A friendly reminder that the Term 3 Bus Society meeting is on tonight. All bus families are welcome to come along and learn more about bus operations, fundraising etc.

Where: Mai Lighthouse, Pukekohe
Date: Mon 28 July 2025
Time: 7pm – 8pm

Thanks to everyone who came along with their red and black flannel shirts, wigs, real mullets and rock tees to help us fundraise bogan style on Saturday night!

We had a hall full of rockers for drinks, dinner, musical bingo and some epic raffles and silent auctions!

Congrats to all the winners on the night. All in all, we are chuffed to raise close to $4,000! Every $ goes towards keeping the school bus running (since 1946 in fact!) so a huge thank you to everyone especially in a tough economic environment and ongoing cost of living pressures.

Many thanks also to our sponsors, supporters and wider community (the full list is below).

And another massive thank you to our bus society team members for putting on the event and to our driver for driving guests in our ‘party’ bus (all are volunteers and families of the school – so we couldn’t do this without you all).

Stay tuned for next year’s event as the Bus Society celebrates 80 yrs since launching the first school bus service for our school!

Hope you are all having a relaxing break these school holidays. Here’s a quick update from the Bus Society for Term 2!

Bogan Bingo: Saturday 14 June (7pm til late)

We are thrilled to be hosting musical bingo for our annual fundraiser – Bogan style! Register below (click on the image or scan QR code) for tickets and feel free to share this on your own social channels. Tickets are limited and there will be lots of fabulous auction and raffle prizes up for grabs, as well as prizes for best dressed and bingo winners! EFTPOS will be at the venue.  If you’d like to help out in the lead up to the event or on the day/night of the event, feel free to come to the next Bus Society meeting on 12 May at school (or email admin@pukekoheeastschoolbus.org) 

Bus List updates

If your child(ren)’s won’t be using the bus on a particular afternoon(s) at short notice, don’t forget to let Karen/Sonia at the school office know so we can mark them absent from the bus. If your child won’t be on the bus on a set weekday afternoon(s) each week, please contact us so we can update the master list: admin@pukekoheeastschoolbus.org  

Important dates

Every term, we host a Bus Society committee meeting at school that school families are more than welcome to attend and learn more about bus operations, fundraising and grants status etc.! Dates are below.

12th May

14th June (Our Bus Society annual fundraiser – Bogan Bingo!)

28th July

20th October

New Bus Society members

We held our annual general meeting on 17 February this year and we are pleased to welcome our new committee and operational members who were voted in (thanks for all your support to keep the school bus running!). And special thanks also to Nicola Payne who officially stepped down as Chairperson after many, many years of leading and supporting the team.

• Chairperson: Karla Shearer
• Deputy Chairperson, Registrations and Parent Liaison/Communications: Angely Cullerne
• Treasurer + Invoicing: Cole Zane
• Secretary: Monique Brown
• Driver: Stuart Craig
• Maintenance: Rony Johnstone and Karl Mitchell
• Bus Route: Maria and David Wilkinson
• Fundraising, Marketing, Advertising and Grants: Rony Johnstone and Robyn Driver
• Health & Safety: Karla Shearer
• Other members/supporters: Robert and Nikki Silich, Kevin Lottering, James Williams

Looking forward to catching up with our students and families at school! If you have any questions etc, please don’t hesitate to contact us: admin@pukekoheeastschoolbus.org

Happy new year – we hope you’re enjoying the school holidays and are looking forward to Term 1!

The school bus is ready for first day of term (check out our website for the bus route)! Note we have a few more spots available so if there are any school families that would like to use the bus this year, feel free to sign up here: https://pukekoheeastschoolbus.org/register/

📢Bus advertising
We have a few spots available for advertising a business logo on the bus! More info here if you or know anyone that would be interested. https://pukekoheeastschoolbus.org/advertising/ Thank you to the numerous local businesses and families who are already advertising with us!

📢Important dates
Every term, we host a Bus Society committee meeting at the school that school families are more than welcome to attend! Dates are below, along with our annual general meeting. We also have a date for our fundraiser in June.

📅17th Feb (Bus Society Annual General Meeting – all families are encouraged to attend)
📅12th May
📅14th June (Our Bus Society annual fundraiser – most likely a trivia night! Details will follow later this term)
📅28th July
📅20th October

Looking forward to catching up with our students and families at school! If you have any questions etc, please don’t hesitate to message us!