Congratulations Matekino

Congratulations to Matekino who received her Peter Blake Young Leader award last night. Sir Peter Blake is widely recognised as one of New Zealand's greatest leaders. He believed in the incredible potential of young kiwis to achieve great things and the Young Leader Award celebrates students who demonstrate outstanding leadership.

Creativity, Imagination and Play!

Lovely creativity and imagination through play this morning as Room 9 and 1 had fun gathering materials together to make fairy houses.

End of Term Awards Assembly

This will be held at the new time of 2.15pm on Friday the 6th of July.  Hopefully in the courtyard, but if it is raining we will be in Room 1.

Awards include:
*Principal Awards - Chosen by the classroom teacher
*Respect Awards - Chosen by the classroom teacher
*Good Citizen recognition certificates
*Overall Citizen Term 2 - Voted by children


Children will be able to go home at the conclusion of this assembly if you wish to take them.

New page on our information hub!

This page is intended to help you to work with your child on developing resilience and self-esteem.  Dealing with upsetting situations and standing up for themselves in the right way.

http://kaurihohoreparentinfo.blogspot.com/p/absolutely-must-reads-for-parents.html

Thursday June 21st - Paid union meeting

Thursday June 21st is a paid union meeting.  Our school will remain open as it is a normal school day with some staff staying behind to supervise children.

Normal pick up at 2.55pm on this day.

A snapshot of lunchtime today

We all know how important movement and play is for children.  Well our children certainly don't lack in opportunities to move or play.  Here are some snaps captured today after a stroll around the playground.

This is a pen factory :)

Who We Are

We have spent the last ten years (or even more) working hard to build a culture in our school that is based on fun, learning, kindness, respect, acceptance and empathy. Children can be children and sometimes their behaviour is not always reflective of these things, but they are still learning and it is up to us as adults to role model the way we want them to behave. Mistakes, after all, are learning experiences for everyone. Last week each class had their say when reflecting about the essence of our school and who we are, what we stand behind. It is so rewarding to see that their words, reflect out ultimate aims for our culture. Lovely and heartwarming indeed. This will always be a work in progress and we will continue to be committed to developing the absolutely best culture we can for children to develop, learn and grow within. The gardens we create are to be a reflection of these ideas in some way, we are looking forward to creating spaces that make our place an even better place to be.