Central School - New Plymouth

🧮 MATHS WEEK 2026 🧮
This week is Maths Week! Right across Aotearoa New Zealand, schools are celebrating the wonderful world of Mathematics, including here at Te Kura Waenga o Ngāmotu! We have created a fun Maths Bingo challenge for students and their families to participate in at home. We'd love to see photos or videos of any activities completed shared to Seesaw!

Below is an image of the BINGO sheet, but an easier to read, PDF copy, with LIVE LINKS, is available here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b0WfD39vzsfZBLA0NcGGpK3EEWnYFVKq/view?usp=drive_link

It is also our final week of our MATHATHON, with fundraising finishing up at the end of this week! Now is the perfect time for one final push - both with practising basic facts and with gathering sponsorship! Thank you everyone for your support with this! We have two more Mathathon prize draws to go before the end of the week!

Div 2 Champions! After a long interschool football season, where our team displayed outstanding aumangea and whakaute throughout, today they were crowned champions! Following a hard fought 3-1 victory in the final versus St Pius today, Central were the inaugural recipients of the Eric Shaw Memorial Trophy.

Thank you to all those caregivers who helped with transport today, and throughout the interschool season over terms 2 and 3. A huge thanks also goes to the team's coaches and teachers, without whom our teams would not be able to participate. Ngā mihi nui!

Enjoy the victory footballers! It was well deserved!

A huge thank you to Moore VBW! 💙

Thanks to their generous support, we were able to reach the minimum order for our new school hoodies. We are so grateful for their kindness and commitment to supporting our school community.

From all of us at Central School – thank you for helping make this happen! 💛 Moore Markhams

This term R3 have been reading Dogtown by Katherine Applegate (Super amazing author) as part of Chapter Chat.

Check out a few of our robot dogs we created from the book!

A great morning was had watching the Puss in Gumboots show by New Zealand Playhouse at the YMCA. Check it out!

Today is the last day the Ranginui team have had golf skills with Taranaki Golf - lots of learning and aumangea/perseverance in action - ka rawe!

🍎 Yummy Sticker Reminder! 🍎
Have you started collecting your Yummy apple stickers yet? Every sticker and bag label collected helps Central School earn FREE sports gear for our students! ⚽🏀🏏
Remember:�⭐ Cut-out labels from Yummy 1.5kg bags are worth 10 stickers each!�⭐ Yummy apples are available at New World, Pak’n Save and participating Four Square stores�⭐ Collection sheets can be downloaded from yummyfruit.co.nz or picked up from the school office.
⭐ Completed sheets can be dropped into the collection box at the school office
Keep collecting and encouraging friends and whānau to join in too — every Yummy apple sticker counts! 🙌

Congratulations to our interschool football team who recorded a resounding 13-0 win over Spotswood School during the interschool semifinals last Friday.
They are now into the finals and will face Saint Pius School at Saint Joseph's School this Friday, 11am kick-off.

We wish them all the best in what promises to be a closely fought encounter between two very good teams.

The interschool football semi has arrived and the rain is managing to stay away! Good luck to both teams - play hard but play fair 🥳

MATHATHON 2026

Wow! Two weeks in and we are smashing it! We have 78 students signed up and together they have already raised over $2600 for our kura! On top of that students have been working hard on their basic facts at home and in class, improving their instant recall and maths confidence.

Not signed up yet? Don't worry, it's not too late! You can still sign up and take part at this link: https://centralschoolmathathon.raiseit.co.nz/

On Monday we will have our second prize draw. Everyone signed up by Monday morning, with at least one donation, will go in the draw to win a handheld retro gaming console. We will also be drawing some spot prizes. We would love to get over 100 students signed up by Monday!