Our Team
Senior Leadership Team
Jo's Profile
Jo is passionate about how we live and learn here at NPS. She is excited about creating learners who are successful in and out of school and motivated by the connections we have in our Northcote Community of Learners to contribute to our wider Northcote whanau. She enjoys watching our students go from good to great in the six years they have with us and growing leadership capacity in students and staff. She is also very fond of her fur friends and spending time outside of school connecting with her whanau and enjoy life at the gym and entertaining with her friends.
Heather's Profile
Heather is passionate about family and friends, the outdoors, sports and life itself. She is also passionate about teaching and loves to see our NPS children believing in themselves, thriving in their learning and having a go at anything that they develop an interest in. Having a long standing relationship with this school , she loves to catch up with past pupils and find out what they are doing with their lives.
Heather loves to head to the beach in the weekends, spend time with family and enjoying the sunshine.
Teaching Staff – Tūī Team
Anne's Profile
Anne is passionate about ensuring that children have successful transitions from preschool to school. In her spare time Anne enjoys both the competitive and social aspects of playing tennis. She would like to have the time to get back into sewing and gardening.
Teaching Staff – Kererū Team
Tina's Profile
Greetings, My name is Tina Walsh and I am proudly a Tui Teacher at Northcote. My family of three has kept me busy for a number of years with sport and their daily lives. Now that they are facing adulthood, I have my weekends to read, create, collect and plan adventures. Adventures are usually either in the kitchen exploring new recipes, reading about France and Italy and restoring buildings and having time to fish and explore the coastline from our family fishing boat.
When time allows I love to fossick and frequent thrift and Second hand stores. I’m passionate about reading quality books to children and often rescue a fair few from these stores. I love the curiosity and thrill Tui kids bring as YO students to school and take pride in seeing them go on to other years of learning at NPS. Wondering and noticing inform my decisions in life and teaching.
Teaching Staff – Tōtara Team
Jodie's Profile
Jodie, loves cooking and science and integrating this passion into inquiry in the classroom. She is particularly interested in student voice and its effect on achievement. In her spare time Jodie enjoys hanging out with family and friends and travelling around outside of Auckland.
Angela's Profile
Angela loves children, learning new things, and taking the occasional risk. She enjoys family time, running, travel, food and friends. Being a creative type Angela encourages her class to be independent, think outside the square, have a go and have an opinion.
Teaching Staff – Kauri Team
Carey's Profile
Sheriden loves life and has a wonderful family to enjoy it with. She is passionate about teaching and being a lifelong learner. She has a particular interest in Inquiry and encourages her class to design their own learning through Inquiry, using digital technology.