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5 Top Tips From Room 9

Room 9 students are learning to slow down to a pace they can maintain over the whole cross-country course. Read more about '5 Top Tips From Room 9'...

Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Health and Physical Education, Managing Self, Participating and Contributing; Posted 37 days ago By Susan Green

Tall, Taller, Tallest

Room 15 used a ‘real life wondering’ they had about their drink bottles to compare and order objects by height to develop an understanding of tall, taller and tallest.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Mathematics, Participating and Contributing; Posted 39 days ago By Fiona Griffin

Meaningful Math

Here's just one activity that Room 16 does that is developing mathematical thinking using everyday contexts. Read more about 'Meaningful Math'...

Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Mathematics, Participating and Contributing; Posted 42 days ago By Kylie Parkes

Mathematics can be fun and engaging. Students are unique and have different ways of learning, so giving them various opportunities to learn place value partitioning is important. Read more about 'Counting to 100 and Beyond'...

Posted in Te Huka; Tagged Mathematics, Relating to Others, Participating and Contributing; Posted 42 days ago By Suzanne Flowers

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Tabloid Sports Day 2021

Wairakei Primary School had a Tabloid Sport Day. Students were divided into their wharenui nga tae groups and the Manukura took a lead role in the afternoon. Read more about 'Tabloid Sports Day 2021'...

Posted in Ohaaki; Tagged Health and Physical Education, Relating to Others, Participating and Contributing; Posted 2 months ago By Paul Morehu

World science

The wide range of hands-on experiments provided great opportunities to to make scientific predictions about what might happen and encouraged us to have deep discussions about what we observed, and Read more about 'World science '...

Posted in Aratiatia; Tagged Mathematics, Science, Managing Self, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 2 months ago By Angel Chauval

Digital Circus Aratiatia Style

Half of the children were able to work with Edison robots creating code to solve a problem. They then needed to debug their code to have the robot achieve their goal. Read more about 'Digital Circus Aratiatia Style'...

Posted in Aratiatia; Tagged Technology, Mathematics, Science, Managing Self, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 2 months ago By Angel Chauval

A Million Dreams

A million dreams are keeping us awake.LI: to sing as a group.LI: to perform a song in front of an audience.That is the idea that the Wairakei Primary School choir... Read more about 'A Million Dreams'...

Posted in Aratiatia; Tagged Participating and Contributing, Managing Self, Relating to Others, The Arts; Posted 2 months ago By Ben Kidd

My Special Person

Writing poems about special people in their lives was Room 15’s focus for writing. They decided to start with writing about their mums, and then wrote about their dads.