ORGANISATION
Much time and consideration is given to the forming of classes ensuring a complete academic mix; a gender balance; a race balance; a social balance; and a matching of student weaknesses and needs with teachers' strengths.
Students work in their homeroom with their teacher for most subjects although there is regrouping for some subjects such as Mathematics, Music, and Technology subjects - students may have a different teacher for these subjects.
There are four houses at Havelock North Intermediate (see below). Each class is made a combination of each house and families and whanau continue house connections over the years. There are house events, swimming sports, athletics sports, waiata, cooking competitions, and technology challenges that are spread across the year to build team spirit and the skills and values associated with competition, winning, and losing.
The Houses are named after famous New Zealanders:
Sheppard (Red) - Kate Sheppard
Nepia (White) - George Nepia
Te Kanawa (Blue) - Kiri Te Kanawa
Hillary (Yellow) - Sir Edmund Hillary