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 5 months 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 5 months ago By Margo Clark

Wonderful world of writing

Mrs O’Sullivan modelled how we could look at different parts of our dinosaur and use the words “like or as” to create a picture in the reader’s mind.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged English, Writing, Technology, Managing Self, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 5 months ago By Tracey O'Sullivan

Dancing Ghosts… Woooooo

After several demonstrations, the children learnt how to create static energy themselves, by rubbing an inflated balloon, vigorously, up and down their school polar fleeces.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Science, Managing Self, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 5 months ago By Fiona Griffin

Spectacular Swimming

Room 10, as well as other classes at Wairakei Primary School, have been fortunate enough to take part in the Contact Energy swimming and water safety programme held at the AC Baths.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Health and Physical Education, Managing Self, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 5 months ago By AC Baths, Contact Energy and Shannen Neal

Visitor from out of Space

While reading this book, Poppy, Jordyn-Lea, Patrick, Jack and Casey were very interested in what a scarecrow is and what they would be like in the real world, they wanted to create their very own scarecrow and find out.

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Posted in Ohaaki; Tagged Science, Mathematics, English, Technology, Managing Self, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 5 months ago By Angel Chauval-Smith and Room 9

Te Huka Explosions

Students got to chose their “passion” from three different options. Our passion project was explosions. Our group had a science focus. Read more about 'Te Huka Explosions'...

Posted in TeHuka; Tagged Science, Participating Contributing, Thinking; Posted 5 months ago By Sara Sprague

Authentic learning experiences in the classroom

When students are able to have a say in their learning and explore topics of interest, that they have a personal connection with, they are excited to learn.  We call this ‘student agency’.

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Posted in Deputy-Principal; Tagged Science, Mathematics, English, Social Science, Technology, Managing Self, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 5 months ago By Diana Fitzsimmons, Joanne Burch and Mel Isaacson