Posts by Paul Morehu
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2023 Athletics Champions Achieve Three in a Row
The pathway for success started with athletics training sessions in Term 3, leading up to the Wairakei Primary School Athletics Day. For some, that da…
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Designing a Better Future
Room 11’s inquiry focus is to use the technological design process to develop an idea with a ‘call to action’ as Kaitiaki at the front and center of…
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Learning from the Past to Protect the Future
Room 11 students are learning about how to keep taonga alive by being kaitiaki. Before they could do this, they had to learn about the taonga they are…
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Pattern Detectives
Room 11, has been learning about patterns. To begin the learning journey, I needed to get an idea of what the class already knew about this subject a…
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Keep Your Eye on the Ball
Small ball skills is an aspect of the Health and Physical Education curriculum and Poihipi students have been mastering these as a team. Students were…
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Plans of Treasure
The New Zealand Curriculum aims to create writers who can form and express ideas on a range of topics. The challenge was to find a topic that could ho…
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How Strong is Your Whare?
If your health and wellbeing was a whare, how strong would it be? Room 11 students are learning about the Whare Tapa Whā health model. This model loo…
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Room 2 Dance Journey
What did they really know about dance? They could name different types of dance, such as hip hop, breakdancing and ballet. Most students had trouble n…
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Room 2 Love Taupō
Room 2 has been exploring the inquiry topic of ‘Our Place Moves Me’. One learning idea around this is that people connect to places in many ways. The …
