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Use Your Voice to Rap
Rapping is a way for people to express themselves and make sense of the world. It involves speaking or chanting rhymes that are often set to a beat. T…
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My Nest is Best
Room 16 wants more Pīwakawaka and Tūī to live in and around their school.
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2023 Athletics Champions Achieve Three in a Row
The pathway for success started with athletics training sessions in Term 3, leading up to the Wairakei Primary School Athletics Day. For some, that da…
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Cam’s Wallabies
Cameron Moore is a Rotorua teenager who identified a problem in his local taonga and created a technological solution to protect the taonga.
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Future Volcanologists
The school is fortunate to receive a kit from House of Science every fortnight. The purpose of these kits is to empower teachers to raise the scientif…
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Designing a Better Future
Room 11’s inquiry focus is to use the technological design process to develop an idea with a ‘call to action’ as Kaitiaki at the front and center of…
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In the Footsteps of Nature
Room 5 embarked on a fascinating journey, exploring the native animals of New Zealand and diving deep into the complex world of conservation. The jour…
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Procedure Writing
Teaching the skills required for any type of writing is important before students can do it on their own. Procedure writing is no different. The I do,…
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What do the students think?
During our ‘Your Voice, Your Choice’ inquiry in Term 3 this issue was forefront in the eyes of the students as a key political policy. Many students w…
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Meaty Mathematics
Wairakei Primary School teachers have been learning how to get their students to engage in meaty mathematics tasks.