The sun was shinning, an abundance of flowers filled the classrooms and children were busy creating beautiful floral arrangements. Delicious smells filled the air from the PTA food stalls, animals were lead and groomed and dressed in costumes for the parade. Take a look inside our classrooms and meet our awesome students and their pets...

On the 8th of August we made the tough call to postpone our Cross Country and Fun Run. However, this worked out for the better as we had an amazing day of sun and fun on the 9th of August. Over the past two weeks, our students have been learning our CARE value of ‘a can-do attitude’ in more depth. Cross Country was the perfect day to test out our resilience. All students that gave Cross Country a go should be so proud of their efforts. After our Cross Country races, we had our Fun Colour Run. What an amazing sight this was! It was so lovely to see all of the smiles, laughs, and crazy colour from our tamariki (and the parents). Thank you to our volunteer FireFighters who came down to help us out. As a school, we raised a total of $11,679 to go towards our playground upgrades. What an impressive effort! 

Today we braved the cold and plunged into the freezing, cold pool! There was so much excitement, screaming and laughter as the teachers and students jumped in. Not to mention lots of choice dance moves - the only way to warm up! 

Thanks so much to all the parents who came along to watch. All money raised from this event will be going towards our new junior playground. 

Wow! What an amazing day for the 2023 School Triathlon. So many students put on their 'Can-do Attitude' caps and gave this a go. 

First, our tamariki biked one lap (or more) around the bike track. Then, they moved on to swimming lengths/widths of the school pool. Finishing up with a run around the classrooms and playground. 

Thank you to all the parents/whanau who came down to show your support, especially to those who offered to be marshals for this event. It is so awesome to see so many spectators! An enjoyable day for all!

Congratulations to all those who got through to the Interschools Swimming Sports Competition!

It was so fabulous to see our tamariki representing Maungaturoto Primary School and display our CARE values. We are really proud of your efforts and achievements.

Thank you to Miss Thomas for your amazing organisation and also Whaea Karen, Miss Phillips, Myra and Stacey for helping out on the day. 

The year 5 and 6 children had a fabulous camp in the last week of Term 1. Thank you to all the many

parents who helped make this camp so successful, especially to the group of parents who stayed at camp.

Thank you also to the Year 5 and 6 teachers for their great organisation and commitment. The students

were all really well behaved and it was great to see such a positive display of CARE values and children building REAL Learner skills.

Some Student feedback:

Adrenalin Water Park was so cool because I played on the obstacle course for hours and hours - Nate

It was a great camp. My friend Lucy yelled when she jumped off the high bit– Niwa

Adventure Forest was my favourite because of the ziplines. The time went so fast – River

I did archery at the camp. I got one on the board. - Coralee

The flying fox and the water slide were my favourite things at the camp - Ellise

My best part was Adventure forest because I got to face my fears and climbed like a monkey, swinging in

the trees -Rohan

Green hook, orange clip, the 200 metre zipline, 5 metres high was really scary but so much fun - Xavier

My favourite part was at the waterpark because I liked the big drop. Marley and I were the first kids to

jump - Ash

I enjoyed the Aquatic Centre in town basin. The water slides there were awesome, I loved the dark slide the

most. Ellise and I touched the bottom of the 2.2 metre pool - Zene

On the last day we hung around camp doing tons of fun activities - Bianca