Kaurihohore School Week Nine, 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,
It was really rewarding to spend a couple of hours outside as a school on Monday, cleaning up the school grounds. Each class had decided on areas they wanted to take ownership for. It was great for the children to see how their efforts, in such a short time, could make such a great difference. Going forward we want to keep up this approach, embedding up to 30 minutes in our week where we go out, weed, tidy, plant, whatever it may be, to keep on top of our enormous grounds. We are really grateful to those that were able to come along and help out, your efforts really assisted us!
We hope this big effort will help children develop a sense of responsibility and ownership for our place as kaitiaki. In turn, hopefully they will develop more respect for this place that they call home between 9am and 3pm during the week.
We have long been very proud of our Kauri kids, they punch above their weight and this is often seen evidenced in intermediate and high school prize giving. For such a small school, we are very well represented during these times of celebration. This couldn’t have been more evident than it has been recently with three of our children competing at the Northland Swimming Championship, they were competing against the best 9 year old swimmers in Northland, from Wellsford to Kaitaia.
Belle 1st Place in 25 Breaststroke
Kye 7th Place in 25 Backstroke
Kaley 10th Place in 25 Freestyle
Well done guys.
Another example of this is our EPR08 teams, representing us so well at the heats. Then after winning last week's heat, Liam, Levi, Adam and Will represented our school at the EPRO8 Grand final at Whangārei Boys High. They boys made us proud by coming first equal!
A big thank you to Cathy, the effort you put into these events really is outstanding, our children are very lucky.
Next week is the last week of term, Term 1 has been a very busy one and it has seemed to fly by. We will see everyone back on the 28th of April for the beginning of Term 2.
A reminder that teacher only day is this Friday.
If you have not returned a form letting us know how many chocolate boxes you would like for our fundraiser next term, please see or message Dianne by tomorrow. This is a big fundraiser for us and we’d love to sell as many as possible.
Thank you for your support this term, in particular, thank you for taking the time to read this newsletter, I do take a lot of time to ensure it contains information that you need.
Leslee Allen
Moving Post Peelings
We managed to get through some of this pile on Monday. If you have any time at all there is still a lot to move. The post peelings are going along the fenceline between the school and the cemetery, 10-15cm deep on the weed mat and 25-30 cm everywhere else. Once this area is done, we can top up gardens in the native bush and around the school, like the small gardens in the courtyard. If moving any of this, please wear a mask, we have some available at the school office.
Junior Sandpit
As some of you will know, a while back we tried to get some traction on creating a junior sandpit, located adjacent to the Matariki garden, currently where the bark pile is. Unfortunately this never went beyond the design process due to us just having too much on our plates to plan and manage another project. We would still love to make this area happen and will be looking into ways that we could get this created, but if anyone is keen to take this project on and drive it forward, we would love the help. The area does not need to be flash, just be connected to the Matariki garden path in some way and provide for the play urges of our children. If you think you might have the time to work on pulling something together you could touch base with Vikki Tuckey who will be investigating this further.
Attendance
We currently have 74% of our children attending school regularly (90%) of the time. While this is above the 2024 target that was set, we do have a number of children with very concerning attendance. Please ensure your child is attending regularly unless they are too unwell to attend.
End Of Term Awards
These will be held at 2.10pm on the last day of term, all welcome to attend.
Fundraising
Our target this year is to raise $40 000 to cover learning support needs.
Fundraisers: Term 1
Profits so far:
Baking paper fundraiser - $1013
Ice Blocks - $218
Sausages - $230
Spring bulbs - $895.20
Easter raffle - $2925
Total raised - $5281.20
Chocolate Fundraiser for Next Term
A form has been sent home for families to indicate how many boxes of chocolates they would like to sell next term.
Please return this form by 3rd April so we can place our school order, ready for Term 2.
All funds raised will go towards learning support, which assists all of our children.
Other fundraisers for Term 2 -
*Sponsored Run
*Pizza day fundraisers
Thank you for your hard work in making these fundraisers successful! We truly appreciate your support.
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.
Teacher Only Day This Friday - 4th 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
Term One - Known Dates
4th April - Teacher Only Day (school close for instruction)
11th April - End of Term Awards - 2.10pm (Last day of term)
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28th April - First day back Term 2
19th - 23rd May - Police Education visit - keeping ourselves safe
28th May - Winter Sports Day (senior school)
2nd June - King's Birthday (school closed)
11th June - Sponsored Colour Run
13th June - Science Roadshow (Room 7, 8, 9)
20th June - Matariki (school closed)
25th June - Empty Classroom Day
27th June - End of Term Awards - 2.10pm
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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
