The school will determine its priorities by focusing on national priorities and identifying local priorities.

National Priorities are currently determined to be:

• providing a safe physical and emotional environment for students;
• providing opportunity for success in all the essential learning and essential skill areas of the New Zealand Curriculum;
• improving literacy and numeracy;
• developing a range of assessment and evidence gathering practices that provide sufficiently comprehensive data to evaluate the progress and achievement of students;
• developing and implementing teaching and programmes aimed at improving outcomes for students who are not achieving, or who are at risk of not achieving or who are special needs;
• improve the achievement of Maori students;
• reporting to students and parents on achievement of individual students and to the community on achievement of students as a whole and groups of students

Local priorities will be identified through:

•  Community, Parents, Students, Staff and Board input.

In meeting the national and local priorities, the school undertakes to work within the National Administration Guidelines framework.