We believe that effective communication between home and school is very important. We keep you informed through our newsletter which is sent electronically once a month as we use other means to communicate daily or weekly messages and information to you.

The newsletter will be uploaded to Hero on the first Wednesday of each month. Our website has a school calendar so you can look ahead and see what events are coming up. We have a school app that I  encourage you all to download free to your phone. It is called School Apps and you just search for it in the App Store on your smartphone. We use this app to notify you of any urgent messages. If the school has an emergency, such as a lockdown, earthquake, tornado etc we will use this app to keep you informed. This app is also used to let you know if there is a delay with buses from school trips or to remind you about mufti days or other events such as swimming.

 There may be times during the year that you wish to communicate with your child’s teacher. All teachers have a school email address (on the attached staff list), so please email the teacher to make time to speak to them. Teachers have meetings and other commitments after school and preparation to complete before school so will not always be available to talk to you if you just ‘pop in.’ 

If you have any comments, questions, or concerns about your child’s academic or social progress at school your child’s teacher is the first person you need to speak to. If you have spoken to the teacher and would then like to discuss the matter further you are invited to contact the Collaboration Leader- a list of these is included on the staff list. If you still have questions please contact Mrs. Prangley or Mrs Gregory. 

If you have questions or comments about whole school matters, they can be directed to me, rosen@oteha.school.nz, or the Board of Trustees for governance matters. We acknowledge that we don’t always get it ‘right’ so if you have a problem or issue with something please let us know straight away so we can sort it out quickly. It is also lovely to get feedback from you about things we do well. 

If we do something well please tell others but please allow us to ‘fix up’ something first by talking to the appropriate person if we get it wrong.