Celebrating Summer

To celebrate our Treaty and Summer we created Pohutakawa tree pictures.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged The Arts, Visual Art, Mathematics, English, Managing Self, Thinking, Using Language Symbols Text; Posted 57 days ago By Leanne Jackson and Tree Hut Treaty

The Power of Play

Room 15 and 16 engage in play in the classroom during regular, scheduled discovery time. 

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Managing Self, Relating to Others, Participating and Contributing, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking; Posted 58 days ago By Fiona Griffin, Jeannie Young and Jenna Foley

Pride and Excellence

Each child has their writing goal sticking up out of their book so they can see it each time they sit down to write.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged English, Mathematics, Thinking, Managing Self; Posted 2 months ago By Paul Morehu

Super shape creators

In small groups, Room 12 attempted to sort our shapes into the various categories. 

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Posted in Ohaaki; Tagged Mathematics, Geometry and measurement, Thinking, Participating and Contributing, Managing Self; Posted 2 months ago By Tracey O'Sullivan

Reading is fun

We have been discovering the importance of remembering to give enough information to our reading.

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Posted in Aratiatia; Tagged Science, English, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols Text, Managing Self, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 3 months ago By Angel Chauval-Smith

Striving for Independence

Every fortnight the Te Mihi teachers come together to design new exciting and engaging must do and can do learning tasks.

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Posted in Te Mihi; Tagged Managing Self, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 3 months ago By Garrity, J. 2015 and Shannen Neal

STEMing forward in Room 9

We participated in a STEM challenge with the task to make something that moves that will seat our lego man.

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Posted in Aratiatia; Tagged Science, Mathematics, English, Social Science, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 3 months ago By Angel Chauval-Smith

Reading Recovery

When I was 6 I did Reading Recovery with Mrs Koorey. She helped me to read better. We wrote lots of stories. Now reading and writing is fun

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Posted in Deputy-Principal; Tagged English, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking; Posted 3 months ago By Joanne Burch and Mrs Koorey

One Word Goal Setting

Words like ‘new’, ‘try’ and ‘trying’ are all inspired by our POWER virtue of Opportunity. ‘Kind’, ‘kindness’, ‘caring’, 'patient' and ‘helping’ stem from Respect and Whanau.

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Posted in Aratiatia; Tagged Social Science, Managing Self, Thinking; Posted 3 months ago By Olivia Graham

Wacky Challenges

Room 12 has all been about challenges. Read more about 'Wacky Challenges'...

Posted in Ohaaki; Tagged Technology, Managing Self, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 3 months ago By Greatest Moments Youtube, Minute to Win It: The 40 Greatest Games and Tracey O'Sullivan