Cross Country on Monday

Our school cross country is on Monday 6th May. The Year 3 race will start at approximately 2:15pm and the Year 4 race will start at approximately 2:20pm. The children will need to wear appropriate footwear and are welcome to wear their house shirts on Monday.

Here is the map of the route that the Year 3 and 4 students will take:


The route is as follows:
  1. Start at the cricket pavilion facing school
  2. Run towards school
  3. Turn right to run parallel alongside school
  4. Turn right to run away from school and in front of the tennis courts
  5. Turn right to run along the back fence behind the row of trees.
  6. Turn right to join the gravel path that runs in front of the cricket pavilion. 
  7. Stay on the gravel path and follow it along the ponds and back up to the school for a second lap of the park.
  8. Turn right and run behind the tennis courts.
  9. Turn right to run along the back fence behind the row of trees.
  10. Turn right to join the gravel path that runs in front of the cricket pavilion. 
  11. Turn right, guided by the cones into the finishing shoot.

Passions on Thursday

This week, the Pōhutukawa Team's passion learning session will be held on Thursday instead of Friday. If your child needs to bring anything special for their passion learning project (e.g. Lego or other toys), please remind them to bring it to school on Thursday.

Important Forms for Living Springs Camp 13 – 15 November

Hopefully your child brought home the three different notices relating to camp that we gave out on Friday. One notice is an information and gear list for you to keep. The second notice is a Health Profile and Medical Consent form. This is to be filled in and returned to school on Monday. This information is essential for us to plan and prepare in advance, to ensure that we are aware of medical backgrounds and history, just in case! The third form is a Medical Authority form. This is to be filled out if your child is bringing any type of medication to camp. The filled form, along with the medication, should be put into a zip lock bag or ice cream container and handed to Katie on the day we leave for camp (Tuesday 13 November).

We have attached the all of the notices and forms here, in the event that your little poppet misplaced them and they didn't quite make it home!

If you have any queries regarding camp, please contact one of us.




Pohutukawa Trip Cancelled

Dear Parents/Caregivers

We have unfortunately had to cancel our trip to Spencer Park due to unforeseen circumstances. Many thanks to the parents that offered to help.

We have instead organised a fun day of activities to be held on Tuesday, 12 December. On this day we will be running a lot of different activities including slip and slides, friendly water fights, crafts and games.

On this day, the children will need to bring:
  • their togs, a towel, a waterproof bag and a water pistol (or a clean water bottle for squirting) for the "water fun" activities.
  • board games, crafts, gaming devices or similar items for the "crafts and games" time.
We may also repeat some of these activities later in the week, depending on the weather. We will let you know if this is the case.