Posts by Paul Morehu
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Pattern Detectives
Room 11, has been learning about patterns. To begin the learning journey, I needed to get an idea of what the class already knew about this subject a…
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Keep Your Eye on the Ball
Small ball skills is an aspect of the Health and Physical Education curriculum and Poihipi students have been mastering these as a team. Students were…
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Plans of Treasure
The New Zealand Curriculum aims to create writers who can form and express ideas on a range of topics. The challenge was to find a topic that could ho…
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How Strong is Your Whare?
If your health and wellbeing was a whare, how strong would it be? Room 11 students are learning about the Whare Tapa Whā health model. This model loo…
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Room 2 Dance Journey
What did they really know about dance? They could name different types of dance, such as hip hop, breakdancing and ballet. Most students had trouble n…
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Room 2 Love Taupō
Room 2 has been exploring the inquiry topic of ‘Our Place Moves Me’. One learning idea around this is that people connect to places in many ways. The …
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Where Do I Fit In?
Our Place Moves Me, has been Ohaaki’s inquiry focus for learning. One of the big learning areas around this has focused on people connecting to places…
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2022 Interschool Swimming Sports
The small group of Wairakei Primary School swimming competitors enjoyed their time at the Interschool Swimming Sports held in 2022. Unfortunately our …
I See Pink Fluffy Elephants, What Do You See?
Students have been learning about how artists use colour, line, shape and different materials and techniques to tell a story. We have had a particular…
May the Force Be With You
As part of Movement Magic Inquiry, Room 2 has been exploring the invisible forces that are all around us. Students have been learning through hands-on…
