FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, This is a very short newsletter as I am away at the New Zealand Principals Conference in Wellington today. All the year 7&8s, including Mr Irvine, Ms Jackson and Mrs De Cort are on camp on Motutapu Island. [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Nau mai, harere mai. Welcome back to term 4!! We trust you are well rested and ready for a great term, we all are here!! Welcome to Miss Mahler in Karaka class and Ms Jackson in Kahikatea class. [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Last week was an amazing week – full of celebration, entertainment, meetings and good news!! We were entertained by the Takahe team with their show “Let Loose!”, this took 5 weeks to put together and was thoroughly entertaining. [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Spring feels very much here today! We had Duncan and Ginny McNab in at our Monday morning Values assembly with Daisy the lamb to talk about lamb rearing, feeding, leading, calling and how to prepare for showing your [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Haere mai, Haere mai, Haere Mai This week is Māori Language Week / Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori 2018. The theme this year is 'Kia Kaha Te Reo Māori’, (be strong in Maori language). At Wainui School we [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Huge thank you and shout out to our wonderful FOWS (Friends of Wainui School) group!! Triv Night was wonderfully organized by a small team of wonderful women!! Thank you ladies – you collated all the auction items and [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Spring is in the air!! We have our own daffodils flowering everywhere and lambs are appearing!! This week there is a lot happening, all well planned and organised of course. THIS WEEK Tough Guy and Gal Challenge - [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Over the next two weeks I plan to feature many of our winter sports teams in the newsletter, as the winter sports season is coming to an end. I will start with a big shout out to all [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Another amazing week has just passed, this one coming has a few challenges with the looming “Strike” on Wednesday!! LAST WEEK  Hatsushiba Ritsumeikan - 24 students, 2 teachers and a tour operator finished their last week with us [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou and Konnichiwa, What an amazing week - we have just had so much fun, annual events and a big first - the opening of our artificial turf plus celebrating we now have 300 students!! Already we are in [...]