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The Southernmost school in the North Island, Pirinoa School is located in the South Wairarapa; 20 minutes south of Martinborough and 10 minutes north of Lake Ferry.
We are a small school, with 52 students, 3 classrooms and an amazing outdoor area where we enjoy climbing trees, making huts and playing heaps of different sports games. We pick fruit from our orchard when it’s the right season and love planting new vegetables in our veggie gardens.
We love heading off on adventures, whether this is inside our school grounds or out in the big wide world. We visit our awesome coastline every year and love to go on bush walks or into Wellington to see what we can visit there. We make the most of our time outside of school and appreciate our amazing parents who come along on these adventures with us.
Stay up-to-date with all of our adventures and news by following our Instagram or Facebook page.
If you would like to know more about us or would like to stop in and have a look around, please feel free to contact us.
To develop young people who will be passionate about learning, superb managers of self, respectful, skilled communicators, inquiring learners, deep thinkers, and confident about the future.
We have a learning centred approach, we value but challenge students’ point of view, we pose problems to stimulate thinking, we understand that students learn differently and require quality feedback, we value relationships, we understand the importance of students acquiring knowledge and putting that knowledge into meaningful contexts.
18 May 2026
25 May 2026
Just a quick reminder that we have our first trip this Thursday to Lake Domain Reserve for the White Bait Connection Programme!
When: Thursday 21st May
Where: Lake Domain at the top of Lake Wairarapa.
Leaving School: 9.30am
Returning: 1pm-ish
Please make sure your child brings:
See the TWO attachments on whats on this week and whats coming up.
A big week coming up!
Monday:
Please ensure all students are at school by 8:45am to catch the bus into Booktown.
Thursday – Cross Country:
Please let Emma know if you plan on taking your child to cross country.
There are also two attachments to have a look at.
Nga Mihi,
Pirinoa Staff
Kia Ora whānau,
Featherston Booktown Festival is here again! All students at our school have received a $20 book voucher, generously funded by Friends and Business Friends of Featherston Booktown. We are also very grateful to the Wairarapa Building Society, who have kindly funded buses provided by Tranzit, enabling our students to travel to Featherston.
The children can spend their vouchers with a range of booksellers who will be present in the marquee, and enjoy this special experience. If you would prefer to take your child into a local bookshop to spend their voucher, you are welcome to request that the voucher be sent home. Please let your child’s classroom teacher know if you would like to take up this option. Otherwise, students will be able to redeem their vouchers at the Booktown marquee on the day.
When: Monday 11th May
Leaving school at 8.45am via bus.
Returning to school: Midday.
The weather is looking a bit cooler next week. Please make sure your child brings:
Many thanks,
Pirinoa Teaching Team.
Afternoon everyone,
Please fill out the form on Skool Loop for the Featherston Cluster Cross Country on Thursday 14th May. I need to know whether you will be transporting your child to and from cross country yourself, or if they will be returning to school afterwards.
If you are helping with transport, you will need to remain at the event until all children have completed their races.
We need to be at Kahutara by 9:30am and the event is expected to finish at approximately 2:00pm.
Many thanks,
Emma
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