Zealand Ministry of Education.
  5. ↑ "School Equity Index Bands and Groups". www.educationcounts.govt.nz. Retrieved 2025-02-06.
  6. ↑ "School warns parents after receiving 'mouldy and liquefied lunches'". 1News . 1 December 2025. Archived from the original on 5 December 2025. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  7. ↑ Hopkins, Jessica (2 December 2025). "Parents horrified children ate mouldy mince in government-funded school lunches". RNZ . Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  8. ↑ "Rotten lunches remained". RNZ . 2 December 2025. Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  9. ↑ "School lunch provider cleared over mouldy meals in Christchurch". RNZ . 10 December 2025. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
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