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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
Morena koutou,
School will be open for those that can safely make it in. (Still no bus today)
The bridge at Turanganui is washed out, so no need to put in absentees if you live south of there.
Feel free to call the office from 8am if any whanau need help or supplies and we will do our best to help out.
Can we please ask that you send your child with a drink bottle if possible as Pirinoa Community is currently on a boil water notice.
Please take extra care on the roads if you are driving today!
Nga mihi
Kia ora koutou,
We hope everyone is keeping safe and warm with this wild weather!
Unfortunately the current condition of the roads means there will be no bus operating tomorrow (Tues).
At this stage school will be open for supervision with limited staff for those families who are able/willing to come to school. If there is no power tomorrow morning or it is deemed unsafe for us to open, we will make a call by 7.30am to close the school again and send out a txt/SkoolLoop. No news is good news!
Nga mihi nui
Pirinoa staff
School closed – Monday 16th
Due to the ongoing weather we will close the school today.
Please stay safe.
Pirinoa Staff
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