FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, After a very wet and grey long weekend, at least my garden is growing and the tanks are full, as we return to week 2.  We wish all our family members and friends in [...]

Friday 22nd October 2021 Dear Parents and Caregivers Our Chocolate fundraiser must come to an end - Final call for funds or more chocolate to sell, Nov 1st is our deadline! Wow, what a crazy few weeks, we hope everyone is doing ok. Our fundraising started with a bang and ended with a boom - [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, A very warm welcome back to Term 4 despite being in Level 3.  Yesterday we got the news we are here for two more weeks at least, despite us all feeling frustrated we know [...]

Thursday 7th October 2021 Dear Parents and Caregivers Kia ora all, I know it is unusual to receive a news post from me in the holidays but these are not “normal times”! The reason is to give you as much information as possible for us to prepare for a return to school.  This is not [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Welcome to the last week of Term 3 (and to daylight saving). A term like no other!! Here we are at the end of the term looking forward to moving down the levels in [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Yesterday's news came as a great relief to most of us. As you know, the recent response to the Delta variant happened quickly – but it’s been effective.  There have been high volumes of [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou to "Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori" Week 5 in COVID-19 Level 4, and we are all well aware we are still here for at least another week!! Keep doing the great job you [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, This is week 7 of Term 3 as we enter into week 4 of lockdown and we are all now clear this will continue into next week. It is heartening to know there are [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, A huge thank you parents, grandparents and caregivers!  As a teaching staff, we wanted to thank you all for making the distance / home learning work.  We have over 90% of all children coming [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Remaining at Alert Level 4 Kia ora koutou, Such a lot can happen in a week since writing the last newsletter.  We were so fortunate running the cross-country, sadly the interschool events have all been cancelled. Please [...]