Knowledge, Character, Relationships
Mātauranga, Āhuatanga, Whanaungatanga
Quality collaborative teaching and learning equity and excellence for all.
Welcome to our Students Page
Each week, our wonderful Head Students, Victoria, Grayson, Shea and Toby will share their highlight of the week with you all.
Term 1
Welcome to 2024.
Our Year 5-8 cross country was lots of fun, but really tiring. Congratulations to the 17 runners who qualified for Rakahuri.
We are super excited about our Pancake Breakfast fundraiser tomorrow morning. We are hoping to raise funds for Radio Lollipop and our school Enviro group.
We will be making 204 pancakes!!
It has been a great start to 2024. Our Year 5-8 swimming sports were great on Monday. Congratulations to those swimmers that are representing Southbrook at Rakahuri. Our Buddy classes are going well.
Currently we are organising the Great Southbrook Easter Egg Hunt. For a gold coin tamariki can take part in the egg hunt on Thursday 4 April. 🐰
We are excited about two short school weeks!
Our fabulous Teoteo and Nga Manu Nui Learning Spaces are swimming at Dudley at the moment. They love swimming AND the bus ride!
We hope everyone has a fabulous Easter holiday.
We are very excited to be doing our ‘Great Easter Egg Hunt’ tomorrow with the tamariki. Thank you to everyone who supported us.
We can celebrate Term 1 at Southbrook. We have noticed hard workers and learning has been fun.
The Head Students wish you a happy holiday.
Term 2
We are busy planning the pancake breakfast for Week 4.
We are excited to annouce that the profits will go to Radio lollipop and to the Southbrook Enviro playspace
Congratulations to the 17 tamariki who represented Southbrook School at the Rakahuri Cross Country. We are proud.
Thank you to everyone who supported our Pancake breakfast. We raised $250 – Radio Lollipop and
$200 – Enviro sensory path
The Head Students were lucky enough to attend the National Young Leaders Day last week.
We listened to 5 inspirational speakers who shared how they have overcome difficulties in life and / or have made a difference in the world around them.
Our term is flying by! The Head Students have a small fundraiser with Sushi lunch planned for Week 10. We are fundraising for library games.
This week a lot of Learning Spaces have been busy finishing work ready to share and to celebrate with their parents. We are excited to have our Matariki breakfast tomorrow morning.
Thank you for a great term at Southbrook. We are proud of all our tamariki.
Term 3
It is good being back at school and catching up with our friends. Despite being cold, we have been able to get outside for a run around. This term the Learning Spaces will be finding out more about our school in preparation for the 150th Jubilee. I wonder what we will learn?
We are enjoying watching the Paris Olympics and it’s great to see New Zealand on the medal table. Te Awa and Aoraki are looking forward to testing out their sporting abilities in the one day Winter Tournament on Tuesday 6th August. Hopefully we can bring back some medals too!
What a surprise to see the snow over the weekend. We enjoyed playing with it at school today. Hopefully the weather gets a little bit warmer soon though. We are looking forward to supporting the Waikuku firefighters this Thursday for our Mufti Day. We wish the Te Awa and Aoraki students the best of luck with the Poetry Competition next week.
Last week’s Mufti Day raised $298 for the Waikuku Firefighters. We wish them all the best with their Sky Tower challenge.
We are enjoying the warmer weather so we can get outside more. We are looking forward to the pool reopening at the beginning of next term.
Term 4
Welcome back! We are excited for the pool to open next week. Aoraki are looking forward to their camp on Tuesday.
Our Senior students are on camp this week.
Camp was fabulous! Today we have many Year 5-8 tamariki representing Southbrook at the Rakahuri Zone Sports.
Lots of fun things happening at the moment – Youth mentors, visitors from High School, swimming, the little people had the fire truck visit, Year 8’s going to check out the Science at Rangiora High – just to mention a few.
The Aoraki students are getting ready for the Kids Market next Friday. They will be selling bracelets, slime, candles and heaps of other things. Be sure to pop along and do some Christmas shopping.
We are so excited about the Aoraki Kids Market. We hope that lots of people come and buy things.
Well done to all the tamariki who competed in the Rakahuri Bike Blast.
The Year 8’s had a fabulous day yesterday at Jellie Park. Thank you to our teachers for giving us this opportunity. The Kids Market last Friday was amazing, with all of us making some profit.