Ōuruhia School

Time for a warm up. What a great morning for a game of rugby!! Cobras playing - home rugby 🏉 home grounds against New Brighton.

Our art work is going to be on display - come along and view TOMORROW Thursday 6th August for the official opening at 5:30 pm - Kaiapoi Library. Here at Ōuruhia the seniors have been looking at Parabolic Curves and Coordinates. Thanks Tomo from VIP Trade for supporting with the wood/nails for our designs. The juniors - this will be a surprise for us all. I can't wait to see the displays.

Te Kāhui ako Kātoe Maths Art Exhibition - In this exhibition, students from schools across our Kāhui ako Kātote (community), have transformed mathematical concepts into stunning visual expressions.

This vibrant exhibition showcases creative works from schools across our Kāhui ako Kātote (community), where students have transformed mathematical concepts into stunning visual expressions. From geometry to symmetry, explore how numbers, patterns, and imagination come together to reveal the artistic side of maths.

Te Kāhui ako Kātote maths art exhibition is a collaboration of artwork collected from nine schools in the kāhui kura, featuring: Te Kura o Tuahiwi, Kaiapoi North, Kaiapoi Borough, Woodend, St.Patricks, Clarkville, Ōuruhia, Te Kura o Manga Kawari -Pegasus Bay, Amberley School, and Kaiapoi High School.

Join us in celebrating the work by students at the Te Kāhui ako Kātote Maths Art Exhibition launch, at the Kaiapoi Library, on Thursday 6 August from 5:30pm.

The exhibition will run for a month in the children’s area of the Kaiapoi Library and be available for friends and whānau to enjoy until Thursday 3 September.

Children’s Book Week

Aotearoa New Zealand's first Children's Book Week is happening this month! 📚

Run by Read NZ Te Pou Muramura, New Zealand Children's Book Week (15-21 August) encourages parents, teachers, caregivers and whānau to make reading a priority for the children in their lives.

This year's theme is Reading Around Aotearoa.

WAYS YOU CAN GET INVOLVED:
✔️ Whānau: Take part in an online or in-person event. For example, Books on Board, on the Wellington Kāpiti train line with live storytelling for pre-schoolers, or the Waiheke Children's Book Festival.

There's a growing list of activities happening around the motu on the Read NZ website: https://www.read-nz.org/what-we-do/nz-children-s-book-week 's-on

✔️ Schools: There are Digital Writers in Schools sessions happening online, or you may like to run a Book Parade Day or other event.

New Zealand Children's Book Week posters can be ordered or downloaded from the Read NZ website: https://www.read-nz.org/what-we-do/nz-children-s-book-week -the-word

✔️ Students (Years 5-13): Write about how a book impacted your life and you might get your story published, and $250 in new books for you and $500 in new books for your school.

Find out more: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf_POy_P4jrABcdR6rAfOxGQ4e7SULzU1ZOwW4nBMQMMGsyOQ/viewform

Let get reading, Aotearoa!

📸 Illustration by Pōneke artist Isobel Te Aho-White, debut author of 'Whenua: Māori Pūrākau of Aotearoa'.

Newsletter # 5 July/Augusgt 2026

Newsletter # 5 - August 2026 A publication created by Ouruhia Model School

We’re at Kaiapoi High school
For the dress rehearsal for their production…
INTO THE WOODS drum roll!!! Waimakariri class - let the show begin…

Five ways to wellbeing is our topic this term… CONNECT and GIVE …..look at what we were given at the gate this morning….. fresh sour dough! Real butter and a lovely note. Freshly baked this morning…. We are so lucky….. THANK YOU. 🙏

An afternoon where we partnered up for some challenges to do with 100! A gorgeous day to be outside with our peers celebrating 100 days at school.

Happy birthday Markelle (in the middle) - turned 8 years old today! Thanks to your whānau for the cupcakes and the treats for the end of the day!

100 days at school for our students… and Markelle has a birthday! 🎂 check out Reon Chewbacca, and all the things the students brought to school showing 100!
What a fun Friday with everything linking to 100!