BISC is an organisation of business people who live in Pt Chevalier and Westmere and may or may not have children at Point Chevalier School, Westmere School and Pasadena Intermediate. Members may have their own business or may be employed.
BISC is designed to present these people and businesses with the opportunity to:

The BISC website is an opportunity and an environment where businesses can showcase their services and goods.

Originally, BISC was organised and managed by a small group of parents of Point Chevalier School students, who either have their own business or are employees of businesses. However this has now grown and includes parents from Westmere School and Pasadena Intermediate. This initiative has the full support of Point Chevalier School PTA, Westmere School Parents Net, Pasadena Intermediate CAPS their Board of Trustees and school management.

Your membership fee less any associated costs, will go directly to the schools. BISC will be fully audited.

Point Chevalier is a suburb in the central/west region of Auckland City. The 2001 census registered Point Chevalier's population at 8934 people.

Coyle Park and Pt Chevalier beach are popular family destinations. Meola reef, an outcrop of black basalt rock which extends some distance into the Waitemata Harbour, is a popular recreational reserve.

The main shopping area is at the intersection of Pt Chevalier and Gt North Road, although there are a number of different shops, restaurants and small businesses along Point Chev Rd itself.

The immediate Pt Chevalier area (the Peninsula area north of Great North Rd and west of Garnet Rd) has a strong business community. In 2002 Statistics New Zealand identified 507 businesses operating in our community. These range from small home-based and owner-operator businesses to larger businesses employing a number of staff.

Auckland City Council has compiled a profile of Point Chevalier and surrounding areas. The Pt Chevalier Primary school zone covers households in the Point Chevalier east and west areas. Some of students, however, come from areas such as Waterview, Mt Albert and an area Statistics New Zealand call Pt Chevalier South, which is south of Great North Rd.

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Pt. Chevalier School is a decile 7 school, with an end-of-year roll of approximately 650 students from year 0 - year 6.

The roll comprises 10% Maori students, 10% Pasifika, 10% from India, China and other Asian countries, and 70% European/Pakeha.

Facilities include an administration block, an auditorium seating 700, two permanent classroom blocks, eight relocatable classrooms, a library and Information & Communication Technology centre, a hall, a 25m swimming pool and changing room complex, four adventure playgrounds, a hard court area and a playing field.

Pasadena Intermediate caters for students in Years 7 and 8 from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds and is a decile 6 school.

Facilities include one main block with general classrooms and library/information centre, a music studio, food and nutrition studio, technology studio and workshop and an art studio. The school also contains an assembly hall, swimming pool, sports pavilion , two full sized sports fields, 4 full sized games courts and a student canteen.

Westmere School is a decile 10 school which has students in years 0-6 , with an end of year roll of approx 630 students.

The roll comprises of 78% European/ Pakeha, 5% Pacifica, 4.5 % from India, China and other Asian countries and 10.5% Maori, most of whom are educated in the school's 3 bilingual classes of Nga Uri o Nga Iwi.

Facilities include an administration block, two adventure playgrounds for the children and three hard court areas. The school is fortunate to have spacious field areas and a growing number of vegetable and flower gardens run by the children. The new school hall will provide much needed space for whole school activities and provide a much needed resource for the local community.

The school prides itself on offering a varied and holistic learning experience with many opportunities for the children to participate in cultural and sporting activities. The old school hall has been converted into a custom built food technology room and music/ performing arts teaching space.