General Description and Brief History of Our School

St Patrick’s is a Roman Catholic Primary School for boys and girls from New Entrants to Year 6 offering education with a Special Character. The maximum roll of our school is 300 pupils.
Subject to places being available, a limited number of non preference pupils may be enrolled.

The Special Character of St Patrick’s is that it is a Roman Catholic School established by the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Dunedin, which promotes and supports the school and of which, the school is part.

Our school is a place in which the whole school community through the general school Programme and its religious instructions and observances, exercises the right to live and teach the values of Jesus Christ.

St Patrick's is a 13 classroom school with a maximum roll of 300 pupils. The school was originally staffed by the Sisters of the Dominican Order. The Sisters have gradually disappeared from our staff – their vocations taking them in other directions – and the school today is staffed entirely by lay teachers. The Dominican Mission, which we proudly inherit, is to Praise....to Bless....to Preach....the God of love.

"If we live by truth and in love, we shall grow in Christ”

Our Vision

To nurture the whole child in a Catholic environment - He tautoko te tamaiti i te ao Katorika