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Nau mai, haere mai ki te kura o Makuri (Welcome to Makuri School)
Makuri School is situated between the Makuri Awa (river) and Nga maunga o Puketoi (Puketoi Range). This is a rural area between Pahiatua township and the Pongaroa community to the east. Here at Makuri the classroom meets native NZ bush and rural surroundings. The school is a full primary (years 0-8), and has 2 classrooms. A junior class and middle/senior class operate 3 days a week and one whole class for 2 days a week. The very supportive community makes this happen with annual fundraising to support the school with the staffing required. The school uses structured literacy to provide great reading foundations for our junior Akonga (learners). We have a motivated and enthusiastic staff who provide wonderful support for our Akonga. The school has worked a lot on its local curriculum recently including educational trips into our local Bush, and connecting with local environmental support services. We have active, industrious children and endeavour to provide a well balanced, varied and fun learning environment.
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Murray Grimmer
Principal
19 Jun 2026
19 Jun 2026
26 Jun 2026
29 Jun 2026
Greetings everyone,
We had a surprise visitor from Kea Kids News on Thursday (yesterday). Check out www.keakids.news it is funded by New Zealand on Air and is a kids show featuring kids as reporters.
They will be in the area next week filming over the weekend and are going to come out to school Monday 15th in the afternoon to do a workshop with the students and hear from the students directly about any cool activities they might pursue, which they could film potentially, as well as teach them a little about the KK filming and reporter process. This is a great opportunity for the students to learn about presenting and media.
They’re keen to film kids doing something interesting and a few ideas suggested by the Makuri kids were deer shooting or duck shooting. (It’s a shame the competition at the club, was held last Friday)
They are going to send out release forms for any children that they might like to film with, which have been sent home with the children today. This is just some background if your child/ren came home all excited about being on TV.
If you have any questions, you are quite welcome to come down on the Monday afternoon and talk to them.
Ngā mihi nui,
Keryl Lee - Acting Principal
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Attached are the following Makuri School Procedures and Policies for parents to have a look at:
Parent-School Communication Procedure
Attendance Procedures
Concerns and Complaints Policy
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