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Welcome to Pirinoa School!

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.

“He waka eke noa”

Pirinoa School is a learning community who encourages children to . . .

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.

Our philosophy to teaching and learning

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.

What's happening at Pirinoa School?

Upcoming Events in July

Sat 4

Holidays

4 Jul 2026 - 19 Jul 2026

Mon 20

First Day - Week 1 - Term 3

20 Jul 2026

Mon 27

Week 2 - Term 3

27 Jul 2026

Latest Notices

*Mufti / Pj Day Tomorrow*

2 Jul 2026

Tomorrow we are having our movie reward afternoon and Room 3 have managed to persuade Mr Funnell to also let us have a mufti/pyjama day as well. Children are welcome to wear pjs, mufti clothing or uniform tomorrow and please note there is No Donation required.

Nga mihi

Buses Week 11

28 Jun 2026

Kia ora koutou

Just confirming that that the northern Pirinoa School bus run will be operating all this week, as per normal pick up and drop off times.

The southern Pirinoa School bus route will run normally as soon as the bridge and local roads south of the bridge are deemed safe for bus travel. From Tuesday morning onwards, GoBus will drive down to the corner of Warrens Road and Lake Ferry Road for pick up and drop off of students.

School is be open all week and we look forward to seeing the students who can make it in tomorrow. We will miss seeing the southern crew to start the week. Fingers crossed we can see all students and staff back shortly. The river has dropped dramatically and I understand that the work on the bridge will start tomorrow morning. If anyone needs a pick up at an additional spot if manage to get students across the river using an alternative route, prior to the bridge being fixed please get in contact.

We are hoping to get The Year 7 students to Technology classes tomorrow. This will depend on roads being open to allow the bus to drive to and from Featherston. There is a possibility the bus can travel via Longbush Valley but this will needs GoBus approval. If it is not possible for this to happen students will continue with normal learning at school. A final decision on this will happen tomorrow morning. If the Year 7 students come to school planning to head to Technology with appropriate clothing and shoes it would be appreciated.

I have also had it confirmed with GoBus at 5.00pm tonight that the Kuranui College bus will only be driving to and from the intersection of Judds Road and Kahutara Road intersection tomorrow due to the flooding, so any college students will likely need to make alternative arrangements. There may be different or updated messaging from Kuranui College directly, which would supersede this message.

Hope everyone is safe and well. Please sing out of you need anything (other than repairing the bridge and roads)

Whats on for week 11

28 Jun 2026

Morning all,

Hope everyone is safe, dry and warm.

Here is what's on for the last week of term 2.

Nga Mihi

Pirinoa Staff

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