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Guided Reading
Learning to read is a complex task. When students have more than one strategy that they can use when they get stuck, then they have a feeling of succe…
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Dancemania Research Projects in Room 8
Room 8 took our dance learning to the next level by choosing a style of dance, completing a research project and making Slide presentations to share. …
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The Art of Patterns
In mathematics, Room 16 have been learning about patterns and repeated patterns. We took it a step further by integrated the learning into literacy an…
Summer Festival of Movement
That’s a Wrap!
Ahoy, me hearties, it lights up, music on, let's get our boogie on. Two performances of the Summer festival of Movement. These perform…
Ahoy, me hearties, it lights up, music on, let's get our boogie on. Two performances of the Summer festival of Movement. These perform…
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Kapa Haka 2022
Kapa Haka is the name for Māori performing arts, kapa means to form a line, and haka is to dance. It is a powerful combination of song, dance and chan…
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Money, Money, Money
If you are at Wairakei Primary School, Taupō, you may have heard some senior students mention that they are being ‘paid’ at school. You have not mishe…
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Which way do we go?
How do we know where we’re going? We’d probably end up in Timbuktu if we didn’t know.
SWOOP the Setting
Imagine you are an eagle - gliding gracefully across the landscape. What do you see with your sharp eyesight?
A mountain range? Peculiar cloud format…
A mountain range? Peculiar cloud format…
It’s An Art to Teach Dance
The announcement of “We have to teach dance next term,” struck fear into more than one teacher. How? What actually is dance? Where do I start? Help!
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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…
