Dear parents, caregivers, students and friends of the school. Tena koutou katoa. Ngā mihi nui kia koutou katoa

Tēnā tātou e te kura. ‘Tiro ake. Pikia. Ko te ara poutama ki angitū. ‘Gaze upward. Ascend it. It is the stairway to success.’

Attached is information on the way our students academic progress is measured.

As you may all be aware, the school acknowledges students' successes by awarding badges at assembly and the criteria is published on our school website. The school has awards to recognise students' achievement. The awards are presented as depicted below.

This year the school has partnered with Linewize to provide the world’s most comprehensive suite of child cyber safety and wellbeing solutions.

We would like to remind parents and caregivers that chromebooks are the only type of device able to be brought into our school for learning.

The NZEI teachers union will be holding a paid union meeting for all NZEI members on 21st March 2024 from 9.30 am to 11.00 am. This will be held in our school hall.

This year we will once again be hosting a Mandarin Language Assistant at our school.

Last Thursday and Friday, 12 keen young cricketers from Ōtūmoetai Intermediate competed in the inaugural Kane Williamson Cup T20 Tournament down at Fergusson Park. There was some great cricket played by all the teams involved and some very tight results.

Ayla Radley competed in the 2023/2024 Lead Climbing Nationals in Hamilton recently and walked away with the gold medal!

Lucy and Evelyn, Year 7 students, wanted to make a business to earn money for their crafts. They thought gardening would be a good idea but weren’t sure they could do it.

Malina Binns recently 'worked' a stall for the Tauranga Museum at the Children's Day Festival.

Ōtūmoetai Intermediate School is continuing to develop a club that offers alternative activities to do at lunchtime

We urge all parents to actively view what their child is doing on Instagram and/or TikTok.

$4 Pitas available on Friday 22nd March 2024!

Below is some useful information about our school, eg bus psses, visitors to the school, etc.

Thanks to these businesses for sponsoring our Skool Loop app.