Glenavy School Community

Glenavy Township is about a 20 minutes drive from Oamaru and a 45 minutes drive to Timaru and Glenavy straddles State Highway One.

The school community consists of families from both the Hilderthorpe and Glenavy sides of the Waitaki River.

It is a rural environment with many families involved in some form of farming.

There are a small number of families involved in businesses that support or serve the community.

 The Maori population of the area is low and in the main they are direct descendants of the ancient Waitaha Tribe and the more recent tribes Katimamoe and Ngaitahu.   Glenavy Primary School acknowledges the Mana and Tangata Whenua and the wider Maori community and wishes to foster the positive partnership that has developed between the two.

 Glenavy offers very good community support to all its inhabitants.

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