Aloha mai kakou & welcome to Kua O Ka Lā
New Century Public Charter School!
Aloha Kua O Ka La ‘ohana,
Hope you all are keeping safe and enjoying your summer. This upcoming school year will begin in August.
Please save the date, July 30th for orientation for kindergarten through 12th grade, it will be held on July 30th from 10:00am to 2:00pm. You will be notified of the location. School will resume in Hilo on August 7th.
Applications for campus are being accepted for all grades. Our online program, Hipu’u are accepting applications for kindergarten through 8th grade only.
Preschool information for our new students will be sent out next week.
Please call (808)965-2193 if you have any questions.
Hope you all are keeping safe and enjoying your summer. This upcoming school year will begin in August.
Please save the date, July 30th for orientation for kindergarten through 12th grade, it will be held on July 30th from 10:00am to 2:00pm. You will be notified of the location. School will resume in Hilo on August 7th.
Applications for campus are being accepted for all grades. Our online program, Hipu’u are accepting applications for kindergarten through 8th grade only.
Preschool information for our new students will be sent out next week.
Please call (808)965-2193 if you have any questions.
Please donate to our Disaster Relief Fund linked below
Kua O Ka La Charter School Receives Generous OHA Grant
June 14, 2018, Kua O Ka La Public Charter School, (NCPCS), located on Hawai`i Island is extremely thankful and honored to be receiving a generous two-year grant from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). The OHA Board of Trustees has approved a $3 million grant to be distributed among 17 Hawaiian Focused Public Charter Schools (HFCS) over the next two years. “These schools are educating our next generation of Native Hawaiian leaders who will guide our lāhui into the future,” said OHA Chief Executive Officer, Ka Pouhana Kamanaʻopono Crabbe. “Providing more funds directly to these schools and students will help ensure that our alakaʻi (leaders) of tomorrow are grounded in both traditional and western perspectives.” (OHA Press Release, Date: 19 October 2017)
Kua O Ka La NCPCS is a Hawaiian focused Charter School serving Pre-K through grade 12 through both face to face programs and through our hybrid online Hipu`u program. Our mission is to provide Ka Pae ‘Aina o Hawai’i with the knowledge and skills, through Hawaiian values and place-based educational opportunities, that prepares receptive, responsive, and self-sustaining individuals that live “ke ala pono” (positive pilina ‘aina, pilina kanaka, and pilina ‘uhane.
Kua O Ka Lā has adopted the concept of Ke Ala Pono – The Right Path - to describe our goal of nurturing and developing our youth. We believe that every individual has a unique potential and that it is our responsibility to help our students learn to work together within the local community to create a future that is pono – right.
For more information about Kua O Ka La NCPCS, visit our website at www.kuaokala.org, or call (808) 965-2193 “Ke Ala Pono.” The right path. We are currently enrolling for SY 2018-2019.
June 14, 2018, Kua O Ka La Public Charter School, (NCPCS), located on Hawai`i Island is extremely thankful and honored to be receiving a generous two-year grant from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). The OHA Board of Trustees has approved a $3 million grant to be distributed among 17 Hawaiian Focused Public Charter Schools (HFCS) over the next two years. “These schools are educating our next generation of Native Hawaiian leaders who will guide our lāhui into the future,” said OHA Chief Executive Officer, Ka Pouhana Kamanaʻopono Crabbe. “Providing more funds directly to these schools and students will help ensure that our alakaʻi (leaders) of tomorrow are grounded in both traditional and western perspectives.” (OHA Press Release, Date: 19 October 2017)
Kua O Ka La NCPCS is a Hawaiian focused Charter School serving Pre-K through grade 12 through both face to face programs and through our hybrid online Hipu`u program. Our mission is to provide Ka Pae ‘Aina o Hawai’i with the knowledge and skills, through Hawaiian values and place-based educational opportunities, that prepares receptive, responsive, and self-sustaining individuals that live “ke ala pono” (positive pilina ‘aina, pilina kanaka, and pilina ‘uhane.
