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Nau mai, haere mai ki te kura o Roto-o-Rangi

Maungatautari Mountain provides the perfect rural backdrop to our spacious park-like grounds, boasting fruit and native trees, vegetable gardens and of course an enormous field for our tamariki to enjoy.

If you are looking for a kura / school that is a little bit different we welcome you to come for a visit!

Introducing Our School

We are a vibrant country primary school located in the heart of the Roto-o-Rangi district, just a short drive from Cambridge.

Roto-o-Rangi means Lake of the Sky due to the very large, shallow roto/lake that existed here pre-European settlement. The large, flat surface of the roto reflected te rangi/the sky.

Our school is a mix of rural and town students from Years 1 to 6. As a school, we have a clear and strong Vision: Tuurangawaewae/Belonging, Mahi Tahi/Co-operation and Rerekeetanga/Innovation. A kura where tauira/students find a sense of belonging, work together and prepare for success in their future. We are a PB4L School, with a focus on positive behaviour centred around our three school values of Respect/Whakaute, Resilience/Manawaroa and Responsibility/Takohanga.

A school bus runs daily from Leamington Rugby Sports Club and a rural bus collects students from around the Roto-o-Rangi and Kairangi areas. We have ample parking available for families who drop off and collect their children, with Before and After School Care programmes operating daily.

At Roto-o-Rangi School, we combine country values with modern learning. We are committed to providing a positive, stimulating, enjoyable learning environment where your child is encouraged to 'Tuumanako Teitei Aim High' and reach their full potential. Our smaller size allows the relationships between students, teachers/ngaa kaiako, ngaa whaanau/families and peers to flourish. Kaiako can truly know the individual and get the best out of them.

Our high quality teaching staff provide stimulating, challenging and learner-centred teaching practices. They incorporate traditional, proven techniques with modern, innovative approaches to develop the strong foundations needed for our tamariki to thrive in an ever-changing future.

To find out more about us, please take your time to explore our site, visit our Facebook page or call in for a visit.

I look forward to personally meeting you and having you and your child/ren join our school community.

Ngaa mihi,

Wayne Donnellon - Principal

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What's happening at Roto o Rangi School?

Upcoming Events in June

Mon 15

Speeches being presented in class

15 Jun 2026 - 19 Jun 2026

Fri 19

Wear Yellow for Harold day

19 Jun 2026

Sun 21

Battle of the Schools Track Cycling Competition

21 Jun 2026

Wed 24

Kapahaka

24 Jun 2026

Wed 24

Hot Food Day (every Wednesday, Term 2 & 3)

24 Jun 2026

Thu 25

Roto Speech Competition

25 Jun 2026

Fri 26

Written Report go home

26 Jun 2026

Fri 26

Assembly

26 Jun 2026

Mon 29

Student Conferences

29 Jun 2026

Latest Notices

Funds Raised for Harold

19 Jun 2026

Moorena e te whaanau,

Thank you for sending your children wearing yellow for Harold the Giraffe and the Life Education Trust! We have collected $49 to send through to them. If you would like to contribute to this you can pay into the Roto-o-Rangi School account 02-0316-0126443-000 reference 'Harold' and we will add it to our total before transferring it to them next week.

Garden to Table Tomorrow

18 Jun 2026

Garden to Table Tomorrow!

Room 4/5 families!!
Your tamariki have G2T tomorrow, so please send them wearing covered shoes (extra points if they're yellow! 😅 💛)

If any parents want to come and support in the kitchen or garden, it will start after Morning tea at 11.20 am.

Battle of the Schools Schedule

16 Jun 2026

THIS SUNDAY!!!
🚴‍♀️BATTLE OF THE SCHOOLS!! 🚴

Come along to support Roto Tyre Fire and Roto Rockets - our two Velodrome cycling teams, as they battle it out against other schools at the Grassroots Trust Velodrome!

If your children would like to make supportive signs to hold up at the event they are most welcome to!

Good luck to Millie, Hugo & Hendrik (Roto Tyre Fire) and Ashleigh, Melita and Leo (Roto Rockets) - we'll be there to cheer you on!

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Week 9 - What's On

15 Jun 2026

Ata maarie e te whaanau,

It's Week 9 of 11, and here's what's coming up...

Monday

Speeches! Today sees the beginning of the students presenting their speeches (or poems) to their class groups. From here, three students for each age group will be selected to compete against their peers at the Roto Speech Competition on the evening of Thursday 25th June. We wish all our tauira (students) well as they dig deep for their resilience this week!
Milo Monday
Gymnastics News - From today, parents of students who have been involved in gymnastics sessions will receive an email to let them know if their child has been selected to represent the school at Gymfest 2026.

Tuesday

Preschool visit - BestStart Educare will be visiting Room 1 in the morning with a small group of preschoolers. This is the first visit, and something we hope to expand on in the future.
Board Meeting 6pm.

Wednesday

Hot Food - please double check the requirements if unsure.
Kapa Haka

Thursday

Newsletter Day
If you haven't already, please head over to the Skool Loop App, click the Interviews tab and book your student conferences. This is a great opportunity for you to share your child's learning with them, and to speak with their teacher about how things are going. Conferences are on Monday 29th June and Wednesday 1st July. Spaces are filling up now, so please make sure you book yours soon.

Friday

Wear Yellow For Harold! Please come to school wearing YELLOW, or even dressed as a giraffe! We'll be collecting gold coin donations too, in support of our favourite giraffe from the Life Education Trust.

Sunday

If you don't have plans this Sunday please come along to the Grassroots Velodrome to support our two amazing teams in The Battle Of The Schools cycling competition!! We are very excited about this, as it's the first time we've ever had students from our school taking part, and it's an extremely challenging sport to participate in! If you've never been to the Velodrome, it's certainly a sight to behold! We believe the event begins at 10am, but as yet have not been given specific details. Once this comes through we will send it out on all our platforms.

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Fieldays Traffic

10 Jun 2026

Fieldays has begun!

For us this means it will take a bit more time to get to school in the mornings and home in the afternoons, so please take care on the roads and allow a little more time and patience for your journey.

For parents of our tamariki catching the school buses, please be patient and know that the buses WILL be coming, they will just get caught in traffic around the town - particularly our morning town bus, which has other runs before ours.

In previous years we have held a TOD on Fieldays Friday as we attended a special PLD organised by the Kahui Ako. Following the nationwide scrapping of Kahui Ako, we no longer have this day, hence no TOD on Friday. We have already had 3 TODs this year for Maths PLD, and one coming up in August, so that's enough extra days for our families to be managing.

If you're heading to Fieldays on Saturday, have lots of fun and remember to tell us all about it on Monday!

Kia pai too raa,

Roxy