Month: July 2025

Ngā mihi mahana e te whānau, (Warm greetings) I want to start this pānui by extending a massive whakamihi (congratulations) to Whaea Anneliese who has just been appointed to be an Across School Lead Teacher in our local Kāhui Ako (Collaborative Group of Schools) Don’t worry, she’s not leaving us! It just means she will be out of her classroom a little bit more than usual, doing mahi (work) that will benefit us, along with the other 24 kura in our Kāhui Ako. Meagan will be teaching in Tōtara every Thursday and Lynne (who is well-known to a lot of our kids) will be in every Wednesday. She...

Nau mai hoki mai ki te wāhanga tuatoru (Welcome back to Term 3) Thankfully our roofing project was completed in the holidays, minimising further disruptions around the school. It wasn’t without drama though, you may have heard that the roofers accidentally hit our power main and took out our power for five days! Thank our lucky stars that happened when school wasn’t open. Now we just need the roadworks on Old West Road to wrap up and we won’t know ourselves… This term began with our usual mihi whakatau (informal welcome) for our new whānau members. We are delighted to...