Kohimarama School News - 21st May 2025
School News
A Message from the Deputy Principals
Thank you
Our students are fortunate to have a plethora of adults supporting them. These adults are in our students' corner, alongside our amazing teachers on a daily basis. The photos of these wonderful supporters and the bullet points of what they do are only a small representation of this incredible group of people who work tirelessly for all of our students. We thank them sincerely and are grateful that they are part of our team.
- small group or 1-1 support for their learning
- a bright smile and welcome when needing a prickle removed, stopping a bleed, headache remedies or providing a sick bag
- having a safe, cheerful and motivating space to go with their class as well as fun activities during every big break, each day of the week
- safe playgrounds, warm learning spaces when they arrive and fetcher of stray balls on our roof
Learner Assistants: Darcey, Kim, Hayden, Helen Y, Lucy, Nikki W, Ruth and Sabina
Property Manager: Mr Mannion
Office Staff: Gail, Helen O'B, Janine and Myana
Librarian: Chenelle
The Kohimarama Way - Reliable/Totika
How do we know we are practicing reliability successfully? When we make promises we can keep, treat our agreements seriously, plan ahead, do our best, finish on time and find another way if obstacles occur.
Bizzy Bodz pick up for Friday 23rd May
On Friday 23rd May the Bizzy Bodz afterschool care programme (3pm - 6pm) will be in Learning Spaces 25 and 26. Please collect your children from there after school.
School Disco - Friday 23rd May
Kohimarama School Diso
- Junior Disco 5.00 pm to 6.00pm
- Senior Disco 6.30 pm to 8.00 pm
$5 tickets bought via Kindo, a reminder there will be no door sales. Remember this buys each student a drink, a snack and a professional DJ. Purchasing tickets:
- Tickets purchased with credit cards via Kindo must be ordered by Thursday 22nd May.
- If you are making your payment via bank transfer to Kindo you will need to allow 3 working days for the payment to be lodged to your Kindo account by Kindo. You will then need to log on to your Kindo account and complete the purchase.
- There will be no door or office sales.
- There will be a photo booth, exciting.
Teacher Only Day with Bizzy Bodz
The 'Teacher Only Day' is Tuesday 3rd June is a Ministry Funded day to support Mathematics.
Bizzy Bodz have a special programme set up for the day if your child requires care. Please see the flyer below for more details.
Writers festival 2025
On Tuesday and Wednesday some of our year 5-8 students attended the Writers festival at the Aotea Centre. They listened to some inspiring authors and some of our senior students attended workshops. Many of our students were lucky to meet their favourite authors in person and get autographs too.
Some of our favourites were:
- James Russell (Children of the Rush and Dragon Defender series books) - talking about layering detail and adding tension. He taught us how to make characters real and settings pop. Did you know that it took him the same length of time to write a 32 page picture book as it did to write a 200 page fiction book?
- Stacy Gregg (Pony club secrets, Nine girls and the Last Journey) - talking about getting started in your writing with a plan for your beginning, middle and end. Even if it changes you have to start somewhere. She taught us to write about something we know lots about then research and embellish and blow it up until you have your story.
- Jessica Townsend (Nevermoor series) - it took her 10 years to finish her first book! She told us to feed your brain with literature; books, movies, radio, tv, poetry and art. Get your ideas from the experiences you have.
- Anders Sparring and Per Gustavsson (The Pinchers series) - This Swedish author/ illustrator act decided there were too many books about children solving crimes and wanted to write stories about children committing them instead. Their hilarious act taught us to stop worrying about what others think and to explore our imaginations and write about the things we want to.
It was a great day out!
Certificates & Awards
Congratulations to these outstanding students:
- Room 1 – Charlie T, Dulcie D
- Room 2 – Finn H
- Room 3 – Evie D
- Room 4– Elliot DC
- Room 5 – Grace D, Arthur M
- Room 6 – Ryan H, Jaina P
- Room 7 – Heidi T, Victoria O
- Room 8 – Hannah B, Luther P
- Room 9 – Thomas A, Sawyer F
- Room 10 – Shawn X, Leah M
- Room 16 – Sophie S, Isabella M
- Room 11 – Ella C, Max P
- Room 12 – Henry M, Damen AH
- Room 13 – Grayson C, Sasha R
- Room 14 – Tom K, Spencer C
- Room 15 – Cormac R, Alex H
- Room 17 – Queenie H, Finnegan D
- Room 18 – Stella M, Tomas M
- Room 19 – Shahd B, Freya O
- Room 20 – Elliott S
- Room 21 – Nathan F, Sajan B
- Room 22 – Szymon S, Stefan M
- Room 23 – Brayden W, Huxley W
The Kohimarama Way Values - "Greenies"
Congratulations to our four students who were caught doing the 'right thing' in the playground:
- Nova LS 1 for reliability Atkin
- Zara LS 15 for reliability Colenso
- Isla LS 21 for reliability Patteson
- Zoe F LS 23 for commitment Colenso
Road Patrollers of the fortnight
Thank you for the service you do for our school Road Patrollers. This week we recognise: Naomi and Leina.
PTA News
With just over 5 weeks left in Term 2, we are looking ahead to the following year. As mentioned, Both Alan and I will be stepping down as PTA Co-Chairs with a hand over later this year.
This means that the 2026 event calendar will need new leadership and fresh ideas. We’ve both really enjoyed helping with the PTA over the last few years. It is a lot of fun and very rewarding, and a great way to be connected with the school community.
We're inviting anyone interested in taking the reins of the PTA for the next Two years to consider stepping into the following roles:
- Chair or Co-Chair
- Secretary
There is an amazing army of volunteers across the school that help with all of the above, but it does need a small group of parents to oversee and keep everyone connected.
Alan and I are still going to be here and are very keen to help with the transition later this year and into next year.
If you are interested, Please reach out and get involved with the PTA sooner than later. If you have any questions, We'd be happy to chat with you about it.
Valerie and Alan
Greats and Grands Day – May 30th
Bring along your Grandparents for a morning at school. Meeting in your individual Learning spaces followed by a morning tea in the school hall. Donations of Baked goods required and volunteers for serving morning tea in the hall.
Chat to your Learning space teacher for more details.
Community Notices
