The most important people in our learning community are the children. We have an enthusiastic and caring group of learners. They enjoy working together and are extremely supportive. Our children are becoming more and more confident decision makers, ready for a life-time of learning.

Long Feild
Obedience
Not in Palmerston North
Great Principal
Burnt down long ago
United with the community
Reaching for high standards
Not naughty, well most of the time

Starts at 8:55am
Caring to newcomers
Has intelligent kids
Odd kids
Only a little amount of people
Longburn School
03 August 2009 at 01:13 p.m. by Jonti


The teachers at Longburn School are awesome.
They are friendly, caring and cool. I could go on all day describing them.
There are not too many teachers. There’s just a perfect amount of them.
They are really good teachers.
The teachers at Longburn Primary are really good at getting around to all of the students equally and giving all of the student’s attention. There as a small, but perfect amount of students.
The teachers are great at disciplining the students. Our teachers won’t scream their heads off. They are calm about the situation and deal with it rather than getting the student aggravated and annoyed.
29 July 2009 at 02:11 p.m. by Santana

Jo Emerson Principal/Teacher Room 1 [Yr7/8] principal@longburn.school.nz
Christelle Broodryk Teacher Room 1 [Yr 7/8] / ORRs Teacher cbroodryk@longburn.school.nz 
Ana Matangi  Teacher Room 2 [Yr 5/6] amatangi@longburn.school.nz 
Damian Samson Teacher Room 3 [Yr 3/4] dsamson@longburn.school.nz
Niki Burtenshaw Teacher Room 4 [Yr 1/2] nburtenshaw@longburn.school.nz 
Rachel Stevens Office Manager office@longburn.school.nz
Kelly Smith Teacher Aide
Anne-Marie Bingham Teacher Aide

We have a highly supportive and proactive Board of Trustees. Their priority is to see student achievement raised.

Glenn Connelly Parent Representative [Chairperson]
Kyria Griffith Parent Representative [Treasurer]
Lloyd Fafeita Parent Representative [Property & Resource Management]
Carolyn Soane Parent Representative [Policy and Legislation]
Anna Falcon Parent Representative [Health & Safety]
Jo Emerson Principal
Ana Matangi Staff Representative

We greatly appreciate our PTA. They are a fantastic group of parents and staff who meet monthly to organise fundraising and events.  New members are always welcomed and all members of the school community are very welcome to come along to the meetings.

Kyria Griffith [Chairperson]
Danielle Connelly [Treasurer]
Amanda Wright 
Melissa Lynch [Correspondence] 
Sharon Foot
Heather Pope [Secretary]
Christine Smith
Theresa Kahura
Niki Burtenshaw  [Staff Representative]