Welcome to Matapu School

At Matapu School we have a strong family values around the school with every student knowing each other and strong connections with our families. Life Long Learning skills have a huge focus for us as we encourage problem solving, creativity, imagination, curious minds, having a go, not giving up, concentrating, keep improving and enjoying learning.

Come along and see us and/or check out our facebook page to look at what we have been learning.

About Us

Kia Ora

and welcome to Matapu School's homepage

Matapu School is a rural, full primary school located just outside Hawera that caters for students from year 1 to year 8. We have a roll of around 110 children with 5 classrooms. Matapu School prides itself on quality learning programmes, passionate teachers who build positive relationships, with strong sports,cultural and Science, Technology and Maths programmes.

Meet the staff!

Principal's News

We are very excited to be doing a whole school production in Term 2. A great chance for our children to shine at singing, dancing and acting. We are also having a book fair and a grandparents/whanau day on Friday the 8th June 2018.

Term 1 has been funfilled as usual with swimming, growth mindset open day, onesie day, wheels day, athletics, tryathlon and much more. Enjoy the holidays

We are very excited to have you all back at school starting on the 30th January. Our school pool will be up and running so don't forget your togs and 2 towels as most days the students can swim at lunchtimes as well.

Term 4 is always such a fun filled busy term with our Pet Day, STEM Expo with the MOA Kluster, School Hangi and camps for our Year 5-8 classes + much more.

Touch Rugby starts in the first week and we have cricket coaching for our younger classes as well.

If you are thinking of Matapu School for your child next year please come and see me and I can give you a tour of the school and have a chat about your child's needs.

All our latest news is always on our Facebook page make sure you check it out :)