It’ll only take five minutes… we’ve already done the hard work for you. Your child’s class list is loaded and ready to go. Just jump on to myschool.co.nz, enter ‘Kaharoa School’ and view the requirement list for your child’s year group. Check that you want everything on the list, then click and confirm. Your order will be delivered straight to your home. Payment can be made now or in instalments. We strongly recommend to not leave it until just before the start of term 1, as delivery times could be longer!

This year Room Kowhai made ruru boxes to help protect and house our native owl from predators. We would like to thank the Batchelor family for their kind donation of timber to build these and also Mr Alex Hartley for helping the students in Room Kowhai build them.

A big THANK YOU to Bunnings Rotorua for their donation of 50 bags of potting mix! This will be used to fill our vegetable gardens.

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Annette from St Johns visited school this week. She dropped into each class and ran an age-based first aid session. Here is a note and some photos from Room Matai about their visit from Annette.

Please find below the latest newsletter from our PTA including details of their upcoming fundraising initiatives and how you can help! Find the 11 November 2021, newsletter here:

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KKT’s have shared their latest newsletter with us which will bring you up to date on some of their activities: It has been a busy year with some significant changes and improvements to our infrastructure and other less obvious changes (like this newsletter format).

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Did you love taking part in our school athletics this year? Fancy yourself as the next Dame Val or Nick Willis? Or maybe you would like to practice your sporting skills and just want to have fun and be active? Did you know that Sonny Bill Williams, Portia Woodman and Rieko Ioane all did athletics when they were at school? The skills you learn in athletics are the perfect foundation for almost any sport.

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Orange Swim School and UAS/Te Arawa Swimming Term 4 bookings are open now for lessons. Join our friendly and professional team for Water Safety and Learn to Swim sessions with Orange Swim School or sessions with UAS/Te Arawa Swimming for advanced swimming, fitness and more.

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Welcome School Community, Please find below copies of correspondence regarding the current lockdown. Further updates will be posted here as they are available. Latest update Tuesday, 7 September.

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Please find below the latest information from the Kaharoa Kokako Trust about their pest control programme in the area. If you use the Kaharoa Conservation Area, please make sure you read the safety precautions.

File Download: Kaharoa_Kokako_Trust_Pest_Control_2021.pdf

In today’s world, it’s essential for young people to learn how to create technology not just consume it. Coding NZ’s lessons empower students (9-18 years of age) with the tools they need and help give students the best chance at being successful in our increasingly digital age. Extend your child’s awareness and horizons. Free trial lessons available now at codingnz.com/signup.

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Last Thursday, Room Rata spent the day at the Classic Flyers Aviation Museum in Mount Maunganui. It was an awesome experience and allowed the children to see real life and replica planes that we have learnt about whilst studying Jean Batten. We had rides on a vintage fire engine, walked through a World War 2 Catalina and sat in the pilot seat of a Victa Airtourer T-3A! If you’re ever in Mount Maunganui with some spare time, check it out!

Room Miro has been offered a wonderful opportunity to take part in some volunteer work to monitor and reduce numbers of Catfish in our lakes.

Congratulations to all our competitors on your wonderful achievement and we hope you enjoyed participating in the competition! Special mention to Rome Beazley who came 1st in the 9 year old boys, fantastic job Rome! If you would like to see him cross the line in first place, please see our Facebook page for the video. See below for some photos of our competitors.

Our Community Oral Health Service will be visiting school next week to provide flouride treatment to those children who are enrolled and whose parents/caregivers have indicated their consent. Recent communications from the service has advised that they are going through a challenging time with an increase in patients needing to be seen following the COVID lockdown. This situation will result in delays in visits to some schools in the area however, all schools will be visited. If your child needs attention at any time, an appointment can be requested at any of the fixed or mobile clinics that best suit you by phoning 0800 525 378, text 027 578 0275 or email teeth@lakesdhb.govt.nz.