Haeata Community Campus


Haeata Community Campus is a school in the suburb of Wainoni, in Christchurch New Zealand. It opened on 3 February 2017 with an initial roll of 955 from the closure of four schools: Aranui Primary, Avondale Primary, Wainoni School, and Aranui High. The principal is Peggy Burrows.
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Enrolment

As of, Haeata Community Campus has roll of students, of whom identify as Māori.
As of, the school has an Equity Index of, placing it amongst schools whose students have the socioeconomic barriers to achievement.

History

In early December 2025, the school reported that a batch of lunches provided by School Lunch Collective contractor Compass Group were "mouldy and liquefied." The school's principal Peggy Burrows reported that several students had experienced diarrhoea and food poisoning. The Collective and Ministry for Primary Industries launched an investigation with the school. On 2 December, New [Zealand Food Safety] and School Lunch Collective spokesperson Paul Harvey suggested that some of the meals delivered by the Compass Group on the previous Thursday and had not been properly refrigerated, with school staff accidentally serving the contaminated meals along with fresh food. Burrows disputed this account, stating that the school did not have facilities to heat food and that Compass delivered hot meals during lunchtime.
On 10 December, a Food Safety investigation cleared the School Lunch Collective of wrongdoing, concluding that meals which had been delivered the previous week were accidentally mixed with hot meals that were served on 1 December. The investigators determined that it was unlikely that the School Lunch Collective had accidentally delivered contaminated meals on 1 December. NZ Food Safety made eight recommendations around procedures for distributing school meals. In response, Principal Burrows confirmed that Haeata Community Campus had received Food Safety's report and would review it alongside its own internal investigation, which is due on 12 December.

Principals

Since its opening in 2017, Haeata Community Campus has been led by the following principals:
  • 2017–2019: Andy Kai Fong
  • 2020–present: Peggy Burrows