Kimi Ora School NZ - Education 2009 Certified Rating. Kimi Ora School Kimi Ora School Wellington is a special needs school in Wellington, New Zealand, for students with physical disabilities, particularly cerebral palsy. "Kimi ora" is Maori for "seeking well-being in health" or "to be made whole". Kimi Ora school caters for special needs pupils of primary and secondary school age to adulthood, or ages 5 to 21, and draws pupils from the Wellington region, up to the Kapiti Coast and the Hutt Valley. The school offers an holistic approach to education. Speech language therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy are offered on site,
Kia-Ora launched a colourful, animated advertising campaign, directed by Oscar Grillo of Klacto Animations, which used the jingle "We all adore a Kia-Ora", and featured a child in a straw hat, a dog called Fedora who served the drink, and multiple crows who pursued the boy for a drink, with the boy responding with "it's too orangey for crows". Later promotions included Caramba's song "Fido", and the jingle was referred to in the Spaced episode "Gone". The advertisements attracted a degree of controversy in later years, with claims of implicit racism, because the boy looked similar to a golliwog. The brand