FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, The last week of November, currently the teachers are all finishing their assessments of your children and writing the end of year summative reports.  This year is like no other as we are all [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Hi all - beautiful weather has seen us all out enjoying the sun, beach and BBQ's.  We are feeling very fortunate this week compared to our family, friends and colleagues on the other side [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Yes, the rain came - we all needed it, the farms, the home water tanks the school tanks and our gardens, but unfortunately, it is causing a bit of havoc with our events. We [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Hi all, having just driven almost the length of the North Island over the last few days, my husband and I talked a lot about how fortunate we are! Our country may have a [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, So much to celebrate in this newsletter!! I hope you all enjoyed Labour weekend with the truly stunning weather!! It was great for the fishermen, the sports, the gardeners and just relaxing with friends [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING Young Farmer - Friday saw the heats of all the young farmer contests being held. What a great day we all had to start with the Year 1-4's and then moving [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, haere mai, a very warm welcome back to school to Term 4, 2020!! Welcome to our new families and new children that have joined us this week. We have 6 new entrants, Matilda Cochran, [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Ko te reo Māori ko tātou te motu, ko tātou te motu ko te reo Māori. Tui Team perform their chosen waiata led By Sam Neely and Milly Rossiter Māori language is [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Te wiki o te reo Maori!!  Welcome to Te Reo Maori Week (Maori Language Week).   Today we celebrated by joining New Zealand at 12:00 pm together as a school and all sung a waiata [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, It has been great to be back!! Routines are well back in place.  Thank you to you all as parents for respecting our systems and enabling us all to return to school safely and [...]