Kohimarama School News - 15th October 2025
- School News
- The Kohimarama Way - Honest/Matatika
- Important Notice from the Principal
- Parent Survey
- Athletics Day for Years 4 - 8 on Wednesday 5th November 2025
- Thursday 16th October - National Earthquake Drill day
- EPRO8 Year 5 Results
- Lucky Book Club
- Certificates & Awards
- PTA News
- Bizzy Bodz
- Community Notices
School News
A Message from Kiri Team
Kia ora,
Our first week has been very busy with children excited to be back at school, see their friends and keen to learn.
Kiri Team has started their Inquiry called ‘Creative Construction’
This is all about designing with a purpose, and being creative. This immediately ignited a lot of enthusiasm. Kiri Team will be looking into the design of everyday machines as well as the design of a Māori Pā .
This week children started designing and constructing. Learning Spaces 1 and 2 have been busy constructing hats with a purpose. Each hat comes with at least one special feature and plenty of creativity. The children have been very proud to explain the reasoning behind their designs.
Learning Space 3 have been busy constructing safe homes for their soft toys. They planned in their paste books, thinking about the roof, walls and different rooms. Then they used a variety of materials to assemble their homes. There are some very cute results. I think the soft toys agreed.
Learning Space 4 started the term by looking at the shapes of sunflowers, their colours and design. They have created paintings of sunflowers very much like Vincent van Gogh’s series. Even five and six year olds can successfully manage a still life painting. Quite remarkable. Perhaps we do have some Vincent's in Kiri Team!
Learning Space five have constructed cameras and created reels of film with pictures showing highlights from their holidays.This is a very fun and innovative way for the children to share and display their work.
Ngā mihi
Kiri Team - Anne Bradley, Nikola Karsten, Michelle Gower, Mikaela Yates, Farah Dalal
The Kohimarama Way - Honest/Matatika
Honesty is important because it builds trust. When people lie, or cover up mistakes, others can't trust them. When people aren't honest with themselves, they pretend that something doesn't matter when it does or they exaggerate to impress others. When you are honest with yourself, you accept yourself as you are. When you are honest, others can believe you.
Important Notice from the Principal
A Possible Nationwide Strike involving school teachers, learner assistants and administration staff could occur on Thursday 23rd October. The action would be initiated by the New Zealand Education Institute (NZEI). As yet we have not had an official communication of strike action, due to last minute bargaining.
The school has calculated the number of staff who are NZEI members and who would be required to strike. At the Board meeting last night it was resolved that there will be insufficient teachers on-site to run a normal school programme. Therefore the school would close for instruction.
The Board is requesting that should the strike be called that all students remain home on Thursday 23rd October. The school will distribute a Google Form to ascertain if some parents will require supervision for their children because of essential work commitments.
We understand that industrial action will be disruptive and thank you for your co-operation in this matter which is outside of our control.
We will update you as soon as we receive updated information.
Parent Survey
We invite you to take part in this short survey to help us understand how we’re progressing in meeting the needs and aspirations of our students, families, and wider community.
The survey will take approximately 3-5 minutes to complete, and your feedback is invaluable in helping us make improvements.
All responses are anonymous and we encourage you to share your thoughts with us by Sunday 19th October 2025.
Here is the link
Athletics Day for Years 4 - 8 on Wednesday 5th November 2025
We are relocating our Athletics Day to Crossfield Reserve, all being well, because Auckland Council has closed Glover Park for essential maintenance work.
We would like to extend a big thank you to one of our parents who is kindly assisting us with the relocation arrangements.
More details will be shared with you in due course.
Thursday 16th October - National Earthquake Drill day
We will be joining close to a million registered New Zealanders on Thursday, practising what to do in the event of an earthquake.
EPRO8 Year 5 Results
Today we sent two of our year 5 teams to the EPRO8 interschool heats at St Helier's School.Both teams did us proud, standing in the top 4 throughout most of the competition.They both chose to construct an automatic barrier arm and mechanical car using laser sensors.
Congratulations to the Chicken Jockeys who came away with a 2nd placing and will compete at the semi-final competition in November. Well done to the Monkeys who placed 6th.
Lucky Book Club
The Scholastic catalogues have been placed in your child’s teacher’s cubby holes and should be making their way home this week. If you’d prefer to look online you can open the catalogue by using this link: https://scholastic.co.
You can order using the Loop app and your books will be sent to school.
All orders need to be in by 17 October 2025.
Certificates & Awards
Caught Being Good - "Greenies"
Great start to the Term with all students playing respectfully on the courts, fields and playgrounds together. Our fortunate people this week are:
- Elliott LS 2 for Respect Selwyn
- Francisco LS 2 for Reliability Atkin
- Frida LS 10 for Reliability Selwyn
Road Patrollers of the Week
Thank you for keeping us safe when we use the pedestrian crossings Road Patrollers, you commit a lot of your own time to supporting us be safe, we appreciate you. Congratulations to Emma and Freya this week.
PTA News
GALA
Our 2025 SILENT AUCTION is LIVE
Don’t miss out on amazing offers and experiences while also supporting our school in their future plans of renovating the top courts in the school. As of Monday this week it has been confirmed that all funds raised from our 2025 gala will go towards the work required to update and develop the Top Court area of the school.
Silent Auction:
The silent Auction is LIVE - https://app.galabid.com/bythesea/info/84b73325-2012-413a-b430-86c1a9baa1cb
The wonderful volunteers of this years gala have worked hard in securing some amazing items and experiences which you, the Kohimarama community, have exclusive access to.
All funds raised go to the School in support of the above project mentioned.
Please show your support. The Auction will close a week from today on Wednesday 22nd.
Live Auction:
Thank you so much to those of you who have secured your tickets for the evening. We have achieved 97 Tickets!
On the evening, there will be 8 exclusive auction items on offer. You have to secure a ticket to the gala in order to have access to these items. As well as a Raffle to be in to win a number fantastic items.
Bizzy Bodz
Community Notices
