Koromatua School

✨Koromatua School Speech Finalists✨
Congratulations to these tamariki who shared their speeches at the 2026 Koromatua School Speech Finals last Friday 12 June. We are very proud of all of them👏🏽🙌🏽🎉☺️✨

CHIEFS!!! CHIEFS!!! So proud👏🏽💪🏽🙌🏽

Tuakana/Teina students wear school
uniform today.

✨✨Tuakana/Teina Speech Finals✨✨
Mōrena e te whānau,
Today we have 19 of our Year 4,5,6,7&8 students sharing their speeches in our Senior School Speech Finals.
Last week these students presented their speeches to their classmates and early this week they spoke in their respective year level semi-finals. Congratulations to all of our speech finalists🙌🏽👏🏽✨✨

Speech Finals Programme
✨Year 8 and Year 7 Speech Finalists✨
9:15am - Welcome/Karakia
9:20am - Speech Procedures
9:25am - Introduce our speech judges
9:30am - Yr 8 speakers followed by Yr 7 speakers
10:30am - Tuakana/Teina students will remain in the hall for a special mihi whakatau for Ripeka Lessels our Te Riu Roa NZEI Union National President.
10:45am - Students will go out to morning tea.
✨Year 6, Year 5 and Year 4 Speech Finalists✨
11:15am - Welcome
11:20am - Speech Procedures
11:25am - Introduce our judges
11:30am - Year 6 speakers, Year 5 speakers and Year 4 speakers
12:00pm - Students leave hall for Judges to deliberate.
12:30pm - Tuakana/Teina Speech Prizegiving

Our alumni students did us proud over King’s Birthday weekend.
The Waikato U20 women’s team played so awesome during the Nationals Tournament in Porirua. They beat Tauranga in the pools game but narrowly lost to Tauranga by 1 point for 3rd and 4th placings.
Our Waikato U18 women’s team and Waikato U16 women’s teams finished 1st place at Regionals and our Waikato U16 men’s team came 3rd. Congratulations to these teams for qualifying for Nationals in the July holidays.

✨✨✨✨✨EXCITING NEWS✨✨✨✨
On Sunday afternoon a group of 25 cycling enthusiasts came to our kura to assemble several bicycles for our tamariki☺️These volunteers ride for cycling clubs around the Waikato and Auckland area and they took time out of their busy lives to do this service for our school community. We are so grateful to these wonderful people.
There are 30 bicycles altogether. These are the sizes and costs per bike.
🚲10 APEX PEAK 16" FIRESTORM RED at $260 each
🚲 10 APEX TERRAIN 20" STEALTH MATTE BLACK at $510 each
🚲 10 APEX TERRAIN 24" STEALTH MATTE BLACK at $580 each
In total these bikes cost over $11,000 and everything was funded by RIDE HOLIDAYS 👏🏽🙌🏽✨ Not only did a whole lot of volunteers assemble these 30 bicycles for FREE but it was all paid for by Ride Holidays. Which means our kura and tamariki got these awesome bikes for FREE🙏🏾 This is so amazing!
Our tamariki will receive bike safety lessons in their classes throughout the year and more of our tamariki can participate in our annual school triathlon. I think we need a school bike track now😉 We want to thank Gordon and his band of volunteers for assembling the bikes and Karl from Ride Holidays for providing the funding.

We are very proud of one of our alumni from Koromatua who will represent Aotearoa at the 2026 World Waka Ama Sprints Championships in Singapore.
Titan Hongara-Nin has been selected to race in the J16 Tāne W1 500m event.
Titan is also paddling in the J19 Tāne W6 500m sprints, the J19 Tāne W6 1000m turns and J19 Tāne W12 500m for his club Akarana and his crew Taurea Va’a.
Kia kaha Titan. All the very best to you and our other Aotearoa Waka Ama paddlers.

On Wednesday afternoon our whole kura was treated to an amazing show with the percussionists from STRIKE to Schools.