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Term One, 2023, Celebration of Learning
Poihipi classes have been inventors, engineers, builders, artists, carvers and writers, as they have delved into the Inquiry "A Child is a Precious …
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To Tatou Maunga Kaha - Our Mighty Mountain
Our pepeha is a taonga because it gives us a deeper connection to our whenua and ancestry. Learning and understanding our pepeha is a way of celebrati…
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Art skills a plenty
Room 12 wanted to take a slightly different look at the popular self portrait Visual Arts activity.
We decided to use the 19th century Italian artis…
We decided to use the 19th century Italian artis…
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Monsters and Robots
Students in Room 16 have been learning about shapes, focusing on identifying and describing them. The students created a Shape Monster and a Shape Rob…
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Exploring the World of Poetry
Room 2 students have been busy delving into the world of poetry. Students were guided on a journey of discovery, as they developed a deeper understand…
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Need for Speed
Te Mihi students have been working on the need for speed. Instant recall and memory are very important. Each week students have all been taking part i…
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The Writing Process
Students in Room 14 have been building their writing skills by writing everyday with the aim of having their published story completed and published o…
Writing for Wingspan
Room 8 visited Wingspan, the National Bird of Prey Centre, as part of the inquiry into taonga. As we have found out, these birds are precious treasure…
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STEM - Room 6
Room 6 has been taking on challenges with paper and with EPro8 kits. They are designed to give students opportunities to work alone or collaboratively…
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Process of design
Have you ever wanted to invent something? Room 5 did and they took on the role of mini inventors, turning their own imaginative ideas into models and …
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Inquiry more than a buzz word
A student said to me recently, what is inquiry? It got me thinking, have I been explicitly teaching inquiry, or is it just a ‘word’ teachers and educa…
