10 Feb 2022 VISION AND HEARING SCREENING Vision and Hearing Screening helps ensure that our children’s health and their ability to learn is at its best. Children’s vision and hearing continue to develop and change [...]

3 February 2022 The Otaika Valley School Board of Trustees has decided this school will not be used as a vaccination site.  The choice to vaccinate children is a parental decision.  This may alleviate a [...]

Request for volunteers Needed: someone or a group of parents to vacuum the pool in the mornings before 9:30am. This is a 30 minute job to maintain pool quality for the children's swimming. Parents in [...]

  2 Feb 2022 To the parents/caregivers of Otaika Valley School The Board of Trustees are required to implement mandatory face mask wearing at school (details below) to keep all children as safe as possible [...]

14 December Kia ora koutou With one day of school to go, here is the final newsletter for the school year.  Yesterday, all 2022 classes met in their next year’s classroom with their teacher.  We [...]

8 December 21 Kia ora koutou We are starting to field a few inquires about what the new traffic light system means for schools. On Tuesday I attended a Ministry of Education workshop on how [...]

23 November 2021 Kia ora koutou to our parent/caregivers, This year has been one out of the box for everyone and is the most difficult I have experienced in 11 years of being principal.  Today’s [...]