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Tag Archives: Woodville School

  • After a successful assessment of our first four lessons focused on greetings. We start with our fifth Spanish lesson – discussing where we [...]

    Where are you from? #5 – Spanish

    July 28, 2017
  • We have been learning to create effective inquiry questions using the above video as a framework to create questions for our inquiry into Maori [...]

    The right question? – Inquiry learning

    July 26, 2017
  • Since joining the teaching staff here at Woodville School I have been actively encouraging parents and caregivers to come and spend a little [...]

    Parents helping out #3

    July 4, 2017
  • The key competencies of the New Zealand Curriculum are aimed at providing students with capabilities for living and lifelong learning. There are [...]

    Key Competencies – capabilities for living and lifelong learning

    July 4, 2017
  • Since joining the teaching staff here at Woodville School I have been actively encouraging parents and caregivers to come and spend a little [...]

    Parents helping out #2

    June 29, 2017
  • We are continuing to learn how to write up and present scientific experiments. Below is Ashantae’s effort. Can you Bend a Pen in Water [...]

    Can you Bend a Pen in Water Without Touching It? – Science

    June 27, 2017
  • Main concepts covered: ¿Qué tal? = What’s up? (How’s it going?) ¿Cómo se llaman ustedes? = What do you call yourselves? Te presento a [...]

    Greetings #4 – Spanish

    June 23, 2017
  • Since joining the teaching staff here at Woodville School I have been actively encouraging parents and caregivers to come and spend a little time [...]

    Parents helping out #1

    June 19, 2017
  • A light breeze floated in the air as the sun shone brightly, casting shadows of the children and adults that were scattered across the field. [...]

    7 Aside Football Report – Woodville School

    June 14, 2017
  • Today, room Whareiti started a new course with local police educators, constable Max and Sarah. Today’s lesson focused on – What do I [...]

    Dare to make a choice

    June 13, 2017
  • Today we had a member of our local Maori community, Melissa Reiri, come to our class and help teach us some plaiting (whiri) with flax (harakeke) [...]

    Flax work – Maori

    June 8, 2017
  • In class today we’ve been learning to use speech marks. I used the video below to help teach how to use speech marks.

    Using speech marks – writing

    June 7, 2017
  • Here’s what Ashantae wrote while describing the character Black Bull, the horse in the short animation clip, the Dragon Slayer. This is her [...]

    Black Bull – writing

    June 1, 2017
  • As part of our writing unit, we’ve been learning how to : recognise and use complex adjectives and adverbs recognise and use language [...]

    Dragon Slayer – writing

    May 29, 2017
  • In room Whareiti, I’ve set up each students with personalised learning activities in the area of reading, spelling and [...]

    Learning with Studyladder

    May 26, 2017
  • In room 5 today we are continuing to learn waiata. You can listen to our attempt here. The second waiata we’ve learned is called TENA [...]

    TENA KOUTOU – Waiata

    May 23, 2017
  • Here you can see the boys working on their spelling together on the mezzanine floor of our classroom. It’s not often your classroom has a [...]

    Taking student learning to new heights

    May 22, 2017
  • One of the things I’ve introduced to class Whareiti is the game of chess. So far they’ve learnt about how to use the pawns, rooks, [...]

    Make your move – Chess

    May 17, 2017
  • This term I’ve introduced my students to coding.  I believe computer science should be part of our core curriculum, alongside other [...]

    Coding in room Whareiti

    May 15, 2017
  • In class we’ve been learning how to write up science experiments using a scientific process. Below was our first go. It was a good start. [...]

    Will a paper towel stay dry in water?- Science

    May 12, 2017

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