Glenbrook CALF CLUB DAY – Saturday 28th September 2024 Welcome to Glenbrook School Calf Club Day 2024.Our agricultural day, known as Calf Club, is a very long and proud tradition at Glenbrook School. It is a day in which students, teachers and the community come together to showcase a range of animals and rural abilities of our wonderful children. This year, Glenbrook School Calf Club is on Saturday 28th September. It is an integral part of our school community, history and curriculum. It reflects the rural and environmental nature of our school… Read More

Kia Ora e te Whanau, The last few weeks we have had a lot of sick akonga and kaiako. While attendance at school is very important, please keep your child home if they are sick and notify the school. Much of the illness in school may have been avoided by our kaiako if sick akonga had been kept home until they were well. Whilst we will do what we can to find relievers, if we are unable to safely staff classes or the school, we will close classes. This long weekend, we… Read More

WelcomeKia ora koutou katoa, nau mai, haere mai ki te kura o Glenbrook. Welcome back to all our whanau, tamariki and kaiako. We would also like to welcome our new whanau: Gurjot Singh, Rouxné and Gurrard Bothma, Ngaporia Katipa-White, Sanna Schiphorst, Matthew and Marius Huyser.  ANZACThank you to our whanau who took the time to attend our school ANZAC service. Well done to all our classes and to our student leaders for leading. Thank you to all our students who made the effort to represent our school at the Waiuku town service…. Read More

Nau mai, haere mai e te whanau ki te wiki nei. “Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive”. It’s hard to believe we are already at the end of Term 1. Thank you all for a start we have had to our year. Highlights include our Beach camp to Managwahi, Grahams Beach trip, swimming sports, Franklin Cultural Festival, student leadership conferences, Waitangi Falls unveiling, eye on nature enviro visit, Sullivan’s Cup, Polyfest, Kahui Ako kapa haka… Read More

Talofa lava Whanau, Kapa HakaI am super proud of our incredible Kapa Haka group. Over seventy students performed on Saturday at the Franklin Multicultural Festival. We had the largest group by far and won the Franklin Multicultural Trophy which is awarded for tautoko and kaupapa. We loved the huge amounts of whanau support. Thank you to all our whanau for coming along and to those who helped get our beautiful akonga ready. Most of all, well done to all our Kapa Haka for your bravery, your strength and mana mauri. Every single… Read More

Kia Orana and Bula Whanau, Today our Senior Student Council attended the GRIP Student Conference. They had lots of fun with their peers reflecting on student leadership. This included ideas and ways they would strengthen and expand leadership initiatives in our school. Thanks to Mr Meredith and Mr Buckingham for supporting.  Franklin Cultural Festival Tomorrow our kapa haka team is performing at the Franklin Cultural Festival. This is being held at the Indian Hall in Pukekohe. The festival starts at 12.30pm. There are stalls and we are excited to see our other… Read More

Ahiahi Marie e te Whanau,  What a great week it has been with our successful akonga.  Waitangi Falls UnveilingIt was a very special privilege to be part of the sign unveiling at Waitangi Falls with Franklin Council and Ngati Te Ata iwi. Our senior council and senior kapa haka students represented our kura with mana and mauri. We are super proud of everyone involved. Thanks to Matua Paora and Matua Selwyn for involving our kura in this waahi tapu. Special mention to our rangatahi, Alexandra and Kairos who unveiled the sign and… Read More

Kia Ora e te Whanau, On Wednesday 20th March, Polyfest 2024 begins. Ms Stuart will be taking a small group of Kapa Haka seniors to Polyfest. Those students will receive a separate notice on Monday. However if whanau would like to take their own children to Polyfest please email the school to let us know. Anyone can attend Polyfest, this is not just for Kapa Haka whanau. It is a fantastic week of championing the amazing cultures we have here in Tamaki Makaurau,  Polyfest is the Auckland Secondary’s School Maori and Pasifika… Read More

Saturday 10th March, Pukekohe Indian Hall Kia ora Whanau, We are so excited your child is in our Kapa Haka team. We will be having our kapa haka wananga and practise for Franklin Multicultural Festival this Sunday 10th March at Glenbrook School.   It starts at 12pm for the girls and 1pm for the boys and will finish around 3.30pm. You are welcome to stay or drop off. Please bring snacks and or a plate of kai for sharing.  for sharing.  Students will be fitted for their kapa haka uniform. Can we please… Read More

Ki ngā whakaeke haumi ‘Ally yourself with those who have already banded together’  Swimming Sports Well done to all our students who are making the most of the opportunities at our school. We are super proud of all students who had a go at swimming sports last fortnight. We loved and appreciated every student who did their best for their whanau team at  swimming and showing team spirit. Well done to our Whanau leaders for leading our whanau teams and ensuring students where engaged. Congratulations to our students who placed and have been… Read More