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A River Runs Through It
Wairakei Primary is lucky to have a number of streams that run through our local surrounding areas. Many of these streams ultimately feed into the Wai…
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Digital Technology In Action
The build digital technology skills progresses as students move through primary school. These skills are broken down into achievable tasks as part of …
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Timelines in Action
Room 14 has been using drama to step into the shoes of others. This has fostered an understanding of Taupō’s history from pre-colonised times to the…
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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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Kowaiwhai Transformations
Every student in Room 2 designed their own kowhawhai patterns, in a project which combined artistic expression with mathematical concepts, cultural ap…
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Get Sketching
What is sketchnoting? Sketchnoting is visual note taking - using doodles and text to improve memory, recall, and comprehension.
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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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Unleash Your Potential - Think and Create with Epro8
Engaged, focused, and enthusiastic students were observed interacting with each other and tackling the challenges presented during Epro8 STEM activiti…
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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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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…