2025 Enrolments

If your child is turning 5 in 2025 and you have not yet completed an enrolment form, please do so now. Knowing student numbers is crucial for effective school planning and the allocation of resources (classrooms, teachers, and other essentials). Forms can be collected from the school office or downloaded from the school website.

 Principal’s Message

Dear Parents and Whānau

Ministry of Education Guidance

The Ministry of Education has provided guidance on student attendance, health and wellbeing, and each fortnight I will share this with parents. In this newsletter, I have shared information around student attendance (see below).

With school holidays approaching, it is timely for me to remind parents that holidays should be kept within the holiday timeframe where possible and that any requests for additional leave (3 days or more) should be emailed directly to me (principal@cocklebay.school.nz). 

Alice in Wonderland Jnr

The first of two casts had their opening night yesterday, and performed magnificently. The standard of acting, singing, costuming and props was exceptional. The second cast has their first night tonight and we all wish them well. If you haven’t got tickets, and wish to come, there are matinees during the day on Thursday and Friday at 11am.

A heartfelt thank you to Lynnette Leggett for her leadership in the production, with excellent support from Mandy Kearney, Louise Parker and a large team of staff. We also extend a special thanks to the incredibly talented group of parents who contributed in numerous ways. Thank you also to the Howick Children’s Musical Theatre Studio for all their support, and Howick College for lending us their wonderful facilities and team of student helpers.

HPPA Dance Festival

Cockle Bay School (thanks Kimberley Rivett, staff on the night, and Stephen Moran) organised a dance festival for local schools last week, which was a lovely celebration of what talented students can do. There were two dance groups from our school who made us all proud. Thanks go to the students for their preparations and to the coaches Mandy Kearney and Louise Parker.

HPPA Literacy Quiz

A phenomenal win! We are incredibly proud of our Year 5/6 Literacy teams who competed at the HPPA Literacy Quiz. One of our teams came 1st and the other team came 7th. A fantastic result given there were 37 teams in total. Well done to our two teams and their amazing Lit Quiz support team who have coached them and supported them.

Ngā Mihi

Dorothy Bigwood

Student attendance: A guide for parents and caregivers

Every day counts towards your child’s learning at school. Attending school gives your child the best opportunity to realise their full potential and do well in life.

• Parents and caregiver expectations
• Is my child well enough to go to school?
• Tips for parents
• Getting help if your child is not attending regularly
• More information

Alice in Wonderland Jnr

1st placegetters – HPPA Literacy Quiz

National Kung Fu and Wushu Championships

 Parent Teacher Network

TROPICAL DISCO – FRIDAY 13 SEPTEMBER!tytytyaVfetyetyhoetypp

Get your tickets now for the Tropical Disco. Come dressed in your favourite beach gear and boogie like its already summer! 

Disco times:

Year 0-2:  5.30pm to 6.15pm

Year 3-4:  6.30pm to 7.30pm

Year 5-6:  7.45pm to 8.45pm

Purchase tickets on KINDO now (www.kindo.com)

Tickets $6 each or $9 (ticket and quarter pizza) or $11 (ticket and half pizza).

You even get to choose your favourite song!

Come prior to your disco and get face and hair painting, available for a gold coin donation. Extra pizza and ice blocks available for purchase on the night.

 Health & Safety

 Uniform Shop

Next opening date Monday, 16 September – 8:15am-9:00am and 2:30pm-3:15pm.

 Teacher Only Day

Each term we review the content and implementation of our school policies and we ask our school community to participate in this process. Please go to our website, and under “Our School”, select “Policies and Procedures”. Here you will find a Push Button that says “Go to Policies” and this will take you through to the SchoolDocs site where you will see a blue button labelled “Reviews”. Select the policy that you wish to review from the list of topics, then select the push button “Start your Review”. Username: cocklebay. Password: sandspit.

This term the policies under review are:

• Concerns and complaints policy
• Media
• Performance management
• Professional development
• Protected disclosure
• Staff conduct
• Staff leave

 2025 Somerville Intermediate Enrolments

Collect the Yummy cut-out labels from bags (each cut-out label is worth 10 stickers) and individual Yummy apple stickers for your school’s share of the $200,000 free Sport sports gear prize pool. Yummy apples are available from New World, PAK’nSAVE and participating Four Square stores. The more you collect, the more sports gear you get, so get going and start collecting your Yummy cut-out labels and stickers now!

Sticker Collection Sheet