Kohimarama School News - 29th October 2025
School News
A Message from Hillary Team
The Beat Station
The Beat Station is a music programme designed for schools by Adam McLean.
Over the past 3 weeks, students in Hillary Team have been fortunate enough to have The Beat Station in their classrooms, exploring a range of musical instruments and playing songs.
The instruments include: ukuleles, tambourines, egg shakers, drums, and sticks.
Learning for The Beat Station is broken down into four steps:
- Step 1 - Beat
- Step 2 - Percussion
- Step 3 - Ukulele (Chords)
- Step 4 - Playing Along
Students created their own band names and logos and had an absolute blast playing along!
The Beat Station experience concluded with a concert by Adam and his son.
Thanks Adam for an amazing experience!
Hillary Team Students
The Kohimarama Way - Honest/Matatika
The signs that we are being successfully honest are: saying what we mean and meaning what we say, making promises we can keep, admitting our mistakes, refusing to lie, cheat, or steal, telling the truth tactfully and are true to ourselves and do what we know is right.
Litex Competition
Our Kohimarama Teams were amazing at Litex. A brand new competition this year....
All 4 official Kohimarama teams (and our 2 reserve teams) scored in the top 25% of schools.
It was a great day out, putting our knowledge of Literature to the test. The Kohimarama children made us very proud!
Congratulations to our teams
- Year 5: Poppy, Sabine, Pierre, Henry and Estēe
- Year 6: Lilian, Oliver, Carlos, Casey and Naomi
- Year 7: Dash, Jian, Tyrus, Emily and Oliver
- Year 8: Rachel, Khoi, Leo, Abigail J and Abigail L
Library news
New Zealand author James Russell came to visit our library, which was a huge success with students and parents alike. He sold 100 books here, so we now have a lot of enthusiastic readers immersed in the Dragon Defenders and Children of the Rush books (both series recommended for years 4-7 and great for reluctant readers). He has a picture book series about boys and dragons for years 0-4, too. A big thanks to Mrs Wilson for organising this.
If you missed out on getting a book while James was at Kohimarama School, you can visit his website dragonbrothersbooks.com to order any of his books. He also runs a book club for readers aged 8-12 that you can sign up to on his website.
Librarian Ethan chose the first book of the series ‘Children of the Rush’ by James Russell. It’s an adventure story set in the times of the gold rush in New Zealand, a great read for both boys and girls.
Come and find James’ books in the library! Next week - week 5 - will be the last week for students to issue books from the school library. In week 6 and 7 we will ask for all books back please, so that we can complete our annual library stocktake.
Certificates & Awards
Congratulations to these outstanding students:
- Room 1 – Wilbur D, Lily H
- Room 2 – Yara D, Jed V, Elsie G, Elliott C
- Room 3 – Evie D, Lily T, Max M
- Room 4– Ariana K
- Room 5 – Ernie W
- Room 6 – N/A
- Room 7 – Cullen L
- Room 8 – Oscar T, Alexia R, Haein K
- Room 9 – Stella K, Aryan D
- Room 10 – Alice Z, Haley F
- Room 16 – Bella M
- Room 11 – Ryo T
- Room 12 – Kuba S, Leo M
- Room 13 – Ella A, Tommy G
- Room 14 – Beatrice LDS, Kiera G
- Room 15 – Eva B, Ryder T
- Room 17 – Monica D, Oliver
- Room 18 – Julian L
- Room 19 – Naomi C
- Room 20 – Max H, Sophie G
- Room 21 – Thomas O, Joshua O, Jamie C, Fletcher D
- Room 22 – Spencer K, Grayson G, Noah F
- Room 23 – Anjay H, Sascha T, Leo Z
Caught Being Good - "Greenies"
Congratulations to all our students who have been caught doing the right thing, especially in this wet and windy weather we have been experiencing.
- Chico LS 2 for Reliability Atkin
- Sophie LS 16 for Commitment Patteson
- Isabella LS 16 for Commitment Selwyn
PTA News
GALA
All AUCTIONS are Closed!
Our Silent Auction closed last Friday at 9pm leaving only 8 items unsold. With quick action and foresight from Lisa who lead Auction section of the event, she managed to offer any remaining items with a BUY NOW price tag.
65 silent items and 8 live auction items sold. With 4 vouchers remaining. We will run a raffle at Christmas for these.
The live Auction and Raffle on the night at Akarana raised $20,000 and the Silent raised $17,017.
This is a fantastic result for the school. Along with the sponsorship received from The TOOTH Company and Woodsmith Building Co, The 2025 GALA raised = $43,017
Thank you to all who took part and made this such a successful event.
If you attended the Gala and didn’t get your goodie bag, please go to the office by Friday this week. Any remaining will be included in our raffle at the end of the year.
Looking ahead …..
Looking ahead at Term 4, We are looking for someone to run an end of year get together. This could be a Sunday afternoon on the top field and a BYO Picnic. Due to the building works in Learning spaces 9 & 10 we have opted to NOT run the Colour Run at the end of the year this year. We may be able to bring it back next year.
Yummy Stickers WINNER …
The Winner of our TERM 3 Yummy Stickers incentive is…… Thomas in LS21.
Pop to the office on Thursday to pick up your very well-earned Chocolate Bar!
Just a reminder.. An apple a day, keeps the doctor away .. and gets new sports gear for your school! Forms can be picked up from the office.
