About Medbury School

Medbury School is one of New Zealand's leading primary schools for the education of boys from Years 1 to 8. Medbury is both a day and a boarding school and has a long and proud history of educational excellence.  Medbury aims to offer a challenging, enjoyable and quality learning environment for “the vital years” combining traditional values and modern technologies.

A Medbury education teaches boys about positive relationships and individual responsibility, alongside academic education. Medbury offers boys a warm, positive and affirming environment where every boy feels safe. It is a school with values and one that lives those values in all areas.

You can achieve anything when you walk in the company of those who believe in you.

Medbury operates a very broad cross-curriculum so to give every boy the opportunity of finding his niche. Competition is balanced and high expectations and standards are set within the bounds of clear rules and routines. Medbury encourages and rewards success born of attitude and effort. Success develops self-concepts of confidence, competence, contribution, character and connectedness.

Medbury has a roll of approximately 300 boys and class sizes are limited to a maximum of 25 pupils. The School operates a specialist teaching system where specific teachers teach dedicated subjects. This system enables a wider group of teachers to be actively involved in the education of each boy and importantly, it provides for a broader view of the child’s performance and well-being. Such individual attention and focus enables the School to cater to each boy's specific needs, both extension and support.