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Turning Pages - Dive in to reading

As parents, we often dream of a bright future for our children, wanting them to grow up to be successful, happy, and fulfilled individuals who can mak…

Dragons, Dragons, Dragons!

The dragons in the Ready to Read book Dragons, Dragons, Dragons! by Feana Tu’akoi felt a bit lonely and sad. They realised they needed to make new fri…

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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Art as Taonga

Kia maumahara ki tōu mana āhua ake. Cherish your absolute uniqueness.

Arts education enables students to generate ideas about themselves, their exper…

A Little Inspiration

Developing a positive class culture is important for student learning and wellbeing. Room 3, has integrated developing our class culture into art and …
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Our Virtual Learners

Participating in VLN has become a long-standing tradition at Wairakei Primary School - one of the many perks of being a Year 6. VLN stands for ‘Virtua…

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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Dancemania Research Projects in Room 8

Room 8 took our dance learning to the next level by choosing a style of dance, completing a research project and making Slide presentations to share. …
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Summer Festival of Movement

That’s a Wrap!

Ahoy, me hearties, it lights up, music on, let's get our boogie on. Two performances of the Summer festival of Movement. These perform…
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Learning Te Reo Māori Phrases

Principal Paula Farquhar wanted staff to become more confident in understanding and using te reo Māori phrases.

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