Kaurihohore School Week Four, Term Four 2026
Kia whakatōmuri te haere whakamua," Let our past guide our future
Manaaki te katoa - be kind to all.
Respect - Empathy - Kindness
Kia ora, mālō e lelei,talofa and greetings!
We are almost halfway through the term and school is a busy place right now, lots of learning going on, end of year assessments and extra activities. Please ensure children are at school when they are well so they don’t miss out on anything.
It was wonderful to be able to get along to watch our Kapa Haka roopu perform at Hurupaki. We feel grateful to be able to bring these opportunities back for our children and thank Te Aroha, Reo and Jo for making this happen for them.
Last week was teacher appreciation day. I want to express my gratitude to our teaching staff, teaching is a profession that everyone feels they are ‘expert in’ because they went to school. Education is also a real political football and the pressure cooker climate we have been working in over the past three years has not been easy. Unless you spend time regularly in classrooms, you can not possibly know what it is like to be a teacher, it is both an incredibly tough, but incredibly rewarding profession. Thank you to all of our teaching staff here at Kaurihohore, you are valued and genuinely appreciated. We talk about our children going above and beyond, but often forget our teachers are doing this each and every day to make our kura such a special place to be.
Ngā Manaakitanga
Leslee
Teachers Only Day - Note This Date Down
This will be held on November the 16th, this day will be used to assist teachers to review the curriculum and make any changes for 2027. Please make arrangements for your children on this day as school will be closed for instruction.
Golf Tournament Fundraiser - Enter your team now!
Please help us to make this a success!
Team entries are open today, $150 for teams of three, teams can be entered on Kindo or via a hard copy at the office. Get involved and help us to have a successful fundraiser!
We are very grateful to Croft Poles & Timber for being the main sponsor for this event. We are still seeking hole sponsorships for $100; you can find out more by speaking to Dianne or Shelley.
Please share with your networks so we can make this day as successful as possible.
Planning for 2027 and Beyond
If your child will not be attending our school next year, please get in touch with your child’s teacher and the school office as soon as possible. This assists us greatly in our planning for 2027. If you know of any families living in our zone that may have children attending our school from 2027 to 2023 to get in touch with us if they have not already added their child to our waiting list. This helps us to predict our roll accurately and to know how many out of zone places we have to offer.
Out of Zone positions
We didn’t fill all of our out of zone positions for new entrants in 2027 and have a couple of positions at other year levels in the school. Feel free to let anyone that may be interested know to get in touch with us.
End of Year Prizegivings - 11th December
This year we have decided to hold the junior(year 0 -3) and senior (year 4 - 6) prizegivings on the same day. More details will come home about this but we will hold the senior prizegiving portion from 12.30pm and the juniors from 1.45pm. There will be a break in the middle, more information about this will come home when we have finalised it.
Kaurihohore School - 150th Jubilee
Our school celebrates its 150th anniversary next year! We have set the 23rd of October as the date for this celebration and will provide more information as planning progresses. If you or anyone you know would like to help plan this event, please speak with Shelley. Please also help us spread the word to past families to save the date.
After School Care
Any enquires or if you would like an enrolment form either contact the office or email kaurikidsasc@gmail.com.
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.
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/
Contacting Us
You can find all staff emails on our blog page under the tab ‘our staff,’ however the best
The 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.
Office contact emails are:
Shelley: admin@kaurihohoreschool.co.nz
Enrolments: kaurienrolments@gmail.com
Reporting Absence: kauriabsences@gmail.com
Our school blog is kaurihohoreschool.blogspot.com you can find old newsletters etc here.
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 Four - Known Dates
16th November: Teachers only day - school closed
25th November: Class swap #1
27th November: Empty Classroom Day
1st December: Class swap #2
4th December: End of term awards 2.10pm
8th December: Class swap #3
11th December: Senior and junior prizegiving (12.30 onwards starting with seniors followed by juniors at 1.45)
15th December: Last day of school midday finish
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Back to school for 2027 - February 3rd
Food For Thought
