Your teachers

Like any other school, you’ll have teachers who will help you to learn. Most of our teachers work in Wellington, although some of them work from offices in other parts of the country. We also have liaison teachers, who work with students needing extra support.

After you’ve enrolled with us, your first point of contact is your learning advisor (other schools call them form teacher, class teacher or whanau teacher). You may also have a subject teacher or teachers. Your learning advisor will need to hear from you regularly and you should contact your learning advisor or subject teacher whenever you have a question or need some help with your school work.

You can call your learning advisor or teacher free on 0800 65 99 88. If you know their extension number you can then dial it to go straight through to them, or dial ‘0’ and ask the receptionist to put you through. Because we have so many students, it really helps when you have your student ID number handy. If you get the teacher’s voicemail, please leave them a message with your name, student ID number and contact phone number. They will call you back as soon as they can.

You can also email your learning advisor or teachers – our standard email address format is firstname.surname@tekura.school.nz

Contact your learning advisor or teacher if you have a question or a problem with your school work, or if:

• you are running out of work or the work isn’t arriving on time
• you receive the wrong resources or something is missing
• the schoolwork is too easy or too difficult
• medical or family circumstances are affecting your schoolwork
• you are having difficulties with online access
• your home address, phone number, fax or email address has changed.

You can also get involved in online discussions with your teacher and other students – ask your learning advisor or teacher for more details about online learning.