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Welcome to Rongotea School

Tēnā Koutou,

My name is Troy Anderson and I'm proud to lead the team here at Rongotea School. We are a rural school of 155 pupils in the heart of the Manawatu. We have eight amazing classrooms and a wonderful supportive community, an active Board of Trustees and a hard working PTA.

If you're considering us as a school for your child, please drop by, email me at principal@rongotea.school.nz or phone 06 324 8614.

Here at Rongotea School, we are very proud of the fantastic facilities we have. We have plenty of space to run around, play rugby, cricket, swim in our school pool, play tennis, bike on our bike track, exercise on our fitness track or play on our playgrounds.

We are currently focusing on developing a localised curriculum, this curriculum is developed to suit all learners at Rongotea School.

We have co-constructed classrooms, children setting student learning goals and next learning steps. It's important that each student knows what their learning goal is and what they can do to become successful life long learners.

What's happening at Rongotea School?

Upcoming Events in October

Wed 28

Assembly - Teams Huia, Moa, Tui

28 Oct 2026

Latest Notices

Weather for next week

28 Oct 2026

Afternoon all,

We are having a wee look at the weather for next week, with our eyes on Wednesday's weather. Its not looking great for our Athletics Day. With that in mind we will be making the decision on Friday afternoon if we will move our Athletics Day from Wednesday the 4th to Monday the 2nd. Keep an eye out for our communication around this on Friday afternoon.

Athletics Day

27 Oct 2026

Evening everyone,

Our school athletics day is fast approaching and I'm after a few volunteers to help out. It will most likely be timekeeping and possibly helping at long jump. If you are able to help out at all - even for a few hours - can you please email me on jenna.mcdonald@rongotea.school.nz

More info regarding the day will come out early next week.

Thanks

Jenna

New Carpark

23 Oct 2026

Kia ora whānau,

Great news—our carpark is now open for use!

Please keep a few quick safety and operational updates in mind when using the space:

Entrance Lip: There is currently a small lip on the concrete at the entrance. This will be levelled and sorted out soon, but please take extra care when driving over it for now.
Parking Recommendation: To help traffic flow safely and easily, we recommend backing into your parking spots against the swimming pool wall, along the neighbour's wall, and down the back.
Tamariki Safety: Please remind your tamariki that this entrance is active with moving vehicles. Remind them to stay alert and exercise caution when walking past the carpark entrance, just as they would at any driveway or crossing.

Thank you for your support in keeping our tamariki and community safe!

POOL KEYS

23 Oct 2026

Pool Keys will be on sale from the office from Tuesday the 27th October. The pool will be open for swimming from the !st November 2026 to 31st March 2027. Keys remain the same price as last year, $100. Lets hope for a wonderful summer of swimming!

End of year trophies and cups

21 Oct 2026

End of year trophies and cups
With the end of the year fast approaching, it is now time to hand back the trophies and cups that your child recieived at last years prizegiving. Please return them to the office as soon as you can as these will need to got to the engravers for this years prizegiving.
Thankyou.

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