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Reflection and Symmetry Name Critters

The creativity behind turning names into bugs and aliens is always a laugh and gets the students thinking about the shapes that they can use. Read more about 'Reflection and Symmetry Name Critters'...

Posted in Ohaaki; Tagged Mathematics, The Arts; Posted 16 hours ago By Andrew Farquhar

Sabbatical Sojourn

The topic that got my application over the line was developing ‘Networks of Expertise’ within the Teaching Profession. Read more about 'Sabbatical Sojourn'...

Posted in Principal; Posted 4 days ago By Paula Farquhar

Tabloid Sports Day 2021

Wairakei Primary School had a Tabloid Sport Day. Students were divided into their wharenui nga tae groups and the Manukura took a lead role in the afternoon. Read more about 'Tabloid Sports Day 2021'...

Posted in Ohaaki; Tagged Health and Physical Education, Relating to Others, Participating and Contributing; Posted 8 days ago By Paul Morehu

Poems about our mums and dads

Signs of Success: Read more about 'Poems about our mums and dads'...

Posted in Poihipi; Tagged The Arts, English, Participating and Communicating, Using Language Symbols and Text, Thinking; Posted 8 days ago By Kylie Parkes

World science

The wide range of hands-on experiments provided great opportunities to to make scientific predictions about what might happen and encouraged us to have deep discussions about what we observed, and Read more about 'World science '...

Posted in Aratiatia; Tagged Mathematics, Science, Managing Self, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 8 days ago By Angel Chauval

Digital Circus Aratiatia Style

Half of the children were able to work with Edison robots creating code to solve a problem. They then needed to debug their code to have the robot achieve their goal. Read more about 'Digital Circus Aratiatia Style'...

Posted in Aratiatia; Tagged Technology, Mathematics, Science, Managing Self, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 8 days ago By Angel Chauval

A Million Dreams

A million dreams are keeping us awake.LI: to sing as a group.LI: to perform a song in front of an audience.That is the idea that the Wairakei Primary School choir... Read more about 'A Million Dreams'...

Posted in Aratiatia; Tagged Participating and Contributing, Managing Self, Relating to Others, The Arts; Posted 8 days ago By Ben Kidd

My Special Person

Writing poems about special people in their lives was Room 15’s focus for writing. They decided to start with writing about their mums, and then wrote about their dads.