Posts by Paul Morehu

2023 Athletics Champions Achieve Three in a Row

The pathway for success started with athletics training sessions in Term 3, leading up to the Wairakei Primary School Athletics Day. For some, that da…
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Designing a Better Future

Room 11’s inquiry focus is to use the  technological design process to develop an idea with a  ‘call to action’ as Kaitiaki at the front and center of…

Cross Country 2023

he 2023 Wairakei Primary School Cross Country was a huge success.
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Learning from the Past to Protect the Future

Room 11 students are learning about how to keep taonga alive by being kaitiaki. Before they could do this, they had to learn about the taonga they are…

Pattern Detectives

Room 11, has  been learning about patterns. To begin the learning journey, I needed to get an idea of what the class already knew about this subject a…
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Touch Registrations for School Teams 2023

Please fill out this notice to register your child to play Touch for a school team by Wednesday, August 23, 2023. This is the final date to pay regist…

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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Plans of Treasure

The New Zealand Curriculum aims to create writers who can form and express ideas on a range of topics. The challenge was to find a topic that could ho…

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…

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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