School Announcements

This notice is to inform the school community that we have had a couple of students arrive at school today displaying the symptoms of chickenpox. Chickenpox is a highly infectious disease and can be spread very easily from student to student. The students who were identified with chickenpox symptoms today, were sent home immediately. Even…

Dear Parents/Caregivers We would like to thank all our staff and students for their hard work on Open Day and the NCEA evening that was held on Wednesday night. Please note the following information: There will be no rostering home of students next week. We are returning to a full school timetable for all levels.…

Kia ora koutou We are going to move for the next 2 weeks into a hybrid model of learning that combines time ‘in school’ with time ‘learning from home’. We want to minimise disruption to any one group of students as much as we can, so will be rostering home for year-level groups for a…

Te Kauwhata College recently hosted the Science Roadshow. This was a great opportunity for Junior Science Students to explore various science and technology concepts by ‘touch and feel’. The Roadshow : nurtures curiosity and discovery; improves motivation and attitude; adds to teacher knowledge; supports numeracy and literacy; encourages social interaction and cooperative learning; provides memorable…

We are excited to announce that Te Kauwhata College has joined the skoolloop family. This is an app that you can download to your phone. There are a range of services you can use (not all of these services are live as yet) and will be a way that the school will push out notices…

Welcome back everyone to what is today,  a cold and wintry Term 3! Please note that the MOE and MOH are now ‘strongly recommending’ a return to the mask wearing policies that we used earlier this year. Therefore, we will return to requiring all students to wear masks in all indoor situations unless they have an exemption.  …

On Wednesday 22nd of June, Te Kauwhata College hosted an event for Matariki to celebrate Maaori New Year. This was the first year Matariki has been recognised as a national holiday and we wanted to celebrate with our wider community.  It was incredibly important to come together as New Zealanders to honour our past, appreciate…

Kia ora koutou It has been a very busy last few weeks here at school.   We have made it to the end of the term and I know students and their teachers, (probably their parents too) are exhausted after the first full ten-week term for a while. We are now over halfway through the academic…