Your tamariki know which house group they are connected with (Awa, Kainga, Maunga, or Waka), or you can speak with the classroom kaiako. We are organising an events calendar that will see the ākonga interact and participate with/within their house group. At these events, ākonga will be required to wear their house group T-shirts. These can also be worn during P.E activities and on Mondays.

The T-shirts are available to purchase via Kindo. We encourage you before you purchase to come in and try the samples that we have available so that your child can wear them for many years to come. The cost of the T-shirts is $25.00.

However, if your child does need to bring a mobile phone, or other digital device for a family reason, it must be handed in to their classroom teacher upon arrival at school (before 8.50am) for safekeeping. The device will then be available for collection after 3.00pm. Your child is not allowed to use their phone on the school grounds unsupervised. 

Cybersafety agreements will be issued to all students this term. Parents will also be provided with cybersafety information.

We ask parents/caregivers to carefully monitor their children’s use of social media, email and messaging accounts. Unfortunately, we have had to deal with some irresponsible and disrespectful use of digital devices in the past which has occurred outside of school hours. This behaviour has a negative effect on student relationships and interferes with our learning programmes. We appreciate your vigilance and support with this issue.