Monday 25 March

Kia ora koutou,

Another fantastic fortnight at Kōrakonui School has flown by! It is lovely to see our students happy, busy and loving the awesome opportunities our kura provides! The highlights for this fortnight include Lower Waipa Swimming Sports and our school gala.

A huge thank you to all parents for their support at the Lower Waipa Swimming Sports and to Miss Powell for her amazing organisation! We had a really competitive team swimming at the Te Awamutu Events Centre and achieved some outstanding results! The encouragement and enthusiasm from our whānau truly made a difference. Congratulations to all the students who participated; your dedication and sportsmanship were commendable and it was awesome to see you so enthusiastically representing Kōrakonui School.

A big thank you to everyone for making our school gala a resounding success! It was fantastic to witness the wider community coming together for a night of fun and fundraising. Your support ensured a successful event that raised valuable funds to subsidise our school trips and camps, ensuring our school can continue to provide enriching experiences for our students.

As we approach the Easter break, please note that students will be off from this Friday until Wednesday, April 3rd. We hope everyone enjoys a restful and joyful Easter holiday with their loved ones.

Looking ahead to the rest of the term, we have more exciting events lined up! Our school will be competing at the Fred Amess Football Tournament on Friday, April 5th, followed by our eagerly anticipated Colour Run on Thursday, April 11th. 

We have had a huge number of students put themselves forward to take part in the Fred Amess Cup, which is fantastic to see! With the number of teams we’re planning to field, we are still in need of further support, needing more parents to coach or manage a team and also to provide transport. If you’re able to help, please contact us.

The Colour Run is our major fundraiser for the year, with all profits going towards subsidising class camps and trips across the school. We kindly urge everyone to generously support this event, ensuring that all our students can benefit from enriching experiences beyond the classroom.

Thank you to everyone for your continued support and involvement in our school community. Kōrakonui really is a special part of the world and our school and students really benefit from the amazing support our community provides. 

Ngā mihi nui,

Tom Cochrane
Principal
principal@korakonui.school.nz

Thank you for the fantastic response to our upcoming parent interviews.  The vast majority of our students now have interviews booked which is really pleasing to see. This is a great opportunity and we’re so happy to see whānau making the most of this event! For those who have not yet made a booking - bookings close at 11am tomorrow morning. Please book in via the Hero App, or contact the office. If you are unable to make a suitable booking, please contact your child’s classroom teacher to book an alternative time.

With all of our classroom teachers involved in parent interviews, we are only able to provide limited supervision for the afternoon. We would greatly appreciate it if whānau are able to collect their children before 1pm on the day. 

Thank you to those who helped build up our house token stocks - we are still seeking green bottle tops please - red and blue are now plentiful. Thank you for dropping these off to the office.

Bus Monitors Award
Beau Leigh for outstanding behaviour on the bus and always being nice to others.
Students Leaders Award
Not presented.
Wise Cup (Lethbridge Class)
Maiden Palaganas has made outstanding progress with her swimming this term, and always gives her best effort. This has seen her transition from practicing widths with a flutter board at the start of the term, to being a frontrunner in our length races for the pool sinkies!

Class Awards
Te Kawa
Saffron Lester for making a great effort and learning your letters and sounds.
Thea Cotton-Hirama for her respect and enthusiasm and learning some of her letters.
Mangatutu 
Milah Munce for your positive attitude towards everything you do. You always give everything 110%. You are gaining in confidence with both your reading and maths and it is great to see you sharing your ideas with others. Keep up the awesome work Milah!
Simon de Vries for your fantastic work in writing.  It has been a pleasure to hear all of your interesting ideas in writing. You have a great positive attitude towards sounding out and writing unknown words independently. Keep up the fantastic work Simon!
Ngahape
Mila Cathro for being a great self manager. Mila can be relied upon to carry out any task that is asked of her and always finishes her work to a high standard.
Maia Jonck for excellent effort and progress with writing. Maia has been editing her work to make sure she is using interesting verbs and adjectives to make it more interesting to her reader.
Lethbridge
Nicola Ravenscroft for Excellence in Writing! Nicola has been trying very hard in our class Quickwrite, and achieved excellent results.
Treyzahrn Jackson for being a great self-managing helper. Treyzahrn is always helping out with jobs around the class and school without being asked. He takes initiative to clean up and organises other students to help with this.
Mangawhio
Hayden Williams for showing excellence with independent learning tasks and for always being willing to help others too.
Marie Wing for being a powerful thinker by taking on challenges with your writing.
Wharepūhunga
Jaxon Cathro for demonstrating a growth in conflict resolution and maturity inside and outside the classroom.
Kendall Debique for always working hard in everything she does. This week Kendall has worked hard at developing different strategies when working out double digit multiplication
Bayley
Max Watkinson for showing our school values in all parts of school life. Max optimises our school motto of Learning for Life, He matauranga mō te ora.
Stan Wing for subtly, and gently being a very kind, empathic, reasonable person to those around you that need it.