News

Friday May 15, 2020

Information for Parents - getting kids ready for school

Our (adult) behaviour and response to uncertain situations are very important. Children are looking to us for a sense th...

Thursday May 14, 2020

Principal's message

As we move into level 2 there is a lot of information to be shared with you and your children so that you are all aware ...

Thursday May 14, 2020

Canteen Week 1

The Canteen will be closed on our first day back, Monday 18 May.

Wednesday May 13, 2020

Resuming School Transport Services

When schools resume under Alert Level 2, school transport services will also return to normal schedules. The ongoing saf...

Tuesday May 12, 2020

Level 2 is not about taking a risk. It's about making sure we are not the risk.

Many people throughout the country are looking forward to moving to Level 2. Businesses up and running again, freedom to...

Thursday May 7, 2020

School Photographs - Photolife

PhotoLife has contacted us and advised that they have extended the FREE DELIVERY for orders placed for your child’s scho...

Thursday May 7, 2020

Kia ora koutou

Like me, I am sure many of you were waiting with interest for the announcements made by the Prime Minister today. It is ...

Thursday April 30, 2020

Principal Update

Kia ora, greetings to all. I would like to express my gratitude to all families for your part in maintaining lockdown in...

Wednesday April 22, 2020

URGENT - Parents of OIS students

In order for us to be prepared for students on Wednesday 29 April and to comply with Health and Safety procedures, we mu...

Tuesday April 21, 2020

OIS - Alert Level 3

Yesterday the Government decided that we will move into Alert Level 3 on 28 April. That means we will be open to receive...

Monday April 13, 2020

Kia ora whanau

Things have certainly changed dramatically since your children were last at school on March 20. When we headed into Anni...

Friday March 27, 2020

Stay home to save lives!

We have started into a new phase of New Zealand’s response to COVID-19 and it is very different than anything most of us...

Friday March 27, 2020

New Zealand Police media release/reminder

New Zealand Police released multilingual messages for our communities about the country's move to Covid-19 Alert level 4...

Friday March 27, 2020

Ministry for Pacific Peoples

During these difficult and uncertain times, the Ministry for Pacific Peoples’ (MPP) priority is to keep Pacific communit...

Friday March 27, 2020

BEWARE Covid-19-related online scams

With home internet use set to rocket during the shutdown period, people should be on the lookout for online scams exploi...

Monday March 23, 2020

OIS - Learning at Home website

Teachers have spent time preparing to maintain learning over the long term. Students are welcome to access the work on o...

Monday March 23, 2020

OIS - Learning at Home Google site

Just a reminder that we are currently in the school holidays as they have been brought forward and officially go from Mo...

Monday March 23, 2020

URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT - School Closed: unless children of essential services

With today’s announcement by Government, we are implementing with urgency our plan to support your child’s learning from...

Friday March 20, 2020

Principal Update 20.3.2020

With so much information and misinformation swirling around about COVID-19, I wanted to share with you what will happen ...

Tuesday March 17, 2020

2020 OIS Student Council

Our Student Council for Term 1 and 2 is made up of two students from every class. Each week/fortnight the Student Counci...

Monday March 16, 2020

Principal Update

As you are well aware the various government ministries are providing directives regarding ways in which we can slow the...