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 […]

Kia ora new students and families, We look forward to your arrival in 2022. The best ways to hear from us are: SchoolApps, where we publish any urgent or official messages.Our website, where we publish information such as the newsletter.Email, where official information will be sent, as well as any communications from individual staff.Information is […]

Kia ora students and whānau, Please click this link to see the Homebase placements for 2022. This is an enormous jigsaw puzzle to find the right place for each student and an inordinate amount of care and energy has gone into considering the learning passions, needs, pastoral relationships and friendships of each student to find the best place […]

It is that time of year again! Last year we wrapped gifts for customers at South City Mall for a gold coin donation and made around $1500 for school. That money has been used towards resources for 4.2 and structured literacy. The managers at South City were so impressed with how we ran it last […]

URGENT! Exam students, please read Hi all,If you have NCEA exams next week, please be prepared for bus delays. There is an upcoming shortage of drivers. They will therefore be running the Saturday bus timetable. It might pay to make alternative arrangements to get to school. General traffic is likely to be heavier as a result too. […]

Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery proudly presents our 2021 Junior Productions. This year we have three short shows. Due to the recent government mandated changes in the Covid Management moving to the Traffic Light System which set the South Island as Orange, we have been forced to change the performance venue and dates for the Junior […]