Kaurihohore School Week Five, Term One 2026
Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua," Let our past guide our future
Manaaki te katoa - be kind to all.
Respect - Empathy - Kindness
Kia ora e te whānau
It is hard to believe we are already at Week Five. Classrooms are busy, and teachers are working hard to meet the needs of every student. As this is a nine-week term, there is even less time to fit everything in!
We had a fantastic day at the beach. What a lovely way to celebrate the end of summer. This year we had wonderful support on the day, which helped everything run smoothly. Taking the whole school to the beach is very different from a family outing, and we really appreciate you following the rules we need to have in place to ensure everyone’s safety.
It has been a busy time around school. Our children are very lucky to have wonderful opportunities such as EPro8, STEM Week, and swimming sports. Over the next two weeks, all classes will take part in WaterSafe sessions (the heat pump is now on in the pool). In a few weeks, the senior classes will enjoy Bikes in Schools and take part in beach education. A huge thank you to our staff for ensuring these opportunities are available. A lucky group of Year 6 students have also been learning about bees. Thank you to Dianne for running this programme.
You may have seen the link to our survey about the Halloween fundraiser and fundraising in general. After four years of taking a leading role in this fundraiser, many of our organisers are stepping away. That is completely understandable, and we sincerely appreciate everything they have done. Halloween was always intended to be a parent-run event, and we now need to understand what level of support we are likely to have in the future.
Before Halloween, we had the school gala. This ran from 2013 until 2017 in various forms, but it was a huge responsibility for staff and for me personally. While the gala was popular, it was very weather-dependent. Due to the amount of work involved, the declining help both before and on the day, and the impact of the weather on its success, we made the difficult decision to end the event.
Halloween was suggested as a great alternative and has been very successful over the past few years. However, like the gala, it has gradually become more reliant on staff, as volunteer support has decreased each year. Like many events, it often depends on a small group of very hard-working volunteers. When those people step away, it can be difficult to replace them.
We currently have 44 responses to our survey. We would love to receive 100 responses to get a clear picture of what our community wants and how people feel they may be able to help. If you have not yet completed the survey, please take five minutes to do so. The information will be very valuable as we plan for the future.
Sometimes it is difficult for schools like ours to rely so heavily on fundraising while others receive more funding and do not have to do any fundraising. However, that is our current reality.
If you would prefer to make a donation instead, you are very welcome to do so. Donations can be made through Kindo, or by seeing Dianne or Shelley in the school office.
Link to our survey:
Leslee Allen
Pick up and Drop Off
Please do not drop children off before 7.45am. Please pick children up by 3.20pm at the latest as the intermediate bus usually comes by 3.15pm.
If your child can not get themselves into the car independently, please park and come in. If they have a bike to put in the car, please consider parking and coming in to avoid holding up the line. When pulling up in the line, please go as close as you can to the end of the yellow lines, this means we can fit more cars into the line.
Assemblies
This is an assembly week. The school will assemble just after nine under the canopy to listen to notices. At this time we will also hand our our ‘above and beyond’ certificates. You are welcome to join us. Following this assembly, classes spend 15 minutes cleaning up their designated areas.
Fundraising
Please let Dianne know if you are keen to sell chocolates (this is optional) in person, or by returning your form.
A bulb flier also went home for those interested in purchasing bulbs, this is always a popular one, so ask family and friends and get your orders in if you are keen.
Donations
We know that some people prefer to give a donation and you can do this via KINDO. If you are not sure how to do this, please see Dianne or Shelley in the office.
Toys
Please ensure children keep toys at home, unless they are specifically bringing them for class sharing. Toys are easily broken or lost and this causes a lot of upset, they are best left safely at home.
Chewing Gum/Lollies
Please refrain from sending these along to school.
Water
Please ensure children just have water in their drink bottles.
Parent Information Blog
This can be found linked to our main school blog site https://kaurihohoreschool.blogspot.com/
Included on this site are articles and links that you may find helpful. I will be making some videos over the year to help you understand how best to assist children get started with their journey in literacy and numeracy because the first three years are such an important foundation for later progress.
https://kaurihohoreparentinfo.blogspot.com/
Enrolments
We currently have positions in year 3 and 4 available for any out of zone students, if you know of anyone with a child in this age range, please let them know to come and speak with Shelley in the office.
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 you can find old newsletters etc here.
Office emails are:
Shelley- admin@kaurihohoreschool.co.nz
Dianne - reception@kaurihohoreschool.co.nz
Enrolments - kaurienrolments@gmail.com (managed by Shelley and Leslee)
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.
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
School Bank Account Details -
Account 12-3093-0200709-00
Kaurihohore school board of Trustees
Term One - Known Dates
Week Five - Six - Watersafe sessions at school
24th March - School Board Meeting - 7pm (observers are always welcome.)
27th March - Beach Education at Ruakaka Year 5/6
2nd April - Last day of term - term awards 2.10pm under canopy
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20th April - First day back Term 2
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Last day of the year - 15th of December 12pm finish
Food for thought…
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