FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou and Konnichiwa, Today we welcomed a group of students from Hatsushiba Ritsumeikan. It’s amazing that it’s this time of the year again when a number of our families open their homes to welcome a student or two into [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Haere Mai, welcome back to Term Three, 2018. Wainui School has grown so much we are now on a roll of 300 children!! This is quite a milestone for our school and means we have challenges of roll [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, As we enter the last week of term two, 2018 we as a staff reflect on the year and term so far!! It is mid-winter, hard to believe for many of the us the term is almost over!! [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Mel Ludwig and I are starting the newsletter this week with a huge plea for homestays for our annual visit by the Japanese students from Kyoto. We REALLY need at least 10 more families to offer a bed [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, We are so very proud of our kapa haka and all our children who performed at the Matariki celebration last Friday. Our week’s focus on waiata, performance with confidence for Matariki and the visit of the Orewa College [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, This week we have planned to celebrate Matariki. In the Māori language, Matariki is both the name of the Pleiades star cluster and also of the season of its first rising in late May or early June. This is a [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, I hope everyone had a good break over the long weekend despite all the rain!! It let us all have a rest and recharge of the batteries. Life Education - This week we have the Life Education truck [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, Can you believe it, Queens Birthday weekend is coming up!! Nice to enjoy a long weekend with family and friends, recharging the batteries, wrapping up warm and enjoying soup or hot chocolate!! With June just around the corner [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, We all had such a fantastic day last Friday!! Thank you everyone for your support for all our events!! The weather was so kind to us as well!! Pink Shirt Day with Constable Brian and his friends highlighted [...]

FROM THE PRINCIPAL'S DESK Kia ora Koutou, This week it’s all go, practice cycling, find some pink to wear and get those sponsors for the Bike-a-thon! This Friday 18th May we will be participating in 3 events!! Pink Shirt Day - Constable Brian and his [...]