Kaurihohore School Week One, Term One 2025
Manaaki te katoa - be kind to all.
Respect - Empathy - Kindness
He aroha whakatō, he aroha ka puta mai
“If kindness is sown, then kindness is what you shall receive”
Kia ora e te whānau, nau mai hoki mai, welcome back!
A big welcome to all of our new whānau, we look forward to getting to know you and your children this year.
We will always endeavour to do our best for you and your children, we look forward to working together with you in this partnership.
Please ensure all children have a full brimmed hat, or a hat with a flap at the back at school each day. No caps please. Also ensure their clothes are named and that they recognise their own belongings. Our lost property was appalling last year.
We look forward to another great year here at Kaurihohore.
Leslee Allen
Pick up and Drop Off
Please read the information sent home regarding drop off and pick up. Children in Room 1 - 5 will come out at 3.50pm. If you have a child in Room 6 - 9 they will come out to the courtyard when the bell goes at 3.55pm. If a class is swimming in that last 2.30pm slot, they are likely to be quite slow coming out.
If you have a child in the older class, please come to pick up at the later time indicated. This should reduce pressure on the line and ease waiting times.
When pulling up into the line, pull up as far as you can, don’t stop in front of the gate, this allows us to get more cars into the line and more children into cars.
If your child is slow getting into the car at the end of the day, it may be easier to find a park and come in and collect them, this will avoid holding up the line.
If you think your child may not recognise the vehicle that is picking them up, or we might not know the adult by sight, it is possibly best to tell them to park and walk across the crossing to pick up.
Children are not to walk out of the gate and across the crossing by themselves, you must come into the school to get them. While we understand older children may be able to do this safely on their own, our youngest children can not. It is important we stick to the rules for the safety of all of our children.
Whānau with intermediate children who get off the bus here at school, please wait till 3.15pm to arrive. If you are here for a sports practice, please wait till 3.20pm. Children are all supervised till this time. If someone out of the ordinary is picking up your child, please phone and let us know.
All children need to be picked up by 3.20pm.
When you drop off children in the morning, please park adjacent to the yellow lines, so children can walk safely up the pedestrian walkway. Do not park parallel to another car. If your child gets out of the right hand side, they need to walk behind your car, not in front. Children can be dropped off from 7.45am, not earlier, they need to wait in the courtyard until the bell rings at 8am.
Phones At School
Please note that children are not to bring phones to school. If they need to contact you, they can come to the school office and phone you from there. If for some reason they absolutely have to have their phone, they must leave it at the school office and pick it up after school.
New Staff
We welcome Lisa Lipsham to Rūma Pīwakawaka, we also welcome Laura Stanners back to Rūma Pīwakawaka. We welcome Haylee Apeldoorn to Rūma Piwakawaka who will be providing vital support as a teacher aide. We also welcome Rachel Barclay to our school, she will largely be working out of Rūma Piwakawaka and will be providing literacy and foundation support. Rachel will be with us three days a week.
Shelley has now taken over in the office as administration officer with Chrissie retiring at the end of the year.
Attendance
Regular attendance is crucial for children to be successful at school, academically, socially and emotionally. As you may know the government is actively working towards improving attendance at all schools. 90% attendance is counted as regular, this is less than five days of absence a term. Data shows that children who attend at least 90% of the time have a greater chance of being successful and happy at school.
Please support us by ensuring your child is at school regularly, unless they are unwell. If your child is going to be away, you MUST let us know. We also are required to have a reason for the absence as this data is collected by the ministry. Please advise us of their absence by 9am, you can phone the office, text our cellphone (0275029974) or email kauriabsences@gmail.com.
Enrolments
We currently have no out of zone positions available, if you know of anyone wishing to send their child to our school, encourage them to phone us or send us an email so we can pop them on our waiting list.
Fundraising
We need to raise $40 000 this year to cover our budget. This money covers learning support, ensuring we have people on the ground to help our children when they need it. This learning support benefits everyone. We hate relying on fundraising and really wish that government funding actually matched our needs. Sadly this is not the reality. We will be advertising fundraisers as they come up and appreciate your support. You can also donate to the school via Kindo, or if you know any businesses keen to sponsor us, we are always happy to chat. We are very grateful for your support. Last year we managed to raise almost $50 000. If you have any ideas for fundraisers and are happy to be an integral part of planning and actioning these fundraisers, please get in touch with Dianne.
Contacting Us
You can find all staff emails on our blog page under the tab ‘our staff,’ however the best way to contact your child’s teacher is via seesaw message. Teachers will endeavour to answer when they have time during the day, however please don’t expect replies to messages or emails after 5pm. We will respond the next day as soon as we can. Please refrain from using Facebook messenger, or our personal phone numbers to contact us.
Our school blog is kaurihohoreschool.blogspot.com
Office emails are:
Shelley- admin@kaurihohoreschool.co.nz
Dianne - reception@kaurihohoreschool.co.nz
Chelsea/Enrolments - kaurienrolments@gmail.com
Leslee - principal@kaurihohoreschool.co.nz
Reporting Absence - kauriabsences@gmail.com
If you have questions or concerns, please direct these to your child’s teacher as soon as you can, so we can nip anything in the bud before it becomes a bigger issue.
Beach Trip - 21st February
On this day, the whole school travels to the beach. A form has come home about this that will give you more information.
For this trip to go ahead, it is absolutely crucial that we have the necessary supervision to do so. While it can often seem that we have too many cars, it is needed. We need people prepared to come to the beach and supervise a small group of children in and out of the water. If you feel your child would struggle on this day, then we ask that you come along to supervise them yourselves. If you feel going to the beach with the whole school will be too much for them, please let us know that they will not be coming along. It is a huge responsibility to take the whole school to the beach and we can not do it without your support. You must meet us at school so we can do the roll and ensure all children are accounted for. You are more than welcome and encouraged to carpool on the day, as parking is very limited.
Please return your forms ASAP.
Teacher Only Day
Schools have been assigned two teacher only days to take this year to assist them with the implementation of the new curriculum. We will be taking ours on the 4th of April.
KINDO
Kindo is an app that allows online payments for items at school like pizza days etc. If you go to the links below to either create an account, or log in. These links are also at the top of our school blog site.
Create and account.
https://shop.tgcl.co.nz/shop/flow_join.shtml
Log in
https://shop.tgcl.co.nz/shop/index.html
Swimming Timetable
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Term One - Known Dates
6th of February - Waitangi Day (school closed)
18th of February - Senior camp parent meeting - 4.30pm
21st February - Beach Picnic (whole school)
27th and 28th February - Year 3 and 4 camp
5th-7th March - Senior Camp
4th April - Teacher Only Day
11th April - End of Term Awards - 2.10pm (Last day of term)
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28th April - First day back Term 2
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Last day of the year - 16th of December 12pm finish
School Bank Account Details -
Account 12-3093-0200709-00
Kaurihohore school board of Trustees
Food for thought…
