Posts by Gwen Bowler
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Singing Playground Comes to Wairakei
Once a week you will find a group of keen singers taking part in a new initiative called Singing Playgrounds™.
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Support Staff at School
Support Staff are the backbone of any school. From caretaker Jeni, to office duo Val and Rhonda and Teacher Aides, Cindy, Penny, Diana and Karen, we t…
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Telling Stories Through Art
Static images of sea creatures with tangled fishing nets around their fins started Room 12 students thinking about how they could create multimedia ar…
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Out and About Around the School
A trip to the gully, the maze, and the aquaponics unit have helped Room 12 unpack what an ecosystem is and to use these experiences to write informati…
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25 Years and Counting
There are not many things at Wairakei Primary School that Diana Fitzsimmons doesn’t know about. As she heads towards her 25 year celebration, I sat do…
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Learn by Doing
The objective was to use the Stop Motion App to create a short movie retelling a local Maori narrative. Stop Motion is a free app that makes short an…
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Targeted Support Where it Counts
It’s a team effort at Wairakei Primary to provide various learning programmes that support our learners to be their best.
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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…
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Power for Learning Journey
Wairakei Primary started their Power For Learning (PB4L) journey several years ago with 2022 seeing a rebranding and introduction of the Tokarewa prog…
