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Passing on Acts of Kindness from Germany

Room 1 is on a learning journey with Room 12, all the way to Germany! Students have learnt that many German traditions and customs are based around ac…
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A Feast for the Senses

 As Room 10 students are exploring their descriptive writing with specific features.
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Tools For Teaching

Graphic organisers are useful tools in any subject. They help students organise their thoughts and ideas before a writing task and can provide a visua…
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Walking the Catwalk

Ask the students of Room 3 about the properties of different fabrics and they’ll be able to give you examples of waterproof, warm, stretchy, natural a…
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2024 Tree for Every Child

A Tree for Every Child is a Wairakei Primary School native tree planting initiative. Every student attending our school plants a tree in their first y…
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Jumping June Wairakei Style

How to get a community skipping? Host a skipping event where there are four stations, lots of parents, invited guests and a huge number of skipping ro…
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Term Two Celebration of Learning

Poppers popped, catapults fired and bridges were built during Poihipi’s Celebration of Learning.
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Crazy Catapults

Room 15 students constructed catapults to move pompoms through the air. They were learning how to be an engineer. With their imaginative fluro vests a…
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Thinking like a scientist with an eye for fashion

Room 1 has been learning to think like scientists, testing the properties of different materials to identify them and observe how they act. Students w…

Searching for the Right Angle

Whether they are acute or obtuse, the world is full of angles. Students in Room 3 put their observational skills to use as they discovered a variety o…

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