There were no tears for Mokoia Raethel as he started his first day at school.
With his bag packed and dressed in his new uniform, the 5-year-old joined his three older siblings as a pupil of Sunset Primary School yesterday.
"He was absolutely chuffed to go," mum Haley Raethel said.
"We've been prepping him all holidays, telling him that he'll be going to big boy school soon.
"My husband dropped him off and was going to stay with him for a little while because he was going to be in a different class to his brothers and sisters but when he arrived and settled in he kind of looked at him like, 'You still here, daddy?'