Just wanting to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year after what has been a rather challenging year. 

The PTA has not managed to do an awful lot in 2020, but we did run a really successful Christmas raffle which raised a phenomenal $6000 for the school, which we will use to help the school pay for items that they don't receive funding for. 

We are also pleased that we were able to donate the money to pay for the new bucket swings and the fun new roundabout climbing frame in the upgraded playground at the front of the school. 

We look forward to doing more in 2021 but in the meantime have a great break and look after yourselves!

Thanks to all our quiz teams who came along on Saturday night to support us. We had a fantastic night and we were able to raise nearly $5000 which was a brilliant result for one night!

We do have to acknowledge our lovely business sponsors who donated prizes for the raffles and also food items for the delicious platters put together by Switch New Brighton. How lucky are we to have such a great community supporting our efforts. Thank you!

Thanks to the support of many, many awesome businesses we were able to run a series of raffles and competitions. Here are all the winners... 

This was the BIG raffle with $3000 worth of prizes, including an $1800 fridge/freezer donated by Haier New Zealand. 

We put a call out to budding artists to colour in a special Fair notice and we got some fantastic entries back. In fact it was really hard to choose the winners. In the end we picked James, who did a fantastic job of colouring in, especially as he is only 5. We hope he enjoys the Shizoku Karate voucher for 1 months worth of lessons. And we were able to choose another five lucky winners too. 

Finally, as a way to thank our wonderful volunteers, we gave away a few treats and goodies to six people who we drew out of a hat from all the people that helped on the night. Thanks guys!

Here are the six lucky winners: ​Jane Ryder Foskett, Clint Park, Sharlene Nash, Phil Jamieson, Claire Coetzee & Emily Flavell

We're absolutely stoked to let you know that we won the Facebook competition to try out Happyhire's brand new 20 metre long obstacle course at our Fair. This is going to be brilliant, the kids (and some of the adults) are absolutely going to LOVE it.

Remember this and ALL activities at the Fair will only cost $2 - and you will get 3 goes at this one! What a bargain. 

​See you on Friday!

So excited for our first-ever Rawhiti School Twilight Fair, being held from 4-8pm on 30 November at our lovely school grounds on Leaver Terrace. If you're not sure where that is, just follow the map below. 

The Fair itself will be a good 'old-fashioned' school fair in which we are doing everything ourselves, with no outside vendors at all. There will still be lots to buy with all items being made by school kids themselves, and bouncy castles, pony rides, car rides and more you know it's going to be a fun night. 

But the big question is what would you put inside it? 

If you want to buy a $10 ticket, then click here. 

On Friday November 30 we are going to be holding our FIRST EVER school fair. This is a massive undertaking that is involving pretty much EVERYONE connected to Rawhiti School from the new entrants to the senior students, the teachers, the office staff and all the parents and whanau. 

We made the decision early on not to have ANY outside vendors at our school fair as we wanted to run everything ourselves in order to really keep costs down for our guests on the night. We will be making all the food, all the crafts and running all the games. And when I say 'we' I mean the kids too. 

But we really wanted to be able to offer rewards and prizes to our kids for all the hard work they will be doing - whether it's a chance to win a lollipop or the chance to win a $50 book voucher. And this is where business support comes in.

Already (as of 12 September) we have have received a large amount of prizes and cash sponsorship from a lot of truly wonderful businesses. Please click the button to see our growing list of sponsors and make sure you support them too. 

Super duper fun (and funny) home-made quiz night PLUS a couple of rounds of musical bingo (Jingo) as well!

Your $10 ticket gets you a world-famous PTA supper, fun & games, access to a cash bar with all your favourite cold beverages and lots of prizes on offer too.

PRIZES FOR - funniest team name, best themed team costume, musical bingo (Jingo), as well as for winning the quiz.

BRING EXTRA CASH FOR - Jingo (musical bingo), the bar, raffles, silent auction, games of chance

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW - Quiz teams can have up to 6 players. The event is R18 though as we are running a cash bar.

All money raised on the night will be used to fund awesome new playground equipment at Rawhiti School. Book your ticket or team now by clicking on the Get Tickets link.

























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Super duper fun (and funny) home-made quiz night PLUS a couple of rounds of musical bingo (Jingo) as well! Your $10 ticket gets you a world-famous PTA supper, fun & games, access to a cash bar with all your favourite cold beverages and lots of prizes on offer too. PRIZES FOR - funniest team name, best themed team costume, musical bingo (Jingo), as well as for winning the quiz I suppose, ha ha. BRING EXTRA CASH FOR - the bar, raffles, silent auction, games of chance WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW - Quiz teams can have up to 6 players. The event is R18 though as we are running a cash bar. All money raised on the night will be used to fund awesome new playground equipment at Rawhiti School. Book your ticket or team now by clicking on the Get Tickets link or simply emailing pta@rawhiti.school.nz























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Super duper fun (and funny) home-made quiz night PLUS a couple of rounds of musical bingo (Jingo) as well! Your $10 ticket gets you a world-famous PTA supper, fun & games, access to a cash bar with all your favourite cold beverages and lots of prizes on offer too. PRIZES FOR - funniest team name, best themed team costume, musical bingo (Jingo), as well as for winning the quiz I suppose, ha ha. BRING EXTRA CASH FOR - the bar, raffles, silent auction, games of chance WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW - Quiz teams can have up to 6 players. The event is R18 though as we are running a cash bar. All money raised on the night will be used to fund awesome new playground equipment at Rawhiti School. Book your ticket or team now by clicking on the Get Tickets link or simply emailing pta@rawhiti.school.nz

Only one week to go till our annual Christmas raffle is drawn! We've got all the hampers ready to go. All sheets and money must be handed in my 9am Friday 8th December. There will be prizes for the children too, given out at the last assembly. Good luck!

We had another successful fundraising quiz night on Sunday night with a great number of raffle and auction prizes up for offer. This is due to the great support we've had from local businesses in New Brighton and throughout Christchurch. Your support really does make a difference to us. 

If you'd like to learn more about our awesome business supporters please go to Our Supporters page and make sure you mention our name when you go to visit them.