New Zealand - Papamoa - Papamoa Primary School - C2 - 1989 Click the link above to view all of this schools photos Do you have more information about the school or the people in this photo? Please use the comment section below to share. To search for other photos from this school, please type the schools name in to our search engine. Papamoa Primary School - The first Papamoa School was started in the front room of Mr Arthur Turner's house on State Highway 2 on July 4th, 1904 - In 1905 the Education Board bought a site in a gully between Broken Hill and Welcome Bay Road. For several months, until it was ready, the children were taught in a marquee erected on Major Bennett's farm - In 1947 the school was shifted from this site to a new four acre site on the corner of Welcome Bay Road and State Highway 2. The school remained on this site until September 1977 when, due to population growth of the area, the present school was opened on the corner of Dickson and Parton Roads.