Jenna Spake
Deputy Principal

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Sir Edmund Hillary

Shanae Simpson
Assistant Principal/SENCo (2025)

"Take care of our children. Take care of what they hear. Take care of what they see. Take care of what they feel. For how the children grow, so will be the shape of Aotearoa"

- Dame Whina Cooper

shanaes@kkps.school.nz
Kelsey Weber-Scown
Assistant Principal/SENCo (Returning in 2026)

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

– John Dewey

Laurie Merk-Riley
Literacy Facilitator

"A good education is a foundation for a better future."

- Elizabeth Warren

Jeremia Mullin
Office Administrator

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

-Benjamin Franklin 

Bethnie Frear
Office Administrator
"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
-  Maya Angelou 
Amber Edwards
Teacher Year 3 Māori Bilingual - Rm 1

“Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play, children learn how to learn” -

- Fred Donaldson

Madeline Johnson
Teacher Year 4 Māori Bilingual - Rm 2

"Mā te huruhuru ka rere te Manu.

Adorn the bird with feathers so it can fly."
Jess Coyne
Teacher Year 5 Māori Bilingual - Rm 3

"Nurturing our kids hearts and souls as well as their minds and their bodies is educating the whole child." 

- Maggie Dent

Jan Neilson
Teacher Year 6 Māori Bilingual - Rm 4

"Tū māia, tū kaha, tū mātauranga." Stand strong, be steadfast, seek knowledge.

Megan Forbes
Teacher Year 3 - Rm 5
Michelle Bryant
Teacher Year 2/3 - Rm 6
Melissa Parkins
Teacher Year 2 - Rm 7

"Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners and the love of bringing the first two loves togehter."

- Scott Hayden

Chloe Majthenyi
Teacher Year 2 - Rm 8

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you"

- B. B. King

Shannon Swann
Teacher Year 1 - Rm 9

“A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge, and wisdom in the pupils.”

– Ever Garrison

Taylar Renalson
Junior Team Leader and Teacher Year 1 - Rm10

"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open."

- James Dewar 

Sharri-Lynne Frauen-Felder
Teacher Year 1 - Rm 13

“First delight, then instruct”

- Gustav Friedrich Waagen

Amanda Lowe
Teacher Year 3 - Rm 14

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of the fire.”

- William Butler Yeats

Alice Massey
Teacher Year 4 - Rm 18

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

Claire Brooks
Teacher Year 4 - Rm 19

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all."

- Aristotle

Erin Hooper
Teacher Year 4/5 - Rm 20

"Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open."

- James Dewar 

Phoebe Sinclair
Teacher Year 5 - Rm 21

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

- Robert Collier

Emma-Lee Dromgool
Teacher Year 5 - Rm 22
Paige Crate
Teacher Year 6 - Rm 23
Angela Sime
Senior Team Leader and Teacher Year 6 - Rm 24
"Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion."
- Abdul Kalam
 
Hannah Taylor
Teacher Year 6 - Rm 25

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

- Dr. Seuss

Wai Muunu
Te Whakatupuranga Team Leader and Teacher Year 1 Māori Bilingual - Rm 26

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel”

- Socrates

Rupert Moore
Teacher Year 2 Māori Bilingual - Rm 27
Jess Moir
Teacher Year 2 Māori Bilingual - Rm 28

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”

- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

Anna Rainey
Teacher
Piopoia te kakano
Kia puawai
Nurture the seed and it will blossom.
 
(He whakatauki)
Pam Brunton
Teacher
Becks Young
Teacher

"When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts."

– Dalai Lama

Lana Patrick
Release Teacher
Anita Marolias
Release Teacher
Lornelle Ware
Release Teacher
Angela Schofield
School Business Manager
Greg Tatnell
Groundsman
J-Lee Bosch
Groundsman
Kris Hopkins
Librarian

"You can find magic wherever you look. sit Back & Relax, all you need is a Book."

- Dr Seuss

Diane Bone
Teacher Aide
Larne Jurisich
Teacher Aide
Sivan Howe
Teacher Aide
Dana Rameka
Teacher Aide
Jazmine Brady-Cook
Teacher aide
Marianne Revell
Teacher Aide
Ripeka Tane
Teacher Aide
Susan Drinkrow
Teacher Aide
Talia Hill
Teacher Aide
Lesley
Teacher Aide
Hayley Webb
Teacher Aide
Jacqui Bourne
Teacher Aide
Janeane Driver
Teacher Aide
Kate Messenger
Teacher Aide