Newsletter - Week 4, Term 2 2026

Principal’s Update 

Kia ora Waitetuna Whaanau, it has been a very productive and special week. We celebrated Support Staff week. Our amazing team that help across all areas of our school. Our Support Staff—Jess, Lorna, Amberlee, Jennie, Amy, Jessy, Jaime, Lou, Dave, Dan, Imanueli, Liz Mac, TK and our volunteers...so many to list. We thank you all! The Tumuaki from the four schools in the rohe were invited to Poihakena Marae to welcome the surfers and their crew for the WSL. It was wonderful to be a part of this special event. 

It was great to see the students enjoying Kura Awa again this week. We will be trying Kura Awa after lunch in the subsequent visits this term. We also had a visit from Constable Tom who reminded the Juniors about Road Safety and gave our PCT Chal-lenge team a ‘Pep’ talk about the upcoming competition. 

Football tournament—with the wonderful weather we have had the team had plenty of practice and showed their tremendous football skills today. Well done to our Year 3 and 4s. 

Pink Shirt Day—there have also been some important messages this week, which are ongoing messages. This year’s Pink Shirt Day theme is about lifting each other up and creating a safe, welcoming school for everyone. Students took part in class activities about kindness and respect, and practised ways to be friendly. A reminder from our learning with Harold. We also celebrated kindness, what is kindness, sharing kind statements. 

Thanks for the support with our Teacher Only Day on Monday. We have a big day planned with an amazing Doctor of mathematics teaching, Dr Jo Knox facilitating our day. Te Mata School and Te Akau School teachers will be joining us. I hope you have a tremendous weekend. I will be watching Imanueli play rugby apoopoo (tomorrow).

Ngaa mihi Amanda 

All the Happenings

• Teacher Only Day—Mon 18th May 

• Board Meeting—19th May 

• Aramiro Paa trip—TBC 

• Ninja Valley trip for Middle Room—Mon 25th May 

• PTC challenge—Year 7 and 8 team—Thurs 28th May—depart school by 7.45am 

• Kings Birthday—Public holi-day—Mon 1st June 

• Assembly 5th June 

• Ki-o-Rahi Tournament—26th June 

• Whole school production per-formance—Evening—Wed 1st July 

• Last day of term 2-3rd July 

• First day of term 3– 20th July 

PTA News

The PTA AGM is getting closer—Mon May 25th– 7pm start 

Waitetuna Way

Well done Kain & Isla for 

Creativity 

Use your imagination to develop ideas 

Be creative with your friends socially and in play 

Think outside the square to solve problems 

Together we are growing the seeds of success 

Na too manaaki, na tooku manaaki, ka puawai mai nga kaakano