Ōtorohanga South School

Kia ora e te whānau.

School Cross-Country 🏃‍♀️

The weather forecast for tomorrow isn't looking the best for our cross-country event. We will keep a very close eye on it and will send out a notification early tomorrow morning to let you know our plan.

The worst-case scenario is that we may have to cancel the event entirely. If this happens, we'll use provisional practice results to select our teams for the COPS competition at Waitomo next week.
A possible alternative is that we might choose to run the races for only our senior and middle students, depending on how the afternoon weather is looking.

We'll make the best call we can for our tamariki, and we appreciate your understanding. Here's the approximate starting time schedule if the full day goes ahead:

Lower Junior (Rooms 8 - 11) 11:30 AM
Upper Junior (Rooms 14 - 16) 12:00 PM
Lunch break: 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM
Senior (Rooms 1 - 3, 7) - 1:30 PM
Middle (Rooms 4 - 6): approximately 1:50 PM

Board of Trustees

Firstly, a big thank you to our community for your engagement with the recent Board elections. The election was concluded without the need for a vote. I want to sincerely thank David Brown, Lauren King, and Narita Fletcher for their hard work and dedication to our school over the past few years. We are incredibly lucky to have had such committed people on our Board.

I'd also like to extend a very warm welcome to our new trustees: Pou Frew, Tracey Carter, and Jean Pu. We also have returning trustees Ben Connolly and Cara-Lee (Bubba) Hetet, alongside our staff trustee, Christie Millin making up the Board.

Looking ahead, we've got a few important dates to mark in your diaries: Wednesday, August 13th: COPS Cross Country at Waitomo. Tuesday, August 19th: Otorohanga College Open Day for Year 7 and 8 students and Friday, August 22nd: is our Teacher Only Day.

Ngā mihi,

Scott Lincoln
Principal
Ōtorohanga South School

Kia Ora - The 2025 Waitomo Miniball season is coming up. The competition will run for approximately 12 weeks starting early September. All games are played at the basketball courts in Te Kuiti.

Please register your child here by Friday 22nd August. Please make one entry per child. You can revisit the form to make additional entries for your household.

The grades are as follows:

Midgets Year 1 & 2 (No 5 year olds) ……… Wednesday games

Junior Year 3 & 4 ……….. Wednesday games

Intermediate Year 5 & 6 .………. Thursday games

Senior Year 7 & 8 ……….. Tuesday games

5 players are on the court at one time, however teams should have a minimum of 7 players and a max of 12 players.

This year we must supply a referee for every 2 teams we submit into the competition. So please consider carefully if you are able to contribute to this. We will also be on a duty roster helping with crowd control and clean up.

In order to have this sporting opportunity, parent volunteers are essential to fill coaching/scorer positions and refereeing positions. Teams will only be registered if there is a Coach/Manager and Parent helper/scorer. Transport to Te Kuiti is the responsibility of the parent/caregiver NO Coach, Referee and Parent Scorer = NO TEAM

Uniform – students will wear a miniball top (provided by the school) and they must wear black shorts above the knees (this is checked by umpires).

Practice – coaches will notify parents and students when and where practice will be held.

Cost – $20 per player. Payment includes uniform and WBB registration fee. Uniforms will be issued on payment of sub. Payments can be made to the school office or via internet banking:

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