Kohimarama School News - 6th November 2024

School News

A Message from Snell Team

It was 11 o'clock, Monday the 21st October, when the Year 7 and 8 Hub arrived at Camp Adair for a week jam packed with fun and adventures. From the High Swing to the Mud Slide, there was a new challenge for everybody. Fourteen exciting activities pushed each and every person out of their comfort zone. We started out small, with Orienteering and Team Challenges to give us a taste of what was to come. Little did we know, we would soon be doing activities like the Leap of Faith and the High Swing. 

Each day we awoke to the sound of a whistle. Dawn to dusk we were covered in dust, mud or water, while we ran around having a blast. Some faced fears of heights, others learnt skills of how to survive in the New Zealand bush, but everybody left the camp ground with the same thing: trust in their peers. After just 5 days with each other, we had built on and become one big “happy” family.

The Friday we returned to school we were met with big smiles and even larger hugs from loved ones. It had been a long and exhausting week but by the end of it, everybody had gained something. Whether it be that they overcame a fear or simply grew trust in their friends. Either way, camp was an extraordinary experience we won’t soon forget. A big thank you to the parent helpers and teachers for making such an amazing week possible. 

Lily C, Charlie B and Rachel C

The Kohimarama Way - Commitment (Manawanui)

Teacher Only Day (TOD) 15th November

Celebrating the Arts Evening - Monday 25th November @ 6.45 pm

We are celebrating our musical groups on this fabulous evening, we will have our two bands, rock band, senior choir and kapa haka performing and showing us their talents.  You are all welcome to attend in our school hall, it will be a 6.45 pm start.

Walking School Bus

Our Walking School Bus restarted on Monday, a big thank you to Nikki Badger and Janelle McCarroll!

Student Fundraiser - Make a Wish Charity

Thank you to all of you who participated on Friday to make some very ill children's wishes come true.  As usual our students and parents committed to the day and the students came dressed in mufti with others dressed as they wish they can be when they grow up - great variety.  These four student fundraisers throughout the year have raised around $3,200 and the charities that the Student Leaders chose for 2024 are very grateful for Kohimarama School's contributions - you rock!!

Mitey - Teachers Only Day

Last week during Teacher’s Only Day the Staff worked with the team from Mitey - which is a mental health education programme developed by the Sir John Kirwan Foundation. We are delighted to partner with Mitey in order to support the mental health and wellbeing of all our students. Our work with them will get fully underway in 2025.

The Sir John Kirwan Foundation has designed Mitey with NZ teachers and the University of Auckland to provide an evidence-based approach to teaching mental health education to primary and intermediate aged children.

It is built around the NZ curriculum and embedded into everyday learning, to ensure children are equipped with the age-appropriate skills and knowledge they need to recognise and respond to mental health issues in both themselves and others before they enter teenage years.

Mitey has successfully implemented its approach to schools in Auckland and we are excited to be included.

The following link will take you to Mitey’s homepage www.mitey.org.nz

Road Patrol Training for Year 5 students

Constable Gordon and I will be training Year 5 students who wish to be road patrollers in 2025 on Monday 18th November.  All Year 5 students were given an orange permission form to fill in, please make sure these are back in the school office no later than Friday 8th November - this week.  Spare forms are in the office if your child has misplaced theirs.

Miss Hill

Athletics Day

Our final major school sporting event for 2024, Athletics Day, is scheduled to take place at Glover Park on Monday November 11.  Hopefully you can join us. This event is for Years 4 -8.

A plan of the day is attached-please note these times are approximate.

Bake Sale Fundraising

Last week, a group of year three tamariki (Eme, Millie,Finn and Ryder) came home from Kohimarama School with a great idea: they wanted to hold a bake sale and raise money for Starship. Over the next few days at school, they got busy planning, making a menu and signs for their stall.
Thankfully, the weather was on their side, and their wonderful idea came to fruition. They held their bake stall, with the help of their younger siblings, at Madills Farm on Sunday afternoon, raising a whopping $120 for Starship!
Well done to these amazing students.

Certificates & Awards

Congratulations to these outstanding students:

• Room 1 – N/A
• Room 2 – Kylie V, Zippy M
• Room 3 – N/A
• Room 4– Cooper S, Summer H
• Room 5– Arnie A, Nova T, Anna O
• Room 7 – Maddie W
• Room 6 – Sebastian V, Shanaya R
• Room 8 – Jordan W, Jasmine O
• Room 16 – Luke W, Eva B, Frankie GC
• Room 17 – Aiden K, Arisha F, Abigail P
• Room 25 – Orban D, Jake W, Giana C, William X
• Room 26 – Isaac M, Finnegan D, Ozzie W
• Room 11 – Rian S, Estée V
• Room 12 – Lucy B, Jun S
• Room 13 – Linsey L, Tommy W
• Room 14 – Dasha K, Garrison G, Irene T
• Room 15 – Emma S
• Room 18 – Emma S, Eva T, Hobson R
• Room 19 – Leo Z, Stefan M
• Room 20 – Leo R, Imogen P
• Room 21 – Isabella H, Asher P, Alexa J
• Room 22 – Johan G, Joshua C
• Room 23 – Kobie C, Leo M, Isaac W

The Kohimarama Way Values - "Greenies"

Congratulations to our following Greenie winners for the fortnight, you were caught doing the right thing in the playground, thank you:

• Aryan        Rm 3          for Commitment       Patteson
• Ben            Rm 4          for Reliability              Patteson
• Asher        Rm 25        for Respect                   Atkin
• Arthur      Rm 19        for Respect                   Patteson
• Carl           Rm 21         for Reliability              Patteson
• Tayla        Rm 23        for  Reliability              Atkin

Road Patrollers of the fortnight

Thank you to all our Road Patrollers who continue to keep us safe as we cross the roads on the pedestrian crossings.  You have a big responsibility and we appreciate your reliability in turning up day in and day out.  Our award goes to Allie and Victoria - thank you.

Policies and Procedures

To see the Student attendance Policy, follow the link below;

PTA News

Working Bee

Lets come together on Sunday 24th November and tidy up our beautiful school grounds.  A list of jobs will be sent out through your class coordinators in due course. Please pop your name against any job that interests you. We will gather for a BYO picnic on the field at the end of the day to celebrate our hard work! 

“If you are able to join us at the Working Bee, please send an email to kohiptachair@gmail.com with number of people pitching in to help us with planning.”

Colour Splash

Sunday 8th December - We will be holding a “Family Colour Splash”. Details surrounding the event will be communicated closer to the time but if you are keen to manage the BBQ or splash paint powder at those partaking, please join our WhatsApp group by scanning this QR code.

If you have any questions regarding anything you have read, please feel free to reach out to your class coordinator or directly to the PTA on kohiptachair@gmail.com.