Gilberthorpe School

11/12/2025

Here is the list of school performances at the Xmas Fun Day this Saturday 13th from 11am to 3pm at Gilberthorpe School.
We would like to thank Mainfreight for donating the truck stage this year.

10/12/2025

🎂 Calling All Bakers (and Eaters)! 🍪
We’re getting ready for our Market Day on Saturday 13th December and we are running a Bake Sale, so we are asking for your help to make it sweet!
Whether you’re a master baker or a supermarket slicer, we’d love for every family to donate one delicious item — think cupcakes, slices, fudge, biscuits, or anything that will make people say “Yum!”

Every treat helps raise money for our school and keeps the stall overflowing with goodness.
Please drop your goodies off on Friday 12th December — packaged and ready to sell if possible.

Let’s make this the most mouth-watering market yet! 🧁💛

10/12/2025

One of our school families has lost a. blue budgie in the area. Please keep an eye out and make contact with them if you see it. Details in the pic.

08/12/2025

Kia ora whānau,

**Live stream of Miss Waho's assembly today, 2pm here on this page**

As we prepare the farewell assembly for Miss Waho today, we would like to share a few notes with you all.

The assembly will start promptly at 2pm, so we ask everyone to please be seated by 1.45pm. Please do not sit in the reserved seating.

This will be held in the school hall, due to the unpredictable elements of Mother Nature.

With the size of the hall, we are unable to seat everyone who is likely to want to attend, so we will be setting up one of our junior classes and live-streaming this on Facebook via this school page. (This will be on a tripod, not a moved-around version, so you may not see everything, but you will see the important parts)

Because we are live-streaming this, it means you can tune in if you are unable to come along or would prefer to stay away from the crowds.

Those with children in the junior classes who are staying, you are welcome to sit with your child in the junior class and watch the live stream. We ask that these students are not seated in the school hall, please.

We appreciate those that have made arrangements for their child to go home slightly earlier, so the majority of our staff can attend the assembly.

We appreciate your support in making this event run as smoothly as possible.

From the Gilberthorpe Staff.

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26/11/2025

Had Miss Waho as a teacher or an inspiration when you were connected with Gilberthorpe School?? Well, this may be of interest to you.

GIlberthorpe School will be hosting a special assembly on Tuesday, 9th December, as we celebrate and farewell Lee-Anne from our kura.

19/11/2025

Our third and final day of camp was another great one. After we had cleaned up, we had a bit of time to enjoy the camp space and some of us went for a bush walk.
Our main activity was archery tag, which is often a favorite.
We finished our time in an outdoor amphitheatre sharing about what we enjoyed.
We are so proud of all of the kids because they gave everything a go and had some very lovely moments.
Thank you to everyone who played a part in making camp possible.
Not as many photos today, but I will share a folder with families soon.

19/11/2025

Kia ora e te whănau. Our happy campers have just left Living Springs and we are on our way nack ro school.
Whănau can pick kids up from when we arrive. Should be back by 2.30.

18/11/2025

Day two of Year 6 Camp has been great. We started with a zip line, mono rail, gaga dodge ball, mini golf and volleyball.
Some impressive determination and resilience was shown during our tree climbing and mountain boarding.
After a nacho lunch, we played an animal survival game. Mrs Park came to visit and brought us all iceblocks, which were perfect for cooling us down.
Burgers for dinner went down well and after a bit of chill time, we headed to the pool for an evening swim.
Once darkness fell, we had a game of spotlight light, which was a first for some of us.
We are looking forward to playing archery tag tomorrow before we head back to home sweet home.
Once again, the staff at Living Springs have been amazing and so helpful and cool. Our team of adult helpers have been outstanding and have made our camp experience enjoyable, cruisey and fun. Thank you all. X

18/11/2025

Kia ora Whānau,

We have just had confirmation from the Testing Lab that all test results were negative for Asbestos. This is great news.

School will be reopened tomorrow, and we are looking forward to welcoming everyone back.

I want to acknowledge that this has been a difficult time and has caused inconveniences; however, the health and safety of students and staff remain our Board of Trustees' top priority. I thank you for your support and understanding over the last few days.

Ngā mihi

Simon Scott

17/11/2025

Our Year 6 students are tucked up in bed after a great first day of Year 6 Camp. They coped so well with the up hill walk to Living Springs Camp.
We started with orienteering, a swim and an evening Camp fire.
This is just a small selection of our photos, and I apologise if I haven't shared photos of all of our students.
I'll do another update for Day 2 as we go on a zipline, tree climbing, mountain boarding and a bush walk.
Pōmarie...good night.
Miss Waho.

17/11/2025

**School closure - Tuesday 18th November**

Kia Ora Whānau,

First and foremost, I want to thank our community for your understanding and support regarding the sudden closure of Gilberthorpe School.

This afternoon, we are conducting school-wide testing, and we expect to have the results by tomorrow at the latest. However, we have been advised that the school will need to remain closed tomorrow due to contamination concerns, based on guidance from our testing contractors.

Please make childcare arrangements for your children for tomorrow. Should the results indicate that there is no contamination, we will inform you as soon as possible about the reopening day/plan for the school.

Thank you for your patience and understanding. The health and safety of our students and staff are our top priority.

Ngā mihi

Simon Scott
Principal
Ara Tū Whakatā Gilberthorpe School
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16/11/2025

We will be posting updates on here and Hero as we get them.

We have a specialist tester expected at school later today, and we will update everyone on the situation as the information comes to us.

Thank you for your understanding with this situation.

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