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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?

Latest Notices

Junior Te Manawa trip reminder

25 Aug 2026

Te Manawa Junior School Trip

Wednesday 26 August 2026

Reminder

Compulsory BOOSTER SEAT for 5 & 6 year olds

Group 1 (Team Ruru and ½ Kaki) will leave school at 9.00am and return approx. 12.30pm

Please ensure your child is at school by 8.55am.

Group 2 (Team Kea and ½ Kaki) will leave school at 12pm and return by 2.55pm

Cheryl, Becky & Eve

Whānau Interviews

24 Aug 2026

Afternoon all,

The "bookings" tab on the Skool Loop is now active for you to book your whānau interviews next week - Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Thanks

Rongotea Staff

SPeeches Today

24 Aug 2026

Morning,

If your student brought home their cue cards for their speech on Friday, please make sure they bring them to school as we are presenting speeches today.

Thanks,

Jess

Feilding Touch Term 4

21 Aug 2026

Morning Everyone,

Next term the Feilding Touch competition is back. It starts Week 2 and runs for 7 weeks. These games are played on Thursday afternoons from 4pm onwards at Victoria Park. This competition is for Year 1 up to Year 8. (Year 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 and 7-8).

I will meet with the keen kids next week and send out an initial notice and interest slip. Each team will need a coach/manager attached to them as well. If you are keen you can indicate on the interest slip that will be returned to the office.

Any queries please email me jenna.mcdonald@rongotea.school.nz

Thanks,

Jenna McDonald

Lego needed

18 Aug 2026

LEGO!! Tomorrow we are building Lego cars that will blast off using a balloon. If you have any Lego around the house that we could use to construct our cars, please bring in tomorrow.

We currently don’t have enough ‘wheels’ so please have a wee hunt around tonight for any spare Lego that we could use!

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