Month: November 2024

Ngā mihi mahana ki a koutou, (Warmest wishes to you all) Getting this out to you nice and early today because I was supposed to be out at our Cluster Ki o Rahi event, so I had already written the pānui, but unfortunately it has been cancelled due to this weather. You’d think being nearly in December would mean the weather might play ball for you, alas not today… And just like that, we only have 10 school days remaining in the year. I feel like we had just started Term 4 and somehow next week it is December! On...

Tēnā koutou katoa, (Hello everyone)  I’ve really appreciated the kind words you’ve sent in regarding having a voice on placement of your children for next year through the survey that closed on Wednesday morning. It isn’t an easy job with a lot of variables considered in completing this. The infamous quote of ‘You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time’ is ringing true currently. As we work to finalise these lists, I will remind...

Kia ora e te whānau, Apologies for the alarm on Wednesday when you came to pick up your tamariki and there were two fire engines taking up all the parks! We had a fault in our newly-installed manual call point in Tāne Mahuta. Our kids did exactly what they needed to do when the siren sounded and evacuated promptly, which shows our systems work. It created some cool writing opportunities in our classroom too, an unintended bonus. As you can see below, I have had kids from all across the school come and share with me the amazing learning they...

Ngā mihi mahana ki a koutou (Warm greeting to you all) Huge thank you if you came along to our annual Lamb, Calf and Pet Day last Friday. This is one event that helps us retain our ‘rural school’ status. Also a great showcase of some of our students' commitment outside of school to our uara (value) of kaitiakitanga by looking after their animals. Pictured below are some of my favourite photos from the day. Our winners were celebrated this afternoon and best of luck to those competing in the Oroua Boys & Girls Championship Day with them tomorrow in...

Kia ora e te whānau (Hello everyone) I hope you all had a great long weekend and thanks for your tautoko (support) around our Teacher Only Day on Tuesday as we know this can inconvenience you. Any time our staff get together to engage in professional discourse, there is plenty of rigour around the decisions we make, conversations we have and future planning we do. The day highlighted for me how amazing our staff are and how they are embracing our ‘rapidly-rolled-out’ new curriculum to improve outcomes for ākonga (learners) in 2025 and beyond. A dream team for sure! This week, our...