12 May 22 Kia ora parents/caregivers, Please help us streamline our office administrators time working on key tasks. You can do this by letting us know if your child/children are not attending school and the [...]
5 May 22 Kia ora koutou I have been visiting classes this morning and really enjoyed the wide range of reading and maths being taught in classes. The school is very settled and children are [...]
2 May 2022 Kia ora koutou Welcome back to Otaika Valley School and term 2. I certainly hope your break with your children was a good one. My emails over the first weekend of the [...]
13 April 2022 Teacher Only Day Dates Kia ora koutou To give you time to plan ahead, here are the dates for the last two teacher only days required by the Primary Teachers Collective Agreements [...]
11th April 22 Kia ora parents/caregivers, Getting through... The last week of term is on us. I would like to acknowledge the staff for their hard work and care of the children through this [...]
28 March 2022 SH1 Loop Road Safety Improvements - March update Kia ora, Late last year, the final asphalt was successfully laid on the Loop Road roundabout and immediate approaches. The remaining work including road [...]
25th March 2022 Kia ora Koutou Real Time Reporting Update - implications of covid/student attendance challenges As many of you are aware, we are not having parent/teacher interviews this term during the omicron [...]
Kia ora Koutou, I thought I had sent this message on Monday... Just for interest. This photo was taken at 11:20am Monday. At 7:30am the river at school wasn't flowing much above normal with little [...]
11th March 2022 Kia ora koutou, On the 6th of March you were informed we had our first confirmed COVID-19 cases in our school community and two classes received email confirmation a child in their [...]
8th March 22 Dear parents and caregivers, Some teachers have shared with me that they have received a number of requests about who their child has been in contact with within class, in regards to [...]