Matamata Primary School

29/05/2026

🏆 It was award central today at our whole school assembly! So incredibly proud of our MPS kids!
In the following photos we have…

🌟 Classroom certificate recipients
🏉 Year 3/4 Orr Cup Players
🏐 Netball Cotter Cup Players
🏑 Hockey Cotter Cup Players 🏆
🏉 Rugby Cotter Cup Players 🏆
⚽️ Soccer Cotter Cup Players 🏆
😄 Values Card Draw Winners
🚌 Awesome Attendance… Serena
AND… 🥁

Well done to our new school leaders who received their badges today 👏🏻

Enjoy your long weekend team, you deserve it!

27/05/2026

Certificates for Rugby, Netball, Football and Hockey (1st and 2nd place) will be handed out tomorrow at Assembly, 2pm on the Turf.

26/05/2026

Can all shirts issued for Football and Rugby last week please be returned ASAP to the Office.

24/05/2026

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This week is a Pizza and Jucies week!
Please have all orders in via the Kindo App by 10.30am on Wednesday morning - ready for Thursday's pizza lunch.

If you need support in navigating the app - please contact your child's teacher.

24/05/2026

We have two upcoming Teacher Only Days.
Term 2 - Friday, 26th June
Term 3 - Wednesday, 29th July for Parent Conferences - more detail will follow later closer to the time.

Kelly Club will be open on both of these days if you are needing to book in childcare for these days. To make a booking go to www.kellyclub.co.nz, or email [email protected]

Kelly Club provides before and after-school-care, and school holiday programmes that kids love. Awesome fun activities! Arts, crafts, sports and much more!

22/05/2026

Well done to our Week 5 winners 👏🏻

🍕 Lucas Rm 12
🏊‍♀️Frankie Rm 14
🏉 Harry Rm 5
🐻 Sky Rm 9

Next week is our BIG draw at our whole school assembly so keep those cards coming in!

21/05/2026

Has somebody lost this little bunny? 🐰 He has been handed into the school office. Please get in touch if he belongs to you or you know who he belongs to

21/05/2026

COTTER CUP SPORTS DAY

A huge well done and congratulations to all of our students that participated yesterday in the Cotter Cup sports day! We had 109 students representing MPS in Hockey, Rugby, Netball and Football.

A huge thank you to all of our parents helpers, managers, sports clubs and schools that helped with organisation and hosting this day! Many of our students count down to this down to this event each year.

Results for 2026

Netball 2nd place
Rugby 1st and 2nd place
Football 1st place
Hockey 1st place

What an epic day ☀️

20/05/2026

Photolife will be coming back to MPS on Monday 25 May to take some individual and sibling photos of children who were away on Photo day. Once these have been taken you will receive a code to view and order online.

20/05/2026

MPS Community Calendar

All of our school events such as sports days, sushi day, teacher only days etc are now on our MPS Community Calendar as of this morning. You can view this calendar on our website following the link below as well as on the Skool Loop app under 'Calendar'. You will find events right up until the end of 2026. Please note there could be changes to events due to a variety of different circumstances that could pop up throughout the year so please do check this regularly.

https://www.matamataprimary.school.nz/our-school-2/news-and-events/events/

Thanks,
MPS Team

Download our Skool Loop App, a simple and free download. In Google Play & App Store search ‘Skool Loop’ and choose our school once installed.

20/05/2026

Congratulations to Rocco and Remmie, who did an amazing job leading our junior assembly on Friday and to our learners who received a certificate!