Mathsmatters - Hot Competition

Two Year 5 teams and four Year 6 teams pitted their wits against other students from Taupo schools and beyond

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Posted in Event; Tagged Mathematics, Event, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 4 years ago

Catch Me Catching The Ball with Youth Town Coaches

In Room 8 we have been practising skills for passing and throwing to enhance our physical fitness and personal well-being. Read more about 'Catch Me Catching The Ball with Youth Town Coaches'...

Posted in Ohaaki; Tagged Health and Physical Education, Event, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Participating and Contributing; Posted 4 years ago By Margo Clark

Yoga 101 “A full Lotus position wasn’t as hard as I first thought!”

Mrs Hendra is a qualified Yoga instructor and had offered to take weekly classes so that our students could have the opportunity to experience yoga activities.

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Posted in Ohaaki; Tagged Health and Physical Education, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Participating and Contributing; Posted 4 years ago By Margo Clark

Mathematical Shops in Room 13

Many of us are finding it challenging to learn our facts to and within 10 and adding on or subtracting 10 (recalling basic facts help us in other areas of Mathematics).

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Posted in Te Huka; Tagged Mathematics, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols Text, Participating and Contributing; Posted 4 years ago

Passionate Performers

Passion Projects are a project-based learning experience where the group’s interests, strengths and passions are developed with guidance from the teacher.

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Posted in Te Huka; Tagged English, The Arts, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing, Learning Languages; Posted 4 years ago By 13 & 14, Junior Kapa Haka, Leanne Jackson and Rooms 12

Bingo

I sang ‘Like a letter box’ with a tight, barely open mouth. I then sang with an open, round mouth-‘Like a trout.’

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged The Arts, Relating to Others, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 4 years ago By Fiona Griffin

Resilience

Although we celebrated their excellence in running, they were not necessarily our most resilient.

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Posted in SENCO; Tagged Health and Physical Education, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Thinking; Posted 4 years ago By Claire Smith

Will It Dissolve?

We also talked about making predictions. We learned that a prediction is a guess

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Science, English, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking; Posted 4 years ago By Room 13

Mathsmatters - Keen Students in Training

Students to warm up with a number based mental agility problem before tackling some themed, real-life math word problems.

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Posted in Event; Tagged Mathematics, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 4 years ago

Helping children with anxiety

The Key Competencies are an exciting and vital part of our New Zealand Curriculum that underpin everything we do in the classroom.

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Posted in SENCO; Tagged Health and Physical Education, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Thinking; Posted 4 years ago By Claire Smith, kidshealth.org.nz and NZ Sleep foundation. Mindbodygreen.com. Worrywisekids.org