Kelburn Normal School

We held our Year 8 Leavers farewell last week with much fun, laughter and aroha. It was a lovely occasion to celebrate the Year 8 classes with their whānau and staff to reflect on the past and look forward to the future. Our huge thanks to all the Māia teachers - Mrs Munn, Miss Croft and Mr Pearce for all their care and support of Year 8 in 2025 and thank you to Mrs Munn, our Associate Principal, who organised and MCed this fabulous evening.
On Monday our Senior Kapa Haka group farewelled our Year 8s with a moving performance after the final assembly.

KNS Board of Trustees - letter to community in regard to the recent changes removing legal obligation for school boards to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Board letter to community re Te Tiriti law changes pub 25 Nov 25.pdf

Join us for the 35th annual Pack the Bus. The Breeze will again pack the Bus for Wellington City Mission. The Bus is visiting our school coming Monday 24 November at 9:45am. https://wellingtoncitymission.org.nz/mission

If you like to contribute any item(s) (see list on the picture) please drop them off into the box in the school office foyer either today Friday or first thing Monday morning. Thanks

A huge thank you to Anna and Fiona for organizing the beautiful peony fundraiser. Reception smelt absolutely wonderful on Friday morning — what a fantastic effort! Over 400 blooms were sold.
Your hard mahi is greatly appreciated. 💐

Link to the order form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSbcBN4GZpiQWSqGz73SGtnBzPDLrwlTcpCghYkyWCBYZg9A/viewform

Onesie week is here!
Kelburn Normal school is supporting the 2025 Onesies Appeal to help Wellington Free Ambulance - you can give via the KNS specific donation site: https://onesieday.co.nz/users/kelburn-normal-school-3 Or go traditional with a gold coin donation at school on Friday.
In any case we are looking forward to seeing Tamariki dressed up in their onesies this Friday.

https://youtu.be/T_9on7Ko4mA

It's not too late:
Kelburn Normal School - PTA
Fundraising with the Entertainment Book
Your purchase of an Entertainment Membership contributes to funds for the benefit of KNS and our tamariki. Help us achieve our goal by sharing this link with your friends and family. Thanks so much for your support!
https://subscribe.entertainmentnz.com/fundraiser/104d205

The Kelburn Normal School Board of Trustees has determined that spaces are likely to be available at all year levels (Year1-8) for out of zone students eligible for enrolment during the period January – December 2026. Applications for out of zone places are being invited for those students who are eligible for enrolment. The deadline for receipt of applications for out of zone places is 12 September 2025. Further information can be found in this document https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NDbnZNyxIF2CEX9HEQwO7DZJFdmNjFys/view?usp=drive_link or from our office [email protected]

2026 Out of Zone Enrolments Advert 1st.pdf

Don't miss out on the delicious opportunity to support our school! This is your FINAL call to order your pies.
Orders close at 5PM on Tuesday, August 5th! Thank you for your continued support!

Just a quick reminder about our school gardening working bee happening this Sunday 3rd August, from 9am to 11am!

We would love for you to join us as we work together to beautify our school grounds. Don't forget to bring along any gardening tools you might have. We can't wait to see you there!

Thanks for your support.
PTA

Last week we held our annual Book Week at Kelburn - it was fantastic week of celebrating everything reading - we had many fun activities for the tamariki - from staff Mystery readers to classes, making bookmarks, guessing the favourite book characters of kaiako, literacy quizzes and so much more. The Book Parade was a terrific way to cap off the Book Week Celebrations on Friday - so colourful and the tamariki enjoyed this very much!

A huge thank you to our wonderful Library team - Katharina Vautier, Libya Munn, Rebekah Rasmussen, Marianne Blair, and Andrea Molloy - for organising such a fun, interactive and enjoyable Te wiki ō Pukapuka – Book Week!

There are two ways you can support this book-raiser:

1 Go to https://marsdenbooks.co.nz/c/kelburn-school-bookraiser

Either create a login
choose and buy a book
add Kelburn under Notes
choose click and collect
and Marsden Books will supply us with the book.
Or
choose a book from the list and go into Marsden Books and pay for it. Just let the friendly staff know it is for the Kelburn Bookraiser.

2 Make a donation so that we may buy less common quality books. Email [email protected] to find out our school account number.

All books raised will include a note to say that they have been donated by your family.