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Design your moves

‘Design Your Moves’ was Te Huka Team's inquiry focus which involves two main curriculum areas - Dance and Technology. Both these curricular provided a…
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Hands-on Experiences Develop Writing Skills

Playing on the playground, visiting the maze, painting self-portraits, noticing spring or blowing bubbles are just a few of the ‘recreative’ writing m…

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…

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.
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Lake Taupō and Its Special Creatures

We have learnt about the ecosystem in Lake Taupō, including the creatures that live in the lake.
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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…
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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! 

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…

Do the Mahi. Get the Treats

There is nothing like chocolate to motivate some hard work thinking. Fair sharing a giant block of chocolate was a deliciously rich mathematical task …

Probability with Fractions

I roll a die - what is the probability that I will roll a five? What about an odd number? What about a number less than four?

If I roll two dice -  H…

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