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Targeted Support Where it Counts

It’s a team effort at Wairakei Primary to provide various learning programmes that support our learners to be their best.

Unleash Your Potential - Think and Create with Epro8

Engaged, focused, and enthusiastic students were observed interacting with each other and tackling the challenges presented during Epro8 STEM activiti…

Confidence in number knowledge

Game-based situations can be a fun and effective way for students to practise mathematical concepts and memorise basic facts. Games provide an interac…
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Term One, 2023, Celebration of Learning

Poihipi  classes have been inventors, engineers, builders, artists, carvers and writers,  as they have delved into the Inquiry "A Child is a Precious …
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He taonga te tamaiti

Every Child is a Taonga
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To Tatou Maunga Kaha - Our Mighty Mountain

Our pepeha is a taonga because it gives us a deeper connection to our whenua and ancestry. Learning and understanding our pepeha is a way of celebrati…
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Art skills a plenty

Room 12 wanted to take a slightly different look at the popular self portrait Visual Arts activity. 

We decided to use the 19th century Italian artis…

Monsters and Robots

Students in Room 16 have been learning about shapes, focusing on identifying and describing them. The students created a Shape Monster and a Shape Rob…
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Exploring the World of Poetry

Room 2 students have been busy delving into the world of poetry. Students were guided on a journey of discovery, as they developed a deeper understand…

Need for Speed

Te Mihi students have been working on the need for speed. Instant recall and memory are very important. Each week students have all been taking part i…
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The Writing Process

Students in Room 14 have been building their writing skills by writing everyday with the aim of having their published story completed and published o…
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Writing for Wingspan

Room 8 visited Wingspan, the National Bird of Prey Centre, as part of the inquiry into taonga. As we have found out, these birds are precious treasure…

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