The health and wellbeing of our children, staff and community is a top priority.  We’re sending this letter as there is a confirmed case of COVID-19 in our community.  The staff member was last at Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery on March 1, 2022. The staff member wasn’t symptomatic until last night. This morning they went […]

The health and wellbeing of our children, staff and community is a top priority.  We’re sending this letter as there is a confirmed case of COVID-19 in our community.  The student was last at Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery on February 23rd, 2022. We are no longer required to contact trace under Phase 3.  The student […]

Kia ora koutou I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend.  At present our school hasn’t been informed of any confirmed COVID cases at Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery. Under Phase Three we are no longer being contacted by the Public Health Unit or Ministry of Education. Instead we are reliant on families contacting us directly […]

Kia ora koutou At the moment we have no confirmed cases in our school.  The government announced today that New Zealand is moving into Phase 3 of the Omicron response. With Phase 3 of the Omicron response, the key change is that it is only confirmed cases and their household contacts who need to self-isolate. […]

13 February, 2022 Kia ora koutou I hope everyone is staying warm and dry in this wet weather.  Huge Welcome to our new Sports’ Coordinator – Megan Gould. She is already planning a number of sports’ events for lunchtime and internal competitions as external sport is limited due to the traffic light guidelines.  Thank you […]

We need hapori selection forms completed by Monday! HERE’S THE LINK TO THE FORM We have some great learning experiences on offer through the Friday hapori again this year. Hapori is a space for passion- and project-based learning, where the emphasis is on 21st century skills and competencies, and on developing the capacities for self-directed […]

7 February, 2022 Kia ora koutou We are really excited about seeing all our tauira (students) back on site tomorrow.  I wanted to take this opportunity to update you on how we will be working together under Phase One of the Red Traffic Light system.  Firstly, we have students on site who have life-threatening allergies […]

Kia Ora, Last year our Board passed a policy-making our Kura a cashless school. This means that all payments will need to be made by EFTPOS or deposited into our school account. The receiving and receipting of cash by the school will be limited to the following situations. The school’s cafe and fundraising through the […]

Kia ora whānau. Course descriptors for Term 1 have now been published and you can see them here. Please have a read through the descriptors and come to your IEMs with your preferred courses chosen. Courses are pitched at curriculum levels. As a rough guide, this means that Level 3 and 4 courses are mostly […]

30 January, 2022 Kia ora koutou I hope everyone is enjoying the last few days of the school holidays.  We will publish the colour block courses and timetable tomorrow afternoon so students Year 7 and above can choose courses for term one. Please do this before IEMs. We will let you know via social media […]

Kia ora whānau My community will be selling Ao Tawhiti face masks during IEM days next week. Please find them at reception and pay via eftpos with accounts. All money raised goes towards resources for our community. Nga mihi Sarah Marshall,

Here is a document with lots of information about who is who and where you can find them, plus some explanation of our many abbreviations and special ways. Please get in touch with our director Anita – director@aotawhiti.school.nz, or Deputy Directors Niki – niki.stephenson@aotawhiti.school.nz, or Megan – megan.taylor@aotawhiti.school.nz if you have any queries.

January 25, 2022 Kia ora koutou As you will be aware the government has announced Aotearoa New Zealand’s shift to the red traffic light setting as a means of slowing the spread of Omicron. Under the red traffic light setting schools and Kura remain open for students, however, there are increased public health guidelines to […]

Here is a link to some beginning of year information from Anita. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JS-qMc5pNv1O-qiCJCMVKJeo9DckTJM7_P2CZ3N5Ito/edit?usp=sharing See you all soon.

We would love to invite you along to a working bee this weekend to help get our amazing building in tip-top shape for the new school year. We realise that getting into school during term time can be challenging for many. This is a great opportunity to live out our special character, meet new people […]

Hari tau hou koutou! The first IEMS (Individual Education Meetings) for the year take place on Tuesday 1st and Wednesday 2nd of February. The IEM is the most important element of a student’s Learning Journey and it is vital that you book one. For our IEM booking process we are continuing to use the “School […]

Today Dom, Roisin and Kirsty headed down to the City Mission to donate the gifts our community came together to donate to the Mission in their busiest time of the year. Thank you to everyone who has donated gifts under our school Christmas tree. It is so greatly appreciated by the Mission. It was so great […]

Kia ora e te whānau, we are delighted to welcome Jess Finnigan as the LA who will teach in Suze’s HB while she is on leave for 2022. Jess has a wealth of experience in and out of teaching, and we are really looking forward to her being part of the team. We are also […]