Student Involvement

School Assemblies

These occur fortnightly on a Friday. The Student Leaders coordinate assemblies and content includes sharing of class work, sports reports, award recognition and presentations.

All parents and caregivers are welcome to attend.

Agriculture Day

An Agriculture Day is held each year in October. In keeping with the rural nature of our school we encourage all children to look after a calf, lamb or goat and present it at school on this day.

Guidelines are available to assist with rearing these animals.

All participants are then eligible to attend Group Day in Otorohanga.

Library

Student Librarians: Brianna Rapley, Lacey Gray, Amelia Larsen, Paige Fitzgerald

Maihiihi School has a large modern library with an extensive range of books.

Children are responsible for returning books in the same condition in which they were issued. Parents will be asked to reimburse the school for lost and damaged books.

The library is open from 8am until 3pm on most school days.

'Learn to Read - Read to Learn' Programme

Each week students can be nominated to receive this award. To qualify our students need to be seen to be following our Maihiihi LEARN er values.

Learn stands for:
L - Lead
E - Excellence
A - Attitude
R - Respect & Resilience
N - 'Nothing Great is Easily Won'

The purpose for this programme is to encourage students to read books and to build up their personal home library's.
If you are interested in sponsoring this programme please contact Juliette in the school office to find out more information. Sponsorship can be as little as $10 - $100 per year.
Money will go back into purchasing these books for our students.

Sport

Sport takes various forms at Maihiihi School including house, school and weekend sporting opportunities. Weekend sport codes cater for students wishing to participate in cricket, netball, rugby and soccer. Different levels of sport are available.

There is also House Sports: The houses are Kiwi, Kea, Kereru and Tui. All effort is made to keep families together.

Technicraft

Every second Tuesday the Year 7 and Year 8 students' journey by bus to Otorohanga South School for Technicraft. Here they do a variety of activities that include: cookery, sewing, woodcraft, plastics and metalcraft. Specialist teachers in these areas issue reports.

A manual fee is required to be paid at the beginning of the school year.