Kōkopu Newsletter

Kia ora Kōkopu whānau,

Welcome back to school everyone.

We hope your children managed to get a good break and refresh themselves ready for a long 11-week term 2.
A big welcome to Noah and Jasper who started in Room 1 today. It is lovely having new faces around school. Watching them play today at break times showed how quickly students make friends and get to know the school.

No doubt many of you would have been affected by the cyclone during the break with the usual spots flooding. We had a minor slip up in the new steps area that will require some work to stabilise the bank. It is safe for now, but please be careful walking up and down the steps as there may be some soil on the steps. A big thank you to Ray our caretaker for doing a huge cleanup and making sure the school was ready for teachers and students this week.

Term two is going to be another exciting and learning filled term. As a whole school, we have a social sciences focus and are studding major world events, including ANZAC, to start the term and then moving into our country study about Australia.
We also have interschool winter sports, gymnastics and our ongoing Matariki planting day.

We have some classroom upgrades happening this week with new carpet being installed in all classrooms. This does require a bit of shuffling around but will be worth the effort.

Even with the wet weather, our pool project continues to make progress. The assessable ramp is under construction and the internals are looking good with lino laid last week.

Nga mihi nui

Yaron Overeem

Principal

Tomorrow, Tuesday 21st April, we are having a camp meeting @ 5.30pm in Room 1.

If you haven't already filled in the permission or parent helper forms, please do so as soon as possible.

This is the link here to the forms on our school website.

We will hold a brief ANZAC cross laying assembly this Friday 24th April at 9am on the courts. Some of our students will speak and then the juniors, with heir tuakana teina buddies, will lay memorial crosses for local soldiers who died in the wars. Finally, the boys will preform a haka. Everyone is welcome to attend this assembly.

This year we are taking part in the Maungatapere ANZAC service at the Maungatapere Hall at 1257 State Highway 14. The service is on Saturday 25th April and starts at 9am and is run by students from Kokopu and Maungatapere School. It is a casual affair with some very touching moments that we expect from an ANZAC service. All are welcome and there is a cup of tea afterwards.

Our Easter raffle was drawn on Thursday 2nd April.

Congratulations to our winners

Zoe, Gemma, Mila, Mayah, Van and also Mayah's aunty.

Thank you so much for your support with this fundraiser. We raised $1163.00.

We will consult with students and staff for a wishlist on what to put this money towards.

Term 2 2026

Mon 20/4 Start of Term 2

Wed 22/4 Kapa Haka starts and every Wednesday this term

Thu 23/4 Gymnastics Practice starts and every Thursday until the comp.

Fri 24/4 Kokopu ANZAC Celebration

Sat 25/4 ANZAC service at Maungatapere Hall

Mon 27/4 ANZAC day off No School

Wed 29/4 WPSSA Year 5 & 6 Winter Sports

Thu 30/04 to Fri 1/05 - Room 1 and 2 Auckland Camp

Mon 04/5 BOT Meeting

Fri 8/5 Lego Day at Poroti

Wed 13/5 WPSSA Year 7 & 8 Winter Sports

Mon 01/6 Kings Birthday No School

Wed 03/6 Gymnastics Competition TBC

Mon 15/6 BOT Meeting

Thu 25/6 Country Meal Study

Tue 30/6 Matariki Planting Day

Thu 02/7 House Day Winter Sports

Fri 03/7 End of Term 2

2026 Term Dates

• Term 1: Tuesday 3 February – Thursday, 2 April
• Term 2: Monday, 20 April – Friday, 3 July
• Term 3: Monday, 20 July – Friday, 25 September
• Term 4: Monday, 12 October – Tuesday, 15 December

Don't forget Lunch Orders are available at school

• Pizza Fusion - Tuesday
• West End Sushi - Thursday
• Titoki Store - Friday

Order for the whole term. Order the night before - or even by 9am on the day. Perfect for busy households and bare pantries. Scan the QR code below to order:

Lyn Moase will be taking guitar and ukelele lessons again this year starting on Wednesday 11th February. Please phone Lyn on 0212979437 if you would like to book your child/children in for lessons.

Room 6 will travel by bus into Manaia View School on Mondays for Technology lessons.

Please ensure all Year 7 & 8 students are here by 9am to catch the bus.

We would love to welcome new members to our PTA. Any help with events on the food stalls would be appreciated. i.e. Swimming Sports, Triathlon etc. If you are interested in joining us or helping out please contact Amy Pugh phone 0211729388.

As a parent at Kokopu School you have access to our free Qustodio – Parent Internet Monitoring App and online safety advice. The Qustodio Parent App is a comprehensive parental control and digital wellbeing app designed to help you manage and supervise your child’s online activities. With over 6 million parents and 24,000 schools worldwide using Qustodio, it stands out as one of the most trusted and best-rated apps on Google Play and the Apple App Store.

· You can learn more about how to set it up here: kokopu.onlinesafetyhub.nz/parent/topics/Qustodio

· Make your free account here: https://www.qustodio.com/en/30-days-school-special/?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=OSHub&utm_campaign=kokopu-nz

If parents/caregivers want to visit the website https://kokopu.schooldocs.co.nz/1893.htm to look over our school policies and procedures, please see the following instructions: Enter the username (kokopu) and password (0179). Follow the link to the relevant policy as listed.

Don't forget we are collecting Yummy Stickers. So please collect the Yummy cut-out labels from bags (each cut-out label is worth 10 stickers) and individual Yummy apple stickers. Yummy apples are available from New World, PAK’nSAVE and participating Four Square stores. The more you collect, the more sports gear you get so get going and start collecting your Yummy cut-out labels and stickers now!

Email: office@kokopu.school.nz
Website: www.kokopu.school.nz
Location: 921 Kokopu Road, Kokopu, New Zealand
Phone: 094346765
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kokopuschool