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Adding a pop of colour
Bird sketching is a fun and rewarding hobby that is enjoyed by people of all ages. The key to successful bird sketching is mastering the required tech…
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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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Our Virtual Learners
Participating in VLN has become a long-standing tradition at Wairakei Primary School - one of the many perks of being a Year 6. VLN stands for ‘Virtua…
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Mathematical Repeating Patterns
Room 14 explored how to create repeating patterns and the attributes that are included in these patterns.
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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…
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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…
