Month: October 2024

Kia ora e te whānau (Hello everyone) Yesterday I had another one of those ‘Proud Tumuaki Moments’ as we had the entire team of nearly 40 staff members from Porritt School in Napier come to see how we do at Turitea School. Our whole school gave them a beautiful welcome with a Mihi Whakatau, in which we really ‘raised the bar’ on how we did this. Our tamariki were loud, proud and passionate - it was really noticeable! Our Year 6’s then took each of the manuhiri (visitors) around and showed off our kura. I received beautiful feedback about what...

Tēnā koutou katoa, (Hello everyone) Nau mai hoki mai ki te wāhanga tuawhā (Welcome back to Term 4) The term opened with our usual Mihi Whakatau to welcome our new tamariki who have recently joined us. Mihi atu (thanks) to John (Archie’s Dad) who did an amazing job of being our whaikorero (speaker) for this occasion. Monday was the first day for two new students; Sophie moved to us from Milson School to join Karen and the crew in Kahikatea and Billy (Esmay’s little brother) has started with us in Rimu with Meagan and Hannah. Nau mai, Haere mai (Welcome)...