21 Sep 2026

Reminder to Students:  Entries Closes this Friday, 25 September

As you know, once a term we have our special Fruit of the Spirit mufti day.  This year we want to make our Fruit of the Spirit Mufti Day even more awesome - and we want YOU to help design the shirt!

We are running a Fruit of the Spirit T-shirt Design Competition, and the winning design will be printed on a shirt and made available for students to purchase and wear on our future Fruit of the Spirit mufti days!
There will be a winner chosen each from Primary and High School.

Design Criteria

Your design must include:

• The words: "Fruit of the Spirit" OR "Galatians 5:22-23"
• All 9 Fruit of the Spirit must be represented
• KingsGate School's name or logo must feature in your design
• You may create a digital design, but AI cannot be used to create your design for you
• Design but be bold and big - no small details as it won't print well on the t-shit.

IMPORTANT: The shirts will be BLACK, so keep this in mind when choosing your colours and designing your art work.

How to Enter

• One entry per student
  OR
• You may work with ONE partner

Important dates

Entries open: Week 7, Monday 31 August
Entries close: Week 10, Friday, 25 September

How to submit your design

Hand your completed design to Mrs Kapp
OR
Email your design to fots@kingsgate.school.nz

LET YOUR CREATIVITY SHINE!
Think BIG. Be creative. Be colourful. Make your design something that represents the Fruit of the Spirit and shows what makes our school community speacial!

Could your design be the one printed on our Fruit of the Spirit shirt?

Winners will receive their shirt for free

Happy Designing, can't wait to see what you come up with!

16 Sep 2026

Good afternoon,

Exam Conditions have now been lifted! We are grateful for everyone’s patience and understanding throughout the examination period.

School operations will now return to normal, with our next examination period scheduled for Term 4.

Thank you again for your support and cooperation.

Kind regards,

14 Sep 2026

As per the email sent 3 September

If you have concerns about your child attending the  Positive Puberty Plus® Programme, we encourage you to attend the Parent/Whānau Information & Education Evening to find out more before deciding whether you would like your child to participate.

The Whānau Information Evening will be held on 14th September at 5.30pm. Please use this link to attend: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88231968261?pwd=A0d5ioCYvMkMoaXl9l2RkqInJ3p5zB.1

The facilitator will be online 10 mins prior to the start time in order to discuss the final set up details with you or a staff member.
Please note that we do not permit recording of this session for privacy and copyright reasons. We have attached an outline of the programme for those unable to attend and you can direct them to Nest's website to view more information.

10 Sep 2026

Exam and Assessment Conditions

A reminder that, following the Co-Requisite Assessments and Derived Grade Practice Examinations held during Weeks 7 and 8, we will continue to operate under examination conditions on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of Week 9 (next week).   During these three days, some school operations will differ from our usual routines to accommodate the examination conditions, as they did during the Term 2 examination period.

Access to the school grounds: As the Upper School building is our Exam Centre, access to this area of the school grounds is limited to staff and students involved in the assessments.  The main gate will be locked, so there will be no access to the school through this gate. Please use the side gate by the playground for all access to the school grounds.

Temporary Office Location : The office will be temporarily relocated to an office space in the second lower building, Kauri Rua. Please follow the map posted at the gate for directions to the temporary office.  Due to the temporary change in location, the school phone line will not be able to be answered directly. However, the line will remain open and voicemail will be checked regularly.

Alternatively, you can contact the office by:

• Phone: 020 4110 5250
• Email: info@kingsgate.school.nz

Thank you for your support.

 

The KingsGate team.

 

 

9 Sep 2026

Dear parents and whanau,

Create & Celebrate and Pet Day is fast approaching. Your children are working hard to prepare for this event at school and here are some things you can do at home to help them.

Please see the attached notice with further information and instructions. This will also be sent home with the eldest or only in paper form.