Tabloid Sports Day 2021

Wairakei Primary School had a Tabloid Sport Day. Students were divided into their wharenui nga tae groups and the Manukura took a lead role in the afternoon. Read more about 'Tabloid Sports Day 2021'...

Posted in Ohaaki; Tagged Health and Physical Education, Relating to Others, Participating and Contributing; Posted 12 days ago By Paul Morehu

World science

The wide range of hands-on experiments provided great opportunities to to make scientific predictions about what might happen and encouraged us to have deep discussions about what we observed, and Read more about 'World science '...

Posted in Aratiatia; Tagged Mathematics, Science, Managing Self, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 12 days ago By Angel Chauval

Digital Circus Aratiatia Style

Half of the children were able to work with Edison robots creating code to solve a problem. They then needed to debug their code to have the robot achieve their goal. Read more about 'Digital Circus Aratiatia Style'...

Posted in Aratiatia; Tagged Technology, Mathematics, Science, Managing Self, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 12 days ago By Angel Chauval

A Million Dreams

A million dreams are keeping us awake.LI: to sing as a group.LI: to perform a song in front of an audience.That is the idea that the Wairakei Primary School choir... Read more about 'A Million Dreams'...

Posted in Aratiatia; Tagged Participating and Contributing, Managing Self, Relating to Others, The Arts; Posted 12 days ago By Ben Kidd

My Special Person

Writing poems about special people in their lives was Room 15’s focus for writing. They decided to start with writing about their mums, and then wrote about their dads.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged English, Presenting, Literacy, Poetry, Participating and Contributing; Posted 23 days ago By Fiona Griffin

Connections

What is a Pepeha? Read more about 'Connections'...

Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Social Sciences, English, Managing Self, Thinking, Relating to Others, Participating and Contributing; Posted 25 days ago By Susan Green

Time is Ticking By

We talked about the concept of time: morning, noon, afternoon, evening and night time. Everyday activities were sorted to the different time frames. Read more about 'Time is Ticking By'...

Posted in Te Huka; Tagged Mathematics, English, Learning Languages, Thinking, Participating and Contributing, Using Language Symbols and Text; Posted 26 days ago By Leanne Jackson

Learning Together

At times this is in the playground. Older students can often be seen helping junior students on the playground equipment, involving them in games and even leading activities. Read more about 'Learning Together'...

Posted in Deputy-Principal; Tagged English, Health and Physical Education, Participating and Contributing, Using Language Symbols and Text, Managing Self; Posted 27 days ago By Jenna Foley

Pastel Portraits

We think they look fantastic. The beauty of this art project is that the students are able to make their piece as true-to-life or as unrealistic as they like. Read more about 'Pastel Portraits'...

Posted in Te Mihi; Tagged The Arts, Managing Self, Participating and Contributing, Thinking; Posted 27 days ago By Jeannie Young and Melissa Isaacson

Amazing Animal Artwork

Did you know that you cannot make a mistake when doing art? Room 4 has been looking at different ways to explore emotions and drawing to music and learning that... Read more about 'Amazing Animal Artwork'...

Posted in Ohaaki; Tagged The Arts, Relating to Others, Participating and Contributing, Managing Self; Posted 35 days ago By Tayla Nicholson