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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.
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Kia Ora Room 1 whānau,
As you may have seen in the "What's on this week" notice, Room 1 are going on a trip this Thursday 7th May.
We have just started a programme run by Mountains to Sea, called the Whitebait Connection. We had our first classroom session this Thursday just been, learning about what types of water we have on Earth, inhabitants we would find in and around a freshwater lake or stream, the life cycle of Whitebait, and the 5 different species of Whitebait. As part of the programme we will be going on 2 field trips to our local lakes, with one more classroom session in between.
1st Trip:
When: Thursday 7th May
Where: Lake Domain at the top of Lake Wairarapa.
Leaving School: at 9.30am
Returning: 1pm-ish
Please make sure your child brings:
2nd Trip:
When: Thursday 21st May
Where: Lake Ōnoke or Pounui Lagoon TBC
Leaving School: at 9.30am
Returning: 1pm-ish
Please make sure your child brings:
These trips are weather dependent so we do also have a back up trip date of the 28th May.
I will need some help with transport and parent helpers for supervision around the water to make these trips happen.
Please make sure you go to Permissions to fill out the form for your child and tick if you are able to come along.
Thank you so much!
Whaea Jess
Morning all,
See the two attachments one with 'whats on this week' the other with 'whats on this term'.
Have a great day.
Afternoon,
On Tuesday 5th May as a whole school we will be travelling to the Ruamahanga Farm by bus, van and car. This trip is covered by our 'General Permission Form'. Please read the attached information letter as your childs work/photo or voice may be used in project collaborations. Let a staff member know at school if this is something you do not want to happen. If youd like to come along and help please let Toby know.
Nga Mihi
Pirinoa Staff
Kia ora parents and caregivers,
Thank you all for your patience today around our school closure. We hope everyone is safe, warm and well and that all our students are raring to go tomorrow. The plan is that school will be open, once the current weather warning have been lifted as planned later tonight.
It has been confirmed tonight by GoBus and by our wonderful driver Mickey that he is able to make it to Pirinoa and complete the bus runs as per normal timings before and after school.
Please continue to monitor our Facebook page and Skool Loop for any updates or changes incase the weather deteriorates or there are road closure etc overnight.
Thank you
Ngā mihi,
Pirinoa School
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