Thank you to all those who brought their pets along for Ag Day.  We were so impressed with the variety of pets we have in our school community.  There was a royal fish, a blue-tongued lizard, turtles, guinea pigs, budgies, cockatiels, rats, a hen, and a freshwater snail. Wow!!!

Your pets were all beautifully cared for and the information books you provided about your pets were super informative.  You all are wonderful pet owners and your pets are super lucky to live with you.

We can not wait to see all the pets again at next year's Ag Day!

Te Puna School held a fantastic Ag Day on Friday 21st October.

One of the wonderful things about being a rural school is that we have generation after generation of local families taking part in the day by bringing their animals and creating traditional Ag Day items. Children came to school laden with plates of pikelets, sweet samplers, bird feeders, decorated gumboots and all manner of creative items as exhibits and competition entries.

Each year classes create new exhibits with an animal or nature theme for display. (eg. nature crowns, bee creations, pressed flower windows) The creativity shown by the children is incredible and each year we are so impressed.

After covid guidelines restricted whanau from coming on site last year it was great to see so many parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles here supporting their children.

Honour our Heritage / Ō tātou taonga - is one of our school values and our traditional ‘Ag Day’ is one of the ways that celebrate our rural heritage here in Te Puna - and it is great to see an increase in our lamb entries this year!

Thank you to all who supported the day by encouraging, assisting or attending.