Congratulations to our Kaharoa Kokako Girls Futsal team for an impressive performance at the recent Bay of Plenty Secondary School Championships. They competed in the intermediate section, played five games (without a sub!) and took home the winners trophy! Congratulations girls, you can be very proud of your achievement!! Photo 1: Rotorua Futsal Teams Photo 2: Kaharoa Kokako Team celebrating the win

Last Wednesday the little eco-warriors in Room Kowhai went bush. We drove down to the Kokako Bush block and meandered down to the Onaia Stream where we had our morning tea. We were on the lookout for kokako but unfortunately we didn’t see any. However we did see robins, fantails, cool fungi, interesting insects and some amazing trees. Thanks to our wonderful parent helpers who assisted with transport and supervision. Thanks to Tim Day, Annadel Delacruz, Jaimie Schwarz, Magdalene Paul, Ruth Hobart, Lilly-Rose Featherstone, Andrea Batchelor and Anna Burton. Thanks to the generosity of the children we were able to donate $50 to the Kaharoa Kokako Trust.

Last year, we implemented a parent app called “@school”, that provided us with an additional channel of effective and timely communication with our families in an easy-to-access app on your phone. This app is directly linked to our student management system and will initially enable you to securely access personal information about your child (and advise us of any changes), receive school notices, inform us about absences, access information about your school account and access our website via a direct link.

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Congratulations to the following past pupils who are now Year 9 and 10 pupils at Western Heights High School.

Mad Poets Rotorua Society are proud to announce a new publication of Poems called “Te Reo Pohewa: Poems by Young Rotorua Writers.” Congratulations to our following students whose contributions were included: Fletcher Sefton, Wiremu Priest, Charlotte Cox, Dane Napier, Meg Short, Emily Downs, Farah Alaenia, Val Dean, Boh Gaddum.

A huge *congratulations* to the Kaharoa Futsal Team who won the Waiariki Girls Futsal Competition, finishing the season unbeaten!

Last week Room Kowhai, with the help of Mr Shoebridge, planted over 20 cabbage trees at school. These trees were kindly donated by Ruby Cox and her Mum and Dad, Annadel Delacruz and Noel Cox. We had lots of fun planting and helping our environment. Thanks to Ruby Cox and her family.

Thank you to Matt Pethybridge for donating and delivering sand for our new long jump pit and for the sandpit. Greatly appreciated.

Last Thursday Room Rimu had a walk down through the bush on the Kokako Track to Onaia Stream. We were there to test the water flow, temperature, clarity, depth, streambed composition, gravel vs sediment, periphyton cover and invertebrates within a 10m section of the stream.

Congratulations to our year 5/6 team (Wade, Bashy, Nicholas and Raahi) for making it through to the semi-finals last Friday. They came second out of 11 teams and are now qualified to enter the finals this Friday, 30 October.

​Congratulations to those children who represented Kaharoa School at the Big Sing in Tauranga and the Kahalele event in Hamilton. From observation and reports, all the children acquitted themselves well and performed exceptionally well. Thank you to Evelyn Falconer (Choir) and Megan Kusabs (Ukulele) for all the work you have done with the children and for getting them to such a high standard.

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Just a reminder that in Terms 1 & 4, it is compulsory for all children to wear the Kaharoa School sun hat. These hats can be purchased from the school office at a price of $24. If you would like to buy a hat either pop into or email the office and we can fit a hat for your child. You can pay by cash or direct credit into the school bank account #12 3155 0189083 00. A reminder that we further strongly recommend that our students bring a rash top to school to wear when swimming in the pool.

Last Friday Room Kauri went for our first Forest Friday trip. The sun was out and we had a wonderful time exploring the forest and learning in the great outdoors. Some of us built huts, climbed trees, made mudslides, transformed into mountain climbers, and even mountain goats!

Covid-19 meant the CBOP Cross Country event looked different this year with participating schools running their own timed events and sending in the results to Sport Bay of Plenty to collate. Congratulations to the following children who achieved places in the timed cross country competing against 12 other schools:

Thank you to Winston Fleming for donating the Kingfisher and Kereru to add to our Kokako display collection for the children’‘s learning.