Here is the timetable for the free shuttle to the Taste Franklin Festival on Saturday, starring our very own school bus! You’re welcome to jump aboard the bus at Pukekohe East School (departing 10.30am) or catch the bus from any of the other locations. Thanks to Searle Group for helping us to secure this charter contract.
We hope to see lots of school parents at our Bus Society Social Night this Thursday 19 March from 7pm at Lone Star’s bar, Massey Avenue. Enjoy a fun casual get-together with other parents. Bring your partner, a friend, or venture out alone. You’ll know plenty of familiar faces. The more the merrier.
Pukekohe East School’s Farmer Jock Bus has been hired as the official shuttle for the Taste Franklin Festival taking place this coming Saturday 21st March from 11am to 6pm at Karaka Sports Park (corner of Linwood Rd and Blackbridge Rd).
The Taste Franklin Festival is an event to showcase and savour the great foods and beverages produced in the Franklin region. Ideal for foodies and families. Enjoy local produce, brews and wines, restaurant dishes, live music, kids entertainment, with celebrity chefs and more. Festival tickets can be purchased on the day at the gate. Kids are free and welcome to attend with a supervising adult.
Our school bus is contracted as the complimentary shuttle service for the community. Festival-goers in Pukekohe, Patumahoe, Waiuku and Karaka can catch a free ride to the event and back.
School families are welcome to jump aboard the bus at Pukekohe East School. The bus departs school on Saturday at 10.30am arriving at the festival 11am, and returns to school approximately 6pm.
The Pukekohe East School Bus Society would like to thank Searle Group for its sponsorship to enable the Taste Franklin Festival organisers to employ our bus as their official shuttle.
Please mark the following dates in your calendar.
Bus Society Social Night
Thursday 19 March, 7pm at Lone Star, Massey Ave.
Enjoy a fun casual evening with other parents. Bring a partner or come on your own; you’ll know plenty of familiar faces.
2015 Bus Society General Meetings
General meetings of the Pukekohe East School Bus Society are held once a term and all bus families are welcome to attend.
Term 2 – Monday 20 April 2015, 7pm at Pukekohe East School.
Term 3 – Monday 20 July 2015, 7pm at Pukekohe East School.
Term 4 – Monday 12 October 2015, 7pm at Pukekohe East School.
Bus Route Review Meeting for 2016
Monday 16 November 2015, 7pm at Pukekohe East School.
Calling all bus parents. Please come to the Pukekohe East School Bus Society AGM on Monday night, 23rd February, at 7pm in the school hall.
We’ll quickly cover how the bus society operates. Then we’ll vote for a new executive team, and bounce around ideas for bus trip fundraisers.
We’re the only school in New Zealand fortunate to have our own cooperatively-owned school bus. Our school bus gets no government funding.
Nearly seventy kids use the bus to get to or from school. If your children are using the bus please come to the meeting to show your support for our unique bus service and the parent volunteers who keep it going.
Bus society meetings are fun. They are a great way to meet other parents and everyone welcomes new ideas. We hope to see lots of new faces on Monday night.
Pukekohe East School Bus 