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With whānau (family) values at our heart, we foster curiosity, creativity, and resilience.

We are committed to partnering closely with parents/caregivers to achieve the very best outcomes for your child.

11/09/2026

We are stoked to launch our brand-new school skateboarding initiative, giving our students the chance to build confidence, learn new skills, and stay active on four wheels! Whether learning the basics or mastering new tricks, it’s awesome seeing everyone get involved and support one another.

A big thank you to:
- Andrew Beauchamp (teacher) – for inspiring our students and encouraging all of them to give it a go.
- Sport Taranaki & the Tu Manawa Active Aotearoa Fund – for providing the essential grant funding to make this programme possible for our school community!

31/08/2026

Our latest Makerspace equipment arrived last week - a class set of Blueprint Snap by Sphero. These kits allow our ākonga (students) to develop their engineering and problem solving skills.

Room 3 was the first lucky class to try out Snap using the challenge cards to familiarise themselves with Snap parts and build principles. We then moved onto building bridges which had to be at least 1m long, 150mm tall and hold at least 300g.

A big thank you to our Home and School Committee for funding Snap and giving our ākonga (students) the opportunity to SHINE with hands-on learning in Makerspace!

28/08/2026

Cross Country

What an epic day we had at our cross country on Wednesday! Well done to all of the place getters who duly received their certificates in assembly yesterday.

Everything ran like absolute clockwork, but the real highlight was the incredibly positive vibe right across our kura. Seeing our students line up, push through, and especially seeing every runner get cheered on all the way to the finish line - that’s what our school spirit is all about!

A massive thanks to Ande, Miss V, and Matua Rick for their fantastic organisation and hard work behind the scenes to make the day such a success. A big shout out to our Home and School Committee for providing every student with a Juicie after their race and to the Sacred Heart students who acted as race marshals for our senior students.

26/08/2026

Book Week - Next Week!

25/08/2026

Kia ora e te whānau,

The weather is looking promising, as rain isn't expected until later in the day—so our school cross country is definitely ON!

Event Details:
• Start time: 12:45 PM (kicking off with our 5-year-olds)
• Whānau support: We’d love to see you there cheering everyone on!
• Post-race treat: Thanks to our wonderful Home and School Committee, every student will receive an icy juicy after their race.

Thank you for your support. See you this afternoon!

14/08/2026

Inter-school Chess Tournament

Our Merrilands Chess Team - Peter, Felix, Zephyr, and Oliver -travelled to Oakura today to take part in the Taranaki regional inter-school chess tournament. They played 5 games each, winning 4 matches as a team, leading to a final finishing place of 3rd overall! All 4 boys represented the school with pride and it was great to see them SHINE. Tumeke!

12/08/2026

🌱 Big Dig Day Success! 🌱

What an incredible day for our Merrilands School ākonga (students)! On Tuesday, 25 of our fantastic students rolled up their sleeves and planted roughly 840 native plants on a local farm.

The Taranaki weather was absolute perfection, and it’s safe to say a fun, muddy, and wildly rewarding time was had by all. ☀️👏

A massive THANK YOU to:

🚜 Our awesome host farmers for welcoming us onto their land.

🌳 Trees for Survival for making projects like this possible and empowering our kids to care for our local environment.

💚 Our amazing parent helpers & staff—we couldn't run these hands-on trips without your time, supervision, and enthusiasm!

Check out some of our proud young planters in action below! 👇📸

11/08/2026

Engineering Excellence in Rooms 1 & 3!

Our budding engineers in Rooms 1 and 3 took on the ultimate EPro8 challenges in Makerspace last week, and the results were nothing short of amazing!

Using their imagination, tinkering with gears, and tackling complex problem-solving through awesome group work, our students designed and built incredible working models—including Cranes, Pedestal Fans, and Carousels!

This hands-on challenge was the perfect opportunity to put our school SHINE goal into action: showing resilience by persevering with tasks even when they get tricky. Engineering isn't always easy on the first try, but our learners kept testing, tweaking, and supporting each other until they succeeded!

24/07/2026

Pizza PJ Day is back! Next Friday July 31st your tamariki can enjoy a hot pizza lunch while snuggled up in their pjs at school! Order forms have gone home with each child, please complete these and return them to school by Wednesday July 29th. Payments can be made in cash or online, and need to be made by the same date for us to process all of the orders.

Address

Kauri Street
New Plymouth
4312

Telephone

+6467588644

Website

http://www.merrilands.school.nz/

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