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Rotorua Seventh-Day Adventist School 'city's best kept secret'

Rotorua Daily Post
7th March, 2018
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"We want everyone to know we're here and we have lots to offer," Strickland said.
"I'd encourage people to come in and have a look. Once they get into the school they can see it's a beautiful school."
Strickland said, with a maximum of 45 students, the school promoted a whanau environment.
"No child gets left behind. Relationships are important and the learning opportunities. We give as many things a go as possible."

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Rotorua Seventh-Day Adventist School pupils on why they love their school​

Rotorua Daily Post
7th March, 2018
​I like that the teachers make sure you have a relationship with God by reminding us that we matter. I liked the first time I played in the basketball team.
Everyone was encouraging.
PAYTON MCMAHON

Tears from a refugee family at the Rotorua citizenship ceremony​

Rotorua Daily Post
11 September, 2018
To open the ceremony pupils from the Rotorua Seventh Day Adventist School gave a kapa haka performance.
They sang waiata, performed poi and did a haka, dedicating one of their songs to the late Aunty Bea.

All eyes on Rotorua's
​Communities of Learning  

Rotorua Daily Post
26 January, 2017
All eyes will be on Rotorua schools this year as they break new ground with their four Communities of Learning.
"It can be overwhelming and daunting to think the country is watching us but our focus is looking at our achievement challenges and what is affecting our tamariki."

Adventist school’s new approach to teaching

Adventist Record
17 August, 2015
“Rotorua is one of the schools taking immediate advantage of our modernisation strategy,” said Rosalie McFarlane, Adventist Education director for the New Zealand Pacific Union Conference. “We want to provide our teachers with every opportunity to harness the very best learning strategies and develop young people of the highest Christian character and principle.”

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Urbo Homes
July, 2015
While students spent their summer holidays unwinding, our skilled craftsmen worked through the Christmas period, to ensure the school was ready for the start of the school year.

Schools committed to Christian values prove popular

Rotorua Daily Post
22 February, 2014
Rotorua Seventh Day Adventist Primary School principal Lanea Strickland said their children were not only building an education for life, but for eternity.
Mrs Strickland said children did not learn about evolution in science but learnt they "are a masterpiece of God's hand".