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Falling Feathers and Balancing Balloons
Each day the students in Room 16 participate in a range of movement activities using feathers, balloons, and paper plate batons. Behind the excitement…
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Who makes the decisions
With the New Zealand elections fast approaching, Room 1 students embarked on our learning journey by tackling a physical education activity to learn 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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Our Tamariki as Taonga
Room 14 has focused on how tamariki (children) are taonga. We learnt that taonga should be cared for and treasured and why and how we can look after o…
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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…
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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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Teaching the Teacher - Fitness Fun with Room 6
Wanting some fun fitness activities for activity breaks with a Year 5 and 6 class I started to look for ideas, when I suddenly thought "why don’t I as…
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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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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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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
One of our classroom jobs is to be the P.E monitor - which involved sorting and getting gear ready when needed and also taking charge of some Movewell…
