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WHOLE SCHOOL SWIMMING ON FRIDAY AFTERNOONS
One of the joys of being in a small school, apart from being able to fit on one big bus to travel anywhere, is being able to have the whole school enjoy time in the swimming pool together. Tuakana teina at its best – big kids helping and having fun with little kids. We timetable this because we do not have time for each class to have a swimmi...
NEW KAPA HAKA UNIFORMS
With funding from NZCT and the Kate Valley Landfill Community Trust, we have managed to get Kapa Haka uniforms for our children to wear to give them pride and unity when performing. The girls have these navy blue dresses with our school emblem on the front and the boys will wear navy blue shorts. All children will wear the specially made piupiu sho...
YEAR EIGHT BIG DAY OUT 2020
Country comes to town! Never miss an opportunity – the Year 8 children riding up and down the escalator in the Hornby Mall, where we lunched on ...
DRESS UP DAY TO RAISE FUNDS FOR HURUNUI FOODBANKS
Last week, our School Council organised to have an S Dress Up Day to raise funds for the Hurunui Foodbanks under the Toot for Tucker campaign. Our sch...
HIDDEN HURUNUI DAY
Our Enviro Leaders accompanied by Alison Willis headed to Pariroa / Gore Bay to hear about the history of the area, the significance to Maori and to l...
SMALL SCHOOLS' ATHLETICS ACTION
Last week, on what turned out to be a beautiful day, after a postponement of the event the day before, Broomfield, Omihi and Waipara Schools hit the a...
WAIPARA SCHOOL GETS FIREWISE
During the last week of the term, Waipara School children brushed up on their Fire Safety knowledge by spending the morning immersed in learning about...
CAR BOOT SALE SUCCESS
The Waipara School grounds hummed to the sound of excited browsers as the first Car Boot Sale exploded into action. Up for grabs was anything from pup...