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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.
16 Feb 2026
23 Feb 2026
Kia ora koutou & welcome back!
Its wonderful to have all our tamariki back at school today. We all gathered in our new Library space this morning to start the year off right and of course welcome Mr Funnell for his first official day at Pirinoa School! Make sure you stop in for a chat with him or reach out if you have any questions.
We will be sending a few important paper notices home this week, that will need to be filled in and sent back to school as soon as possible, so please keep an eye out in your child's bag.
Please remember to make sure you ring the school or send in a skool loop if your child is absent from school.
In the coming weeks we will be introducing a new app for parents, which will cover all things communication based but also keep you up to date with your child's learning journey. So keep an ear out for more info.
And lastly, but most importantly, a reminder that we are in full swing with swimming lessons from today onwards. So please ensure all tamariki bring their togs everyday and make sure their uniforms are clearly named to help minimise any mix-ups.
Nga Mihi,
Pirinoa Staff
Sorry everyone we needed to do some repairs to the pool liner which meant draining the pool and then refilling
We'll update when the pool is up and running again!
R
Hello and sorry for short notice!
In a moment of weakness we told the kids they could bring mufti this week!
Unfortunately we forgot to put that fact on SkoolLoop, sorry for the inconvenience
There will be a principal's prize for craziest outfit on Wednesday!
So just to confirm the children are allowed to wear mufti for the last three days of the year starting today Monday =)
Reminder school breaks up at 12pm on Wednesday
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