Our People - Staff
Principal
Deputy Principals
SENCO
Support Staff
Rutherford Learning Community - Year 0/1
Ngata Learning Community - Year 1/2
Sheppard Learning Community - Year 2/3
Batten & Hillary Learning Communities - Year 3/4
Cooper Learning Community - Years 4
Blake Learning Community - Years 4/5
Mahy Learning Community - Years 5/6
- Melanie Taylor principal@goldensands.school.nz
Deputy Principals
- Sue Bewley sbewley@goldensands.school.nz
- Carol Ballinger cballinger@goldensands.school.nz
SENCO
- Julie Starrett senco@goldensands.school.nz
Support Staff
- Executive Officer - Jade Smith admin@goldensands.school.nz
- Office Administrator - Sharon Swain office@goldensands.school.nz
- Sports Coordinator - Jane White sport@goldensands.school.nz
- Librarian - Lynley Gillanders librarian@goldensands.school.nz
- Caretaker - Tony Campbell caretaker@goldensands.school.nz
- Gardener - Warren Bell
Rutherford Learning Community - Year 0/1
- Rutherford 1 - Nicola Wilcox (Team Leader) nwilcox@goldensands.school.nz
- Rutherford 2 - Matua Charles Hall chall@goldensands.school.nz
- Rutherford 3 - Eilir Davies edavies@goldensands.school.nz
- Teacher Aide - Kirsty Campbell
- Teacher Aide - Nicole Bell
- Teacher Aide - Tracey Bluck
Ngata Learning Community - Year 1/2
- Ngata 1 - Angela Zillwood (Team Leader) azillwood@goldensands.school.nz
- Ngata 2 - Rhianna Roper rroper@goldensands.school.nz
- Ngata 3 - Deanna Morgan dmorgan@goldensands.school.nz
- Ngata 4 - Phoebe Wison pwilson@goldensands.school.nz
- Teacher Aide - Nina McSweeney
Sheppard Learning Community - Year 2/3
- Sheppard 1 - Jakalah Trask (Team Leader) - jtrask@goldensands.school.nz
- Sheppard 2 - Helen Bonis hbonis@goldensands.school.nz
- Sheppard 3 - Paulina Romero promero@goldensands.school.nz
- Sheppard 4 - Nikki Fenton nfenton@goldensands.school.nz
- Reading Recovery Teacher - Melissa Burgess mburgess@goldensands.school.nz
- Teacher Aide - Fiona Baker
Batten & Hillary Learning Communities - Year 3/4
- Batten 1 - Mel Haenga - mhaenga@goldensands.school.nz
- Batten 2 - Koren Loots (Team Leader) kloots@goldensands.school.nz
- Batten 3 - Ange Taggart ataggart@goldensands.school.nz
- Hillary 1 - Dave Calder dcalder@goldensands.school.nz
- Hillary 2 - Emma Allen eallen@goldensands.school.nz
- Teacher Aide - Viola Ammon
- Teacher Aide - Kylie Percy
- Teacher Aide - Tuscany Macdonald
Cooper Learning Community - Years 4
- Cooper 1 - Dylan Parry (Team Leader) dparry@goldensands.school.nz
- Cooper 2 - Lianne Goodwin lgoodwin@goldensands.school.nz
- Cooper 3 - Bronwyn Schulte bschulte@goldensands.school.nz
- Teacher Aide - Amanda Hedges
- Teacher Aide - Will Clague
Blake Learning Community - Years 4/5
- Blake 1 - Kristy Grootjans (Team Leader) kgrootjans@goldensands.school.nz
- Blake 2 - Kirsten Miller kmiller@goldensands.school.nz
- Blake 3 - Sophie Nevin snevin@goldensands.school.nz
- Blake 4 - Whaea Sheree McCauley smccauley@goldensands.school.nz
- Teacher Aide - Nat Fabish
- Teacher Aide - Annabelle Stewart
Mahy Learning Community - Years 5/6
- Mahy 1 - Naomi Davoren (Team Leader) ndavoren@goldensands.school.nz
- Mahy 2 - Melissa Davie mdavie@goldensands.school.nz
- Mahy 3 - Sheree Mundell smundell@goldensands.school.nz
- Mahy 4 - Tom Noake tnoake@goldensands.school.nz
- Teacher Aide - Tanya Steiner
- Teacher Aide - Andrew Whyte