Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery

Congratulations to Sofia for achieving 1st place in the emerald division at the Primary Sports Canterbury Gymnastics Competition held on Wednesday. Watching Sofia and the other competitors perform their routines across the floor, vault, beam, and bars was truely impressive.

Our Term 3 2026 IEMS (Individual Education Meetings) are scheduled for Friday the 3rd of July & the Monday the 20th of July, 2026.

The IEM is the most important element of a student’s Learning Journey at Ao Tawhiti and it is vital that you book one. The IEM is a time to plan out the upcoming term, share relevant information and make sure everything is on track for a successful term ahead.

For our IEM booking process we are using the “School Interviews” system.

To use this system use the following link to find the booking website…https://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz/code/ajwpm
Should you need the code to book, it is ajwpm

The whole process is pretty user friendly but we have created a guide to support your use of the process should you need some support. Use the following link to access the guide.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sNqSrYGhavgzDd4TnI6rfk1ZZiNkbCtT/view?usp=sharing

If you are in Year 1-6 and require supervision for either or both of these days please use the following form to inform us of this.

IEM supervision form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScEO2MbdiXrK9MNUsAdFlzvMbkPk4s0QiBFCWlXXHfMQTI24g/viewform?usp=publish-editor

NB
• Those of you who have students in Nicole’s Homebase will be doing IEMs slightly differently. Please use the following Google Doc to book your IEMs.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kZqe_UwKfBwCSKKiW__Hzndy0VtIaedx4hu1ERIyOLA/edit?tab=t.0

• Those of you who have Students in Richard Pitts and Beth Manders Homebase, and the Agora Program will also be booking your IEMs in a different way. Please keep an eye on your emails for information about this.

Finally, please read the following message from Anita…

One of our annual goals in 2026 is to support every student in our school to celebrate their strengths and successes. Every child is unique, and as such they all have strengths and successes that are personal to them. We have a particular focus on supporting students to recognise, celebrate and respond to their capabilities and dispositional success. As such, all our Home Base Learning Advisors are capturing students' success stories to share at the IEMs. You can look forward to hearing from your children what they are proud of and the success (in all shapes and sizes) they have experienced over the term.

The Student Council are organising for Ao Tawhiti to participate in National PJ Day on Friday 12 June. It comes from the PJ project from the Kindness Collective. Project PJ is to make sure all Kiwi kids have warm PJs to wear.
Please join us in wearing pyjamas. If you can bring a gold coin to donate, we will have a collection bucket on the first floor. We will also come around HB. The Student Council can't wait to see you all in warm, cosy PJs.

Congratulations Isabella Bower!
Isabella is a Year Ten student who has achieved NCEA Level Three with an Excellence Endorsement, while successfully juggling her studies with dance training. Isabella is heading over to Europe in June to take part in two Summer Intensives for Ballet. The first is at Alcante in Spain and the second is in Budapest, Hungary.
Isabella's goal is to keep dancing while studying at a university in Hungary.
Well done Isabella on an amazing achievement.

Ao Tawhiti presents ...
Shrek the Musical Jr
Location: Hagley Auripo Auditorium at Hagley College
Dates: 12 and 13 August 2026
Suggested Ticket Donation $10 Adult/$5 Child
Check your school email for a link to reserve your seat or email [email protected] to reserve a seat for this fabulous production.

Learning at Ao Tawhiti Unlimited Discovery School
Recently our students have taken part in the Senior Science camp in Dunedin, Education Outside the Classroom in the Port Hills and climbing at The Adventure Centre. Well done to the students for taking advantage of these opportunities and thank you to the Learning Advisors and caregivers for their support. We couldn't make it happen without you!

We would like to thank Full Bellies - an amazing charity who are supporting our students by providing food for hungry children. Full Bellies is a Christchurch charity that helps families in need by providing nutritious food delivered into schools. The impact this charity makes is huge. Students with 'full bellies' are great learners who head out into the wider world - ready to make it a better place.
Thank you to Full Bellies and Cinty and Miriam for this support for our students.