Kia ora koutou Marsden Primary whānau. Welcome to the 2025 school year, and a special welcome to our new students and their whānau. 

The first day of school is Monday 27 January 2025. The school day for Year 1-6 students begins at 8.45am and finishes at 3.15pm.

Primary Welcome Evening – Wednesday 29 January 2025, 5.30 - 6.30pm
A warm invitation is extended to all Marsden Primary parents/caregivers to come along to meet their daughter's classroom teacher and hear about the classroom programme and expectations. If you are unable to attend on Wednesday 29 January, 5.30 - 6.30pm, please contact your daughter’s teacher and check Seesaw for handouts/presentations from the evening.

Please refer to our Primary Handbook below.  We ask all Marsden Primary families read this. 

The staff and I look forward to welcoming the girls back to school on Monday 27 January 2025 and working alongside you this year.

Ngā mihi
Jo Burns
Head of Marsden Primary

Marsden Primary Handbook

Marsden Primary provides an environment for optimal learning and teaching. We are committed to creating happy, engaged, future-focused learners who ‘Aim for the Highest’. You will find in this booklet an outline of the values, goals and organisation of Marsden Primary. It highlights relevant aspects of the curriculum and also provides general information that you will require.

Marsden Primary Handbook 2025

Stationery and Digital Devices

Primary students are not required to bring stationery except for a pencil case. In Years 3-6, we recommend students bring a digital device. Please see the Primary Handbook for more information.

Houses

Marsden Primary (Years 1-6) has three Houses:

• Fitzherbert - yellow
• Innes - blue
• Sprott - red

Houses are allocated to students on enrolment. If a student has a family member who has previously attended Marsden, she will be allocated to the same House. Houses will otherwise be allocated to keep group numbers within each House even. The girls quickly make friends within their House groups.

Sports

Sports Coordinator Jessica Gill (jessica.gill@marsden.school.nz) organises all registrations, teams and sporting opportunities for Primary students. 

Marsden Sports Website

The Marsden sports website is the best place to find all information about sport at Marsden. This site is dedicated to Marsden sport draws, registration information, news, results etc. Please refer to it throughout the year.

Sports Registrations

There are a number of sports available for students to participate in. Athletics, Cross Country, and Swimming are part of the New Zealand Physical Education curriculum. All students participate in these events; they do not need to be registered.

 
There are also chosen sports that students can register to participate in. Chosen sports include: floorball, futsal, water polo, miniball, and netball where teams are entered into weekly competitions, hockey and football, which are run by senior students during lunchtimes, and tennis coaching and padder tennis, which are sessions run during a lunchtime.

• Registrations for summer sport (Term 1) in 2025 opened on Friday 6 December 2024 and close on Sunday 2 February 2025. A list of all sports available at Marsden can be found on the Marsden sports website. You can click on each sport for information about important dates, uniform, and cost. On each sports page, there is also information about trials. Please note that trials or pre-season practices for some summer sports will be happening in the holidays, so check dates carefully. You are then able to register for each sport via a link on the right-hand side of the individual sports page.
  
  
• Registrations for winter sport (Terms 2 and 3) in 2025 opened on Friday 6 December 2024 and close on Sunday 23 February 2025.
  

Once your daughter has been placed into a team for the 2025 season, all draws for sports can be found here on the Marsden sports website.

Private Music Tuition

Private music lessons are available for students in Years 3-13. Please see here for details and the registration form. Registrations are due by Friday 24 January 2025 if requiring lessons in Term 1.

Speech and Drama

Speech and Drama classes are available for students in Years 3-6. Classes are available at lunchtime or after school. There are no Speech and Drama classes in Term 4.  For registration details and further information please visit our Speech and Drama page.