2019 - New Home at Burnside Primary School

Following our eviction from Discovery School, we quickly found a new home for La Découverte at Burnside Primary School, with the amazing support of Matt Bateman the principal. After being threatened with closure by the Ministry of Education, the school had lost a lot of students and were slowly rebuilding the student numbers and teaching staff to match. There were a number of spare classrooms available for immediate use.

Parents photo on the deck of the new classroom home for La Découverte at Burnside Primary School. This was on a working day to clear the classroom and sort out some chairs and tables for the kids.


While our new classroom was not flash, it was the start of really growing and expanding, feeling really secure for the first time in a school that we quickly came to love. The assemblies were amazing, the teachers incredible,  and the leadership of Matt Bateman outstanding.






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