Extending the classroom: Happening Now
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Term One 2025 Celebration of Learning
It is an art to teach what you have learnt. And quite a challenge to make it meaningful and engaging.
Keep Learning
Science,
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Lava Lamps
Aa part of Crazy Chemistry Inquiry Van was exploring the science lab section of the Kids National Geographic website. The video on how to make a lava …

English,
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When Reading and Writing Collide
Room 9 has been using chapter books as models and examples on how to use descriptive and figurative language to craft personal narratives in the class…
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The Learning Pit
The learning pit is a term used to describe the place we sometimes end up in when learning is hard.

English,
Health and Physical Education,
Mathematics and Statistics,
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Left. Right. Oops. Learning Directions in Action
Chaos! That’s the only way to describe the first few minutes of a directions lesson. The moment Room 16 students were asked to jump to the right, bodi…

Mathematics and Statistics,
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Thank you, Thank you, Thank you
Room 13 had big plans to go on the Huka Falls River Cruise and to make learning meaningful the class also decided to have a cupcake sale to fund the e…
English,
Social Sciences,
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I'm a Real Kiwi Kid Now!
Within Tuhuatahi team the focus of the inquiry was to delve into what it means to be a kiwi kid and the activities they do like school camps, playing …