Welcome to Riverina School

Dear Parents and Whānau,

As we welcome the warmer weather, we are excited to mark the beginning of our summer hat-wearing season on Friday, 16 October.

To celebrate, we are asking all children to create a fun, colourful and creative hat to wear during our hat parade at 2:15pm on the day. We encourage children to use their imagination and design a hat that reflects their personality. It could be decorated with bright colours, patterns, flowers, animals or any other creative ideas.

As the weather gets warmer, protecting our children from the sun is extremely important. Wearing a sun-safe school hat helps protect their faces, ears and necks from harmful UV rays and reduces the risk of sunburn.

Please remember our school rule: “No Hat, No Play!” All children must wear our Riverina School sun-safe hat when playing outside during break times. Children who do not have a hat will need to remain in a shaded area rather than playing outside in the sun.

We appreciate your support in helping us keep our children safe, healthy and sun-smart throughout the summer months.

We look forward to seeing all the wonderful and imaginative creations our children come up with!

Thank you for your continued support.

Ngā mihi nui

Leadership Team

Dear Riverina Families,

Here is the final Riverina Runner for Term 3.

As you can see, we have a busy and action-packed Term 4 ahead, with lots to look forward to.

We wish all our Riverina families a wonderful and restful school holiday break. We hope you enjoy some quality time together and make the most of the holidays.

We look forward to welcoming everyone back to school at 8.45am on Monday 12th October for the start of Term 4.

Have a lovely holiday!

Riverina School

Riverina-runner-Term-3-Week-10.pdf

Dear Riverina Families,

A friendly reminder that our next Term 3 Wheels Day is happening on Tuesday 22 September.

Students are welcome to bring their bike or scooter to school and take part on our school bike track.

Please remember:

• Students must have a helmet to participate.
• We have introduced a new opt-out permission system for Wheels Days. All students will take part in Wheels Day unless a parent/caregiver has emailed their child’s class teacher to let them know that their child cannot participate.
• Please make sure bikes and scooters are in safe working condition.

We are looking forward to another fun Wheels Day!

Riverina School

Dear Riverina Families,

Here is the latest Riverina Runner. A reminder that the school holiday break is coming up and our OSCAR programme is available to book now. Click here to book

Riverina School 

Week-8-Term-3-UPDATED.pdf

Dear Riverina Families,

We wanted to let you know that the school briefly went into lockdown today, just after 12pm, as a precaution following a notification from one of our neighbours that there had been a burglary nearby.

Our staff immediately followed our school safety procedures and placed the school into lockdown. Within 5 minutes, the Police were onsite, and after approximately 10 minutes, all students were able to be released from the lockdown.

We are very pleased to say that our students did an excellent job. They remained calm, listened carefully to instructions and followed the safety procedures really well. We are incredibly proud of them and our staff for the calm and organised way everyone responded.

The situation has now been resolved, with the suspect apprehended, and there is no further risk to the school. Our school day will continue as normal.

Thank you for your understanding and support. We just wanted to keep our families informed and reassure you that everyone is safe and well.

Riverina School