ABOUT US

 

 

WHO ARE WE?

OUR CLASS OF 2018
We are a class of 24 fantastic students - 13 Year 5 students and 11 Year 6 students.
We have 8 boys and 16 girls.
Our teacher is Miss Taylor.

OUR SCHOOL
We think that our school is really awesome and here's why:

• We are an Area School and have students from Year 0 - 13 (5 - 18 years).
• We have Woods house and Read house
• Woods is named after the man who wrote the music for the national anthem.
•  Read is named after Gabriel Read who discovered gold in Gabriel's Gully.
• We all live close the school and no-one has to travel long distances to get here.
• We have dance night and drama night where we put on a show for our community.
• The school has a lot of really cool teachers.
• Everyone in our school knows each other, and they are all friends.
• We have an I.T room and Chromebooks/iPads in our classrooms.
• We have a great playground and a HUGE sports field.
• We have playgrounds, tennis courts, IT room - lots of really cool spaces.
• We have a big,new swimming pool on our grounds.
• We have a BIG gymnasium to do sport in.  We also use our gym for performances.
• Our library has lots of awesome books as well as games and computers.
• Most children bus to school from Tuapeka, Waitahuna and Beaumont.
• We have heaps of sports equipment, and we can use it at lunch time.
• We have a cooking room, science, materials and music rooms and an art room.
• Our classrooms have ActivBoards in them and we have iPads .
• Some of our Mums are teachers at our school.
• We have lots of cool and different activities, like sports activator.
• We celebrate with Student of the Week certificates.
• Our school motto is 'Strive to Excel'.  We try really hard to always Strive to Excel.
• We get to drink Fonterra milk every day.
• All of our junior school classrooms have a blog

We all know our school VISION which is:
'We develop lifelong learners, who are motivated, confident and willing to contribute.'

OUR TOWN
Lawrence is the gateway to Central Otago and is located on the main highway from Dunedin to Alexandra, in the South Island of New Zealand.  We are a small town with a population of about 500 people.
Lawrence is a very famous town in NZ because Gabriel Read discovered gold here in 1861 which made Lawrence Otago's first goldrush town.

We have recently discovered that Lawrence was initially named The Junction and then Tuapeka before being renamed Lawrence after a British war hero whose name was Sir Henry Lawrence.

Did you know that there are two other places in the world also called Lawrence?  These are in:

• Kansas, USA.  This 'Lawrence' is the sixth largest city in Kansas and has a population of 87,643 people!
• Massachusetts, USA.  Another large city with a population of 76,377.

Click here to find out more about Lawrence

6 'MUST SEE' PLACES AROUND LAWRENCE (as voted by Room 4)

• Harts Black Horse Brewery and daffodil fields: because there are lots of special features like the water race and HEAPS of daffodils, especially in the spring.

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• Gabriel's Gully: named after Gabriel Read who discovered gold here in 1861.    At the height of the goldrush there were twice as many people living at Gabriel's Gully than in Dunedin.  Today Gabriel's Gully has walking tracks, Chinese mines, camping spots and Grey's dam to explore.

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• Blue Spur: not far from Gabriel's Gully.  This is an old village which was a bustling town at the height of the goldrush. Although there is not a lot to see now, there used to be a school at Blue Spur that had more than 250 pupils and 5 teachers.  Some people still live there today but it is a much quieter existence.

• Gabriel's Cafe: because it used to be the Bank of New Zealand.  It is a very old building that has been turned into a cafe and is easy to find on our main street as you drive through Lawrence.

• Lawrence Museum: because it has a lot of gold mining memorabilia and information about the history of Lawrence.

• Local churches: because we have five in our town.  They all have bells and have stories behind them.

Other special features of our town:

• Anthem House, known due to previous owner JJ Woods (a Lawrence school teacher) who composed the music for the NZ National Anthem    
• Famous for the 'Lawrence Lions' who escaped from the circus and roamed the town in 1978, now on display in the Otago Museum in Dunedin
• Pick and Shovel monument 
• Rail Trail - newly constructed cycling trail
• Hart's Black Horse Brewery and daffodil fields
• Lovely cafes
• Rodeo and gymkhana grounds
• Tuapeka Transport
• Tuapeka Gold Print - famous for printmaking which is our town's largest business, employing many of the residents of Lawrence
• Lawrence was the first free WIFI town in NZ