Posts by Paul Morehu
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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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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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Room 2 Love Taupō
Room 2 has been exploring the inquiry topic of ‘Our Place Moves Me’. One learning idea around this is that people connect to places in many ways. The …
Where Do I Fit In?
Our Place Moves Me, has been Ohaaki’s inquiry focus for learning. One of the big learning areas around this has focused on people connecting to places…
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2022 Interschool Swimming Sports
The small group of Wairakei Primary School swimming competitors enjoyed their time at the Interschool Swimming Sports held in 2022. Unfortunately our …
