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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.
23 Feb 2026
The bus will resume its normal bus run tomorrow (Thursday) except not making it to Ngawi (sadly). Same pick up and drop off times and locations as usual. We all look forward to seeing Hunta and Jess D back sometime soon! Stay safe out at Ngawi.
Kia ora koutou
The Pirinoa School bus service is back on track tomorrow and onwards (Wednesday 18 Feb), albeit with a shorter route due to the current road closure at the Tūranganui River bridge.
The school bus will pick up students at the normal times and will leave from the corner of Warrens and Lake Ferry roads and will drop students at school before heading up to the substation and back to school in the morning and in reverse in the afternoon.
Thinking of all the whānau who can’t make it in due to the damage to roads.
Apologies for the late message, but we will have a bus running from tomorrow onwards. It will run from Warrens Road up to the Substation for now until the bridge to Lake Ferry opens again.
If you have any questions or concerns, please get in contact with one of our staff.
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