Glenfield Intermediate School

Last week, Team Matau headed out to Long Bay Regional Park for the Spongy Cities programme. Our students learned how planting helps manage heavy rain in the city, getting their hands in the dirt and their feet in the sand for a brilliant day of outdoor learning. Check out some of the action!

It's a long, long weekend! There is no school on Monday for Kings Birthday and no school on Tuesday due to a Teacher Only Day. We'll see everyone back again on Wednesday. Have a great break.

Week 6 Term 2 2026 Check out this A4 designed by Siouxzan Barlow.

A massive thank you to the incredible Selina Tusitala Marsh for visiting our Chefs for Compassion students last week!

She spoke about the amazing messages in her book Mophead Tu, and our students were even lucky enough to take home their very own copies.

We are so grateful for such a special conclusion to our sessions.

We have a group of international students coming to spend a week at GIS. We need homestays for them. If you think you can host a student for a week. Please contact Lake Panorama Student Homestays

Awesome effort from our Trees for Survival students yesterday. They planted over 900 trees is just an hour and a half! Amazing work!

We had such a great Pink Shirt Day today, thank you to everyone for your support of an important message.

Here is this weeks newsletter

Week 4 Term 2 2026 Check out this A4 designed by Siouxzan Barlow.

Awesome turn out of pink today in celebration of Pink Shirt Day! So proud of our tamariki for taking a stand against bullying.

Kōrero Mai, Kōrero Atu, Mauri Tū, Mauri Ora.
Speak Up, Stand Together, Stop Bullying!

It's a busy start to the term, here is this weeks newsletter

Week 2 Term 2 2026 Check out this A4 designed by Siouxzan Barlow.

We had a fantastic start to our Zero Waste sessions this week with the team from Kaipātiki Project!

Our students dove into exploring soil samples - looking at what made healthy soil and linking it to the carbon cycle, discovering how everything in nature is connected. It was a perfect way to strengthen our understanding of our Term 2 context Kaitiakitanga - learning how we can better care for our environment and protect our natural world for the future.

This is just the beginning! We can’t wait to take this learning out of the classroom and continue exploring our context with some exciting school trips coming up later this term.

Happy Thursday! Have amazing holidays with your amazing tamariki. See you all back on Monday 20th April.

Here is the last newsletter for the term

Week 10 Term 1 2026 Check out this A4 designed by Siouxzan Barlow.