Trip to the Taupo public playground

Poihipi and Te Huka teams enjoyed their trip to the Taupo public playground!

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Posted in TeHuka, Poihipi; Tagged EOTC, Managing Self, Participating and Contributing; Posted 7 days ago By Fiona Griffin and Jeannie Young

Design a Christmas tree

We had a wonderful opportunity to take part in the Towncentre Taupo Plywood 3D Christmas Tree Project. These recycled plywood boards were delivered to us ready for painting. A group of passionate designers and painters took on this challenge.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Visual Art, Managing Self, Participating and Contributing, The Arts; Posted 8 days ago By Fiona Griffin

Flag Pole STEM Challenge

Room 11 and 16 have been learning about India and their flag. Students had to colour in the flag using the correct colours and then attach it to an ice block stick flag pole.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Technology, Relating to Others, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 8 days ago By Fiona Griffin

Music, Movement and Drama

An enthusiastic group of year 0 and 1 students embarked on an exploration of music, movement and drama for our passion project.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Drama, Music, Participating and Contributing, Dance; Posted 8 days ago By Fiona Griffin

Amazing Mandala Art

Room 11 and 16 have been learning about India and we have looked at some of the beautiful art that is done in India.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Mathematics, Visual Art, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Participating and Contributing; Posted 8 days ago By Fiona Griffin

Pizza Party Fractions

Then, she did something funny. She put two of the quarters back together and we learned that two quarters is the same as one half.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Mathematics, Using Language Symbols Text, Number; Posted 17 days ago By Jeannie Young and Room 15

Sensational swimming

We learnt these skills through a variety of fun water games and activities.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Health and Physical Education, Managing Self, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 41 days ago By Tracey O'Sullivan

Breakfast Brain Food

As part of the Poihipi passion projects we have Food Technology and have been investigating different foods and learning basic food preparation and cooking skills.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Mathematics, English, Health and Physical Education, Managing Self, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 42 days ago By Shannen Neal

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 3 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 3 months ago By Fiona Griffin and Glenda Drake