Kua O Ka Lā has adopted the concept of Ke Ala Pono – The Right Path - to describe our goal of nurturing and developing our youth. We believe that every individual has a unique potential and that it is our responsibility to help our students learn to work together within the local community to create a future that is pono – right.
For more information about Kua O Ka La NCPCS, visit our website at www.kuaokala.org, or call (808) 965-2193 “Ke Ala Pono.” The right path. We are currently enrolling for SY 2018-2019.
Congratulations to our graduating class of 2018!
5th and 6th-grade class took a tour and eating at Cafe Pesto in Hilo
Mahalo to all the ohana, haumana, kumu, staff, and community members that helped and or participated in making this years Lā Hoʻomau!
Big Mahalo to all the ohana, haumana, kumu, and staff that helped and or participated with us in the Pahoa Holiday parade on Saturday!
Mahalo to all the Kumu and Ohana that participated in the 16th annual Arbor Day Celebration.
Blue Zones Project class students gather sprouted coconuts for Arbor Day 2017
Kua O Ka La students learning about ‘what’s happening in their ocean’ by participating in eDNA study. Click here to see the full article.
Our māla Kumu Carly Wyman made a presentation on the school's award winning agriculture and culinary program at the statewide Farm to School conference held at the Hawaii Convention Center. Click here to view the feature in Ka ʻElele, The e-Newsletter of the HawaiiState Public Charter School Commission.
Carly also recently had an article on addressing childhood hunger featured on the Food Corps website. Click here to read the article.
Carly also recently had an article on addressing childhood hunger featured on the Food Corps website. Click here to read the article.
BoostedFinal from Theresa Sao on Vimeo.
Please consider donating to MOANA-NUI-A-KIWA CULTURAL EXCHANGE as this group will be visiting our campus in October.
http://www.boosted.org.nz/…/moana-nui-a-kiwa-cultural-excha…
http://www.boosted.org.nz/…/moana-nui-a-kiwa-cultural-excha…
Aloha our new Poʻo Kumu Kapoula Thompson
Please click here to read a wonderful write up about our schools Blue Zone approval in the OHA newsletter, Ka Wai Ola.
Kua O Kā La first grade haumana volunteering time to clean up Isaac Hale park. Click Here to read a West Hawaii Today article on herbicide free park clean up.
Kua O Ka Lā haumana at the 15th Annual Kuʻi Ka Lono Hōʻike
Congratulations to our Miloliʻi Hipuʻu student, Hoku Subiono for his nomination and 3rd place win of a 2017 PBS Hawaii Hiki Nō award.
Hoku placed third in the catagory of "Best Writing-High School Division" for his "Opelu Fishing" documentary. Click here to watch.
Hoku placed third in the catagory of "Best Writing-High School Division" for his "Opelu Fishing" documentary. Click here to watch.
Mahalo to all the Kua O Ka Lā Ohana and community for the success of this years La Ho'omau fundraiser! With out the dedication of the students, staff, family members, volunteers, musicians, dancers, vendors, and everyone else involved, events like these that strengthen our community would not be possible. Again, Mahalo.
Senetor Russel Ruderman came to our kula to speak to our high school haumāna social studies class.
Kua O Ka Lā haumāna working on the waʻa at Hilo One.
Congratulations to Kumu Mariposa and our Hīpu'u culinary class for wining first place in Youth Group Featured Category for the Hawaii state division of Forestry and Wildlife in the category for endemic edibles.
Click Here to read an article written by Kua O Ka Lā's wonderful Food Corp staff member, Carly Wyman.
Kua O Ka Lā hosts PBS Hiki Nō 11/5/2015 - Watch Now!
I Mua Article featuring Kua O Ka Lā: Cultivating Native Hawaiian learning
Kua O Ka Lā Miloliʻi receives Hiki Nō Award
Kua O Ka Lā is located at Pū`ala`a, Puna, next to Ahalanui warm pond. Pū`ala`a is an intact ancient Hawaiian village complete with historical sites, fishponds, and native habitat that affords an ideal outdoor learning environment for our project-based curriculum.