Posts by Fiona Griffin

In the journey of learning to read and write, one of the foundation skills young children need to gain is phonics. This is the ability to hear, identi…

The learning pit is a term used to describe the place we sometimes end up in when learning is hard.

The problem of how to encourage children to wash themselves at bathtime posed an interesting challenge for the students in Room 17. Their goal was to …

Room 15 students embarked on a trip to travel abroad. Their destination; Spain.

Room 15 students constructed catapults to move pompoms through the air. They were learning how to be an engineer. With their imaginative fluro vests a…

Subitising is the ability to recognise how many objects there are in a set or a group instantly. This skill is an important step towards students deve…

Room 16 wants more Pīwakawaka and Tūī to live in and around their school.