Loving Lockdown Learning
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you - B.B. King Read more about 'Loving Lockdown Learning'...
Finding the Magic in Maths
In Week 9 last term, the whole school celebrated this fact and held our very own Maths Week. Read more about 'Finding the Magic in Maths'...
Learning Across Levels
Although Term 3 was disrupted by the Covid Lockdown, Te Huka and Poihipi students carried on their learning. It just looked a little different. Read more about 'Learning Across Levels'...
Future Website Creators
In authentic contexts and taking account of end-users, students participate in teacher-led activities to develop, manipulate, store, retrieve and share digital content in order to meet technological challenges. Read more about 'Future Website Creators'...
Blossoms in Bloom
Did you know that the term for adding white to any other colour on the colour wheel is ‘tint’? The artists in Room 16 do, and they demonstrated their new... Read more about 'Blossoms in Bloom'...
Māori Language Week 2021
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori - Māori Language Week has been celebrated in New Zealand since 1975. Read more about 'Māori Language Week 2021'...
Brilliant Brushstrokes
Learning calligraphy and writing vertically instead of horizontally, as we are used to every day, is just one aspect of Japanese culture that is different from our own. Read more about 'Brilliant Brushstrokes'...
Unite to Survive and Thrive
Some teams found this easier than others. This is what was said about the activity. Read more about 'Unite to Survive and Thrive '...
The Magic of Rainbow Reading
Headphones on and strange looking pens at the ready, they tap the ‘magic dots,’ more commonly known as ‘reading dots’ and hey presto! The students have started their Rainbow Reading session. Read more about 'The Magic of Rainbow Reading'...
JourneyBegins
When working in a Year 5 class, I was shared an example of building a picture in a reader’s head and to ‘show not tell’ when we write. Read more about 'JourneyBegins'...
