Upcoming Events Message From Anita Tēna koutou e te whānau, I want to thank you all for your mahi and support for our school over the past term.I would also like to welcome our new Board. Courtney Shipp and Danella Stewart are existing board members who got reelected. Our new board members are Ian McAdam, […]

Upcoming Events Message From Anita Kia ora ki te whānau, Thank you everyone who recently contributed to the phone consultation. It was fascinating working through the 160 caregiver responses, as well as the student and staff responses. Common themes from the community consultation are listed below. We also considered the legislation that states that students […]

Upcoming Events Message From Anita Kia ora koutou Welcome to the end of term two. Sadly, we farewell a number of staff this term.  Grace Schischka was covering Gina Harrison’s maternity leave and Andy Ellmers was covering Matt Parkes’ study leave. Matt and Gina are back next term and while it is great to have […]

Upcoming Events Message From Anita Kia ora koutou, As we near the middle of another enriching term at Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery, I want to take a moment to reflect on the incredible learning and community spirit we’ve witnessed across the school. The last two weeks have seen unprecedented numbers of staff absence, and I […]

Upcoming Events Message From Anita We are halfway through Term One and hopefully everyone has found their feet and settledinto life at Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery and are now ready to take full advantage of whatour school has to offer. Arotahi is an opportunity that our school can offer students. The translation of Arotahi is […]

Upcoming Events Message From Anita Kia ora koutou The end of the school year is always a time for reflection and celebration. We celebrate all the wonderful things that occurred in 2024, and reflect on what we can work on in 2025, so we are continually improving our school for our students. 2024 has been […]

Upcoming Events Message From Anita Kia ora koutou, This time of year is always bittersweet as we celebrate the achievements of our fabulous ākonga, while saying farewell to a number of them as they graduate from our kura. To our graduating students we wish you all the best for your future, and what a bright […]

Upcoming Events Message From Anita Kia ora koutou Thank you all for your support and contributions to term three. This has been a fabulous term which has developed an exciting theme of students taking the lead at our kura. I am so proud of our ākonga who created leadership opportunities for themselves and, in doing […]

Upcoming Events Message From Anita Kia ora e te whānau  Every week in our staff newsletter we include a whakatauki to support our understanding of Te ao Māori and tikanga Māori. The whakatauki that we have included over the last couple of weeks is exemplified by the wonderful contributions of our hapori (wider community) to […]

Upcoming Events Message From Anita Kia ora koutou Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the term, the kaimahi (staff), tauira (students), whānau and hapori (community). It has been a great term with the students taking advantage of fantastic opportunities as evidenced in the newsletter. The term ended on a high with our fabulous […]

Upcoming Events Message From Anita Kia ora koutou Welcome to our mid-term pānui 2024 We are in the midst of enrolments for 2025, so we have been thinking about the choice that families make to travel beyond their local school to join our community. The founding Director, Steven Mustor wrote: ‘My challenge to you as […]

Upcoming Events Message From Niki Kia ora e te whānau o Ao Tawhiti Many, many thanks for your support while I have been Acting Director this term.  It has been a fast, busy term, and I have learnt a lot. I understand Anita’s role so much better now, and am looking forward to supporting her […]

Upcoming Events Message From Niki Kia ora e te whānau, Wishing you all a warm welcome to this mid-term newsletter. Firstly from me, a huge thank you to everyone for making me feel so welcome as I sit in Anita’s chair while she has a break. She has spent some time in Europe and will […]

Upcoming Events The Mihi Whakatau is the welcoming of new students into our school. This will occur in the morning of Monday the 5th of February. New students in Year 7-13 will then spend the rest of the morning on the 5th in their Homebase and communities. All other Year 7-13 students will then join Homebase […]

Upcoming Events Message From Anita Kia ora koutou I have had a valuable reminder this term of how fabulous Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery is, and what a privilege it is to work at this kura. I appreciate the kind words and support from staff, students and the wider community as the senior leadership team, myself […]

Upcoming Events Message From Anita Welcome to the end of term three. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the term, the kaimahi (staff), tauira (students), whānau and hapori (community). It has been a great term. Alexandra K. Trenfor wrote, ‘The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don’t tell […]

Upcoming Events Message From Anita Kia ora koutou ki te whānau Dame Whina Cooper said, ‘Take care of our children. Take care of what they hear, take care of what they see, take care of what they feel. For how the children grow, so will be the shape of Aotearoa’. I love this quote and […]

Upcoming Events Message From Anita Kia ora koutou Welcome everyone to the second half of term two and the transition to learning in the Winter months. Thank you all for your support over the beginning of the term with Strike Action, IEMs, Public Holidays and Staff Only Days making for a bumpy start to our […]

Upcoming Events Message From Anita Kia ora e te whānau Thank you all for your support over term one. It has been a busy term, but as evidenced by the great material in the newsletter, it has also been a great term. We have a staffing update. Megan Taylor is on study leave for the […]